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I just got to my next port of call after a 2 month stay in the Land of Smiles. Already I miss many things about it and I had such an amazing trip. I will admit that this trip was the best one in my 5 years of going to Thailand. I think part of this had to do with the places I chose to go and the people I chose to see. I avoided all the boring gossip queens in Pattaya and thus my evenings and my dinner times were much more enjoyable. I rarely offed a gogo boy I didn't know from previous trips. I spent my money on the guys I have grown to enjoy and love hanging out with as opposed to a new guy every day. In Chiang Mai, the trip was special as the hosts of PJ's Place made it very comfortable. I spent a month with them and then in Pattaya I stayed at the Marriott for a month. The Marriott is very conveniently located and the facilities are great. The gym there is clean and enjoyable. The people that work there could not have been nicer. I checked the boyfriend in on the room so he could come and go as he pleased. The rates at the Marriott are higher than I wanted to pay but the convenience made it worth it. Plus, I needed nights for my rewards nights. Thailand is a very unique and special place. For those of you who helped make my experience better, I thank you. I flew into NYC to spend the day with a friend and last night took a flight to Latin America to spend a month in another one of my favorite cities. It is amazing how much I already miss Thailand and the boyfriend. He has called several times to tell me to come back. To those of you in the Land of Smiles, enjoy every minute and each day try something new. I am looking forward to a return sometime over the summer. Enjoy Songkran!

I took the Thai air non-stop to NYC today. I was lucky as I got there 4 hour early. Good thing I did as the line to get through immigration took over 1 1/2 hours. I stood in a room filled to the max with others. The air con was not working well and everyone was sweating. It was a horrendous experience to wait that long. I am not really sure why they didn't have more officers there to handle the crowds but it was a pain in the ass to sit there. Also, I always travel with extra luggage that I pay for. I pulled out my Visa and was told they don't accept debit cards; only Credit cards and cash. She said this went into effect in March. This was Thai airways btw and I don't know the rules with the other airlines. Luckily, I had some cash to pay for this as that was the only card I had in my passport carrier. The nonstop flight was great and I much prefer it to the other ways of flying.

http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/...1725678,00.html Personally, I love the idea. Here is the time article: Unlike Barack Obama, Bill Clinton does not believe in "the fierce urgency of now." The former President has an exquisitely languid sense of how political time unfurls. He understands that those moments the political community, especially the media, considers urgent usually aren't. He has seen his own election and reelection—and completing his second term—pronounced "impossible" and lived to tell the tale. He remembers that in spring 1992 he had pretty much won the Democratic nomination but was considered a dead man walking, running third behind Bush the Elder and Ross Perot. He knows that April is the silly season in presidential politics, the moment when candidates involved in a bruising primary battle seem weakest and bloodied, as both Hillary Clinton and Obama do now. It's the moment when pundits demand action—"Drop out, Hillary!"—and propound foolish theories. And so I'm rather embarrassed to admit that I'm slouching toward, well, a theory: if this race continues to slide downhill, the answer to the Democratic Party's dilemma may turn out to be Al Gore. This April promises to be crueler than most. The two campaigns have started attacking each other with chainsaws, while the Republican John McCain is moving ahead in some national polls. At this point, Clinton can only win the nomination ugly: by superdelegates abandoning Obama and turning to her, in droves—not impossible, but not very likely either. Even if Clinton did overtake Obama, it would be very difficult for her to win the presidency: African Americans would never forgive her for "stealing" the nomination. They would simply stay home in November, as would the Obamista youth. (Although the former President is probably thinking: Yeah, but John McCain is a flagrantly flawed candidate too—I'd accept even a corrupted nomination and take my chances.) Which is not to say that Clinton's candidacy is entirely without purpose now that she is pursuing a Republican-style race gambit, questioning Obama's 20-year relationship with the Rev. Jeremiah "God damn America" Wright. Democrats will soon learn how damaging that relationship might be in a general election. They'll also see if Obama has the gumption to bounce back, work hard—not just arena rallies for college kids but roundtables for the grizzled and unemployed in American Legion halls—and change the minds that have turned against him. The main reason superdelegates have not yet rallied round Obama is that the party is collectively holding its breath, waiting to see how he performs in Pennsylvania, North Carolina and Indiana. He will probably do well enough to secure the nomination. But what if he tanks? What if he can't buy a white working-class vote? What if he loses all three states badly and continues to lose after that? I'd guess that the Democratic Party would still give him the nomination rather than turn to Clinton. But no one would be very happy—and a year that should have been an easy Democratic victory, given the state of the economy and the unpopularity of the incumbent, might slip away. Which brings us back to Al Gore. Pish-tosh, you say, and you're probably right. But let's play a little. Let's say the elders of the Democratic Party decide, when the primaries end, that neither Obama nor Clinton is viable. Let's also assume—and this may be a real stretch—that such elders are strong and smart enough to act. All they'd have to do would be to convince a significant fraction of their superdelegate friends, maybe fewer than 100, to announce that they were taking a pass on the first ballot at the Denver convention, which would deny the 2,025 votes necessary to Obama or Clinton. What if they then approached Gore and asked him to be the nominee, for the good of the party—and suggested that he take Obama as his running mate? Of course, Obama would have to be a party to the deal and bring his 1,900 or so delegates along. I played out that scenario with about a dozen prominent Democrats recently, from various sectors of the party, including both Obama and Clinton partisans. Most said it was extremely unlikely ... and a pretty interesting idea. A prominent fund raiser told me, "Gore-Obama is the ticket a lot of people wanted in the first place." A congressional Democrat told me, "This could be our way out of a mess." Others suggested Gore was painfully aware of his limitations as a candidate. "I don't know that he'd be interested, even if you handed it to him," said a Gore friend. Chances are, no one will hand it to him. The Democratic Party would have to be monumentally desperate come June. And yet ... is this scenario any more preposterous than the one that gave John McCain the Republican nomination? Yes, it's silly season. But this has been an exceptionally "silly" year.

Either that or I have scared away all the customers in Bangkok. For three days in a row, I have been in many of the bars in Bangkok and was one of very few if not the only customer in them. Tonight, on a Saturday night, we went into 4 of the bars and all were dead. The showtimes had many boys sitting there with no one buying them drinks and tons of empty spaces. I asked a few of the waiters I know and they all said it has been like this all week and that they were very very slow with few customers.

The drink prices on Soi Twilight are 250 baht up for anything you drink and this is not even at show-time or weekends. They go up on weekends. The lady bars are half that price and even less. The owners of the gay bars are making a killing off of the prices of the drinks. I have decided that I will spend much less time here than in other places. The quality of the boys are not as good as Pattaya, I hate the same old sex shows time after time and the prices for drinks just keep going through the roof. For me, a night of bar hopping is not possible at these prices and you have to choose one or two bars maximum to not break the wallet. I just decided to spend more time in other cities after seeing the lackluster of boys in all the bars last night combined with the crazy prices.

I have always thought this was the best bar with the most guys and the hottest. We were there last night shortly after opening and stayed an hour. Few boys were there and none were being offed. Is this now a place only for the shows? Was I there on a bad night?

A friend took me there last night. I had been once before a long long time ago and forgotten the location and had no memory of the bar until we sat down. Being my first trip, I don't even think I knew it was a ladyboy bar and to my memory, I thought it was just some aggressive ladies. Being a newbie back then, I don't even think the thought that it was a ladyboy bar had crossed my mind as it was in the middle of all the lady bars and I do remember feeling uncomfortable with the aggressiveness of the ladyboys. My friend tried to tell me last night about it and I knew I had been to all the bars and shows on that soi but didn't remember a ladyboy bar. We did all the bars on that soi including a bar named Screwboy (I think that was the name) and I had a guy from there steal from me one night. I never have returned to that Soi often. I use to frequent that Soi with all the lady bars and they have a few gay gogos there but I thought all had gone. It is the Soi beyond Twilight with the night market. If you are walking down the night market toward Silom, it is on the left hand side. Anyway, I had the boyfriend with me which made the night a blast as he was in hog heaven. My American friend sat there and seem to enjoy the show. The show was my blushing and the boyfriends hormones raging. I don't think he particularly enjoyed the ladies on stage but my shock was pretty funny even to myself. This is the ladyboy bar of ladyboy bars. You can't tell these boys from the girls in all the other bars. Wow. What an amazing assortment of beautiful ladyboys. My friend said it was about 50/50 post op and pre-op. They are aggressive and have no issue coming to you and telling you what they think you want to hear. My favorite line of the night, "I go with you. I can do anything. You tie me up, I tie you up, You fuck me. Your friend fuck me. I can Satist. I can S and M. I can anything you want. Sure, Mister anything you want, I can do." All that blurted out in less than 5 seconds like it had been said a few hundred times. It was enough for me to give a 100 baht tip as I had not laughed so hard in ages. My boyfriend called his friends back in Pattaya who we have spent the past month with and of course they all wanted to come to Bangkok today. I told them no but I did say that I would bring them all on the next trip to go out a few nights. After an hour of him talking Thai to them and me hearing the word katoy a dozen times, I know this is not something they are going to forget. I told the boyfriend last night if he made me happy I would make him happy tonight. To my surprise, he joined me in the jacuzzi and gave me a great back rub and was so gentle and sweet. Sex was great and then afterwards he said, "so, tomorrow we go back to same same." Of course. I don't know who the professional is, my boy or the lady boy at the bar with the 5 second spill. She cost me 100 bath. He will cost me a day of shopping at Siam Paragon.

We spent a night at Manhattan's last night. It was a group of gay men and Thai boys. I made clear when I made the reservation in person that I was gay, the group would be gay and we would have gay boys with us and possibly ladyboys as well. The staff said they had no issue with gay and would love to have us join them. We had drinks before and the staff was very friendly. The waiters were nice and everything was done very professionally. At dinner, we had a great meal and not once did we feel unwelcome. I spoke to 2 of the waiters when I went to the bathroom, and they were both gay and I asked if they had any issues with the management and they both said no that they were treated very well and no problem that they were gay and no problem with gay customers came. It seemed that they had a heads up on the rumors but according to them, they do not feel this way. My dinner was excellent. The food was great and I had fun. At no point did I feel uncomfortable being at a table of gay guys. For that it is worth, I think there was much to do over nothing with the former gay manager leaving. However, when he was there, I did feel better taken care of and more comfortable. I will go wherever he ends up as he really did make me feel like I was catered to and he knew me and the boys every move. He was on top of his game. The lady last night that took care of me also did the same thing and she proved great at making sure we had a fantastic time and meal.

Having gone on a few fishing boats over the years I have learned a few things. One, the less Farangs the less drama. Two, the less whiskey, the less chance of accidents. Three, you pay for what you get when you book a boat. I have used the same boat for a few years and once again talked to the owner about renting the boat for a 24 hour period. I took 14 Thai guys. Well, actually I took 10 guys and 4 of their ladyboys for a total of 14. I was the only Farang and not sure if I fit into the guy category or the ladyboy category as I spent the majority of my time with them playing games and cards. The ladyboys on the trip I have known for a few years and all speak perfect english and we had so much fun playing UNO and cards. We met the boat at 5PM and set sail for a 24 hour adventure at sea. We brought out own drinks and they provided all the food and fishing equipment. After we were out for a bit we were able to watch the sunset over Pattaya and we were served a delicious seafood dinner with fresh seafood and vegetable they had bought that day. The food was delicious and it was great to each which watching the sun set over sin city. We took the boat out further and they put out these long poles beside the boat with spotlights and that light up the water so we could fish for squid. The boys all got into the fishing and they caught over 200 Squid over the course of the night. After several hours of fishing, the captain took the squid and placed it on a BBQ and grilled it for us to eat fresh. We also saved a lot of squid for the fishing bait the next AM. The real fishers among the boys stayed up all night long and fished and fished until the sun rose. Me, I had a nice Queen bed (not build for a Queen but an actual size Queen Bed). There were plenty of places for the entire group to sleep and relax. Some chose to sleep a bit and others choose to drink and fish all night. The next AM, we all awoke early and fished all day. In between the rounds of fishing were several rounds of swimming and snorkeling. Lunch was prepared for us which was in abundant and there was so much left that we had food until we docked again at 5PM. We caught a hundred or so fish and we took them and the boys gave them to their perspective friends. I took with us 5 bottles of whisky and only 2 were opened. We had 7 cases of beer and most of that ended up gone but I think the majority by 4 of the guys. We also took sodas and water and other drinks. The boys were happy and all seemed to have a fantastic day. We spent time playing cards Thai style and I also taught the lady boys how to play UNO. They loved it and we all laugh until we couldn't laugh any longer. It was my birthday celebration and to my surprise, many of the boys had spent their hard earned money on gifts for me. I asked them not to do that but they did anyway. I was very moved. The 24 hours was fun and enjoyable and we all had a blast. The boat rents for 1,000 an hour so we paid 24k for the boat. The food was 250 bath per meal for regular meals per person and 450 for the seafood feast. We got the drinks in bulk from the drink warehouse near soi Sunee and Day/Night. The boat crew was excellent and we had a fantastic time. If you ever want a special event or evening planned, I suggest you give these men a try. They had the best boat at the docks and for my 7 or so times using them, I have had few if any issues. http://boatrentalsthailand.com/

OK. OK. Best bottom Jonathan Lowe. I agree 100 percent. Best Escort Agency: David Forest. What am I missing?

I am wrapping up my stay in Thailand and have had a wonderful trip. I met many nice guys and had such an amazing trip. The guys I met are simply the best. I also spent time with some great Farangs. I will say that the trip did miss the laughter of LMTU/EarWig as he is always keeping those around him laughing and having a good time. On this trip, he has been back in his home country and I hope that on the next trip, he will be back in Pattaya laughing and keeping everyone on their toes. As always it was great to see the likes of GayButton who is enjoyable to talk to and full of knowledge and information. As I have said in the past, few know more about what goes on in Thailand than he does. Also, I had St Paddy's day with the best chef in ALL of Thailand at his condo. What an amazing meal. Missing from my trip was the boring gossip queens full of bullshit and bitterness. It is often hard to distance yourself from guys like this but I just decided when spoken to by them to say hi and keep moving. The hardest thing for me is to say no to the street guys who ask for money for food. It is a true weakness of mine and I find it hard if not impossible to say no. I have good intentions each night too say no to everyone who asks but then I think all they want is 30 or 40 bath to eat and it is not a big deal. I have given in on just about every occasion. Perhaps I will learn one day to just say no. My favorite bar has been a toss up of Dynamite in Pattayaland Soi 1 and Villa Rouge in Sunee. Both have been fun and enjoyable. The best view of the boys going to work has been at Duc bar in Sunee Plaza and it is fun to get there for a cup of coffee or a diet coke to watch the boys as they go to work. The best food in Sunee was Eric's new place at Sammy's. The best in Boyztown was New Orleans. If you have never had the Hamburgers at the little stand at the top of Sunee, you must try it. Great buns, good meat and very tasty burgers. My trip is not over yet but down to only a few days and I am dreading the departure and saying goodbye to the boyfriend. Each time I come here I learn a bit more about myself and about the place and how to find a bit more enjoyment in my trips. My biggest enjoyment of the entire trip was a month in Chiang Mai. It is without a doubt, the place that is less talked about but the most fun. I plan to spend many more days and nights there. I was also introduced to a very sexy guy from Come In bar which I have been able to see every afternoon for a few weeks. He has been a true delight and a joy to spend time with. Other than him, I saw very few new guys. Most of the guys I have met on previous trips and gotten to know before. This trip was more about getting to know them a bit better. All in all, the trip has been amazing and full of fun times and as I leave, my pocket book is empty but my good memories are abundant. I do need a vacation from this holiday to rest up. How those of you that live here are able to do this day in and out is beyond me. It is great fun but I find myself exhausted at the end of each night.

I have really enjoyed this bar on my trip. They did an excellent job on the place and I love the way the bar is set up and I also love the socks and the outfits. They have a nice selection of guys to boot. They are having a party on March 27th. 2 Show Times at 10 and 12. All drinks 99 baht. Happy Bar is on Soi Yensabai.

I decided to enroll in the Diamond Club at Bangkok Pattaya and that was 14k baht. That gives me many discounts on most services at the hospital. I spent a day at the hospital taking in one exam after another. The physical was included in the cost of the membership. They did a heart test, blood test, cholesterol, sugar, stress, etc. All in all, they spent about 5 hours with testing from one department to the next. I also elected to do the HIV test and Thyroid check and a 64 slice scan. The entire day went from 9am till 4PM. They were VERY thorough. I was happy with the results and the doctor at the end of the day gave me a full report that was bound with the results and also suggestions on staying healthy. The main one he was was to loose 15 kilo. I told him I had lost quite a bit over the last year and he said, "need to loose more." Well, I guess all the results can't be great. They did find a gall stone that needs to be taken care of in the next 6 months but I will also check that out with my doctor in NYC for a second opinion. If I decide to have to removed via surgery, I'll most likely do it in Thailand as well. The 64 slice scan results take a few days and I won't have them until Monday. The entire day cost 14k bath but the extra tests I wanted and the 64 slice scan and the extras was 11k bath. So, the total cost for the entire day was 25k baht. I get another physical next year that is also free and part of their package. Bangkok Pattaya is an amazing hospital. I have been there many times and love their dental center and send my boyfriend and his family there when they are sick. I have heard some negative things about the place before but IMHO, this place is simply amazing. Clean, professional, thorough. It does look more like a 5 star hotel than a hospital but that makes the day go by even faster.

To sum it up: the new Iphone is Amazing in Thailand. Honestly, if you get it at Tuk com or another good place it has even more features than the unblocked phones do. My new Unblocked IPhone is amazing and I love it. With google maps in Thailand and e-mail and Internet and Wifi. But, they installed a program that allows for other downloads that I can't get on my ATT phone. The camera zooms in and out, it takes video, plays chess, etc. Leave it to the geeks in Thailand to outdo even Apple in what the IPhone is capable of! Amazing phone. Tuk Com. 23,000 baht Unblocked. 16G. 300 bath for all the additional programs. They will update it every time a new software version comes out. Easy to use and so far, I love it!

I lost my cell phone and with it my Sim card. I had a good number that was easy to remember and was more upset for loosing that number than my phone. I went to Tut Com to see if they could change it and they could not. Why? The number was a Prime number. It was a number with easy to read digits and that the company did not want to give back if lost. I thought this was odd but they said I could go to Sirichi (spelling) to get a replacement card. I sent the boyfriend to do this with his Thai ID card. They asked many questions like: How much money did you put on it last? What was the last number called? Where did you buy it? Well, the first 2 numbers were not easy as someone who found the phone could have easily have changed both of the answers. But, we gave them sufficient information to prove that it was our phone. Still, they didn't want to give the number back as they said it was a good number. A guy in line with the boyfriend offered 40k baht to him if he could get the number and sell to him. I was stunned. The boyfriend was able to get the number but had to give it the good old tip to the employee of the month payment. After over 3 hours with them, having to get a full police report of the lost card and phone, standing and talking for 3 hours to prove it was our phone, he returned with the new Sim Card. Holy Shit. What a royal pain in the ass! Lesson learned. I won't be riding a motorbike with loose pockets and checking to see who is calling.

There was a recent article in the Thai newspaper that talked about the Sunee Plaza sex shows. It mentioned the bars that have the jack off shows at 10PM as well as the places that have the special shows. All of these bars were on the same Soi. The shows are light in comparison to the shows in Bangkok and I am not sure why they singled out these bars by name. However, all the Thai guys that were reading the paper said that they would expect a raid based on the paper article as it upset many people.

i know how much I pay for the boyfriend to take care of him year round so that he doesn't have to work. Just curious about another number. I have a guy I like but I do not want to take care of him year round and want him to work when I am not here and also to make sure that he has enough money to buy food and pay rent. What kind of a number would this be? 200 baht a day? More? Less?

There are hot guys all over Pattaya and weekends brings in those that don't live here. This weekend they had an arm wrestling contest. The guys were hot and sexy. Here are a few pics from the day. I hope you enjoy.

Not sure how big it is but one of the sweetest mamasans in Pattaya and one of the ones who really look after and care for her guys is having a Happy Birthday party.

I went into 5 bars last night and they all had customers and seemed busy. Jim Jimmy James was so packed 2 times that I didn't get a seat either time. Look bar has many customers there and we had to squeeze into the bar. Happy Boyz was full and had a great number of customer and boys. Sundance had its bar with many there and Villa Rouge had people coming and going when I was there. It seems that a Saturday night is a busy night for all. The roads were jammed yesterday with all the weekend traffic and the bars were busy. At the end of the night we wanted to play a few games of snooker and we always go to where the Thai guys I am with enjoy playing. We went to 3 different places that were all packed until we finally found a place that had 2 open tables. Heading back to the hotel at the end of the night, around 1am, we saw 3 motorcycle and car accidents. The roads were still busy. How long does high season last?

Eric who once ran Clubber restaurant is now down the same Soi and cooking and managing the Sammy's restaurant. My friends and I had a stop over last night and the food was excellent. I had the Saturday special which was meat-loaf and veggies and potatoes and one friend had a German dish and 2 had the Spaghetti. I tried a bit of all and it was all very good. The price for 4 with drinks was 975 baht with a salad bar. The food was tasty and the owner was as charming as always.

Last night, I saw a guy I have offed a few times from a bar. I enjoy his company and spoke to him. He said he had a free day that day and was not working. I took him to a few bars with me and the boyfriend. We had a good time. When I asked if he wanted to go to his bar for a few drinks or open a whiskey, he said no that he would get in trouble. I tried to find out why and he said said that the mamasan would get angry with him. I am not sure if that is because he actually just skipped work or if he was with a Farang that didn't pay an off or there was some other issue. I found the whole thing a bit odd as I would have happily paid his off if he were working but I didn't see him until after 2 hours after he was suppose to work. I also didn't mind if he had already been offed and seen another customer. I just didn't understand why he would get in trouble. Any other reasons than the ones I thought of? Am I missing something big here?

I walked into a bar last night and turned around and walked right back out. There was a guy laying on top of a boy making out with him with a few of the other boys watching and rolling their eyes back. The only seat left in the place was next to this man. I turned around and walked out. I have seen many times when customers play with the boys and jack off them. I guess that is also something I have never done. I hope that a large tip is given when such things happen. But, when is too much actually too much to take place in the middle of a bar? What is the line or is there one? BTW: We were not on a second floor or even in a dark room. This was a well-known bar and around 10PM at night and many other customers were in the place.

I have never really understood the way the dollar moves up and down. I do feel the strain. When in Thailand on this trip, I am now getting about 29-30 baht per dollar. A few years back it was over 42. When in Brazil it is now about 1.7 and use to be 3.5. I had even considered moving to Montreal at one point when they loved the dollar now it is of less value that the Canadian money. On a recent visa run to Burma, they have always given the option to pay in USD or Thai Baht. Now, the signs still say USD but they refuse to take it as they say it is no good and prefer the Baht. I tried in 2 different places to pay with the USD which the signs posted said was fine but the agents were smarter and knew the value of that was less than the required baht so they found issues with each bill I presented. What will it take for us to get out of this mess? I really don't ask this just to talk. I really don't understand and would love to know where we are headed and if we are going to recover in the near future.

For those of you wanting to open a new bar or pub or office in Pattaya, may I suggest you use Google's decorator to help you? http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7290322.stm