Rants and Musings:
Perhaps it’s juvenile to resort to mindless rants and excessive verbosity. I think maybe so but at least it’s better than getting drunk and vandalising property or being cut off on the motorway and beating the shit out the ‘cut-offer’ with sporting equipment. In lieu of this, ranting is a viable outlet. We [...]

West-Midlands, UK – Restaurant work.

I have a lot to say about restaurant work. High end, upper-class establishments not the Pizza Huts and Wetherspoons we all love. It is a gruelling job, with pretty much thankless remuneration and even less grateful customers. The ability that people possess to render themselves into mindless automatons as soon as [...]

Thailand:

TEFL: Everyone is doing it, including me. The dream of easy hours and decent pay to realise all of your travel wishes is how you think of it. Then you find yourself in an office with too many people, working too hard at something you really don’t care about. As a fan of the television [...]

London:

The pressure to achieve in this Capitalist mayhem is something that gets us all, even if you were once a Humanities student riddled with idealistic naiveté. You move to London for lack of a better idea and register with the necessary agencies. I’ll take temporary, I’ll take permanent, I’ll take anything because that’s what I [...]

If you ever wondered what it would be like to be a celebrity come to Nakhon Sri Thammarat. I say like a celebrity but this is only in certain senses. Your pay check will not be nearly as glamorous nor your work as creative and far reaching. Like a celebrity you will be when every [...]

Thailand’s lost ideal
Thailand. The word instantly conjures images of long stretching white sandy beaches intimately meeting an eternity of blue ocean. Lush green stretching tree tops laden with coconuts perfect the idyllic setting. The ‘land of smiles’ is wholly applied to every imagined indigenous inhabitant. A holidaymakers dream, a honey-mooning couple’s glorification of their union, [...]