Umphang

Me and wor lass went there as part of a 4-night 1,400km Songkran loop. Twas mint.




Disaster struck just outside Pai with the battery giving up the ghost. We had to push the bike about 2km in the scorching midday sun to a small repair shop in town. We replaced it for 750bt and continued on. You don't realise how heavy a motorbike is until you have to push it. Imagine what a pain in the arse this would've been if it had happened in the middle of nowhere?


We hit 66,666km. Two thirds of the way to 100,000km or 1.66 times around the Earth's equator.


There's a footbridge crossing the wide but shallow Ping River. We chilled here with the locals before heading back to Changers. This nondescript town was Wan's favourite place of the trip? She was a superb travel companion.
Chiang Mai


We then went to HangDong for a bowl of 10bt noodles - the cheapest in Thailand.

Ob Khan National Park


Room

I'm the only Farang residing here for some reason.
It took all of one trip on the bike to move our shit. Incredibly, Wan has less stuff than me. She's the easiest-to-get-along-with lass I've ever had. She rode 1400km on the back of a bike in boiling weather with no wingeing. Class.

There's only one Jo

He didn't seem too impressed with CMFC's 4-0 demolition of Samut Songkram, lifting them to third in the table.

While NUFC got relegated from the EPL, CMFC are looking more and more like genuine TPL promotion contenders this season. They've been great at home but, unfortunately, fail to carry that momentum away. Will they pay the price for this poor away form? Time will tell.

We rode right up to it where small crowds had gathered to take selfies.
I'd never seen anything like this before - twas quite a sight to behold.
Litigation
I received some legal threats for the first time in my life. I now know that defamation doesn't mean taking a shit. I always got it confused with defecation.

How could I have made such an error? Well let's see.
1. Barry worked for Montpelier as a "self-employed agent, marketing their services to prospective clients and acting as an introducer".
2. Barry used the name card shown here.
3. All correspondence regarding the Centaur scam went through his Montpelier email address shown here.
4. Barry never mentioned he wasn't selling the Centaur scam through Montpelier.
However, Montpelier claim they "have never had Terms of Business with Centaur Litigation". They said I was defaming them - albeit unknowingly.

Like a pussy I caved in to their demands and removed all mention of Montpelier from that post. T'is only fair if that's the case.
I'll go even further and apologise to Montpelier. It seems Barry had us both over a barrel. Unfortunately I'll continue to suffer the consequences of this ambiguous financial farce. Nothing's as it seems in the murky world of finance.
Gets even better

Duane McGaw was one of the principals of the $160M Argentum/Centaur scam. His brief CV in the Centaur brochure is pictured above. He's now running QSHIQ, a posh-arsed Japanese restaurant in Vancouver, Canada. I'm happy for him. Maybe he can treat some of his victims to a meal there one night.
This page at OffshoreAlert sums things up nicely. Basically, thousands of investors are reduced to poverty while the bloke we invested with flaunts big posh restaurants in our faces. MMmmmm. Shouldn't he be in jail? Remember, the biggest criminals wear suits and work in finance.
A Decade
It's 9 years and 11 months since I left Blighty. What an incredible ride the last 10 years have been. I'll go over the highlights next month.
Poetry
Left a hole
Incomplete
New folk pointless
Not worth the grief
Roi Et called
Off he went
Isaan lure
Heaven sent
Must move on
Do the thing
Buddha said
Never cling
Lingo
SobDoc = fail an exam
SobPan = pass an exam
4,325 26 76 6 1090 1,219 4 1,400 2 750 7 66,666 100,000 10 50 0 free 2700 one 1400 1100 1100 cheap 4-0 4-2 $250,000 $160M 9 years and 11 months 10 years
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