27/02/2025
The day was pretty good; I designed PowerPoints and flashcards for teaching. While watching the Hone Krasae, I edited one of my friend's works. If you don’t know Hone Krasae, it is one of the most popular Thai TV programs where the local and normal citizens of the country come to sit and share their problems, whether it is about business, corruption, cheating, or even politics. I have been following and watching this for almost three years now, and it has taught me so many things about Thailand, Thais, and their rules and regulations, as well as the laws. Sai is also a lawyer, and sometimes I ask her something that I don’t understand when it comes to the time of lawyers to explain theories and solutions to the visitor's problem.
A few minutes ago I was speaking with Sai and her mother; her mother wants to have a dog as a pet. Sai said I don’t like the dogs because I’m afraid of them, but I told her about my two lovely dogs I had in 2011 called Nick and Kro. During this time around, I was living alone with these two dogs in the southern parts of Nepal; the area and people were new to me.
I had only Nick and Kro as friends. They were so friendly and protective of me. I remember sometime at night when the tree leaves or the rats outside make noises; Nick and Kro would chase after them out of the wall.
When the strangers would come inside the gate, they would bark until I would go to the gate and talk to them, but they never tried to bite or hurt anyone.
A year later, Nick and Kro grew up to be very big dogs, and the people started getting afraid of them more and more. One day Kro went out of the gate, and he came inside with two stabs on the stomach. His bladders were out, and a few days later he died. I didn’t cry, but I was so sad, and I thought I would never have dogs in life.
It may sound like the story of Hachiko, the faithful dog that continued to wait for its master at a train station in Japan long after his death, but in this story the master dies while mine is the dog.
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