Asian Sweetheart 2.0

Today my dear readers I would like to recommend another blog that you might fight interesting. First let me tell you what sparked me to mention it today. It was because I saw a tweet from the author that said this:

Somebody landed at my blog today (thaiwomantalks.com) w/ search: “how much to send mia noi” <straying husband due diligence?

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I read something on the Bangkok Post Forums that was kind of interesting. A foreigner wrote that he bought a condo in Bangkok and was trying to be friendly with his neighbors and condo staff when the condo manager told him there were complaints from other owners about him talking with the maids. (more…)

I originally posted this on my old blog and thought I should move it over to the new blog. It is about the relationship of lesbian couples in Thailand and the names Tom and Dee that we use. So here it is. (more…)

Weird for me to have a post about his subject, isn’t it? It’s just that there is so much news about this stuff on the internet, even some on Thai news because Obama is involved and he is sort of popular in Thailand, maybe more popular than in America (and I don’t understand why). (more…)

I just remembered that today is the American holiday of Thanksgiving. Nobody else does that holiday and no Thai people have any idea what it’s about except a few who lived there. Something about some people called pilgrims inviting some Indians to dinner I guess. I don’t know, not my history. (more…)

“Diaspora”, that’s a big new word for me. I learned it after somehow stumbling upon a discussion on The Nation Webboard about how Thai people feel towards other Thais who were raised or lived a long time abroad (discussion here). The discussion is interesting to me because I never thought much about it but I do have some of those same feelings. Read on. There is a treat for you at the end of this post. (more…)

I read a story this morning about a survey of teens in Thailand between the ages of 13 and 15. The results are pretty disturbing. But first of all you must consider that surveys here are very suspect because they are usually faked or manipulated to give answers to suit the surveyors. Even surveys done by “respected” organizations are not very useful except to give some general idea and only after you discount the often obviously slanted questions. In this case it was the Department of Health who did the survey. So, remembering that, we look at the results of this poll which was reported in the Daily Xpress. (more…)