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I was at Dubai this week and met lots of friendly camels in the desert near the Al Ruwaya golf course at The Tiger Woods Dubai. The temperatures were well above 40 degrees (more than 110 F), but I continued my regular program of healthy diet and exercise, supplementing my weight management program with a bit of sweat as I spent two days in the desert.

The Sam Khok diet will be most effective if practiced in conjunction with a rigorous program of exercise. I find the clement Thailand winters to be ideal for piscine exercises.

A qualified yes. Just make sure you add crispy fried basil and a substantial portion of red peppers. My general rule of thumb is one part red peppers to four parts crispy rice.

I have been asked about eggs and the Sam Khok diet; can I eat eggs when on this diet? Yes, a resounding yes to that, as long as they are duck eggs, and in particular I recommend the salted duck eggs shown above.

I played golf this month at Thailand, Japan, Taiwan, and Indonesia, going undefeated in all matches and winning a huge match at Sunrise Golf Club with a clutch birdie on the final hole.

Poignant, isn’t it, a young man dancing in a palace ballroom with his invisible princess? This is the Marukatayawan Palace at เพชรบุรี (Phetchaburi) province to the southwest of Bangkok. Now a museum, the palace faces the Gulf of Thailand and is visually stunning, expansive, balustraded, and deliciously open to the fresh sea breezes.

I was at Japan this week for work at Hyogo-ken and meetings at Tokyo. In my life I naturally follow the maxim of “see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil,” but I did not realize the the three wise monkeys, or sanzaru, from which this saying was drawn are from this 17th century carving at the Toshogu shrine at Nikko.

When I was younger, I was, by all accounts, a large child, with multiple chins, small muscles, and a weakness for sweet foods. At my heaviest, so prominent were my double and triple chins that I appeared to be without a neck.

A not insignificant advantage of the Sam Khok diet is my ability to eat at will when away from Sam Khok, as I did this weekend at the Amphawa floating market in Samut Songkram province.

Last night we had an ATC company party, our first of 2009. My assistant Aom, pictured above, has just graduated from college, so we celebrated at one of the ubiquitous riverside restaurants here on the northern outskirts of Bangkok.