Thailand. Thai Family. Like the Days of Dallas.

Well it has been very quiet at home the last few days and understandably so. Noot is angry that I wrote about the mother in law thing and put it on my blog. She said I said bad things.

We need to sit down together and go over the whole post. I will read it and she can ask questions when she doesn’t understand and I will try to explain what I was saying or trying to say. She is an incredibly smart girl and stands on her own two feet well. She is mature beyond her years.

She has come around a little and we are talking a little bit. She said that Ma is hoping her friend from the village will get a job at the place where she is working as well and then they will go together everyday from the village.

I told Noot I don’t want her to think I want Ma out of the house right now, this minute. I said to wait and see how things work out with the job. Give it a month and then we will look at alternatives.

I have looked at it from her perspective as in if it was my mother, Nancy. Would I let her live with us? Shit yeah! My mother’s a champion and a great lady and I don’t even have to think about it for a second.

I am sure that this is exactly how Noot thinks about her mum and when I see them together with the younger sister Ben laughing and singing songs on the karaoke machine; I have to ask myself am I being greedy. Am I being unrealistic? Tonight for dinner Ma cooked a really nice feast and there were Noot, Ben, Ma, Doy and me.

They were sitting down and were in absolute hysterics talking about their father who used to do the funniest things when he was drunk. As sad as it was at the time seeing Pa drunk he would often leave you crying with laughter at his antics.

Tonight they were all in tears from laughing so much about once when Pa was in the toilet doing his business and a frog jumped onto him and he fell over in fright, or the way he used to dance. I didn’t know a human body could be so uncoordinated with arms going one way and hips and legs the other and the head nodding away at the same time. This was always entertaining. One thing Pa could do was sing. He could belt out a tune very well and when he had the microphone it was a fight to get it off of him and I remember Ben screaming at him sometimes and he would laugh at her and she would get angrier and angrier.

I haven’t experienced this kind of atmosphere in my house in all the time being here. I haven’t seen Noot like this even when we had her elder sister Joom and a friend living here. Noot and Joom used to fight too much just like farang sisters I suppose. There is one post I will write in the next few days, It came to me nearly hitting/punching Joom and throwing her out of my house on the spot.

So the saga continues. A little bit like Dallas, Neighbours or some other drama I used to watch. What is going to happen in the future I have know ideas as the script writers are refusing to tell me what’s installed for the future.

Had the first week been all bad? No. Had the first week been perfect? No. Had it been as bad as I was thinking? Definitely, no; But again it’s much like the honeymoon period and after a few weeks you see what it’s really like after the fairytale beginning to any future together.

I just hope that my Thai family didn’t watch Dallas and think I am like Larry Hagman’s character J.R Ewing and decide to put a bullet in me. I am sure it would be the most talked about subject in the world as well just like when J.R was shot.

I can see the headlines now in all the big newspapers. “Who Shot Brunty” in big print and then fine print saying “in the ass”.

Brunty