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Sunday, July 15th, 2007
Having agreed to pay the 1.5 million baht asking price for this new house, the owners suddenly upped the price to 1.75 million. Typical, eh? The husband, who was away working in Taiwan, comes back and says their was a mistake in the printing on the advertising. Yeah, right. More ...
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Sunday, July 1st, 2007
I mentioned in an earlier post that Nam's mother had suffered a nervous breakdown after the death of Nam's father. I naively thought that by throwing money at the problem she might cheer up a little. No such luck. Apart from staring at me blankly and muttering "farang", she is ...
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Sunday, June 17th, 2007
What was supposed to be just a weekend in Udon turned into a whole week. Now I'm back in Pattaya wondering why I returned. This town always seems lonely and dilapidated this time of year, strange and oblivious characters trawling the streets, and old and familiar faces in the places ...
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