Gay Boy Thailand

I have discovered a new type of energy. With oil prices high and global warming and all panic this breakthrough should get me a Nobel Prize.

So far I have only tested this on my maid, but it seems to apply to other Thais too and maybe to humanity in general.

The extra energy comes from watching the maid as she works. Somehow the mere act of looking at her makes her do a lot more than when I am not watching. I call this the Watch Energy.

If nobody is watching she drops by in the afternoon (she is here three times a week), collects bottles and old magazines for resale, and leaves.

But today, when I am behind the computer while she is milling around, she is cleaning mirrors. It is ages since she last cleaned a mirror. It must be the Watch Energy.

I didn’t hire this maid. She came with the apartment and is included in the rent. You may call this a modern form of slavery. Rent a place, rent a person too. So I don’t know what they pay her and I am not responsible for her, which is a good thing. I don’t know if her mother is in the hospital or if her brother fell of a motorbike and I know better than to ask.

The maid is married to the combined security person, janitor and engineer. He is the one who climbs on the outside of the balcony to fix the air condition. This is even more impressive considering that I have never seen him sober. He does not look bored when he sits by the desk looking ahead into thin air, as he often does. He is probably working on his Ph.D.

The maid and the engineer have two children. The children live with grandparents in Isaan. At the moment the children are here in Bangkok since school is out. I ran into the maid and the kids in the 7-Eleven. The maid tried to make the kids wai me but they were afraid of the scary foreigner. I can’t blame them.

Chalerm feels more at ease with the maid than with the Thai-Chinese ladies in the office. They are snobs who look down on him, Chalerm thinks.

The maid is Chalerm’s aquarium advisor. It seems tanks and fish end up in her room when Chalerm is bored with them. If the saltwater aquarium goes she will probably get that too.

Lo and behold. Now the maid is cleaning the floor. Not just moving the dust around with a broom, but actually cleaning it. This Watch Energy is a major breakthrough.