Archive for October, 2007

Getting Things Done

Monday, October 29th, 2007

The past 7 days have perhaps been the most productive I've experienced in Thailand.
I've always claimed that it is impossible to do more than two things in one day over here.  Any task seems to take half a day of ones time or half a day of ones energy but, despite spending our evenings exhausted, […]

Book Review: Monster, Jonathan Kellerman

Tuesday, October 16th, 2007

It's rare that I give up on a book completely but my pleasure rfom this rubbish came from the exhileration I felt closing it for good, about 1/3 of the way through.
The book I guess tries to be a psychological thriller about a madman who mubled crypic details about current murders whilst he's locked up […]

UOB Bank Do Not Keep Their Word!

Tuesday, October 16th, 2007

Despite the best of plan and precautions we found ourselves at the mercy of UOB bank today after deciding to work with them for our mortgage.
Their credit scoring is based on income minus expenses each month and we were told that to get a 4 million baht mortgage we would need to pay 330,000 baht […]

The Website I Dreamt Of Making

Monday, October 8th, 2007

One of my biggest grievances online is with people who confuse the words 'lose' and 'loose'.
This week I was planning to buy myself a domain name to teach people how not to look so damn illiterate and I noticed many of the domains I wanted were taken.
I decided to check them out and found this […]