No more! No more! You ask and ask and they can’t deliver! You help and plead and they can’t deliver! They won’t deliver! Why should they? What’s in it for them? You finally relent and do it yourself. You do it for them. In response, they don’t acknowledge it. Why should they? They never asked [...]
Six or seven months ago, an IT engineer from Spain who works for one of the reputed IT companies in Thailand committed suicide after having posted goodbye messages on his Facebook page. He was 37 years old. He must have had compelling reasons of which we’ll never know. It could have been loneliness, family issues, [...]
No the devil is not some monster with horns as depicted in movies. No he’s not an ugly-looking creature lurking in the dark waiting to jump on you. Rest assured – he won’t attack you during sleep or while you’re not looking. No he won’t show up on you while you lay down at night [...]
So what did you expect? To remain young? What is the true meaning of life? Every now and then we think back and realize it was just ‘yesterday’ that I graduated from high-school or it was only yesterday that I bought my first bicycle or it was only recently that I met my life partner. [...]
A recent trip to Phnom Penh Cambodia If you stop for a second and think about the tragedies, genocides, and tragic circumstances committed by fellow-men against their brethren, you’d think you’re probably one of the luckiest people alive today. Sometimes I wonder, does the word ‘sin’ really describe such heinous crimes? On a recent trip to Phnom [...]
A Bit of History! Let me explain to you why I don’t trust any mechanic or car electrician anymore. I purchased my car back in 2001 when I first arrived in Thailand. Since then, I never had any serious mechanical or electrical problems. It’s only the usual routine service that it undergoes every 5000 km or [...]