Sunday evening, and on Friday afternoon I fly to Bangkok.
The other day I relaxed in a street corner down in the center:
It is a funny feeling, both going and - going. Going here and going back. The weeks before leaving Sweden were sort of - made myself tense as I am after all older and a bit more handicapped and stiff for every trip, but thinking back how stiff I was after the previous winter in Sweden, when I had to sit on my work chair for a few months, not going out, this is better. And once the trip starts, it has always just worked, made me tired but ah well, given me memories.
She seemed friendly enough when popping into the room in the evening, and only wanted to use the toilet. No problem, nothing to steal there.
There are all kinds of people so one can be friendly and careful at the same time. She was pretty and nice enough, for her age, a bit over 40, sat down a little on the bed beside my work desk, good English, told she had been living in Europe with a German old man until he died 3 years ago, now back home in Thailand with her teenage son and - uh - judged me, asked my age - and her eyes ere somewhat shining until I told I had a Thai wife in Sweden and would return in a week.
So - after a few minutes I told I had to go on working on the laptop, and knowing well that I had everything of value on the table here in front of me, she said bye.
Then.... The little "blonde" - kinda cute with slanted eyes - caretaker, Pai, had seen that gal going into my room, and called Pui, the other caretaker, sort of big and strong and with better English.... who soon came on her motorbike to see everything was ok. So I am well taken care of!
And I had a quick thought of a Swedish friend here, just now up in northern Thailand, who is with his kinda girlfriend there, same age I guess, and incredibly dull, he said he would not dream of bringing her to Sweden, "then she would just sit and stare into the wall"..... I met her once with him, and cannot imagine how he can find any interest in her. After 4 years of schooling, and no interests of anything......
Ah well, just some nightly thoughts about life here. A girl in that age - well, they got no social welfare here, and for a Thai guy who is reasonably ok, he could easily find a much younger girl so the hunt must go on for the girls.
And this laptop also wants to go home, slower and slower, I barely dare to close it at night.
And in Sweden there is still snow, and I cannot walk in snow. Ah well, Yui comes to the airport in Copenhagen to pick me up, train directly to Lund, then we can take a taxi so I should survive home to my home computer with BROADBAND yippeeeee!
