That may sound pretty cold blooded, but people in the West have a unrealistic view of marriage - a view I no longer share. If things went well, the timeline was: I'd meet her parents in July, she'd meet my parents this Christmas; children maybe halfway through the next year? Fuck knows, but she's a lot of money behind her and she has a lot of other unique qualities.

It's stone cold, but I liked thinking of myself as stone cold. Like I was some kind of whore fucking assassin.

The whore: she's Thai and she's a fucking mystery to me. I'm almost certain she's a liar.

She had been on at me about coming around to play ping pong and squash at my apartment. I wasn't sure if that was just an 'in' to get me to pay for sex. You'd think so. So I put it to her that she could come around and we could play sports OR we could fuck for 20BD (note: the cheapest reported fuck in Bahrain was a Chinese girl with an Irishman at my work for 15BD). I consider a 20BD fuck a steal. This choice would be a test of her desires! She said "OK." OK to the fuck or to the sport? I didn't ask. We were texting.

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I told her she was a bad prostitute and that her fucks were shit. She deserved that. She kind of just shrugged that off and looked at me like I was an asshole and it was a very akward moment. So, we both got dressed, and I'd written the whole thing off as a total failure and myself as a fucking idiot, when she asks if we can go and play sports now!

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She made freaky killing jokes all the time. For instance, she'd see some sissors on the table and make a gesture like she wanted to stab me with them. She also did this with her dinner knife and "joked" about stabbing my dick with a corkscrew. I was telling my friend this later. He's closer with this one whore than I've ever been with any whore. He said she tells him she dreams of murdering her clients. That she hates them and that it's so hard to smile at everything a person you hate says, so when you get home, you fantasize about murdering them.

Anyway, the Taiwanese girl calls me today to tell me she called up the Trade Commission in Bahrain and said that she was representing her Father's business and wanted to size the country up for potential expansion there in the coming year. She was like, "Do you know who the fuck I am?" and that attitude must have worked very well. They said they could get her a 3 week VISA no problem and that we could probably renew it. That's very fucking impressive! So she IS flying over in early March. I'll tell her what I did after she's been here for a couple of weeks. I tell the truth to people I care about. You'd be amazed at what you can get away with.