The Good Manner: Advice on Thailand from WoWasis’ Pa Farang This week’s dilemma: He likes big milk [large breasts] too much! Dear Pa Farang, I write for my sister, not for me. She is Thai lady, 26 years old, very smart, very pretty, with good heart. For two years, she have farang boyfriend. In beginning, […]
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WoWasis pioneers the use of travel-site GPS coordinates
Like most non-Western nations, the countries of Southeast Asia have loads of street addresses that don’t mean much to non-residents. It’s common for numbering schemes to stop as a street name changes, then start up again a few blocks away. Often, addresses on one side of the street have nothing in relation to those on […]
Read the rest of this entry »WoWasis book review: Joseph Smith’s ‘Portrait of a Cold Warrior’
Perhaps the most telling element of Joseph Burkholder Smith’s compelling and controversial exposé of his life as a CIA agent, Portrait of a Cold Warrior: Second Thoughts of a Top CIA Agent (1976 ISBN 0-345-29839-X) is what amounts to something of an apology, although, as he states several pages later, he’s not exactly apologizing. He […]
Read the rest of this entry »Bachelor in Bangkok: Khun Lee on gals both good and whacko
It was my first trip to Thailand. Actually, it was my first trip to Southeast Asia. I was 37 years old, had been to Latin America, North America and Western Europe but had yet to venture into the Far East. I can still recall that after 37 years of American women, I had pretty much […]
Read the rest of this entry »WoWasis book review: Jonathan Kwitny’s ‘Crimes of Patriots’
Here’s a book about one of the great bank swindles of the 20th century, that touched countries as disparate as the U.S., Australia, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia, the Philippines, Brunei, and Indonesia. And it touched them all in a big way. The bank was called Nugan Hand, named after its co-founders, lawyer Frank […]
Read the rest of this entry »The Good Manner: Thai girl asks ‘What’s in the Western Man’s Heart?’
The Good Manner: Advice on Thailand from WoWasis’ Pa Farang This week’s dilemma: Thai girl asks ‘What’s in the Western Man’s Heart?’ Dear Pa Farang, I am Thai lady 23 years old, from good family, have good heart. Last year, I met farang [Western] man who travel Thailand many time each year, and we begin […]
Read the rest of this entry »Bachelor in Bangkok: Khun Lee’s 5 favorite simple pleasures of life in Bangkok
For some reason I was extremely nostalgic this week and began pondering the simple pleasures of living in Bangkok. We all know about the hot babes, delicious food, tropical climate and friendly people. However, if I just wanted good food and hot babes I don’t think I would have ever relocated here permanently. After all, […]
Read the rest of this entry »The Good Manner: Was mummy a prostitute?
The Good Manner: Advice on Thailand from WoWasis’ Pa Farang This week’s dilemma: Was mummy a prostitute? Dear Pa Farang, Dad and mom were killed last year in an auto accident outside of Needles, California. He was a sergeant in the Vietnam war, and met her at a restaurant while on leave at a beach […]
Read the rest of this entry »Bachelor in Bangkok: Khun Lee’s 10 rules for being a bar girl
When I first started writing this column I explored the top ten rules for dealing with regular gals as well as a top ten for surviving with bar gals. I received a lot of positive feedback from both readers and close mates of mine who have to be constantly bombarded by my rants and unsolicited […]
Read the rest of this entry »The Good Manner: Lost Motorbike, or is my Thai girlfriend cheating me?
The Good Manner: Advice on Thailand from WoWasis’ Pa Farang This week’s dilemma: The Lost Motorbike: is my Thai girlfriend cheating me? Dear Pa Farang, I am a pensioner living in Krabi, enjoying a bit of the good life after many a cold winter in Manchester. Last year, a met a charming girl in her […]
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