Gay Boy Thailand

Nice work

Andrew Ferrett has published a guide to budget apartments in Bangkok. Bless him. This book can save you a lot of walking around town in dust and noise and 40 C. Read the rest of this entry »

Modest living

Strange things happen in The Mansion. First there was the novel on the back of my invoice. The office gave me my bills as a computer print-out and what appeared to be a work of fiction was on the back side.

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We have had more “issues” with the office here at The Mansion. They told Chalerm that we had not paid the utilities for April.

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I went to the reception Saturday afternoon. This is usually a quiet time in the office, but for once they appeared busy. The receptionist was not there. Instead a new woman sat in her chair. I hope this means the embezzler no longer will be around. Maybe they kept her for a while to get information from her about what was missing?

I asked the manager about my receipt for January. The manager, a grandmother type, said she would give me one on Monday. They were so busy now, she said, “checking and sorting out things”.

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In Thailand the reaction to a theft such as this one is unpredictable. Anything can happen, from the thief ending up floating in the river with bullet holes to no reaction at all. It depends on the people involved.

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Day three of the rent affair. Chalerm was worried. “This big problem because when we pay reception not give us receipt”, said Chalerm. He called the reception to hear about the missing money. The manager asked if we had the receipt for January. January? We had not. Now it was four months. Chalerm said they wanted me to come down to the office and talk to them again.

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Tension was high when I entered the building office in the morning. I had not found my neighbour Farang S, who was supposed to be back from a trip to the UK. Maybe he had stayed longer. So I went to the office alone. All eyes were on me. All eyes except those of the receptionist.

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I received a letter from the management of The Mansion today. It was marked “urgent”. I opened it thinking that urgent must mean bad news.

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It was just a phase

I moved to Bangkok because of the community spirit here. In this city people know their neighbours, everyone says hello to everyone else, and people care. It is much better than in the socially cold, distant Farangland where everyone keep to themselves.
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IwanUK wrote:

Can you explain to us non-Thai based falangs what a “shop house” is. Why is it called a “shop house”?

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