The Siamerican

After a filling meal at a seaside restaurant in Hua Hin, it was time for a drink and game of pool somewhere in the pink light district, downtown. Ignoring all the invitations to blow a wad of cash on a few insincere conversations with Isarn (Northeastern Thai-Southwestern Lao) girls at one of a hundred typical […]

[Read more →]

Alas, all of the Siamerican’s grades have been announced on Bangkok University’s online University Record System Access (URSA) . At this point, there is only good news to be reported here.

[Read more →]

Initially, the Siamerican’s plan was to drive the Kawasaki 130 cc from Bangkok to Phuket, as he did back in March. The plans and logistics have slightly changed. Now he will haul the motorbike some 200 kilometers to Pattaya later on this morning. There, he will join his American comrade, ex Marine turned anthropologist, Klaus […]

[Read more →]

The Siamerican paid his phone/internet bill to DTAC yesterday, and was not happy yet again with the outstanding charges. This time it was higher than had ever been before, a wopping 3,019.15 baht, or about 100 USD.
Considering his plan should only be less than a thousand baht, the outrageous charges for going over one’s plan […]

[Read more →]

So, you’ve survived your first year as a legal driver in Thailand, and it’s time to renew your temporary one year license into the five year version? Congratulations!
Be sure not to wait too long after your license expires before going to renew, otherwise you may be subject to sit through the written and driving tests […]

[Read more →]

The end of the second term of academic year 2007 / 2550 (even though it’s already a third into 2008 / 2551) has finally arrived. All classes finished last week. The Siamerican has four exams from today, Tuesday to Thursday, followed by two more next week to seal the term away into a memorable and […]

[Read more →]

Yesterday, Sunday morning at about 10.00 a.m., the Siamerican Wanderer departed his Bangkok apartment, bound for Cha-cherng Sao province, about 70 kilometers east of Bangkok. Some friends at Uni had planned a Sunday trip to check out some local attractions, grub and hang out, or as such is called in Thai, Tee-yo เืที่ยว…

[Read more →]

In this sleepless night of web surfing, the Siamerican came across an interesting article about a Thai worker in Taiwan who died in his sleep screaming. The article resonated particularly peculiar as the Siamerican has been told by friends and family throughout his life of his own strange sleeping behavior.
As a kid, the Siamerican was […]

[Read more →]

Last Tuesday, the Siamerican, ventured to Bangkok’s main IT hub, Panthip Plaza. The Siamerican was accompanied by his American friend Jesse, also a Communication Arts student at BUIC, who offered company and graphics card advice for the a full day of computer shopping.
The Siamerican had been planning for months to get a new computer […]

[Read more →]

Now deep into the second week back in Bangkok after a refreshing and eventful spring break, the Siamerican Wanderer settles down in his Bkk East side apartment-office studio, re adusting back to a productive psyche and mindset as loads of work–both real world and academia–pile up on his plate.
Before he pulls his hair out over […]

[Read more →]