Go Home!

Dear all single foreign men over the age of 45 currently in Thailand.... Go Home! Yes, you were rejected by your own society for being extremely deficient in social awareness of any sort, but that does not equate to a ticket here.... well, unfortunately, it does. Money is king for some, but it gets stupid when they try to approach the normal Thai folk with this demeanor.

My day thus far: Happy Mother's Day to my mum in the USA! I walked to meet K for lunch at a little kitchen restaurant, conversed with a Burmese friend, as well as a taxi driver. M, the Burmese man, is living in Thailand illegally, working without visa or work permit, as well as paying the police off $32usd each month to stay around. He works about 75 hours a week, and pulls in (after police tea money) $159usd a month, equaling around $2.11usd/hr. Kind of small, but it's more than he could pull in Yangoon, Myanmar where he holds a university degree in Chemistry. The taxi driver also pays the police $32usd a month to solicit tourist business in this touristy area. The cops make around $220-320usd a month, so I can understand why they do this (despite it's corrupt nature).

I thought I would record the events of my life in Krung Thep instead of letting them pass through my own memory, as they often seem to do.

-Prof