And not to forget the Golden Palace, on Sukhumvit 1. Now turned onto a carpark for Bumrungrad. While "paradise" might be pushing it, they never the less paved it and put up a parking lot.
To me, Trink's columns were a must read, along with Crutch's ones, back in those pre-internet days. Like him or not, it's just a case of manure (huMAN natURE).