This title refers to the first trilogy I ever wrote and sel-published and ‘Behind The Smile – The Story of Lek, a Bar Girl in Pattaya’ refers to the fact that Thailand is called ‘The Land of Smiles’.
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Hundred Days Well, believe it or not, the Day of Merit (see yesterday’s post) has seemed to make people happier, despite the fact that one girl’s father has his ‘One Hundred Days’ today, although that is not necessarily a sad event either. To start with, I’d like to point out that ours is not an …
A Few Days Ago This early afternoon, my friend Dave came calling. I think that that is the earliest by three or four hours he’s ever come around. Anyway, the reason was that a mutual friend, Murray is leaving the country in two days and he thought that my email from yesterday inviting him to …
Dead Centre II is Finished I have always thought that photos like this were posed, but this one honestly wasn’t. I was on the point of finishing, Dead Centre II, my latest novel at my usual watering hole, when my friend David Taylor came to visit. “Don’t say a word,” I whispered only one …
Penny Wise, but Pound Foolish We bought a house in need of severe renovation or even demolition and rebuilding in Thailand eight or nine years ago. There was a small vacant plot to our right, which I thought would make a nice vegetable garden for my wife, as she loves gardening, but only grows …
Marketing Books As you may be aware, I am working on a sequel to a novel I wrote about a year ago called ‘Dead Centre’ about a new type of terrorist organisation. This one is proving to be more difficult to write, but then a lot of the terminology and technology employed in the story …
A Day in The Life of… I’ve broken my pledge to write a blog diary post every day already, and feel pretty bad about it, but it all started because I had to stay up until four a.m. to talk to the US IRS on Monday. That threw me out for three days. It meant …
Khao Chae – Thailand’s Special Dish for Songkhran Songkhran is the old Thai New Year. It is a special time of the year for Thais, which is often trivialised by Westerners, calling it such things as a ‘Water Festival’. Describing Songkhran as a water festival is like calling Christmas a festival of wrapping paper. Do …
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Holidays in Thailand – How Much? Thailand is, and has been for at least a decade, right at the top of both the world’s holiday resorts and travellers’ wish-list destinations. The same goes for retirees and expats, and the question I am asked most often, as someone who lives in Thailand is, how much …
Party Season in Thailand There is a definite period in the year that most people would recognize as the party season in Thailand. The casual observer may say that party season in Thailand is March and April and it is true that there are a lot of events that a Protestant Christian would probably see as …
A New Behind The Smile – BTS5 This is just a snippet of information for those of you have or are enjoying the ‘Behind The Smile’ series: I have started a fifth and am making good progress. I am not sure what to call it yet, but I am thinking of Stepping Stones’. It will …
This is an unsolicited review of Daddy’s Hobby, the first part of the trilogy on Lek in Pattaya. Daddy’s Hobby in Review originally on Amazon
Pattaya – Fun or Sin City? Pattaya is a large seaside resort situated on the north-eastern side of the Gulf of Thailand. It is about 160 km from Bangkok or an hour’s taxi ride from the new Suvarnabhumi International Airport. It is said to be host to over 1,000,000 visitors every year and I would …
Seen Bites Like These? If you have ever seen bites like these, please say what you think did this to me in the comments box below 🙂 I woke up with them three days ago. These are on my right side, just above my hip and my right hand was also bitten, though the three …
Bpom’s 100 Days Seven years ago, a neighbour’s dog, that we used to feed sometimes, got pregnant and so we started to feed her more as her owners were often at work. One day, Da, the dog, disappeared and it was only a month later that she came bounding into a shop where my wife …
Behind The Smile: The Trilogy 27/2/2014 “I thoroughly enjoyed reading all 1/2/3 BTS books even though I was getting annoyed in book 2 with Lek’s selfish and self-centred attitude regarding the house and her image and standing in the village, but fell over laughing with the image of Craig staying in the old timber shack he’d bought, and trying to get some sleep …
Differences in Interracial Customs This article highlights how cultural differences can easily cause difficult problems between people from two different countries that have different customs. Such small differences in two races’ different cultures can betray important differences in background that can result in challenges in interracial, personal relationships such as marriage and how a couple deals …
Happy Days! Hi, Happy days are here again… Two good things happened to me yesterday, as opposed to the shed-load of bad things that I am getting used to these days. No 1: I had a lovely email from a guy that has written to me before, called David. This is what he said: ” …
Behind The Smile: Daddy’s Hobby Half-Price Owen here, I hope that you are doing well. I have great news for you – Daddy’s Hobby Half-Price ! I have lowered the price of ‘Daddy’s Hobby’, the first in the series of ‘Behind The Smile’, at Smashwords for a short time, so if you were still unsure …
