The wall was full of them, wise little titbits from travellers about 'peace' and 'love', extracts from poems and Bob Dylan songs. I'm not sure why but I was fascinated by them for a simple reason: who are these tossers and why would you take a marker pen into a restaurant. I've been in bars on the islands before that encourage this kind of thing on the bar top by having little felt pens next to the napkins but this place - The Chiang Mai Saloon - didn't seem to offer this service and yet the writing was everywhere, which implies a conversation occurred possibly something like this:
Traveller type (i.e. dreadlocks, crap beard, Thai pants that look like pyjamas and weird shoes that at some point I will provide you with a picture of) walks into a bar and says:
Excuse me, I was wondering if I could borrow a pen, y'see I've got something I need to say and the only way I could possibly express it is by writing on your walls, its basically this I wanna write 'I'd rather have a full bottle in front of me, than a full frontal lobotomy.' Just there next to that table on the wall in massive letters so anyone who sits there can read it and bathe in my wisdom.
Thai waitress just stands there for a second and says: Get out.
Welcome to the better Thailand blog (and by better I don’t mean better than Ben's before he has a hissy fit, I mean better than my Myspace one). Recently, with Leah gone and my work becoming much busier, I've been trying to fill my time to avoid becoming the zombie I was when I worked in the upper department and never seemed to have anything to do. A clear example of this has been Toffee Diamond (visit Myspace.com/ToffeeDiamond to see it), my Christmas video and my New Year's video (available on Myspace.com/Hernandez_delacroix) and, yeah, there will be video elements in play on this blog as well most of the time just to clarify a point or show off.
So before we begin I thought I'd give a cast of characters of sorts so everyone could know who I was talking about as these will be my main subjects with other people drifting in and out of this storyline, and by storyline I mean my life:
Me - Everyone knows me.
Ben - The dude who lives above me. He speaks Thai, plays guitar and is the boyfriend of Chim. He works at my school and teaches the students two years above mine.
Chim - Ben's girlfriend. An insurance broker of sorts who I spend most of my time tormenting with crude jokes and moderate violence though I still maintain that she started it.
Leah - My girlfriend. Currently living near Seattle on a hippy commune. Is 18 and therefore 9 years younger than Ben's girlfriend though Chim looks nine years younger than a two month old baby.
The Boys - The boys from back home. Never before has there been such a wretched hive of scum and villainy. Individual profiles will appear on this page some other time.Of course other people will be mentioned and they'll get pictures and 'funny' little bios when they do something relevant enough to get into the blog...
For now though, goodbye until next time which hopefully should be an actual blog telling a better and less pointless story than this one...
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