WARNING! Women readers, you may not like the images this blog may strike up in your brain.
March 6, 2009 (Friday)
Bangkok, Thailand
My first ever foray (I'm 99% sure it will also be the last) into watching a "Thai Girls" show.
I was so hungry when I got asked if I wanted to watch one, that I actually misheard it when the idea was pitched to me. I thought I was going to watch a "tiger" show. Gee whiz! Ha-ha! (Well, either that or I'm growing deaf in my dotage.)
That night, my eyes were as round as dinner plates, my brow furrowed...protruding like an overhanging cliff while my lips were tightened into an almost invisible line. I couldn't help but swallow nervously as well as press my knees tight together.
I just had witnessed a long string of evenly-spaced, proven-sharp razor blades pulled out of a woman's hidden place of desire - what is also called as her most holy of places. I was still a bit dazed. How in seven hells did a woman manage that kind of stunt and not get cut!
The next woman had stepped up, danced briefly and then pulled something out too. I squinted curiously but couldn't make it out except that it looked like small, round, glistening things swinging merrily and innocently on a string.
My evening became completely surreal when my friend on the other seat nearest to me turned and asked me in a completely calm voice, "What are those?..... thumbtacks?"
I felt detached from my body when somebody on my other side answered, "No.....I don't think so...they're just...uhm... bells."
As if on cue from a hidden script, the woman swung the said string and the sound of bells jingled sharply in that brief moment of silence between the music's beat.
I just wanted to get that off my chest. double the OMGs. triple even.
ReplyDelete55555 I had a bad thought aot the first girl. what if she forgot one ?
ReplyDeleteI'd say woe to the man who touches her then. ...or rather who does more than touch her.
ReplyDeleteYes, he'd have a sharp memory of the occasion. 555
ReplyDeletewitty and a cutting comment indeed...
ReplyDeletebtw, what is 555 I see in your post?
ReplyDelete55555
ReplyDeleteYou're still opening yourself to that 1% chance, I see. Well, I play the lotto, too. There's always a chance, right? LOL
ReplyDeleteOh, sorry, I thought you knew. The sound "Ha" is the 5th symbol in the written Thai language, so 555 = Ha Ha Ha.
ReplyDelete?!?!?!? Wordless. ?!?!?!?
ReplyDeletethere, she rings her bell!!next please!!!
ReplyDeletea CUT gets a cut--that's double jeopardy!!
ReplyDeleteeeeeeeeee
ReplyDeleteahhahaa..shocking!
ReplyDeleteAnd a bloody and painful one as well. Arayyyyy!!!!
ReplyDeleteI never say 100% because life is not like that :-) (IMHO of course)
ReplyDeleteah! thanks for this..learned something new today...555
ReplyDeletehehehe...(is there some equivalent in the Thai language too)...
those Thai symbols seem indistinguishable to me from one another :-(
I was actually thinking furiously about how logically it could be done :-)
ReplyDeleteI was wondering out loud in front of one guy friend who was with us - "Hmm...how did she do that coke bottle thing liquid...etc. etc."
He sputtered and said, "I don't have one of those things no?! Don't ask me..."
I was actually thinking furiously about how logically it could be done :-)
ReplyDeleteI was wondering out loud in front of one guy friend who was with us - "Hmm...how did she do that coke bottle thing liquid..."....etc. etc
He sputtered and said, "I don't have one of those things no?! Don't ask me..."
well, the next one was I think the pingpong ball....uhm...next please? :-)
ReplyDeletethat is one way of summing it up :-)
ReplyDeletethat is one way of summing it up :-)
ReplyDeleteChe, have pity on me...please.CUT that out...
ReplyDeletehahaha! or rather...555 pala....
\(^_~)/
Its definitely sort of weird as one sits there....
ReplyDeleteas most of us were in IT and that kind of environment makes one think a certain way, I actually got a normal, logical explanation from one of our guys too :-)
I just didn't know whether to be dismayed or amazed...or both..
Goodness,they are still running the show ? i am talking like 30 years or so ago when i first and for the last time viewed the show.
ReplyDeleteyep...one friend from Malaysia said he watched it a decade ago...they've added some tricks to it from his time though..
ReplyDeleteThere is a club here called Arirang and they also showed the same type of skills that those women perform but not the razor blade act. That's BIZARRE!
ReplyDeleteOUCH!!! Just the thought of it keeps my knees together too.
ReplyDeleteI guess if she does get cut, she can always say "Sorry guys, I'm having my period"...:-)
I wonder if this was less or more bizarre than another woman opening a bottle of clear liquid with you know what, sucking it up, then transferring it to a Coke bottle, but this time, the liquid poured into it was now colored black.
ReplyDelete*faints*
All my Thai friends use 555, though at times LOL, LMAO, LMFAO, ROFL etc are used.
ReplyDeleteJohn.
amazing thailand my dear... amazing thailand.. hahaha!
ReplyDeleteala bang photos? bitin yung kwento hehe
ReplyDeleteCat wala ba yung darts? hahaha
ReplyDeleteits just funny..coz here, the phrase 555 reminds us of a particular brand of sardines, which is..you got it...555
ReplyDeleteso when somebody tells me 555..I say - huh? sardinas?
haha..Liyam..you ought to have warned me...
ReplyDeletesabagay..years ago, when I attended a team building of where I used to work, since ako lang ang girl...and when they got to drinking and joking, I remember one guy dancing on stage and emulating a dance over a coke bottle..said he saw it sa Tacloban...
I don't know if he was pulling my leg or meron talaga in Tacloban...
hmm..come to think of it..baka darts yon or arrow..hahaha! I distinctly heard a pop of a balloon..I was talking to another at that time so I didnt' really concentrate on the show..but that must be it..either that or needles yon...
ReplyDeletemwahaha!
cellphones and cameras are prohibited inside :-)
ReplyDeleteso, just fall back on your imagination na lang hehehe..
awww..
ReplyDeleteReally Cat you went that place? Victor B. told me too when he had a tour in Thailand, I remember he said girls there are very talented they will not only dance but show their EO talent.
ReplyDeleteCAt, patikim mo sa akin yan kung sakaling umuwi ako. Kasing sarap ba yan ng Mabuti (Pinhais brand)?
ReplyDeleteMaybe she has the power of Moses. Just like turning the color of the ocean into red with his staff.
ReplyDeleteunsay EO?
ReplyDeletemora sya ug underground nga bar...and to be honest, one show is enough...it will just loop around...
actually there was also a live act...kanang toro man siguro na tawag sa ato...I said - wth, mora man ug Kama Sutra nag fast forward...hehehe...
actually, I don't think so...
ReplyDeleteI mean mas masarap ang Mabuti..
and probably I'd say mas masarap ang Montano sardines pa rin than this...
its just it was marketed well, kaya it got stuck in the people's minds..but sure, to each his own tastebuds, try natin ulit when you come over :-)
ano yan Ozz...sign of awe? pain or something else? mwahaha!
ReplyDeletethe longer I mulled over it..the more I thought of, baka may dye nilagay na sa loob....
ReplyDeleteYou guys must have paid big bucks to see this show kung kasama itong act na ito.
ReplyDeleteuhm..I think we got it pretty cheap...sabagay kc..marami kami...probably a dozen or more peeps :-)
ReplyDeleteI don't usually go to that kind of shows but now I am intrigued and curious. If I ever get to Bangkok, I'll probably check it out. Authentic acts I'll witness.
ReplyDeleteVery prudent. =)
ReplyDeletewell, most of the peeps I've talked to..parang once was enough..it was definitely weird..ke babae or lalaki ang nanonood...
ReplyDeleteone guy said he saw it a decade ago...and yun na....
I guess if you do it more than probably 24 times in one night (the show I mean), you get sort of numb and walang paki...
it was like - dance 1 beat, dance 2 beats, pull something out, bow and adios...
ah..the things people do for money..or for survival...
hehehe...Prudence is my middle name...
ReplyDeletekidding lang :-)
problem kc is at one time or another we forget about the gray areas...its either yes or no, black or white, tingnan or di tingnan.....and express our opinions on that so adamantly, then get knocked for a loop when something else happens
It's a free enterprise system. Whatever it takes, di ba?
ReplyDeletestill, medyo sad eh......
ReplyDeleteam not going off on a soapbox and spout about feminine dignity or whatever....its just sad the way they do it...parang robot eh...
It really is sad but I guess that's the only skill they have to make big money. Meron siguradong mga pimps yan na kuma kaltas sa kanilang income.
ReplyDeletethe other funny thing about Bangkok is that its so cheap to have sex changes, that I'm not sure anymore if the guy I am seing used to be a girl, used to be a guy ..and ditto for the beautiful girls I see on the streets
ReplyDeleteYou know what, somebody sent me photos of beautiful girls that I swear, a guy can easily fall in love with and those girls are BOYS! Can you believe that? Awe-mazing!
ReplyDeleteLOL...so its difficult if its just physical lang tinitingnan talaga...
ReplyDeletetips kaya on how to spot the ex-men?
one guy said, no matter how thin the man would get to be (even if nag-sex change na)..may muscles pa rin konti makikita...its different if its a real woman..
Believe it or not, their musculature is like that of a woman's. So it really hard to spot them just by looking. I myself was fooled by the photos. Now, some of them didn't have sex change. Just their physical outlook is what they changed and they did a great job. Then, it will be easier to determine that when it comes down to the nitty gritty. If you know what I mean.
ReplyDeleteThey must be good looking boys to become good looking girls. I guess, products of the American soldiers during the Vietnam war and they decided to move to Bangkok.
but they said, maamoy mo daw eh...hehehe..siguro if experienced na...
ReplyDeleteI've read this several times, pero di ko pa rin ma-imagine..hehehe..
ReplyDeletewell, marember ko na si Bebe Gandanghari na...
ReplyDeletemaybe it is true there is really something in the way they move..no matter how "gwapa"...
I was trailing after a couple of friends tapos we went to the 2nd floor, which I only found out later, more of gays pala...then I got my hand shaken by a very pretty lady there who was actually earlier hanging around the neck of one of our friends...
syiete....di yata pala yon babae..kaya pala I felt something off when she gripped my hand..
I have to admit though, I'm usually so obtuse and slow when it comes to the third sex...or 4th sex or whatever...argh! cguro kc wala ako paki as long as di lang ako pinakialaman...
hahhahaha...
ReplyDeleteI was just telling some of the girls...I don't want get married and find out that the man I am with used to be a girl, who went and had a sex change to be a man, bumalik to a girl, and then went thru it again...
ReplyDeletewhich part? the show or the pretty women? *wink*
ReplyDeletewe went to a club, where they had a sort of beauty/bikini contest..and we didn't know actually that the announcer was actually announcing which were the natural born-women and who when thru under the knife...ouch! ganda pa naman nila...
oo..heheeh
ReplyDeletedi ba sa Phils. marami na talagang parang girl, the breast, hair, etc...
ay naku, if one thinks about it, ang hirap to be a woman...
ReplyDeleteUmmm..not so sure. I've never experienced this yet.
ReplyDeleteI should hope not...
ReplyDelete*giggles*
sorry Joey, couldn't resist...*wink*
Never, ever. Not even in my wildest dreams.
ReplyDeleteAha, you're trying to fish for some information from me ha. Nice try Cat...:-)
if you have that kind of statement.."....experienced this..YET" (bold font mine)..shempre the gears in your head start whirring...
ReplyDeleteOo nga. Mukha bang may tendencies? LOL
ReplyDeleteJoey, don't get weirded out ha..
ReplyDeletebut just now, I had this vision in my head of Ms. Saigon, tapos ikaw yung The Engineer...hehehe..so ibang role isip ko for you...
Oooh, how lovely and romantic....
ReplyDeleteTeka muna, anong role ang iniisip mo ha?
Gasp! -_-
ReplyDeleteEven the thought hurts...
hmm....even some of the men were jaw-slacking statues :-)
ReplyDelete