Hi everyone Simon here Bangkok Chronicles whatever number as per usual
I forgot the numbers slightly different today we're going to jump onto my dating
with the wife a year after I moved to Bangkok I've been dating my wife mainly
on Sundays sometimes occasional evening and as we
got towards the end of that year it was apparent that we were falling for each
other we had fallen for each other we were moving on to the next level and it
was great it was fantastic we decided after pretty much a term limits of
dating that men should give up her job and move into the condo with me now this
as so many of you guys or with partners moving in wherever you are in the world
everything changes when you move in together huge culture shock I suddenly
lost all my space or my single life but for them it was even bigger she was
given up a job she'd been in for years ten thousand bar salary she was taking a
gamble getting involved with a foreigner she didn't speak my language I didn't
speak their language to any big degree we had the translator the little
calculator thing but we had to somehow come to an arrangement almost like a
business deal because of our different backgrounds culture and plans now
luckily one of her close friends spoke really good English
I remember it well we I went down to near her room to a cafe and with their
friend we sat and we spoke for a couple of hours and a friend translated and we
worked ate as I say it was like a business deal
mam had person that she was contributing thousand baht a month which was twenty
twenty-five dollars she was contributing the same to her
mother up in Petra boo she was paying for her room her food and saving 500
baht a month by moving with me as boyfriend/girlfriend she Thai people are
very money-oriented so family's number one her son and mother were where the
list before me and she was very inquisitive on how she would make some
money whether she I'd want her to work in
Bangkok whether she was wanted to work support her family it became apparent
very quickly that however far we went and if we went on to get married that I
would have to accept her family and support them I understood all this and
with the translator there I got my head around it all I explained to her that
financially I would give her money every week so she had money in the pocket and
potentially we would earn money together hopefully she would help me and we'd go
forward and see how it went all agreed just about the business and she moved
into my condo from that moment for the all the work I'd done in the first year
it was hard but I'd got there and I was making really good money that first year
I started if you remember at the beginning with three thousand dollars in
my bank at the end of the first year I had it
was floating around in PayPal accounts and banks two different banks UK and
Thailand but $25,000 complete profit from a year of trading in Bangkok I
hadn't hardly spent any money on me just bits and pieces just worked alone
plate done so well that first year 24 hours $25,000 so there was rainy day
money there I was set up I was homesick but now I was in love so
it was just carry on in Bangkok in my head and as soon as mam moved in the
first month was so many amazing things happened she was younger than me so it
was almost like teaching someone a new way of life and she was teaching me her
culture her religion we try to teach other teach each other our languages my
sign language my members computer computer she was computer literate
really good on computers she was great with numbers and she was brilliant with
exchange rates and the different currencies I didn't realize but of
course from her job the first week it was amazing I had to get her water some
couple of bits of furniture and some bits and pieces for that for the condo
and I showed her around the immediate vicinity
she knew platinum roughly anyway showed her my little cafe downstairs in the car
park for breakfast and but she preferred another wall but I had to keep working I
had to keep moving and the best moment I remember is on one of the first few days
we went out at a quick walk around platinum and I had to go to Chinatown
the lady I was buying the handbags off the main lady had given me the nod of
the week before that she was getting some special really good bags coming in
and that for me to go so I can remember it was midweek me and Matt jumped in a
taxi across to China tank and again men she
didn't use taxis much he would use buses and things so this was peak on upper
level we were just taxiing everywhere she was amazed you know okay
flying around so he got into China time I popped in a couple of shops to buy
some bits and pieces some of those Jewelers loops and supple of the cheap
watches back over to the handbag and I walked into the shop where the lady was
every time I went into this shop the lady would I do buy it so much offer her
assistant would run across the road to a7 and get a bottle of water and a
coffee from seven of them sent me down coughing water
this was member shot and the lady in that shop spoke a little bit of English
men just saw all these handbags and the hidden room behind with all the
counterfeit handbags and and was a maze I mean typical woman he was just like a
child on the candy store and I said to go look room the lady I was buying off
took because both actually into the back room and pulled out these bags and they
were bright red and white multicolored Gucci bags she pulled the one bag which
were the counterfeit ones and then was just amazed and she was into them
looking at them her I of detail she was checking every inch over every stitch
enjoying but I had an arrangement with the woman if I had any faulty bags all
the work wasn't happy with I just bring the bank she swapped them em didn't know
this but then she pulled out the bag of these equivalent to Gucci so they were
all the white bag of all the colors but over
no marks on them different clasps and hinges just look great they were amazing
I was pen as I mentioned anything from 150 to 250 bars a bag if I wanted the
kind if it was about 350 but that that by I knew straight away just from the
learning that it was a new integrity shops it was a new bag he was kind of
sell like hotcakes
50 bags I said 50 bags which was and they put all the bags in this big thick
plastic green bin liner but 50 bags is quite a bit you know it's like two and
three big bags she pulled out 50 bags men was looking at me thinking what are
you doing I could just see her say you're buying handbags you're a man
fifty handbags and I pulled out it was ten thousand bark for those 50 bags was
like 250 billion or two hundred ten thousand but I just pulled out real dogs
just bang and then if to see her face that was a month's salary
I just spent on all these handbags she didn't have the clothes like what each
read her face anyway I pointed at one of the case of bags because they were
beautiful and I'd said to him you want one and she's like how much you know
don't worry the woman ought to give me the bag free
but I always paid her I paid it 350 but whatever
so I got their bits and it was a short trip it was go over get these bags get
back to the condo angry can if just after lunch trap it was pretty bad and I
said we're gonna get back to condo now I was just about to hail a taxi with that
traffic it would have took an hour tell me about four five kilometers but
with that traffic an hour and then got one of the big bags I think I have one
half bags and she's like okay what's what was he on about
I have no took took the ones up to drag me she knew Chinatown quite well because
she's part Chinese she'd come up quite a lot for meals anyway she took me back
Danielle yellow rat road and then snuck off to the one side there was one of
these humpback bridges on the main road humpback bridges at the top of yellow
are at road there's one humpback bridge she walked me to there on the pavement
and then down some steps we're looking down and I'm thinking that's a canal
clung as the toys for a second now what on earth are we walking down here for
and she like you so down we go these steps there's a pavement home I've just
on the one side nothing on the other side just a bit of a pavement walkway
we're no longer about 20 meters there's a couple of posts there and she just
stopped there and then along came this long boat it's the Good Seats in it go
about with an it big engine like a car engine the canvas roof in the middle
section with poles coming down and he pulled up onto us members rated
something to him basically what number are you or what gives a taxi what number
where you go in worked out fire I probably get on a boat we want to go
back to the condo yeah it was the right one she's it pushed me in I get past me
the bags inside yet 20 but 20 bottom and she paid the guy
off we went steady speed but a one-part it was really quick and the water was
splashing you then I boat come the other way
water taxes when he went past the wave come up along my arm and get wet here
but it wasn't too bad I'm homeless clung and then suddenly he did a 90-degree
turn quite quick as well off then another call so he must spin about 2
kilometers pulls up next another walkway says something to men mmm he threw the
one bag up she let up on sir there's many steps are
in the busy bar the whole chief left up onto the side I threw the other bag open
and I climbed 8 and then she sort of nodded at the guy and off he went I was
good great but where the hell are we wait wait wait wait don't come another
one just nope wrong one another one come along yes even we get
again 20 buck that's 40 bar if it's a zip so long another couple of kilometers
round a couple of corners different clouds stopped a we got up the steps and
we were on the bridge by the sea town center the big sea opposite side of our
condo Pecha berry road but he surely we were there but we still had because you
had the water and a corner and go up over one of those big overpasses the
roads HP Road was a big lanes so it's a big walk we're at the top of the road
foot for pedestrians so all these bags at the steps over the walkway then we're
like five minutes of the conduct food you know when do some foods go back to
the condo and your is going to be tapping away on the computer so men
grabbed a load of Thai food from the one corner saw 19 and 17 there was great
food Thai food around there fabulous she grabbed a load I wanted to
tell them cigarettes bits and pieces my coffee was these little bags little
singular strips it was three and one Nescafe you just pour that into a cup
hot water it had sugar in it had creamer in it and it's got tasty great there
were a couple of parts actually were I used to buy a big bag of about 80 or 90
anyway 7-eleven was just there grab some stuff
from there got myself some questions which was a favor of mine if we went to
the condo and then still no idea what these bags back to the condo and I know
15 minutes would go on of it I then for the next 24 hours punched in all these
new bags did all the photos photography first laughing she was amazed I was
doing all this but she couldn't understand did everything listed them
all got everything sorted laptop was plugged into the screen that some child
like me got it all done now the first one of those Gucci bags I show mem on
Lion Gucci store there's the bag England but it wasn't nothing markings for Gucci
shoulder and she was amazed put on any Bay the first why I put on I didn't put
a Buy It Now price like most of the ones I did I just set it at like five pounds
seven dollars awesome it just to see if it will find its own price on what it
was start selling for set it all got it going and this was early evening and I
showed ma'am there was all these round of stuff I got listed he'd go read zero
when someone bid you'd go green and go green in one bid or two bid and the
price and I showed at that she sat there amazed watching it glued
and within 15 minutes because it was early evening it was early morning
stateside maybe the west east coast but customers over there the bid started
coming in and she saw the red zero go to green like number one number two he
watched the price now he knew them I'd put them on dollars I think and she knew
the dollar by exchange rate and she knew that I paid 250 bars which was about
three peppers my five dollars she knew that was the point five dollars
and I'd got a postage below so that was covered and I explained that there and
she watched the price and the beats came in this handbag was probably one of the
best I ever had wasn't going to go huge money because it didn't have the Gucci
stuff on it but her face was a picture I thought it was going to go to about
forty dollars up over that nice went up to sixty dollars saqib one
she was calculate I could see her face come kept looking at me England and over
the next few days and I sold all those 50 bags average about forty dollars
great profit then she started tweaking what I was doing or carrying this one on
tell you what that max with her and how she changed over there for me
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