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A Practical System
A Practical Guide
Get the highest paid available job
Teach Thais effectively and keep them engaged
Includes classroom exercises & tips to keep you stress free
$13.99
A Practical System
A Practical Guide
Get the highest paid available job
Teach Thais effectively and keep them engaged
Includes classroom exercises & tips to keep you stress free
A Practical System
A Practical Guide
Get the highest paid available job
Teach Thais effectively and keep them engaged
Includes classroom exercises & tips to keep you stress free
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Language | English |
Book type | Paperback |
Almost all visitors to Thailand will come into contact with Buddhism in some way. There are more than 200,000 monks in Thailand so you will see monks and novices out and about on the streets. There are more than 30,000 temples (wat in Thai) so you will see and may visit a temple, or several. Those lucky enough to spend some time with a Thai family will find themselves witnessing and even participating in many of the rituals and customs that are part of everyday Buddhism in Thailand.
This is NOT a book for the serious student of Buddhism, but rather a description and explanation of what you might encounter in everyday life in Thailand.
These are some of the stories of my life – just your average Englishman (pommie) – beginning from birth, childhood, schooldays, adolescence and then service life with its world travels, through to leaving the Royal Air Force and England to re-unite with my family in Australia after almost five years. It continues on with my life and travels again during and after my (officially) 21 years of marriage to an Australian lady and my 34 years of residency, citizenship and family life there… This book is a presentation of my true-life experiences and was mainly written in stages and in many countries over the years (1967 – 2014). It is compiled in short-story, poetry and travelling diary formats, with images supplied, and includes light-hearted and humorous events in my life as well as the serious side. Riding life’s roller-coaster comes much easier with a good sense of humour.
Cheers.
The author served in the Royal Hong Kong Police from 1960 to 1993 and, after discovering Thailand in the late sixties, visited the “Land of Smiles” at least once each year. After leaving Hong Kong and returning to his native Wales he continued to visit for a month each Spring and Autumn.
He consummated his love for Thailand by marrying a young Thai lady who unfortunately died, still young, from cancer.
In the course his visits he naturally became well acquainted with the night scene in Pattaya and, being an experienced observer, acquired the material that provides the basis for this book. The vignettes in this book capture a wide spectrum of Pattaya nightlife and provide the reader with an easy to read but interesting voyage into the pathos and the humour that exists behind the bright lights.
For anyone who has visited Pattaya it will bring back memories and for those yet to visit a taste of what is awaiting them.
The author has also published “Reminiscences of a Hong Kong Chailo” about his life in the police force in Hong Kong.
The elephant is the national symbol of Thailand. Yet, despite its close association with the people of the country over the centuries and the many services it has rendered to the kings and ordinary men, its very future survival hangs in the balance.
This second volume Elephants in Thailand – Through the Ages, portrays the association between elephant and man since the dawn of history and the importance of elephants in Thai history. It describes the deep roots of the elephant in mythology, describes the important position of the elephant at court, especially as battle elephant, and provides much information about the employment and usefulness of elephants in daily life in Siam. The text is supported by 90 illustrations, largely from antiquarian sources.
When baby Mai was orphaned, her desperate need for nurturing became my obsession. Night and day, for 5 years, I cared for no one else, she was my full time baby.
But I can tell you, nobody loved ‘being there’ more than me.
There’s nothing more exciting and fun than being an elephant ‘mama’.
When there’s a TON of LOVE coming at you every moment of the day, life becomes a celebration of happiness and joy.
Every NANO SECOND counts!
Vol 2
The ladies have reloaded and are shooting back in this second volume of an adventurous cartoon book about the ladies of Pattaya, Thailand. You need to duck! This adventurous cartoon book will give you another chance to see yourself in one of the many typical situations we all seem to get into in this land of the great big smile…and maybe find room to laugh at your friends or with a little help, at yourself.
For those of you who have been here a while you may notice that the cartoons are laid out in chronological order… there is the new guy, the new guy with farang wife, the farang’s trip to the village with his lovely, the domestic scene around town and then the trip back to the bar where the farang is ready to start over with a new love interest. If you are new here you won’t see that chronological order until you are ready to board your flight back to the real world. Keep the book as reference. You’ll need it when you come back.
This book is the result of exhaustive and intensive research into the psychic of that lovely lady who just took your beer order or who just explained in great detail the workings of a bar fine, or in even more detail the workings of a short time and finally laid out for you in a great fog of confusion just what you can expect from your relationship with her….
All the cartoons in this book have been published individually in Thailand before being selected to parade in this, the second volume. A third volume will follow this book and soon you will have a chance to view all the cartoons that speak so well to the experiences you and your friends are about to enjoy, have enjoyed, endured, or maybe escaped from. To own all three volumes is like having access to an entire research department in a research college that prides itself on extensive useless research into the sexual moors of behavioral science… in picture form.
The author is busy with more research. After many years of living in a confused state in what is Thailand he is preparing to buy a second house that will be in someone else’s name while driving a car on loan from his wife and providing endless amounts of financial support to strangers still unknown.