ChristianPFC

I reward performance (not by high tips, but by repeat custom), not cuteness. I have reached a point where performance is more important than cuteness, and I had boys who were just so-so looks-wise and who I would instantly dismiss as "too fat" if I had seen them naked before meeting, but somehow they turned me on in bed.

I'm quite happy with blued in Thailand. (The various apps have been compared recently. See my comments there fore details.)

Massage and extras were perfunctory, and a ten minutes break which I find unacceptable, and on top of the (by my standards outrageous minimum tip) 2000 you gave an extra 300? I don't get it. Why did you have a driver waiting? There are taxi everywhere, on the road or online.

Do I read that right that Dream Boys Paradiso has a drink price of 350 THB, down from 500 or whatever they used to charge at Dream Boys / Boys Bangkok in Soi Twilight? Then there would be no more reason for me to blacklist them for being the most expensive bar, and I can go and have a (one, for research purposes) look some day.

Funny stories with the towels (ColmX), fridge and bathrobe (PeterRS). Those bottles have a cap that that shows if the bottle is sealed or was opened. And it's possible to check without damaging the seal. I would rather think that guests eat/drink from the room bar, and then refill it from 7-11 (solution would be the hotel puts sticker on it). I don't stay in such expensive places, where I stay in the provinces for average 500 THB per night, such problems wouldn't arise. But my pet peeve is a key deposit. It implies two things: 1 The guest is unable to look after his key. 2 The guest would not pay for the loss of the key. Even if this is true for 1% of the guests, it's unfair to hassle the other 99%. The hotel can easily bear the cost of replacing one key for 100 guests. Or am I applying Western thinking and such things happen so often, that the hotel has indeed to take such measures? Compare mobile phones. In 19 years of using mobile phones, I dropped one once, but I didn't damage it. Whereas the Thai seem to drop (cracking the screen) and lose mobile phone all the time. Unfortunately, key deposit is spreading, and location and price of hotel is more important to me than avoiding places with key deposit.

I don't care what people expect. They can expect to die some day, with that expectation they won't be disappointed. For various reasons, I don't tip. And if someone ASKS me for a tip, I wish we were still living in times where it was socially acceptable to slap servants.

My way of thinking! I rarely to go massage, but when I do it's looking for happy ending as well, and when the question of tip comes up, I offer 800 THB: 300 tip for massage and 500 for happy ending (getting my hands all over my masseur's naked body, mutual wanking). I have boys from the apps coming to my room for 1000 THB, and we do everything to my full satisfaction. I can't justify going to a massage shop, paying 400-500 THB for the shop (some even more, but I don't go to these) and then paying the masseur 1000. These places in Thailand make a killing from tourists who compare the prices in Thailand to prices in their home country, rather than to prices in Thailand. As you (z909) points out, some services are even more expensive in Thailand than in Europe. Absurd! I would say, worldwide prostitution costs on average 1 or 2 average daily wages. The prostitution scene for tourists in Thailand is way over that. A friend in Austria gets boys for 50 to 100 EUR. Do others have numbers from elsewhere in Europe to support my estimation? I'm not asking for escort/model/agencies, but the average pay-for-play encounter arranged on the apps or in a bar. AFAIK, most money boys in Europe are from Eastern Europe, not unsimilar to Thailand where many come from neighboring countries (except Malaysia)

For the same reasons, it's my least favorite disco in Bangkok. I haven't been for years, and while I can tolerate loud music (earplugs), smoking is intolerable. There are various shopping malls on the Western side of the river, but Icon Siam is the only of interest to tourists.

Details and pricing of Sauna Mania here: https://christianpfc.blogspot.com/2019/04/gay-activities-mar-2019.html

Those numbers do not encourage me to visit. But I will location and drink prices; until now I didn't know that there are boy bars in Patpong 1.

Chakran can be reached by BTS and walk. For Sauna Mania, I wrote details here: https://christianpfc.blogspot.com/2019/04/gay-activities-mar-2019.html

Glad to hear you are fine. In times of cheap air travel, "other side of the planet" is no excuse. Your sudden disappearance was distressing, and if you get your blog online again, please let us know. I made a collection of fragments of your blog that I had saved or others provided: https://christianpfc.blogspot.com/2013/10/shameless-mack-fragment-found.html

Now it becomes clearer. I had the idea of "Look kokopelli, I bought you a ticket to (place) on (time)." But still, I want to have full control, that means day and time of departure and return. The only acceptable way for me would be that I select and buy the ticket myself and the gifter refunds me the money.

Not at all. It's just that my attitude changed. When I was young, I was embarrassed being naked, even around family members, and now I poke fun at people in who change under a towel in gay sauna locker rooms, short of wiggling my willy at them. When I was young (gay in the closet), talk about sex by adult family members was embarrassing for me (for fear of being asked to contribute, or being exposed). Now THEY are embarrassed when I talk about my sexual adventures in Thailand and ask me to stop. It's so liberating not to have anything to hide!

So that refers to your place in Vietnam? In that case, your Vietnamese parter would be the first who has access to your possessions, and can keep/discard/give government employees whatever he thinks they should get.

Looks like the browser pulls up a list of contacts from your email/line/skype? When I type something in my phone, autocorrect sometimes suggests names under which I have saved contacts.

Have you experienced Songkran before? I have, and now leave Thailand every year for Songkran. There might all kinds of inconveniences, like traffic jams and fully booked hotels.

That implies you still have an apartment in the USA, and stuff stored there. But why? And who pays the rent? As soon as the rent payment is missing, the landlord will take measures to get his money, and one way or another authorities will get involved. Not informing the US Consulate/Embassy would only delay this. (At least that is how I think it would work in Germany. I have never been to the US, things might be different there.) ------------------ abidismaili: my close family and friends know what I'm doing in Thailand, and they can see everything I have, be it hardware or digital.

General thoughts on the subject of WiFi. I hate it when you have to log in via browser, with username and password, and might have to repeat every time you you use wireless internet. On the other side I once was at a place that had no password, you could directly get into their WiFi. I vaguely remember it was a remote location, and everyone within reach of their WiFi would be a customer at that place.

Valuable thoughts, worth quoting in full. Yes I did. That's why I feign/express gratitude when I get gifts from Thai friends (whereas as in my family, I refuse to take the gift). In June 2018, one bought me a polo shirt. Weeks or months later, I thanked him again and sent pictures of me wearing it. But unfortunately, it didn't work out in bed, so we met only that one time. There is a positive trend, in 2018 I got more gifts than things were stolen from me! But the number of gifts requested is still higher than the number of gifts I get. I bought 6 different sweets/snacks in Taiwan to give to friends in Thailand (and if anything is left, I will eat it myself). The question is: how to distribute it. Send a picture to the first boy and let him choose (he might not like some of it, or like another). Then repeat with the 5 that is left with the next boy. Or bring one arbitrarily as a surprise? Imagine the ignominy if the same is available in Thailand (but at least I selected stuff that has large Chinese script on it). I will give some to friends who have not asked about gifts, else we get the unfair situation that those who ask might get something, and those who do not ask do not get anything. Giving gifts is full of traps! Clothes might not fit or not be the wearer's style, food allergies or preferences. I have a Muslim money boy regular, imagine the insult if I brought him rice crackers with pork floss (I got once as a gift, but I can eat as I'm not Muslim).

Do they ask you about time and destination? But then it would be no surprise any more. I'm thinking of a ticket that is a surprise, but then I might not be free at that time, or not want to go to that place.

Did you notice the cable ties?

On the subject of fire safety and emergency exits, here pictures I took on a van last year.

Like my mother buying clothes for me. It's difficult enough for me to find thins worth buying (books, clothes). Especially clothes shopping I loathe and wear those I have until they are threadbare, and only shortly before they fall off my body I buy something new. My mother, on the other hand, loves buying clothes for me, but often not what I need, and anyway clothes in Thailand are a lot cheaper and last as long as those in Germany. When I book flight tickets, it's days of agony, optimizing day and time of departure, price, duration of stopover. I never had someone else buy a ticket for me, the idea is absurd. For food I gratefully accept invitations (preferably at places of my choice), and I eat food brought by others (Thai boys), but would prefer they do not bring me food. Bringing food is just one line above asking for money on my list of annoyances. But I can't say so, they wouldn't understand, rather feign positive surprise and thank them. The development of Thailand in relation to the rest of the world has been discussed in stickmanbangkok https://www.stickmanbangkok.com/weekly-column/2019/03/the-best-is-still-the-best/ and subsequent columns.

My last post got lost in discussion of economical situation in Thailand. Here again in italic, and some further notes below. My numbering in quote. 1. There is no precedence. But in principle I would, after several positive encounters. But no free boy managed to tally up enough positive encounters (let's say 4) to warrant a such an expense. Money boys yes, but they already got paid. The boy in question was free (as are most of my encounters nowadays). 2. Considering that even Klong Toey slum has running water, electricity, and some even have aircon and big flat screen TVs, I take the third world back. 3. I have no interest in traveling to as many different countries possible (which seems to be a hobby of some), but rather learn the language to facilitate traveling in that one country, Thailand in this case (and now extending to Chinese and Taiwan). At current, I have overnighted in 55 out of 77 provinces in Thailand and spent estimated 300 nights in 150 different hotels in Thailand (excluding Bangkok and Pattaya). I have travelled an estimated 20,000 km on the Thai railway network, and similar on buses. So yes, I think I am well travelled in Thailand. My low opinion of Thai people is based on my experience. Your experience might be different, but you probably never chased a village idiot from end of the village to the other, trying to get your hand into his pants, and failing. I had many good experiences as well, and should make a statistics to see which is more, maybe it's just my brain that remembers the negative more than the positive. Related subject: how many of your (Scooby) encounters in Thailand are paid? My experiences with money boys in Thailand (mostly Thai, but some Cambodian, Myanmar and Lao as well, however no Vietnamese for me) are overwhelmingly positive. Only when I'm looking for free sex, the problems arise. With money boys in gogo bars, there are no space-time-confusion and other problems, and when hiring online these problems are more easily overcome than with free encounters. New contents: There is actually one boy who would qualify for a gift, after several encounters with no problems! However, he never asked me for money or anything else. That leads to the absurd situation that those who do not ask, do not get anything; and those who ask might get something (I have brought sweets from Germany for boys, and will bring something from Taiwan, just so I can answer that dreaded question "Did you bring a gift/souvenir for me?" in the affirmative. And to avoid answering the follow up-question "What is is?" to assess the value, I will wrap it and send a picture of the wrapped gift! There is a simple reason why I'm reluctant to make gifts: I hate getting gifts! It sounds absurd, but I don't like it when people bring stuff (food or clothes) for me, and I rejected gifts from my parents and we have come to an agreement of only monetary gifts, no more material gifts.