It's been a while since we talked...
Trip Start
Nov 15, 2010
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Ongoing
What I did
The Dixie Pig Guesthouse
Chiang Mai, Chiang Mai, Thailand
Saturday, October 1, 2011
Thailand finally has a democratically elected government and a wildly popular Prime Minister who has powerful enemies in the media and thelarge banks. She proposed increasing the national minimum wage (for Thais only, not immigrant laborers) to $10 a day. The wailing and gnashing of teeth from industry is as loud and pained as the health care industry moaned during the American health care debate.
And now we are facing flood disaster all across the country, and the neighbor vs. neighbor conficts that occur when you decide to close floodgates to prootect a town and flood the rural villages instead. Here in Chiang Mai the first bad flood in 7 yers came two days ago when the upriver Mae Tang Dam was filled to capacity and they had to drain down the reservoir. In a cruel business reality, it has been good for my guesthouse, as the river flooding the downtown hotels has forced their guests to head to my part of town which is completely non-flooded and 3 miles from the river.
If you get this and are not a Facebook friend and wish to stay up to speed with the goings on over here, friend me at Dixie Pig Chiang Mai. If the gods of technology are with me, I should upload many, many pics.
Comments
Sorry I missed you on my last trip. It looks like you are having WAY too much fun! I gotta say, after 4 months in SE Asia, coming back to L-bok was a real shock. I left every trace of civilization back in Singapore. But the fist thing I noticed when I got here was the absolutely drop-dead, MILF girls they breed on this island. Yo Mama.
PS, The old airport in Mataram closed on Friday at 6:00 and the new International Airport opened for business on Saturday at 8:00. They said it would never happen. Kuta will never be the same again. :-(
Keep a room open for me brother, going to certainly become an expat somewhere things here are nuts! Hope to talk to you sometime, Skype was messed up on my computer for a while hope to have the bugs worked out.
Glad to hear everything is going well.
Hobo-- Just how old is a MILF to you, you wanking geezer? Perhaps you speak of their granddaughters?
Scott-- Mae Sariang Pillow. Yahoo!
Definition: SE Asia: Place where Yanks and Rebels who have a modest pension can live like old King Solomon, including his many young concubines. The other day I met my girlfriend's grandmother's older sister. Now that cewek was ready for the compost pile! OMG, more lines on her face than a map of NYC.
Poor grand-daughter didn't understand the power of Dixie Whiskey and lost her flower after a party. That fire-water should come with a warning label showing pictures of what can happen if you consume... like they have on cigarette boxes... ;-)