Monthly Archives: January 2008

Who’s a Smart Fellow? Who’s a Fellow Smart?

This handsome (if slightly lopsided) fellow, dear readers, is me … sans beard, and avec haircut.
I’ve been pretty busy … last week Bek stopped in on for a few days on a whirlwind conference. Our social convening was limited to a movie on the Sunday, and dinner on Monday, but it was tops to see [...]

Oh what a weekend

I just won a 500 baht voucher for Oh My Cod restaurant. You may recall it’s the place where Brenden, Leyton and I drank all the Bacardi at last November. I’m stoked with joy.
In other Thai news, from February 11 smoking will be banned in all restaurants and bars in Thailand. I have read [...]

the return of Asian Dean

I just came back from lunch, where Mint had cooked one of my favourite “simple” meals … pork omelette with rice. How Asian am I?
Things are going well … business on PP especially, is booming. 2007 was an average year, but so far 2008 is a winner.
Mint needs a tooth crowned, and yesterday got a [...]

more since being back

So I was talking about the family dinner.
As usual, we were running late. Mint likes to nap almost up until the point where we’re supposed to be there, the flurry about like trapped bear while getting ready, and then usually we’re hailing a cab sometime AFTER we’re already supposed to be wherever we’re going. We [...]

Meeting the family, Asian style

Most of the people who read this blog are up to date with everything that happened up to the point where I packed my bags and flew back, so I’ll ignore the one month gap in my blog history and start from there.
I was in the last floundering touches of cleaning out my apartment - [...]