So what does everybody think about the new Lost Boy logo? In a bid to remove the enormous, distracting header that I’ve been using for about six months, I’m working to simplify this blog’s layout for the benefit of the readership. That means a small, catchy Web 2.0 logo instead of a full header. Over [...]

For whatever reason, when I moved to Thailand I pretty much stopped buying clothes for myself. There was one time I went to Zara and bought two T-shirts, but in general, I seem to accumulate items of clothing from other people, either as gifts or just general free stuff.
This phenomenon isn’t something I had ever [...]

I’ve just had a very strange dream about Pete Sampras. I am certain that it holds significant meaning, although I’m yet to really decipher it as I’ve just woken up. In the dream I had been eating at my favorite restaurant in Phuket, which is a little Italian place called Farang near Central Festival, where [...]

Now, before anybody thinks I’m getting nostalgic – I’m not. But there are some things I took for granted when I was in England and I kind of miss them. I’m not saying that I want to go back and live in the UK, but if there were seven things I could import to Thailand, [...]

Woke up: 8:52 am
Ready for work and out the apartment: 8:57 am
Arrived at work: 8:58 am – nobody there.
Somebody arrives with key: 9:02 am
At my desk: 9:05 am

I was using my laptop when all of a sudden I pressed something and the whole screen flipped upside down. Way to go with the useless function Microsoft. I fiddled about and tried to re-press whatever it was I’d pressed to make my screen flip the wrong way and I eventually managed to rotate the [...]

In Phuket we’ve had two deaths so far this year as a result of dengue fever. Reported cases on the island are up as with the rest of Thailand. I wasn’t particularly worried about catching dengue fever until I found out that two of the guys from work have had it in the past.
Contrary to [...]

I finished work late today and went to grab something to eat at a restaurant near my place. I was minding my own business when a young Thai couple walked in and sat down at the table opposite me. For some reason I at first thought they were deaf. I soon realised that they weren’t [...]

Phuket Governor Niran Kalayanamit came out this week and blamed Phuket’s low attendance (57%, not 51% as I reported earlier) at the recent national referendum on poor weather. Apparently, some voters arrived at polling stations and became so distressed by the rain (in the middle of Phuket’s wettest period) that they turned back and fled [...]

I don’t normally lose my temper, but I came very close yesterday. If I could have rationally directed my frustration towards somebody then I might have done so, but as it was, I was unsure why I was so angry.
I had grossly misjudged how long a van ride from Penang to Phuket would take. Even [...]

I turned on my TV today for the first time in about three weeks. I flicked through a few channels and somehow found my way to Fox News, where a groundbreaking documentary about Diana, Princess of Wales, was being butchered by Geraldo.
“Ten years on, why do people still care?” mused Geraldo. I really couldn’t tell [...]

For days I’ve been convinced that I’d so offended my entire readership that all of you had stopped reading this blog. I was beginning to panic that I wouldn’t be able to redeem the situation and that this blog would die. Visitor numbers are well down (almost one third of normal) and I was a [...]

One thing that’s glaringly obvious after living here for a couple of years is that Thai girls cannot be summed up in a list of dos and don’ts. No matter how many of the Internet pundits out there try, you can’t write a guide book about girls of any nationality.
I find it perplexing reading blogs [...]

I think my wisdom teeth are coming through. Either that or else someone placed an explosive charge in my head while I was asleep. Now this is pain. I feel like my entire head could explode at any minute. I guess this is karma.