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Had a brief video chat on Line this morning my time, evening his time as he was preparing to go to work. Not sure if the video chats are going to be a good thing or bad thing. lol. Seeing him up close and personal like that just makes me want to turn around and catch the next flight back to Bangkok. Getting myself into serious trouble here.

The escapades were definitely reduced towards the end as I was wanting to spend as much time as possible with Cam. Still had a number of shops that I wanted to visit but never got around to it. Not sure that will happen on a future visit, either. Too new and too early to think about what extra-curricular activities might look like when I return. Something still to be discussed and negotiated between us. Previous relationship was monogamous. Not sure that will work in this situation given that Cam works at Hotmale. Foreign territory to me in such a relationship. Cannot say I am thrilled about him possibly going off with other men, but realize at the same time it is his job. Seriously thinking about paying the off fee for the 3-month visit so he keeps his number and job, but isn't working during the time we are together. Something I need to discuss with him, but also with the bar. Not sure how open the bars are to such an arrangement.

Good advice. Is there a reason why US airports do not permit international to international connecting flights like almost every other nation?

Seiji Ozawa ued to do this sort of stripping down once each year with his New Japan Philharmonic Orchestra in Tokyo. With the cast in costume, simple scenery, props and lighting in front of the orchestra, these proved very popular. He also did some of these with the Boston Symphony.

Oh wow. Thank you so much. Singha will be a must have on my next trip to Bangkok. Waiting expectantly for the next update.

There's a thread about it in this sub-forum.

Since you previously posted that Thai Guys are "way overrated" and "ridiculously expensive" posters may be less inclined to do so. You have also been posting about looking for big cocks since 2023!

I agree. Website has gone right up market!

Maybe people dont know any 'vanues'

Meanwhile, just a few metres from Agate, last week I saw workmen in the old Café John's. A new restaurant?

The sad thing about the repeats was that we would have enjoyed it near as much as if they'd stripped down sets and costumes and the rest to the minimum, and given us something new. I get all the other financial constraints, but as you say, there is only so much money around. You do the best with what you have, not do the best and hope you have.

Can't wait to read the rest..😜

Not many replies...Looks like people don't like sharing...🤣

3500 for 1.5 hours ..include everything? As in full sex? No extra to give?

That was my suspicion from the beginning. We'll see soon enough.

It's a stupid pain in the ass, no doubt. Always allow for 3 hours for international connections when arriving in the US.

Watching that made me sad for Democrats. And sad about 2020. Maya Rupert is introduced in this piece as an Elizabeth Warren 2020 advisor. So it made me think about those days, when lefty thinking was peaking. I have a lot of woulda, coulda, shoulda thoughts. Biden won in part because he had been Obama's # 2. And in part because he was the least unacceptable and most moderate of the bunch. In Biden's defense, what most fucked up his Presidency was one word, that he could do nothing about. And the word is not AGE or SENILITY. It's inflation. Inflation wiped out leaders and leading parties all over the world. Inflation is what brought us Trump 2.,0. That said, this rant of mine always goes to Mexico, and Lopez Obrador. He fought like hell for three specific groups: workers, seniors, and the poor. The inflation and COVID death was just as bad in Mexico. But he got his successor elected in a landslide. If you fight like hell for people, they remember and fight for you. And there are of course people who do relieve Trump is fighting like hell for them. Poor things. Some of them are learning. If Democrats had had what I will call an "AMLO moment" in 2020 all of this misery and cruelty and stupidity could have been avoided. Meaning if someone with an actual vision and temperament for fighting like hell for the workers, the seniors, and the poor had prevailed, just like in Mexico enough could have been both said and done to overlook that whole nasty inflation thing in 2024, I think. There are people who think that the last true gasp of Democratic progressive economic policy was in 2016, when Sanders fought the good fight and lost. I think of 2020 as that moment. America was ready to move beyond Trump, People wanted change. I will always think that if Sanders and Warren had fought together, as a team, maybe they could have won the nomination. There are people who think a Sanders/Warren ticket would have been kooky. The polls never said that, in the moment. People relate to Sanders' vision, and Warren's, which is like the AMLO/Scheinbaum vision. My big assumption here is that Sanders and Warren, unlike Biden, would have been able to fight like hell for the kind of economic policies - in a word, affordability - that Rupert talks about in that clip. I don't believe that even in his prime, Biden was ever that kind of guy. He was never a visionary, and a fighter. Which is what we needed. And what we need. Woulda. Shoulda. Coulda. It's never too late. The US, not to mention the whole fucking world, will be ready for a change again in 2028. In the mean time, this just makes me feel sad for what could have been. And all the misery and cruelty that could have been avoided. That said, on the bright side, who actually wants day care, or Medicare, or Medicaid, - or other such "scams" - when we can instead have war? 🫢

Those were good days 🍷🍷🥃 No ...I just think this looks like just another bar , 🪑🍷 farang sit ...farang drink Boring as a ,....

Doesn't appear many members here frequent Bali I would like to know about Bali too ,and if any gay bars / areas

They aren't open yet. 🙄 Are you worried it's someone who's thrown you out of their establishment before? 😏😆🤣😂😅

So true. And when we near the end of life, we often do not have the cash or the energy to complete the bucket list. So don't put experiences off. Enjoy life while we have it.

Doesn't that more or less say it all?

The problem for opera companies is that new productions take vast amounts of planning time - at least two years - and then equally vast amounts of cash to build newly designed scenery, create new costumes, props, lighting and other technical issues - and that is all before you add in a 3-4 week rehearsal period for everyone involved. including a very expensive orchestra. Most revivals can virtually be thrown on in a fraction of the time thereby saving a lot of money. That's not much help to those who have already seen productions, though. Recent decades have seen the collapse of the New York City Opera - a result of its idiotic Board Chair abandoning collegiality and hiring a controversial European Artistic Director who had demanded an annual budget of US$60 million. City Opera had never operated on more than $30 million. It crashed. Now the New York Met is in very serious trouble - and again primarily because of its Board. When its previous very savvy General Manager retired in 2006, it appointed a man who had never run any performing company, let alone such a huge one as the Met Opera, and had no experience of opera apart from selling programmes as student. But he was a pal of someone or other. He said he aimed to make opera more popular. All he has done is reduce audiences (fair point - covid did not help), reduce the number and amount of donations and drawn down roughly $100 million from the Endowment after promising the Unions he'd increase it by £200 million! Arts management professionals worldwide have called him a charlatan and clearly stated he should have been dismissed years ago, but he seems to have some hold over the Board who keep extending his contract. When he presented a Wagner RIng cycle by Cirque du Soleil's splendid director Robert Lepage early in his tenure, one of the horrendous problems that dogged this production was that no one, least of all Gelb, had realised that the scenery weighed 45 tons, cost US$16 million and was way too heavy for the stage structure. This then had to have an extra $1 million spent on it to support its weight. Idiocy!

What's the update ? Anyone go ? Who are the owners ?