Just a day in Thailand

1 September 2010

Hua Hin Beach

By Pim Hoonhout – Hua Hin

Just another day in Thailand without making plans is more fun than a planned day in Amsterdam.

No hassle with parking, where for an hour of parking you can enjoy a royal meal here for a day.

Wake up with a radiant sun while you see on television that the whole of the Netherlands is now called Giethoorn.

While your friend calls you that he ended up in hospital because a dog ate his fingertip and proudly tells you that he is 1st class for only a bill of the 1e day of more than 32.000 baht. While he knows from me that a hospital down the road the rooms are even nicer and I only had to pay 20.000 baht for four operations and a seven-day stay.

After the visit, you can visit and then you can rent land for 500 baht per year. You know that you will get robbed anyway and come home smiling happy because you are grateful to be happy here. With the thought that in NL you would be a homeless person who can just buy a beer and a pack of shag for that money.

I'm already looking forward to the next day, just a pity that the days here go by so quickly. I have also found a solution for that, which is to follow the stories of other Thailand visitors until deep into the night, starting with the vinegar pissers and then on to the cheerful people like the lady who describes. Let's go to Patpong (What a shit show) to have been. How nicely written, as if you were there yourself, those are people after my own heart that you should have at a party.

Love you Thai!

8 responses to “Just a day in Thailand”

  1. Joseph Boy says up

    Pim, I'm glad you're having a good time, but please realize that a Thai worker has to work 4 months for your 'cheap' day in the hospital. Apparently you have never been to a hospital where these Thais stay. If you have to do that, you might talk differently. Have you forgotten that life is so good for you thanks to the money you earn or pension built up in the Netherlands? Use your common sense and moderate your language a bit. Have fun.

    • I added that about the Kutshow. That is the title of a post from Lianne. http://liannevanvliet.wordpress.com/2010/08/30/wat-een-kutshow/

  2. Hi Pim! What a nice comment on my blog. I feel completely honored.. Enjoy Thailand. Unfortunately I am already in a rain-soaked Netherlands.

    Regards, Lianne

    • Pim says up

      Lianna .
      If it is unfortunately then you will almost certainly get homesick in a few weeks.
      In that case you are very welcome if you are in the area .
      it would suck if you had to go alone.
      Enough space so your girlfriend can also join it.
      Regards, Pam.

  3. Roland says up

    Yes, partially agree with Joseph (Boy) Pim.
    It is true that I wrote earlier that you should leave a country where you do not like it. To criticize that country (which is your homeland after all) is of course a bit silly.
    Don't forget, dear Pim, that fine Thailand is full of people who want to wring your neck for a few Baht. The same people make it a day job to trick you. Of course, this 'audience' also roams around in Europe, but the relationship is slightly different.
    Are you also sure that after the payment of 500 baht you are the new tenant of the land? How ? By a (fake) contract, or did a (lying) Thai tell you that?
    Also wonder if you have ever experienced a rain shower in Thailand………. Giethoorn, pffffffff.
    Have fun in the country where every woman is absolutely crazy about you, wants to make it to you twenty times a night, wants children from you, and keeps saying that you are the most beautiful and the most beautiful, they love you overweight and your bald head and that a tight skin is strange for a man, but whether you want to sign that 'contract' for that contribution in the month !! The only contract that is real…..
    Back on the ground guys
    of course Thailand has many advantages over other countries, but please don't forget the misery.
    Last time I wanted to go to Bangkok, top city !! You feel there like in Paris, New York or Amsterdam. It's just a pity that those idlers from 'hometown' had taken it to the other world for a few cents a day, thanks. That too is Thailand!! Excerpt about ZKH removed by the editors Shhhh, we can't talk about it. As a farang you can hand over your money neatly, but then be slaughtered if things go wrong.
    I'll stop because I love this country. Just remember that there is only one paradise people, and that is not Thailand.
    Enjoy things because you have them and experience them, but not because someone else doesn't have them………

  4. Pim says up

    Joseph Boy.
    If you meant that show with that language, you must have missed that nice piece in this blog.
    READ that piece by Lianne.

    You also need to learn to read for comprehension.
    My friend's hospital is private with that extortionate price.
    That same hospital they wanted to cut off my leg while I was in a coma.
    The same medicines are 14 times more expensive.
    My luck was 1 senior officer who came to visit and took me away after having to pay 40.000 Thb.
    In that Thai hospital they are happy if you are in 1st class, otherwise that room will be empty anyway.
    I don't have any attitude, but it is really not pleasant to lie in 1 room with 15 beds where the whole family is with the sick person 24 hours a day.
    This is now 2 years ago and I am still walking with open wounds but I still have my leg.
    The sisters now come to my house every week as friends.
    As also from other hospitals where I have been.
    They are never short of tips with me either.
    I think the nurses would regard you as 1 vinegar whiner.
    For me they always bought European food and then sat together in my room to eat.
    Until now we do that regularly, but then at my house and if they have had too much, we also have breakfast here.
    Don't worry about me, I make about 1 million Thb per year for those workers here.
    And I have been in the hospital nine times with great pleasure.
    Love your Thai.

  5. Pim says up

    Ronald .
    Everyone experiences their life in 1 different way.
    Of course I have also experienced a lot and am learning every minute.
    You can also look it up yourself, just like in NL, go to 1 regular pub and you are dealing with petty criminals, go to the golf club and you are among the big ones.
    In any case , I will no longer visit those so - called nice bars .
    As far as land is concerned, there is often 1 group of fahlang investors behind it who know how to pick you.
    I thank you for your concern for me about renting the land .
    This time I have the contract and the workers from the government .
    My friend's family also gives me another 39 rai for free in the Isaan.
    All this because of 1 just nice cozy evening with Thai people who were looking for 1 idea so that the country can raise a little more.
    Oh yes, don't forget to give that beggar something, otherwise his client will not have enough money for petrol for his Mercedes.

  6. johnny says up

    I call the above story comparing apples with oranges.

    If you had been a millionaire in the Netherlands, it wouldn't have been so difficult. Right, you feel that a bit when you live in Thailand. You can do 10x sometimes 20x as much with your euros. In addition, people are a lot more cordial and not always about the money as so many dare to say.

    I am always happy when I can walk around Amsterdam, those beautiful buildings and I don't have to be afraid that I will get sick from a croquette sandwich or a portion of kibbeling. I can sleep well again and keep myself warm under the wool. speak Dutch with (almost) everyone. No, you are and will remain a Dutchman, that will never go away. And yet, after having been in the Netherlands for a few weeks, that tropical country lures again, with all those things that annoy us. Correct…. it is a different world in which you move, with very beautiful things, but also a mountain of bad ones. After all, everything is solved "differently" here.

    “It is very difficult to fill a bowl that is already full”


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