Why do Thai builders fail to understand that apartments cannot work with just one plug socket in each room?
This week we added at least 10 additional sockets to our new place and I've realized now that Thais and farangs don't see eye to eye when it comes to living efficiently.  
Every Thai person I've spoken […]

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, […]

It's been a long journey securing a mortgage in Thailand but we've had 2 offers now and all being well we'll get a good offer from another bank this week.  Our mistake was putting all our faith in just one bank and letting them dictate their terms to us. 
The Thai credit system is probably […]

I've not been so concerned about it but I've certainly noticed this last month that I've lost a lot of flexibility since I stopped Aikido last year. 
We had a lazy weekend and yesterday Tik and I decided to get back to playing squash again.  I remember mentioning to Tik mid-game that I think i really […]

Agreed, this might not be the best article to re-launch the blog but if you've got an inquisitive brain then you probably will appreciate some facts that I hunted down a few weeks ago from Facts on Farts by Brenna Lorenz.
Most fart gas comes from swallowed air and consists largely of nitrogen and […]

Wow, we've got way more photo's than we though! I've finally tagged and edited most of them and I've begun uploading them all to Flickr right now. In a few days when I'm a bit more familiar with everything I'll link to my Flickr page and you'll be able to see them […]

It’s been over a year since I actually wrote anything of substance on this site so I’m slowly going to be bring it back to life again.
As a friend once commented, the problem with running a personal blog is that the only time you get to update it is during the times when you’re not […]

Wow, since returning from Europe at the end of August life’s been so busy.
Sadly the online investment opportunity that I’ve been administering the forum for is now closed. I’ve gained a lot of experience in how to run forums from it and I can put this new skill to good use in some new […]

Sorry that this site has not been updated for some time. I have nearly a month’s worth of dairies which I’ve already written to put online and will do my best to get round to it.
Right now though my top priority is work and, if you take a look at my True Potential Group […]

Tik and I just returned to the airport to discover that 10 tanks have surrounded the government house in Bangkok.
Looks like this is the military coup that’s been whispered about for the last few weeks.
All the Thai TV channels are showing stock footage of the King, childrens paintings and soothing music. Fortunately we have […]