Being left legless after my accident in May 2001 and not being a defeatist by nature, I decided to try and use my new disability to my advantage in some way if I could, not from a sympathetic point of view, but I decided to use the word legless and some legless ideas to my advantage if I could, hence my Legless book and Legless blog, so the first thing I did back then was to entitle my first published book Legless in Thailand.

Then one day in 2004, at an interview that I was invited to on a local Bangkok radio station, on-air the interviewer said to me that, although he really enjoyed reading my book, he didn't agree with or like the title that I had chosen for my book, he went on to say that it would give people completely the wrong impression about my book at first sight, and that they would just think that the book was written by some drunken foreign tourist who thought that all the Thai bar girls loved him. He went on further to say that my story was not like that at all and that it was a very good read indeed. He paused at this point during the interview, looked at me directly, started smiling and said to me "I know exactly what you are trying to do, even though you really are legless now, this title is just a marketing trick isn't it?" at which, I just smiled and nodded at him. Off-air we had a very good chat about my book, but on-air there were thousands or maybe even a million people listening to us, so I had to be very careful about what I said on the radio.

Cheers for now, Legless.