Have you fallen in love with Thailand. ?

My first time in Thailand I slept. I had a beer and I slept again. I didn't leave Bangkok.

I don't have quite the feelings you do for Thais. I love my wife but with everyone else I usually think I'm watching a Nang Yai play. The neighbors yelling at my sister in law calling her a kwai and the sister in law calling them buffalo all because the kids were making noise in the morning is just surreal. Kwai, puffalo, kwai. puffalo on and on and on and on voices raised but not really yelling. I take a sip of my coffee, look at my wife and say Ei yi yi and she covers her ears mockingly and says Ye yaw ye yaw ye yaw. So I go out and grab the broom rake and go out in the street sweeping for no particular reason and they stop. Seems the sister in law was pissed because she thought the kids would wake me up. Ei yi yi.

You know what I mean? Kind heart good but they could have looked in the house before going to get in an argument with the neighbors to protect my sleep Because 1. I wasn't a sleep and 2. The argument was loud enough to wake me up if I were asleep so what was the point?

When I open my eye at birth, I didn't fall in love with Thailand because I was borne in a doctor's clinic. It was a Saturday. The doctor was having appointment to play golf on Sunday so he decided, with my mom to take me out a day earlier. I've later on become an avid golfer may be because of that.

I hated the boredom Thailand has to offer. The hot sun, the pollution, and most of all the people who are so much the same. I mean Thais are pretty much alike; same hair colour, similar skin colour, same foods, same language, etc.. Most of all, most of the people tend to look up on the western countries as they are more materially developed than Thailand, at least at the time.

I spent the past three decades coming in and out of Thailand, travelling to most part of Europe, UK, Japan, China, Korea, Indonesia and etc and etc.. and have learnt to speak five languages until I’ve grown tired of travelling; you know, every time I buy something must remember to keep the boxes to make it easier when I leave. That’s when I came back to Thailand.

Now, I started to see things in an older eye with comparison to places and people I’ve seen. And, hell yeah, I like what I see in this country and hopefully have done my part to make it better. Hopefully, still doing it. Have you done anything lately to help better Thailand?

ants are driving me crazy -- so is strange cultural habits like wives running away instead of staying and fighting it out to preserve the marriage (and the kids mental health) -- the way Thais lie as easy as they eat rice, the double standards....and so on, but yea, I love Thailand and Thais....

Yes more than 7 yrs ago - came here and stayed!