Having just donated to the worthy cause of a 'little' kuen ban mai house blessing ceremony for Ploy's aunt, I asked for a few photos. "How many people came?" "Oh, four hundred dah-ling." "A little ceremony, you said?" "This is Thailand, dah-ling!"... as if that explained everything. Well, in a way, I suppose it does.
I asked a few more probing questions, and was increasingly confused by the answers. I ventured that I didn't understand. "Why you not understand me?" came the reproachful response. A pause as I searched for something tactful to say, before she offered this follow-up... "but it ok dah-ling. I not understand what I say either". Time to surrender - end of conversation!
But the longed-for return to Thailand is fast approaching, so spirits in France are lifting and being drunk in celebration at the same time as they are being appeased and invoked in my aunt-in-law's house blessing ceremony. A little more than a month to go, and it's au revoir - but sadly not adieu - la France, and sawat di krap Thailand for six more months.
Four months since I've seen the little one, now five months old...
Not so impressed by big get-togethers, apparently...
Chewing one's little toe off is much more fun...
And even that gets boring after a while...
Not so impressed by big get-togethers, apparently...
Chewing one's little toe off is much more fun...
And even that gets boring after a while...
5 comments:
My heart goes out to you, it must be stuff spending 6 months away form your little one and wife. Must make you one excited man boarding the plane though.
Frogthaidings of comfort and joy, congratulations on your forthcoming marriage and great to see you back blogging. I thought you had disappeared down a French cellar, drunk and confused, never to be seen again. Marvelous news.
Yes I'm a happy man Jon, Chiang Mai here I come! Martyn, my French cellar has been steadily emptied of its contents over the past few months (no internet down there, hence my absence from the blogosphere, how did you guess?)... and I can't afford to restock, so it's Tiger beer from now on. Though I hear the Thai goverment has just put up the tax on alcohol by 2% ...
Nice to see you back writing again. What kept you away?
Hi Pete! Welcome back to the blogosphere! I missed reading your posts. : )
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