It was a bad experience. Even though I had already had similar experience before, I still suffered the same bitter lesson, which taught me that you should never pick any hooker, or "bathing-chicken" as referred to by me in my correspondences with my co-eds in the military schools, with Mainland origin in the brothels. They are either crude or unprofessional in this business, and you don't just know how to describe them in the language we use. They are good people, though, yet they are not well-refined when they treat their customers. They would say something that sounds inappropriate when you have an erotic practice with them; they would also do something that may extinguish your sexual drive once you see those moves. For example, one of the frustrating experiences I had with some "chicken" from Mainland was - she took a cellphone call from her son - maybe, while we were already naked and ready for a Thai bath together.

This afternoon, the mistake I made again was that I picked a woman in her forties from Mainland, and she was very talkative all the way through the business. If her questions had been nicer and interesting, I would not have so dissented. However, the topics she picked or the questions she asked gave me a picture that I was brought into a police station and asked questions of security clearance. In circumstances like that, how could you expect me to perform normally in that erotic encounter.

Talking with David

It is another ordinary day, starting with talking with David in the "Coffeeholic" House on nothing but killing time, and ending with watching a sad and boring TV series, of which the title is -- Ko-Jang, as a crowned prince, resumes his country.

Talking with David has been a routine in my life in the late 9 years. However, sometimes, it can turn very sour and intolerable, when he boasts himself as a knowledgeable "scholar," or implies that I, unlike he, live in a narrow world failing to appreciate the varieties of the world. At most times, I hate to hear those rhetorics because it sounds he is superior to me in the field of knowledge. However, I would forgive him upon remembering his wife's words -- "He suffers a kind of disease called "knowledge deficiency phobia." Many persons like him, including my wife, hate to be thought of as "unknowledgeable." And they work hard buying books, watching knowledgeable TV programs like Discovery, National Geography to keep themselves look learned and like "askjeeves." When you talk with this kind of persons, you would notice that they don't listen to you much, though you are talking seriously to them, and they are just paraphrasing what they will say right after you pause your talk. In behavioral science, it is called "pseudo listening." David is exactly the person of this type. I don't know why we actually have such a long friendship, which has lasted for over eight years. In my guessing, it's probably because we both are still longing for friendship and a talking partner in this lonely southern city of Taiwan, when you are enveloped by local dialect-speaking reisdents -- we speak Mandarin.