Jeff’s mother is planning a move back to Thailand. It will probably be a year or two because she has to have her house built. From what I understand, she is building it on the land that she owns that is next to her 91 year old mother’s house in a village eight hours north of Bangkok. I asked the name of the village, but I have no idea what the name of it is. My mother in law told me three times and each time I repeated the name back to her, she shook her head no, possibly because she meant yes or possibly because I was pronouncing it wrong. I can’t tell with her.

When she was visiting Thailand in October, apparently some real drama occurred. Now what I took from the story that my MIL relayed to me is that bad Asians were sneaking onto the property at night and stealing her mother’s things. She decided to have a gigantic fence built around their property. She forwarded me an email she received from her relative in Thailand and in the subject line it read “About fence”.

Are an aunt and an uncle fine ? A grandchild is Mitr be fine ( yes sir ) , now Wit , come back rest at 1 house month . Hnum , get get back to a house with , already take photographs house fence comes to see , April an aunt will get back to Thailand , on (day) ? , and will stay ? day . , now a grandchild has contacted with the van already . , but , still don’t know the detail from an aunt , request an aunt helps to send come to give a grandchild with . , will get contact with rent the van works for ( yes sir ) , , finally a grandchild requests an aunt and an uncle have strong health forever . –Bao

อีเมลของคุณและบริการอื่นๆ ที่พร้อมใช้งาน รับ

I have no idea what they are discussing but I really haven’t a clue what the bottom part written in Thai says, but I am very curious how they did that. I mean, do they have a computer that the keyboard can do both? I need to get to they bottom of this. As soon as Troy wakes up from his nap, I am going to ask him what that sentence says because he’s 100% Asian and probably fluent in Thai. Perhaps that’s why he can’t really speak English yet, he’s CONFLICTED.

Now to the pictures. These were taken with a cell phone and they are amazing. My $400 BlackBerry takes photos that look like they were taken by drunk people (possible) and underwater. Every time I press the button to take a photo, it takes like 46 seconds before my phone decides I am serious about taking a picture and then usually I get a text message and the whole thing jams up and I have to take the battery out to get the damn phone to come back on. Asians always have the best stuff.

Apparently by fence she meant concrete barrier.

More Thai writing. Troy needs to wake up, Momma needs a translator.

Now there were like 14 pictures of the gate. I assume this is a big deal because every concrete barrier does need a gate. I do like the color choice, looks very similar to Ralph Lauren’s Mai Tai.

I do think it’s coming along nicely.

We are planning a trip to Thailand for Zoe’s 16th birthday and my 40th birthday. (I totally gagged and passed out from typing 4-0.) And by planning, I mean saving because those tickets are the opposite of cheap. I need to see this fence in person.

And just because I like to share, here’s a picture of Troy’s great-grandma. She’s 91 and weighs 77 pounds, but she would totally eff you up. I can see it in her eyes, she’s not playing.

ZDub Fun Fact: It was brought to my attention that if you Google ‘Asianess’, this here blog comes up second. No thanks to JEFF.