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4/28/2013 4:57:01 AM
I entered the racetrack bar. Outside the picture window, the horses were approaching the starting gate for race number 5. Johnny ‘Sideways’ Jones leaned towards me, nearly spilling his drink…
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3/28/2013 12:12:37 PM
It was a hot Phnom Penh night. One of the Immigrations officials scowled, shuffling the mountain of papers on his desk.
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2/20/2013 4:39:23 AM
“Make me paranoid”, said Alice to the White Rabbit. The Rabbit grinned, twitched its ears, and pulled a pocket watch out of its waistcoat. “I’m late!” it cried. Alice shrugged. “Internet online banking security in Asia”, the White Rabbit said. Alice fainted.
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1/22/2013 1:13:32 AM
Ah, no sound as melodious or pleasing as the lower economic classes licking ones’ boots… Light your custom fireplaces with a couple of hundred dollar bills, won’t you, dear fellow billionaires, and listen to how to deal with the servants in tropical Asia…
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12/16/2012 8:00:39 AM
Cold? Wet? Overworked? Underpaid, under loved, and under appreciated? Is that what’s troubling you, Bunkie? Maybe, oh ha ha ha, maybe, ha ha, there’s been some terrible misunderstanding and your government and economic system isn’t trying to get the last ounce of work and money out of you before melting your economic remains down for fat, like they used to do on whaling ships.
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11/12/2012 2:26:47 PM
Sometimes, sitting on the tropical beach, you may hear the call of the sea. You might actually find yourself thinking…”I wonder what’s under those beautiful waves.” Stop!
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7/28/2012 1:23:26 PM
I went to Phuket Island with a big team of insurance company on the 2nd, July. There was a non-stop flight to Phuket from Wu Han. Just 4 hours flight, we arrived there. Although it was rainy season, but this was easy for all of us whom coming from "four ovens", Wu Han. We did avoid interruptions of strong ultraviolet. We enjoyed our time in raining, bathing cool sea breeze on lovers beach, visited so many beautiful places on the Island...
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6/1/2012 12:18:15 PM
Tell me, since when did being well dressed score more points than being good looking? Maybe I spend too much time in the gym and not enough time choosing the right brand of socks?
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5/7/2012 4:03:06 AM
Let’s talk about the recent American Secret Service Columbian Prostitute scandal! Yeah, it has nothing to do with international internet dating, or finding the girl of your dreams in Asia, but still it’s very relevant.
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4/12/2012 4:12:56 AM
I seem to have struck a nerve with my little story of the traveler who left his passport behind. Well, a lot of things can go wrong, when you travel in Asia, or anywhere else for that matter. I don’t mean losing your little Moleskine journal in which you wrote lonely, self pitying essays about how you lost …oh; wait a minute that was me.
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3/31/2012 11:20:08 PM
Of course, “Thailand” doesn’t actually exist. It’s just a word and a concept, after all. A cobra has no idea it is crossing from Cambodia into Thailand. Huh… wait a second... it probably has no idea, later on… that it is crossing from Thailand back into Cambodia!
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2/16/2012 3:15:18 AM
Regretfully, there are so few places these days where a simple day trip can lead to being violently torn apart and eaten. Pity, that...
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5/31/2010 4:05:17 PM
Were you born with a price tag on your head? Neither is anything else in this world. Not hotel rooms, not meals, not rentals of any sort. Not elephant rides, not scuba courses. Not even the price of fixing an election has a natural, fixed price tag on it! Welcome to tropical Asia, where everyone knows that but you.
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1/19/2012 3:26:50 AM
Bali! Possibly the most perfect island in the world! Should you go? When’s the best time for your visit?
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12/16/2011 5:18:38 PM
I am on my first sojourn out of the Middle Kingdom for quite a few years - well, not technically true, I have travelled outside the Great Firewall of China a few times, but mostly on business. This time, I have a few chill-out days where I have no business obligations, meetings or planning days so this means I am free to prowl Singapore's underground shopping mega-complexes, hang 'gibbon-like' from the railings in the public transport and find little quiet corners to sip sugar-sweet Indian Milk Chai, rediscover the delights of curry-puffs, pick lime-leaves from my teeth while gobbling bowls of Laksa, rip my way through layers of Roti Channai, chopstick-pick my way through extra juicy morsels of Roasted Chicken and Crispy Pork, negotiate Chilli Crab carapace, seek out Spicy Stingray and Banana Leaf Satay, slurp durian ice kajiang (a tower of shaved ice, mixed with the pulp of the fruit) and enjoy the cool sea breeze across the Harbour with a cup of Barley Water and a tall Kopi-O.
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