Contempt and Children

Today's song is: The Last Waltz, ... The Band

'Familiarity breeds contempt and children', Mark Twain.

Expats who spend a lot of time in S.E. Asia often find themselves disillusioned or bored with their host country and move on to what they assume will be greener pastures. The following discussion is symptomatic of what they think and feel. In basketball coaching we refer to this as 'The game has passed him by'. You have to adapt. Confucius summarized this by 'You can't step into the same river twice', By stepping into the river, you have changed the river, and you, yourself are changed by the river.

https://www.stickmanbangkok.com/readers-submissions/2017/07/around-the-traps-in-s-e-asia-part-6/

There is a very long running website that I always heartily recommended to any farang wanting to understand the Thai mindset, especially as it is reflected in farang-Thai relationships.

https://www.stickmanbangkok.com/

For whatever reason, Stick is shutting down. I can understand his feelings, because it is difficult to write a long running blog or website. Stick publishes once a week on Sunday and I try to get 3 posts out a week. In the next month, I will publish my 500th blog post on my experiences as a farang in Thailand. It has not always been easy, especially when I don't get out more than once a week.

Stick's last post will be this Sunday. He will be missed!

I am off to Canada for a month on August 7th for a month so you will probably see this farang's view on how Canada differs from Thailand. One difference is that Thailand gets 30 million tourists a year whereas, Canada gets far fewer. There is probably a good reason for the difference, and I chalk it up to the parochial beliefs our politicians and bureaucrats hold.

20 million looks pretty good until you notice that 13,000,000 are American's driving across the border because the Canadian dollar tanked in 2016.

Thavorn's friend Poi has landed a job at Shark Bar on Cowboy and will be making 18,000 baht a month, not including her lady drinks and pay-4-play activities.  She is very shy and made a trial run with Thavorn last night to get a vibe for the bar. Poi thinks she can handle the gogo outfit with a gauze bra, and very short skirt with a g-string underneath.  Time will tell.

Arthur and I are planning to attend Thursday night, her first night to buy her her first 2 lady drinks and see how shy she really is  :-)

TTYL