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Farang Pee Bah
October 2, 2007 |
My first mission every day is to go the 100 meters or so down to the village shop and buy 1 bottle of Coca Cola, 2 bottles of Sponsor (energy drink) and 5 baht worth of ice for the work crew, who are still busy building our new hong nam.
The couple that runs the village shop are in their 50′ies, and the shop, as everywhere else in the world, my native Norway included, seem to be the gathering point in the village, where news and gossip is traded between the ladies of the village, and where the old men gather to watch Muay Thai or kick boxing.
This morning I jumped on my “motosai” as usual and drove down there, and for the first time I had to deal with the wife of the shopkeeper. And unlike her husband she does not speak English. So it was me to try my Thai.
-Sawng khot Sponsor mai khrap?
As the chorus of laugher from the assembled ladies of the village died down, the shopkeepers wife wen’t.
-Farang pee bah, Sponsor sawng khot!
So I got the order of the words wrong. By the way what I meant to say was “Two bottles of Sponsor, please”
So for those of you that master the language a bit better than me…well, there is my level of spoken Thai right there. Farang pee bah means something like crazy foreigner. And I think I better brush up on my Thai before trying that again, he he.
Else I hope the washing machine will arrive today. Nan is accusing me of trying to make her lazy by buying it. But I think she will be pleased not to have to wash everything by hand anymore. Well at least as long as we have electricity and running water.
The grounding is installed, so that should be no problem anymore.
My dad turned sixty just before the weekend. He was treated to a nice dinner at a good restaurant in my home town, and then they partied into the night. I have not been home for 20 months now. And would really have liked to celebrate my dads entrance into old farthood. Well, another day will come…
That’s it.
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Nah, keep raping the language it will give everyone the village something to talk about.
As far as “OLD FARTHOOD” watchout my friend, in a blink of the eye you will be there too. Life is like a roll of toilet paper, the closer you get to the end, the faster it goes.
100 metres to the shop and you ride your motobike??
lazy bugger!!!
Hey mate. Keep on with the Thai and on’t worry about the disrespectful old Thai lady. Next time ask her.
Khun Yai. Tum alrai. Phut mee Phor. Phom Falang Phut Thai, Paiy Yai Yam. Thai Yak Mak.
Khun yai, Phut Phassa angkrit Mai? Khun Yai, phom falang jeb jai Phut mee Phor.
Khun yai Mai sa pha, Falang Mai chop. Phom sanuk Barn ……….. Mak mak.
This isn’t anything rude and the Thai is more as it would sound when you say it and not written corectly.
It will make her lose a little face maybe getting a dressing down by a farang but nothing serious. I don’t take any shite from the village oldies in Noot’s village and will often give as good as I get when possible. Sometimes hard when they speak Loas most the time.
A rough translation is
Grand mother. Why do you speak bad? Farang try to speak Thai but very difficult.
Grand mother, speak English? Grand mother hurt farangs heart when you speak bad.
Grand mother, bad behaviour, rude. I don’t like. I like vilage ……. very much.
That’s very rough translation of some of my really bad Thai.
I enjoy getting into a banter with some of the older Thai village men when they are cheecky to me and they usually crack up laughing all some of them nearly fall over if I say something pretty strong to them in reply.
keep up the Thai mate you are doing great for such a short time.
Motorbike 100 metres? Must be up a steep hill!!
When are you going fishing? Man I miss my Abu Garcia reels and also my Shimano Calcuttas with G-loomis blanks and fuji fittings.
I used to fish a lot back home all lure none of this boring bait fishing, not for me.
It is one thing I am going to bring or have shipped over is my fishing gear.
Thanks for the language tips. Well in this village they speak Khmer most of the time. So not getting anything for free by listening to people.
As for the fishing, I got a spare rod and all I do is fishing with lures too. Prefer an ultra light rod with spinners, but have the gear for bigger fish too.
So get your behind up here and we can try out the Naam Moon river, it runs practically next door to me
I got a spare rod you can use. And there is a very good tackle shop down in Buriram where you can get all the gear you want if you prefer to use your own
Oh and the trip to the shop is all of 200 metres going there and coming back. You expect me to wear out my sandals or something!
Ha ha mate. You cannot wear out the sandals my friend. Mate I don’t know about you but back home and borrowing fishing gear is like borrowing your mates wife! Some things are just off limits
ha.
I remember you posted about the price of some of the Abu reels there and they seemed pretty reasonable. I might have to do a trip into the store and purchase a rod and reel. I hope they have some famous shimano, Nils and other makes of lures.
Oh and of course some good old spider wire to stop anything getting away and breaking me off on submerged rocks and snags.
I am drooling thinking about wetting a line.
Thanks for the offer and will let you know what the plans are in the next week or so.
I have to the 28th off.
I don’t recall the excac t make of lures, but they had plenty of Rapala and some other well known brands. And even loomis rods. Shimano and Abu reels atc. Everything you could want really.
Rapala lures are the best in the world in my opinion. I have many of the different types back home my SR 5-7 and little Count downs that I used for spinning for trout.
G loomis blanks are awsome and you are paying a pretty penny for them back home. As for the reels the same. The reels that have 6-8 ball bearings in them are just a dream to cast small lures and make lure fishing so much fun.
Man so many good old memories are coming back from Australia.