Happy Single Day Thai Movie
Jon Levatte
when i had a gf in thailand it was about 6 months ago it was good but very boring... most of the foreigners living in thailand that i have met so far all have a girl friend or a wife but they are normally a lot older then me so i guess thats what they are looking for.. just now after 6 months i dont think i would want a gf here again.. nothing wrong with the girls and i have met some great people and not saying that im a playboy or anything because im not. i dont go out getting laid every night.. but life is very easy without one.. what do you think?? or maybe it is just a age thing
denial is a wonderful thing. If I felt the same way as the OP apparently does, would I need to tell the world about it? Anyways, i am sure George can give him a deal on a banner ad so he can spread the news
Having been single in Canada for 57 years I am 200% in agreement with the OP. Life for a single man is great in Thailand. A man can have a maid to do the cleaning ,a woman to wash his clothes, eat all his meals in restaurants. And date available women as long as he has disposable income. I came to Thailand tried marriage what a waste of time and money. Also if a man really wants a good woman who will take care of him and can clean a house properly and cook and is a good lover,then he should look at Philippinas or Vietnam women. Thai women seem to think the house cleans itself and meals should be brought home in plastic bags or eaten in restaurants and of course anyone with a foreign husband doesnot do laundry but sends it out. So why bother being a patsy. I think to be truly happy in thailand a man should stay single.
"Thai women seem to think the house cleans itself and meals should be brought home in plastic bags or eaten in restaurants and of course anyone with a foreign husband does not do laundry but sends it out"
I'm a LOT older than the OP and I agree with him 100%. But, it all depends on what a "man" wants out of a relationship. It would be entirely different than what a women wants. Or, at least MOST women. The sex part of a relationship could be better or worse depending on the partners. Most often, sex between a loving couple is better than sex between strangers. But that isn't always true. The 99% of the rest of the time is really what matters.
Unfortunately, unless foreigners have spent a long time in Thailand they seldom speak the language fluently enough to discuss other matters. That leaves a couple sitting there like lumps of coal talking about such inspiring things as... "what you want to eat?"
Live here long enough and you'll soon be put off completely, your mind wanders to degenerate sports like tiling, mowing lawns, changing oil in motorbikes . . . the last thing you want to do is complicate your now happy, simple, stress free existence.
I was a single man in Thailand in the 80's. Rode the ragged edge, been there, did that, gave away the t-shirts. Then I got married, then separated and finally divorced before I left. Stayed single in other countries like Australia, Cuba, Brazil and the US (plenty girlfriends and one fiance) but was very, very happy being single.
However, before I left the US, I found my self in an age group that was racing towards terminal loneliness. You know how it goes, you have hundreds of 'friends' but in reality, they are people you only know by first name who happen to hang in the same bars, clubs and sports venues as you. Valentine's loses it's allure when you don't have a real date. When you dine by yourself, why is it the maitre'd seats you in the far corner beside the shithouse whilst the nice comfy booths get given to love struck, good looking young couples? Now that could just be the city I was living in (for over 10 years) or lack of real distractions and hobbies. I had three real good buddies back there, me being the middle-aged of the group. Out drinking together one night at the height of our 'happy bachelorhood', the oldest one, an avowed bachelor for life, claimed this was the best way to live for most of the reasons stated by lovelomsak (before he lost the plot about Thai women). One guy the same age as me agreed with him. Since I was the only one that had been married before, the guys said my opinion didn't really count for much. The youngest took one look at us and said there was no way that he wanted to be just like us in ten more years, ie. four old lonely guys in a bar.
Move on ten years and I relocated back to Thailand. I observed lots of lonely older guys having a whale of a time, be it 7-year itch, male menopause, finally divorcing that b*tch (but I'm not bitter) or simple mid-life crisis. But my (younger) buddy's comment was always in the back of my mind. I popped back to the US for a visit and arranged to hook up for beers with my buddies. There they were, 10 years on, older and more lonely but only three of them. The other one, closer to my age, had been going to Brazil on business, relocated to his employers office there and married the girl he had been dating off and on for a year. Sure the oldest was still happy but the youngest was pretty upset when I reminded him of what he said 10 years earlier. He was even more upset when I said I had met someone special in Thailand and marriage may be on the cards. Three months later, when my Thai girlfriend said she would like to have a baby, we got married. My son will be three come April; just 3 months older than my mates Brazilian baby boy.
As it stands now, the old geezer is still married to the bar in the US, the guy in Brazil, like myself, is working on another baby (man, that's fun!) and the youngest one is casting around mercilessly for Mrs Right instead of Miss Right Now. He is also my son's Godfather.
Don't let bachelorhood have too much fun with you and leave you standing gasping for breath, alone on the platform as the last train of emotional fulfillment, true unconditional love and everlasting happiness pulls away.
LOL. Off topic (but it aint goona kill anybody), but I DID buy the new sink at Global. It was awesome, perfect, rigid, imported... and the only one left apart from the display unit and was way, way up on top of the storage racks and the pallet lifter was DOA (battery charging). So they tried their damnedest to sell me a 'discounted', similar but really thin and shitty, locally made equivalent. Took 20 minutes before they acquiesced to my demands and manhandled the one I wanted to the checkout line. And they were also saying the heavy imported stainless-steel one would have sanim as another argument for buying the bendy, tinny, chrome-plated one made out of coffee cans!
One exception is perhaps Nikon cameras. Yup, rest comes in a suitcase, like the Dell XFR E6400 currently waiting for someone to bring from Blighty and the Leatherman Charge multitool with extra tool kit and a bunch of other fancy bits 'n pieces wot ye cannae git 'ere.
The first 3 months are always insane in this aspect, they will do anything you ask and don't ask of them. After that, well...you made the mistake of falling for them, now it is your turn to pay back - for life.
Thailand has one famous (non-alcoholic) drink, and this is it: Thai iced tea. The orange coloured sweet concoction is so good it feels like it should be dessert. A lot of times I find restaurants make it too sweet, so I actually prefer making my own so I can make it exactly how I want it. If you love Thai tea and you're a coffee drinker, you're also going to love this easy Thai iced coffee!
The iconic orange colour is nothing but orange food colouring. I know...it's not the exotic tea made from secret Thai ingredients that you might have thought. But this is not a gourmet tea, it's supposed to be the cheap and cheerful tea for the average Thai!
So the popular Thai iced tea is brewed from Thai tea leaves, and has sweetened condensed milk and evaporated milk added for creaminess and sweetness. There are other kinds of iced teas made from Thai tea leaves, such as this Thai lime iced tea that is super refreshing and is actually my personal favourite!
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