A most amazing post by a Chinese Thai lady on Stickman, about what proper Thai girls are looking for in a mate, Thai as well as foreigner. The woman is married, educated in the U.S. and vouched for by Stickman because he has met her several times. She also writes English very well, in fact, would embarrass some native English speakers with her natural language voice. Her comic timing is pretty bang on. ("spot on" for you UK'ers).
[Edit: Inserted above link to reader submission at Stickman. I forgot. Thanks to friend G.]
The link tip was sent to me by a friend and I'm very thankful, M.
A couple of quotes exemplify the quality of the piece, written under the pen name of JTG. The scene is arrival at a lodge:
Mr. JTG was twenty feet behind me and was still on the porch. As I was putting down our stuff in the room and on the way to help Mr., I heard a high-pitched, upbeat female voice saying “Hi, how are you?” I stepped out of the room in a millisecond and took a look at the creature that phonated in such a way we fellow women the world over consider fake (Female readers know what I am talking about!). The first things that struck me about the girl were her super low-cut, sleeveless top, her skinniness and noticeably lack of endowment in the breast department. Women size other women up. This is universally normal.
The second half of the piece talks about what Thai women want:
I doubt if any bearded guy in cargo shorts, Chang Beer sleeveless t-shirt, a baseball cap, and Jesus sandals has much attention from upper middle class girls because these are signature looks of a backpacker we generally call “Farang Kee Nok” (Bird Poop Farang), or a sex tourist you see all the time on Soi Nana.
This reminds me of some other great blog posts, among many, in the last few weeks:
- A fascinating story of how one older American fellow kind of stumbled into becoming a monk and his subsequent daily life at Absolutely Bangkok.
- One of my favourite blog topics is food, especially Thai market and street food. Intrinsic to Thai meals is the custom of sharing. Food is eaten in groups, family and/or friends, and what better way to participate, or just watch, is to go to the nearest community market. Martyn at Beyond the Big Mango Juice says markets mean so much to him now and his enjoyment of Thailand life. And Malcolm at Retired in Thailand and Loving It describes how vitally important markets are to making a living and supporting a community. And no topic about food can go unlinked to blogs about mouth watering Thai food. Talen at Thailand, Land of Smiles, lists his top 10 Thai foods you must try. Woohoo!
- If you're looking for Driving in Thailand for Dummie, this is it! Ben at The Thai Pirate, who has covered 60,000 km (!!!) in the past year (and lived to tell about it), offers his Pirate Tips for Driving in Thailand.
- There's never a week that goes by that Women Learning Thai doesn't have a valuable post on learning the Thai language. One great series is her interviews of foreigners who have spit out the blue mono-language pill and swallowed the red language pill of Thai. But author Catherine now is using an iPhone, and in her usual way of digging deep into a topic, will soon (don't make me a liar, Cat ;-) offer her thoughts on all those language apps that purport to teach you Thai in 30 minutes (just kidding about the minutes!).
- If I wrote as much as Wise Kwai does on his Thai Film Journal, I don't think I'd get any sleep. If he isn't watching three, four, five films a day, he's chonicling another film festival or writing another review or reporting just stuff about the industry. WK has news from two recent festivals, Bangkok's and Busan, South Korea's.
I'm sure I'm forgetting some great blogs so I'm sorry if I left anyone out. I'll make up for that soon. Besides, reading blogs on Thailand and Southeast Asia is about all I can do now that I'm back in Canada where soon the north wind will blow and all will be frosty and NOT warm, shall we say. Won't be back in LOS till December.
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