New years resolutions:
Eat more garlic
Woo more women
Drink less beer
Don’t be hungry
Re-fill water bottles
Improve my cockney rhyming slang
Learn Japanese
Only smoke when I deserve one
Get out
Microsoft Messenger, this Liela bird – she can’t write a sentence with out using 'LOL' – you know, that tossy adolescent abbreviation of Laugh Out Loud. “I just thought I’d say hi lol”, “I had to work late yesterday lol”, Jaysus, ‘Lol’ this and ‘Lol’ that, is she really laughing out loud as she says all this, is it a nervous thing? God forbid she has the wit or intellect to understand a basic joke – she’d give herself a hernia. From the photos she looks alright, sort of Spanish looking with that wild hair – an alright pair of Charlies and a nice compact Portsmouth.
Portsmouth Harbour – harbour master… Master = plaster – plaster of paris, ‘arris – Aristotle = bottle… Bottle & glass – arse, nice arse. (bottom)
She is only 21 – and I’m not sure where I stand with the thought of skewering a tart who was still in Mamy Poko Pants while I was doing my GCSE’s, but she’s there for a rainy day – obviously not literally, or I’ll be waiting a few months to see that bum length wild hair splashed over my pillow.
January thus far, is as arid as December was when it comes to work. That malady is expected to linger on at least until mid February, so having put the feelers out, followed up emails, read the news and viewed the latest movie trailers – I find myself at a lose end, and re-igniting my equally arid sex life seems a good start.
Today though, I have to return to the badlands of Muang Thong Thani to collect my deposit. Taking a photo of the greedy old hag the day I moved the last of my shit out was not a bad move, got her well paranoid, and so I’m off to claim the 1,400 left after two months of unpaid bills and expenses.
I’ve done well cutting down on fags and piss the past few days, so I take a moto taxi to the Skytrain and subsequently wish I had walked. The driver is about seventeen and he’s on a new Honda Dream. There’s a few near misses with other tards on bikes appearing in our path and I spend most of the white knuckle journey with my arsehole clenched tighter than Butterfly’s wallet, holding my breath and squeezing the orange vested fuckwit between my legs. I hope he realizes that this is to save my knees from bashing into wing mirrors and buses and not an attempt to queer him up.
For my ascent to the On Nut Skytrain, I’m running up the apples and pears to the platform instead of taking the escalator. This is part of my new fitness regime and somewhat compensates for being too lazy to walk there in the first place.
The BTS station has the usual tard in blue uniform in a silly Thunderbirds hat and he blows his whistle at me like some farking lifeguard at a swimming pool because I’m walking too close to the yellow line – I’ve probably made his day, I bet they all dream of using that baton and utility belt but it’s the whistle every time.
The train comes, there’s lots of people waiting for it and because it’s just switched tracks it’s completely empty, so you can have any seat you want as long as it’s yellow and ingrained with speckles. As usual all the meat pies are mezmorised by the flat screen goggle box, and I can’t help but stare at it also – though my gawping is disbelief, not a total surrender of my independent thought.
In a voice so irritating and unwarranted it defies definition – I hear the words ‘OHO NEWS UPDATE’ – though in that awful, mindless Thinglish accent that is shoehorned into my ears it says “News Upded” and I find myself subjected to an advert for a magazine, one of those celebrity gossip shit-sheets what kids and thick cnuts read, so on that definition alone the country is sold and the company who print this rag can afford a good minute to prattle on (in Thai now) about which paper skinned, spoiled rich celebrity idiot is holding hands with who whilst showing us papparazi crappy snaps with flashing pink hearts. The update is concluded with a reminder of what they’re supposed to buy, a nauseatingly sustained - “OHO!” – in a put-on, childish wail that makes me wince more than the opener does.
This is followed by a loop of cnuty adverts for MK, S&P and a multitude of skin whitening products and vitamin drinks which are, the lot of them - insipid, patronizing, un-imaginative, immoral and downright shameless bollocks, or - as Ant would probably say, ‘a perfidious succession of misinformation’.
It's horrible and I can't switch off to it - I find it all very intrusive and offensive.
Call me cynical, but my jadedness is sadly justified – for I have witnessed no advancement in the eight years I have known Thailand and, much as I love ‘em and always will, their minds are so impressionable and submissive that the country has become a huge orgy for corporate marketing executives. The silly tards are more than willing to embrace the rape and strangle of globalization and squander their cash with gay abandon at the expense of their own culture and personal identity.
Pulay – now she’s a fat slapper, been there and done that back in April. She was an internet pull and still lives in the Thani. Smart girl but she’s not my cup of tea, I need somebody my own bodyweight and she needs one of those Africans who play for Muang Thong United. There’s plenty of coons in this city and they’re all closet chubby chasers the lot of ‘em. Must focus – I’m going back to pick up my rent deposit what I paid in 2007.
Anyway, I’m half way to Victory Monument and I’m looking over my shoulder staring at the contents of the other train as we stop at Chit Lom. I can see a farang kid staring back at me and he looks like a right spoiled cnut so I give him the finger. Then one of the trains starts to move and for a moment I’m not sure if it’s his train or my train that’s moving and so I turn back around and we’re still on the platform. Some lanky pale skinned model type meat pie sits opposite me and pretends she can’t see me looking at her, so she gets out her imitation Blackberry and starts thumbing away – probably the same dog and bone that’s being advertised on the flat screen above her noggin – the one that boasts a ‘MOSHUN SENSUUUR’ – she glances up and I give her a smile and she avoids my glance like I don’t exist on cue with the beep-beep-beep of the doors shutting. Land of smiles eh? …I want to grab that fone off her and stick it up her white arse, the miserable hi-so twat.
Sunny was kind of hi-so – had a date with her last month, arranged online of course – and in an ideal world I’d only have had to be my nice, honest self but no I had to tell her I was a TV presenter/producer didn’t I, had to make an impression. Okay it wasn’t a lie, but I added that I was exploited by a greedy, thick-as-shit Aussie couple that ran a joke of a production house and that work was a bit thin yet she was still happy to meet, so I arranged to meet her at this nice little oasis on soi 75/1 and she tells me that she’s only got a hundred baht – god only knows why she tells me this, and yet she takes a taxi from Ratchada because she has an aversion to changing trains.
Before she’d even arrived I was writing her off, and if she expected me to pay her taxi then she was in for a long walk home. Fortunately she didn’t, and I met her walking down the street in a nice blue dress. Nice looking bird, good chest and a cool tattoo on her back – not one of those tramp stamps above the arse that half the birds in the UK got done after the millennium.
She wants a black & coke and I know the only reason she wants black and coke is because she thinks it sounds cool and trendy, hip and with it and fashionable - why can’t she have a beer, or a Sang Som & coke? I mean, if you’re going to drink decent whisky then you don’t mix it with coke unless you’re a tard or you can easily afford it. I bet she reads OHO.
I casually inform her that a Japanese girl wouldn’t dream of turning up to a date without any money and that even though they guy will always pay, assumption is almost as rude as ordering the most expensive whiskey – especially when, hours earlier, the man (me) had lamented his pay situation during the online warm up session.
I light a cigarette, yeah I can see she doesn’t smoke but fuck it, I’m just not into this ‘Let’s bleed the foreigner for what we can’ bullshit. Typical Thai attitude, though am I being fair? Maybe I should give her a chance, I can see her shifting uncomfortably in her seat, so.. I take a big swig of my Leo and put out my cigarette and change the subject, telling her how fucked her country is and what mayhem lies ahead in the future. She looks concerned but doesn’t disagree, how can she? The doom and gloom I forecast makes her adjust her dress and she finishes her stupid foking ‘Black and coke’, so I ask if she wants another and she hesitates, then the ‘it’s free/he’s paying’ penny drops and she says okay, so I order one from the limp wristed, faggoty waiter in his dungarees and lipstick and he minces off to get it like the poofy childish wanker that he is.
Second round of drinks, on me of course, so I lighten the mood by talking about that Blackadder scene where Baldrick spends a million quid on a turnip – she doesn’t have a clue what I’m talking about so I tell her about this Japanese girl I’ve been seeing and how great she is and how, when she’s not working 23 hours a day, we go to the finest restaurants in Bangkok and are making our way through the myriad of world cuisine that this fine city has to offer and how she always offers to pay even though she never has to, though she did once when I was on the blower to my mate Howard in Nanning.
She starts telling me about her ex and I tell her that all men are the same downstairs and that although I may be brutally honest, I’m not a bad bloke – and I order a third B&C so she finishes the same time I neck the last of my Leo and when it’s down the hatch I tell her that was the last one and that at 110 baht a pop I’ve paid enough, but, that I’m ready to progress to whisky myself and that I have a bottle of 100 Pipers at home and she can join me if she wants, and drink as much as she likes.
She does, and we have a couple of drinks and she asks to see some of my videos so I leave one playing and have a fag on the balcony, when done I ask her if my breath tastes of smoke and go in for the kill and get a sexy little kiss out of her and she admits, “You’re good”, which of course I am, I’m The Gentleman Scamp.
I undo my trousers and get the old fella out but she just wants to stay the night and keep her jeans on – it’s only rag week innit! What sort of selfish farking freeloader goes back to a blokes house on the blob? We had a kiss and a fumble but she wasn’t going south, I get up and move some stuff. She asks what I’m doing and I explain that I’m just hiding my money and ATM cards because I hardly know her.
She wakes me up at about 7am and fucks off, telling me she can find her own way to the lobby – so much for offering to be a gentleman. I have seen her online since when I’ve had the horn and asked if she’s still on the rag but she doesn’t reply, anyway.
Back to the BTS – I get to Victory Monument and walk the tedious semi circular skybridge which is only tedious because it’s always packed with meat pies shuffling to university or shuffling to work or just shuffling for the sake of it. I stop only to give 20 baht notes to the blind wog-box singers because it makes me sad that they even have to beg in that condition in a modern society.
I’m off to see Avatar with an Indian tailor – to be concluded.