Wednesday, 14 May 2008

If I was rich

I love my country. Thailand is the best country in the world. It means Land Of The Free and it really is. I think people in Thailand have more freedom than anywhere else in the world. I stayed in New York for six months and New York is great but there are many rules and laws and people always seemed to be telling me what to do. In New York, a police man can give you a ticket if you walk across a road when you are not supposed to. How crazy is that?

The one thing I do not like about my country is that it is hard to get rich, especially if you are a girl. Men do all the big jobs and get the big salaries, women only get good jobs if the come from rich families. A rich family and a good family is not the same thing. In Thailand there are many rich families but the people in the families behave badly. Sometimes they even hurt people and get away with it. Someone told me once that rich people never go to prison and really I think that is true.

If you are born into a rich family you will be rich your whole life. If you are born into a poor family you will stay poor all your life unless you are very lucky. My family is not really rich and not really poor, we are in the middle. But really I want to be rich.

Last night I made a list of all the things I would buy if I was really rich. I want an iPhone and a Sony laptop, the pink one. I want a Honda Civic with pretty wheels. and I want a Dolce and Gabbana watch. I want a house in Chiang Mai, a teak house near a hill, and I want a big screen plasma television, a really big one, seventy-two inches maybe. I want a bathroom with a jacquizi and a swimming pool outside and I want a Golden Retriever dog and a Rottweiler to bark at any bad guys who come to my house. I want my own apartment in a nice part of Bangkok like Soi Thonglor and I want lots of Italian furniture because the Italians make really good furniture. I want a five baht gold necklace and a three baht gold bracelet and a diamond ring, a really big one. And world peace. That is what the beauty contestants always say when they are asked what they want, so that’s what I want too. I want world peace. And a new nose. I think I can get a new nose for about ten thousand baht. I think I will look prettier if I have a farang nose. And that’s everything I will buy, when I’m rich.

9 comments:

me said...

Yes in new York there are places like parts of 6th avenue that are anti-jaywalking. But people in America have chances to have all the things you want. I was born into a poor family and can easily buy almost everything on your list. Why? Because in western countries we have the freedom to use education to rise up and have better lives. Many of my mates from the old days are now considered rich to many. In Thailand, people can be bought like candy. Police, judges, lawyers. At a much cheaper rate than in the west. And we have put many high-so people in jail for crimes. You know about the rich kid at the bus stop who ran over people in Bangkok...still free. We can travel most places sans visa and I received a good education at a school ranked in the top 200 in the world(over 10,000 schools). I went for free because of scholarships. My sister gets to vacation on beautiful islands and she doesn't have to sell her body to pay for it. I am wondering besides the beaches and easy sex, both of which I like in Thailand, what makes Thailand the best? You are Thai. You feel that way because it is your home. You ignore the dirt, the bad smell and the corruption because you don't realize it is there. Thonglor is dirty compared to my hometown but you think it is special. Hmmmm. It is all relative to what you know and the average Thai knows little about how the world works.

Uncle Dick said...

Hello. I can tell you, with all the things you want, you will never get down to buying a house, which is the important thing.

While I am here, for God’s sake don not get a nose job! Your nose is probably just fine, but with a farang nose you will probably look ridiculous! And if your farang customers wanted a girl with a farang nose, they would probably not have come to Thailand looking for her! Believe me, cosmetic surgery is not worth it! My daughter had quite a bit of it, against my advice, and now she is regretting it. Learn to love your body!

Anyway, let me tell you about a girl I know. She is not Thai, but Indonesian. When I was last in Batam, I fucked this girl almost every night, and paid her the equivalent of about 1500 baht a time. She didn’t just give me sex, but massaged me (she is a trained masseuse), did housework, brought me food, and generally looked after me. Indonesia is a poorer country than Thailand, and so 45,000 baht a month is quite a lot of money. You know what she bought with all this extra money she was earning? A house! Not only that, but she already owned another house, in her home city, that her parents are living in (I don’t know what they’d do if they knew where she got the money from!).

So think about this: if my lady friend never gets another customer (she is getting a bit old for the job), she will still have somewhere to live, and even a shitty job will be enough to pay for her food and bills. She dresses well, but not expensively. When I go back there, I might marry her, but I’m fucked if I’d marry someone whose ambition was to spend all my money on overpriced crap!

Anonymous said...

Unbelieveable! Your written English is so perfect. I've been working in a famous English publication for more than 6 years with hi-so Thais who have studied abroad and have countless degrees in English and so on and so forth, but their English is nowhere near as good as yours. You're the best , I comment you.

Anonymous said...

Write a post in Pratom level 6 Thai...i bet you can't because you are a farang pretending to be a thai whore to make some Google ads words dollars. Too many give aways. Nice try.

Top Secret! said...

Why do you think that writing in Thai would prove who I am? Yes, I can write good English but it takes me a lot of time and I work very hard at it. I want to improve my English and blogging in English is the best way of doing that. Sometimes people tell me I have made a mistake and I correct it and that helps me to. So if you do see any mistakes that I make then please tell me. xxx

Anonymous said...

ประเทศไทยรวมเลือดเนื้อชาติเชื้อไทย
เป็นประชารัฐ ไผทของไทยทุกส่วน
อยู่ดำรงคงไว้ได้ทั้งมวล
ด้วยไทยล้วนหมาย รักสามัคคี
ไทยนี้รักสงบ แต่ถึงรบไม่ขลาด
เอกราชจะไม่ให้ใครข่มขี่
สละเลือดทุกหยาดเป็นชาติพลี
เถลิงประเทศชาติไทยทวี มีชัย ชโย


understand ?

Anonymous said...

come on, you must understand that simple thai passage (most REAL middle class 26 yr old female thais can read thai).....so what do you think ?

Top Secret! said...

Every Thai person understands that.It is the Thai national anthem. I do not understand what you mean? Do you want me to translate it for you? xxx

Anonymous said...

My niece, who is Thai, received her degree about 8-years ago. She worked hard to achieve this and never sold her body. Not once.

She worked the front desk of a 4-star hotel on soi 22 - spent another 4-years working for a American Corporation in Bangkok, and now lives in the US, drawing down a US salary – about 80,000 baht a month.

My question to you is; why don’t you do the same?

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