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Ted Mosby, Thai architect – What How I Met Your Mother and Thailand have in commmon
I have waited long with this post but finally I found the time to finish it. Two of my favorite things combined. The monday night CBS TV Show ‘How I Met Your Mother’ (granted it was way better when it started a few years ago) and, the country I live in right now, Thailand (guess [...]
Culture Clash: Thai Laziness, Politeness & Smile
This is going to be a tough post. I don’t want to rant to much since I really like it over here and the people are still amazing. So please do not consider my words as unhappiness – it is just a comparisson and one or two suggestions from a…
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Mai Ao Thung – Plastic bags in Thailand
Short and sweet: Plastic bags suck. We all know that. That’s why many countries already forbade supermarkets to give plastic bags away for free. Unfortunately over here in Thailand that is not the case. You’ll get a plastic bag for every single chocolate bar you purchase. You even can not say “mai ao thung khrap” [...]
Farang Farang! – Foreigners in Thailand
When crossing the streets of Thailand you might get a lot of eyes on you. Reasonable since you might look quite different than Thai people. Especially in areas where people are not that used to foreigners, they will look at an talk about you. You might not understand that much of what is said, but [...]
hong nam – thai toilettes
When people ask me what’s different in Thailand compared to Germany or Europe I often talk about the climate, the people, the food…but I forget mostly to mention the hong nam – the toilettes. Might be because it’s not the best topic for a small talk, but worth to mention anyway. And since we are [...]
Turtle Island – Koh Tao
After surviving one night in Bangkok (and the world‘s your oyster…) we got up in the middle of the night, checked out and walked fully packed to the lomprahya office where our bus to chumporn should wait for us. 5.30 was check-in time, 6:00 planned take off. real take off was at about 6:30 but [...]
My Thai!
Tada Ladies and Gentlemen! One week after my departure to Thailand, finally a chance to say hi, hello and I‘m fine. Actually I haven‘t missed going online so far – but I hope at least some of you missed me a little. So here are my first impressions of the land of smile. Flight – [...]
