At the Malay food stall on Armenian Street, where I frequently lunch (and where, my friends say “the yellow box a bit bigger”), there is this peculiar sign. Looking at the other items on the list, one might conclude “Jennifer Lopez” is also a type of kuehkueh or finger food/dessert. Funny though, every conversation revolving [...]

When you start writing for a living, turning out ten thousand words or more over three days, with the pressing need to complete three more pieces within the next five days in order to make them ready for sale, while having to pretend to be a full time student and also employee, what does that [...]

What one learns during Globalization of World Politics POSC108: how to rip YouTube videos into your iPod without shareware (well, I would buy it if I still had cash left over from buying rubbish online and assorted rubber contraptions for my camera that cost a bomb…). Ingredients: Firefox, VideoDownloader plugin, iSquint. Download the VideoDownloader plugin for Firefox. [...]

Because buying mystery software packages without knowing what they are, for retail therapy, in a friend’s (it does feel weird to say, a friend, I think I still need to get used to it) words “it’s just like putting in a dollar into the machine at the mamashop and not knowing what you’ll get”. I [...]

Nine in the morning, every morning — a chef in Sirajgonj district’s “only acceptable hotel”, the Hotel Anik (Residential), cooks me a breakfast of two parathas and two eggs. My decision to omit a dish of “vegetable” (pronounced “va-gee-tay-ble”) caused many eyebrows to be raised, when it was first heard, as if you could even [...]

For those of you who remember; the beautiful music that mattered, on the road. 1. James — Sometimes 2. Canned Heat — On The Road Again 3. Chand Sifarish (Fanaa soundtrack) 4. Chand Chamke (Fanaa soundtrack) 5. Tu Hi Meri Shab Hai (Gangster soundtrack) 6. Bob Dylan — Things Have Changed (Update: Link updated, as I realize the old one required login) [...]

Spotted in a lane off Baghdad Street; the burning is, I imagine, for the Hungry Ghosts’ month.

1. “You can’t leave me now… because… it’s… August! My birthday is coming! If you leave me now, that only gives me September to find someone else because I don’t want to be alone on my birthday!” 2. “I’ll have to return you books, clothes, jackets, underwear, DVDs… I got tired thinking about it.” 3. “Nobody’ll fix [...]

Gratuitous last day in Bangkok post with unnecessary videos and pictures Geng, the taxi driver who doesn’t just take me to Lad Prao Road, through basic Thai 202 (and who eventually gives me a Thai name — Narak — which is simply embarrassing.) I can count perfectly up to nine thousand nine hundred and ninety nine [...]

Tawandang German Brewery, good food, real beer, beautiful people, and no foreigners. Same:Same Kid in Candy Store:Popagandhi in Bangkok 1. After such a long time in India — almost three months, between April and August — being in Bangkok again gives me the kid in the candy store effect. It’s the my goodness! more choices of beer [...]