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I just came across this Clip from this filipino BL series and it centers around 2 gamers love during covid time. I know its not Thai BL but the guys are cute lol

Destination -Japan Rationale- I consider it my home. Before Covid I was a frequent visitor, often just for a few days to catch up with friends and celebrate birthdays, etc with them. I miss them so much! Zoom just doesn't cut it, I'm afraid. Thailand would be second on my list, I think.

From MSN News Thai stars relive experiences, lessons Filipinos saw the emergence of Thai Boys Love (BL) genre last year and embraced it with open arms. I Told Sunset About You (ITSAY) was one BL series that caught their attention and fancy. Good news is, POPTV, the first all-Pinoy streaming service, streams the Filipino-dubbed version of the coming-of-age drama series, produced by Nadao Bangkok and Line TV. A quick recall of the ITSAY plotline: Childhood friends named Teh and Oh-aew, played by actors Billkin Putthipong and PP Krit, respectively, ghosted each other because of a petty misunderstanding. After many summers, they run into each other in a review school. As they work their way to pass, if not ace, the college entrance exam, the two rekindle their friendship. “I think ghosting is something we could do but we should not do, because we should actually solve the problem,” PP gave his two cents, through a translator, on a person’s decision to cut ties and cut off communication with another person without explanation in an interview with The STAR. “We should find the cause of the problem. And we should talk about it, like be clear with each other.” He added that sometimes people are not in the mood to talk about their problems, and if one may add, they feel compelled to run away from others. “If we will eventually talk, but our mood has not settled down yet, it may bring the problem to a bigger effect,” said PP. That’s why people need some time and space to think things over and talk again. According to Billkin, there are two possible reasons why a person ghosts another in a relationship. “One is you are hating that guy so much,” said he in English. “Another thing is you love that guy so much. You want to raise the attention from him.” Billkin continued that ghosting is not a sign of cowardice but didn’t rule out the possibility that one ghosts another “(because) he is a coward.” What’s clear is, reasons for ghosting are varied and personal. He added that a person may do it to see how people react to and feel about the former’s sudden disappearance. “I like his confidence,” said PP about his character, Oh-aew. “He knows his goals, his aims and his objectives (in life). Although he may not be sure about his future path, his future career or what he actually wants to do (next) but his being confident is (what) I really love about him.” Teh’s concern for others, on the other hand, has won the heart of Billkin. “He is a caring person,” said the actor. “He always thinks of others in everything he does. He cares for his mom, he cares for his brother, he cares for his friends. That’s the thing that I love most (about my character).” I Told Sunset About You is among the popular BL series of 2020. Many may attribute its following to PP and Billkin’s performances, the script and cinematography. Its sequel I Promised You The Moon is available on Line TV and Vimeo Plus. https://www.msn.com/en-ph/news/national/i-told-sunsets-about-you-thai-stars-relive-experiences-lessons/ar-AALoRlB

I think i would rather stay in Phuket if i was going to do the sandbox thing. Koh Larn is nice for a visit, I enjoyed taking a boy over there with me as well. A week or two on that island alone.. i'll pass.

Perhaps tourists could arrive by parachute via Suvanaphuni. ? I have a few happy memories of taking boys to Koh Larn for the day - usually to the beach where the monkeys live.

Also interesting is the fact that the killed person was not an "ordinary" person but a policman and still nothing happend. Even in high developed democracies it is not easy to win a lawsuit against police.

It's a good movie...also on Amazon Prime. https://www.amazon.com/Goodbye-Mother-Hong-Dao/dp/B08G7J9F3M

If the government is afraid of its people, it should be trying to figure out why--unless, of course, it's satisfied with it. China has made great economic strides but rules by fear as a matter of preference. Well that's a far from accurate description how Thailand elects its leaders. The House of Representatives consists of 500 members, of which 350 are directly elected. The other 150 is elected through party lists given to the election commission by the political parties before election day. In the current system as laid out by the 2017 constitution, known as "mixed member apportionment (MMA)", the voter casts a single vote for his or her constituency MP, which is then also used in the calculation of the party list seats. This differs from the previous 2007 constitution, where the vote for constituency MP and party list MP were separate. Special elections can be called if the candidate fail to pass the commission's standards (known as yellow-cards) or if a vacancy occurs. The commission also have the authority to annul or ban candidates based on their standards (red-cards). The last election for the House occurred in 2019, with a special election being held in Chiang Mai after the winning candidate was disqualified. The current 250 senators of the Senate of Thailand were not elected, but were appointed by the National Council for Peace and Order, the military junta which ruled Thailand from 2014 to the 2019 general election. The 2017 constitution does not include elections for the Senate. That's all a far cry from the goal of allowing each citizen to directly elect their leaders. We may face a global crisis, but deviating from the right for voters to directly elect their leaders is not the answer. Only the voters should decide that matter, not a select group of appointed elite members of those societies. Th choice is clear: you either put your trust in each man and woman or you trust a group of the economically and politically privileged. In the end, that's the only way to achieve true democratic institutions.

The issue of the Red Bull heir who murdered the policeman in his Ferrari ought to be relatively simple. There is no dispute about the facts of the case, the accident, the 177kph speed of the car on Sukhumvit, the trail of oil leading to the Red Bull family compound, the failure of the family to release the heir to the police for many hours, the attempt to have a family retainer blamed as the driver, the presence of cocaine in his blood which he was taking for a tooth compliant and the death of a key witness. As for the cocaine, the Thai Dental Council trashed that idea when it confirmed cocaine has not been used for dental treatment for over 100 years! When being summoned for his five court appearances he conveniently hopped on his private jet and made sure he was in somewhere like Singapore on the dates in question. The arrest warrant is another matter. After he had escaped and spent some years overseas "apparently" unable to be found (first joke), "allegedly" the government, on the initiative of the Prime Minister (second joke) had Interpol issue a "Red Notice", the organisation's most urgent alert (third joke). A friend here who knows the senior Interpol officer in Thailand told me that Interpol was never asked to issue any alert! How true this was at that time, I do not know. But you can view all the 7666 Red Notices currently in force on Interpol's website. Guess what? Vorayuth Yoovidhya is not on the list. So who lied? The whereabouts of this fugitive from justice should not be difficult even if, as is surely likely, he is travelling under a new passport. The Red Bull presence is in many part of the world, notably at the calendar of Formula 1 car races. Indeed the Red Bull team has won the last 4 races and 5 out of the last 7. That the murdering fugitive has not been present at one or more of these races belies belief - at least my belief.

I hope it will reopen when the pandemic has run its course and gay tourists return in numbers.

This is the full report of my two (so far) meetings with Alan.

If Babylon is to close permanently- perhaps it has already- it will undoubtedly be the result of the property values of its surrounding area. However, anyone who remembers its old premises and the huge numbers it attracted twenty or so years ago will recognise that social media has affected the popularity of saunas, perhaps as much as that of gay go go bars. Obelisk and Colony went long ago. And others, whose names I cannot recall.

I'm becoming something of a boor on this subject but I must allude again to the highly-successful campaign to encourage the use of condoms, with a corresponding drop in birth rate in the 90s. I suspect that perhaps the improvements in living -standards under Thaksin twenty plus years ago played their part.

I certainly do not wish to see it as just an academic debate. This country needs change. Over decades I have made Thai friends from a variety of social backgrounds, including a couple who have been business colleagues and who I'd put on the border of being hi-so. All of them want to see changes. All of them vote. But not one has the remotest clue how it can be achieved. Perhaps it's partly the general Thai main pen rai attitude. But we can definitely agree about the education system. It needs a complete revamp. On a lighter note, I recall a meeting I had a few years ago at Siam BTS station. By one of the lines I saw a stout African American lady looking very lost. I asked if I could help. In a strong southern American accent she said she'd been trying to find Paragon but none of the station staff could tell her. Is it near here? I asked her to turn around 180 degrees. There in large letters was Paragon! She laughed. I asked if she was a tourist. No, she said," I'm here from Louisiana in the USA." So you're working? "Yes". I myself was having a little difficulty understanding her. It turned out she was a teacher. The Education people in Washington had asked for volunteers to teach English in Bangkok for 3 months. She thought it would be a good chance to see Thailand. "But the students are dreadful," she added. "They never do anything I ask them." I felt like suggesting this was almost certainly because none of them would have a clue what she was saying. But I just saw her to her exit. Why the US authorities would believe that anyone with any major accent would be right to teach English to kids in Thailand totally beats me! As for citizens demanding changes, again I agree. But like my Thai friends, I see no way of this happening even if every man and woman were given a vote and a political Party standing for election with a platform that included such changes. So we agree to differ. And I suggest that @z909's comments below are apt. I for one will cease this discussion. I will leave the last word to you should you so wish. I agree totally about the superb job done by Lee and his cohorts. But I totally disagree about the PAP having done such a good job that no-one wants an alternative. From dozens of visits to Singapore, I have seen how the PAP was never prepared to brook any form of opposition. It took many measures to cut opposition off long before more than a handful of candidates ever reached parliament which has a total of 89 directly elected seats. The Constitution allows also for up to 18 non-elected seats. Just take the case of the very first opposition party member to be elected, J. B. Jeyaretnam a Crown Council lawyer who had been Registrar at the Supreme Court. He won a by election in 1981 and was re-elected in 1984. But in 1986 he was expelled for a conviction allegedly for falsifying his Party's accounts. That was all a lie. The conviction was subsequently overturned by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council which called the conviction a "grievous injustice". He returned to parliament in 1997 but was again expelled in 2001 for failing to keep up payments for a libel action he had taken out against the PAP and lost. These were among the tactics of Lee Kwan Yew to maintain control.

Or if it's the Ph's Govt we're referring to and how they're handling things then perhaps INGOT might be closer to the truth !

As to SIngapore, having dragged what was virtually a swamp with no natural resources to one of the richest and most admired countries in the world in an incredibly short time, I do not believe Singapore can be ruled out so dismissively. Understandably there is a degree of dissent within the city state, but I doubt if you will find many Singaporeans who are unhappy with their lot. I believe economic development either must precede or go hand in hand with democracy, as in the case of Taiwan. In Singapore I am less sure about the people being afraid. I think the government is afraid! If achieving equality means giving a population the right to elect its leaders, presumably that means something along the lines of one man one vote. But Thailand essentially has that. Thailand was also one of the first countries in the world to give women the right to vote. But that has not resulted in equality. So 'achievement' cannot only stand on that. What other factors/institutions are required to ensure equality? As for the Churchill quote, I believe it is very important to remember the time when it was made. By far the mass of the population in the west took as their understanding of what was going on in their countries and what their leaders, politicians and would-be politicians were saying only from a variety of newspapers or from the radio. Those newspapers were owned by rich men with their own political bias. So the sources of information were very few. The class system remained in operation. If you were a working man i the UK, you voted for the Labour party, most often because your Union advised you to vote Labour. The Unions ensured that Churchill, having won the war, was immediately voted out of office. Nowadays entire populations have a vast array of information thrust down their throats from so many differing outlets that could never have been imagined seven decades ago. Further, a small number of huge international companies and hugely wealthy individuals now skew elections to help to persuade individual voters to vote for the candidates or the platforms they want elected. Lies are frequently becoming the norm. Would Britain have left the EU if the Brexiteers had not openly lied with banners on buses and repeated in the mass media that leaving the EU would result in an extra £350 million per week for the National Health Service? This was roundly condemned at the time, but it was an extremely potent claim given the very high degree in which the NHS is regarded in the UK. I cannot estimate how many were influenced by this. But I have a strong suspicion it could have been one of the key tipping points when it came to the referendum. Real facts are now routinely dismissed as fake news. With all this flood of information, how does an individual make a considered opinion in an election? Then there is the popularity issue. Would Donald Trump have been elected had he not been the star of a popular TV show? Would Joseph Estrada have been elected President of The Philippines had he not been a famous actor? Both were impeached. Estrada ended up in jail. There seems a reasonable chance that Trump's future may be similar. Finally, looking back at history, democracies cannot be the be all and end all of government if only because they have a habit of not lasting. Two years ago there was an interesting Wall Street Journal article. titled "The Global Crisis of Democracy" This started by pointing out that by 2006 the number of countries with democratic governments had reached its highest level - 86. It goes on - "But we are now at a precarious moment. Democracy faces a global crisis. We have seen 12 consecutive years of erosion in global levels of political rights and civil liberties, with many more countries declining than gaining each year, according to the nonprofit group Freedom House. Over the past decade, one in six democracies has failed. Today only a bare majority of the world’s larger states remain democracies. "Nor do the numbers capture the full extent of the danger. Behind the statistics is a steady, palpable corrosion of democratic institutions and norms in a range of countries. China, Russia and their admirers are making headway with a new global narrative, hailing strongman rule—not government by the people—as the way forward in difficult times." https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-global-crisis-of-democracy-11558105463

Part of the reason the elite get away literally with 'murder' is because there are no juries in Thailand. Justice is totally dependent on the judges. No need to guess what class they represent! Add to that a large dose of corruption and you have the answers!

It is a terrible thing that those with power or wealth are able to remove themselves from blatant wrongdoing so easily, but definitely not anything you won't also frequently see in western democracies or any other nation i can think of. The 'behind closed door' deals with district attorneys offices in the US, and dropping/reduction of charges across most other jurisdictions happens all too frequently, where political protection is used for donations and favor. The gun violence seen to be used across SEA by some of these corrupt Hi-So people is unique though, i remember reading some stories about Cambodia's elite and charges that seem to vanish for them after broad daylight murders over minor disagreements.. it is all pretty alarming.

Here you have the full review of my favorite finding in Buenos Aires, so far.

If you are in Fortaleza it's worth to visit Pirata Bar. It is amazing to see all local people dancing and having fun. Also an amazing scenery. The New York Times may have given rave reviews to its Monday night party with a tremendous live show of traditional music and dancing. It’s not a gay bar or even a gay theme night, but it’s something you should definitely do while you’re in Fortaleza. There are plenty of gay boys in Fortaleza that will want to go with you and have a good time. https://www.gayguides.com/listing/pirata/

This passed week has been cold for this time of the year. I should not be discouraged by these temperatures but I got infected by the locals and almost did not go out. I kept checking stuff out of my To Eat List, though. Of course, I already had my first breakfast with facturas argentinas. However, rather than purchased food, I am orgasming at my mother's cooking. One of my favorite flavors in the Milky Way, my mami's lentils stew: But I am not eating with her everyday, and so I am trying treats everywhere and checking them out of my list. Alfajores de maicena Pizza argentina. What you see is from Romario, a popular and traditional pizzería. At the bottom you have fugazzeta rellena, in the middle a mozzarella a la napolitana pizza, and on top two slices of fainá. Not everything is from my To Eat List, sometimes I take other things. I forgot to take pictures, so this one is from the web, but I tried a delicious pamplona de cerdo in a Parrilla Uruguaya two blocks away from my place: Certainly, this week I felt like my pants are shrinking. Hopefully this coming week I will walk moren as the weather forecasting is promising. Fortunately or unfortunately, all my friends are very cautious and only want to meet outdoors. So I have been meeting indoors with new friends. My Grindr continues to be in flames even two weeks after my arrival. I have met several guys with different levels of hotness but no one of them was good enough for a repeat. The panorama has been much more fruitful in the paid sex realm. I already tried 4 local taxi boys, all of them very good to outstanding. I have been introduced to a website I had never heard of before: escogeme.com. If everything goes well, I will try someone from there tomorrow. Meanwhile, I have explored soytuyo and Skokka. The latter is where you can find the best prices. The range of prices is wide. I have received offers ranging from $AR 2,000 (U$S 20 at official rate/12 at Blue rate) to $AR 6.000 (61/37). I will report the rates of the guys I am hiring here but not in my blog, as those prices will be very fluctuating. I already published a full review for Ander, which will be followed by Tomy's, Samir's, and Alan's. Today I did take a walk back in my old neighborhood. After it, I love even more Palermo. But these are a few pictures of Recoleta nowadays at noon on a Sunday.

Many Argentines feel like everything good in their lives is owed to Peronism. From the times of Evita & Perón, when a day is sunny nd beautiful, it is a Peronist day. Well, this has been a Peronist weekend. Spring like temperatures and the announcements of downgrading restrictions in the city got Porteños in the street. I joined them, and yesterday met with a friend nearby my base. I walked from my Airbnb to Plaza Italia. In my way, I enjoyed once again my neighborhood. This single block is representative of many others. In a few meters you can appreciate examples of buildings built along more than 100 years. And next to these typical landscape, you have a nuclear bomb that ruins everything. I am sure the view from these towers is amazing, but they completely fucked up the skyline and the nearby family houses' privacy. I wonder how much money those developers paid in bribes to get approved a construction permit breaking the standards for the area. In my way to Plaza Italia, I walked through another development from after my departure. They recycled the areas under and around train bridges. The one near my place is an open outlet shopping mall of local and International first brands. People were standing up in long lines waiting to enter the stores, as there is a limit set per squared meter. As most shopping malls, this one is forgettable, but I thought you may be curious about American burgers prices. This is a Wendy's display. 319= U$S 3.28/2.05; 359 = U$S 3.69/2.31. If you compare these junk food prices to what you have to pay for a prime steak (remember? I am paying 420), these are very expensive. However, in Argentina, fast food crap like Wendy's, McD, and BK, are the choice for the middle class. Just another example of Argentinean middle class' "tilinguería" (a localism for "snobbism" carrying all the cultural nuances that its standard universal synonym lacks of), famous all over the subcontinent. I met my friend at the Ecopark. I absolutely loved walking those trails I had walked so many times as a child, when the Zoo was up and running. The buildings are from Buenos Aires' golden age, when Argentina was still dreaming of becoming an International power. They are just beautiful, with many statues, fountains, and just all kind od constructions with high artistic value. The designers of some landscapes show great sophistication, the apparent intention is to show nature taking over the old buildings, as in a post apocalyptic narrative. Additionally, all the vegetation is local species. Most of the buildings that used to contain wild animals in captivity are now empty. Others have been refurnished. I still remember from 3 decades ago how this used to be a series of small cages with exotic tropical birds: Most animals have been sent to reserves, but a few still remain as they are too old, or sick to be translated. I saw an old poor elephant alone and away from the open to public areas. Other animals will probably become permanent habitants of a quite open space, in the middle of Buenos Aires. After te Ecopark, we walked towards Recoleta. This is all the fancier are of Palermo. We walked through the zone we mentioned before, Palermo Chico, where many local Plutocrats and diplomatics live. Right there, we have the embassy of a favorite American country. I ended the day exhausted after walking about 7 km, and went back home with the intention to write this report. But Grindr came in the middle of my task, and instead I ended inviting a local who made a party with my dick. I need to close Grindr or I will never hire again. To celebrate a good fuck, I ordered authentic Argentina empanadas. Another item checked out of my To Eat List. Today Sunday it was family time. First, I had to stop by the pharmacy to get more anti acids and more lube. Then, my mami was waiting for me with mbaipu. Originally the dish is from Paraguay, but we do the version popular in Corrientes. Another check out of my To Eat List. After spending some hours with family I took advantage of being back to Recoleta, and ran up to the artisans fair to buy a water pipe. And now I am here trying to make a decision. Grindr? A contract? Resting?

Ferchos Masajes Boys

All bars and clubs and go go bars have been closed since the start of April. And this wave of infections in Thailand, along with the absence of vaccines means they will remain closed for some time to come.