June 06, 2004 Bangkok, Thailand
I went back to the little place near Silom a third time on Saturday with a Thai friend. Now it turns out that the guy who was going to move out of the “nice” room is staying. That leaves an identical room with ugly green furniture, or a room with only a bed, tv stand, closet, ugly little desk, TV, and fridge. Without the nice furniture, the rooms are pretty unimpressive, and they are tiny indeed. My friend wasn’t too impressed.
I went back today prepared to pay 7500 baht for the nearly empty room (asking 8000), or 8000 baht for the room with ugly furniture (asking 8500 baht). But the owner will not negotiate. If she would just say “this is my final offer,” that would be fine. But she came up with all these ridiculous excuses:
She basically pissed me off. So I went to have lunch on Silom Road. I don’t think I’d ever been to Silom on a Sunday, and the place was deserted. Silom, packed with workers heading to their offices during the day, and by tourists and vendors selling low-quality items at night, is a ghost town on Sundays, when I would be around. Is there any particular reason for me to live here if I’m not working here? No, I figured.
So, I headed back to Victory Monument, to look at the big empty place. Next to it was a building still under construction, which I popped into. For what I’m paying now, they have a decent-sized room, probably equivalent to what I have now. It’s got an alcove area, which will have some kind of sofa. There is also a bed, closet, TV stand, and little table. 7,000 baht, on the 6th floor. I was prepared for the lack of furniture, and would have probably taken it.
Unfortunately, the bathroom left a lot to be desired. I’ve been disappointed with all of the bathrooms I’ve had in Bangkok, but this one took the cake. It is about the size of your shower, with enough room for one person to stand in. The space to stand in serves triple duty as the place to take your shower, brush your teeth, and sit on the toilet. Truly a Thai-style bathroom.
So, I’m not sure what I’ll do. The price is right on this place, so I will consider it. But I may check out some of the “mansions” that my university suggests. As Stuart says, “they aren’t all that bad."
Hell hath no fury like a Thai woman scorned
Another funny thing about the tiny apartment near Silom. The owner says that farang guy across the hall brings “women from around here” (it is a five minute walk from the Patpong red light district) home. When his girlfriend finds out, they fight and she threatens him with a knife. He’s lucky if he has only been threatened.
Dozens of Bangkok penises are annually "fed to the ducks" by vengeful wives.
By Hank Hyena
Another philandering Thai husband has been horribly stripped of his adulterous manhood.
Bangkok police captain Samphan Panitphan went on a drinking binge with his buddies last weekend, reports Saturday's Daily Record. Returning home to his suspicious wife Sudjai, 28, he collapsed in a stupor.
His unconscious body presented an irresistible target to Sudjai, who carved out some vengeance for his recent affairs. She cut off his penis!
Removing the devious dicks of wandering husbands is becoming almost as common in Thailand as carving up coconuts. The slashing wives' habit is euphemistically referred to as "tat lieng pet" (feeding the duck) due to an incident in which the offending organ was tossed into a yard where a passing duck ate it.
Bangkok surgeons are challenged with about 60 penile attachment operations per year, notes the Mirror. Victims and their removed rods must be stitched together quickly because isolated cock-cells expire in approximately one hour.
Shagnasty Says: Something's just aren't funny are they guys. What with Mrs Bobbit and these Thai ladies there is a concerning trend here. What's wrong with the time honored "throw him out of the house and in to court" I ask?
When Samphan woke up screaming and bloody, he urgently telephoned his cop colleagues for help. Arriving abruptly, they interrogated Sudjai about the missing staff's whereabouts, but she refused to immediately divulge the location of its grave. When she finally guided everyone to a sewage drainpipe, the extramarital member was deceased.
Sudjai was arrested and charged with physical assault, which carries a maximum penalty of 10 years imprisonment.
If convicted, will her punishment halt the plague of hose-hatcheting? Probably not: as long as Thai men maintain their loose tradition of taking "second" wives, the first spouses will sharpen daggers for duck-food.
Finding a decent place in BKK is murder. We were lucky: we found a 2 bedroom apt, full UBC and western standard for 19000/mo. For what it is, it's not a lot. However, it's on sukhumvit soi 23 - directly opposite Soi Cowboy which is why it's cheapish.
Still, it's a nice place, lots of Jpa and Koreans live here and the locals are friendly and recognise us quickly :)
But it took us a mont solid, with an agent to find anything that was under 30k and didn't resemble a bathroom, complete with moss. Bleurg
Posted by: kevin on June 7, 2004 09:50 AMKevin - Sounds like you got a great deal for 19k Baht, congratulations. I suppose for some people being across from Soi Cowboy would be a benefit. I was queasy about living within walking distance of Patpong!
Posted by: Terry on June 7, 2004 09:26 PM