Dum Kham: Ep 2 Summary

This series is just too hilarious. Though she has the upper hand and knows his true identity, his strong personality remains and refuses to believe what he is told.

At every turn, he contradicts her making her look bad in front of her workers.

He is ordered to just pick the corn, he pulls up the whole stalk.
During lunch, instead of eating food prepared for the workers, he steals her food.
He is loved by the female workers and uses it to his advantage.
When he should be sleeping, he has a alcoholic jam session with the other workers.
As punishment for getting drunk the previous night, he is ordered to manually plow acres of land. Instead of doing it himself, he uses his charm to recruit female workers to do it for him.
Though he suffering from amnesia, his conceited personality remains and he continues to insult her. At one point, he called her “Man’s best friend” and called Nom (Dum’s transgender friend) a “two-footed” animal , or in other words “Sashquash”.

Tuthiya is taken to the plantation (Kanmanee Farm), he looks around and can’t believe he used to be from here.

He turns to look at Dum and Nom and points at them.

Laughing, he utters:”Oh Ho, you’re a two-footed animal (pointing at Nom) and you’re the friend of the house (Points to Dum)! This is really the provinces.”

Basically he is calling her a dog and Nom a two-footed animal like sashquash.

Before she could fire back with insults, Dum’s two male workers interrupt them. They know Tuthiya’s true identity, before they could utter a word, Dum introduces Tuthiya as Thuy–meaning buffalo! HAHA. She named him “water buffalo”.

Dum pulls her two male workers aside to give them the rundown about the situation.

Dum:“It’s because of our prank that caused the accident that lead to his amnesia. He can’t remember anything and that is why I brought him here to hide out.”

Sai (the younger guy):“Ow! He has amnesia and I just thought he was stupid!”

Bonfong (older gentlema):“And why did you bring him here? Oh I know, you brought him here for a round of SLAP AND KISS!” Dude is funny!

Dum explains she wants to teach Tuthiya a lesson.

Dum:“He enjoys looking down on other people…he’s conceited, weak, and has a poor personality..I just wanted him to experience the life of the people he looks down on so that he’ll learn that you can’t judge people just by their outer appearances. Country folk like us have a heart too.”

Dum gives him work clothes and he argues that it’s not even brand name, how can he wear it.

Tuthiya examines the clothes one more time before dressing, he can’t remember any of this.

Tuthiya:“Whose clothes are these anyways, why must it be so ugly?”

He is so conceited and high maintenance.

Tuthiya is taken to the corn field and immediately he infuritates Dum by talking to her like a friend.

She corrects him by saying:“Hey, who told you to call me “You”, you have to call me Nu Dum (“Nu” means high mistress).”

He ignores her orders and walked passed her to the bench underneath the tree. Annoyed, she kicks the bench over.

Tuthiya shouts at her:“Hey, what the heck are you doing? Huh? I was sitting there, didn’t you see? You have such a foul personality.”

Dum informs of his position here, he is field hand in this farm and he has to work. Tuthiya is ordered to pick corns. Stupidly Tuthiya doesn’t know how. He pulls the stalk with all his might but he can’t get the corn loose. Is he stupid? You are suppose to break the stem and not pull the whole stalk.

Frustrated and steaming hot, he decides to take off his shirt.

All the female workers stare at him with awe.

Bicycling her way to work, Bua Dong loses concentration at the sight of muscular Tuthiya trying to pick corn. What the hell, she flies to him and he catches her.

They stare at each other for a belief moment, she is enamored by him. Annoyed by the sight, Dum leaves.

As he works, Tuthiya is surrounded and helped by the female workers. He is barely doing anything.

Near the end of their shift, Bua Dong asked for his name.

Tuthiya:“My name is Thuy.”

Bua Dong:“Oh, Thuy which means Buffalo, am I right?”

He nods “Yes.”

The other female workers held hands and screamed, “A very suitable name!” —Basically they are saying, he’s big like a buffalo, very manly and also very DUMB. Just the way they like it.

It’s pretty funny!

Dum comes back to check on the work progress, she is annoyed Tuthiya did not do all the work but rather was helped by the female workers. She marches up to him and blows her whistle–“Get back to work!” She shouts at him.

Bua Dong marches in front of him and explains to Dum,

“Nu Dum, we can’t have that. As you can see, Thuy doesn’t know how to pick corn, how can I abandon him. Either way, Thuy must have a caretaker.”

“That is correct, Bua Dong speaks the truth. I don’t know how to do this.” Tuthiya inserts.

He inches closer to her face and asked,

“I want to ask frankly, how can a person like me be a farm worker?”

Dum lies to him:

“Mae. Mae. You were just in a little car accident and you completely forgotten your background. A person like you, if not a farm worker, than what are you?”

The female farm workers scream, “a SUPERSTAR!”

Dum becomes agitated and sarcastically said: “You want a caretaker, don’t you? I’ll get one for you.”

She marches off and comes back with a bucket of water and throws it him.

Tuthiya:“What is wrong with you? Why did you do that?”

Dum:“Because you’re detestable. Get back to work and don’t get anyone else to help you.”

She throws the basket on the ground and marches triumphantly off.

Tuthiya vows to get her back for what she has done.

Tiwa (Tuthiya’s father) calls Daeng (Dum’s father) to find about the progress of Dum and Tuthiya’s relatonship. He assumes it’s going well because Tuthiya has not been home.

Daeng informs him that it has not gotten anywhere, Dum told him they were going to date first before getting married. Also, Tuthiya isn’t at the farm. He came to see Dum and left. Worried about his son’s whereabouts, Tiwa calls Mike.

Mike lies to him saying Tuthiya is currently at the farm trying to start a relationship with Dum. Tiwa is pleased with the news and also gives Mike a harsh warning, if Dum and Tuthiya are not wed, Mike is gonna get it.

Annoyed that he has to work alone without help from the female workers, instead of picking the corn, he uproots the whole plant.

Tuthiya:“You want me to pick the corn so badly, I’ll just uproot the whole thing.”

Dum comes along and finds him uprooting her corn plant.

Tuthiya:“I told I didn’t know how to do this, see what happens.”

Frustrated she tries to take the plant away from him and calls him “Dimwitted.”

As they are fighting, she accidentally trips and he catches her. They hug briefly and the corny romance music starts playing.

Realizing her circumstances, she slaps him.

Tuthiya:“Why did you do that for? It was an accident, it’s not like I wanted to touch you anyways.”

She picks up the corn stalk and smacks him with it.

Alone, she curses him out.

“Tuthiya, Mr. Amnesia! Even though you lost your memory, your bad personality remains! Bastard!”

Mike who witnessed the hug comes up to her:“Nu Dum, when are you going to release my boss, how long are you going to hold him captive?”

Dum:“Until I’m able to cure his bad personality.”

Mike:“Ow! My boss is not a bad guy, it is just that he was born handsome, rich, and with doting parents. He’s not a bad guy at all.”

Dum:“Whether good or bad, I will make the decision. If he doesn’t stop, he will stay here until he is old and gray.”

During their lunch break, Tuthiya doesn’t want to eat the food made by Nom (transgender guy) for the workers, it looks unappealing.

It was Pathai, a type of Thai noddle dish, I thought it looked good.

Tuthiya steals Dum’s food because it looks more appetizing.

Dum scolds him and takes her food back.

Bua Dong comes along and invites him to eat with her.

As she praising herself, Tuthiya mumbles to her:”Ha huh! It’s very good, you’re a very good cook.” He doesn’t’ really care about her, he is just hungry.

Then she starts describing the ingredients, how the skin of the toad is tough to chew when you catch it when it is raining. Tuthiya nearly flipped when he heard “Tough skin” and “toad”.

“Toad Meat!” He exclaimed and she scoop one up from her bowl and showed him.

At this point, Tuthiya jumps up and vomits everything he just ate. He is totally disgusted, he tries to brush every last Toad meat residue from his mouth using his finger.

It’s just too funny!

Dum laughs at him from afar.

Dum:“Serves him right.”

Tongrop makes a visit at the farm and wonders about Tuthiya.

Tuthiya doesn’t look like a field hand worker, he looks handsome and foreign. Tongrop fears he might be a criminal and wants to check Tuthiya out.

Before he could do so, Dum pulls him aside for a chat and a tour around her plantation.

Dum is proud of her plantation and will never sell it so that they will transform it into a golf course.

As their farming conversation ends, Dum starts ranting about girls who just wait around for a husband and the men who fall for them.

Tongrop tries to hint that he likes her by telling her, “Not every guy likes a girl who paints her fingernails red and puts on red lipstick. They like touch, easy going girls, like me for example.”

Dum doesn’t believe him.

“No way, those guys are probably weaklings. Every guy loves a girl who paints her nails red and paints her lips red. Trust me!”

Either way, Dum does not care, she is cutting off men completely.

Dum sneaks into her house to get her clothes and her father catches her. She tells him, she is staying at the fields until the work is done. He asked her about Tuthiya and she lies that it’s going well.

Back at the farm, Tuthiya sneaks into Dum’s private house at the fields.

He is annoyed that Dum has a private house while the other workers have to share a house.

Tuthiya decides he wants to take a shower in Dum’s bathroom. He goes in and finds Dum’s underlings.

Tuthiya:”Hey, Dum! You know how to wear it like they do too!”

As he is going through each piece of her bra, he hears a sound, a familiar sound.

He tracks the sound out and finds it in Dum’s hamper, it’s a phone, his phone though he doesn’t know it. Dao is on the other line and calls him Tuthiya. As he is talking to Dao, Dum arrives. She feels hot and decides she wants to take a shower to freshen up.She assumes she is alone and takes off her shirt. Cha-BING! Tuthiya is in front of her talking on the phone.

She screams and he laughs.

Dao hears Dum screaming and yelling at him and assumes he is cheating on her. She demands to know his whereabouts.

He tells her he is in the town of Kong Nam Khiaoo.

Dum takes the phone away and Tuthiya tells her he just talked to a person who said he was “Tuthiya”.

Dum lies to him and laughs in his face:

“Hey Thuy, aren’t you thinking too highly of yourself, how can a guy like you be named Tuthiya? Remember this, your name is Thuy and your real name is SomThuy.”

In Thai, Thuy is a buffalo and Som means ” [is] becoming; suitable for; appropriate; conforming; worthy of”. So basically Somthuy means “is like a buffalo or becoming of a buffalo”. In Thai, being called a buffalo is a major insult. It means feeble, like you’re stupid. Get it?

Tuthiya’s reaction:“Are you crazy? No one is ever named Thuy with a real name of Somthuy.”

Before leaving, Tuthiya insults her house and questions her sexuality.

“Are you even a girl? I went inside your bathroom, your under things were all size small and you were hanging them to dry everywhere. It wasn’t very neat. Tell me honestly, did your parents teach you anything. “

He laughs at her and runs off.

Back in Bangkok, Dao looks up direction for Kong Nam Khiaao, she wants to track down Tuthiya because she fears he has found another girl.

That night, Dum shows Tuthiya his sleeping quarter, it’s just an outdoor table bench with a straw thatched roof.

Tuthiya was not happy and complained it was too hard and looked unstable. He can’t sleep he told her.

To show her, he drags her down to the bench.

Tuthiya:“Do you see how hard it is? I can’t sleep here! Isn’t it hard, isn’t cold? “

Dum barks:“Well you’re a guy, you can endure it.”

“Well you have a comfortable bed, you have no right to say so.” Tuthiya argues.

Nom and Bontong arrives to find Tuthiya on top of Dum, Nom panics and starts smacking Tuthiya.

Bontong jokes that they were about to do “something” and Dum told him to watch his mouth.

Before leaving, Dum tells Tuthiya if he doesn’t it like it here, he can go find another place to sleep. It’s his problem now.

Dum marches off and Nom follows her.

Bontong laughs and points out,

“You’re very mischievous, very compatible with Nu Dum.”

Tuthiya is confuse by that comment and asked, ‘How are we compatible?”

Bontong:“Oww, compatible to be betroths.”

He then corrects himself and said: ” No, I mean to be compatible as a worker and boss.”

He lets out an uncomfortable laugh and ran off.

Alone, Tuthiya asked himsef: “Me and Dum, how are we compatible?”

Later that night, Tuthiya is invited to a late night party with his co-workers. They drink moonshine and sing morlum (thai country music).

Dum hears the ruckus and goes to find them.

Everyone runs off to hide and Bontong pretends to mediate and chants Buddha scriptures. Out of nowhere, drunken Tuthiya wanders out and starts dancing with his eyes closed around Dum. She gives him a good shove and he was like, “Oh who is this? Why are you being so rough?”

Then he passed out.

As punishment for getting drunk last night, Dum punishes the worker by forcing them to manually plow the land.

When she asked them whether they understand the task, they said nothing except Tuthiya.

He stupidly raised his hand and said with a smile, “I don’t know how.”

Dum gives him a mischievous grin and informs him he doesn’t have to work here, she has another spot for him. Dum takes him to another field. “This is your spot. You can’t eat until you finish it.” She told him.

Tuthiya scans the field and realizes he can’t finish the job by himself. However, he has to do if he wants to stay here. Because he has no recollection of his past and Dum is his saving grace, he decides to suck it up.

Bua Tong tells him, he needs more than 40 people to finish this job.

Tuthiya works his charm and recruits female workers to plow the land for him.

Tuthiya argues that she give him the task of plowing the land but never said he had to do it himself.

Wanting to teach him a lesson about country life, Dum takes him to a pond.

Dum:”People from the country don’t have a lot of money, so they farm their own fish to eat. The water in the pond can also be used to water vegetables. Do you understand what I’m saying?”

Tuthiya replies “No.”

Annoyed, Dum insults him by saying:“You’re so useless. Your life must have been easy. You probably sat around and did nothing and had 100 people serve you.”

Tuthiya laughs:“Nu Dum? What are you talking about? I’m a farm worker and not a rich person, how can that be? Before you speak, do you think it though? (He points at her head)  Is there a brain in there?”

As Tuthiya is calling for fish, she kicks him into the pond and toss fish in his face.

He freaks out even more when she starts throwing frog and eel in the water. To get back at her, he unexpectedly grabs her leg to pull her into the pond. She holds on to an electric pole. Everyone freaks out and Sai runs to the power post to turn off the power.

In the water, Tuthiya rubs dead leave on her face. HAHA.

Ish! I don’t like her. Dao arrives at Kong Nam Khiaoo and her cars break down. Tongrop drives by on his motorcycle and gives her a ride to a car shop. There, she sees Tuthiya’s car, she shows the mechanic a picture of Tuthiya and asked whether the guy in the picture is the owner. The mechanic replies “no” and starts describing Mike.

Mechanic guy:“No, from what I saw, the owner’s face is like a monkey.”

Mike, who saw Dao coming, hides behind a red pole and listens to their conversation.

Because this is getting nowhere, Tongrop advises Dao to search for Tuthiya at the market. Everyone who comes to Kong Nam Khiaao always come to the market first.

Dao wanders around showing each market lady a picture of Tuthiya. She comes across Nom and Nom freaks out. She/He takes the picture and rips it into pieces and runs off.

Nom, in a frantic state, bicycles her way home to inform Dum about Dao.

Dum is scared but vows to keep her plan in motion.

Dum:“If I set my mind to do something, I complete it.”

Dum goes to look for Tuthiya, he finds Bua Dong massaging him.

Dum orders him to stop messing around with the female workers. Tuthiya doesn’t understand why and asked,

“Why, are you jealous?”

Though she is jealous, she denies it and told him,

“I’m not jealous, I just don’t like secret affairs on my farm. Every time I see one, I must take care of it. Know it ,too! Go work now!”

She pokes him with her stick and he walks off.

“Fine, I’ll get back to work.”

By the end of the episode, Dao encounters Tuthiya but she doesn’t recognize him because he covered his face with the shawl.

Instantly, Tuthiya recognizes her and asked:”You look very familiar, do you know me? Do you know who I am?”

He grabs her and starts shaking her.

She freaks out, pushed down and ran off.

He unmasked himself and asked:“I was just trying to help and she called me evil. But he face looked very familiar, I wonder who she is? Do we know each other?”