Yaah, Thailand is wicked, that's true!Yesterday I celebrated my 28. birthday. We went to a "German brewery restaurant" and ordered a "German Sausage Jumbo dish". We had Frankfurter, Bockwurst and Weisswurst. I liked it, but my friends from Thailand and India rather sticked to the Thai food, that was also served. Too bad! The attempt to export a piece of our culinary German food culture failed... :-)
Later the live band in the brewery played "Happy Birthday", and as I quickly realized, this song was for me. Then my friends presented me with a big birthday cake with lots of candles on it and while I blew them out somebody put the spotlight on me, so that all people in the restaurant could see who is the happy birthday guy.
What I wanted to tell you last time about Thai girls and Western boys in the discothek:
Thai girls are much more decent and respectable than girls in many Western societies. For example excessive and sexy dancing or kissing in public (even mostly in the club) is undesired here. So usually it goes like this: A more or less drunk Western guy (often to be seen with a sleeveless shirt, shorts, flip-flops and Tattoos) approaches a very well dressed Thai girl by just touching her, whereupon the Thai girl will push him away. Most likely because that's absolutely not the way a Thai girl likes to be addressed, even not under the influence of alcohol. While Western girls, who also sometimes wear beachclothes, are much more familiar with this way of the guys introducing themselves to the women, Thai girls seem to hate that like hell. Usually they are so kind and always show such a cute smile, but one time in the club I saw a Thai lady shouting at a Western guy in a very nasty way; so loud that half the club was aware of their struggle. He had obviously done something very bad, and she knocked the stuffing out of him (zur schnecke machen :-) ) and was strikingly resolute by doing this. Anyway, after almost 4 weeks of getting to know Thailand, I can say: The majority of Thai girls are really at least as cute as sugarcane. :-) They look like angels. Photos will follow soon.
And one more thing I wanted to tell you about is the Chiang-Mai music scene which I was trying to become a part of: I now know much more about Thai musicians. Having been to a huge number of restaurants with live music so far, I would judge the ability of most Thai people to make music as the following:
In technical terms they are awesome musicians. Almost all of them have had a very proper education on their instrument, which can be easily seen from the way they hold and play it. When entering a bar I am usually blown away by the sound, the timing and the technical abilities of the musicians. But: Almost any band I have heard so far, started to bore me after 10-15 minutes. The problem is mostly that they only play cover songs and often they have worked them out sooo accurately that you couldn't tell the difference from the original (they even sometimes use the same instruments the original band used). But (again) I am afraid that I must say: The majority of Thai musicians are not able to put feeling into the music they play. Often it sounds a bit like a computer that plays MIDI files. Most of them have no sense for setting accents to the music. Although they are very professional at the technical level, the way they are playing and interpreting couldn't sound more boring to my Western ears.
Another important point is, that most of the cover bands I have heard, seem to practise a new song for so long, they are finally able to play it exactly like on the CD. There is no room for interpretation or experiments. Most of the live music here I would describe as sounding irrelevant (the German word "belanglos") to me. It just happens in the background and doesn't excite. To finish with this, I want to make a comparison: Some people say that most of what is known to us as "Black music" cannot properly done by white musicians, because it's usually only the black people that can put in a certain kind of feeling (for example: "soul") into the music to make it sound black. I partly support this thesis and would go further and say, that most of Western style music cannot be properly played by Thai people, because they are also missing a kind of feeling that is found so commonly in many of our Western music styles.
Well, after having written a novel again I will come to an end now. In the next days I will put on some more photos (including several trips to different sights and scenic landscapes) to illustrate the fun I have here a little bit more. :-)
So I wish you a pleasant day and say thank you for reading, until next time
