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Just a note while hanging out at the condo today. It's Friday and its been a full week. Monday saw my first Thai massage since arriving two weeks ago. Toronto Gerry got into the beach town and call to get together. We got some of the expats together and met for dinner. Tuesday my roommate had her second day off this month and we went to the masseurs masseuses and got a two hour traditional Thai massage. Now that was intense. Ning really enjoyed sharing the two hours with me. I was amazed at how she gets twisted up like a pretzel. Remind me next time to tone it down to a medium massage as in soft medium or strong. Wednesday was a chillaxn day. Thursday I hiked my ass off in the am and beached away the afternoon and captured the sunset. Today I saw Ning off to spend the weekend at her home village with her mother and her kids. Just one quick story before I go. I overheard a Thai person at our coffee shop, the other day, ask my Canadian buddy about snow. He tried to explain snow to

http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-november-14-2013/cracked News services all over Asia are awash with Canadian mayor rob ford from Toronto. I always like seeing Canadian news coverage while wintering in Asia regardless do the context or pretext. Expats from all over the English speaking countries are having a field day here with the crack smoking, alcohol soaked, obesely bloated, ill mannered, abusively vulgar, Toronto elected and poll rising politician. I quite frankly, take some pride in having one of the most colorful media clips riding the networks of Al Jazeera, news Asia, BBC and Bloomberg just to name a few. Canada news rarely makes one of the networks here in Thailand, let alone the entire gamut. The stark reality of the real drama did not crystallize until I read a Facebook post from a law professor analyzing the same allegations, no wait, confessed infractions in the workplace. "This is really a point I want my students to grasp – we hold politicians to a much l