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Our wonderful @spoon told me about this Kasaimassage Twitter (X) account to check out, as the masseur specializes in: - Cumcontrol - Edging Today, as I am in Bangkok for some days, I wrote to this guy on LINE, as was displayed in his Twitter (X) bio: lin.ee/dSHPVFQF and I chatted with him this morning to make an appointment, which I had today at 4pm. I booked a 90 minute session. The masseur's studio is in the chic and luxurios Noble Ploenchit condo complex at the BTS Ploenchit station ( exit central embassy gate ). He met me in the lobby and took me up to the studio. When the elevator door opened you are in his studio - I was like wow. He is a sexy 28 year old young Thai guy with a nice body. We made some small talk and then I took a shower in his studio before we started. The entire massage is sensual and erotic, where the sensualness slowly increases during the massage. He starts out with his gliding hands and then he eventually transitions to a very nice type of massage oil, that smelled like eucalyptus. He puts your leg in what the Thais refer to as the shape of the number 7, so that he has full access to your genitalia (in a non penetrative manner), to make sure that you are fully stimulated for when he eventually tells you to turn over. Then he starts the cumcontrol in an edging style - in that your now erect cock is stroked in sensual ways that are slowly increased in their timing to bring you to the edge of an orgasm. He is also erotically touching your nipples and balls and groin. Three times I had to make him stop so that I could prolong the pleasure. During our session he got naked during the cock edging part and he let me play with his nipples, stroke and suck his nice cock. Around the 85 minute mark, he edged me over the edge and gave me a very intense orgasm. He is definitely an edging and cumcontrol master. Out of a maximum rating of 10 - I give him a 9.5 rating. I paid 3.000 baht for my 90 minute meeting. He can also organize a 4 hands cumcontrol edging session if you would like. Below is a screen capture of his Twitter (X) account. I asked him if I could publish this in our forum and he said yes. You can see that he is followed by the Thai massage comnunity, that is organizing the first ever MIMA Party on 3 May 2025.

I had literally just got out of the lift in my condo and walked outside when I heard a loud bang. It was the nearby elecricity transformer. I was on my way to do some shopping on SIlom and Sukhumvit. When I got a taxi, the driver was almost screamng at me - "Aftershock! Aftershock?" I stupidly did not understand what he was saying because I had actually felt nothing as I was walking. Then my partner started sending me X videos of water like a waterfall coming from a skyscraper swimming pool, and then another of a tall building under construction that was collapsing. I then realised there had been an earthquake. But that's odd, I thought, because Bangkok is not in an earthquake zone! The traffic was becoming bad and eventually my taxi driver dropped me on Saladaeng Soi 1 saying he had to get home. Not even having had breakfast, I was hungry. The Skytrain and MRT plus shopping malls were closed. Fortunately, market stalls were open, and then I found some guys drinking at a tiny Spanish restaurant on Saladaeng. They told me it was still serving food. I therefore enjoyed an excellent lunch. By this time the internet was working again and I could see that the quake did not occur in or near Bangkok. It was a major 7.7 quake situated close to the surface near Mandalay in Myanmar. That's a big one, bigger than the 6.9 shock I had experienced near San Jose in 1989. It was felt all over west Thailand and in China's Yunnan Province. The only other time I recall Bangkok ever experiencing such a shock from a quake was the one off Aceh Province in indonesia in December 2004. Shopping abandoned, getting home was the problem. Silom was choked with traffic for the most part not moving. Taxis and motorcy taxis were impossible to find. So i walked down Convent and eventually found one motorcy driver on Sathorn prepared to take me the 4 kms or so to my condo. He wanted Bt. 20 more than I offered which i was delighted to agree. Weaving through the enormous traffic jams on both Silom and Nanglingchee was sometimes scary but the driver knew what he was doing. I got back safely - only to find the lifts were still out of action! 8 floors later and an exhausted owner finally was home and ready for whatever water was left in the shower! But still no aftershocks, and I expect there will be none as they will usually be much closer to the quake's epicentre. We would certainly have felt a few by now if we were going to get any.

Thank you. Yes, that's what I've found elsewhere. Though, when I lived in Mexico City I'd get middle of the night calls after bars closed from former tricks looking for a place to crash for the night, or a day or two ... and how they would perform in bed! I turn my cell off at night now, wherever I travel (and at home). My situation is a bit different than most others here. In addition to being 75 y.o. (of which I'm only one of that group here), I've dealt with prostate cancer surgery - and the aftermath. I've gone from a sometimes-versatile anal top to engaging, primarily, giving oral (which I do enjoy). My field of play is narrower, though. My sex drive is less than before. Not to fret though. Some physical/body contact ... sucking some cock ... a bit of kissing ... I'm okay with it. Adapting to my environment. I'm also focused on exploring the culture of the countries I visit, not just the sex opportunities (perish the thought!). Therefore, a tryst before bedtime is satisfying. I enjoyed decades of a very active sex life, wonderful times; literally hundreds of sex partners ... all the while escaping HIV/AIDS during my most prolific years. 😁

I recently discovered ChatGPT's new image generation function which turns photographs into beautiful Japanese anime drawings. I used it to make anime drawings of my time with my guy. 🥰🥰🥰

I concur with the comments written above by @PeterRS and @a-447 regarding the lack of independent thinking and the absolute avoidance of challenging superiors in Japan. I lived in Japan for nearly a decade, and I observed numerous examples of this behavior at work amongst Japanese co-workers over the years, during my time in Japan. And, as @bkkmfj2648 said, this behavior extends to some other countries in Asia as well. A stark example of the consequences of this mindset can be seen in the findings of the Korean Airlines B-747 aircraft that crashed into Nimitz Hill on Guam in 1997, on final approach, killing 228 people on board. The captain of the B-747 made some critical errors, and the two junior flight officers in the cockpit failed to challenge and overrule the captain's flawed decisions, leading to the airliner crashing into the mountain, within sight of the airport. If the First Officer and Flight Engineer had challenged and overruled the Captain, a horrific loss of lives could possibly have been prevented. Below are three key paragraphs from the findings section of the 226 page Aircraft Accident Report from the NTSB: 11. As a result of his confusion and preoccupation with the status of the glideslope, failure to properly cross-check the airplane’s position and altitude with the information on the approach chart, and continuing expectation of a visual approach, the captain lost awareness of flight 801’s position on the instrument landing system localizer-only approach to runway 6L at Guam International Airport and improperly descended below the intermediate approach altitudes of 2,000 and 1,440 feet, which was causal to the accident. 12. The first officer and flight engineer noted the ground proximity warning system (GPWS) callouts and the first officer properly called for a missed approach, but the captain’s failure to react properly to the GPWS minimums callout and the direct challenge from the first officer precluded action that might have prevented the accident. 13. The first officer and flight engineer failed to properly monitor and/or challenge the captain’s performance, which was causal to the accident. https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/accidentreports/reports/aar0001.pdf National Transportation Safety Board. 2000. Controlled Flight Into Terrain, Korean Air Flight 801, Boeing 747-300, HL7468, Nimitz Hill, Guam, August 6, 1997. Aircraft Accident Report NTSB/AAR-00/01. Washington, DC

Felt like Italian 🇮🇹🇮🇹 Anyway me and the bf meant to get off the baht bus further down but we ended up getting off early on the Jomtien main road ( next door to Jomtien medical clinic) to see a Italian restaurant in front of us ! Looked a bit "shabby " but we walked in and a Australian guy with Italian background is running it Turns out he lived in Sydney a long time and owns the Building of Candy Bar He told me had the restaurant in the Jomtien complex for 7 years before moving to the now Main road position , I said I didn't even see it in the JC A fantastic guy and delicious spaghetti Bolognese 🍝🍝delicious 😋 😋 all for 230 baht big plate and it was getting a crowd in there

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"you too big" is a complaint, but it's also a compliment, so there's less loss of face(for both parties) than naming the real reason for refusal, whatever it might be.

People tend to exaggerate how often they cum and how little they pay 😉

I sent my application already

He was a writer, a playwright, an aesthete, bon vivant, dandy and absolute master of the pithy epigram. The title of this article is one. Even better known perhaps is, "I can resist everything except temptation!" He was also gay - although not initially so. For a time, he was the toast of London and its high society matrons and their rich husbands. Eventually leaders of that society were to turn on him with a viciousness more suited to a violent criminal. He was disgraced, tried in a court of law, found guilty, imprisoned and died in exile in Paris. But his story is a great deal more complicated than these simple facts. Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde came into this world in Dublin in October 1854. After a stellar success at the universities in Dublin and Oxford, he moved to London. With his biting wit, flamboyant dress and glittering conversation, Wilde quickly became one of the best-known personalities of his day, much sought after at soirées given by the great and the good. Following a brilliantly successful lecture tour of the USA and some time in Paris, he married and had two sons. By this time he had begun earning a reasonably decent income, but it was his wife Constance who had the real money, an inheritance from her grandfather whose investments provided her with a regular income. For four years he lived in what appeared to be a loving family relationship. He had written some poems and stories, none of which had much success. Then came his first novel “The Picture of Dorian Gray” which illustrated his verbal wit and intellectual playfulness. The novel became particularly important for two reasons. First, the theatre producer George Alexander suggested that he write an entertaining and modern social comedy for the stage, This was to result is “Lady Windermere’s Fan” which became a huge success. My favourite Wilde epigram comes from the play, “What is the difference between scandal and gossip? Oh! Gossip is charming! History is merely gossip. But scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.” The other result of the novel was that it all but bewitched a young Oxford undergraduate, Lord Alfred Douglas, known to his friends as Bosie. It is alleged he read the book 15 times. Douglas was determined to meet Wilde. They had a mutual school friend in Lionel Johnson who quickly arranged an introduction. The meeting took place in the Wilde home in London’s Tite Street. By all accounts it was both amusing and lengthy. Yet as they discussed the novel, Wilde was almost overcome as he gazed at Douglas with his extraordinarily good looks and mop of blond hair flopping over his eyes. Although Wilde at that stage was still married to Constance, he had begun to develop an interest in young men. In 1886 aged 32 he had been seduced by a 17-year old Canadian Robert Ross and they entered into an intense relationship. In some respects, he felt family life had started to constrain him both in terms of his work as a writer and as a sexual being. Ross opened up for him a whole new life, one of excitement and freedom. Having studied classics at university, he was well aware that relationships with young men had been part of and central to Greek intellectual life. That in the England of the late 19th century it also carried dangers appeared only to add to its charm. The friendship between Wilde and Ross was to last for the rest of Wilde's life. Yet it was soon Bosie with whom he became utterly infatuated. An early photo of Wilde and Bosie At the time of their meeting, Bosie was in fact being blackmailed over an indiscreet letter he had sent to another youth an Oxford. He needed financial help. Intrigued and excited, Wilde went to Oxford, arranged a solicitor and paid the blackmailer the requested £100 (a great deal of money in those days). Thus a sort of shared danger not only ignited their love, it developed quickly into a passion. Soon he discovered that sexually Bosie was far more experienced than he. The sense of excitement he had felt when they had first met was enhanced when Bosie introduced him to some of London’s seedy gay underworld. Wilde unquestionably felt more alive than ever. That Wilde loved Bosie there can be no dispute. In one letter he wrote, “You are so dear, so wonderful. I think of you all day long, and miss your grace, your boyish beauty, the bright sword-play of your wit, the delicate fancy of your genius, so surprising always in its sudden swallow-flights towards north and south, towards sun and moon — and, above all, yourself.” In another, he ends with the line, "Always, and with devotion — but I have no words for how I love you.” This new sense of freedom found its way into Wilde’s writing, Within little more than three years he had capitalised on the success of “Lady Windermere’s Fan” with three more plays – “A Woman of No Importance”, “An Ideal Husband”, and the most successful of all, “The Importance of Being Earnest”. Even if you have not seen the play or one of several films made of it, almost certainly you will have seen this short clip from the 1952 movie with the incomparable Dame Edith Evans uttering arguably Wilde's most immortal line. The formidable Lady Bracknell has just been told that her ward’s paramour was not born in a hospital or even a bed. He was found in a handbag in the lost luggage department at Worthing station. Wilde was now earning far more money than he ever dreamed of and his fame was rising rapidly. in another of his epigrams he writes, "I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best!" Finally he was able to indulge Bosie’s most extravagant whims including spending weeks at a time at one of London’s most fashionable hotels, The Savoy. Being seen by so many in society, however, meant that gossip naturally followed. Another of Wilde's epigrams ends, "A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies." It was to prove prophetic. Bosie's father was the Marquess (often spelled Marquis) of Queensberry, a man's man who had drawn up the Queensberry rules used in the sport of boxing. He had an intense dislike of homosexuality which bordered on an obsession. Queensberry was an arrogant, unpopular brute of a man whom no-one in the establishment liked. As an atheist, he refused to take the oath of allegiance to the Queen – he called it Christian tomfoolery – and was not permitted to take his seat in parliament. He particularly disliked the Prime Minister, a fellow Scot, the 5th Earl of Rosebery. Rosebery was certainly bisexual if not homosexual and always surrounded himself with handsome young men. Queensberry called him a “snob queer”. For some time Rosebery’s inner circle had included Queensberry’s eldest son and heir, the Earl of Drumlanrig, as his Private Secretary. Queensberry must certainly have been aware of the strong rumours of a homosexual affair between his son and Rosebery. This may have fed into his anger towards the influence he saw Wilde exerting over his third son. He confronted Bosie and told him he must never see Wilde again. To which Bosie replied with the equivalent of “Fuck off!” Then in October 1994 just as Wilde’s last play was about to be rehearsed, tragedy struck when Drumlanrig died with a single gunshot to the head, a suspected suicide. By now fully aware of Wilde's gay reputation, Queensberry was incensed on learning that another of his son’s relationships might have developed into a sexual one. Unable to find Wilde when trying to warn him never to see his son again, he left his name card at Wilde's club, adding "For Oscar Wilde, ponce and somdomite (sic)." It seems clear to us today that Wilde should just have let the matter pass. After all, few had actually seen the card. Even if Club members were to hear and whisper about it, the chance of it going further into the public domain must surely have been slim. Oscar, though, was a proud and vain man. He was not going to let this man he so despised get off scot-free. Encouraged by Bosie but very much against the advice of his lawyers, he sued Queensberry for libel. That was his biggest mistake, Not only did he lose his case, within hours Queensberry had counter-sued - and won. In court a succession of private detectives hired by Queensberry during the first trial exposed all the detail of Wilde's promiscuity with young men and boys, all with dates, times and places. The jury in the case could not come up with a verdict. At the retrial Wilde was convicted of gross indecency and sentenced to two years hard labour. For Wilde the entire series of cases had resulted in appalling ruin and bankruptcy. Rather than stand by his lover’s side during the trials, Bosie fled abroad. Yet on his return he tried hard to arrange clemency for Wilde. One of those he petitioned was even Queen Victoria. Wilde on the other hand had begun to believe that his ruin was all a result of the Roseberry family feud which had pitted Bosie against his father. Thereafter he never wanted to see him again. But he was soon to change his mind. Each realised he missed the other. They travelled clandestinely to Naples where they hoped to find a way of living, both having been cut off from their own inheritances. Soon their love was downgraded to friendship. They continued to meet both in Naples and in Paris to which Oscar had moved. Throughout the trials it had been the ever-faithful Robert Ross who had supplied Wilde with emotional encouragement. To this was added financial assistance when he moved to Paris. It was Ross who was at his side when he died and Ross who had been made Wilde’s literary executor On the 50th anniversary of Wilde’s death in 1900 aged 46, an urn containing Ross’s ashes was placed into Wilde’s tomb at the Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris. Here he was in the company of such luminaries as the composers Chopin, Rossini ("Barber of Seville") and Bizet ("Carmen"), pop singer Jim Morrison of The Doors, authors Gertrude Stein and Marcel Proust, artists Seurat, Pissarro, Delacroix and Corot, and perhaps most appropriately of all, the Irish revolutionary William Lawless. Wilde may not have fomented revolution, but through his manners, his openness and his writing he came to present a complex problem for the establishment of the day. By failing to play by their rules, he ensured his own downfall. The establishment always won. In 2012, Wilde was in the first group to be inducted into Chicago's Legacy Walk, an outdoor public display which celebrates LGBT history and many of its personalities. In 2017 he was one of up to 60,000 thousand homosexual men given a posthumous pardon by the British government under what has become known as the Alan Turing Law.

It is not exactly the same although negative sentiment is directed towards them as well. Consider this: Laotians speak a language and have a culture that is very close to Thai, it is easier for them to go under the radar and assimilate and they are considered close cousins of the Thais, whereas Myanmar is frequently featured in popular historical thai TV series as villains. Their language is from a different language family. The memory of the sacking of Ayutthaya in the 18th century by the Burmese remains alive among the Thais. This last point can be difficult for some westerners to comprehend as history is often dismissed and ignored, but Eastern Europeans can relate to these sentiments. Some of these sentiments are reciprocated on the Myanmar side. Some Burmese newspapers will dismissively refer to modern Thailand as Siam, alluding to the defeats that kingdom faced in the 18th century. Burmese immigration to Thailand has also been very significant compared to the other nationalities since the 1990s when Thai economy really took off. This is related to the long civil war of that country. All in all, Myanmar and Thai history is strongly tied together in a love hate relationship, which set them apart from the other nationalities. Thus when tensions rise over immigration it is often directed towards the Burmese, although it will affect other ASEAN nationalities too. When the police decide to raid and you don’t have a work permit you will get deported regardless of nationality, but arguably the consequences for young Burmese men are higher.

As if their viewers would have a clue to where either is 😝

Important decisions are made, of course, just like in any advanced economy - but only at the top and only after long discussions which drag on forever. Once a decision has been reached on an issue, a meeting is then called to ostensibly discuss that issue and, surprise surprise, a consensus is reached! And everyone can quickly move forward together in lock-step. And, of course, you'd have to mention the Japanese workers' diligence, exceptional skill based on a very good knowledge of what their job entails (knowledge gained from rote learning), attention to detail, willingness to work for lower wages than those in the West, dedication to the company over the family, blindly following instructions without dissent, no pesky interfering unions to worry about,..........the list goes on.

yes , to get lifetime memories

You are racist. And the Chinese built the Great Wall, which has been standing for thousands of years. And their Wild Goose Pagoda has survived hundreds of earthquakes. And only idiots shout at every corner about the reasons for the destruction of an unfinished building, without understanding anything about construction or earthquakes. And less than half a day after the event. Hysterical squirrels. Are you familiar with the words "load-bearing structures", "strength gain period", "core of a high-rise building"? Are you aware that unfinished buildings do not have a design strength at all? And the strength of, for example, a building with a pre-stressed core can be 100, or even 1000 times higher than that of the same building, but in an unfinished state? This is not like building houses with your grandchildren from blocks. "Expert"... From 94 tallest buildings in World 52 are constructed by Chinese, 5 from Top-10 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_buildings

I remember passing by I think it was 2 9-Teen massage places on my visit to Bangkok last year. I spotted a gorgeous guy sitting outside. As I had just had sex I decided is come back later in the evening and grab him. When I turned up, he was no longer there, so I chose another guy, only to be told they had a rotation system and that they would choose the masseur for me. I didn't bother and never returned. Sorry but if I'm paying, I'll choose.

Happened under Reagan.... I see a big flaw in all the arguments..... you all mention Trump's plans, decisions, etc.... You give him way too much credit.... he's just the Bully sending the message the real puppet masters are making.

That was scary. I was chatting with my Thai boyfriend and the curtains and lights in my condo room started swaying at 1:22pm today. https://www.khaosod.co.th/breaking-news/news_9694098 Here is a 6 second video of the lights above my bed swaying....scary... 20250328_132732.mp4

Moses has made his Russian propaganda bonafides pretty obvious. Is he moonlighting now for Chinese interests? Enquiring minds want to know.

I was checking out some of the hotels around silom on how safe they are. These are some of the response. Seems like croom is the most reassuring 🤭

So why do they make visa applications so complex, and threaten to tax overseas income?

From Pattaya Mail By Barry Kenyon Thai international law attorney Victor Wong doubts that the major concern of either Thai immigration or the Thai Revenue Department is the plight of retiree expats on fixed incomes. He told Pattaya Mail that TRD was aware of billions of baht imported dubiously into Thailand via off-shore accounts, cryptocurrency transactions and untaxed income from overseas corporations. Both Thai citizens and foreign speculators were involved. As regards Thai immigration authorities, their main concern is visa-related regulation and investigations into business fraud such as unauthorized working, use of nominees as shareholders and illegal short-term renting of condominium units. “In spite of rumors, I have seen no evidence of TRD seeking to identify expats through their visas except those who are accused of a criminal offence,” said Victor. He said that TRD had introduced the policy (a reinterpretation and not a change in the law) that “assessable” overseas income was subject to taxation from January 2024, but there were many exceptions. Thus foreigners living in Thailand for less than 180 days in the calendar year are exempt, as are those who transferred less than 120,000 baht (around US$3,500) or those living on historical savings (money transferred on or before December 31 2023). Double taxation treaties are also relevant according to Professor Suthasinee Piriyakijkomol, a tax auditor and associate judge of the Labor Court. “The agreements differ country by country, but my advice is to keep a detailed record of tax paid in the home country as this can be used, if need be, to offset any future TRD demands,” she said. She agreed that some agreements were more detailed than others on personal taxation. For example, the American treaty is more detailed on US pension or social security income, and where it should be paid, than the British one. Victor said that one of the biggest loopholes in tax collection is cryptocurrency which can lead to investment fraud, mule accounts and money laundering. For example, traders change currency to stablecoins, then quickly transfer that to a digital asset exchange outside the country and finally change it to cash again. “The point here is that these crimes are rarely, if ever, connected to retirees living out their later lives here. But they consume a great deal of Revenue and police time.” Continues at https://www.pattayamail.com/business/thai-lawyer-downplays-expat-visa-awards-versus-personal-taxation-worries-495793

checking stamp collection doesn't require erection although if definitely helps

@reader Fox News is simply conforming to an official US policy that has been in place for decades. That policy has been to not recognise the new name of Myanmar that was imposed by the military junta in 1989. There are several reasons why: Dispute Over Legitimacy – The country’s name was changed from Burma to Myanmar in 1989 by the military junta that took power in 1988. Many governments, including the U.S., did not recognize the military government as legitimate and refused to acknowledge the name change. Support for Democracy Movement – The U.S. maintained the name “Burma” in solidarity with the pro-democracy movement, including Aung San Suu Kyi and her party, the National League for Democracy (NLD), which initially continued using “Burma” as well. Lingering Policy and Tradition – Even after Myanmar moved towards partial democratic reforms in the 2010s, the U.S. government continued using “Burma” in official contexts, though some officials and institutions have used “Myanmar” interchangeably. The US also refers to the former capitol Yangon as Rangoon, and the US embassy to Burma is located in Rangoon. So you can’t really blame this on Fox News or any change in policy from the new administration.

so, what was the out-cum of your tax filing ? 🤪🤪

You guys are SO right..... So, last night we returned to The Best Bar to see their 11pm show, of which one component includes the 2 sexy male dancers with erections in their speedos.... 1743306550416.mp4 yes - too many whiskey shots and whiskey and coke and soda last night.... As suggested by our sage @vinapu I stuffed his speedos with a 500 baht bank note (in other words, I performed an expensive version of the "Vinapu tuck" ) and he replied to me, are you sure mister - that is 500 baht? I replied, yes, and he put my hand on his hard cock so I could squeeze it some.... 1743306586456.mp4 Earlier this same evening, my Thai boyfriend organized my 4 hands massage in my condo with one of the waiters of The Best Bar, JJ, and JJ revealed that this sexy male dancer that I am smitten with, that his name is, it sounded phonetically like this: "May Day" - at least what my ear heard - but I think that his real Thai name is: เมธา (Metha) - which when translated is "wisdom" or "intelligence". May Day!! May Day!! - my threatening emergency.... Throughout the rest of the night - off in the distance - he would smile at me in a very encouraging way. But being with my Thai boyfriend (and we were in the company of 5 of his best friends) I needed to be a good boy - even though they all understood that I wanted this dancer and some of them were encouraging me to push it further - but I could see in the eyes of my boyfriend that he would not want to be subjected to this craziness....We even saw him sitting with a Thai customer for a little while caressing his leg....so, I believe that there is hope.... So, I will try to return to The Best Bar by myself on one of their sexy boy show nights, which are: Monday, Tuesday, Friday, and Saturday. Footnote - while waiting for the show to begin during our pre-drinks out on the main alleyway of Supertown - at The Best Bar - we were watching many many farangs entering and exiting the Gus Bar - which is directly in front of The Best Bar. You had to move a curtain to get into the innards of the Gus Bar - and each time the curtain was moved for an incoming or exiting farang you could get a quick glimpse of the dark underworld behind that curtain. Hmmm, what could be happening in that darkness with all of those guys behind that curtain ? The Gus Bar is co-owned by the nearby Sunee Bar - as Gus is one of the owners.

I think this is quite common. I wish I had a dollar for every guy who bottoms or sucks cock, but who asks me not to tell his friends in the bar. I once met a guy from Super A who had the most beautiful bubble -butt. I was dying to fuck him but he insisted he was top only. Oh well, I thought, I'll off him anyway and just spend time in bed, admiring and playing with his butt. Imagine my surprise when he asked me if I wanted to fuck him! "Sshh...don't tell anyone in the bar." Before I knew it he had his butt up in the air, doggy style, waiting for me to enter. At first I thought he was just gay for pay and was smart enough to realise he could double his chances of an off, and double his money, if he offered up his butt to customers. But he absolutely LOVED being fucked! When I stopped to take a breather he'd continue moving his butt on my cock, moaning with pleasure. Of course, I offed him every night during my trip and also on subsequent trips. He is now married and has 2 kids!

would you stop that nonsense of going back and forth to prove you point of doubtful relevancy ? Better tell us some earthquake news to stay on the thread subject, any damage in your area ?

My friend who is in Bangkok now sent me this. Scary 😱 VID-20250328-WA0000.mp4

I'm one of those that are not too keen on the bars, I don't mind the beer bars for a drink or two but not the show bars and I very much prefer the massage shops for a quick spot of fun.

"Good authors too who once knew better words Now only use four-letter words Writing prose. Anything goes." These lyrics from the opening of Cole Porter's gorgeous 1934 musical "Anything Goes" could well have been written with the writer and novelist Christopher Isherwood in mind. Although Porter and Isherwood may never have met, both were gay. While Porter married in part to mask his sexuality (the fact that his wife was rich no doubt also helped!) the English-born Isherwood was one of the 20th century's most openly gay men. 1950s photo of Christopher by William Caskey with whom he had a tempestuous 5-year affair Deprived of his father killed during the First World War and thereafter of life with the remainder of his family when, as was customary for those of the upper middle class, the young Christopher was packed off to boarding school, he quickly made friends. Equally quickly he discovered his homosexuality. Boys' boarding schools in those days were notorious havens of homosexuality, an activity that was often more innocent than romantically serious and usually discarded when young men advanced to university. One school friend who followed him to University was the young poet W. H. Auden. The two became best friends and frequently shared a bed, even though Christoppher was at Cambridge and Auden not far away at Oxford. Unlike Auden, though, university for Christopher was not to be taken seriously. At the end of his second year in 1925, he was sent down, the polite phrase for being expelled, after he wrote joke answers on his end-of-year exam papers. This caused great annoyance to his mother who had expected her son to become a Cambridge don. Christopher did not care. He took a variety of part-time jobs – as a private tutor, as secretary to a music group, as an attempted writer of novels and attended medical school. Like many Cambridge students of the day, he had dabbled in Communism, believing like so many others in the Russian propaganda which painted a picture of a superior egalitarian society than the very unequal society then in Britain. Perhaps fortunately he was some years older than all but one of the infamous Cambridge ‘five’, the British spies Donald Maclean, Guy Burgess, Kim Philby, Anthony Blunt and John Cairncross, all recruited from university who went on to betray many of their country’s secrets to the Russians, the first three defecting to the post-war Soviet Union after their discovery in the 1950s and 60s. The austere face of Sir Anthony Blunt, exposed as a dangerous spy for the Soviet Union in 1964 as “the fourth man”, but permitted to retain his position as Surveyor of the Queen’s Pictures provided he confessed what he knew. He was finally unmasked and disgraced in parliament in 1979. Christopher was far more interested in what was happening in poverty-stricken Germany. When Auden moved to Berlin for a few months in 1928, he wrote to his friend extolling the availability of gay men in the Weimar Republic. Isherwood followed a few months later. Berlin had earned a thoroughly deserved reputation for sexual freedom and debauchery. The words of Cole Porter were never more true: sexually, in Berlin “anything goes”! As his lover of many decades, Don Bachardy, later made clear, "To Christopher, Berlin was boys!" (Isherwood did not meet Bachardy until 1953 on a beach in California when he was 49 and Bachardy 18 - they remained together until his death in 1986). Whereas Auden had left to teach in England, Christopher stayed on and positively revelled in Berlin's thriving gay scene. He was later to say he had had sex with at least 400 boys. In staid old England and indeed the United States to which he would emigrate in 1939, 400 must have seemed an outrageous number. The compendium of the three novels based on Christopher's Berlin days Then in 1932 he met his first real love, a handsome 17-year old German named Heinz Neddermayer. But storm clouds in the form of the Nazi Party were on the horizon. In 1933 the pair escaped to England, but Neddermeyer could not obtain a long-term visa. After a second short visit in 1934, they gave up trying and started four-years of wandering around Europe. The relationship had to end when the Gestapo finally caught up with Heinz in 1937 and enrolled him in the German Army. Neddermeyer survived a short period of forced labour and military service. In 1938 he married and had a son named Christian in 1940. Heinz met Christopher only one more time, in 1952 when Christopher was researching what was to become one of his most famous books of his time in Berlin. In 1938 while getting over the split with Heinz, ever the wanderer Christopher had joined his old pal Auden on a trip to the Paris of the Orient, the very permissive Shanghai. They had a commission to write a book on the Sino-Japanese war, but it was Shanghai that fascinated Christopher far more. He wrote – “The tired or lustful businessman will find here everything to gratify his desires . . . if you want girls, or boys, you can have them, at all prices, in the bath houses and the brothels. If you want opium you can smoke it in the best company, served on a tray like afternoon tea.” Just before war broke out in Europe, Auden and Christopher moved to the United States, the former to New York and Christopher to California. In addition to writing and working on various movie scripts, he became a disciple of the Ramakrishna monk, Swami Prabhavananda and remained a Hindu for the rest of his life. Soon after arriving in California he became one of the celebrated European émigré set, mixing regularly with the likes of Thomas Mann, Igor Stravinsky, Charlie Chaplin, Bertolt Brecht and Greta Garbo. As he left for the USA he had written a novel based partly on his experiences, "Goodbye to Berlin". In 1951 one of his friends persuaded the playwright John Van Druten to adapt the novel into a Broadway play, "I am a Camera". Eventually it was fashioned into a movie of the same name, Later this was refashioned to become the Broadway musical "Cabaret". With its haunting music, provocative story and lyrics, all set against the backdrop of emerging Nazi Germany, "Cabaret" became a huge Broadway hit. Soon the new movie version was to make it into an even bigger worldwide sensation. Liza Minnelli instantly became one of the world's top stars (and a gay icon in her own right) and the first person ever to appear on the cover of TIME and Newsweek magazines in the same week. Liza Minelli as Sally Bowles - YouTube Allied Artists In one scene, Sally Bowles is confronted by her erstwhile English lover about another man she has been seeing - Brian: "Oh! Fuck Maximilian!" Sally: "I already did!" Brian (sheepishly): "So did I!" Even for 1972 that was close to pushing the limits of public acceptability! Isherwood continued to write and Bachardy became a noted painter. Their partnership had its ups and downs, especially when Bachardy started a series of affairs. Yet the relationship survived. Indeed, it became a model for many gay men of the time undertaking long-term relationships in the new openness of the gay liberation movement. The cover of a DVD about Christopher and Don’s relationship A frequent visitor to their home was the gay artist David Hockney and the couple feature in several of Hockney’s paintings. Christopher and Don at home painted by their good friend David Hockney Christopher died in 1986 aged 81. In recent years 90-year old Bachardy has overseen the publication of Christopher's voluminous diaries and the republication of his novels. Even if only his Berlin stories and "Cabaret" are to survive into the future, they must surely be a fitting tribute to Christopher Isherwood, one of the celebrated gay icons of the last century.

Yes, I know! What has one of the most popular disco numbers of the 1980s to do with Gay Icons? I wonder how many are aware that this song comes from a Broadway musical? "Chess", with lyrics by the chess-loving Tim Rice who in the 1970s had made himself a nice fortune as the lyricist for Andrew Lloyd Webber’s "Jesus Christ Superstar" and "Evita" and then later for Disney with lyrics for Elton John’s “The Lion King” and other shows, was one of Tim Rice’s pet projects and very dear to his heart. I saw the musical in its first month in London in 1986. To write the music, Rice commuted to Sweden to discuss it with the ABBA boys, Björn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson. They liked the idea. In the view of many, including me, their music for “Chess” remains one of the greatest Broadway scores of all time. 18 months prior to opening, the producers issued a concept CD with the full cast and the London Symphony Orchestra. This raised expectations for “Chess” to a very high level. Murray Head’s “One Night in Bangkok” became a massive worldwide hit in terms of record sales and radio plays, as did the lovely duet sung by Elaine Page and Barbara Dickson, “I Know Him So Well.” Head was well-known to cinema audiences as having been part of the first mouth-to-mouth gay kiss in the John Schlesinger 1971 movie “Sunday Bloody Sunday” when his other party was none other than the almost aggressively heterosexual actor Peter Finch. Sadly for “Chess”, though, internal Broadway feuding and international rapprochement as Gorbachev's star was rising and the Soviet Union soon to collapse, rendered Tim Rice's book and lyrics about a Cold War love affair set alongside a chess match between a Russian and an American all but redundant. It struggled along in London for three years but then flopped spectacularly on Broadway with a loss of over US$6 million. Some years later Andrew Lloyd Webber's "Aspects of Love", his first post-"Phantom" musical, lost $8 million after it too died on Broadway, thus becoming Broadway's most expensive flop up to that time. This was massively eclipsed by the $60 million loss after “Spiderman: Turn Off The Dark” also collapsed in 2017. That sure-fire hit had become a legendary debacle. Broadway can be an unforgiving beast. “Chess” also faced a major problem when a much bigger disaster hit the world. Apart from groups of doctors in New York and Los Angeles, no one thought much about HIV and AIDS when it first started on its train of devastation. As more and more information came into the public domain, suddenly gay men in particular started to fear this new illness for which there was no cure. One who contracted it was Michael Bennett, the hugely successful producer/director who had pioneered a revival of the dance musical with “A Chorus Line”. Audiences on Broadway and in London adored "A Chorus Line". Unfortunately when the movie version was on the drawing board Michael Bennett turned down the role of director when the producers would not accept the changes he wanted from the stage version. So iconic was the stage musical that many established directors also turned it down. It was only when the producers reached Richard Attenborough whose “Gandhi” had recently won Oscars for Best Picture and Best Director, that he accepted. Many felt this was an unwise choice. A very British director for a quintessentially American musical. The sceptics were proved right. The film version was neither a critical nor audience hit. Tim Rice had loved “A Chorus Line” and was certain that Bennett was the right director to get “Chess” on to the stage. Bennett agreed and started working on casting the show and having very expensive large and unusually tech-heavy scenery constructed. Bennett’s vision was essentially a multi-media show. Some found this odd given that Rice’s book is set in a small Swiss village in the Alps. Then disaster struck. Bennett’s illness had progressed and he was forced suddenly to resign from the production. To take over, Rice was able at short notice to sign the director of “Cats” and "Les Misérables", Trevor Nunn. It quickly became known that Nunn hated the high-tech design, but he had no choice. He had to work within it. The show’s first night had the critics divided. Some loved it; others panned it, mostly because they felt the book was a mess. The undoubted star of the show was the then relatively unknown Swedish singer Tommy Körberg who played the part of the Russian in the chess contest. Audiences seemed to like the show but there was no rush for tickets. Allegedly it was the large weekly advertising budget that kept the show running for three years. For its later Broadway run Nunn was retained, but he had the book and some songs rewritten, the show was recast and it had little in common with London. While the history of “Chess” illustrates the complexity and risk involved in getting a musical from original idea on to the stage, it also illustrates how much the world of entertainment needs musicals. For if Broadway IS New York, now it also belongs to the world. Musicals had always toured internationally, mostly in locally produced versions often quite far from the Broadway originals. When Andrew Lloyd Webber teamed up with the struggling gay London producer Cameron Macintosh, though, a new idea was born: cloning musicals. Macintosh realised that audiences in Sydney, Berlin and Tokyo not only wanted to see a hit show, they wanted to see exactly the same show as audiences in London and New York. Thus the musicals' franchise was born. The result: everyone involved in their shows - "CATS" and "Phantom of the Opera" (and let's not forget that Cameron had also produced on his own two other blockbusters, "Les Misérables" and "Miss Saigon") - started achieving profits earlier producers could not even dream about. Some years ago Forbes Magazine estimated Macintosh’s wealth at over US$1 billion – and this was a man who had started his career as a stage hand in one of London’s large theatres with just a dream to become a producer! Years earlier Lloyd Webber had hit the billion mark. Mackintosh was a visionary in more way than one. When he wanted to take “Cats” to Japan, no theatre owner would give him more than four weeks. This was the custom in Japan for Broadway shows and no owner considered a western show like “Cats” might play for longer. Mackintosh and his Japanese partner in the show decided to mount it in a large marquee on a vacant plot of land in Shinjuku. The first "Cats" tent in Tokyo: Photo by Masanobu Yamanoue So successful was it, it ran there for two years. When the landowner decided to develop it, Mackintosh just took the show to Osaka, brought it back to Tokyo and then to various other cities. Now it has not only been seen by well over ten million people in Japan, there is a specially built CATS theatre where it continues to run more than 40 years after its first performance. How those theatre owners must be kicking themselves! Worldwide, “Cats” has generated US$3.5 billion in ticket sales – and that number is still rising. As the relatively recent book "Razzle Dazzle: The Battle for Broadway" by Michael Riedel illustrates, the relationships between theatre owners, producers, directors, PR teams, performers and critics have usually contained far more drama offstage than on. Perhaps less so in its beginnings during the Great Depression when all audiences wanted were bright lights, glitz, glamour, chorus girls - and more chorus girls! Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II changed all that. When the curtain went up on their first collaboration "Oklahoma" in 1943, the audience literally gasped, for this show and four others that followed from the same team transformed the musicals' genre from musical comedy to serious musical theatre, with real story lines and real people living all but real lives. A string of great musicals followed, starting with "West Side Story" by the gay quartet of Stephen Sondheim (lyrics), the book by Arthur Laurents, Leonard Bernstein's gorgeous music and stunning choreography by Jerome Robbins. Others included "My Fair Lady" and "Fiddler on the Roof". Soon thereafter the Dance Musical came to the fore with the brilliant - and gay - Michael Bennett conceiving and directing "A Chorus Line" and David Merrick producing "42nd Street". But as if in a flash Broadway itself was threatened by one of the world’s mega-disasters. The sexuality of those on Broadway has always been the stuff of gossip. The distinguished British actress Dame Peggy Ashcroft once said, "Of course I knew Laurence Olivier and Danny Kaye were having a long-term affair. So did all of London. So did their wives. Why is America always the last to know?" Perhaps it's the Puritan streak in America that encourages people to look the other way. Those who faced up to reality knew full well that Broadway and the Broadway musical had always relied on gay men and women for its success, and the toll of those who died in the early years of AIDS was horrifically high. It was not just the male dancers and the dozens of boys in the chorus who were dying by the week. Directors like Michael Bennett, actor Tony Richardson, Joe Layton ("Barnum"), song writer Peter Allen, Larry Kert who played Tony in the original "West Side Story" and the lead in Stephen Sondheim’s “Company”, lyricist Howard Ashman, choreographer Michael Shawn, publicist Frank Nathan, set and costume designers - the obituaries just went on and on. As my little memorial to all those who died, here is the Anthem with its stunningly beautiful melody from the “Chess” concept album, fabulously sung by the Swedish singer Tommy Körberg whom I saw in the original London production. It was written specifically for his voice and Benny’s smile in the control room at the end says it all! Although this is not a typical Broadway song I believe the melody is a fitting tribute. After all the crying and all the funerals, the Broadway musical picked itself up. To this day it continues to present some of the finest entertainment in the world. More recent shows are the talk of the town – “The Lion King”, “Wicked”, “Hamilton” and others along with revivals like “Cabaret” at Studio 54 which I saw around 25 years ago with the androgynous Alan Cumming superb as the Master of Ceremonies. Before the pandemic, 70% of all New York visitors attended a Broadway show. That equates to more than forty million seats sold - many to tourists! So I salute Broadway and its musicals as my final Gay Icon. Of course there are dozens more. But I wanted to keep the list relatively small. I could have added icons like Bette Midler, Judy Garland, Elton John and even Dame Julie Andrews. As discussed in an earlier post the ‘Divine’ Ms. Midler owes much of her fame to gay audiences. But others can now take over this short series if they wish. Finally, since much of this post has been about “Chess”, rumours of yet another revision of the show and a return to Broadway have been around for years. Now, Sir Tim Rice has confirmed that it will open this autumn but no further details have yet been provided. Will it open? Once the curtain has risen, will it succeed? No one ever knows. When the curtain rose of the opening night of “Phantom of the Opera” in London, neither composer Andrew Lloyd Webber nor producer Cameron Mackintosh could bear to watch. They were terrified. They spent the evening walking the streets of London. When they returned for the final curtain, they knew they had not just a hit, but one of the greatest the world of musicals was ever to see. But the unforgiving beast that is Broadway did not escape Lloyd Webber. As he stated in an interview in London’s Daily Telegraph, after “Phantom” he wrote six more shows, including “Sunset Boulevard”. All flopped financially!

I have a small group of 'regulars' that I try and see every trip. Lads that have given me great sex, and/or warm companionship and/or are fun to take out to the clubs etc. There are one or two key members of that group, others on the fringe that drop out or who are, for various reasons replaced. They are lads that I keep in loose contact with in the long months back home and who I am really looking forward to hooking-up with again on my next visit. Notwithstanding them, I also love visiting the bars and 'interviewing' new boys, looking for that spark that makes my tired old cock stir, getting them back to my room, and seeing how we get on together. Some prove passing ships, others I am keen to see again. Over many trips I have yet to find the one lad that can make me foresake all the others (old and new), although I get very close to, and get very fond of, one or two of my group. But I am only a holiday visitor and probably behave like one; perhaps if I was to spend longer living here, or even live here, then 'the one might' emerge?

weren't you supposed to take day of rest today ?

I think that we need to take a step back and look at recent events from a "the universe is trying to send us a message" point of view. Yes, put your tinfoil hats on. 1.) On 9 October 2024, the UN General Assembly elected Thailand as a new member of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) - to commence on 01 January 2025. https://www.benarnews.org/english/news/thai/elected-to-unhrc-amid-concerns-10102024151340.html 2.) PM Paetongtarn Shinawatra visits with China's President Xi Jinping during her visit 5-8 February 2025. https://www.mfa.go.th/en/content/post-pr-pm-to-prc-en 3.) 27 February 2025 Thailand forcibly deports 40 Uyghurs back to China in violation of international law and the fundamental principal of non-refoulement. https://news.un.org/en/story/2025/02/1160586 https://ishr.ch/latest-updates/thailand-slammed-by-un-bodies-for-uyghur-deportations-to-china-as-it-assumes-human-rights-council-membership/ 4.) Thailand suffers from political pushback and fallout from the above item #3, including negative economic consequences. https://www.bangkokpost.com/business/general/2991604/a-mutually-beneficial-pact https://www.reuters.com/world/us-sanction-thai-officials-over-deportation-uyghurs-china-2025-03-14/ 5.) Earthquake in Myanmar on Friday 28 March 2025 causes panic and damage in Bangkok, where 1 single building under construction by a Thai Chinese venture collapses. https://www.khaosodenglish.com/featured/2025/03/31/probe-focuses-thai-chinese-venture-in-bangkoks-fatal-building-collapse/ The irony is that this building was supposed to be for the Thai SOA = State Audit Office. Of all possible governmental entities to become a victim of potential fraud = amazing. 6.) Yesterday, 31 March 2025, at around 10am, there was a panic attack in many downtown governmental offices here in Bangkok, when supposedly new earthquake tremors and cracks were felt and seen, causing evacuations of many governmental buildngs. https://www.nationthailand.com/news/general/40048117 The Thai PM pleaded with her citizens to stay calm and to not panic so easily and to trust the government. So, what is the universe trying to tell us, in my opinion: a.) Bad karma caused by this government has caused harm to Thailand and its citizens, b.) Trust by the citizens in their government has eroded. I know that this current government survived last weeks no confidence vote by a large majority - but the universe has still spoken, and in my opinion, the universe cannot be ignored or controlled by the Thai government. https://apnews.com/article/thailand-no-confidence-vote-paetongtarn-fda1ba87ea3aaf920ee65c447e77a08f Anyone else here believe in the voice of the universe?

I think this board is proof positive that it's true, I'm speaking from my geriatric perspective lol

Just spoke with my guy in Bangkok. He was in his apartment near Quarter Hotel on Soi Tarntawan when his building began to shake strongly. On the way out he and another resident helped remove an 88-year-old man and got him outside. He now says many businesses are closing around Silom. Has not felt any aftershocks yet. From the Nation A building under construction in the Chatuchak district has collapsed following a significant earthquake, trapping 43 workers, according to the National Institute for Emergency Medicine. Seven workers managed to escape the site, and the Narenthorn Emergency Medical Services Center, along with its rescue network, has been dispatched to provide immediate assistance. In response to the incident, Army Spokesperson Major General Winthai Suvaree announced that Army Commander-in-Chief General Pana Claewplodtook has ordered the immediate activation of the Army Disaster Relief Center for public assistance. Continues at https://www.nationthailand.com/news/general/40047984

Possibly, but you seem to be assuming that the removed documents were identical to those submitted. If they were, why go to the trouble of removing them when other copies exist and you could so easily print another identical copy?

From Pattaya Mail By Barry Kenyon Myanmar young men, deported from Thailand, will likely be conscripted into the junta’s army. The arrest in Pattaya earlier this week of 52 Myanmar nationals without work authorization papers highlights yet again the acute labor crunch. Pattaya employers cannot fill all the jobs with Thais alone and need many tens of thousands of guest workers from neighboring countries and Myanmar in particular. The main gaps currently are in the hotel and food industries as Pattaya prepares for a record-breaking Songkran, but the Confederation of Thai Trade and Industry also points of shortages in the construction sector as the building boom continues. According to the real estate research center AREA, the Chonburi housing market is worth more than any other province in Thailand. But Myanmar nationals have their stern critics in Pattaya and elsewhere. Khaosod reports that xenophobia and anti-Burmese sentiment is spreading in Thailand through social media. On Facebook, Paiboon Arunthanawanich claims that the medical budget has to be shared with aliens and that Myanmars are taking away Thai jobs. Other Facebook critics complain that Thai budgets should be spent only on Thai citizens and write enthusiastically about president Trump’s immigration policies in USA. But, as Khaosod stresses, these sentiments have lost sight of the fact that low-paying manual jobs are no longer attractive to Thais whose actual unemployment rate is under one percent, mostly graduates looking for their first job. Continues at https://www.pattayamail.com/latestnews/news/pattayas-love-hate-relationship-with-illegal-myanmar-workers-495479

Fertility is declining on so many continents with the exception of Africa. The drivers of this varies by locale. In Asia one significant driver is the high cost of child care and good education coupled with the very high competition and stress in bringing up children in the educational arms race. Couples often prefer having pets instead of children. This driver alone outweighs any LGBT influence on the numbers.

I'm not answering for @reader, but this video from The Nation Thailand is about the new Lao museum.

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Absolutely agree. Much of the information at the start of an event like an earthquake is often speculation rather than fact - if only because facts are usually difficult to obtain. We can tell from reports here that some felt the earthquake was centred in or near Bangkok. Perfectly understandable given the videos we were seeing and the shaking most were feeling, Yet the fact that Bangkok is not on an earthquake fault line, unlike Chiang Mai and the north, was rarely mentioned in the early hours. Where Bangkok is susceptible to earthquakes is from relatively near fault lines. After living in the city for over 23 years, I can only recall one other earthquake emergency - from the massive 9.2 earthquake off Indonesia's Aceh Province in December 2004. That was roughly 1,250 kms away, yet apart from tall buildings swaying and evacuations, I cannot recall any deaths or disasters in Bangkok. The epicentre of yesterday's quake in Myanmar was almost 1,000 ks away. Vitually the same distance. So one question that needs to be asked is: why did the Myanmar quake with a lesser magnitude of 7.7 compared to 9.2, the third most powerful the world had witnessed - greater even than the devastating 2011 quake off Japan, result in much greater damage in Bangkok? Perhaps it is partly the depths of the two quakes - Aceh being at a depth of approx, 30 kms underwater whereas yesterday's is estimated as a mere 10 kms below the surface. Eventually the experts will inform us of the exact reasons. One thing must surely be certain, though. If a quake 1,000 kms away on a recognised fault line can cause the damage and panic it did in Bangkok yesterday, building codes will need to be revised. How many of all the recent tall buildings constructed in the last 30 years or so are effectively earthquake proof? As we saw in Nepal in 2015, devastating earthquakes do not just happen years and decades apart. They can happen in consecutive months. Worrying! And thank you @reader for your personal comment. I apologise for my earlier comments which may have cast doubts over your original posting.

From Pattaya News Rescue Operations Intensify at Collapsed Bangkok Skyscraper Rescue operations are underway with urgency at the site of a collapsed 30-storey skyscraper in Bangkok’s Chatuchak district, following a powerful 7.7-magnitude earthquake that struck central Myanmar earlier today. The tremor, centered near Mandalay, reverberated across Southeast Asia, causing widespread panic and structural damage in the Thai capital, which has been declared a disaster area. The under-construction building, intended to house the Office of the Auditor General, crumbled into a massive pile of rubble and twisted metal at approximately 1:20 PM local time, trapping dozens of construction workers. As of the latest reports, Thai Deputy Prime Minister and Defense Minister Phumtham Wechayachai has confirmed that three (some other reports have said four) workers have been killed, with estimates of 81 to 90 individuals still missing beneath the debris. Rescue teams have so far pulled multiple survivors from the wreckage, offering a glimmer of hope amid the chaos. “The situation is unprecedented in Bangkok’s history,” Wechayachai stated during a press briefing at the site earlier this evening. “We are mobilizing all available resources—military personnel, emergency responders, and heavy equipment—to search for survivors. Time is critical.” The Thai military, under orders from Army Commander-in-Chief General Pana Claewplodtook, has deployed drones to assess the damage and assist in locating trapped individuals. However, unstable rubble and downed power lines are hampering efforts, with rescuers proceeding cautiously to avoid further collapses. Bangkok Governor Chadchart Sittipunt reported that the quake caused damage to multiple high-rise buildings across the city, with inspections ongoing to assess structural integrity. “This is a disaster unlike anything we’ve seen in the past century,” Sittipunt said, noting that the city’s soft, muddy terrain may have amplified the quake’s impact. The Stock Exchange of Thailand suspended trading, and the city’s elevated transit and subway systems remain shut down as authorities brace for potential aftershocks. Many businesses across the city shut as well for the evening and traffic was in chaos as we reported here. Eyewitness accounts paint a harrowing picture of the collapse. Video footage circulating online shows the skyscraper, topped with a crane, toppling into a cloud of dust as onlookers screamed and fled. “It happened so fast,” said a nearby vendor at Chatuchak Market. “One moment it was standing, the next it was gone, and the air was thick with dust.” Workers at the site were seen scrambling to escape as the structure gave way, with an estimated 100 people present at the time of the incident. https://thepattayanews.com/2025/03/28/rescue-operations-intensify-at-collapsed-bangkok-skyscraper-amid-myanmar-earthquake-aftermath/

My thoughts and prayers for family members of our favourite Myanmar guys in Thailand. They must have been worried sick and trying to contact them back in Myanmar. 😔

The moderator, in the past, advised members not to worry about where they post. You placed your post in an entirely proper place as I did mine. There are no hard rules that I'm aware of except when it comes to photos. This forum wouldn't exist if not for posters like yourself. Keep posting and don't worry. That's what's important.

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From The Nation Indonesia’s economy is under significant pressure as the rupiah hits a 27-year low, and the Jakarta Stock Exchange Composite Index plunges 7.1%—its steepest drop in 14 years. These signals may point to deeper structural issues in the country’s economic and political landscape. Bhima Yudhistira Adhinegara, Director of the Jakarta-based Center of Economic and Law Studies, warns that the rupiah’s depreciation reflects market distrust toward President Prabowo Subianto’s leadership and economic policies, including the establishment of the Danantara sovereign wealth fund. Indonesia was once a top investment destination in the region, but last year, it lost its appeal among global investors at an alarming rate. Under President Prabowo Subianto, the government has made steep budget cuts across critical sectors, such as higher education funding slashed by 39%, healthcare spending reduced by 18.5% and public infrastructure projects cut by a staggering 73% As the global economy slows down, these cuts are not seen as strategic adjustments but rather as confidence-shaking measures that erode public trust, heighten economic concerns, and trigger capital outflows from Indonesia. President Prabowo’s “populist” policies have become an increasing concern regarding economic policy stability. His universal free school lunch program, expected to cost a massive 950 billion baht per year, risks pushing Indonesia’s budget deficit beyond the legally mandated 3% of GDP. In February, Indonesia established Danantara Indonesia, a sovereign wealth fund consolidating several state-owned enterprises, and announced its advisory board members, including former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, billionaire Ray Dalio, and investor Chapman Taylor. Initially seen as an ambitious move, the Danantara fund is now being regarded as a potential “financial time bomb” that could destabilize the economy. Critics have raised concerns over its management and transparency, suggesting that investment decisions might be driven more by political than economic factors. With rising budgetary demands from both Danantara and Prabowo’s populist policies, Indonesia may face increased fiscal burdens, including a widening budget deficit. Indonesia was once one of the most attractive markets in the region, but last year, it rapidly lost its appeal among global investors. President Prabowo’s administration has made deep budget cuts across essential sectors, slashing higher education funding by 39%, healthcare spending by 18.5%, and public infrastructure and utilities projects by 73%. Continues at https://www.nationthailand.com/blogs/news/world/40047953

Day 23 and 24 Longed for and coveted day for my readers finally arrived and this long reports comes to an end but not before enduring one more day. After breakfast S went to his room and I returned to my hotel supplied condo to do finances. While whole trip was within budget it turned out I’m short of cash for my last day , not really intended to be celibate. But since XOne now is opened on Sundays I marched there to get some much needed baht. When I was in GoodBoys I got a Line of guy who was sitting with me, he made sure to remind me about his desire to make my days even more pleasant than they are , sending me “ when”? messages daily, To this morning message my answer was “ 3pm’ today. I gave him location and at appointed time welcomed him in front of condo building where expressed desire to see how it looks inside so off we went. In fact it did not start well as he asked to smoke on outside patio and did not seem to be in rush to return to the room with impatient me inside, only firm ‘ hey you “ made him thinking I may become serious and it needs to be said all went very well from this point on. I like good looking, muscled guys who are bit talkative and are endowed properly and he possessed all those attributes. I think we had a bit of chemistry and at end of session I was pleasantly surprised how well it went with my initial reservations gone and forgotten. Having arrived on motorbike he did not ask for extra taxi money but being business oriented he ask for a little bit of gas money. I told him I don’t like it, he smiled , I have him 100 baht and got kiss as repayment. I thought silently “ what a fucking charmer he is” . Money and time well spent. Right after he left I went to Madrid Café in Charoen Krung soi 49 as today was my last chance to sample their pizza – they were closed when I went with my friend in the beginning of this trip . Hurrah, it was opened and I like small ritual we have with Jennie, the owner. She asked ‘usual” and soon Chang landed on my table and while after cherry tomato and shallots pizza as well. Mission accomplished, even typing this I miss the place and the pizza. It’s great loss to humanity they are no longer in Patpong. In the evening I went to Banana where again reader , Raposa , 10tazione and me had a drink outside watching the world to go by , then Will went his way and our trio went inside as show started. We got quite a prominent seats in front. #31 I offed in November was looking hopefully at me but I had other solution in mind for my last night. After watching show for about 1 hr, we decided to change scenery and walked to Moonlight where I had designs on M, guy I offed in beginning of this trip already. He was on the stage, smile at me and I wasted no time to point at seat beside me. Seconds later he was there. Even mamasan was surprised with my speed while disappointed that such self service deprived him his tip. Mindful that my night is short I left my friends in the bar hugging them good bye and soon world saw me sitting in the back of new shiny M’s motorbike. Second time with him was even better than first although at one point he was getting itchy to go . That granted me 1 hr. of sleep alone. At 3.30 fast shower , gathering last few unpacked things and at 4 I went out. No taxi in sight in the soi but as soon as I hit Silom one stopped. Seeing senior citizen with luggage he asked first :‘ airport ?’. We agreed on 500 , tolls on him , and we sped toward Swampy. Few hours later I left Thailand for 40Th time taking with me precious memories as well as 5 bars of soap and 6 bags of 3 in1 Khao Son coffee. Having just 1 hr. of sleep actually helped as I slept through most of my first 7 hrs. leg . 31 hrs and 50 minutes after I closed my condo in soi 3 , I opened door to my home. It was almost midnight so good arrival time to bit jet lag and indeed it worked. I had very little of it and it went away after 2-3 days . Did I get withdrawal syndrome after having 11 out of 24 nights celibate, 2 times as much as in all previous trips combined ? Answer is no. I knew it’s coming and reason was , exactly that , reason. I knew that this time finances are limited and I need to stick to limitation. Being always good with that helped. I had great 3 side trips , all in regions I did not visit before and having S with me in Chaing Rai was excellent idea as he is exemplary travel companion, asking for nothing, never complaining and if he was bored, never showed that to me. Glad I finally nailed longed for and coveted Jupiter guy, even if at some cost, but sense of achievement is worth it. Two new finds , M and Good Boys guy proved excellent and promising material for a future as well. Meeting so many members was true highlight of this trip and thank you all for scarifying your precious vacation time to meet . Now counting days to January 2027, my next trip