A Thing of Absolute Beauty and a Lost iPhone, Isaan Thailand.

Well below is a work of beauty, and on top of that work of beauty is the best sporting team walking the earth.

The Mighty Magpies or Collingwood Football Club are back where they deserve to be, that being on top of the Australian Rules Football League ladder.

And we even have a game in hand. You look at the points for and against and the huge percentage we have and it is all looking good for the finals. I am already designing my new tattoo for the premiership this year. Yes, I am getting ahead of myself but I am quietly confident.

At home I was without my phone for a day and a half, I have an Apple iPhone and it has done everything I expected, but I could have also achieved this with a phone a third of the price. I have a lot of applications (Apps) on my phone, meaning mostly games. Many of the games are for Ja, and of course some for the bigger girls being Noot and Benjawan. And I have three games I like to play when I have free time.

So each time I walk in the door, the first thing everyone is waiting for, especially Ja is my phone. She loves an App called Talking Tom Cat 2. Ja loves chatting to Talking Tom and all he does is repeats what you say. But you can make a dog fart in the background, hit Talking Tom until he falls down and the dog throws a bucket of water over him to name just a few things.

Often Ja gets under the doona or duvet and you can hear her chatting away with Tom who she calls “Nong”. Another game she likes is a remembrance game. Then there is Coffee Café but she just likes singing the tune over and over again.

Anyway, on Friday I arrived home and my phone was whisked away, Nong Ja, Noot and Ben at one time all played with it that night. The next day when I actually needed it, it could not be found. Fingers were pointed and poor little Nong Ja was apparently last to use it.

Now asking a three year old, “where is the phone?” can be a little tricky. After a few false hunts Noot decided to turn the bedroom upside down, but nothing. Then it was Benjawan’s room as Ja has often hidden stuff in there, but again empty. They searched the lounge room and all to no avail.

I couldn’t have cared less, it is just a phone but the girls were getting withdrawals from not playing the games. So Saturday there were spasmodic searches and Ja being continually interrogated and then she would lead Noot off in hot pursuit.

Saturday came to a close and still no phone, calling it would do no good, as the battery had died. So there was no play at all on Saturday. This morning being Sunday I awoke and stumbled out of the room and there was Noot and Ja sorting through her boxes of toys, all out on the floor being reloaded into their boxes.

The sofa was pulled apart again, the bedroom was pulled apart, and then the search started through the lounge room again. I had done two loads of washing and was hanging the second one out with the help of Ja, when Noot came outside pointing an accusing finger at Ja with the phone in her hand.

Ja had placed the phone in the shoe cupboard, into a bad that had shoes in it, and the phone was in one of these shoes. So she had hid it well. The phone was placed on charge and since then I had Ja asking every two minutes if it had finished charging.

Right now it is safely in the hands of Noot who is playing Angry Pig Daddy, which she is terrible at. Ja is visiting her father and when she returns there will be fights over the phone for sure, but Ja always wins.

I need to play Contract Killer, this is the game I usually play every day. I need to keep my contracts up to date and my informants happy. I love shooting all the scumbags of the world and at one stage had a great run of 22 continuous head shots, no easy feat. I have all the top weaponry and even get to take my targets or missions alive at times, sometimes I only am allowed to shoot the boss and other times shoot the whole cartel.

Again all good fun and a good way to waste an hour a day. As you can see things are very busy here in Isaan Thailand.

Brunty