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Living with a Thai girl full time for the first time in a flat as opposed to a hotel is proving to be very entertaining. Not as entertaining as the comedy shows that are on TV every night from 9 ? 11 pm, when she howls with laughter and I can't sleep in the next room, but almost as entertaining!
The Fridge.
The strangest things end up in the fridge. I am used to finding the Super-Glue there. We seem to be on our third tube, in only a week, and I have no idea what it is being used for, and why it is better if it is kept cold.
Maybe I have discovered the secret ingredient in Som Tam!
However, why she has decided to keep the shoe polish there is beyond even me. I can't imagine an advertising slogan for Kiwi Shoe Polish going along the lines of "Its cool and refreshing when used cold ? keep your Kiwi Shoe Polish in the fridge and your shoes will love you!"
As I write this DarLek is in the kitchen cooking up lunch, and it smells like she is using both the shoe polish and super glue in the wok! It usually tastes a lot better than it smells (hopefully)!
Christ this is getting bad, the smell is overwhelming.
I have just ventured into the kitchen and discovered the sauce (no pun intended) of the smell. My lunch!
It STINKS. It is something called 'Gup Pee'. It is apparently a very 'Nong Kai' thing. It comes in a plastic bag and looks just like brown shit, which ironically it also smells like! The taste I can't comment on as I have never eaten shit, but I am sure it must be something similar.
I have now told her I will never eat that! She is very unimpressed with me!
I should know better than to complain. "Never Complain" is the secret sometimes to living in Thailand, and now I am being served left over Tom Yum Gai. Of course yesterday I complained it wasn't hot enough (flavor wise) so I should really rephrase that to "Hot Chili soup with Tom Yum Gai flavoring". Because I insisted on her getting me something different to the brown shit soup with green weeds, I am being punished I am sure. However I am bravely eating it as I type.
Forgive my spelling, but my vision is going.
Jimmie Blonde
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