In Kwai Kwai, which is one of my favorite songs from Thailand because it’s all about Wombats, Kwai, bullaloes morons in true upllfiting form.
Why do I use the words true uplifting form? Just watch this second video. I’ve got Mali playing Kwai Kwai on Sweet Bar’s computer, and suddenly four or five of the bar girls are dancing to the music. The same thing happens when Mali plays Bodyslam’s Feat. Both songs representing for me, great examples of excellent Thai music.
Most of you might already have a pretty good idea why Thais call a kwai a moron.
But a lot of you probably have no conception of what a wombat is. For those who don’t, a wombat is a marsupian creature found in Australia that resembles a kangaroo. Because both have pouches.
Which brings up all those audios my roommate, Bob and I used to do in Saint Louis. There was on internet back then. And video cameras were nothing like they are today. Bob was a lawyer who I met through Jim Bowen who was my best friends. I met Jim when he was subsitute teaching for me when I was teaching at Normany High School. Which was ages ago when I was only twenty-four years old. JIm was the funnist guy I ever met. And that includes the present in the here and now in Thailand. And now that I start thinking about it, I think my sense of humor has been profoundly impacted from that year I spent rooming with Jim Bowen.
By the time I started rooming with Bob, Jim was living far away from us. But his influence got us doing all those wombat audios. We did a lot of drinking in those days, which really helped us doing those audios. Which usually focused on the wombat which Bob and I called the stupiest animal on earth. When we did those audios we were drining a lot of alcohol. And we often did them while accomanied by the women we had picked up in the bars.
Back in those days everything was a big laugh when I was rooming with Jim.
We used to have a lot of crazy parties at our apartment. Such as wrestling at the Chase. WHich ended with Jim’s crashing onto the floor while emulating a professional television wrestler. And our having to take him to the hospital for head injuries. We also had sexual reverse parties at our apartment where the men had to come all dolled up as women, While the women had to come as men.
Then, after we were no longer rooming together, Jim playing master of ceremonies at my apartment’s swimming pool. We would place loud speakers on my balcony facing the swimming p
ool. Where Jim would speak through a microphone to everyone gathering around the pool. We drew some big crowds, numbering between 50 and a hundred people. And oftentimes we would have boxing matches next to the pool.
But that all happened so many years ago. And now I’ve been living in Thailand for over twenty years. And the older I get, the more I realize why that Thai song, “Kwai, Kwai,” is so popular.
Links to the videos from 12-4-2026
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