Living in Thailand

[JuiceSpike]

Speaking of girlfriends, my US Vietnamese girlfriend just dumped me because I take too many trips to Thailand without her... I can't blame her.

We lasted 7 months, nice time, good friendship and the sex was good. I always told her I wanted my freedom and that included taking trips alone and she said she "understood" this. I knew my time for getting canned was coming.

Maybe the grass is greener on the other side. Time to find out.


juice

[MondaysChilde]

PosterLion - I enjoy your posts and Bukowski-esque ramblings. I wonder how the Buke would have fared in LOS??

Are you crossing at Nong Kai into Laos? The train goes all the way to Nong Kai.

A piece of friendly advice, fwiw; allow for every conceivable delay on the road. I would not push your crossing based on any kind of 'deadline' particularly one so important. I would take the night train up and cross in the morning, well ahead of sched.

monday.

[Migrant One]

Gents

It's funny, I was married for 20+ years and divorced now for 3. I've met a woman here in the states (Philipina, here for 1 year) and she is great.

The problem I'm having is do I really want to go back to married life, been there, done that.

Unfortunately this lady will want to marry (hints already) and while we both do not want more kids, I am still finding the relationship stifling.

I love it when she's over but sometimes find myself not wanting her to visit. The sex is great and if she's gone too long I miss it, but know that P4P is always there (It's only friction and as long as the girl is cute and nice, it works!)

It's not even the monogamous bit, I played while married, but never was tempted to fall in love so I'm sure I'll play again. It's the time I have on my own that I begrudge.

I guess the one factor that still keeps me interested in the relationship thing is farther down the road. When I'm 70's (and hopefully still active) it won't be as easy to find companionship when "I" want it.

Sure the P4P never ends (unless the $'s do) but it would be nice to have a soulmate at that point in life.

Maybe my Philipina will wait???....Yeah right!

Ah well I'm throwing this out to the bretheren for what purpose, who knows.

migrant

[The Traveler]

Posterlion

Migrant One below said it all, men are pigs and I love to be a pig.
It's strange, if I do not have a GF I run around looking for the perfect match but hard to find any. But as soon as I have a lovely one by my side I see great girls in huge amounts. Maybe it's a hormon thing or whatever, but it's always the same. So I decided to keep my freedom rather than sticking to a single one. I like to change or better the excitement of a new cutie lying next to me (or above or below) whenever I want without the hassle a man has when he needs to lie to his GF and steal away. I like LT and that would be out of question with most GFs I had so far.

[Migrant One]

PL

Us men are strange animals, and animals are, for the most part, not monogamous.

We also suffer greatly from the "grass is always greener on the other side" syndrome.

Women, I'm sure, have similar thoughts, but different motivations.

migrant

[Tatoosh]

Geeze! I love it when I make the most obvious mistake in front of the world at large. Effing Humilation with a capital aitch.

"Over" means end of my transmission. Awaiting your reply.

"Out" means end of transmission. No reply is expected.

Okay, sorry for the brain fart in my previous post.

di-dah di-dah-dit

Tatoosh

[PosterLion]

TT and Juice,

Naw... That would be too easy. I was just telling it like it is. I imagine that both of you have been there at least once. And as a matter of fact, I know that one of you has been there twice!

poster...

[The Traveler]

Juice

"Anyway, or maybe once you have the girl you want all others confirm what you have."

That one was good

[Tatoosh]

PosterLion,

Please stifle your urge to use the phrase "over and out". It makes anyone that has ever actually used radio protocol to cringe. "Over" and "Out" are two different commands, only clueless script writers laboring on a B movie use them together as a phrase. (And by now, an unsuspecting public as well, I suppose.)

"Over" means end of transmission. No reply is expected.

"Out" means end of my transmission. Awaiting your reply.

If you had been around in the days of morse code, it would have been the letter "K" for Over, and the letters "AR" for Out. They served exactly the same function for radio-telegraphy as the words "Over" and "Out" do for voice.

dit dah / dit dah dit

Tatoosh

[JuiceSpike]

Poster,

You wrote: "Why is that? It seems that even when a man possesses the perfect girl he always wants something more".

Maybe because that "perfect girl" is not what you really want? Anyway, or maybe once you have the girl you want all others confirm what you have.

juice

[SirHumpsaLott]

Ok, I'm curious and have an honest question for all you american expats living in Thailand. Other than being retired, independentely wealthy, or an English Language teacher, what do you do for a living there? I am an American currently living and working for the U.S. government in Baghdad and am considering moving to another country once my job here is done. What are the job prospects for Westerners (Farangs) there?

As always, any and all helpful information regarding this topic would be greatly appreciated.

[PosterLion]

MAKING COFFEE

at 8 a.m. I sit in my chair watching the water before it boils
our coffee cups sit on the counter in front of the Nescafe and the CoffeeMate
and I wonder why I'm so alone
looking deep inside my heart of hearts I know the answer
I’ve never let myself
go
invariably I always come back to the need for something
different
something
new
and I sit here at 8 a.m. in the morning
wondering if is it possible
to change

soon
I will pour coffee and sugar and cream into her cup
then mine
I will set it gently on the counter and she will wake up
and smile
we’ll light a cigarette and smoke them together and our day will
begin
and I will watch this women and I will marvel at her
but in the back of my mind I will be
somewhere else
trying to figure out where I should
go
trying to figure out why I am so close
yet unable to do anything
about
it.

[Cloud Seeker]

PL,

It's Anna Karenina (as opposed to Karina).

Cloudy

[PosterLion]

SUNDAY 01 AUG 2004

It's 8am and I just woke up, made coffee, booted the computer, and now I am just sitting here staring at nude still life’s as my girlfriend lies in bed sleeping.

Her Thai translated copy of "Anna Karina" is sitting open next to her. She must have read last night until her last breath, falling asleep in mid sentence. She is an avid reader. As the man of the household, (the one that pays the bills), I know she is an avid reader because books are one of my biggest expenses. I'd say she devours at least 10 books a month.

Anna is one of the classics that I haven't yet read so I suppose I should start reading my copy. I've owned it for about a year now. We like to read the same books and then talk about them. Last week it was The Da Vinci Code. This week it looks like it's going to be "Anna Karina." I always wonder what is lost in translation between Russian and Thai. It's not so easy to find Russian classics for her to read. Last month I found a copy of "Poor Folk" by Dostoyevsky. She quite enjoyed it.

Ah, I hear a rustle on the bed. It was her. She just rolled over onto her right side now clutching her copy of Anna with her left hand. What a literary sight.

I'm sitting here as the nude stills flip by thinking I want to get in the shower and then slip out and head to some place on Suk between Asok and Nana. Why is that? It seems that even when a man possesses the perfect girl he always wants something more.

She reads the Pantip board on the internet which is one huge ass gossip sight for Thai people. They talk about everything from the King and Queen to the latest person arrested for this or that. Lately the talk of the town is about a girl that was arrested because of something related to the porn industry. She used to model for a website called Asian4u.

I guess that is why I brought up the nude still life’s on my computer. My girlfriend and I spent the last couple of days sifting through my porn collection trying to find a photo of the girl that was arrested.

She is still sleeping and I am still thinking about taking that shower and slipping out for a while. I think I'll have another coffee first.

Over and out,
poster...

[PosterLion]

A 15 MINUTE POEM

life is not easy
well
duh, what an idiotic
statement

but consider this
it could be your last
15
minutes

what are you going to
do?
huh!

as for me
I've still got 13 minutes and 52
seconds
left

I've got 1000 Baht in my
pocket
so...

should I stay here and continue
to work
or should I go somewhere else?

It's a question everyone is asking
these days.