ChristianPFC

Fountainhall, Lebua (State Tower) and Jewellry Trade Centre are both in picture 3!

Photo puzzle: where were these pictures taken? Which town (easy), from which building (advanced)? (Looking at the address is cheating as the answer is in the name.)

Yesterday, 19.05.2013, I met the Burmese woman again. Her house was on the way back from the shopping centre to my room, so I told her I would pop in on my way. Everything reported further is translated from Thai, she seems to be fluent, but can’t read and write. The room is in the slum, but the rent per square meter is about the same as for my room. She earns 12,000 Baht per month and sends back 2-3,000 to her parents. I asked to see her passport: valid only for Thailand, T-L visa, permit to stay for 2 years, born 1987, and sex M. Face and voice did not allow me to determine his sex, but now the passport shows it’s a man. We chat (often requires repetition, still I can only follow half of it, with Thais I could resort to writing, but here I have to do with the spoken word) and then he asks to see my room, so I invite him to follow me. In my room the chat turns to boyfriend/girlfriend, it turns out he is gay. I show him some pictures of my Thai friends (or boys I had offed) on my laptop, then he asks if I have “gay clip” (Thai euphemism for gay porn). I have that as well and show him some videos with Japanese, Philippines and Thai. He is very interested. Finally, the conversations turns to what I like (sexually). I have to decline offers to get sucked, fuck him or get a handjob. He is absolutely not my type. It would be shorter to list reasons why elephants can’t fly than to explain why he is not my type. Life in Thailand has plenty of twists. If I wasn’t an atheist already, I could lose my faith over this. But he knows about a gay disco or other kind of venue (entry is 160 Baht) in Lam Sip (?) I haven’t heard of or I just can’t match the spoken word with a name I read somewhere. So we will go there some day, he knows how to get there by bus 554.

If you have to wait half an hour for your luggage, travel 1 hour from one to the other airport (waiting time for bus not included), and start check-in two hours before departure, it's not worth booking a hotel (at least by my standards, but then I once spent a night in Paris Orly because I didn't want to take a taxi in the early morning, so I took the last bus the night before). Having a few days stopover would be my suggestion.

This is the first non-offable boy I encounterd and this would be the first one who didn't want to go with me. I can accept that, and now I see that the only way to let me know that is to wait until I invite him for a drink and ask to off him. Isn't the bar the most dangerous place for a boy who is underage and/or doesn't have a visa or work permit? If he is in the bar during a raid, they will catch him. If he is with a customer during a raid, they won't catch him.

When I go to a gogo or beer bar, I assume everyone working there (as a gogo or beer bar boy) is offable, and experience has shown that even waiter and doormen can be are offable. Finding a boy who meets my standards is a long, difficult and expensive (depending on how many drinks I have to buy) process, so if I find one and can't off him, I am rightfully pissed off. If the boy had told me can't go, I would have left it at that (and thought he doesn't want to go with me, I can accept that), but from staff and finally owner (who just happened to be present, I didn't ask to speak to him) I thought I might get a reason. I was expecting the usual bullshit: forgot passport (they did not ask where I stay, so they could not conclude that ID will be checked) to exorbitant off-fees or tip expectations (would have been fine for, I would have said "too expensive" and left him). On the subject of un-offable coyote boys in Pattaya, I read somewhere they just need 20 coyote drinks per night, so if you buy them these 20 coyote drinks, you can take them home (if they want to go with you).

Non-offable boys As if I hadn’t had enough trouble and deception and disappointment in finding sex (I’m not even talking about love!) in Thailand, now I became a victim of the “non-offable boy” as well. Saturday 18.05.2013 After having sat at Hotmale bar (water, 40 Baht) for two hours and observing the passing traffic, I stroll through Soi Twilight and there he is, the boy of my dreams at Scorpion Bar! He even smiles at me and invites me to the bar. I ponder if I should go eat first but it is starting to rain, so I enter. Another boy sits next to me and asks if I would like a massage (neck and shoulder), I agree. After massage, he asks for 100 Baht tip, which I give him. Should he have mentioned that the massage is not for free or should I have asked if the massage is for free? But that’s not my point. I ask him to call over the cute boy and offer him (the cute boy) a drink. The cute boy does not speak English, so I try in Thai, only to learn that he is Vietnamese. Communication was impossible, I tried in English and Thai, he didn’t understand anything I said and I only understood “mai ruu”, so everything reported furthers is translated by staff (it seems he understands their Thai). He is 18 years old (but could be underage, I should have had my request to see the passport translated, so I could be sure about age and know how long and how often he has been in Thailand). After fruitless attempts at conversation, I ask to off him. I won’t let language problems between us. Staff member one says he cannot go off because he is new boy, only drinking and talking (if you speak Vietnamese!). There is a slight probability that the Vietnamese boy I had in Fresh Boys last year badmouthed me because we had a very unpleasant negotiation of his tip (he wanted 2000 for short time, I finally shoved him out of my hotel room with 1600) and this message spread via other boys to this boy. I don’t give up, wait until another staff member walks past and ask again. Same answer. Finally, they call the owner. He is Thai, but lives in Paris most of the time (he is fluent in Thai, English and French as far as I can judge and has local knowledge of Paris, so I believe him that he speaks Chinese and Vietnamese as well). The cute boy is family (whatever that means) and cannot go off at all, not now and not later. He has been working there for almost a month (didn’t notice him before, should have asked to see his passport!) and returns to Vietnam every 30 days to get a new visa. Now I wonder: how does he earn money if he can’t be offed? I even wonder how other Vietnamese boys who can be offed, but have to do a visa run every 30 days, can come out with a positive balance (even if they get 2000 for short time). I pay for our drinks (orange juice, 100 Baht each), no tip for waiter, no tip for boy. I don’t go to bars to drink or to chat with boys (if I could speak Vietnamese), I go to off! I should have told the owner that I feel deceived. After four years of whoring around in Thailand, I became slightly jaded, so the moments are rare that I see a boy and within milliseconds I know “this one and nobody else for tonight!”. This is the second time it happened this year.

I only had a quick look, but it seemed the interior and exterior (that I can claim for sure) has been completly changed. Can't say anything about the boys and staff, but it looked promising, I will be back one day.

Screw Boys is open again. A tout near Soi Twilight told me about it (and wanted to take me there, but I told him I know the way and just want to look, so he left me alone). When I was there (today, 00:15), show was running and more then 10 boys were sitting in underwear next to the stage. Drink price 280 Baht, closing time 3 am.

Advice on purchasing a smartphone? I am planning to purchase a new phone, as my old one (Samsung E-720, from around 2005) which I have been using since 2008 does not support some features I would like. I don’t need the newest model, it can even be second hand or “copy from China”, my only preference regarding manufacturer is NOT Apple. I did not get along well with the Apple computer I once had to use due to lack of other computers. And I read you cannot exchange the battery in Apple products and they censor some contents. I want to access internet with my new phone. My current SIM-card (1-2-call) is just for making phone calls, I want to keep my number, how can I extend service to include internet? I want GPS and a map (googlemaps would be fine) and want to be able to save points (or even record a whole trip). I want a touch-screen so I can type on a (kind of) keyboard, in English and in Thai, the Thai keyboard of my electronic dictionary has a keyboard that is only basic Latin without special characters, so Thai letters that are not on keys that have basic Latin are re-assigned to elsewhere, which screws up my touch-type abilities). Just had a look at a friend’s Blackberry: the key arrangement is different from a computer keyboard and from my electronic dictionary. With a touchscreen used in landscape orientation key arrangement like on a computer keyboard should be no problem (I will check with friend’s mobile phones). However, a look at a Nokia Slider (keyboard in landscape) showed yet another keyboard layout, different from computer keyboard! My current phone cannot display Thai characters, my new phone has to be able to do so, so I can read and write SMS in Thai. I want to use apps. At the moment I can only think of grindr, a gay dating app. I heard from others that Apple blocks pictures they consider pornographic, hence no Apple for me (or any manufacturer of mobile phone or mobile network operator that has any kind of censorship). No slider of flipper, just flat with touchscreen that fills most of the area of the front, about 10 cm (or 4 inch) diagonal would be fine. How long can such a mobile phone run on a battery charge? I remember my first phone (Nokia 6210 in 2001) could run a week (I didn’t make many calls) and now the battery still lasts 4 or 5 days (after over 10 years!). My current phone lasts only 3 to 4 days with a charge. Some of my friends with contemporary phones have problems with empty battery or carry a charger with them. In this respect, it would be a good idea to get a phone for which I can get a second battery cheaply. I want to exchange data with my laptop which doesn’t have Bluetooth, but wifi. Will this be possible? Even better: write SMS on my laptop’s keyboard and send via my mobile phone and save all contacts and messages from my phone on my laptop, is this possible? Do you have any recommendation on which model to buy and what to pay attention to (especially for second hand or “copy from China”)? Did I forget anything important? I am well aware that many of these questions could be answered by my Thai friends or by customer service or any mobile phone shop, but I think the answers would be their preferences and not mine. Or they would try to talk me into the newest model. I discussed the subject with a friend, he advised on getting Android 4 as operating system. He said that using any apps requires a Google account (with possibility that Google is collecting data of me)? A dictionary Thai<->Eng (and maybe English and French to German as well) would be nice, it should have a history of the last words I looked up, so I can scroll through them when I am idle. I used this feature a lot in my last (German-English-French) and current (English-Thai) digital dictionary, and I’m afraid the purchase of the Eng-Thai digital dictionary (Easy Dict A811 for about 2700 Baht) will turn out to be an unnecessary expense if the mobile phone can do it!

Update Some recent encounters show that my situation (sex-wise) is improving. On a trip to Singapore (former ICK, Ramkhamhaeng), I saw several cute boys and hooked up with one of the. He was there with two friends, I came alone. It didn’t run optimal, but I still count it as success. He and his friends stay in Lamlukka, Phatumthani province, about 20 km taxi ride from Ramkhamhaeng. So we went there (I paid for taxi) to his hairdresser shop, where his friends slept on the floor in their street clothes, whereas we slept on the couch that could be converted into a bed. There was no bed linen and the fabric was rough, of course I hadn’t planned for this. We used a very basic piece of cloth as a cover. The bathroom was very basic as well. Luckily, I had condoms stored in a place where I could find them blind, so we did not have to switch on the light and interrupt his friends’ sleep. We plan to meet again, but I am forseeing travel times, expenses and misunderstandings regarding place and time of meeting. It will probably be easier, faster and cheaper to go to the disco again and meet someone else. Several phone calls followed, but he’s so difficult to understand on the phone, I will postpone it until I have phone that can send and receive SMS in Thai. Another trip to Saranrom park was successful, now the fifth trip there in a row, unprecedented! On average, I have to go three gogo bars to find one boy. A weekday trip to DJ-station showed that there are enough customers and that I can get to bed at 4am and work normally the next day without problems (at least if I don’t do it every day). There was one boy who quickly revealed that he works at X-Boys, I took him home (1000 Baht for long time is reasonable). On one day I met the two cute fishing boys (see Songkran report) on my way home from work and tried to invite them to my room, no way! So I made an appointment for 8-9pm to come back to study Thai and talk. I was there at 9:02, they were nowhere to be seen, doors were closed, then I asked around and was told that they were already sleeping. Couldn’t make it up! But it gets better. Diagonally opposite lives a Burmes women who can speak Thai, but not read and write and who works in the area. She invited herself to my room and even asked if she could stay overnight (if I understood correctly). We met at 7pm (on a different day, 10.05.2013) and I told her she can come to see me at 8pm. 8:10 I call her, no communication possible, only background noises, TV, kids. 8:30 she calls back, we agree to meet in 10 minutes at the 7-11. I have to go there anyway. She is not there, no further phone calls. I can generalize this for many of my Thai acquaintances: absolutely no management of time and place, meetings by appointment are almost impossible. Even one hour later and 1 km away is beyond their ability to manage place and time! Had some more phone calls with Ice (the boy from the Saranrom threesome and foresome with the older transvestites). Someone will have to travel, next time it will be he, not me, even if I pay the taxi fare for him. We got close to meeting one evening for cinema (and sex later), but then he called again and asked for 600 Baht. Here I am again in a situation that is cheaper and faster and easier to look for someone else on Saranrom park than meeting him again on appointment. Generalisation for phone calls with my Thai friends: they are conducted in Thai and I have serious difficulties to understand, usually there is significant background noise. I shall get a phone that can SMS in Thai, so I can write SMS instead of calling, that should make communication much easier. And there was the boy from gayromeo. He lives in Sathorn, so I took taxi to his place. The taxi driver advised me that it would be faster and cheaper to go to Mor Chit and take BTS from there instead of going by taxi all the way to Saphan Thaksin. I never had this before, I followed his advice. The boy called me exactly one hour after I messaged him on gr that it would take me one hour. I was on the BTS near Surasak. This time the phone call was easy to understand. Then near his place I called again, we met at 7-11 and went for dinner. Management of place and time is possible! The pictures on gr were looking fine, but on meeting him I found he was not so much my type. Back in his room, we talked about Thailand, Thai language, his studies and homosexuality. He has sex about once per month, usually with boys from gayromeo. I was thinking I was the only one who does not get laid as often as he would like to, and all others have regular orgies to which I am not invited! He was finally begging me for sex ( I don’t have this often), but he was not my type, so I said goodbye. A few days ago, one of the fishing boys asked me for 20 Baht which I gave him. The following day, he asked for 30 Baht, which I gave him. Now this turns interesting, I finally have a point where I can approach the matter and maybe finally get his father/uncle/other male relative/older friend to pimp him and his brother/cousin/friend/whatever out to me (because the situation was so that I could not give him the money without others seeing it, but he was aware of it). I could update every few days, but I will stop here, you get the gist. Sometimes I think I am in a “Radio Yerevan” joke like this: (Yerevan – capital of Armenia. These jokes were popular in Eastern Germany and the Soviet Union.) Is it true that ChristianPFC met a handsome Thai boy and they had great sex and no money changed hands? In principle yes, but…

Some days ago, the outside refurbishment of Screwboys was finished. Through a gap between door and hinge (on purpose, not due to sloppy building) I could see that work inside has not finished yet. I asked a lady from a nearby bar, Screwboys will open next month and it will stay a boy bar. On the same night, I went to Super A and this time even went in (I am very hesitant to part with my hard earned money and often take a look and decide against entering the bar if there is something I don't like, which could be loud music, smoking customer, poor light), sat down and ordered an orange juice. Helas, they didn't have orange juice! By the time they communicated their extensive drink menu (beer, soda, coke), I had seen enough (despite the very poor lighting): none of the six boys present was my type, but I appreciate the fact that they all wear underwear of their choice, so no complaints about the underwear. I might be back when they have orange juice. This reminds of a similar case (don't remember which bar), where my first AND my second choice of drink was not available, I finally settled for water. This reminds me of something I read somewhere: cash flow in a bar was so low, the customer had to pay upfront and someone from the staff had to go the closest 7-11 (or other market) to buy the drink.

Internet shop might work in Sathorn (when walking past, I can see gayromeo open), but not here. Everyone is playing online games or facebook, and they are absorbed in it. No way to chat someone up. An anecdote: I am often looking at pictures that could be called pornography (gayromeo, bangkokbois), and one day I had a about five-year old sitting next to me, he looked at me reproachfully, and then continued playing a war game with a lot of blood, explosions, knives and guns. Could you give a link to the opening in Bangkok Post, couldn't find it. My OP ist is not about lack of money, I just thought it would be much easier to hook up locally if you live and work in Thailand. I earn enough to enjoy my time here, but with unforseen (stolen passport) or one-time (new laptop) expenses everything is spent. Others would be happy to be in such a position!

I spend about one weekend per month in Pattaya. If everything goes alright, it turns out cheaper than going to Bangkok bars. Even if it costst the same (including travel and hotel), it feels cheaper. It's more compact (Baht bus 10 Baht from Central Pattaya to Jomtien where I stay or anywhere else, compared to 160 Baht and at least 20 minutes from Silom to my place). Living close to my workplace has priority. I can walk in 15 minutes from my room to work. That saves a lot of time and money compared to people who have to commute, and there is no traffic (and therefore no traffic jam) on my way to work. Just compare: I go to work and back five days per week, but I go out only on the weekend, and then to different places, so living more central would cost more rent and time and money for commuting. My current work situation does not satisfy me. It serves to get a foot into Thailand, but I will have to look for something else to move on. Apart from that, I am satisfied with my move to Thailand.

(Posted on gaybuttonthai and SGT as well, but I recently learned that several members here rarely read other forums, so I will share here as well.) Living and working in Bangkok: 3 months Now I have been living and working in Bangkok for 3 months, and here is a report about my current situation. ChristianPFC is fit for tropics. I could live and work in Thailand permanently. (Some people on the forums say that holiday is fine for them, but they cannot imagine living here.) After previous stays in England and France, I was prepared for a third world country, and I can cope with tropical weather as well. I can walk 15 minutes in the full sun without excessive sweating. If I can get in aircon after these 15 minutes, I will be fine. However if I have to climb the stairs to fifth floor (my room), I will sweat significantly. But I prefer too hot to too cold. By moving to Thailand, I have achieved some of my aims in life: 1. I can wear flip-flops most of the time outside or no shoes at all in my room, I only have to wear closed shoes for work and when I go to immigration/embassy/... No more socks, no more laces, no more bending down to put shoes on and take them off. Wonderful! 2. Never be cold again (in the sense of winter in Europe). Here it is warm (often too warm), or cold in the sense of fresh (aircon). 3. Can eat mangosteen, tom kha gai and other Thai food and fruit every time I want (but on the downside, cheese and chocolate from Europe is very expensive). 4. Sex is available any time and at reasonable prices. But I still have not been able to have someone come to my place in time. I didn't have good sex for a while, and now I am hesitating to spend money in Bangkok bars (that would be drink up to 300 Baht, off fee 500, tip 1500, then taxi to my place 20 minutes and 150 Baht, the boy might be reticent to go that far and/or ask for another 150 Baht for taxi back, simply too much if it starts with expecting poor sex for a lot of money). I have to wait until I'm in a better mood. 5. I don't have to pay TV license. In Germany it's in the range of 800 Baht per month, and nowadays it's a "media fee" that every household has to pay, even if you don't have a TV or computer or radio (except if you are blind and deaf, then you are exempt). I mainly eat Thai food, about 90%. Once or twice a week, I treat myself to Italian food or expensive Thai seafood or have some cake. I now need 3 meals per day, when I came for holiday 2 or sometimes even just 1 was enough (plus some snacks). Unfortunately, I have to take most meals alone. In France, we went eating in a group and had many interesting conversations during lunch, which I miss very much. In addition, the pizza with goat cheese and the salmon were to die for. I lost a few kg (I was slim before, now even more) and now all my trousers are too wide, so I had to buy a belt. My physical condition is excellent, I reached or excelled results from 12 years ago. The only problem is that there is no place where I can run for 2 hours or more to prepare for possible participation in the Pattaya Marathon. I now use aircon (25 degree Celsius) every night. Last month I experimented with fan, I can sleep with fan, but why suffer at 30 C or more when I can have aircon every night for about 800 Baht per month. My room heats up during day, when I come home it's 33 C inside, and even after hours of using fan, inside still 32 C and outside 30 C or less. My Thai improved slightly. Still serious problems with listening and understanding spoken Thai, especially on the phone or with background noises. But I can sometimes get the gist, and I guess it will take just some more months until I get useful information by listening to Thai people talking about me assuming I don't understand what they are saying. Thai people in my area are friendly, I sometimes get an invitation for drinking or eating. They have genuine interest in me, are happy that I can speak Thai. Unfortunately, there is a mismatch: those interested in me are either too old, too young, not my type or female. Those I have a sexual interest in show low interest in me, often totally ignoring me. However considering that there are more then 10 who I would like to invite to my room, and some of them live in the slum (no work, no money), there must be one or two who would be happy to go with me for a few hundred Baht, but I don't know who and how to approach the matter! It's like opening an oyster, you need one point where you start. Some cute boys play basketball, so I can't talk to them while they are playing. After the match, they go home for showering and don't come back. (If there was group showering after the match, I would overcome my aversion to ball games.) When we exchange a few words, there is no subject that I can use to invite them to my room. Except for one, who asked me if I wank and how big my cock is! Unfortunately he is not my type, otherwise I would invite him for a demonstration. I finally get some calls per week from boys who would like to meet me (for sex for money). I always envied those who complained that they constantly get calls, because I rarely got one when I was in Thailand for holiday. Unfortunately, there is a mismatch: either I am not free or he is not free or traveling would take too long or he is not so much my type that I would like to see him again. My sex life is going down. Contrary to my expectations, more prostitutes (now over 80%, when I came here on holiday it was 50%), and the last good sex has been a while ago. My idea was to meet two or three boys per week from gayromeo or camfrog or from real life for free or cheap, find a boyfriend or move on or stay fuckbuddy. Complete failure. I still haven't managed to get a single boy from my area in my room (to study English and Thai, and then probe if more is possible), can't use camfrog (no own computer, no webcam in internet cafe, no pro version) and results on gayromeo are disappointing. I calculate my chances of ever finding a boyfriend very low (details in a separate topic). Whole series of events go wrong. Last weekend in Pattaya may serve as an example. Friday night was ok (I offed a waiter, so I could not be sure that there are no tattoos and no body hair, back in my room his body was exactly as I like it, but he did not show any activity in bed). For Saturday I had planned to meet one boy during day and one at night (both barboys I know from previous trips). One was away during day and one was not available. At night, I went to the boy's bar, he was there, taking part in contest, so I could not off him. I waited till after 1am when he left the bar, but he had other commitments. Other bars were closed already, so I called another boy. He did not pick up, but why I was holding my phone I heard someone call my name. It was another acquaintance I would love to get in bed with again. While I was chatting with him, the boy I called minutes before called back (vibration, I did not pick up). After some chat (and a lot of drama, this boy has by far the highest drama to sex ratio of all my Thai friends) I realize his plans for the night do not include me. Actually, I think he does not intend to go with me again and is just teasing me and looking for drama. This has been going on for half a year (drama and teasing) in real life, on phone and on skype. I should move on. I tried my best: He: "When do you go back to Bangkok tomorrow?" I: "Up to you!", He: "No, I mean when do you leave Pattaya?", I: "We can leave whenever you want.". But he wanted to go to disco with his ladyboy friends from Obsession bar. Nothing for me (too late, too loud, and they would probably present me all the bills, I would still have to go to bed alone, anyway I wasn't invited - I have fallen that low, I am not even invited to pay the bills!) A stroll through Sunee (about 2 am) shows very little remaining activity. But then I walk past New Sawatdee Boys which is still open and that looked promising earlier that evening (but I prefer gogo bars where I can see the boys in underwear, I rarely go to beer bars). So I went in and a boy sat next to me. I could not find any fault with him in the bar and he caught me in a moment of emotional weakness, so I offed him. Back in my room, hugging, cuddling, kissing, affection exactly as I like it, but seen in light not so much my type. He called me a few times, now I have to prepare him that we will not meet for sex for money again. At New Sawatdee Boys, there is no way I can escape him because I walk past every time I am in Sunee. Fortunately, he will go back to his home province in four weeks so time will solve this problem (a boy who is everything I want, but not my type!). So I won't be lumbered with him for long. That might be a consolation to others. Getting laid in Thailand is not only about age and looks, even speaking Thai does not improve my current situation, neither does living and working here. It's more about attitude and how much money you are willing to spend. A friend of mine goes to Hua Lampong railway station and kind of says: "You, you and you, want to come with me? Free beer, cigarettes, food, 300 Baht for sex." Two of them say yes, one says no, and 15 minutes later he is in his room with them. Others go to Soi Twilight, Boyztown or Sunee or gay discos, and for a few thousand Baht they spend the night surrounded by Thai boys who tell them they love them and want to become their boyfriend. Both cases are not my style, I make elaborate plans that fail most of the time. I have a lot to catch up regarding electronics. Not having an own computer is cumbersome (use internet at work or in internet cafe), I will buy one soon. (Update: finally bought a laptop, now I just need internet.) In addition, I will need a new mobile phone, that will be quite a jump from my current one which is from around 2005. Then I will be able to use GPS and googlemaps and access internet from my phone and will try out grindr and similar applications and read and send SMS in Thai. Actually, I would rather study Thai with local boys (really, not just as a pretext!) and have sex with some of them then being in the internet two hours a day or more. Work is so-so (that's optimistic, work-wise I have quite a low as well, but I won't bore you with details). Expenses are higher than expected, I spend about 30,000 Baht per month (detailed expenses will follow in a separate post), and that is without saving for retirement or health insurance (I have health insurance from my employer, I don't know how much this covers). Add one-time expenses (my lost passport will cost about 10,000 Baht, I will buy a computer soon), and I spend all money. For flights back to Germany, I will have to use money I saved when I was working in Europe. Summary: my main objective for my relocation to Thailand was to have sex regularly, for free or cheap (definitely not Soi Twilight prices) and maybe even find a boyfriend. So far, complete failure in all aspects.

The demise of John Booth (LMTU) is a great loss. I count myself lucky that I had the chance to meet him on several occasions in Bangkok and Pattaya. I agree with: “Call me controversial, but never call me boring” (his signature on another forum). I remember his post (on this board ?) about the suicide in Pattaya, just some months ago: "may his sole rest in peace". May his soul rest in peace!

That is similar to my experience in a gogo bar (X-Size about 3 weeks ago). I mentioned to the waiter/mamasan that the music is too loud. He replied "it's always like this". I am fed up with this, so next time I am asked "Do you want boy?" in a bar where the music is too loud, I will reply "sorry, I can't hear you, can you lower the music" until they give up, get the joke or lower the music. I can eclipse that. Long time ago, but I still vividly remember, I had dinner with my parents in an expensive restaurant. I had coke, which was brought in a glass with ice and a slice of lemon. After midnight, only few guests were left, I ordered another one and the waiter came with the bottle and poured the coke over my shoulder into the empty glass standing on the table (the glass, not the waiter).

I am sorry I cannot join your discussion, as I have different prefences. Everything that qualfies as cock (i.e. is no pussy) is fine for me. No hair on scrotum and perineum is more important to me than cock size. That does not mean that it's insignificant. But everything between 4 and 7 inches, I would have difficulty to recollect.

That's quite quick, just one day open, and such eulogies. I don't go to bars to drink (I can do so at home, with drinks bought from 7/11, much cheaper), I don't go there for the interior decoration, I go in order to off someone to take back to my room.

correction: whether

I have not seen it and was not even aware of it. My interest in ladyboys is zero.

I was at X-Boys yesterday, didn't know about the competition they had on that evening, in which the boy I wanted took part in, could not be offed and had already other committments for after work. Bummer! There was another boy with a gorgeous body I have never see before, I now know his name (Bank) he does not work at X-Boys, but I don't know where he works. Bummer! I would have taken him if I had known that the other boy is not available. I was sitting outside (without going in and buying a drink) and waiting for the situation to clear up, weather I could off the boy or not. The owner was present, and another customer pointed him out to me and we talked about the rumor, as far as I understood there are plans to build a hotel there, but no specific date and not date for closure of X-Boys.

http://gaybuttonthai.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=5642 http://www.sawatdee-gay-thailand.com/forum/christianpfc-first-songkran-t28683.html I found one positive thing about Songkran: there is very little smoking. Should I ever participate again in Songkran, and should this be active (this year I only received water and powder), I will aim at smokers and try to douse/dowse their cigarettes.

Two statistics are missing: how long they stay and how much they spend. A statistic how much a tourist from a country spends per day, how long they stay and how much all tourists from that country spend together would be very interesting. There is a large difference between a Malaysian who hops over the border for a day or a European/Australian/North American who comes for a two or three week holiday.

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