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Sixty Southerners Seconds: Dee

One of the great Southerners girls and an oracle of premier Bangkok advice, you’ll probably find Dee in any one of three places: pinballing her way around the netball court, sipping cocktails with her nearest and dearest, or pampering herself to a beautied pulp somewhere in Bangkok or on the Southern beaches of Thailand. Dee is a club superwoman – heading up the Netball section and Club Vice President…

Nickname: Dee
Starsign: Cancer
Time in Thailand: 6 years
Job/industry: Art teacher at International School
Home town/city: The Mount, NZ
Sports played with the Southerners: Netball & Touch
Playing position(s): C / WA
Beverage of choice: Chilled Kiwi Sauvignon Blanc with the girls or mojito
Ultimate celebrity pash: Angelina Jolie .. or her other half ..what can I say!
Your personal vice/weaknesses: sexy heels, bread and leaving the bar .. even after many goodbyes!
A little-known talent you possess: Being super organized
If you were a crayon, what colour would you be: Turquoise
Favourite Bangkok bar: At the minute ..Tapas on Soi 11
A little known Bangkok secret: You CAN find good hot cross buns & Easter choccies in Bangkok.. took me four years to find and so worth it!
Your greatest Southerners moment: Making the Bangkok Netball League finals every year I’ve been with Southerners & establishing the Southerners SEA Netball invitational
Best place in Bangkok to have a cocktail: Breeze Bar @ State Tower
Your ultimate Thai holiday destination: Railey Beach, Krabi
You love: B52’s, The Haka, shoes, dining out, pampering options in BKK, the beach, Max clothing & tattoo’s
You don’t love: Smelly soi’s, the cartoon channel, superficial people, Bangkok taxi drivers & tequila
Sports teams you support: All Blacks, Waikato Chiefs and Silver Ferns
Advice to anyone new to Thailand/Bangkok: JOIN THE SOUTHERNERS .. it’s not what you know but WHO you know!
The All Blacks…have talent, mana, the HAKA and some fine looking players..winners to me!
I am the greatest…procrastinator
Lady Gaga is…Pokerfaced .. she’s hot yet out of her MIND!
I thought most people in Bangkok were relatively normal, until I met…Ron Rutland who in his day had a bad habit of smoking cigarettes through his toes..The Robin Hood has proof!
People say I look like…Jennifer Lopez .. seen this butt!?

Sixty Southerners Seconds: Darrel

A Southerners stalwart as a player, administrator and vocalist (he is Welsh after all…), Darrel is the first participant in what will be a series of articles on the who’s-who of the Southerners Sports Club…

Nickname: Dazza
Starsign: Virgo
Time in Thailand: 10yrs (2 stints)
Job/industry: Storage/Warehousing
Home city: Edinburgh, UK
Sports played with the Southerners: Rugby
Preferred (playing) position: In theory scrumhalf, in reality wherever someone is tired.
Beverage of choice: White Russian – can drink it at night or with breakfast.
Best tour destination: Vientiane, Laos
Worst Southerner to share a room with on tour: J-Lo…personal space; Richie…his love of Richard Curtis films.
A little-known talent you possess: Valuing other people’s opinions.
Favourite Bangkok bar: Cheap Charlies (Suk Soi 11) & Rooftop (Khao San Road, Khao San’s answer to Cheers)
A little known Bangkok secret: My building seems to be a training ground for young Eastern European models…
Your greatest southerners moment: Saigon, Russians, Dominos
You love: Motorbike Taxis, Farang Chicks, Wales winning, toothpicking, Hooey’s pass (not his chat)
You don’t love: Singlets, Football, League, the English, Wales losing (I get emo), Glovebox’s expert sport explanations, Laurent’s French whinging
Rugby/sports teams you support: Llanelli Scarlets, whoever is playing the Bangers
Two points of advice to anyone new to Thailand/Bangkok: Always look down when you are walking; never ‘date’ a girl that is taller than you.
Facebook is…a vital tool for research.
Damian Hoo will never…put a shirt on.
Sukhumvit is like the…Mainstreet @ Disneyland.
Wales is to rugby, as Australia is to…Dingoes.
People say I look like…a young Charlton Heston or with beard; Brian Blessed.

Darrel co-ordinates the Southerners rugby section – get in contact with him if you’re keen for a game, or simply want to catch up over breakfast with a few cheeky White Russians.