Chalerm called me at 3.30 am, saying he was coming home from Thonburi to pick up a hotel brochure he needed for a school project.
I said “do you have any idea what time it is?”. The next day Chalerm apologised for waking me up.
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At 6.03 am Thai boy X, my latest friend in Pattaya, called me on the phone. He was surprised to hear I was in Bangkok. He did not apologise for waking me up.
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I was put off by the raw bacon in the hamburgers at Burger Queen and went to Dick’s Café instead. Their burgers are better and cheaper too. In both places I can watch a parade of moneyboys walking by.
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I was knocked out this week by a mild inner ear infection. It was enough to make me tired and dizzy and I slept a lot. At night I made progress on an 800 page novel. It could have been shorter but the German writer is talkative. I am currently at page 529.
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Chalerm received a total of 3000 baht. 1500 was his allowance, 500 was a school fee for swimming classes and 1000 was for a graduation gift for a friend. I was invited to the graduation but called in sick.
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Chalerm doesn’t like my Sandakan plan. He thinks I should be at home in Bangkok even when he isn’t home himself. What will I do in Sandakan? I tell him I am chasing wild jungle boys.
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Chalerm lost his ATM card for the 3rd time since he enrolled at Rajaphat University. The two first times it was stolen. This time he forgot it in a cash machine.
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Tomorrow I am going back to the teenage-style Foot Wart Doctor. I think of her as Voodoo Woman.
July 22nd, 2007 at 10:20 pm
A 1000 bht graduation present……….pray, tell me what it was?
July 23rd, 2007 at 9:31 am
SF, I had to laugh about the 3:30 a.m. phone call. Classic. When my ladyboy and I were first building our relationship, we would chat on the internet. Cyber cafes were a relatively new phenomenum back then. Since I was working in the USA at the time, I would give Irin “suggested” times to contact me. She never could get it right…almost always she was online at 2:30 or 3:30 a.m. my time. I solved the problem by moving to Thailand.
As far as the lost ATM cards are involved, thank God Irin is incredibly responsible. She is one of the few Thai tightwads I have met….The only way she would lose an ATM card is if they pried it out of her cold dead hands.
July 23rd, 2007 at 9:31 am
Thanks for the CNN News!!!
Nice to keep up with everything THAI!
Much better than BBC…
1000B is not much these days, less than US$30.
Of course you Brits get more for your Pound!!!
Hope Chalerm and his friend appreciate it…
Cheers!!