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Nepalese boys in Pattaya ?. My only interaction with Nepalese was 15 years ago when I was part of a 2 week trekking holiday into the high mountains. They carried our bags and generally looked after us on the trail. Tough friendly young guys .

Amen, what a fancy name for a boy !. I like him already.

that's one of great American inventions along with presidential term limit

indeed. Few weeks ago in broad daylight I was almost ( perhaps less then 1 cm) hit by car on local intersection which is not really busy even in peak times. Driver was likely blinded by the sun.

Yes they are biological brothers from Burma. The similar hairstyle (which is permed not natural) doesn’t help in telling them apart. Second pic is the older brother Amen who has worked at Jupiter since 2018 and used to be one of their best performers. He went home at some point over past two years and younger brother showed up this year and replaced Amen in the shows he used to do. I thought my eyes were playing tricks on me. Amen just came back in the last month. I don’t know if he’s reclaimed his spot but he used to be better looking and more charismatic than Junior. I was told Junior is friendly and loves to be invited drinking.

I have a US Passport Card that I use for identification purposes when I travel internationally. They currently cost $30, plus a $35 processing fee if it is the first time getting the card. You get them from the Passport Office at the State Department...same as the passport book. I find it convenient as it fits in my wallet (size of a credit card) and contains all of the same information as the passport booklet minus the entry/exit stamps. I just photo copy the entry/exit page and carry that around in my bag. So far, I have had no issues or problems using the passport card. Super Rich accepted it in Thailand with no problem when exchanging currency. Hotels all accepted it on my recent tour of Northern Thailand, as did certain venues we visited that required ID.

I visited the place on a Monday night last week. Only 3-4 customers and less than 10 boys. Everyone where friendly and not to pushy. The first offers where not my type but the third one was a shy 18 year old newbie. Quoted 70€ for HJ and BJ, 150€ for full service. Took him to my hotel (Motel One Tiergarten) and showered together. We both enjoyed not only the warm water in the shower. Went to bed and had fun. Communication was only via Smartphone possible.

It is show bar. 50/50 drag and muscle show. Place for meeting with locals. You cannot "hire" dancers via bar. But you may talk with them privately and if you will be lucky (depends on your age, how good you look and amount of money), maybe you will get agreement.

Senso is one of the best known gay massage spas in Bangkok. Saladaeng is very close to Saladaeng Skytrain (BTS) station. Get off at the Silom Complex exit at the back left of the train, go down to street level, do a U-turn and walk up 100 meters or so to Saladaeng. Turn right into Saladaeng, stay on the left of that soi, immediately after the first small soi opening on your left there is a dingy looking shop. That's the one. Very easy if you are in the Silom area. This map might help.

@vinapu I don't think mauRice needs your opinion on this. He just put a feeler out there to see if you are really a bottom as rumor has it.

Hey all, Just wanted to ask if anyone has any info on Musclebar Saigon? From their insta, it seems to be a gay bar but not sure if the muscle guys are available for hire (like the gogo bars in Thailand) or just hosts (like Spacehair in Phnom Penh) Appreciate any info or experience you can share. 😁

Thanks Peter. It's just, in my innocence, I don't know what Senso is. Could it be a sour bread bakery? --- something else I'm looking for. I will go wandering.

Much safer than driving to work on icy road and dealing with bullshit everyday. I think its a real health hazard.

I also had my important passport pages photocopied and laminated in this shop earlier this year!

Yes, truth be told, I usually keep my passport in the hotel safe also. Obviously, it will rarely lead to trouble. One should be aware, however, that this can be technically illegal in some countries, and might get oneself in hot water in some of them.

I can confirm that they are still in business as of two weeks ago. Address is still Carrera 16A 57-14. I can also confirm that there are more guys than what you see on the website.

I said in my earlier post that I have mine done is a small shop on Saladaeng. It's on I think the first corner on the same side as Senso and probably around 50 meters or so prior to Senso. Cost earlier this year was I think Bt. 4.

According to an article on today's CNN site, a prisoner due to be executed by firing squad in Utah in September, had his death delayed because the prisoner was suffering from dementia. A new "competency hearing" had been set for December but the prisoner died two days ago. I am against the death penalty, but primarily because there have been too many cases where it was subsequently proved that the murdered prisoner was in fact innocent. I agree that number is very small, but I cannot accept any state has the right to end a person's life without cast-iron proof - and that is near impossible to obtain in most cases. Even confessions are no guarantee of guilt. Apologies and monetary payment are no substitute for wrongly taking a life. In this most recent case, there is another issue. The prisoner had been on death row for a staggering 37 years! That is more than double the average of 18 years which death row prisoners have to wait prior to execution. I find this utterly absurd. The mental pain and anxiety anyone must go through having to wait 37 - or even just 18 - years knowing that at some time in the future you are going to die must be ghastly. I admit some of the crimes allegedly committed were probably even more ghastly, but in my view that is no reason for the state to punish a condemned person effectively twice. https://edition.cnn.com/2025/11/27/us/menzies-utah-dementia-inmate-dies

Yes sorry Peter and others. In my initial message I should have specified that I was only talking about Thailand. I repeat -- do not carry your original passport. It is worth a fortune to pickpockets. We are always told that it is the law that you must carry your passport as Thais must carry their ID cards. At a time of some troubles (forget which) one of the more notorious police area chiefs produced a poster in English aimed at farang stating what to do if stopped by police. It included tips like -- insist, if being searched, or urine checked that it is done in in a well lighted area. You CAN take photos of the officer etc. About ten tips as I remember. And one that said that it is only necessary to carry a good copy of your passport and visa(?). I have lived and worked here in the centre of Bangkok, involving many night taxi trips etc, for 25 years plus and holidaymaking more than that, and although stopped and searched many times have NEVER been asked for my original passport, the copy sufficed. Well, those are MY experiences. I wonder if anyone else can recall the original police poster (as in 'poster' stuck on a wall). It could have been Thong Lor or Asoke police that issued it. And Peter, any idea of a print shop that laminates near to Silom or Phrom Pong? My big local one claimed not to do it.

I have never carried my passport around with me when overseas except for the currency exchanges that require the passport and then it goes straight back to the room safe after the transaction, I carry my driver's license and a photocopy of my passport information page and visa / stamp page. On my last trip to Bangkok X-One currency exchange accepted the photocopy as identification. I also have my passport in an RFID sleeve which helps to keep it in very good condition.

This seems rather like a post I made some months ago about the online stripchat site. Quite recently a number of Chinese have appeared on the site, many in groups of three or four, all very young, very skinny and play rather silly games before eventually stripping off. They get much higher tips than almost all the westerners. Solo Chinese are also becoming common. A couple of days ago, my bf asked me to look at the screen. It was the page of a young 20ish Chinese who got from the same viewer two 'donations' of 2,200 tokens. He ended up that session with a masturbation show and 5,100 tokens. I understand from the web that 'models' on stripchat earn 5 US cents per token. By my reckoning he earned $255 for about four hours 'work'. Yet most young western models spend longer online and are lucky to end up with between 100 and 200 tokens. So clearly there are some in some countries very hppy to pay way over the odds for whatever tickles their fancy!

Rainfall in the south of Thailand is far from uncommon even into the middle of December. I recall a 5 night stay in Phuket in mid-December 1996 when it poured with rain every day.

Being here on a long term visa, my answer is simple. I take a photo of my passport details page and another of the visa. I cut to size, back one to another and then have it laminated. I always carry that in my backpack or back pocket. There are shops offering lamination all over the place, even one on Saladaeng just before you come to Senso. I realise this is less easy for those here on short trips visa free. Then it is the arrival stamp the police are interested in. So just a quick photo copy of that and the details page should suffice. No need to risk losing your passport and it saves a trip to a police station if for any reason they ask for it.

A real probem for this complex is that it housed mostly elderly people. The largest age grouping was those aged 65 and above. CNN has reported that of recent buyers, the youngest was in their 60s. It was one of the government's low cost housing complexs of which there are many in Hong Kong. Private rentals are so high that a broom cupbord in the city centre is basically unaffordable for most. Government public housing is sold at very substantial discounts resulting in long waiting lists. Residents of Wang Fuk Court became concerned about the cladding and fireproofing over a year ago when they started writing to the government about it. Between July 2024 and November 20 2025 the Labour Department had carred out 16 safety checks, the latest reminding the contractors of the need for fireproofing of materials. The death toll is now 94 with that total expected to rise to several hundred. https://edition.cnn.com/2025/11/27/asia/hong-kong-fire-survivors-questions-intl-hnk

I'm baffled. we keep our extras in a storage place outside of the kitchen. You'd have to walk there, grab a bottle of something and come back to the kitchen. It never happens. That said, some friends had to leave town suddenly for a funeral, and their kitchen was a mess, and their fridge had spoiled food so we cleaned it all up for them. They didn't need to come home to that. I was shocked at how many double bottles of stuff there were in their fridge. Who does that? Why? Don't you have a place where you put these things so when you look for the open one you find it? It probably helps that I have some ADHD, so if I'm not anal about where I put things, I lose track of them quickly. A lesson I reteach myself regularly.