Bangkok
My Bike Videos on YouTube
In a sudden flash of boredom genius a few months ago, I decided that I’d figure out away to attach my camera to my mountainbike. After viewing a few tutorials here and there, I managed to bang together a serviceable camera mount, something I wrote about here. Well, the first video was pretty rough, but [...]
Seen in Bangkok - Mecca Cola
One of the first things I do in any new country I’m visiting is hit a convenience store. You’ll never find a more compact display of what makes that country unique. In Korea they have kimchi (fermented cabbage) flavoured fish sticks; in India, they offer little packages of sauces for about 2 cents that taste [...]
Chinatown Vegetarian Festival - More Fun Than a Bucket of Snakefish
My crazy neighborhood is no crazier than during the period from September 28-October 7, when the Chinese vegetarian festival takes place. During this time, the sois (alleys) around my apartment are packed with crowds of people dressed in white, food stalls selling all manner of food, Chinese opera singers, parades, firecrackers and even the odd [...]
Biking Around Bangkok
Biking around Bangkok is something I really like doing, which freaks a lot of people out. Most automatically assume that it’s nothing more than a date with death, but I Greg to differ (ha!). If you’re patient, know how traffic works, and keep your wits about you, city riding can be really rewarding, especially [...]
A Welcome Lull in the News
Because I’m a nerd, the first thing I do when I wake up is roll out of bed and into my command station computer desk to check what’s going on the world via my Netvibes RSS feed. When I checked things out this morning, I was pleasantly surprised to see no screaming headlines about protests, [...]
Chatuchak - World’s Biggest Market?
With friends in town, a trip to Chatuchak Weekend Market (or Jatujak, or simply ‘JJ Market’) is usually on the menu. While a visit to this sprawling covered flea market from hell (apparently the world’s biggest) is usually done as a last resort for expats living here (or unless you want some particularly unique things), [...]
Is Bangkok a Dangerous City?
I get asked this question a lot from friends and strangers alike, many of whom still think of Bangkok as a seedy, lawless dive filled with prostitutes and shady gem deals going on among every patch of shadows. However, as anyone who has lived here can tell you, the answer to that question is a [...]
Badass Bangkok Biking
Bangkok’s not usually the type of city one thinks about when you hear ‘city biking’, but over the past few years my friends and I have braved the narrow streets, unpredictable traffic and stifling heat to map ourselves out a nice collection of routes. Some of them take us down Bangkok’s main drags, where we [...]
