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Fruits of hilarious failures
This entry is from a few weeks ago. Apparently I typed it all up then pressed ‘save’ instead of ‘publish’. GOOD ONE. It starts like this: Did I tell you about the time I got chewing gum in my hair?...
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Undead and anxious: the ohs and lows of Bangkok life.
Still in Kok city. Remain undead. I have done Tourism. I went with friends to see the world’s largest golden teak house. It had everything you would expect from the world’s largest golden teak house,...
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To sunlounge is a verb
I left the city. It’s been a while and I thought it was time to get away. And, WOW, did I get me some Away. I got ALL of the Away. I went into the Away store and I was like, ‘Hey, I need to get Away’,...
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The Alan Chronicles
I’ve had three pay cheques from my job. I’ve got a work permit and a category B immigration visa. I’ve been to an island, used every mode of public transport available in Bangkok, and even learnt a few...
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Not Alan Anymore
I’m blogging from my mobile phone because I’m a busy, 21st century woman for whom time is most definitely money, but really because one of the cockroach teens broke the screen on my laptop so I can’t...
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in which the author has A Moment – NO LIKE SRSLY YAH – and thinks she’s john...
Happy New Year, people. It has been many days since my last instalment. I haven’t really known what to write. There’s a whole lotta life going on out here, all the bloody time in fact; the stuff never...
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bangkok, in real life
The weather’s changing. It’s January and it’s already heating up. There were a few weeks of comparative cool. There were a couple of nights when it was cool enough to use a thin blanket without melting...
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awkwardly, and with cockroaches
[Another entry in which I go on for fuckin' ages about something that was supposed to be just a short aside] Meditation is a thing I do now (thrice update: fourice). On a Thursday after work I go to a...
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Songkran. [Photos pending]
It’s been one year, one month, and 29 days. I’m still in Bangkok and – inconceivably – I’m still not dead. This time last year I was studying for my CELTA. Man alive, I remember that month of insanity...
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Cats, cakes and chicken coups
Well, here we are. It’s early evening and I’m sticky both because it’s the usual amount of too-much-hot and also because I’ve just finished eating my third mango of the day. Allow me to repeat that: my...
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born on a yellow day
Well, THAT happened. I’m back in the Big Kok. I’ve been back here for four weeks, already worked for three. I’d hoped to have a little holiday to recover from the massive holiday I just had but, being...
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Not Alan Anymore
I’m blogging from my mobile phone because I’m a busy, 21st century woman for whom time is most definitely money, but really because one of the cockroach teens broke the screen on my laptop so I can’t...
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the truth about pineapples
Fruit. Veg. It’s confusing out here. One minute you’re strolling along a quiet, shady lane in the park and the next you’re confronted with a load of enormous green dildos hanging from the sky. Except...
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You’re right – chapter one was a little overlong. It jumped across settings and time periods, lacked any tangible plot, showcased a boringly self-obsessed narrator and suffered a dreadful inconsistency...
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