Unexpected Danger...
I was walking around at work and deliberating the day’s activities that were ahead of me, when my mobile phone rang. It was my wife calling who had dropped me off, not more than thirty minutes before. She was frantic and crying. “I’m in the car. Something bit me – I’m Pain – I’m pain!”
The best I could do was to tell her I was coming and would meet her at the hospital. I dropped everything and ran for the door. As quick as I could make my way down to the first floor, I notified someone in the office that I had an emergency, and I was leaving. I ran to the front of the building and flagged down a motorcycle taxi. They are easy to spot by the blue vests they wear, with the large numbers printed on the front and the back. Of course I can’t speak enough Thai to tell him where I wanted to go and he could not understand my English. But in my haste, he understood my emergency and I just pointed. Away we went, with me pointing the turns out, until we got to the hospital.
I dashed to the front desk and wrote my wife’s name on a piece of paper with a question mark below it……
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Thailand Love Talk (English only) version released! (03 May 2011 00:24) The Land of Smiles has many attractions to the overseas visitor, but none more powerful or better appreciated around the world than the alluring smiles of the young ladies working in its many bars.
Thailand Love Talk (English only) version released! (03 May 2011 00:24) The Land of Smiles has many attractions to the overseas visitor, but none more powerful or better appreciated around the world than the alluring smiles of the young ladies working in its many bars.
Thailand LOve Talk (English only) version released! (03 May 2011 00:24) The Land of Smiles has many attractions to the overseas visitor, but none more powerful or better appreciated around the world than the alluring smiles of the young ladies working in its many bars.
New release from Peter Jaggs! (25 Apr 2011 00:37) Thailand Old Hand: Peter Jaggs has the unerring ability of being able to blunder into a good story wherever he travels in Asia.
'Snapshots of Thailand' released! (20 Apr 2011 23:50) Not even a three-hour motion picture could give an adequate impression of Thailand. These seven stories are snapshots of a few phases of the kingdom.
'The Sub - Teaching in Thailand' released! (19 Apr 2011 06:18) The truth about teaching in Thailand! How does a bum end up working as an English educator in a tropical paradise?
'Noynah - she was only a village girl' - released (18 Apr 2011 01:44) Short stories - Noynah was born in Kamalasai, a small sleepy Isaan village on the outskirts of Kalasin in the North-East of Thailand...
Brothels & Bordellos: Indonesia (11 Apr 2011 06:03) Indonesia bordellos and brothels are diverse in nature and range from rumah resocialisasi, government run bordellos aiming to rehabilitate women, to plain cheap dumps for men to get relief.
Through Farang Eyes (08 Apr 2011 04:21) Southeast Asia looks different to a farang than it does to a native. Here are seven stories picturing some of the things that one farang saw.
