Jake:
I’m on my way back to Bangkok from LA right now. Actually, believe it or not, at this very moment, according to the flat-panel TV screen at the foot of my seat, I’m at 39,000 feet just south of the Aleutian Islands, about six hours out of LA and five hours away from Tokyo. I’m on a Singapore Airlines 747 today on which SQ is testing an in-flight system which provides continuous in-flight access to the internet and all your email accounts. They’ve even given me a power adapter so I can plug my laptop into the power outlet at the seat instead of running off the battery and waiting for the damned thing to run out.

Norbert:
How many years have you lived in Bangkok and in which district do you live?

Jake:
Aey I were married almost ten years ago and we’ve maintained an apartment in Bangkok since then — although we actually lived a fair amount of the time in California and Hawaii since I’d been writing for film and television since the mid-80’s and needed to be nearer to the States when I was still doing a lot of it. When our youngest son went into the first grade, however, we decided we wanted him to go to school in Bangkok, so we bought a large duplex apartment and remodeled it into a permanent family home. It’s off Sukhumvit Road, out near Soi Thonglor

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