This is the name of the street which runs trough the hills around a part of Patong Phuket, where I rented a house for when I stay here in Thailand!
When hearing the name I thought nothing of it, but when I heard its translation I thought: It has to be the place for me here!!
Ha Sip Pee means 50 years. And well, being busy with my 50th year I thought it a good sign. Also the number of the street, 49. I just turned 49 last oktober.
So, translated my adress here is 49/2 50 year Road.....cool huh?
Now more about the little Thai house itself. Its typically for the Thai layout of a house here, a very modest one that is. Its downfloor area consist of a Thai kitchen and small bathroom with shower and wc, which is no more then a long sink with a two pit cooker and a fridge, O and ofcourse running water. The kitchen is large and further empty, and I will have to fill it whith whatever I might need.
The other half of the ground floor is an open area which contains of a table and two comfi benches. In front of it you find the little garden with a terrace and a path to the main street.
Before you get to the open area you find stairs going up to the first floor, which covers the whole downstairs area, kitchen as well as openair sittingarea.
On this first floor one not only finds a balcony but also a reasonably large sitting/sleepingroom with another bathroom with wc and shower. This room has been frisheid with a kingsize bed, a TV and DVDplayer with cabel (!!) so one can watch allmost non stop movies here, and pretty recent ones I discovered at that! A sofa and wardrobe, another firge and a dressingtable, and ofocurse a table with the sofa.
Simple but most effective. One hardly neds more because one lives mostly outdoors anyway.
Al in al not too expensive as well, to be honest, when living here as a farang its hard to get anything so wel located and so cheap...which surprised me because it is right now high season here!
I rented the place for one year for 10.000 bath per month (which is a discount of 2 months rent but one conditiën: all needed to be payed at once).
I took the place ofocurse, its quite located amidst the green hills and same time very close to the city centre of Patong...only 5/10 minutes on motorbike. The hills are rather steep and walking would really be too much, hehe. But honest, no sane persoon would walk up that hill, and certaily not more then once on a day...and I go up and down several times a day ;-)
Okay I go on with the original story: I rented this place for a year, so I can return here for one and have not to think about accomodation animeren and the expensive it brings me, but also its a place for Kik to stay as well, its closer to his work at Simon Cabaret, his boss lives one street further up the hill, and it might help him to focuss on his career and study he now thinks of picking up again because the worries about his housing are now for the time being at least, behind him.
Sofar I have not spotted any other farang on my little part of this hill and with only Thai around me, who are all very friendly but sadly hardly speak any english as well.
Slowly these past weeks I grow more and more indipendent, getting to know (Thai) friends and getting beter informed by the week.
Kik wil fix the garden in a flower rich environement...neighbours seem to have some plants/flowers which attracts dozens of butterflies....I hope in a couple of weeks or a month or so to have the same amount of buterflies in our garden, its so beautifull to watch them!
Q
O, and to my big surprise two evenings ago a puppy came into the garden and dining area, and hasn’t left since! According to Kik can dogs choose their ‘owners’ for themselfs and its a good omen that the puppy walked in.
I named the little guy “Q”, after Q from James Bond, Q from Star Trak, and Q, the white big dog I had for a while together with Alberto but had to give back to the animalshelter because he was simply not fit to be on his own and could bark extremely loud and did so every time I left the house and or he was on his own. Neighbours started to get crazy about it, though they addored Q. Then stil an Alderman/vice major here I could no longer keep him if I wouldn’t want to get in a serious fight with my neighbours with whom I allways had a very good understanding.
Hopefuly this puppy Q will be different and will not only stay but be very happy and pleasant companion. I started already to buy dogfood, though not for puppies, still need to find that speciallity!
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