So I’m Living in Thailand

I’m sitting on my patio in one of a cluster of bungalows at The Faraville in Chalong, Phuket Thailand. I sit with my two new adopted resident cats I have named ‘Pepe’ and ‘Charlie’ in the 34C/93F heat with my shirt sticking to my back as I sip a 330ml/11oz Chang Classic which is the #1 selling beer in Thailand. This beer packs a generous 6.4% alc vol for a mere 40 bahts or $1.30 US/AU (roughly) but we’ll talk more about local beers at a later time.

I’m overlooking lush green plants and trees with dried up coconut husks strewn about and see a rooster chasing a chicken and her chicks abusively for as far as I can tell for no apparent reason. I can’t really speak Thai yet so I can’t figure out what the dispute is about. I’ve been staring at them for about an hour now trying to better understand the strange dichotomy between hen and rootser. I’m wondering if may not because the Jane Goodall of fowl by the time I’m finished with my travelling.

The air smells of campfire, which I’ve found most of south east Asia smells like, due to a pile of dead leaves and debris that burn safely in the distance. There are two small lizards minding their own along the walls and down my walkway I see a giant centipede going about his/her (Both? Lady-boypede?) daily business. I’ve been here 12 days now and have been struggling to break the blog silence and get the creative juices flowing once again, which I’m struggling but am determined to do. My goal is to post every day using this blog as a note receptacle that I will then use to compile into a book that I am going to print via some dirt cheap Asian printer, and then self publish via my laptop through my soon to be established “Nobody Likes my Publishing”.

I have five books slated (In my mind):

1. My Cambodia, Loas, Vietnam, Singapore trip which is mostly written but needs to be typed up, reorganised, and edited.
2. My travels through Thailand and wherever else I go for the next 6 months.
3. A road trip I am going to do in May around the US.
4. A collection of short stories based off my dreams.
5. A book about my 4 years living in Australia

These will take a lot of time and effort on my part but we all need a hobby. This one’s mine.

~ by Nickolas Gardner on November 12, 2011.