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Well it's the end of the tax year again and we are all delighted to be tied up with red tape and beaten senseless with a stack of Kor por sor this Orr Bor Tor that and Kor Sor Head the other. To lighten up the situation I tried to make some sense of my current Asset and Liabilities charts and wondered if some of my purchases had actually cost me anything in real terms.
Example one.: The free coffee pot. Priced in Bon Cafe Phuket at about 12,000 baht, it does nothing other than heat and froth milk for cappuchinos and lattes. BUT.... I bought it with money earmarked for drinking - a rugby tour with the Phuket Viagrabonds to the far flung reaches of Pattaya no less. I had earmarked 15,000 baht for "recreational purposes" and was on the verge of booking a bus ticket up there.
We were aiming to see some of the Rugby action on the pitch as the previous year we spent 4 days there and didn't even find the Stadium. Didn't try to hard either.
Sooooooo, this money is marked as dead and not expecting anything from it other than the odd hangover, bruise and a few days earache from the enemy. Due to an outbreak of conscience and guilt though, i didn't go. Instead I went to Bon Cafe, bought the machine and put the spare 3,000 to good use in the Jug and Crocodile.
My argument is that as I bought it with condemned money, I actually got it for free. This on the basis that I arrived home with a coffee pot as opposed to nothing. Below is a pic of the beautiful machine and for my tech. minded biker mates, it has counter rotating shafts!!!.... whatever they are!
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