Hardship Posting
Volume 1
"Hardship Posting - True Tales of Expat Misadventure in Asia" Volume
1. 400 amusing and amazing anecdotes from 42 contributors. Still on
best-seller lists in Hong Kong and Thailand five years later. Reprinted
11 times so far, with 55,000 copies of the series sold to date.
A no-holes-barred romp through Asia! Great reading for the expat
that can't remember what he did last night, for once-were expats
to remember what Asia was like, and for might-be expats to know
what they're really getting themselves in for.
Compiled and edited by Stuart Lloyd.
It's all in here. swapping a Rolling Stone magazine for a
Vietnam visa, the group that posed as
Air Supply to get through an Indonesian roadblock, what
your maid might be doing with Indian gentlemen and a jar of Vaseline
while you're at work, the North Korean soldier doing a Ugandan
wardance in a karaoke lounge, the bloke
that posed as the British High Commissioner in Bangkok bars,
the gent in the Singapore club sauna in a 3-piece suit, the English
lady shot by the Macau gangsters, the helicopter pilot they wanted
to use as a case-study for VD research, the American that ordered
a fat young boy in a Hong Kong restaurant, the
guy that bought a Phuket bar on Amex card, the Aussie they
flew around the region to non-existent meetings, ordering Kentucky
Fried Cobra in a Malaysian snake restaurant, jumping airport immigration
queues to get to a Manila bar on time, the 3 cups of coffee that
cost US$100 in Tokyo, the guy who went to a Seoul barber shop
and asked for a haircut, the guy who had
his wallet stolen by police, and many many more.
Have a bit of a click on the highlighted chapters
to get sample anecdotes and cartoons.
I'm gonna change these quite regularly but only a few at a time so
you cheap-skates can't get to read the whole book online for free!
Right now, you can find a few samples from Chapters 1, 5, 6, and
17.
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Chapter 1: Airport and
flying stories
Or "The fasten seat belt sign is now on."
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Chapter 2: Bar, restaurant and niteclub stories
Or "You buy me drink!"
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Chapter 3: Bribery, corruption and conmen stories
Or "Snakeoil salesmen."
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Chapter 4: Stories about all sorts of other stuff
Or "Chop suey. a bit of everything thrown in."
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Chapter 5: Driver and
maid stories
Or "Sharing your home with strangers."
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Chapter 6: Golf, Hash
Club and sport stories
Or "Hang on to your balls."
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Chapter 7: Embassy and highbrow function stories
Or "Gunboat diplomacy."
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Chapter 8: Holiday and rent-a-car stories
Or "Holidays in paradise, with views of Dante's inferno on
a clear day."
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Chapter 9: Houses, flatmates and landlord stories
Or "Home Sweet and Sour Home"
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Chapter 10: Doctors, nurses, hospitals. and mystic
stories
Or "Sick puppies."
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Chapter 11: Hotel stories
Or "Checking in, Sir?"
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Chapter 12: Language problem and miscommunication
stories
Or "Solly, my England velly not good!"
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Chapter 13: Office, work and corporate stories
Or "Work hard, pray hard."
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Chapter 14: Dealing with officialdom stories
Or "Red tape treatment."
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Chapter 15: Police and Traffic Police stories
Or "The finest money can buy."
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Chapter 16: Retail and shopping stories
Or "Are you being serviced?"
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Chapter 17: Taxi and public
transport stories
Or "Going nowhere in a hurry."
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Chapter 18: Wives, girlfriends and concubine stories
Or "Trouble and strife in paradise," or "I lub you Sir, no
shit!"
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Chapter 19: Farewell party and moving company
stories
Or "Sayonara."
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With 12 hilarious cartoons by famous cartoonist Larry Feign.
Cover photography by Shrimp.
ISBN number 0-646-37883-X
280 page paperback.
Published by our good friends, Captions of Industry Pty Ltd Dec
1999
(there, that's the corporate grovelling done!
- Col. Ken).
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