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.
Tuesday 15 January 2008
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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