Everyone Has A Story

[BKK90210]

I want to do something diff on this forum during this holiday besides all the usual stuffs/questions that needing advices and answers.

In spirit of the holiday,… Do you have a story to tell or want to share? – that not require advices and answers, but simply just want to share

It could be a story of…

-What is your very first memory of Thailand? Can you recall the details?

-Words or quotes that inspire you

-A story that helped you realizes how special your life really is

-To express all your inner thoughts and feelings and dreams

-To understand who you are and who you want to be in life

-About your insights, your breakthroughs, your inner most secrets

-About Discovering yourself

-What do you love about yourself? What do you hate? Be honest

-family expectations

-What makes you feel good?

-How do you feel about yourself right now? What's holding you back?

-Who do you admire or dislike?

Or

-Do you see yourself in those people(think of someone)? If it is true that we are mirrors for one another, then the qualities you most like in others are reflected in yourself...and the qualities you least like in others are those you probably don't like in yourself.

Or

-What would you do if you have only one day to live?

Or

Whatever....think of something!

Everyone has a compelling story to tell. I hope you have one

Have a happy holiday

Edited November 24, 2006 by BKK90210

[Wolfie]

-What would you do if you have only one day to live?

Run up a HUGE bill at FC

[Boo]

On my first ever trip to thailand, I arrived in Koh Samui in the mid evening & was staying in beach bungalow at the south end of Lamai beach. Due to jet lag I went to sleep early & awoke around 5am. I went to sit on my balcony with a sheet around me & watched the sun rise. Hearing the surf & watching the sun rise over the ocean was so amazing but even more so was around 6.30am, when a guy took his buffalo for a walk along the beach. I still have the photo of it & it was such a lovely first sight of Samui and at the time, so alien to me. I am sure it is why I still love thailand & it's oddities.

[Aujuba]

About four years ago I started getting into reading Charles Bukowski's writings. I had a friend who gave me a few of his books which I quickly cherished. I felt I could absolutely relate to what he wrote. I knew Bukowski was an angry drunk and womanizer but I never really appreciated how much of a horrible angry drunk womanizer he was until I saw a video of him at youtube.com Now I am humbled.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPa9UvaiwmQ

[GracelessFawn]

Natural hiGhs

Think about them one at a time BEFORE going to the next one..... IT DOES MAKE YOU FEEL GOOD, especially the thought at the end.

• Falling in-love
  
• Laughing so hard your face hurts
  
• A hot shower
  
• No lines at the supermarket
  
• A special game
  
• Getting Mail
  
• Taking a drive on a pretty road
  
• No Traffic
  
• Hearing your favorite song on the radio
  
• Lying in bed listening to the rain outside
  
• Hot towels fresh out of the dryer
  
• Chocolate Milkshake (or Vanilla, or Strawberry, or Mango.......)
  
• Yummy low-fat ice-cream
  
• A bubble bath
  
• Giggling
  
• A good conversation
  
• The beach
  
• Finding 50 baht from pants you've worn weeks ago
  
• Laughing at yourself
  
• Midnight phonecalls that lasts for hours
  
• Running through sprinklers
  
• Laughing for absolutely no reason at all
  
• Having someone tell you that you're beautiful
  
• Laughing at an inside joke
  
• Friends
  
• Accidentally over-hearing someone say something good about you
  
• Waking-up realizing you still have a few hours to sleep
  
• A kiss
  
• More kisses
  
• Making new friends or spending time with old ones
  
• Playing with a new puppy
  
• Hugs
  
• More hugs
  
• Having someone play with your hair
  
• Sweet Dreams
  
• Hot Chocolate
  
• Road trips with friends
  
• Swinging on swings
  
• Making eye contact with a very special person
  
• Eating something you LIKE
  
• Holding hands with someone very special and someone you care about
  
• Running into an old friend and realizing that some things (good or bad) never change
  
• Watching the expression on someone's face as they open a present from you
  
• Watching the sunrise
  
• Watching the sunset
  
• Getting out of bed every morning
  
• Knowing that somebody misses you
  
• Getting a hug from someone you care about deeply
  
• Knowing you've done the right thing no matter what people think.
  

FRIENDS --- are angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how!

[meemiathai]

On my first ever trip to thailand, I arrived in Koh Samui in the mid evening & was staying in beach bungalow at the south end of Lamai beach. Due to jet lag I went to sleep early & awoke around 5am. I went to sit on my balcony with a sheet around me & watched the sun rise. Hearing the surf & watching the sun rise over the ocean was so amazing but even more so was around 6.30am, when a guy took his buffalo for a walk along the beach. I still have the photo of it & it was such a lovely first sight of Samui and at the time, so alien to me. I am sure it is why I still love thailand & it's oddities.

Any chance showing us the photo?

[kurgen]

Natural hiGhs

Think about them one at a time BEFORE going to the next one..... IT DOES MAKE YOU FEEL GOOD, especially the thought at the end.

• Falling in-love
  
• Laughing so hard your face hurts
  
• A hot shower
  
• No lines at the supermarket
  
• A special game
  
• Getting Mail
  
• Taking a drive on a pretty road
  
• No Traffic
  
• Hearing your favorite song on the radio
  
• Lying in bed listening to the rain outside
  
• Hot towels fresh out of the dryer
  
• Chocolate Milkshake (or Vanilla, or Strawberry, or Mango.......)
  
• Yummy low-fat ice-cream
  
• A bubble bath
  
• Giggling
  
• A good conversation
  
• The beach
  
• Finding 50 baht from pants you've worn weeks ago
  
• Laughing at yourself
  
• Midnight phonecalls that lasts for hours
  
• Running through sprinklers
  
• Laughing for absolutely no reason at all
  
• Having someone tell you that you're beautiful
  
• Laughing at an inside joke
  
• Friends
  
• Accidentally over-hearing someone say something good about you
  
• Waking-up realizing you still have a few hours to sleep
  
• A kiss
  
• More kisses
  
• Making new friends or spending time with old ones
  
• Playing with a new puppy
  
• Hugs
  
• More hugs
  
• Having someone play with your hair
  
• Sweet Dreams
  
• Hot Chocolate
  
• Road trips with friends
  
• Swinging on swings
  
• Making eye contact with a very special person
  
• Eating something you LIKE
  
• Holding hands with someone very special and someone you care about
  
• Running into an old friend and realizing that some things (good or bad) never change
  
• Watching the expression on someone's face as they open a present from you
  
• Watching the sunrise
  
• Watching the sunset
  
• Getting out of bed every morning
  
• Knowing that somebody misses you
  
• Getting a hug from someone you care about deeply
  
• Knowing you've done the right thing no matter what people think.
  

FRIENDS --- are angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how!

Life from a girls prospective

How about,

opening the first ice cold beer of the night

opening ice cold beers at any other time

shagging a bird for the first time

the first fart of the day

your first dump after being bunged up for a few days

a 2 pint piss

being woken up getting a blow job

being woken up by getting a blow job from your wife (must be Christmas)

getting a boner that you can bang nails in, without taking Viagra

etc, etc

[Boo]

Any chance showing us the photo?

I will try & get into the loft this weekend.

[N47HAN]

Natural hiGhs

Think about them one at a time BEFORE going to the next one..... IT DOES MAKE YOU FEEL GOOD, especially the thought at the end.

• Falling in-love
  
• Laughing so hard your face hurts
  
• A hot shower
  
• No lines at the supermarket
  
• A special game
  
• Getting Mail
  
• Taking a drive on a pretty road
  
• No Traffic
  
• Hearing your favorite song on the radio
  
• Lying in bed listening to the rain outside
  
• Hot towels fresh out of the dryer
  
• Chocolate Milkshake (or Vanilla, or Strawberry, or Mango.......)
  
• Yummy low-fat ice-cream
  
• A bubble bath
  
• Giggling
  
• A good conversation
  
• The beach
  
• Finding 50 baht from pants you've worn weeks ago
  
• Laughing at yourself
  
• Midnight phonecalls that lasts for hours
  
• Running through sprinklers
  
• Laughing for absolutely no reason at all
  
• Having someone tell you that you're beautiful
  
• Laughing at an inside joke
  
• Friends
  
• Accidentally over-hearing someone say something good about you
  
• Waking-up realizing you still have a few hours to sleep
  
• A kiss
  
• More kisses
  
• Making new friends or spending time with old ones
  
• Playing with a new puppy
  
• Hugs
  
• More hugs
  
• Having someone play with your hair
  
• Sweet Dreams
  
• Hot Chocolate
  
• Road trips with friends
  
• Swinging on swings
  
• Making eye contact with a very special person
  
• Eating something you LIKE
  
• Holding hands with someone very special and someone you care about
  
• Running into an old friend and realizing that some things (good or bad) never change
  
• Watching the expression on someone's face as they open a present from you
  
• Watching the sunrise
  
• Watching the sunset
  
• Getting out of bed every morning
  
• Knowing that somebody misses you
  
• Getting a hug from someone you care about deeply
  
• Knowing you've done the right thing no matter what people think.
  

FRIENDS --- are angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how!

Life from a girls prospective

How about,

opening the first ice cold beer of the night

opening ice cold beers at any other time

shagging a bird for the first time

the first fart of the day

your first dump after being bunged up for a few days

a 2 pint piss

being woken up getting a blow job

being woken up by getting a blow job from your wife (must be Christmas)

getting a boner that you can bang nails in, without taking Viagra

etc, etc

[terry57]

Natural hiGhs

Think about them one at a time BEFORE going to the next one..... IT DOES MAKE YOU FEEL GOOD, especially the thought at the end.

• Falling in-love
  
• Laughing so hard your face hurts
  
• A hot shower
  
• No lines at the supermarket
  
• A special game
  
• Getting Mail
  
• Taking a drive on a pretty road
  
• No Traffic
  
• Hearing your favorite song on the radio
  
• Lying in bed listening to the rain outside
  
• Hot towels fresh out of the dryer
  
• Chocolate Milkshake (or Vanilla, or Strawberry, or Mango.......)
  
• Yummy low-fat ice-cream
  
• A bubble bath
  
• Giggling
  
• A good conversation
  
• The beach
  
• Finding 50 baht from pants you've worn weeks ago
  
• Laughing at yourself
  
• Midnight phonecalls that lasts for hours
  
• Running through sprinklers
  
• Laughing for absolutely no reason at all
  
• Having someone tell you that you're beautiful
  
• Laughing at an inside joke
  
• Friends
  
• Accidentally over-hearing someone say something good about you
  
• Waking-up realizing you still have a few hours to sleep
  
• A kiss
  
• More kisses
  
• Making new friends or spending time with old ones
  
• Playing with a new puppy
  
• Hugs
  
• More hugs
  
• Having someone play with your hair
  
• Sweet Dreams
  
• Hot Chocolate
  
• Road trips with friends
  
• Swinging on swings
  
• Making eye contact with a very special person
  
• Eating something you LIKE
  
• Holding hands with someone very special and someone you care about
  
• Running into an old friend and realizing that some things (good or bad) never change
  
• Watching the expression on someone's face as they open a present from you
  
• Watching the sunrise
  
• Watching the sunset
  
• Getting out of bed every morning
  
• Knowing that somebody misses you
  
• Getting a hug from someone you care about deeply
  
• Knowing you've done the right thing no matter what people think.
  

FRIENDS --- are angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how!

Life from a girls prospective

How about,

opening the first ice cold beer of the night

opening ice cold beers at any other time

shagging a bird for the first time

the first fart of the day

your first dump after being bunged up for a few days

a 2 pint piss

being woken up getting a blow job

being woken up by getting a blow job from your wife (must be Christmas)

getting a boner that you can bang nails in, without taking Viagra

etc, etc

mate thats frigging priceless and if i meet you im giving you 500 baht whether you like it or not.

PS. i like your list better.

[terry57]

drinking long necks with dave tayler as he's a top punter.

cheers dave.

[markr]

I'd like to add shagging your bird that have not seen for months because you had to wait and wait for poxy visas!!!

[mittheimp]

I want to do something diff on this forum during this holiday besides all the usual stuffs/questions that needing advices and answers.

In spirit of the holiday,… Do you have a story to tell or want to share? – that not require advices and answers, but simply just want to share

It could be a story of…

-What is your very first memory of Thailand? Can you recall the details?

-Words or quotes that inspire you

-A story that helped you realizes how special your life really is

-To express all your inner thoughts and feelings and dreams

-To understand who you are and who you want to be in life

-About your insights, your breakthroughs, your inner most secrets

-About Discovering yourself

-What do you love about yourself? What do you hate? Be honest

-family expectations

-What makes you feel good?

-How do you feel about yourself right now? What's holding you back?

-Who do you admire or dislike?

Or

-Do you see yourself in those people(think of someone)? If it is true that we are mirrors for one another, then the qualities you most like in others are reflected in yourself...and the qualities you least like in others are those you probably don't like in yourself.

Or

-What would you do if you have only one day to live?

Or

Whatever....think of something!

Everyone has a compelling story to tell. I hope you have one

Have a happy holiday

Oh for goodness sake!

[fruittbatt]

Bkk90201,

congratulations on a good original idea.

You have inspired me to write my recollection of Ko Samui in the mid 1970s. I am far too cowardly and fearful of criticism to cast my swine before the pearls who inhabit this thread, but thanks for getting me started. Perhaps I will get the courage to post the story when I have finished it.

Meanwhile, I hope some "old Timers" may enlighten us with some of their great stories.

[terry57]

Bkk90201,

congratulations on a good original idea.

You have inspired me to write my recollection of Ko Samui in the mid 1970s. I am far too cowardly and fearful of criticism to cast my swine before the pearls who inhabit this thread, but thanks for getting me started. Perhaps I will get the courage to post the story when I have finished it.

Meanwhile, I hope some "old Timers" may enlighten us with some of their great stories.

i think its got to the stage where the old timers have told there stories.

i suppose the wanabie thia lovers that have been here twice could make a few up.

[kayo]

Please note, all formatting disappeared when I pasted this into the the frame for replying.

I'm not gonna bother re formatting it just for here, with all due respect, only to insert paragraph spaces, alright.

The author, Yours Truly, wrote this from notes gathered in 2000, and first published it in 2004.

First Arrival

I had arrived at some stupid time in the morning. Just having had flown some ten thousand kilometres in twelve hours and landed in an orange street lamp smog, slightly before five in the morning, in what looked like to be a golf course. Upon clearing all the standard fare and having collected my bags, I stepped outside, into the air of my first sub-tropical country.

The city had a festering, permeating odour to it. Many eventful months later I would come to recognize the smell as a murky cocktail of dead street dogs and open canal sewage, open-air meat and fish markets. What had been a ceiling of street-lit, murky orange smog turned slowly into a grey, sun-backlit glare of a mass as the clock ticked on and the bus I sat on made my way through street after street of people and already thousands of deal were being struck as the sidewalks turned into vendors pleasures.

I found a payphone and called Nick. He was fast asleep, and hung-over of course, poor soul.

I had neglected to think about the fact that it was still really quite early on a Saturday morning, feeling rather exhausted from a long day flying. He awoke fairly cheerfully, however. After a brief absence, during which he undoubtedly freshened himself up, he came back to the phone all cheerful and in full effect. I apologised profusely to this old colleague - and friend of mine of a couple of years - yet the man invited me straight over and said not to worry about such nonsense. Quite the Englishman: Ever ready for battle.

I told him I needed a couple of hours and I’d be there by ten or so, thinking that it would let Nick sleep in a bit more, and it might be rather pleasant to have a quite breakfast here and acclimatise a little.

At seven o’clock in the morning I was sitting with a very sexy young Thai lady on either lap, an additional three around my table, in a pleasant courtyard, set back off the Khao San Road. All I was trying to do was order an English breakfast. I chatted with them cordially for a while then started ignoring them. Once my food came they finally buzzed off into the kitchen. As I ate a plate of runny scrambled egg, limp, processed baby sausages, and burnt toast, I thought of Nick.

Nick... How he had sat quietly that day! We had once worked together- some bland, service-industry job – and had gotten along cordially, occasionally sharing the odd beer or other good things the Lowlands tolerated. That was back seven years ago, now. By the time Nick and I had reminisced over our short list of mutual friends, we’d had three litres each of the vaguely illicit tasting Elephant beer, and we were feeling pretty good.

“So what are you doing here, Nick? Still busy with your copyright protection gig” I asked after arriving at Nick’s place – a wee studio located high up, with a magnificent city wide view – immediately indulging in the first reminiscent litre of beer each.

Nick had been working to survive rather well, thanks to the failures of large corporations in combating piracy. He had thus built himself a largely successful empire throughout the tri-country area and beyond.

Nick was about ten years older than me and lived mostly in an apartment, though he kept a long term suite annex in a small lodge in town. This is where he confined some of his more unsavoury night-time pleasures. I strongly suspected he would document potential clients. They had to be vetted to the highest security clearances in Nick’s particular angle on the market;a sort of insurance, if you will. And his third party cover, if you will permit the analogy, was documentation; video, audio, and whatever else he could gather, of most of his clients and, or, business associates.

This was his forté if you will. Can you imagine the sort of damage it would do the head of the Interpol Division against Web Paedophilia if an mpeg were released, with him on it, telling a nud_e fourteen year old boy and an equally nud_e little girl who is certainly younger and telling them about his particularly special hot ice lolly? Not to mention the loss of credibility Interpol would face from just about everybody?!

How about the short clip of a certain well known senator from an established family in the U.S; a man in his late thirties now, who has lived to see no less than two of his older relatives sit in the Oval Office. His is a sort of Kennedy clan if you will. This particular tape has himself being served chocolate mousse in a place that doesn’t often see the sun. No ladels are being used by the fourteen year old boy. I digress.

“Oh, you know... a bit of this, a bit of that. I keep myself busy with the odd consulting job, every now and then,” he replied vaguely.

“Consulting?”

“Yeah, you know, helping people out when they need some guidance, that sort of thing.”

He downed his third bottle and stood up, suddenly excited. “C’mon!” He said, “Let’s go for a little trip.” He suddenly looked concerned, “You know how to ride a bike right?”

“I’ve ridden before, a wee bit – but listen I haven’t got a licence though.”

“Oh, don’t be like that!” his quintessential Englishness stronger, “You’re in a special place now. Kansas is a very, very, long way away, Dot. Can you ride or not?”

“I’ll be alright, maybe a few minor teething troubles.”

“Right then! I’m glad that’s settled!” He seemed all excited, “Leave your bags here, take enough for one night.”

So it was, five minutes later we were in the garage of his building, standing in front of two rather large and powerful looking motorbikes that I suddenly started feeling rather anxious, having at best ridden every now and again on a 125cc before. Being now confronted with a white Kawasaki something or other with a deceptively small ‘550’ written on the side I started to feel that there would be no chance, there was no way that I was going live to regret this display of stupidity.

After ten minutes or so practicing in the deserted alleyway and getting thoroughly laughed at by the rickshaw and motorcycle drivers who seemed to be omnipresent on street corners, I started to get the hang of it all though. Not all that different, as long as one keeps it slow and steady.

We turned left out of the alley, onto the main thoroughfare out of town, amidst the hustle and bustle of a dozen intercity coaches, a hundred city buses, a thousand taxies and a million motorized and non-motorized rickshaws. We weaved our way through the traffic, Nick being followed by a rather nervous Charlie. A vision I recalled was that if I tapped my wrist a little too far, or even a tiny bit too fast, the bike would race over the trunk of that car, leading me over the top of the bus in front. Along its roof I would race on only my rear wheel, and I’d fly off and land on the front hood of the car in front of the bus. I started thinking back to all the great action stunts I’d seen, growing up.

I came to with a start from my day dream to a largely empty road, having cleared several kilometres, an impatient government bus behind me while I was still plodding along at traffic jam pace in a fast lane. I tapped the accelerator and felt exhilaration as the bike picked up its pace along this long straight six lane paved way. Nick was cruising along a couple of kilometres ahead and seemed relieved when I caught up to him. His gestures certainly were quite joyous.

We cruised on for an hour or so before I got my first close up glimpse of the sub-tropical quality of the sub-tropical ocean. It glistened and sparkled calmly at this time in an early afternoon sun as two large power-bikes cruised along a solar-drenched highway along its shore for another hour, passing little ram-shackle huts selling various goods, randomly strewn restaurants along the waterside. Through some small towns, and flying through the famous sex-tourist resort town, eventually bringing us to a small industrial port town – Rayong – that smelled of refineries and fish. The main road went straight through the town, and on either side were long four story buildings housing department stores, factory outlets, and furniture.

We had arrived at the dawn of my first sunset in Thailand.

© 2004 – kayo publications – Used with permission of the author

Edited November 24, 2006 by kayo

[Spee]

I won't bore you with responses to everything, but here are a few ....

-What is your very first memory of Thailand? Can you recall the details?

Not my first, but pretty close .... going up the village for the first time and having to go to the can in the pitch black of night in the one room shell of a home that my Thai partner grew up in, hoping I hit the hole, hoping I wouldn't slip and fall, hoping I was reaching from the "right" water to clean up, etc. All in all, it was quite an experience!

-Words or quotes that inspire you

Probably not getting them quite right but here are a couple that help me keep my perspective and focus ...

"The more I learn, the less I know." Einstein

"Opportunity is overlooked by most people, because it comes dressed in overalls and looks like work." Edison

-A story that helped you realizes how special your life really is

About 7 years ago, I was finishing up 6 months of brutal chemotherapy that I would never wish upon anyone and starting to get better. But I still remember the chemo treatment room, seeing all the faces of older and much younger people, little kids especially, who were still much worse off than I was and knowing that some of them were probably going to die and I was probably going to live. It sort of put life into perspective.

-What do you love about yourself?

Despite all my humanly flaws, imperfections, mistakes in life, numerous vices, etc., I can still look myself in the mirror and sleep soundly at night with a clean conscience (well .... fairly clean anyway .... ) knowing that I'm trying to do the best that I can. Even better that the mirror doesn't break when I look into it.

-What makes you feel good?

When I look back over the past few years since I met my Thai partner (just passed the 3 year point), I can reflect on all the things that I've done to provide opportunity for a better life for her, her daughter and the rest of her immediate family. It's the best thing I've ever done and no one can take that away, ever.

Good thread! Happy holidays to you and all TVF'ers.

Cheers,

Spee