Chef Maiyuu’s green curry vegetable rice, wrapped in a crepe, with dried fish on top.

Anonymous, this blog’s resident critic, would kill to have a Thai boyfriend make him dishes so delicious (this was waiting for me when I came home from work last night). He will just never admit it.

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Is mine just like yours?



After prompting, Anonymous (I assume it is the same one, though it could be one of his spawn) - has given me an example of the kind of post I should be writing.

‘Silom Farang just posted a VERY INTERESTING tale about some of the dishonest practices unsuspecting Thai tourists are falling prey to.. so far it has elicited 12 COMMENTS.. not one of which he had to beg for.’

I am delighted to get this response, as I was thinking about this airport corruption saga just the other day.

The story about duty free staff/tourist police entrapping foreign tourists has been well covered at webboards such as thaivisa.com and 2Bangkok.com, not to mention the letters page of the local papers. Overseas newspapers have run it, as have Thai political/news blogs.

Broaden your reading horizons, pal – not all Thai news starts and ends with gay blogs!

Anonymous wants me to cover the same topic that he can read about everywhere else – and in the process, to become yet another farang bleater whingeing about this, that and the other.

No, thanks. If you want to read Farang Tales Inc, then you know where to find them.

The idea of writing a blog should be to offer something different, which readers can’t find elsewhere; or as the blog author, to at least offer my own perspective on Thai life, which no one else is likely to share.

I don’t care about what Anonymous would like to read on this blog, because

(1): He can read it elsewhere.
(2): I don’t want to sound like everyone else.

For the time being, I have switched on the comments moderation feature, so I can weed out Anon’s nastier remarks before they are published here. I am tired of his negativism, so shall now delete him on sight, unless he says something useful.

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Blog enters philosophical phase?

I haven't quite started a mega-jigsaw puzzle, like the Zen-like character Serge Gorodish from Jean-Jacques Beineix's arty French film, Diva (pictured here with his big blue jigsaw wave, and ever-present cigarettes).

But alert readers will notice that I rarely run stories about Thai guys at the 7-11 any more - a staple of every Thai gay blog, surely.

I must be slipping! Truth to be told, I just go to the 7-11 to buy grocery items. It’s only other bloggers who notice cute guys.

I have listed some of them on the blog roll. As bloggers, we are all in this together, so I suggest you take a look.

For my sins, I appear to have entered a different stage in the journey. Those who want more are welcome to stick around. Those who want stories about the cutie at the 7-11 are welcome to exercise their freedom of choice, and surf the other blogs instead.

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Ant invasion


Small brown ants have invaded my keyboard. I must have been eating food over it. Bits and pieces have fallen into the cracks between the keys, and now the ants are having a feast.

A friend says I should just leave them, as they are cleaning the keyboard for me. But it is disconcerting to hit the keys and find ants running in all directions.

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Riw ripples

Regular reader BODYholic is interested in news about boyish ex-actor Athit Riw Tangsawadirun, who was a huge star in his day.

Here's a story about Riw from the Thai papers, written a few weeks ago:

Former star Riw Athit Tangsawadirun has made a dramatic return to the limelight, though not in the way he might have hoped.

After paparazzi snapped him and two youngsters at a department store, the anonymity which he has carefully safeguarded since leaving the industry more than five years ago was shattered.

Journalists asked the inevitable question: Is Riw now a Dad? Previously, few Thais even knew the former star was even married.

On television a few days later, Riw came out to confirm the rumours: he was father to two boys, age 6 and 4, by his first wife Kae, and now raised a daughter, aged eight months, by his current wife.

He was a good Dad, he said, and would like the chance to return to the entertainment industry.

The moment might have passed without fanfare, except Riw’s former mother-in-law, Supaporn Athsawakitimetin, took exception to Riw’s assertion that he took seriously his responsibilities as a father.

Days later, Riw and Supaporn - a woman he still regards fondly calls ‘Mama’ - appeared on television to tell their story. As Riw sat dejectedly, Supapron (pictured above with her former son-in-law) demolished Riw’s portrayal of himself as a happy family man and devoted husband.

Accusing Riw of abandoning his former wife and children, Supaporn said Riw had been a terrible father to his two boys, and had left her to pick up the burden of care.

‘He sees the boys just once a week, and only then because they ask. When they were younger, he missed their birthdays, went absent on Father’s Day. He didn’t turn up for the birth of his second child, nor bother to take Kae to hospital.

‘He was absent for almost a whole year in the later stages of their marriage, which ended when he started seeing a woman my own age.

‘My daughter was so frustrated she attempted to take her own life.'

Supaporn said Riw pays B30,000 a week to help raise the boys. She would like him to increase the monthly amount by B20,000, or alternatively give her a cheque for a lump sum of B10 million.

‘In return, we’ll stop bothering him, and he needn’t support them again for the rest of his life.’

Entertainment giant RS Promotions, Riw’s former label, also comes out of the affair badly. Supaporn said that at the company‘s request, Riw and her daughter hid their marriage from the media – which also deprived her of the chance to see her only daughter in bridal white.

At the time, Riw was in his mid-20s and a star. RS did not want news that he was a married man to go public.



‘They asked my daughter not to go ahead with a wedding, because if they were wed, someone would take photos of the pair, which might leak.’

To oblige RS, the pair married at the registry, and held a simple meal and tea ceremony to celebrate. She was not invited.

Supaporn admitted she had always opposed her daughter marrying a star.

‘Even when we were together, he was constantly on the phone, taking calls from female members of his fan club,’ she said.

Riw said he was just a youngster when he married, and had come from a broken home. He regretted what happened, as he still loved his ‘Mama’ (Supaporn).

‘I know it’s time I grew up and did better. I will try to find the lump sum if they want it,’ said Riw, who these days works as an investment adviser and runs a car wash and restaurant business.

The show ended with Riw, in tears, begging forgiveness at Supaporn’s feet.

PS: Since he appeared on TV, Riw has entered the monkhood, to pay tribute to his parents. His former mother-in-law – the same one who attacked him on TV – showed up to give him another earful, for the benefit of the cameras. He could do nothing except apologise.