Gullivers

I can’t believe it. I did it! Last night a farang gave me 3,000 baht and I didn’t have to do anything much. Not really. The money is on the table by my bed next to my Hello Kitty toy that my brother gave me for my birthday last year. I keep looking at the money and smiling because it was so easy.

Anne came to my room at nine o’clock, just like she said she would. I live in a place called On Nut which is at the end of the Skytrain line but not for long because they are making the Skytrain longer and soon it will go much further. But right now I am at the last station, which is fine. Anyway, Anne came to see me and she looked so sexy like I have never seen her before. She had a short skirt on and very high heels and a top that showed off her stomach. She had much more make-up on than she normally has and I asked her why and she said it was because farangs like to see girls in a lot of make up. Her breasts looked bigger too and she told me that she was wearing a padded bra because farangs like big breasts. Anne knows everything about farangs. She looked so different from the way she looks when she works in the bank. In the bank she has only a bit of make up and wears a dark suit and really doesn’t look very sexy.

I was wearing white trousers and my Dolce and Gabbana belt because I really like D&G. They are my favourite designer. It isn’t a real D&G belt, just a copy, but I don’t think anyone can tell. I had a black top with long sleeves which I thought was sexy but Anne said I should change. Farangs like bare arms she said. They like to see as much skin as possible. So I changed into a shirt with spaghetti straps and I had to take off my bra because bras don’t look too good under that shirt and Anne said that was perfect. She said I should use a little bit more lipstick too, because farangs like to see a girl wearing lots of lipstick. Really, once she had finished I felt a bit shy about going about because I think I looked too sexy, but Anne told me not to worry.

She said we were going to a bar called Gullivers which is in Sukhumvit Soi 5. We could have gone on the Skytrain but Anne said we should go in a taxi. I was pleased about that because really I didn’t want to go on the Skytrain looking so sexy. The taxi cost almost 100 baht which is a lot , but Anne paid.

In the taxi we talked about what we would do when we got to Gullivers. She said we shouldn’t use our real names in case we ever had a problem. She didn’t say what problem we might have and I didn’t ask. Anne said that she calls herself Bee when is working with farangs. She makes a joke of it, saying that she is a bee and the farangs are flowers and that she flies from flower to flower taking their pollen. I thought that was very funny. We talked about different names for me. I suggested Amy which is a name I like but Anne said a name that was Thai was better because they didn’t believe that Thai girls had English names. Anne suggested Oy which means sugar cane so that I could say I was sweet but I have an aunty called Oy and I don’t like her so I didn’t want to use that name. That was when I thought of Wan, which means sweet, and we both thought that was a great name so we decided that I’d call myself Wan.

Gullivers is a big bar in Soi 5. It looks like a house that belongs to a rich person, all white and very beautiful. There are white metal tables outside where people sit and eat and drink and there were a lot of farangs there. Some were farang couples, men and their girlfriends and wives, but most were farang men sitting together or with Thai girls. Most of the girls were from Isarn. You can always tell girls from Isarn because they have very dark skin and very small noses. I am not from Isarn. I am from Chiang Mai and I have very white skin because most people from Chiang Mai have very white skin.

Anne said we should go inside because that’s where most of the farangs went to look for girls. Two Thai men checked our bags and looked at our ID cards and then we were inside. I was so excited but inside it was just like any other bar.

It was quite dark with a big circular bar in the middle and tables and stools around it. It was quite busy so Anne took me around the bar looking for a free table. She said that it was better to sit at a table than at the bar because if you were at the bar you had to keep twisting around to look at people. At the far end of the bar were a lot of pool tables but we weren’t there to play pool so we went around the other side of the bar. There was a big red car on a pole slowly turning around. It looked real but I don’t think it was really.

Anne found a table and we sat down. A waitress came over and Anne ordered Cokes for us to drink. She said it was best not to drink alcohol until you had found a farang because you might be there a long time and it wouldn’t be good to be drunk. Anne said that happened to her once. She was drinking vodka and tonic and she didn’t find a farang until after midnight and she went with him and had sex but she was so drunk she forgot to ask him for money.

We sat and sipped our Coke and looked around. There were a lot of farangs, some of them were sitting with girls but a lot were on there own. I didn’t see any who looked like Brad Pitt. He’s the most handsome farang in the world, I think. Most of the farangs were quite old, older than my father really. And they were not very handsome. I said that to Anne and she said that we weren’t looking for a handsome farang, or a young farang, we were looking for a farang to give us money. She said the trick was to smile at every farang we saw. We had to smile and look them in the eye. Then if they liked us they would come on over and ask to buy us drinks. It was like fishing, she said. The farangs were the fish and we had to tempt them and our smiles were the bait. So we sat and smiled until my face began to hurt, but then a farang came over and sat at our table and asked us if he could buy us drinks and we said yes. His name was Ian and he was from England and he was on holiday. He said that he was staying at the Landmark Hotel which is not far from Soi 5 and then Anne spoke to me in Thai and said that the Landmark was good because they didn’t mind their guests taking girls back with them.

Ian said he was forty-five years old but he looked more than fifty. He wasn’t too fat but he had a big nose that was red from drinking too much, and a big stomach. Anne said to me that he looked pregnant and we laughed and when Ian asked what we laughing about Anne said it was because we were so happy to have such a good-looking man talking to us and that made him smile. He spend most of his time looking at me and talking tome and he kept stroking my arm which I didn’t like but I kept smiling, and then eventually he asked me how much to go with him. At first I didn’t understand and I asked him where he was going and he laughed and said back to his room and he wanted me to go with him. He asked me again how much I wanted but I didn’t know what to say so Anne asked him how much he wanted to pay and he said 3,000 baht and Anne said yes so that was that. We finished our drinks and Ian took me back to his hotel. Anne said she would stay in Gullivers and wait for me.

It was easy money. I went back to the Landmark hotel and he made love to me and I kept my eyes closed all the time and imagined it was Brad Pitt and then I said I had to go and he gave me 3,000 baht and I went back to Gullivers. Anne wasn’t there so I called her mobile and she said that she had gone with a customer and that she’d phone me later so I got a taxi back to On Nut.

So that is that. Now I am a bad girl. But I do not feel bad. I made the customer happy and I have 3,000 baht so I do not think I am really bad. Just a bit bad, maybe.