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Last night at
the Pattaya Blues Factory Five nights ago, David arrived in Pattaya from Bangkok where he had traveled to from his home in Florida. Two nights ago he moved into a well furnished studio condo at Jomtien Beach, right next door to Pattaya. The next night he met Anne near Soi Eight, and it looks like she's already moved in with him. But Anne's barely twenty and David's fifty-four. "No matter", says Wan, who lives next door to me at Sky-Top where she works, and in those two simple words Wan sums up the entire Pattaya experience. Here, age doesn't seem to matter. What counts is a man's heart--who and what he is, how he treats his woman, and whether or not he's a good provider. Meanwhile, I have Spicy living with me, a beautiful twenty-nine year old who exudes personality in spades.
This video starts in Pattaya with our four some playing pool at a beer bar just outside the Blues Factory on Walking Street.
Then we take it inside The Blues Factory where some of the most exceptional music in the world is to be heard. And if you don't believe it, tune into the video, turn up your speakers and enjoy.
Spicy--the Live in
Thai girlfriend The condo up at Wongamat Beach is not ready and It is now looking like my move in date is going to be two months later than expected. I'm living in Pattaya, Thailand at the Skytop Guest House, a place that only has nine rooms with the owner, an Australian named Pete, living in one of them, right next door to me. Downstairs is an Internet Cafe which Pete also owns. He has a staff of five Thai girls, most of them college educated who are very helpful and fun.
Rooms run 450 baht, 550 baht, and 650 baht (divide by 40 to get these rates in U.S. dollars). But I get a lower monthly rate for the largest room which amounts to two rooms plus a small bathroom. There's a bedroom off the living room. Its doorway must be around four feet wide. There is a curtain across it. The living room has a fridge, a microwave, and a cupboard with a few dishes, and a sink built in along with a few other kitchen utensils.
I (now it's we) can microwave what I call Thai t.v. dinners which costs around 75 to 90 cents each. As you will see in the video, I've brought a lot of books here along with my bicycle from the apartment I just moved out of in the U.S. In fact, there's close to 700 pounds of them along with a few miscellaneous items, which I had shipped over to Bangkok, then taxied over to Pattaya. I have my laptop computer up here and recently I bought a Hewlett Packard Desktop computer. Both computers are networked together and I have a wireless link to the Internet cafe downstairs thanks to a private arrangement I have made with Pete.
This is not a luxurious accommodation by any means. But neither is my rent. There's four flights of stairs up to my room for one thing, but what the hell, I want to remain thin. But I'm living a very comfortable existence here in my Sky-Top accommodation most Americans would envy.
Imagine me on a microphone to either computer calling my U.S. friends up using Skype. It costs nothing if they have computers and have downloaded the software. But I'm also calling people up on their telephones and it's only costing me 2 cents a minute thanks to this DSL Internet connection. I have been doing my web site work here and there's always the books. And now I have just bought a new t.v., a 29 inch Sony Trinitron which I put in the bedroom along with the DVD player that came with it. Which brings us to the Spicy side of things here.
Her name is Spicy. I met her when she was working at one of the bars next door as cashier. And now she's living here with me. She has this little broom all Thai women are good at using which she uses a couple of times a day to sweep the tiled floors here. She washes the dishes and cleans the tables here, the top of the fridge, the sink--well, everything that needs cleaning as if this has been expected of her for all of her life. In fact, one of the pictures below is her cleaning the outside balcony.
We can buy DVD movies for 120 to 180 baht ($2.75 to $4.50). The most recent was "The Titanic" which we ordered from a place on 2nd and Central Pattaya Roads. The next day we picked it up. We can play the DVD movies on either the new computer using its 19 inch flat screen monitor or in the bedroom on the 29 inch Sony.
Spicy didn't come with the name Spicy. I once told her, "You are one spicy woman", to which she replied: "Me Spicy?" And from then on she would often start laughing while saying to me: "Me Spicy."
Many will say that Thai women are subservient. Well, don't believe it. But they do clearly understand their feminine role. For instance, there's the cleaning I already mentioned. Whereas an American woman might clean, she might also expect her husband to help. But in Thailand, an ex girlfriend, once told me when we spilled something on the floor and I grabbed a washrag to clean it up: "No, that is my job." And that's just it, the girls here do the cleaning and are not about to let the man help.
They will trim your fingernails and toenails for you. In restaurants they will take the little cold moist hand towels and wipe your brow or clean your face with it. They will trim your moustache and massage your back. And Spicy here will even clean the mucous right out of my nose with her fingernails and has done it even in restaurants. I remember our waitress coming up to us while Spicy was doing it and how I felt a little embarrassed.
So how did we come up with the name Spicy. Well, for one thing just watch the short video I have done of her. And there's more to come. But I remember that night we were drinking together and how she called out to "Boy" in a loud voice while giving him the finger: "Fuck you Boy." Boy is twenty years old and he's in charge of the music selections for the bar complex next door. He was standing forty yards away in a glassed in elevated box where the D.J. sits. Spicy was pissed because Boy had started playing a lot of Thai music and had gotten upset thinking this would turn off the falang walking by the bar complex and that they would not come into the bars because of the music.
Then there's the time we ate at a Korean restaurant up in Naklua. Its prices were too high for what you get and the service was poor. Our waitress was slow and she put on a dour face for us. When we finished our meal, I paid the bill and was giving her a twenty baht tip when Spicy yelled out: "No!" as she grabbed the twenty baht note from me and stormed out of the place.
Spicy's hot with a very hot temper. One of her favorite phrases is: "Fucking Idiot." when speaking to someone either Thai or Falang who has pissed her off. I remember an Englishman coming into the Jimmie Bar the first night I took Spicy in there and how he kept mouthing off about how a Thai taxi driver drove him to the wrong place. Believing, probably correctly, that the Englishman simply didn't make himself understood to the taxi driver, Spicy felt the Englishman was insulting her countrymen without justification so she shot something back at him. I didn't hear what she said but whatever it was the Englishman made some nasty comments to her. All of this nearly started a flight, a fight that I wanted to stay out of. So I started talking to the guy. I was real nice to him just like I had been to a loudmouthed Irishman in the same bar several weeks ago. This settled the Englishman down and he eventually apologized to both of us.
I laugh when I think of how many American women call Thai women subservient. I remember just four months ago, how a man's wife once told me: "I know why you are going to Thailand. Its on account of the women. The women there are so subservient. Can't you handle a real woman? Are you afraid of women with minds of their own?"
Women in Western countries such as the U.S. choose to insult Oriental women by calling them submissive in order to dehumanize them. By portraying them as mindless automatons they hope to stop "The Yellow Peril' in their tracks while hoping that their American men folk will actually believe such nonsense. And trust me, Western women have every reason to fear Oriental women. Thai women, for example, are typically very trim and fit compared to Western women most of whom have become fat slugs. Western women no longer do anything of merit for men.
Well, here I am now, on the other side, experiencing what it is like caring for and being taken care of by a lovely Thai lady. But more on this later.
And now, even more video. This one's called Spicy Monkey Business at the Monkey Bar. Starring Spicy of course, this one's taken at the Monkey Bar, third bar over from Sky-Top.
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