Respect, Thai-Style
In Thai, the polite way to greet someone is by putting your hands together and saying 'sweaty crap' (spelled phoenetically), crap. Actually, the polite way of saying anything in Thai is to append it with 'krap,' crap. This of course makes me giggle like a little school girl when i learn about it in class, crap. So yeah, I've begun the program and it's straight, crap. I don't think I'll have any problem performing or finding a job teaching english here, crap. That's a big relief, crap. Speaking of relief, I think my 200 some-odd pills of immodium will go to complete waste, crap. I don't think I've had to crap yet, crap. Seriously, crap. And the people I've talked to that have been here for a while haven't experienced any of the diseases or the torrential downpour of crap from their crapper that that shit-eating doctor told me about last week and almost made me crap my pants, crap. I'd like to crap on his desk when i get back, crap. But it's one of those things that I'd say I'd like to do but never actually would, crap. Like yoga, crap. Shit, crap.
posted by mat @ 8:34 PM
4 Comments:
From your friend, the english teacher:
Others words for crap:
poop, shit, dirt, turd, fecal matter, rot, bunk, hogwash, excrete, ca-ca, dung, etc.
Try ca-ca....that may be a word in Thai...lol
Happy GTA Day, Mattrick LoSwayze.
We miss you on this fine celebration
that marks a milestone in our collective
history.
But you wouldn't care, 'cause Virtual Reality
is just around the corner...
peace,
reiss
p.s. dude you gotta see it. it boggles the mind.
matt,
My personal suggestion on the crap issue is to simply bite the bullet and take it like a man. Drink some raw water. yes, there will be torrents of foulness gushing from both ends of your writhing feverish body, but it will happen only once, and then you can drink and eat whatever the fuck you want for the rest of the time you are in 'Nam. Secondly, about malaria. Don't take the medicine unless you are going into the jungle. sleep with a mosquito net, and if you happen to get malaria, just get some anti-biotics. you'll be a-ok in no time. it's kinda like the tropical version of strep throat.
Cheers,
Cromie
you forgot the all important medical term "poopies."
I agree w/ cromie, just drink some damn unfiltered water already. I read this thing to hear stories about poopies, and your skin getting turned inside out by some mysterious vietfog. And LESIONS too!! where are the lesions? I'm about to stop reading this blog.
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