Back in HK for the weekend.
On the way out the morning stopped to get a bottle of whisky. Now I dont call the American stuff whisky as they distil it once only. I drink scotch at a push 2 times distilled but my favourite is Irish.
Now HK being HK the best is defined not by taste but cost. Go into the Duty Free and you cant buy a normal bottle of Jamesons its all 12 years, in fact that goes for the scotch also. Bastard. I dont want to pay 240 for a bottle I want to pay 100 similar to bkk.
On the subject of scotch, i sometime go to Karoke with shilto. they drink Chiva blue mixed with green tea. WTFITA.
Sunday 11 May 2008
Saturday 19 April 2008
Couldnt find his arse with both hands
Vietnam has entered the space race. Yes they got a yank to build a satellite, a froggy to launch it from South America and then claimed they were a member of the space team.
Did you know that Nigeria spends 15 million US on space discovery and exploration. Would be easier for the guy who decided that was a good idea to look between his ears. Reminds me of one of my favourite American sayings "couldn't find his arse with both hands"
Went to Dalat Thursday its about 45 minute flight from HCMC. Its high up 3000 feet maybe and looks like one large lettuce farm. The airport is something out of the 1950s all small and tarmac walking. We flew in a turbo prop, I of course got the seat that if it had been any closer to the engine it would have had to be on the wing. My Vietnamese colleague is one of those guys who is all touchy feely. The more I tried to move away, the more he encroached upon my space. He also says a number of words that require considerable flapping of the lips and discharge of spit.
Vietnam, what can I say. It has probably the largest percentage of good looking young girls I have ever seen. If this alone were not enough to get the pulse racing they have disparportinatly large breasts on a tiny little frame. And, if the Fume is reading they squeeze the whole package into conservative mini skirts white blouse and black jackets, hop on a moped and let the breeze massage the areas that brings a man out in a sweat.
Now, me being a little fat European which apparently makes me look like a laughing Buddha creates all sorts of giggles but not in the Chinese way of covering the mouth but full blown honest to god laughing.
In all my travels I have often wondered why people battle over countries they have no place to be, and Vietnam's people just amplify that thought.
I sometimes, in my more wandering moments wonder who runs a Company that decides cancelling its late night Friday flight to Hong and its early Monday morning flight to HCMC is smoking.
Did you know that Nigeria spends 15 million US on space discovery and exploration. Would be easier for the guy who decided that was a good idea to look between his ears. Reminds me of one of my favourite American sayings "couldn't find his arse with both hands"
Went to Dalat Thursday its about 45 minute flight from HCMC. Its high up 3000 feet maybe and looks like one large lettuce farm. The airport is something out of the 1950s all small and tarmac walking. We flew in a turbo prop, I of course got the seat that if it had been any closer to the engine it would have had to be on the wing. My Vietnamese colleague is one of those guys who is all touchy feely. The more I tried to move away, the more he encroached upon my space. He also says a number of words that require considerable flapping of the lips and discharge of spit.
Vietnam, what can I say. It has probably the largest percentage of good looking young girls I have ever seen. If this alone were not enough to get the pulse racing they have disparportinatly large breasts on a tiny little frame. And, if the Fume is reading they squeeze the whole package into conservative mini skirts white blouse and black jackets, hop on a moped and let the breeze massage the areas that brings a man out in a sweat.
Now, me being a little fat European which apparently makes me look like a laughing Buddha creates all sorts of giggles but not in the Chinese way of covering the mouth but full blown honest to god laughing.
In all my travels I have often wondered why people battle over countries they have no place to be, and Vietnam's people just amplify that thought.
I sometimes, in my more wandering moments wonder who runs a Company that decides cancelling its late night Friday flight to Hong and its early Monday morning flight to HCMC is smoking.
Sunday 13 April 2008
A dillusion that your really really important
And there you have it
Donald, Fok and other people whose idea of exercise is talking, will carry the Olympic flame. I would like to do a Richard the third with it personally.
"Welcome" to mediocrity, or we only stock what we want has a banner on the wall, love hong kong use less plastic bags. Not love the environment, love the world no love Hong Kong. At the bottom there should be a warning, please remove your head from your arse when reading this.
Hong Kong has three major landfills, that produce huge amounts of methane and have done for about 10 years. The one and only, dare I say gas monopoly run by Asias answer to Warren Buffet He who convinced the masses that the market would stay at 30k cant agree with the EPD (Environmental policy department) to buy the gas. So its flared, bloody flared, what are the bonking shit for brains turnips doing in EPD. At the same time Black point power station is burning coal cos it cant get gas. We are a world city, no argument about that. Well down on the league and slipping further into the abyss. And some Civil (yes I pay your inflated salary ) servant says we have done enough now and the central waterfront should be sold off. These people are so far behind the curve they in danger of being bloody lapped.
Has nobody told Hong Kong that it is a little insignificant spec on the world map. That nobody really cares what happens to it and most people dont really know where it is.
Last night I had dinner and refused to pay the service charge, some of the meal never arrived along with some of the drinks. Although the bits that were missing were charged for. It took ten minutes to get the bill and a further 5 to get a corrected one. When I refused to pay the service charge the manager was perplexed.
You have to pay he said.
I didnt get any service.
Yes you did we brought your food.
No you brought some of my food. I did not get service you, to say I got service would be a gross exaggeration of reality. However I am paying some of the bill.
When you spend time outside Hong Kong you begin to realise that it is a parochial little town, full of people who believe they are important, pop stars that can sing, actors that cant act, people who believe nipples are square and fuzzy and really rude, politicians that cant politic, and property developers that dont care at all. The vast majority of the people believe they will win the mark 6 and that Donald should tell them what to do. Even Singapore has more democracy.
So its back to Vietnam.
Donald, Fok and other people whose idea of exercise is talking, will carry the Olympic flame. I would like to do a Richard the third with it personally.
"Welcome" to mediocrity, or we only stock what we want has a banner on the wall, love hong kong use less plastic bags. Not love the environment, love the world no love Hong Kong. At the bottom there should be a warning, please remove your head from your arse when reading this.
Hong Kong has three major landfills, that produce huge amounts of methane and have done for about 10 years. The one and only, dare I say gas monopoly run by Asias answer to Warren Buffet He who convinced the masses that the market would stay at 30k cant agree with the EPD (Environmental policy department) to buy the gas. So its flared, bloody flared, what are the bonking shit for brains turnips doing in EPD. At the same time Black point power station is burning coal cos it cant get gas. We are a world city, no argument about that. Well down on the league and slipping further into the abyss. And some Civil (yes I pay your inflated salary ) servant says we have done enough now and the central waterfront should be sold off. These people are so far behind the curve they in danger of being bloody lapped.
Has nobody told Hong Kong that it is a little insignificant spec on the world map. That nobody really cares what happens to it and most people dont really know where it is.
Last night I had dinner and refused to pay the service charge, some of the meal never arrived along with some of the drinks. Although the bits that were missing were charged for. It took ten minutes to get the bill and a further 5 to get a corrected one. When I refused to pay the service charge the manager was perplexed.
You have to pay he said.
I didnt get any service.
Yes you did we brought your food.
No you brought some of my food. I did not get service you, to say I got service would be a gross exaggeration of reality. However I am paying some of the bill.
When you spend time outside Hong Kong you begin to realise that it is a parochial little town, full of people who believe they are important, pop stars that can sing, actors that cant act, people who believe nipples are square and fuzzy and really rude, politicians that cant politic, and property developers that dont care at all. The vast majority of the people believe they will win the mark 6 and that Donald should tell them what to do. Even Singapore has more democracy.
So its back to Vietnam.
Thursday 20 March 2008
2 million dong
sounds like a mens underwear advert!!
actually the price of a meal with a great bottle of red
met an australian lady living in a village deep south
no land no money no hope for the people in the village she lives in
back to basics to use my skill to create a low cost school, made by low tec methods by no skill people with no money
I love my job, or how I can bend it
sounds like a mens underwear advert!!
actually the price of a meal with a great bottle of red
met an australian lady living in a village deep south
no land no money no hope for the people in the village she lives in
back to basics to use my skill to create a low cost school, made by low tec methods by no skill people with no money
I love my job, or how I can bend it
so I keep on losing my blog
wrote a huge one about a flight from Thailand where the trolley dolly wanted my phone number and lost it all
do I relay the story no why, I look in the mirror every morning and I am 22 years old, its just getting to the mirror that gets harder
Still when you feel like you look good you look better
Vietnam
madness on two wheels crossing the road would have made the americans leave earlier if it had been like that then
The bars and ambiance is great, only have to pass the occasional spaced bar with gears fighting to keep their breasts in their dresses and knickers off show.
The strange thing is the age of the people all young and anxious
Its a strange place but the national dress has to be the very sexiest I have ever seen
No flesh is best
Work is demanding and keeps me away from the blog but have sorted the IP so can do at night
Found cheap flights to hk so can see the clan regularly
Pate for breakfast, the french may be arseholes but by god they make good bread even in the ex colonies.
wrote a huge one about a flight from Thailand where the trolley dolly wanted my phone number and lost it all
do I relay the story no why, I look in the mirror every morning and I am 22 years old, its just getting to the mirror that gets harder
Still when you feel like you look good you look better
Vietnam
madness on two wheels crossing the road would have made the americans leave earlier if it had been like that then
The bars and ambiance is great, only have to pass the occasional spaced bar with gears fighting to keep their breasts in their dresses and knickers off show.
The strange thing is the age of the people all young and anxious
Its a strange place but the national dress has to be the very sexiest I have ever seen
No flesh is best
Work is demanding and keeps me away from the blog but have sorted the IP so can do at night
Found cheap flights to hk so can see the clan regularly
Pate for breakfast, the french may be arseholes but by god they make good bread even in the ex colonies.
Friday 22 February 2008
I really long post
Its been a very long time without a post
Im sitting in Bangkok airport
I thought I would distract myself by reading a bit of FBT and only read two before i started laughing and security started moving in. Im back now though complete with spelling mistakes.
I dont know really why I have not blogged for a while, guess its been because Ive been busy, dont like paying HK800 for a monthly connection and dont like to use the web at work as that gives away all the business info. So now sitting at the airport waiting to get on a plane to Hong Kong. Ive been in Thailand 29 days and overstayed my visa by 1. The smiling man directed me to a lovely lady in uniform who I hoped would take a very dim view of this minor transgression, but merely chopped and extra day on my visa and smiled, flicked her eyelids and said thank you that way please.
I got taken to the airport by a man suffering from a loose vocal chord. He claimed to a be a policeman and taxi driver, to be 57 with two children 1 boy 4 years 1 lady 2 years. An entertaining fellow who gave me a wonderful guided tour of the expresseways at only 100 baht more than I would have paid had I taken the shorter route.
So thats it now, a bag full of smelly socks and Monday of to Vietnam as our Company has decided to move its regional office to a place which will be difficult to communicate with, fly to or live in.I was sold the dream but reality has quickly taken over. As imagined natural wastage has been a pretty prevalent topic and people have been leaving in droves. What does one do when somebody with 16 years decides enough is enough.
Anyway as I usually leave a place when they fill the swimming pool the thought of Vietnam is not too horrendous. And those wonderful white dresses trousers that the ladies where are absolutely wonderful A statement I made to my wife who appeared not to find the idea so appealing. Still thats me, you can see my chin coming long before I slip into site. A fact that will not have gone unnoticed by my new boss when asking people if they had any questions. The obvious one of why is it that you are such a piece of female genitalia was not asked but others were like why the hell did I join when you have the management style of a nazi.
Still what of Thailand and the last two months. Well Spike was here, behaved, went home. I have become very proficient at pool and believing that I am only 30 until the next morning. Of course the answer to all of that is well I look this way because I drink smoke and avoid women. But Thailand for all its traffic jams and little annoyances is still splendid. Its great to wake up, go swimming in a pool with no lifeguard, ride a motorbike with no helmet and ignore all traffic requirements.
And the food, as long as you have a roll of paper in the freezer its unbeatable. Especially fried chicken at two in the morning. Followed by papaya salad and a honey tea.
Supermarkets that sell bread, real bread with grains in it and real radishes and strawberries from the north. Yes I like Thailand and while those people may complain about the wine I dont think HK250 for a bottle of wine in a restaurant is bad and where can you eat a good steak for HK100.
Yes I shall miss this place but am looking forward to Vietnam especially as I know it has retained its French influence. The food I have had to date has been great.
I have to move forward with the flight so I will stop.
I must say I have missed you all and am looking forward to catching up on my reading.
Im sitting in Bangkok airport
I thought I would distract myself by reading a bit of FBT and only read two before i started laughing and security started moving in. Im back now though complete with spelling mistakes.
I dont know really why I have not blogged for a while, guess its been because Ive been busy, dont like paying HK800 for a monthly connection and dont like to use the web at work as that gives away all the business info. So now sitting at the airport waiting to get on a plane to Hong Kong. Ive been in Thailand 29 days and overstayed my visa by 1. The smiling man directed me to a lovely lady in uniform who I hoped would take a very dim view of this minor transgression, but merely chopped and extra day on my visa and smiled, flicked her eyelids and said thank you that way please.
I got taken to the airport by a man suffering from a loose vocal chord. He claimed to a be a policeman and taxi driver, to be 57 with two children 1 boy 4 years 1 lady 2 years. An entertaining fellow who gave me a wonderful guided tour of the expresseways at only 100 baht more than I would have paid had I taken the shorter route.
So thats it now, a bag full of smelly socks and Monday of to Vietnam as our Company has decided to move its regional office to a place which will be difficult to communicate with, fly to or live in.I was sold the dream but reality has quickly taken over. As imagined natural wastage has been a pretty prevalent topic and people have been leaving in droves. What does one do when somebody with 16 years decides enough is enough.
Anyway as I usually leave a place when they fill the swimming pool the thought of Vietnam is not too horrendous. And those wonderful white dresses trousers that the ladies where are absolutely wonderful A statement I made to my wife who appeared not to find the idea so appealing. Still thats me, you can see my chin coming long before I slip into site. A fact that will not have gone unnoticed by my new boss when asking people if they had any questions. The obvious one of why is it that you are such a piece of female genitalia was not asked but others were like why the hell did I join when you have the management style of a nazi.
Still what of Thailand and the last two months. Well Spike was here, behaved, went home. I have become very proficient at pool and believing that I am only 30 until the next morning. Of course the answer to all of that is well I look this way because I drink smoke and avoid women. But Thailand for all its traffic jams and little annoyances is still splendid. Its great to wake up, go swimming in a pool with no lifeguard, ride a motorbike with no helmet and ignore all traffic requirements.
And the food, as long as you have a roll of paper in the freezer its unbeatable. Especially fried chicken at two in the morning. Followed by papaya salad and a honey tea.
Supermarkets that sell bread, real bread with grains in it and real radishes and strawberries from the north. Yes I like Thailand and while those people may complain about the wine I dont think HK250 for a bottle of wine in a restaurant is bad and where can you eat a good steak for HK100.
Yes I shall miss this place but am looking forward to Vietnam especially as I know it has retained its French influence. The food I have had to date has been great.
I have to move forward with the flight so I will stop.
I must say I have missed you all and am looking forward to catching up on my reading.
Thursday 14 February 2008
Tuesday 15 January 2008
Odd couple (sunday)
So it’s been quite from me as life has been busy. Spike has kept me playing pool, drinking and eating but I bailed out back to Hong Kong this weekend to see SILTO and my son O. Have not seen them for a couple of weeks so good to catch up, wash and polish the car while O pulls all the levers so that when you put the key in everything flashes. Good to have some Chinese food also.
So it’s back to Bangkok tonight and on to Vietnam Ho Chi Min and Denang tomorrow. Busy week but life is beginning to settle down, I have a more permanent place to stay with its own spa and just a few apartments all serviced. It’s just the other side of Soi Cowboy which should be central enough for the BTS and supermarkets.
I’m sitting on the plane at the moment contemplating the future, an oldish couple, him a colonial civil servant her a fairly old tai tai have been arguing all the way over. Apparently they have lost a bag, unfortunately it was not one of them. He continually says "stop shouting" and she keeps on winding him up. So as we are about to take off he is on the mobile to somebody god alone knows who trying to track down the bag.
He gives up, she starts speaking on the phone. Now I don’t know whether planes can crash because of mobile phones, and im not in the habit of trying to find out, so I grassed them up to the cabin crew. Maybe when you get old you worry about bags more than death, maybe if you are a Hong Kong civil servant you are so used to putting the general public in danger you become oblivious to it, I really don’t know. I just hope they get off the plane and don’t murder each other until Im through customs. Is life and marriage this bad when you are old. God I hope not.
So what Bangkok like. Would it be remiss of me not to mention the girls. I guess it would, but im not going to. Instead Im going to talk about lettuce. Yes I have decided that the measure of a countries standing on a western benchmark is weather they sell Frisse and Rocket in the supermarket. The answer for Hong Kong is no, unless you go to city super, for Bangkok the answer is YES. And it’s cheap about a quarter of the price of Hong Kong, grown locally and organic. Put that with a million and one varieties of cottage cheese, Olives to die for and real pasta and the supermarkets in Bangkok start to provide a real rationale for why Welcome and Park N Shop are examples of why monopolies are bad.
So on the Lettuce league Bangkok rules, and on other fronts its not too bad. People told me that wine was expensive, however at 250 dollars HK for a bottle in a restaurant I’m not complaining.
SILTO comes Thursday so shopping for the new apartment, and fun together. I miss that .
I also miss my son who was a bit sad when I went today but who comes down for a week CNY I’m looking forward to that.
So it’s back to Bangkok tonight and on to Vietnam Ho Chi Min and Denang tomorrow. Busy week but life is beginning to settle down, I have a more permanent place to stay with its own spa and just a few apartments all serviced. It’s just the other side of Soi Cowboy which should be central enough for the BTS and supermarkets.
I’m sitting on the plane at the moment contemplating the future, an oldish couple, him a colonial civil servant her a fairly old tai tai have been arguing all the way over. Apparently they have lost a bag, unfortunately it was not one of them. He continually says "stop shouting" and she keeps on winding him up. So as we are about to take off he is on the mobile to somebody god alone knows who trying to track down the bag.
He gives up, she starts speaking on the phone. Now I don’t know whether planes can crash because of mobile phones, and im not in the habit of trying to find out, so I grassed them up to the cabin crew. Maybe when you get old you worry about bags more than death, maybe if you are a Hong Kong civil servant you are so used to putting the general public in danger you become oblivious to it, I really don’t know. I just hope they get off the plane and don’t murder each other until Im through customs. Is life and marriage this bad when you are old. God I hope not.
So what Bangkok like. Would it be remiss of me not to mention the girls. I guess it would, but im not going to. Instead Im going to talk about lettuce. Yes I have decided that the measure of a countries standing on a western benchmark is weather they sell Frisse and Rocket in the supermarket. The answer for Hong Kong is no, unless you go to city super, for Bangkok the answer is YES. And it’s cheap about a quarter of the price of Hong Kong, grown locally and organic. Put that with a million and one varieties of cottage cheese, Olives to die for and real pasta and the supermarkets in Bangkok start to provide a real rationale for why Welcome and Park N Shop are examples of why monopolies are bad.
So on the Lettuce league Bangkok rules, and on other fronts its not too bad. People told me that wine was expensive, however at 250 dollars HK for a bottle in a restaurant I’m not complaining.
SILTO comes Thursday so shopping for the new apartment, and fun together. I miss that .
I also miss my son who was a bit sad when I went today but who comes down for a week CNY I’m looking forward to that.
Sunday 6 January 2008
blowing the wistle
The lady outside the building is quite strange. She appears to have no defined role except to dress up in a uniform and blow a whistle at the traffic. For some time I wondered if she were in fact a man but I am told that she is in fact a tomboy and has a girlfreind. So its all very clear now.
Spike has commented that we met on Friday. Its strange I had got a visual image of what he would look like but was out of date by a few months. An evening spent discussing all sorts of shit followed by more beers and pool. Me pretending that drinking and playing pool were complementary and Spike complaining every time he got a ball down that he really was not that good. A great deal of fun.
We met in a bar called Gullivers, at this point I have to own up that I make a very poor pervert. It is fair to say that I do in fact fit into the over 40 fattish white man. However on the plus side I am a proffessional have had a number of wives well two, am 6 foot tall have all my own hair none of which grows from my ears or nose unfettered. I also do not come from the UK for two weeks trying to get as many girls into my bed as possible to make up for the other 50 weeks of enforced celabacy or wear tight trousers and white t shirts. I do not wear shorts and believe that a 20 year old atractice thai lady would not find me remotedly interesting if I was not able to provide her with some economic benefit. Which I hasten to add I do not do because I am in fact very fond of my wife, and satisfied in that direction. I am therefore saddened when I see such men holding hands with girls just old enough to be their grandaughters and learing at their cleavage. I just find it all a bit creepy. However life always has two sides and on Friday while playing pool a chap in a wheel chair was receiving some attention from a rather attractive girl.
They were having a laugh and the fact his legs didnt work was not precluding him from taking an active part in the proceedings. Would this happen in the country he came from I doubt it so in reality im confused. On the one hand its all rather tacky and on the other a guy who would normally struggle to gain attention from a pretty girl is satisfied.
but as they say This Is Thailand.
Spike has commented that we met on Friday. Its strange I had got a visual image of what he would look like but was out of date by a few months. An evening spent discussing all sorts of shit followed by more beers and pool. Me pretending that drinking and playing pool were complementary and Spike complaining every time he got a ball down that he really was not that good. A great deal of fun.
We met in a bar called Gullivers, at this point I have to own up that I make a very poor pervert. It is fair to say that I do in fact fit into the over 40 fattish white man. However on the plus side I am a proffessional have had a number of wives well two, am 6 foot tall have all my own hair none of which grows from my ears or nose unfettered. I also do not come from the UK for two weeks trying to get as many girls into my bed as possible to make up for the other 50 weeks of enforced celabacy or wear tight trousers and white t shirts. I do not wear shorts and believe that a 20 year old atractice thai lady would not find me remotedly interesting if I was not able to provide her with some economic benefit. Which I hasten to add I do not do because I am in fact very fond of my wife, and satisfied in that direction. I am therefore saddened when I see such men holding hands with girls just old enough to be their grandaughters and learing at their cleavage. I just find it all a bit creepy. However life always has two sides and on Friday while playing pool a chap in a wheel chair was receiving some attention from a rather attractive girl.
They were having a laugh and the fact his legs didnt work was not precluding him from taking an active part in the proceedings. Would this happen in the country he came from I doubt it so in reality im confused. On the one hand its all rather tacky and on the other a guy who would normally struggle to gain attention from a pretty girl is satisfied.
but as they say This Is Thailand.
Saturday 5 January 2008
Welcome to Thailand
Its been really busy the last few days so posting has been thin. Of course this will lead to me being sent to the phiz b list of bloggers which is a price to pay, I suppose.
Im now at a crossroads what to do with this blog, do I pander for views and as such rename it Thai slut I want to do it with you. That should increase the number of my viewers who where medallions, white t shirts and tight jeans and sandals with socks. Or, do I continue as I am commenting on things that annoy.
I am tempted to do something different and record life here in thailand.
This is a permanent post so while Hong Kong will still be home I will be working in Thailand and indo China generally. Its been brought about by a number of things, some related to where
I see Hong Kong going, some related to quality of life and some related to my career. Anyway its a big move, and an exciting one.
So what to do with the blog, I do feel that telling you all about thailand would be more fun than ranting about stupidity in Hong Kong so thats where Im going to start.
I will however occassionally headline with things about the thailand sex industry to improve my numbers and occassionaly I will drivel on about Hong Kong but mostly it will be about daily stuff. So for my one and only reader thats the new format.
All comments would be apprecaitaed
Im now at a crossroads what to do with this blog, do I pander for views and as such rename it Thai slut I want to do it with you. That should increase the number of my viewers who where medallions, white t shirts and tight jeans and sandals with socks. Or, do I continue as I am commenting on things that annoy.
I am tempted to do something different and record life here in thailand.
This is a permanent post so while Hong Kong will still be home I will be working in Thailand and indo China generally. Its been brought about by a number of things, some related to where
I see Hong Kong going, some related to quality of life and some related to my career. Anyway its a big move, and an exciting one.
So what to do with the blog, I do feel that telling you all about thailand would be more fun than ranting about stupidity in Hong Kong so thats where Im going to start.
I will however occassionally headline with things about the thailand sex industry to improve my numbers and occassionaly I will drivel on about Hong Kong but mostly it will be about daily stuff. So for my one and only reader thats the new format.
All comments would be apprecaitaed
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