The Daily Reviewer | Lost in Translation, Life in Bangkok

Simple Toilet Pastime

Feb 18, 2010 5:17pm

Found only in male toilets round town, for you to practice aiming. Attempt made even more challenging if done hands free. Not available in female toilets. Vaginas cannot take aim unless you are the ping pong lady from Patpong....

That Ledge

Feb 17, 2010 5:14pm

See that ledge over there that’s way too high for a ledge? Thought it was to be anti vermin, but hey rats could jump. Thought it was anti reptiles but hey, snakes could climb.Well, lets say you have one of those cheap one-man-operation nursery full of babies from neighboring houses....

Chuoy Duoy Chuoy Duoy So Soft

Feb 1, 2010 6:00pm

Chuoy Duoy, the Thai word for “help me”, a voice so squeaky and soft we heard while dining by the road side. Me car parked alongside up ahead, the street lights never maintained and broken, the pavement for pedestrians so dark. As she ran weakly her body so petite, she...

Watching the Opportunities Slip By

Jan 28, 2010 2:26am

For many us here, money no enough have we, lucky not are we. So we watch and only watch. Opportunities, one after another, they slip by. Was at Hua Hin lately, dining next to a Farang table were we. Lucky E-San wife net in what look like an aged seventies...

Pai, How to Get Rich Guide

Jan 25, 2010 2:41am

Pai, a little town up north in the middle of farmlands has been growing in popularity with both Farangs and Thais. I’ve been there and back. Most people there are mountain folks who had stayed on inherited or illegal lands for generations. Now how to get rich?Coffee in Love, the...

Metropolitan Electricity Authority, Up their Ass

Jan 18, 2010 6:55am

Metropolitan Electricity Authority (MEA) of Thailand can go fuck themselves good. As always in Thailand, doing some of the most basic stuffs such as paying your bills can sometimes tear your balls into pieces. For no fuck reasons, they had disengaged Internet payment arrangement with the local bank I use....

Koh Kood – Urban Transition gone Wild

Jan 15, 2010 7:43pm

Anywhere Thais discover the last potential paradise, the sea life will die. While the resort I stayed boasted of its abundant wild sea creatures that visit the jetty in the mornings, the next resort just a hundred meters right was spear fishing the life out of the blur sting ray...

Koh Kood - The Natural Beach Resort

Jan 14, 2010 7:41pm

What’s there to do on Koh Kood? Nothing, absolutely nothing. It is not all that bad, for nothing was what I was looking for. To rest my work worn mind, to be away from my job, to be away from civilization.Now this resort is rather pricey, but hey how can...

Koh Kood – Getting There

Jan 13, 2010 7:35pm

It was three hours before the first beam of sun, that’s how early one would have to wake up in order to drive and catch the boat to Koh Kood scheduled between 8 to 9 am. While the hunters at pubs were at their last leg of attempt to net...

What day is Today?

Jan 12, 2010 6:21pm

Today is aeroplane crash into power line day. Weather’s been strange these few days, getting cool and foggy. Global warming for sure…...

The Egg Crab

Jan 2, 2010 7:43pm

Long long time ago, in a place far far away from where I am now (that means in Singapore lah), stories of old I was told, of the legendary egg crab so full of roe. A crab so heavily full that eating one will cause your cholesterol level to shoot...

And so New Year Came - 2010

Jan 1, 2010 11:16pm

And so it is that another year had whisked past fast. Bangkok is quiet you could drive fast and furious on the everyday roads you travel for work. Bangkokians travel this season, to their home towns and all. Through the small streets I drove, many houses opened wide I saw....

There and Back Again – Similan Islands

Nov 27, 2009 10:33pm

Similan Islands? No, not in Hokkien (In Hokkien, it is…. What Testicles Islands… ). Similan Islands is not a chain of giant buoyant testicles floating west of Thailand. It is a chain of beautiful island nestled in crystalline waters west of Khao Lak. One of the last few beautiful gems...

The Cheapest of Phuket

Sep 25, 2009 8:45pm

Cheap has never been a word related to Phuket and so many will think. Was on a short trip recently for some errands down the paradise island. With rental cars going at an average of THB1,200 a day, I asked a local car rental “is there anything cheaper? Old old...

Brown Water Rafting

Sep 10, 2009 6:16pm

The long distance drives, an ever enjoyable part of the occasional holiday, the perks of living and working in Thailand. So many places and will one ever be done with all of Thailand? A couple of months back, gig and band of giggling squeaky friends decided to go white water...

Smelly River Scary Taxi

Aug 27, 2009 5:56pm

So, to avoid the jam, one would discover one of the local transport modes Thai uses. River Taxis. First of all, the little black water channels. One would think it is a giant drain. But hey, the water is all choppy, waves all churning thanks to the countless speeding long...

Happy on Mothers Day?

Aug 19, 2009 4:39pm

Once again, the odd Mothers Day had come and gone last week, the day, coinciding with the Queen’s birthday. It was a Wednesday, it was a day where most families will bring their mothers out for a good happy dinner. Happy and hearty dinner….. and so it seems.I forward my...

Flood of Singapore Food

Aug 18, 2009 5:54pm

More… more Singapore food. In many of theses “high-so” shopping malls popping up, we get to see more of these setups. Kopitiam, they have the bread and butter plus coffee set. Singapore Chicken Rice… coming soon and will end soon. In their other branches I see elsewhere, only quiet and...

This Car got Balls, Yellow Ones

Aug 17, 2009 5:40pm

Somewhere in my previous post, I did mention about Thai people hanging some dollies behind their cars and its significance (Dolly behind Car). Now here’s a new twist. Balls (lam par zhi) behind cars. Let me guess, he ran over someone’s testicles on the road. Both testicles went to heaven....

Shame is not a word in Thai

Jul 24, 2009 5:01pm

I got a missed call way past midnight, I was too lazy to answer. In the morning at 6 while I was in deep state of salivating sleep, my pillow the kotex soaking up my drool, he called and I answered. The other end of the line, a man I...

Red Light Cameras

Jul 23, 2009 6:53pm

And so we still think that Bangkok is a place where we can make illegal u-turns anywhere we want, drive against traffic on occasions and speed through red lights scaring the balls out of pedestrians. No more. I got a ticket sent by mail with glorious pictures of my daring...

Local or Overseas Contract

Jul 9, 2009 4:31pm

How to be those lucky folks that work here and get paid fat to live like an Emperor with his so many concubines? We know MNCs are great paymasters but if you ever are lucky enough to land yourself a job in one, knowledgeable you must be that they have...