December 8th Saturday
I get up and leave Nam a tip of 300 baht again which she makes no complaint about and she heads off back to see Mama and she’s definitely going to work tonight and I let her know that I won’t be at her bar as I am not planning to go out tonight.
There is a party on at the FLB tonight, that I had no intention of attending, however I am informed by Kev that my attendance is not optional; it is mandatory.
The first beer is bought for me by MM and I’m asked to check out his Camstreams Webcam. I check out all the settings and can find nothing wrong with his configuration, however there is no video stream being broadcast and I cannot determine what the fault is. I am reluctant to shut down the system completely as there are closed circuit recordings also running on the machine and I do not wish to jeopardise any mandatory recordings. (so sorry about that guys!)
When Kev arrives, he sends me another beer over and when I finally give up on getting the stream working tonight, I find that Green Malaka has also turned up. The party tonight is Sexy Secretaries, but I find that I am more interested in hostess Yok than the girls on stage. Tonight, Green Malaka and Kev take it in turns to ply me with beer and the night ends up with me quite drunk, so I simply head off home.
Expenditure :
Food 130
Tip 300
Scooter Taxi 160
Drink for Da 100
Saturday 8 December 2007
Friday 7 December 2007
Trip 4 - Day 120
December 7th Friday
The 07:30 waking has not been such a problem this week as I thought it might have been and it is actually quite a good feeling knowing that there is a purpose in getting up each day.
I leave with Nam still wrapped up in bed and realise that I have only a little money in my wallet, so can only leave a ‘tip’ of 300 baht. As I had no plans to barfine last night, I had not been to the bank.
I spend the afternoon visiting a few properties around Jomtien and then a trip out to Siam Gardens which is a development out by Maprachan Lake. For 6m baht it is quite impressive the amount of property that can be bought. (see website)
I get a call from BM Bryan saying that he’ll be in Noi’s Bar for a while this evening, so I end up getting a scooter taxi back to Khao Noi and have a few beers in the company of Bryan, Kolobos and the ever lovely Bow.
I am still very desirous of this girl, but as I have Nam waiting for me just 50 yards away, I decide that it is definitely time to leave instead. On the way home I stop off at the corner shop to get some more booze which myself and Nam proceed to consume during the evening whilst watching TV.
Expenditure :
Baht Bus - 20 baht
Scooter Taxi - 60 baht
Tukcom - 150 baht
Nois - 460 baht
Beer Whisky Ice Soda - 230 baht
Cigarettes - 48 baht
The 07:30 waking has not been such a problem this week as I thought it might have been and it is actually quite a good feeling knowing that there is a purpose in getting up each day.
I leave with Nam still wrapped up in bed and realise that I have only a little money in my wallet, so can only leave a ‘tip’ of 300 baht. As I had no plans to barfine last night, I had not been to the bank.
I spend the afternoon visiting a few properties around Jomtien and then a trip out to Siam Gardens which is a development out by Maprachan Lake. For 6m baht it is quite impressive the amount of property that can be bought. (see website)
I get a call from BM Bryan saying that he’ll be in Noi’s Bar for a while this evening, so I end up getting a scooter taxi back to Khao Noi and have a few beers in the company of Bryan, Kolobos and the ever lovely Bow.
I am still very desirous of this girl, but as I have Nam waiting for me just 50 yards away, I decide that it is definitely time to leave instead. On the way home I stop off at the corner shop to get some more booze which myself and Nam proceed to consume during the evening whilst watching TV.
Expenditure :
Baht Bus - 20 baht
Scooter Taxi - 60 baht
Tukcom - 150 baht
Nois - 460 baht
Beer Whisky Ice Soda - 230 baht
Cigarettes - 48 baht
Thursday 6 December 2007
Trip 4 - Day 119
December 6th Thursday
I have no idea what time I left the bar last night, but on the basis that I wake up at home with Nam at my side, something obviously happened, so just to make sure that it’s not a complete waste of money, I manage to find time for a ‘quickie’ before having to head off. This doesn’t let me off from a severe ‘earache bashing’ over not having my phone, so Nam couldn’t get in touch with me or for being ‘mau mak mak’ last night
Nam has also got up this morning as she’s going home to see Mama, so we leave together. She gets a scooter taxi, whilst I walk down to Klang.
Today, the Bar Crawl is an afternoon one in Soi 6 which I cannot attend, but I am able to meet the guys for a quick Coke in The Queen Vic before they all head off. This is when I am told by Volsfan that he had been at the Cherry Bar last night and whilst it hadn’t been particularly late, I had been pretty well smashed. Hammer overhears this conversation and says that at least I’m keeping up the Cherry Bar tradition.
On the way home in the evening, I finally get around to buying a new padlock for the front door, so now I’m reasonably safe from an unannounced visit from A and removal of everything in the house.
At 22:00, I get a call from Nam saying that she doesn’t want to work bar tonight and can she come round. I need to pay barfine and scooter which will cost me 400 baht. I just end up agreeing and 20 minutes later she arrives on a scooter. 100 baht for the scooter and 300 baht for the scooter rider to take back to the bar.
At least it’s not too late a night and I’m able to get a good nights sleep tonight.
Expenditure :
Tip - 500 baht
Bar Crawl - 40 baht (A coke in the Vic)
Baht Bus - 20 baht
Padlock - 120 baht
Barfine – 300 baht
Scooter Taxi – 100 baht
I have no idea what time I left the bar last night, but on the basis that I wake up at home with Nam at my side, something obviously happened, so just to make sure that it’s not a complete waste of money, I manage to find time for a ‘quickie’ before having to head off. This doesn’t let me off from a severe ‘earache bashing’ over not having my phone, so Nam couldn’t get in touch with me or for being ‘mau mak mak’ last night
Nam has also got up this morning as she’s going home to see Mama, so we leave together. She gets a scooter taxi, whilst I walk down to Klang.
Today, the Bar Crawl is an afternoon one in Soi 6 which I cannot attend, but I am able to meet the guys for a quick Coke in The Queen Vic before they all head off. This is when I am told by Volsfan that he had been at the Cherry Bar last night and whilst it hadn’t been particularly late, I had been pretty well smashed. Hammer overhears this conversation and says that at least I’m keeping up the Cherry Bar tradition.
On the way home in the evening, I finally get around to buying a new padlock for the front door, so now I’m reasonably safe from an unannounced visit from A and removal of everything in the house.
At 22:00, I get a call from Nam saying that she doesn’t want to work bar tonight and can she come round. I need to pay barfine and scooter which will cost me 400 baht. I just end up agreeing and 20 minutes later she arrives on a scooter. 100 baht for the scooter and 300 baht for the scooter rider to take back to the bar.
At least it’s not too late a night and I’m able to get a good nights sleep tonight.
Expenditure :
Tip - 500 baht
Bar Crawl - 40 baht (A coke in the Vic)
Baht Bus - 20 baht
Padlock - 120 baht
Barfine – 300 baht
Scooter Taxi – 100 baht
Wednesday 5 December 2007
Trip 4 - Day 118
December 5th Wednesday
I wake up and Nam is still fast asleep and is still that way after I shower. Sense would dictate that I wake her and get her out of the house before I leave, but sense has not been one of my strengths out here and instead I end up giving her a set of keys to lock up when she leaves and I leave a ‘tip’ on the table with her bag.
I leave the house hat 08:00 and as I reach Sukhumvit highway, I realise that I have left my mobile at home. There’s no way that I’m walking back for it, so just decide to leave it where it is.
The day is spent continuing to appraise myself of procedures and starting to document how things are currently done as it is currently a word of mouth process which is not the way to do things in my opinion.
I have been asked if I can make myself available in the early evening to attend the launch party of the Paradise condo development in Jomtien Soi 7 which I attend with a couple of colleagues.
After the ‘bash’ at which each of us manages to demolish the best part of a bottle of Hardys ‘bubbly’, it’s time to finish up, so we make the decision to have a few beers, however it’s the Kings birthday today and many of the local bars are closed (including Country Roads and the We Are Number 1 GoGo). We end up in the Jomtien complex, but Fantasy Lounge is closed as well and we end up in El Coyotees which is in the process of being refurbished. Dire would be an understatement as to the quality of the staff working here tonight, so we leave and as there is nowhere else open, we head back into town as I need to be in Soi 8 for 20:00.
We park on Soi 7 opposite Amazing Paradise, so I see Nam sitting out the front of the bar and so I go to talk with her. The bar is not serving alcohol though, so we do not stay for a drink. I explain that it is Wednesday night and that I am working at the bar in Soi 8 tonight, but I will call in when I finish.
We walk round to Cherry Bar and the effects of the wine and the beer is already taking effect. It’s only 20:00 and I’m pissed already. MM turns up with his ‘wife’ as the FLB is closed for the night and later Volsfan turns up. (I don’t actually remember this until I’m reminded the next day.)
Expenditure :
Tip + Scooter Fare - 550 baht
Baht Bus - 10 baht
Scooter Taxi – 100 baht
Drinks – 210 baht
I wake up and Nam is still fast asleep and is still that way after I shower. Sense would dictate that I wake her and get her out of the house before I leave, but sense has not been one of my strengths out here and instead I end up giving her a set of keys to lock up when she leaves and I leave a ‘tip’ on the table with her bag.
I leave the house hat 08:00 and as I reach Sukhumvit highway, I realise that I have left my mobile at home. There’s no way that I’m walking back for it, so just decide to leave it where it is.
The day is spent continuing to appraise myself of procedures and starting to document how things are currently done as it is currently a word of mouth process which is not the way to do things in my opinion.
I have been asked if I can make myself available in the early evening to attend the launch party of the Paradise condo development in Jomtien Soi 7 which I attend with a couple of colleagues.
After the ‘bash’ at which each of us manages to demolish the best part of a bottle of Hardys ‘bubbly’, it’s time to finish up, so we make the decision to have a few beers, however it’s the Kings birthday today and many of the local bars are closed (including Country Roads and the We Are Number 1 GoGo). We end up in the Jomtien complex, but Fantasy Lounge is closed as well and we end up in El Coyotees which is in the process of being refurbished. Dire would be an understatement as to the quality of the staff working here tonight, so we leave and as there is nowhere else open, we head back into town as I need to be in Soi 8 for 20:00.
We park on Soi 7 opposite Amazing Paradise, so I see Nam sitting out the front of the bar and so I go to talk with her. The bar is not serving alcohol though, so we do not stay for a drink. I explain that it is Wednesday night and that I am working at the bar in Soi 8 tonight, but I will call in when I finish.
We walk round to Cherry Bar and the effects of the wine and the beer is already taking effect. It’s only 20:00 and I’m pissed already. MM turns up with his ‘wife’ as the FLB is closed for the night and later Volsfan turns up. (I don’t actually remember this until I’m reminded the next day.)
Expenditure :
Tip + Scooter Fare - 550 baht
Baht Bus - 10 baht
Scooter Taxi – 100 baht
Drinks – 210 baht
Tuesday 4 December 2007
Trip 4 - Day 117
December 4th Tuesday
The alarm goes off and I’m up and out the door at 08:00 once again and it feels good to have some ‘purpose’ once again. The day is spent determining how existing procedures operate and it is clear to me that there is much that can be done to automate and improve the internal processes, however with little in the way of technical expertise on hand, things will have to be taken slowly in order that full training and clear documentation can be provided.
The day passes quickly and it’s 18:00 before I finally leave. Instead of going home, I walk down to Soi 7 and settle myself down at the corner of the bar in Amazing Paradise.
Many of the girls come up and say hello and start giggling, but I’m not particularly bothered. After 30 minutes, I sense someone standing behind me and when I turn, it’s Nam. She sits with me for a while and explains that the “Big Boss” has been taken ill at the bar tonight and “he go to hospital”.
There’s a collection being taken by the girls to buy flowers and other gifts. From what I’m told, the collection is actually for gifts to Buddha to say prayers for the boss rather than for him directly. On the grounds that Nam has said that she doesn’t want a ladydrink, the 100 baht that she asks me to give as a donation on her behalf doesn’t seem to be too big an expenditure.
Whilst on my second beer, I’m told that I don’t need to pay big money in the morning if I pay barfine, so with such a deal on offer I pay checkbin including the barfine and we go for something to eat. I’m introduced to the food stall at the end of Soi 7 where we have a meal of chicken, noodles and soup with whole garlic and chillies as an accompaniment. It’s extremely tasty and very good value and we’ve also bought a large bag of chicken bones for 10 baht that Nam is going to take home for “My dog”
We get a scooter taxi to take us back to Khao Noi and after a bit of messing about on the sofa, we move into the bedroom and it’s a great finish to the first day of a new regime.
Expenditure :
Breakfast (Apple) - 10 baht
Baht Bus - 10 baht
Beers - 140 baht
Barfine - 300 baht
Food - 70 baht
Scooter Taxi - 140 baht
Donation for Amazing Paradise Big Boss - 100 baht
The alarm goes off and I’m up and out the door at 08:00 once again and it feels good to have some ‘purpose’ once again. The day is spent determining how existing procedures operate and it is clear to me that there is much that can be done to automate and improve the internal processes, however with little in the way of technical expertise on hand, things will have to be taken slowly in order that full training and clear documentation can be provided.
The day passes quickly and it’s 18:00 before I finally leave. Instead of going home, I walk down to Soi 7 and settle myself down at the corner of the bar in Amazing Paradise.
Many of the girls come up and say hello and start giggling, but I’m not particularly bothered. After 30 minutes, I sense someone standing behind me and when I turn, it’s Nam. She sits with me for a while and explains that the “Big Boss” has been taken ill at the bar tonight and “he go to hospital”.
There’s a collection being taken by the girls to buy flowers and other gifts. From what I’m told, the collection is actually for gifts to Buddha to say prayers for the boss rather than for him directly. On the grounds that Nam has said that she doesn’t want a ladydrink, the 100 baht that she asks me to give as a donation on her behalf doesn’t seem to be too big an expenditure.
Whilst on my second beer, I’m told that I don’t need to pay big money in the morning if I pay barfine, so with such a deal on offer I pay checkbin including the barfine and we go for something to eat. I’m introduced to the food stall at the end of Soi 7 where we have a meal of chicken, noodles and soup with whole garlic and chillies as an accompaniment. It’s extremely tasty and very good value and we’ve also bought a large bag of chicken bones for 10 baht that Nam is going to take home for “My dog”
We get a scooter taxi to take us back to Khao Noi and after a bit of messing about on the sofa, we move into the bedroom and it’s a great finish to the first day of a new regime.
Expenditure :
Breakfast (Apple) - 10 baht
Baht Bus - 10 baht
Beers - 140 baht
Barfine - 300 baht
Food - 70 baht
Scooter Taxi - 140 baht
Donation for Amazing Paradise Big Boss - 100 baht
Monday 3 December 2007
Trip 4 - Day 116
December 3rd
I am awoken by the phone ringing and it’s yet another unidentified number. I answer and am not surprised to hear Nam’s voice. She doesn’t sound pissed, but I cannot make out what she’s saying as the background noise is too high.
I try to make it clear that I cannot hear what is being said, but have no idea if the message gets across, however after about ten minutes Nam hangs up. I don’t know if she’s planning on coming round or not, so just in case, I unlock the front gate and turn on a porch light and then go back to bed.
Next thing I know it’s 07:30 and the alarm on my phone is going off. SSS and I’m off out at 08:00 and I take a walk to the end of Pattaya Klang to get a baht bus into town where I am going to spend the day working on a PC away from any distractions. This is my ‘plan’ for the coming months, so my blog is likely to become pretty boring and repetitive I’m afraid, however it really isn’t practical to keep up the lifestyle of the past couple of weeks and hope to stay long time in Pattaya.
It seems fairly likely to me that my evenings are going to be spent alone in the main as I don’t expect A will return and I don’t think I’ll see the money that she faithfully promised to repay. In addition, I ‘plan’ to spend a few nights a week completely off the booze, so we’ll have to see how that pans out.
The one thing that I have to do today is pay the electric bill as it looks like A isn’t going to be paying as promised. So 656.75 for electric and 285 for water are paid. I don’t know when I’ll get to see the landlord about the rent that is now due, but as they have A’s number as contact, maybe she’ll get in touch.
In the evening, I spend 55 baht on stall food of a green curry with rice and an omelette also I buy a fresh case of bottled water. I also get more top up for the phone as I’ve been sending many texts (which haven’t been replied to).
A finally deigns to call me at 21:45 to tell me that I need to telephone the landlord to arrange for the payment of the rent for the month. She also says that she has the money due to me and claims that she’ll come back for a few hours on number five (Wednesday) in the evening. To be frank, I will be very surprised if either of these ‘promises’ is kept.
Trying to get the Thai at the other end of the phone to understand took some doing until I said “Six thousand baht on number two. Near Soi Khao Noi”. This gets the “I send someone to see you now” answer and within five minutes the rent is paid.
Midnight to bed alone and sober once again.
Expenditure :
Baht bus – 20 baht
Telephone topup – 100 baht
Electric – 656.75 baht
Rent – 6000 baht
Water – 285 baht
Stall Food - 55 baht
Bottled water – 50 baht
I am awoken by the phone ringing and it’s yet another unidentified number. I answer and am not surprised to hear Nam’s voice. She doesn’t sound pissed, but I cannot make out what she’s saying as the background noise is too high.
I try to make it clear that I cannot hear what is being said, but have no idea if the message gets across, however after about ten minutes Nam hangs up. I don’t know if she’s planning on coming round or not, so just in case, I unlock the front gate and turn on a porch light and then go back to bed.
Next thing I know it’s 07:30 and the alarm on my phone is going off. SSS and I’m off out at 08:00 and I take a walk to the end of Pattaya Klang to get a baht bus into town where I am going to spend the day working on a PC away from any distractions. This is my ‘plan’ for the coming months, so my blog is likely to become pretty boring and repetitive I’m afraid, however it really isn’t practical to keep up the lifestyle of the past couple of weeks and hope to stay long time in Pattaya.
It seems fairly likely to me that my evenings are going to be spent alone in the main as I don’t expect A will return and I don’t think I’ll see the money that she faithfully promised to repay. In addition, I ‘plan’ to spend a few nights a week completely off the booze, so we’ll have to see how that pans out.
The one thing that I have to do today is pay the electric bill as it looks like A isn’t going to be paying as promised. So 656.75 for electric and 285 for water are paid. I don’t know when I’ll get to see the landlord about the rent that is now due, but as they have A’s number as contact, maybe she’ll get in touch.
In the evening, I spend 55 baht on stall food of a green curry with rice and an omelette also I buy a fresh case of bottled water. I also get more top up for the phone as I’ve been sending many texts (which haven’t been replied to).
A finally deigns to call me at 21:45 to tell me that I need to telephone the landlord to arrange for the payment of the rent for the month. She also says that she has the money due to me and claims that she’ll come back for a few hours on number five (Wednesday) in the evening. To be frank, I will be very surprised if either of these ‘promises’ is kept.
Trying to get the Thai at the other end of the phone to understand took some doing until I said “Six thousand baht on number two. Near Soi Khao Noi”. This gets the “I send someone to see you now” answer and within five minutes the rent is paid.
Midnight to bed alone and sober once again.
Expenditure :
Baht bus – 20 baht
Telephone topup – 100 baht
Electric – 656.75 baht
Rent – 6000 baht
Water – 285 baht
Stall Food - 55 baht
Bottled water – 50 baht
Sunday 2 December 2007
Trip 4 - Day 115
December 2nd
I am woken by my phone going off at 02:45 and once again it’s Nam. “How are you? I not like work tonight, too many farang watching football and I not like them. I want to finish work but boss says that I have to stay. If I want to go, he will cut my money. If you can give me 500 and money for taxi, I can come stay with you now”. I simply agree and I get out of bed to await her arrival.
Fifteen minutes later she’s in the house and is a bit pissed, but not ‘out of it’. The first thing that she realises is that she’s forgotten (or lost) her cigarettes and this is a major issue. She says that she is going to shower and asks if I can get her cigarettes. She goes to get the money and I say not to worry, I can buy them. I go to the local 7/11 and get cigarettes for 48 baht and I return home.
Nam is just coming out of the shower and she’s wrapped up in the towel, but when she sees me looking at her, she just undoes the tuck at the top and lets it fall to the floor and says “You fuck me now”. This seems to come out more as an order than an invitation, but either way, there’s no way that I’m going to refuse.
I can’t believe the muscle control that this girl has. Once I ‘finit’, she just refuses to release me and starts doing ‘exercises’ that keep me locked in tight. I have not encountered this before and it’s actually quite pleasant, however there is no way that I’m going to get ‘up’ for a second session, as I’m too tired now.
We cuddle up and grab a few hours sleep before having a wake up session that is deliberately taken at a very slow pace and seems to last forever. By 10:30 she says that it’s time for her to leave as she needs to see Mama and get some things done before going to work tonight.
She asks if I still like her and when I say that I do, she asks if I want to see her again. I say that it would be nice and she says “maybe you see me again in two weeks or next month”. If she seriously means it that having a break is best, I’d agree, but in the back of my mind, I am concerned that I might get some late night telephone calls or scooter taxis pulling up at the house unannounced. I guess that only time will tell.
At 13:00, I get a call from Alleycat to say goodbye. He’s phoning from passport control at Bangkok Airport and is returning to England along with DirtyDisco who is on the same flight. From our quick conversation, it sounds as though they both have some tales to tell of their latest forays to LoS.
Rather than buying stall food, I decide to cook for myself today, so it’s Pork Masman Curry. This is a coconut based curry with potato and peanut. A couple of tablespoons of fish sauce added at the end of the cooking and I am very pleased with the result. There’s enough to finish off tonight, so that’s food sorted for the day.
The rest of the day is spent very quietly as I am planning to get an early night as tomorrow marks the start of a new regime which will see me devoting my days to generating some income.
During the evening, I attempt several times to get in touch with A, but all to no avail. Drastic action is going to be required I fear, so I will be changing the locks on the house so that she cannot simply turn up when I’m not about and clear the place out. I’ve been there and done that once in LoS already and do not intend a reoccurrence.
By 22:00, I head off to bed and I’m asleep very quickly.
Expenditure :
Tip – 600 baht
Cigarettes – 48 baht
Phone Top Up – 50 baht
I am woken by my phone going off at 02:45 and once again it’s Nam. “How are you? I not like work tonight, too many farang watching football and I not like them. I want to finish work but boss says that I have to stay. If I want to go, he will cut my money. If you can give me 500 and money for taxi, I can come stay with you now”. I simply agree and I get out of bed to await her arrival.
Fifteen minutes later she’s in the house and is a bit pissed, but not ‘out of it’. The first thing that she realises is that she’s forgotten (or lost) her cigarettes and this is a major issue. She says that she is going to shower and asks if I can get her cigarettes. She goes to get the money and I say not to worry, I can buy them. I go to the local 7/11 and get cigarettes for 48 baht and I return home.
Nam is just coming out of the shower and she’s wrapped up in the towel, but when she sees me looking at her, she just undoes the tuck at the top and lets it fall to the floor and says “You fuck me now”. This seems to come out more as an order than an invitation, but either way, there’s no way that I’m going to refuse.
I can’t believe the muscle control that this girl has. Once I ‘finit’, she just refuses to release me and starts doing ‘exercises’ that keep me locked in tight. I have not encountered this before and it’s actually quite pleasant, however there is no way that I’m going to get ‘up’ for a second session, as I’m too tired now.
We cuddle up and grab a few hours sleep before having a wake up session that is deliberately taken at a very slow pace and seems to last forever. By 10:30 she says that it’s time for her to leave as she needs to see Mama and get some things done before going to work tonight.
She asks if I still like her and when I say that I do, she asks if I want to see her again. I say that it would be nice and she says “maybe you see me again in two weeks or next month”. If she seriously means it that having a break is best, I’d agree, but in the back of my mind, I am concerned that I might get some late night telephone calls or scooter taxis pulling up at the house unannounced. I guess that only time will tell.
At 13:00, I get a call from Alleycat to say goodbye. He’s phoning from passport control at Bangkok Airport and is returning to England along with DirtyDisco who is on the same flight. From our quick conversation, it sounds as though they both have some tales to tell of their latest forays to LoS.
Rather than buying stall food, I decide to cook for myself today, so it’s Pork Masman Curry. This is a coconut based curry with potato and peanut. A couple of tablespoons of fish sauce added at the end of the cooking and I am very pleased with the result. There’s enough to finish off tonight, so that’s food sorted for the day.
The rest of the day is spent very quietly as I am planning to get an early night as tomorrow marks the start of a new regime which will see me devoting my days to generating some income.
During the evening, I attempt several times to get in touch with A, but all to no avail. Drastic action is going to be required I fear, so I will be changing the locks on the house so that she cannot simply turn up when I’m not about and clear the place out. I’ve been there and done that once in LoS already and do not intend a reoccurrence.
By 22:00, I head off to bed and I’m asleep very quickly.
Expenditure :
Tip – 600 baht
Cigarettes – 48 baht
Phone Top Up – 50 baht
Saturday 1 December 2007
Trip 4 - Day 114
December 1st
What’s that noise? It’s my phone going, so I grab it out of my trouser pocket and don’t recognise the number. I answer anyhow and it’s Nam. “You call me straight back”. I do so and she says that she cannot find ‘home me’. I don’t know the name of the side Soi that I live in, so cannot give instructions to her taxi driver. I pull on my jeans and a top and go out to Khao Noi. As I leave the bedroom, I realise that it’s only 06:15
I get one of the taxi drivers from my local stand to talk with the other rider and 30 seconds later Nam is getting off the scooter and paying the driver. She’s still wearing the same clothes as last night, so it’s obvious she hasn’t been home. She tells me that she went short time with someone called John but "him no good", however he has given her 1000 baht. I have no idea why she then decided to come round to see me, as she knows I have no spare money. I’m still half asleep and my head cannot fathom out why I let myself get into this particular scenario, but it is quite exciting and a complete leap of faith into the unknown.
We spend a couple of hours messing about until at 08:30, Nam decides that she has to sleep and she just wraps herself up into a cocoon of bedding and hardly moves for the next five hours. She then wakes and decides she’s hungry, so we walk out on the Soi and she buys a whole raft of stuff which we take back to the house to eat.
She’s still tired so she just heads off back to bed and says that she needs to leave at 16:00, as she has to take food home to Mama and to change her clothes ready for another night working in the bar.
As she gathers up her stuff, she says again that she is sorry about the other night and that I had wasted my money.
In the evening, I finish off the food that she bought earlier and whilst it is spicier than anything A tends to eat or prepare, it’s very enjoyable.
I have been trying to speak with A today to find out what is going on, but after ringing a couple of times her phone then comes up as ‘busy’. I send her a text and then call again 30 minutes later. No real surprise in that she’s not coming back tonight and says that she doesn’t know if she’ll be back tomorrow either.
Due to the early start this morning and the recent run of late nights, I decide to get an early night for a change and at around midnight, I call it a day and hit the sack.
It's been an extremely strange day, however it hasn't cost anything and has been most enjoybale.
Expenditure :
0 baht
What’s that noise? It’s my phone going, so I grab it out of my trouser pocket and don’t recognise the number. I answer anyhow and it’s Nam. “You call me straight back”. I do so and she says that she cannot find ‘home me’. I don’t know the name of the side Soi that I live in, so cannot give instructions to her taxi driver. I pull on my jeans and a top and go out to Khao Noi. As I leave the bedroom, I realise that it’s only 06:15
I get one of the taxi drivers from my local stand to talk with the other rider and 30 seconds later Nam is getting off the scooter and paying the driver. She’s still wearing the same clothes as last night, so it’s obvious she hasn’t been home. She tells me that she went short time with someone called John but "him no good", however he has given her 1000 baht. I have no idea why she then decided to come round to see me, as she knows I have no spare money. I’m still half asleep and my head cannot fathom out why I let myself get into this particular scenario, but it is quite exciting and a complete leap of faith into the unknown.
We spend a couple of hours messing about until at 08:30, Nam decides that she has to sleep and she just wraps herself up into a cocoon of bedding and hardly moves for the next five hours. She then wakes and decides she’s hungry, so we walk out on the Soi and she buys a whole raft of stuff which we take back to the house to eat.
She’s still tired so she just heads off back to bed and says that she needs to leave at 16:00, as she has to take food home to Mama and to change her clothes ready for another night working in the bar.
As she gathers up her stuff, she says again that she is sorry about the other night and that I had wasted my money.
In the evening, I finish off the food that she bought earlier and whilst it is spicier than anything A tends to eat or prepare, it’s very enjoyable.
I have been trying to speak with A today to find out what is going on, but after ringing a couple of times her phone then comes up as ‘busy’. I send her a text and then call again 30 minutes later. No real surprise in that she’s not coming back tonight and says that she doesn’t know if she’ll be back tomorrow either.
Due to the early start this morning and the recent run of late nights, I decide to get an early night for a change and at around midnight, I call it a day and hit the sack.
It's been an extremely strange day, however it hasn't cost anything and has been most enjoybale.
Expenditure :
0 baht
Friday 30 November 2007
Trip 4 - Day 113
November 30th
I’m being woken up and rolling over I see the stranger in my bed and it takes me a few minutes to remember the events of last night. I look at the clock to discover it’s just after 08:00. The little girl gets up and dresses and I think about managing a ‘quickie’ before she leaves, but I really don’t have the energy or desire, besides I think there was an element of beer goggles last night as she’s not as good looking as I thought she’d been last night. (To be fair, the picture doesn’t really do her justice.)
After she leaves, I go back to bed for a few more hours as tonight is to be another late one at Cherry Bar with an Addicts meet up.
I finally rise in the afternoon and cook myself a decent English Breakfast of Bacon, Eggs, Sausages, Fried Tomatoes and a Fried Slice. It may not be the best meal for the arteries, but it’s bloody tasty all the same.
Once I’ve eaten I feel a lot better and I watch a couple of DVD’s before deciding to go out early and see if I can meet up with Nam for a drink and a chat tonight.
By 18:00, I’m heading out and I’m welcomed by many of the staff at the bar. The Mamasan comes over to chat and check that everything is okay. Then I am aware of someone standing behind me; I turn around and it’s Nam. She sits down and we start talking. She says that she’s a bad girl and asks if I am angry with her about the other night. I say that I had been angry yesterday, but now that has passed. There is nothing I can do about, so there is little point in worrying. I say that I have to leave at 19:55 as I have to be at my friends bar for 20:00. I’m asked what I do there and I try to explain that I just talk to the farang that come to drink and try to answer any questions that they may have. She doesn’t really understand, however hard I try to explain.
She then goes on to tell me that she is trouble with ‘big boss’ because the other night when I left her, she hadn’t gone home, but returned to the bar instead. She then had a fight with the girl that I’d kissed, and the result was that she’s on a final warning and had to apologise to the other girl.
We finally come to an agreement that I’ll call in at the bar once I finish at Cherry Bar. I say that if the bar is busy, it will be about 04:00, but if it is quietr, then I may get away between 02:00 and 03:00. I think that everything is clear and settle my checkbin and make my way to Cherry Bar.
A few guys from the Addicts board arrive at the bar and Dudebrah has a girl with him who I recognise. He tells me that she’s one of the dancers in Oasis GoGo and he’d barfined her on the crawl last night.
The night is fairly quiet with long spells of their being no customers at the bar. The same situation can be seen in many of the surrounding bars, so high season for the bar owners still hasn’t ‘kicked in’
I suddenly see out of the corner of my eye a customer that I didn’t want to see. Nam is entering the bar; this is not good, so I quickly go over to chat with her and she says that she wants to go out and buy a new top to look sexy, so can I pay barfine for her. I do not want any sort of scene here, so just give her 300 baht and tell her that I’ll see her at her bar when I finish. She heads off and I get a few quizzical looks from the girls, but nothing is said.
Later in the night at just after midnight, I am chatting with one of the customers about West Ham United and listening to his stories of having a minicab firm that used to run a lot of the players around back in the late 1960’s, when Nam turns up again. She has a new top and she does indeed look very sexy, however I am busy and cannot spend any time with her. The guy I’m talking with buys her a drink though and she has a whiskey. It’s pretty obvious that she is fairly well pissed now and I am worried that she’ll start shouting like she did the other night. She tells me that she came to the bar to see if I had been telling her the truth and then she says “If you do this, then I think you not have much money”. I tell her that she is right and I don’t have much money. She then starts crying saying that I should have told her and that she is a bad girl because she made me spend money the other day for nothing and I’d paid barfine for today for no reason.
All I can do is tell her not to worry about it and I’ll see her when I finish. I reckon the bamboo telegraph is in full swing now, so I’ll just have to see who hears what about this episode.
At 02:00, business picks up a little and there’s a fairly busy hour where I talk with another boardie about what he’d done during the day. He’d had a good time in Sri Racha at the Assumpta schoold watching a football game and then having dinner and drinks with some of the teachers. By 03:00 though, there’s only two customers and they are both more interested in talking with their partners than me, so I say my goodbyes to the girls and make my way down the Soi.
When I get to Amazing Paradise, Joan informs me that Nam was mau and had gone home, which I could fully believe. She asks me if I want to take a different lady home and I decline the offer.
I get indoors and sit for a few minutes trying to make sense of everything that is happening, but it makes little sense, so I just switch the lights off and make my way to bed.
Expenditure :
Tip and scooter for LT – 1100 baht
Scooter Taxis – 150 baht
Drinks at Amazing Paradise – 400 baht
Barfine – 300 baht
I’m being woken up and rolling over I see the stranger in my bed and it takes me a few minutes to remember the events of last night. I look at the clock to discover it’s just after 08:00. The little girl gets up and dresses and I think about managing a ‘quickie’ before she leaves, but I really don’t have the energy or desire, besides I think there was an element of beer goggles last night as she’s not as good looking as I thought she’d been last night. (To be fair, the picture doesn’t really do her justice.)
After she leaves, I go back to bed for a few more hours as tonight is to be another late one at Cherry Bar with an Addicts meet up.
I finally rise in the afternoon and cook myself a decent English Breakfast of Bacon, Eggs, Sausages, Fried Tomatoes and a Fried Slice. It may not be the best meal for the arteries, but it’s bloody tasty all the same.
Once I’ve eaten I feel a lot better and I watch a couple of DVD’s before deciding to go out early and see if I can meet up with Nam for a drink and a chat tonight.
By 18:00, I’m heading out and I’m welcomed by many of the staff at the bar. The Mamasan comes over to chat and check that everything is okay. Then I am aware of someone standing behind me; I turn around and it’s Nam. She sits down and we start talking. She says that she’s a bad girl and asks if I am angry with her about the other night. I say that I had been angry yesterday, but now that has passed. There is nothing I can do about, so there is little point in worrying. I say that I have to leave at 19:55 as I have to be at my friends bar for 20:00. I’m asked what I do there and I try to explain that I just talk to the farang that come to drink and try to answer any questions that they may have. She doesn’t really understand, however hard I try to explain.
She then goes on to tell me that she is trouble with ‘big boss’ because the other night when I left her, she hadn’t gone home, but returned to the bar instead. She then had a fight with the girl that I’d kissed, and the result was that she’s on a final warning and had to apologise to the other girl.
We finally come to an agreement that I’ll call in at the bar once I finish at Cherry Bar. I say that if the bar is busy, it will be about 04:00, but if it is quietr, then I may get away between 02:00 and 03:00. I think that everything is clear and settle my checkbin and make my way to Cherry Bar.
A few guys from the Addicts board arrive at the bar and Dudebrah has a girl with him who I recognise. He tells me that she’s one of the dancers in Oasis GoGo and he’d barfined her on the crawl last night.
The night is fairly quiet with long spells of their being no customers at the bar. The same situation can be seen in many of the surrounding bars, so high season for the bar owners still hasn’t ‘kicked in’
I suddenly see out of the corner of my eye a customer that I didn’t want to see. Nam is entering the bar; this is not good, so I quickly go over to chat with her and she says that she wants to go out and buy a new top to look sexy, so can I pay barfine for her. I do not want any sort of scene here, so just give her 300 baht and tell her that I’ll see her at her bar when I finish. She heads off and I get a few quizzical looks from the girls, but nothing is said.
Later in the night at just after midnight, I am chatting with one of the customers about West Ham United and listening to his stories of having a minicab firm that used to run a lot of the players around back in the late 1960’s, when Nam turns up again. She has a new top and she does indeed look very sexy, however I am busy and cannot spend any time with her. The guy I’m talking with buys her a drink though and she has a whiskey. It’s pretty obvious that she is fairly well pissed now and I am worried that she’ll start shouting like she did the other night. She tells me that she came to the bar to see if I had been telling her the truth and then she says “If you do this, then I think you not have much money”. I tell her that she is right and I don’t have much money. She then starts crying saying that I should have told her and that she is a bad girl because she made me spend money the other day for nothing and I’d paid barfine for today for no reason.
All I can do is tell her not to worry about it and I’ll see her when I finish. I reckon the bamboo telegraph is in full swing now, so I’ll just have to see who hears what about this episode.
At 02:00, business picks up a little and there’s a fairly busy hour where I talk with another boardie about what he’d done during the day. He’d had a good time in Sri Racha at the Assumpta schoold watching a football game and then having dinner and drinks with some of the teachers. By 03:00 though, there’s only two customers and they are both more interested in talking with their partners than me, so I say my goodbyes to the girls and make my way down the Soi.
When I get to Amazing Paradise, Joan informs me that Nam was mau and had gone home, which I could fully believe. She asks me if I want to take a different lady home and I decline the offer.
I get indoors and sit for a few minutes trying to make sense of everything that is happening, but it makes little sense, so I just switch the lights off and make my way to bed.
Expenditure :
Tip and scooter for LT – 1100 baht
Scooter Taxis – 150 baht
Drinks at Amazing Paradise – 400 baht
Barfine – 300 baht
Thursday 29 November 2007
Trip 4 - Day 112
November 29th
I wake up and feel absolutely wretched. I obviously ‘screwed up’ big time last night and I really didn’t understand why it was such a big deal, but obviously it was.
Classic newbie mistakes made include paying for a ‘service’ in advance and not being able to get a refund. And having paid for a room that wasn’t then used also galls me somewhat, but for some reason, I still want to see this girl again. Maybe it’s something about a feisty girl that makes it different to the usual supplicant girls that are encountered on a daily basis.
I have a lazy day reflecting on what is going on at the moment. I try to call A, but she’s not even answering her phone now, so I guess that another relationship is now dead in the water. As it’s Thursday, tonight is FLB Bar Crawl night. I think about not bothering as I don’t feel in a particularly good mood, but in the end, I decide “What the hell?”
I walk to Klang and get the bus into town which takes me 30 minutes all told. Jump off at the lights by Topps and head down Soi 7 to Amazing Paradise. I don’t know if Nam will be working tonight and if she is, whether she’ll even talk to me. I sit up at the corner of the bar and have just a single bottle of Singha which I nurse for nearly an hour. I’m watching the football channels on the big screens and listening to the music whilst watching the girls arrive for the start of another night in Pattaya. By 19:30, Nam has not arrived, so I simply pay checkbin and leave.
I jump on a baht bus and head off to the FLB. Walking down Walking Street, I make a conscious effort to look at the people out and about. As many have commented before, there are a lot of Eastern European couples about, but they don’t seem to be in the bars which are all looking very quiet.
A couple of beers to start with and then we are off in 3 baht buses to Buffalo Bar. They are a bit overwhelmed by the number of guys suddenly turning up, but there are plenty of girls on hand to make the wait an enjoyable experience. As I was getting sat down, I’d seen a real cutie on the other side of the bar, and whilst I’m waiting for my drink, she’s suddenly at my side gently massaging my thigh. She is an extremely pretty little thing called Arun and I find out that she’s 22 years old and has only been in Pattaya for 8 days. Her English is extremely limited, but she gets the other girls to help her in translation.
All too soon, Hammer is shepherding us all up to move on to the next venue which is Oasis GoGo. We walk down Soi Lenkhee and glance at the bars along the way. Captains Bar is still looking a good venue with several good looking girls sitting around the tables outside. We have no time to stop though and it’s in to the GoGo. Kev has decided to start the crawl here and he’s actually been here for 30 minutes already. He’s got two little darlings sitting with him and he’s on one of his ‘mission’ nights I fear. He’s already at 2200 checkbin and the drinks are being ordered at a cracking pace. A couple more bottles for me and I realise that I haven’t eaten today, so I guess I’m going to be in a pretty bad way by the end of the night.
Next stop is a drink where you want hour in Soi LK Metro. LordFlash says that the last few times he’d been out thi sway, Storm Bar on the corner had a few pretty girls working, so that’s where we head, but the pickings are meagre this evening so we decide not to bother. So a decision has to made, Beer Bar, GoGo Bar or BJ Bar? GoGo bar it is, so three of us enter Gorkles (what is a gorkle?).
We sit up at the bar and whilst there aren’t many girls in the place, #14 does look particularly fine. Whilst drinking my beer, the Mamasan turns up at my side and thrusts a girl towards me. I am not happy with this approach, so decline the offer without having even looked at the girl. She’s huddled up in a baggy sweatshirt and doesn’t seem too interested anyhow.
The record finishes and a new girl appears on stage. It’s a little waif of a thing and now there’s no sweatshirt, just bra and panties and I am smitten. I guess I should have paid more attention earlier and taken the Mamasans advice.
After a few tracks, she finishes and when she comes off stage, I’m unsure whether she’s going to come my way, or having spurned her before, maybe she’ll go over to the couple of guys sitting on the other side of the stage who have also shown some keen interest.
I’m the lucky one and I have been granted a second chance, so I buy her a drink straight away and we take it from there.
Our hour is already up and we should be off to the bar complex in Soi Dianna, however we have made a decision to return at the end of the crawl. To ensure that we are going to commit to this plan, Kevin decides that he’s going to pay barfine for me for the little darling in payment for the IT work I’ve done for him he says. I don’t complain but for some reason I am a little hesitant.
We do the rounds of the bar complex and then a flying ‘in one door and out the other’ visit to Papagayo’s and we return to Gorkles. The little darling comes to join me and #14 who is dancing comes over to the stage and announces “Little sister me” and points to the girl I’m with. She then says “I 18, seeter me 16”. All sorts of alarm bells are going off in my head now and my mates are also suddenly paying attention. When she sees the look of shock on our faces, out comes the “I joking. I 20, sister 18”. I am still not sure though and I am unwilling to even be in this girls company until I know for sure that she’s of legal age. She goes off and gets her ID card which shows a birth date of 2532, and the picture does look similar to the girl I’m looking at. The Mamasan has also become involved by this stage and she also says that the girl is definitely 18, so we head off into the night on a scooter taxi and I’m at it again just taking a girl straight back to my home. I wonder whether I have some inner desire to be caught out by A or I am just too much of a thrill seeker hellbent on some trail of self destruction?
Whatever it may be, things are not particularly good or exciting as the girl is just that; a slightly nervous, timid little thing. And it doesn’t help matters that I’m pissed into the bargain.
Expenditure :
Scooter Taxi – 100 baht
Baht Bus – 40 baht
Bar Crawl – 955 baht
I wake up and feel absolutely wretched. I obviously ‘screwed up’ big time last night and I really didn’t understand why it was such a big deal, but obviously it was.
Classic newbie mistakes made include paying for a ‘service’ in advance and not being able to get a refund. And having paid for a room that wasn’t then used also galls me somewhat, but for some reason, I still want to see this girl again. Maybe it’s something about a feisty girl that makes it different to the usual supplicant girls that are encountered on a daily basis.
I have a lazy day reflecting on what is going on at the moment. I try to call A, but she’s not even answering her phone now, so I guess that another relationship is now dead in the water. As it’s Thursday, tonight is FLB Bar Crawl night. I think about not bothering as I don’t feel in a particularly good mood, but in the end, I decide “What the hell?”
I walk to Klang and get the bus into town which takes me 30 minutes all told. Jump off at the lights by Topps and head down Soi 7 to Amazing Paradise. I don’t know if Nam will be working tonight and if she is, whether she’ll even talk to me. I sit up at the corner of the bar and have just a single bottle of Singha which I nurse for nearly an hour. I’m watching the football channels on the big screens and listening to the music whilst watching the girls arrive for the start of another night in Pattaya. By 19:30, Nam has not arrived, so I simply pay checkbin and leave.
I jump on a baht bus and head off to the FLB. Walking down Walking Street, I make a conscious effort to look at the people out and about. As many have commented before, there are a lot of Eastern European couples about, but they don’t seem to be in the bars which are all looking very quiet.
A couple of beers to start with and then we are off in 3 baht buses to Buffalo Bar. They are a bit overwhelmed by the number of guys suddenly turning up, but there are plenty of girls on hand to make the wait an enjoyable experience. As I was getting sat down, I’d seen a real cutie on the other side of the bar, and whilst I’m waiting for my drink, she’s suddenly at my side gently massaging my thigh. She is an extremely pretty little thing called Arun and I find out that she’s 22 years old and has only been in Pattaya for 8 days. Her English is extremely limited, but she gets the other girls to help her in translation.
All too soon, Hammer is shepherding us all up to move on to the next venue which is Oasis GoGo. We walk down Soi Lenkhee and glance at the bars along the way. Captains Bar is still looking a good venue with several good looking girls sitting around the tables outside. We have no time to stop though and it’s in to the GoGo. Kev has decided to start the crawl here and he’s actually been here for 30 minutes already. He’s got two little darlings sitting with him and he’s on one of his ‘mission’ nights I fear. He’s already at 2200 checkbin and the drinks are being ordered at a cracking pace. A couple more bottles for me and I realise that I haven’t eaten today, so I guess I’m going to be in a pretty bad way by the end of the night.
Next stop is a drink where you want hour in Soi LK Metro. LordFlash says that the last few times he’d been out thi sway, Storm Bar on the corner had a few pretty girls working, so that’s where we head, but the pickings are meagre this evening so we decide not to bother. So a decision has to made, Beer Bar, GoGo Bar or BJ Bar? GoGo bar it is, so three of us enter Gorkles (what is a gorkle?).
We sit up at the bar and whilst there aren’t many girls in the place, #14 does look particularly fine. Whilst drinking my beer, the Mamasan turns up at my side and thrusts a girl towards me. I am not happy with this approach, so decline the offer without having even looked at the girl. She’s huddled up in a baggy sweatshirt and doesn’t seem too interested anyhow.
The record finishes and a new girl appears on stage. It’s a little waif of a thing and now there’s no sweatshirt, just bra and panties and I am smitten. I guess I should have paid more attention earlier and taken the Mamasans advice.
After a few tracks, she finishes and when she comes off stage, I’m unsure whether she’s going to come my way, or having spurned her before, maybe she’ll go over to the couple of guys sitting on the other side of the stage who have also shown some keen interest.
I’m the lucky one and I have been granted a second chance, so I buy her a drink straight away and we take it from there.
Our hour is already up and we should be off to the bar complex in Soi Dianna, however we have made a decision to return at the end of the crawl. To ensure that we are going to commit to this plan, Kevin decides that he’s going to pay barfine for me for the little darling in payment for the IT work I’ve done for him he says. I don’t complain but for some reason I am a little hesitant.
We do the rounds of the bar complex and then a flying ‘in one door and out the other’ visit to Papagayo’s and we return to Gorkles. The little darling comes to join me and #14 who is dancing comes over to the stage and announces “Little sister me” and points to the girl I’m with. She then says “I 18, seeter me 16”. All sorts of alarm bells are going off in my head now and my mates are also suddenly paying attention. When she sees the look of shock on our faces, out comes the “I joking. I 20, sister 18”. I am still not sure though and I am unwilling to even be in this girls company until I know for sure that she’s of legal age. She goes off and gets her ID card which shows a birth date of 2532, and the picture does look similar to the girl I’m looking at. The Mamasan has also become involved by this stage and she also says that the girl is definitely 18, so we head off into the night on a scooter taxi and I’m at it again just taking a girl straight back to my home. I wonder whether I have some inner desire to be caught out by A or I am just too much of a thrill seeker hellbent on some trail of self destruction?
Whatever it may be, things are not particularly good or exciting as the girl is just that; a slightly nervous, timid little thing. And it doesn’t help matters that I’m pissed into the bargain.
Expenditure :
Scooter Taxi – 100 baht
Baht Bus – 40 baht
Bar Crawl – 955 baht
Wednesday 28 November 2007
Trip 4 - Day 111
November 28th
I get up and am feeling pretty lethargic. A light hangover doesn’t help matters either.
I have to go round to Kevs to investigate some problems he’s been having with his ‘net connection. When I get there, nothing can be done as he is in the middle of a power cut. After 10 minutes, the power returns and he tries to demonstrate the problem, but of course everything is working fine now. Unfortunately the quality of service for broadband connections doesn’t seem to be all it should be around Pattaya. Bandwidth is frequently throttled and connectivity to the DNS servers is often lost.
Whilst I am there, I install the soundcard drivers for the old Averatec laptop and start a new torrent download of McVicar which is Kev’s favourite movie.
Joy has gone out to get her hair done, so I have to wait for my lift home. We’re both checking out the boards for a while until Joy returns and gives me a lift home on the scooter.
I decide to start the night early at Amazing Paradise as I cannot get Nam out of my head and just want to see her again. I sit at the bar and at 19:00, Nam arrives and looks good in a black top and a long flowing skirt. We move over to the sofas next to the fishtank and in no time, she has me ‘hooked’. I say that I have to go to see my friends at Cherry Bar, but I can come back later if she wants. She tells me that she has been with “Man Hong Kong” for the past few days and she doesn’t know if he’ll be back again tonight. Our conversations are a little difficult at times as the language barrier stops us making things clear. Nam takes my telephone number and says that she will call me later to let me know, but if she does “go with man”, she says that he leaves early in the mornings, so she can come to see me at 08:00 in the morning.
At 20:30, I pay checkbin and make the short walk to the Cherry Bar. The Party is a fairly low key affair as a couple of the hosts have been partying hard since their arrival and another has had a few problems with his TGF. There has also been a run of 4 parties in the in the past week at the bar, so the girls aren’t really ‘into’ things. It’s still an enjoyable do though and I get bought a few drinks and have a laugh with both the girls and the customers.
It has to be said that the views in the bar beat anything that I could witness in Stansted in November.
TheFiend found a solution to getting over his girl problem and he seemed very happy with a ‘sprig’ of Mint.
Pun has managed to commandeer TalbotMan’s headwear
Gunshy has a message for all the hawkers that come by and hassle him
But for SparkyDave, tonight is his last in town for this trip, still he has the next two or three trips already lined up, so don’t feel too sorry for him.
I then find that I’ve had 3 missed calls from an unrecognised Thai number, so I assume that it’s Nam trying to get in touch. I call the number but simply get a voicemail announcement, so I am unsure what to do. I’m a bit pissed by now and come up with the bright idea that I’ll take Nam to the Penthouse Hotel and ‘sod the expense’.
I borrow 2000 baht from Kevin and after thanking the party hosts, I leave the party and go back to Amazing Paradise. Nam isn’t there so I just sit at the bar and talk with one of the other girls. When Nam arrives, I kiss the girl on the cheek and I leave her so that I can be with Nam.
We leave the bar and get a scooter taxi down to Soi Pattayaland and they have a room, so after paying we wait whilst the key is collected for us. As I’ve got my wallet out, I commit a typical newbie mistake and give ‘tip’ in advance. The key is given to me and we head up to our room and I’m feeling like a cat that’s got the cream.
Now as we all know, when everything is going well, Pattaya has a knack simply ‘sticking the boot in’ and tonight is no exception. Nam goes ‘into one’ and starts screaming at me “Why you kiss other lady in my bar? You want to fuck her like you fuck me? Well fuck you, you full of bullshit”. I try to calm her down and this has the opposite effect and she becomes angrier. This is a situation that I haven’t encountered before and I don’t know how to handle it at all. It’s now obvious that nothing good is going to happen tonight, so I simply cut my losses and we leave the unused room and checkout.
As a final 'stoopid' thing to do, I still end up giving Nam 100 baht for her scooter taxi home. I’ve survived the ordeal unscathed and the only damage inflicted has been to my ego.
I get home and just collapse on to the bed.
Expenditure :
Scooter Taxis – 250
Barfine – 300
Tip & Taxi – 1100
Hotel – 1300
Drinks – 430
I get up and am feeling pretty lethargic. A light hangover doesn’t help matters either.
I have to go round to Kevs to investigate some problems he’s been having with his ‘net connection. When I get there, nothing can be done as he is in the middle of a power cut. After 10 minutes, the power returns and he tries to demonstrate the problem, but of course everything is working fine now. Unfortunately the quality of service for broadband connections doesn’t seem to be all it should be around Pattaya. Bandwidth is frequently throttled and connectivity to the DNS servers is often lost.
Whilst I am there, I install the soundcard drivers for the old Averatec laptop and start a new torrent download of McVicar which is Kev’s favourite movie.
Joy has gone out to get her hair done, so I have to wait for my lift home. We’re both checking out the boards for a while until Joy returns and gives me a lift home on the scooter.
I decide to start the night early at Amazing Paradise as I cannot get Nam out of my head and just want to see her again. I sit at the bar and at 19:00, Nam arrives and looks good in a black top and a long flowing skirt. We move over to the sofas next to the fishtank and in no time, she has me ‘hooked’. I say that I have to go to see my friends at Cherry Bar, but I can come back later if she wants. She tells me that she has been with “Man Hong Kong” for the past few days and she doesn’t know if he’ll be back again tonight. Our conversations are a little difficult at times as the language barrier stops us making things clear. Nam takes my telephone number and says that she will call me later to let me know, but if she does “go with man”, she says that he leaves early in the mornings, so she can come to see me at 08:00 in the morning.
At 20:30, I pay checkbin and make the short walk to the Cherry Bar. The Party is a fairly low key affair as a couple of the hosts have been partying hard since their arrival and another has had a few problems with his TGF. There has also been a run of 4 parties in the in the past week at the bar, so the girls aren’t really ‘into’ things. It’s still an enjoyable do though and I get bought a few drinks and have a laugh with both the girls and the customers.
It has to be said that the views in the bar beat anything that I could witness in Stansted in November.
TheFiend found a solution to getting over his girl problem and he seemed very happy with a ‘sprig’ of Mint.
Pun has managed to commandeer TalbotMan’s headwear
Gunshy has a message for all the hawkers that come by and hassle him
But for SparkyDave, tonight is his last in town for this trip, still he has the next two or three trips already lined up, so don’t feel too sorry for him.
I then find that I’ve had 3 missed calls from an unrecognised Thai number, so I assume that it’s Nam trying to get in touch. I call the number but simply get a voicemail announcement, so I am unsure what to do. I’m a bit pissed by now and come up with the bright idea that I’ll take Nam to the Penthouse Hotel and ‘sod the expense’.
I borrow 2000 baht from Kevin and after thanking the party hosts, I leave the party and go back to Amazing Paradise. Nam isn’t there so I just sit at the bar and talk with one of the other girls. When Nam arrives, I kiss the girl on the cheek and I leave her so that I can be with Nam.
We leave the bar and get a scooter taxi down to Soi Pattayaland and they have a room, so after paying we wait whilst the key is collected for us. As I’ve got my wallet out, I commit a typical newbie mistake and give ‘tip’ in advance. The key is given to me and we head up to our room and I’m feeling like a cat that’s got the cream.
Now as we all know, when everything is going well, Pattaya has a knack simply ‘sticking the boot in’ and tonight is no exception. Nam goes ‘into one’ and starts screaming at me “Why you kiss other lady in my bar? You want to fuck her like you fuck me? Well fuck you, you full of bullshit”. I try to calm her down and this has the opposite effect and she becomes angrier. This is a situation that I haven’t encountered before and I don’t know how to handle it at all. It’s now obvious that nothing good is going to happen tonight, so I simply cut my losses and we leave the unused room and checkout.
As a final 'stoopid' thing to do, I still end up giving Nam 100 baht for her scooter taxi home. I’ve survived the ordeal unscathed and the only damage inflicted has been to my ego.
I get home and just collapse on to the bed.
Expenditure :
Scooter Taxis – 250
Barfine – 300
Tip & Taxi – 1100
Hotel – 1300
Drinks – 430
Tuesday 27 November 2007
Trip 4 - Day 110
November 27th
I’m up and about by 10:30, but before I can have any breakfast, I have to make a quick trip to 7/11 to get Coke, Butter, Bread & a phone top up. Rather than buying eggs in 7/11, I buy them from one of the local shops where they are 25% cheaper.
Toast & marmalade with a mug of tea and then I decide to tidy the house and do a bit of ironing. After my chores are completed, I check up on my emails.
This afternoon I’m meeting with Kevin at 16:00 as he’s arranged for a few guys to visit Black Pearl 2 and Dao Bar. I speak with him on the phone at 15:30 and he is already at Noi’s, so I hang up and in less than 5 minutes I’m sitting with him at the bar with a cold Chang and shortly afterwards we’re joined by a ‘hot’ Bow.
By 17:00, nobody else has turned up, so just the two of us make the journey out to Black Pearl 2 and it was a big letdown. There were only 2 or 3 girls there and they didn’t seem to be particularly interested, so we made a quick decision to drink up and head back to Dao bar.
When we walked in the door, we instantly recognised a fellow BM (The Assasin) and he came over to join us for a chat and we were later joined by another BM called Bob. I had no intention of getting up to any real mischief today, but one of the older ladies seemed determined that I was going to be her prey. My hands were firmly placed in all the places guaranteed to get me interested and once she was sure that she had my full attention, she made sure that I was going to keep it, as she removed her thong and bra in full view of everyone in the bar.
She won out and I had to relent. I paid bar, but we couldn’t get to a room just yet as they were all ‘in use’, so we ordered up another drink and a few minutes later a room became available.
For an older lady with two children, she had a pretty good figure and after a very nice BBBJ to get me fully aroused we had an energetic romp together in which she managed to get me to ‘finit’ twice, so it was a satisfying enough afternoon in the end, but nothing really memorable.
After showering, we head back to the bar, but everyone has gone, so I take a walk down the Soi to Noi’s bar and after chatting with the guys there I realise that in the space of just twenty minutes I have already forgotten her name.
I have a few more beers before settling up; buying some supper and heading home.
Expenditure :
Barfine & ST – 1000 baht
Drinks – 350 baht
Stall Food – 30 baht
I’m up and about by 10:30, but before I can have any breakfast, I have to make a quick trip to 7/11 to get Coke, Butter, Bread & a phone top up. Rather than buying eggs in 7/11, I buy them from one of the local shops where they are 25% cheaper.
Toast & marmalade with a mug of tea and then I decide to tidy the house and do a bit of ironing. After my chores are completed, I check up on my emails.
This afternoon I’m meeting with Kevin at 16:00 as he’s arranged for a few guys to visit Black Pearl 2 and Dao Bar. I speak with him on the phone at 15:30 and he is already at Noi’s, so I hang up and in less than 5 minutes I’m sitting with him at the bar with a cold Chang and shortly afterwards we’re joined by a ‘hot’ Bow.
By 17:00, nobody else has turned up, so just the two of us make the journey out to Black Pearl 2 and it was a big letdown. There were only 2 or 3 girls there and they didn’t seem to be particularly interested, so we made a quick decision to drink up and head back to Dao bar.
When we walked in the door, we instantly recognised a fellow BM (The Assasin) and he came over to join us for a chat and we were later joined by another BM called Bob. I had no intention of getting up to any real mischief today, but one of the older ladies seemed determined that I was going to be her prey. My hands were firmly placed in all the places guaranteed to get me interested and once she was sure that she had my full attention, she made sure that I was going to keep it, as she removed her thong and bra in full view of everyone in the bar.
She won out and I had to relent. I paid bar, but we couldn’t get to a room just yet as they were all ‘in use’, so we ordered up another drink and a few minutes later a room became available.
For an older lady with two children, she had a pretty good figure and after a very nice BBBJ to get me fully aroused we had an energetic romp together in which she managed to get me to ‘finit’ twice, so it was a satisfying enough afternoon in the end, but nothing really memorable.
After showering, we head back to the bar, but everyone has gone, so I take a walk down the Soi to Noi’s bar and after chatting with the guys there I realise that in the space of just twenty minutes I have already forgotten her name.
I have a few more beers before settling up; buying some supper and heading home.
Expenditure :
Barfine & ST – 1000 baht
Drinks – 350 baht
Stall Food – 30 baht
Monday 26 November 2007
Trip 4 - Day 109
November 26th
I don’t sleep very well and am wide awake by 08:00, so I get up and just have a mug of tea as I feel too ‘churned up’ to eat. I’m thinking about A and where we go from here and to be honest, the outlook isn’t particularly bright. I also reflect on my past ‘failures’ in Pattaya and in England. I don’t really understand why it’s not working out with A as we had previously agreed that it was a mutual benefit arrangement that we had. I would pay the rent, an allowance for Mama and food when we ate together. A would pay for utilities and her own food when out to work.
We would both have somewhere to live and we had spent enough time together to know that we liked each other enough to enjoy sharing a bed. I also agreed to do a number of the household chores such as cleaning and laundry, whilst A was to do the ironing.
The reality over the past few weeks has been that A has done very little. We have had very little time together and what private time we have had has been limited to a couple of furtive short time sessions or quickies in the early hours of the morning before going to work. In the longer term, this is just not going to work out and I know A is more than aware of this as well. She told me that it is one of the reasons that she wants to change job “So I can come home and I can take care you every day”, but now I don’t trust her as implicitly as I had in the past. I truly hope that she gets things sorted out and that she will call me to say that she has the money for me, however in my heart I already strongly doubt it.
Whilst thinking about the ladies and the girls of Pattaya, I cannot help but reflect on my recent couple of nights with Nam. There is no denying that she was wild and that I had a great time, but I also know that there is no way that I could ever see myself just sitting and chatting with her as a girlfriend. I do find that I can actually recollect many snippets of the conversations that we had even though I don’t remember a lot of talking taking place.
One thing she did say is that she wanted to have sex in front of a big mirror, so I log onto the boards and make a posting asking for any recommendations as to where to go, as my curiosity has got the better of me and I want to see if she can be even wilder than before. I also remember her talking in Italian at times as well as French and a bit of German. I then remember a little more about the “I not know word English, but same horny” conversation. She said “amore” and I replied “love”. She said “Not ti amo; amore. Is different”. My Italian is non existent, so I try and get a meaning by searching the ‘net and I think the meaning for amore is ‘with love’ and ti amo being I love you. (I’d appreciate if anyone is able to shed any further light on this for me)
By 15:00, I’m feeling quite hungry, so I head out to get a simple dish of chicken and rice with a bag of ‘soup’ as it’s both easier and cheaper buying as required from the stalls than it is to buy in ingredients and cook at home (unless cooking farang food).
I decide to take a few photos of the condition of the road to show how crazy the traffic conditions are out here. They started excavating at the end of last week and the road is technically 'closed'
And looking at the road surface it's possible to see why...
But that doesn’t deter anyone from carrying on as normal
The excavation has moved on from when I last checked on Saturday night
And by with these additional 'hazards', watching the traffic drive by whilst having a beer at Noi’s will be much more interesting
The Soi is a complete mess and there is no way that it would be used for traffic in the West.
I get a call from Kevin asking if I’m going to attend the party at FLB tonight, but I decline the offer as I’m not feeling particularly happy today and I would only end up drinking too much; spending too much and either end up doing something stupid or just feeling sorry for myself, so I decide that I am going to stay in and have a quiet, sensible, cheap night.
Finally I get a call from A and she says that she has spoken to ‘boss new’ about the money she says is due to her and she tells me that it will be in the bank on Number 28. I ask her if she is sure that it will be there and I get a “I not lie. Why you think I lie to you?” I say that I am scared she will not pay and that the other money that she is due to repay in six weeks will also not be paid. (Her savings account requires 90 days notice she told me). We finish the call and I know that it will take a lot to recover from here; we will just have to take it one step at a time, but I shall leave the decision to her.
Just me, the TV and a single bottle of Chang and I go to bed just after midnight.
Expenditure :
Stall Food – 50 baht
I don’t sleep very well and am wide awake by 08:00, so I get up and just have a mug of tea as I feel too ‘churned up’ to eat. I’m thinking about A and where we go from here and to be honest, the outlook isn’t particularly bright. I also reflect on my past ‘failures’ in Pattaya and in England. I don’t really understand why it’s not working out with A as we had previously agreed that it was a mutual benefit arrangement that we had. I would pay the rent, an allowance for Mama and food when we ate together. A would pay for utilities and her own food when out to work.
We would both have somewhere to live and we had spent enough time together to know that we liked each other enough to enjoy sharing a bed. I also agreed to do a number of the household chores such as cleaning and laundry, whilst A was to do the ironing.
The reality over the past few weeks has been that A has done very little. We have had very little time together and what private time we have had has been limited to a couple of furtive short time sessions or quickies in the early hours of the morning before going to work. In the longer term, this is just not going to work out and I know A is more than aware of this as well. She told me that it is one of the reasons that she wants to change job “So I can come home and I can take care you every day”, but now I don’t trust her as implicitly as I had in the past. I truly hope that she gets things sorted out and that she will call me to say that she has the money for me, however in my heart I already strongly doubt it.
Whilst thinking about the ladies and the girls of Pattaya, I cannot help but reflect on my recent couple of nights with Nam. There is no denying that she was wild and that I had a great time, but I also know that there is no way that I could ever see myself just sitting and chatting with her as a girlfriend. I do find that I can actually recollect many snippets of the conversations that we had even though I don’t remember a lot of talking taking place.
One thing she did say is that she wanted to have sex in front of a big mirror, so I log onto the boards and make a posting asking for any recommendations as to where to go, as my curiosity has got the better of me and I want to see if she can be even wilder than before. I also remember her talking in Italian at times as well as French and a bit of German. I then remember a little more about the “I not know word English, but same horny” conversation. She said “amore” and I replied “love”. She said “Not ti amo; amore. Is different”. My Italian is non existent, so I try and get a meaning by searching the ‘net and I think the meaning for amore is ‘with love’ and ti amo being I love you. (I’d appreciate if anyone is able to shed any further light on this for me)
By 15:00, I’m feeling quite hungry, so I head out to get a simple dish of chicken and rice with a bag of ‘soup’ as it’s both easier and cheaper buying as required from the stalls than it is to buy in ingredients and cook at home (unless cooking farang food).
I decide to take a few photos of the condition of the road to show how crazy the traffic conditions are out here. They started excavating at the end of last week and the road is technically 'closed'
And looking at the road surface it's possible to see why...
But that doesn’t deter anyone from carrying on as normal
The excavation has moved on from when I last checked on Saturday night
And by with these additional 'hazards', watching the traffic drive by whilst having a beer at Noi’s will be much more interesting
The Soi is a complete mess and there is no way that it would be used for traffic in the West.
I get a call from Kevin asking if I’m going to attend the party at FLB tonight, but I decline the offer as I’m not feeling particularly happy today and I would only end up drinking too much; spending too much and either end up doing something stupid or just feeling sorry for myself, so I decide that I am going to stay in and have a quiet, sensible, cheap night.
Finally I get a call from A and she says that she has spoken to ‘boss new’ about the money she says is due to her and she tells me that it will be in the bank on Number 28. I ask her if she is sure that it will be there and I get a “I not lie. Why you think I lie to you?” I say that I am scared she will not pay and that the other money that she is due to repay in six weeks will also not be paid. (Her savings account requires 90 days notice she told me). We finish the call and I know that it will take a lot to recover from here; we will just have to take it one step at a time, but I shall leave the decision to her.
Just me, the TV and a single bottle of Chang and I go to bed just after midnight.
Expenditure :
Stall Food – 50 baht
Sunday 25 November 2007
Trip 4 - Day 108
November 25th
I don’t surface until lunchtime and feel much refreshed. I get up and make myself a cup of tea and as I start to drink it, A arrives home. There’s a smile on her face, so that pleases me as it’s something that hasn’t been there for far too long.
She comes and sits next to me and I check with her that Phil is okay. She says that he is now staying with ‘seeter’ as it is easier for school.
A tells me that she wants to change job from shop as “have new boss” and “I no like”. This is also one of the reasons that Phil has moved out I discover. ‘New boss’ told A that she couldn’t have a break in the afternoon to collect Phil from school. I then get a ‘story’ about going for a new job selling in shop, but “need to have guarantee”.
I don’t really understand what is being said until the request for money is made. (I have deliberately kept our financial transactions out of the TR as it is no business except ours) I tell her that I cannot help out and indeed she is due to return a loan to me tomorrow ( “Number 26” ). She asks again if I can help her and I tell her I cannot. At this point the smile disappears and we are both now annoyed with the other. A gets on the phone to ‘the family’ and then we sit in stony silence whilst she watches TV.
She receives several calls and by 19:00 she says that she has to go as she needs to see family to get money. I remind her about ‘Number 26’ and she says she will call me tomorrow.
After she leaves, I head out and buy Pork Panang from the nearest stall and return to eat alone with a single bottle of beer. Getting to sleep takes a long time as there is much to think about.
Expenditure :
Stall food – 25 baht
I don’t surface until lunchtime and feel much refreshed. I get up and make myself a cup of tea and as I start to drink it, A arrives home. There’s a smile on her face, so that pleases me as it’s something that hasn’t been there for far too long.
She comes and sits next to me and I check with her that Phil is okay. She says that he is now staying with ‘seeter’ as it is easier for school.
A tells me that she wants to change job from shop as “have new boss” and “I no like”. This is also one of the reasons that Phil has moved out I discover. ‘New boss’ told A that she couldn’t have a break in the afternoon to collect Phil from school. I then get a ‘story’ about going for a new job selling in shop, but “need to have guarantee”.
I don’t really understand what is being said until the request for money is made. (I have deliberately kept our financial transactions out of the TR as it is no business except ours) I tell her that I cannot help out and indeed she is due to return a loan to me tomorrow ( “Number 26” ). She asks again if I can help her and I tell her I cannot. At this point the smile disappears and we are both now annoyed with the other. A gets on the phone to ‘the family’ and then we sit in stony silence whilst she watches TV.
She receives several calls and by 19:00 she says that she has to go as she needs to see family to get money. I remind her about ‘Number 26’ and she says she will call me tomorrow.
After she leaves, I head out and buy Pork Panang from the nearest stall and return to eat alone with a single bottle of beer. Getting to sleep takes a long time as there is much to think about.
Expenditure :
Stall food – 25 baht
Saturday 24 November 2007
Trip 4 - Day 107
November 24th
With only 2 hours sleep until we check out at 08:40, I’m not feeling particularly bright. Nam is quite sad this morning and tells me that I do some things that make her feel “I not know word English, but same horny”.
To be honest, I don’t think my body could take another night at this pace without a breather. Without a shadow of a doubt, I’ve had the best two nights of intense and adventurous sex that I’ve ever had in my life.
We talk about this after we’re dressed and Nam confesses to me that last night in the bar she had ‘accident’ and made “big water” which is why she had to go and change at one point. Even if it is all lies, my ego has had a bloody good boost over the past couple of days.
There are no pictures of Nam, as she wouldn’t let any be taken; even in the bar. I have one ‘half shot’ that I can remember her by in the future, however I will most definitely see her in the bar again and will ask her once more.
We separate at the entrance to the apartments and Nam goes one way whilst I go the other. I say that I will definitely pop in sometimes to see her again, however I suspect that if A continues to be away for 5 or 6 days at a time then some repeats of last nights activities could well be on the cards.
I get home just after 09:30 as I don’t know what time A is going to return. As it happens, she calls me at 11:55 to let me know that she’ll be back at around 18:00. She actually sounds quite happy for a change, so it will be interesting to hear about the developments on the Phil front. I say that maybe we could take a wander down to the beach tonight to see the Loy Krathong festivities, but I just get a “Maybe” in response.
I spend the day doing laundry and getting my Report written up.
During the late afternoon, I’m just waiting for the call from A to say that she isn’t coming back and I am getting fairly aggrieved about this situation now. I know that I’ve been out seeing other ladies, but there is no point in being in Pattaya and being celibate unless it’s your lifestyle choice and it is most certainly not mine.
Sure enough the call comes through at 18:00 and what annoys me most isn’t that A isn’t coming back, but if I’d only known it this morning, I could have spent an extra three hours with Nam as we had use of the room until 12:00. A then says that she knows she has not been home for a long time and says “I know you want, so is okay you go with lady tonight”. I tell her that I will not be going into Pattaya tonight on my own, I’ll just go to Noi’s bar for a few beers instead.
I am at a loose end as to what to do tonight now. The ‘plan’ was to go into town and watch the Loy Krathong festivities with A, but somehow it doesn’t feel right to go on my own. I log on to the ‘net and check the webcam at Noi’s. It’s very quiet in the bar and the guys on the chat are a little bit bored as well, so I say that I’ll take my laptop along to the bar and login again from there.
To get to the bar is a bit of a trek at the moment, as I had to negotiate my way around the latest roadworks taking place on the Soi.
What gets me is that the cars just carry on as normal.
The pics don't show how bad the surface really is, so here are a couple of pics taken on Friday morning.
I arrive and sit at the table and once I connect to the Webcam, the girls all swarm around the PC. They are reading the chat as it’s written and when they respond, I type in what they say. It’s a bit of fun and the girls seem to enjoy whiling away a bit of time as well. The beers taste good and I’m buying too many LD’s for Bow, but I am enjoying the relaxed company and do not mind the expense.
I was asked to take pictures of the bar and the girls by the guys who were online, so here you go...
First is the bar and pool room which is where you see the girls 'disappearing' to on the right hand side of the webcam
And to the right of the pool room (looking at the bar from the road) is the lounge bar which is home to the Wii and has been known to be used for a bit of general 'messing about' and sometimes home to a 'friendly' game of cards.
It was a very quiet night as Kolobos was 'laid up' with some bug and many of the girls were off doing their 'Buddha' thing for Loy Krathong, but we had 'lady in green dress'; 'lady in white dress'; 'lady at side with legs' and YaYa. The online guys kept the language clean and the girls had a laugh. I was the centre of all the attention (well my laptop was), so it was good for me too.
'Lady in green dress', Bow and 'Lady in White dress'
'Lady in green dress' and Bow
'Lady at side with legs' (and the two "hansum men" in the background)
The legs in question
and of course the ebullient YaYa
Now whatever it might have looked like on the Webcam, I can assure you that YaYa was NOT giving me a blowjob. She was just kneeling with her head in that position so that she could see the screen on my laptop. My time and baht at Noi's bar are invariably spent with Bow who was looking lovely as ever.
After a couple of hours, I’m happily pissed, so I pay checkbin, then cross the road to buy my supper. After eating, I go straight to bed to get some much needed sleep.
In the end it had been a fun night :D
Expenditure :
Tip – 1000 baht
Sccoter Taxi – 60 baht
Noi’s Bar – 600 baht
Stall food – 30 baht
With only 2 hours sleep until we check out at 08:40, I’m not feeling particularly bright. Nam is quite sad this morning and tells me that I do some things that make her feel “I not know word English, but same horny”.
To be honest, I don’t think my body could take another night at this pace without a breather. Without a shadow of a doubt, I’ve had the best two nights of intense and adventurous sex that I’ve ever had in my life.
We talk about this after we’re dressed and Nam confesses to me that last night in the bar she had ‘accident’ and made “big water” which is why she had to go and change at one point. Even if it is all lies, my ego has had a bloody good boost over the past couple of days.
There are no pictures of Nam, as she wouldn’t let any be taken; even in the bar. I have one ‘half shot’ that I can remember her by in the future, however I will most definitely see her in the bar again and will ask her once more.
We separate at the entrance to the apartments and Nam goes one way whilst I go the other. I say that I will definitely pop in sometimes to see her again, however I suspect that if A continues to be away for 5 or 6 days at a time then some repeats of last nights activities could well be on the cards.
I get home just after 09:30 as I don’t know what time A is going to return. As it happens, she calls me at 11:55 to let me know that she’ll be back at around 18:00. She actually sounds quite happy for a change, so it will be interesting to hear about the developments on the Phil front. I say that maybe we could take a wander down to the beach tonight to see the Loy Krathong festivities, but I just get a “Maybe” in response.
I spend the day doing laundry and getting my Report written up.
During the late afternoon, I’m just waiting for the call from A to say that she isn’t coming back and I am getting fairly aggrieved about this situation now. I know that I’ve been out seeing other ladies, but there is no point in being in Pattaya and being celibate unless it’s your lifestyle choice and it is most certainly not mine.
Sure enough the call comes through at 18:00 and what annoys me most isn’t that A isn’t coming back, but if I’d only known it this morning, I could have spent an extra three hours with Nam as we had use of the room until 12:00. A then says that she knows she has not been home for a long time and says “I know you want, so is okay you go with lady tonight”. I tell her that I will not be going into Pattaya tonight on my own, I’ll just go to Noi’s bar for a few beers instead.
I am at a loose end as to what to do tonight now. The ‘plan’ was to go into town and watch the Loy Krathong festivities with A, but somehow it doesn’t feel right to go on my own. I log on to the ‘net and check the webcam at Noi’s. It’s very quiet in the bar and the guys on the chat are a little bit bored as well, so I say that I’ll take my laptop along to the bar and login again from there.
To get to the bar is a bit of a trek at the moment, as I had to negotiate my way around the latest roadworks taking place on the Soi.
What gets me is that the cars just carry on as normal.
The pics don't show how bad the surface really is, so here are a couple of pics taken on Friday morning.
I arrive and sit at the table and once I connect to the Webcam, the girls all swarm around the PC. They are reading the chat as it’s written and when they respond, I type in what they say. It’s a bit of fun and the girls seem to enjoy whiling away a bit of time as well. The beers taste good and I’m buying too many LD’s for Bow, but I am enjoying the relaxed company and do not mind the expense.
I was asked to take pictures of the bar and the girls by the guys who were online, so here you go...
First is the bar and pool room which is where you see the girls 'disappearing' to on the right hand side of the webcam
And to the right of the pool room (looking at the bar from the road) is the lounge bar which is home to the Wii and has been known to be used for a bit of general 'messing about' and sometimes home to a 'friendly' game of cards.
It was a very quiet night as Kolobos was 'laid up' with some bug and many of the girls were off doing their 'Buddha' thing for Loy Krathong, but we had 'lady in green dress'; 'lady in white dress'; 'lady at side with legs' and YaYa. The online guys kept the language clean and the girls had a laugh. I was the centre of all the attention (well my laptop was), so it was good for me too.
'Lady in green dress', Bow and 'Lady in White dress'
'Lady in green dress' and Bow
'Lady at side with legs' (and the two "hansum men" in the background)
The legs in question
and of course the ebullient YaYa
Now whatever it might have looked like on the Webcam, I can assure you that YaYa was NOT giving me a blowjob. She was just kneeling with her head in that position so that she could see the screen on my laptop. My time and baht at Noi's bar are invariably spent with Bow who was looking lovely as ever.
After a couple of hours, I’m happily pissed, so I pay checkbin, then cross the road to buy my supper. After eating, I go straight to bed to get some much needed sleep.
In the end it had been a fun night :D
Expenditure :
Tip – 1000 baht
Sccoter Taxi – 60 baht
Noi’s Bar – 600 baht
Stall food – 30 baht
Friday 23 November 2007
Trip 4 - Day 106
November 23rd
I wake at just past 10:00 and stretch out an arm to touch Nam, but she’s having none of it. She’s sleeping and obviously intends to continue sleeping.
It’s just past noon when she finally wakes and after showering and dressing, we have a little kiss & cuddle but there’s no repeat of last night as she says she has to “go home, eat, talk with old lady, joke with baby she, have beer and go back to bar.
I’ve already decided that I am very interested in a ‘second helping’, so ask if it is okay for me to come to the bar and pay barfine again tonight. I also say that we will go to a hotel and not come ‘home me’. She is okay with this and whilst it might kill me, it would be a damn good way to go.
At 17:15, I get a text from Kevin inviting me to join himself, Lord Flash and possibly The Fiend tonight. I send a message back saying that I had an ‘appointment’ and ever the true romantic, Kevin sends me back :
“Fuck early! When shag fest is over pm me. Can meet then. I will be Soi 6 or Walking”
I get to the bar just before 19:00 and am there when Nam arrives. She says “Sorry I have to go do something and change shirt” and after putting her nametag and ID card on the bar in front of me, she heads off to a parlour to get made up.
When she returns, she looks great, however she is unhappy about the eyeliner and too much powder, so starts modifying the effect immediately. The Mamasan even comes over and gives Nam a full up and down look and says. “Good. Very good. Better for you; better for me”, so I guess that’s a compliment.
We leave the bar to go somewhere else for a while and end up in the complex on Beach Road with the boxing and Blue Lagoon GoGo at the back. We’re in the bar at the front on the right hand side and Nam knows who I assume to be the manager here. The two of them play the dice game with the lowest score winning and double for a jackpot. The end result is that Nam loses 40 baht (Well, to be fair she loses 40 of my baht).
We then return to Amazing Paradise for an early nightcap and by 00:15, we eventually end up at a place that Nam knows called Deeden Apartments on Soi Khopai near the junction with Soi 8.
We pull up and the bored looking guy at the reception area simply asks "How long" Nam tells him we want all night and after parting with 350 baht we're shown to a basic but functional room with TV and en-suite. A can of Singha is ordered from the guy that shows us to our room and this costs an extra 40 baht.
Expenditure :
Tip & money for scooter taxi – 1100 baht
Scooter Taxis – 500 baht
Barfine – 300 baht
Drinks for two – 1330 baht
Deeden Apartment – 390 baht
I wake at just past 10:00 and stretch out an arm to touch Nam, but she’s having none of it. She’s sleeping and obviously intends to continue sleeping.
It’s just past noon when she finally wakes and after showering and dressing, we have a little kiss & cuddle but there’s no repeat of last night as she says she has to “go home, eat, talk with old lady, joke with baby she, have beer and go back to bar.
I’ve already decided that I am very interested in a ‘second helping’, so ask if it is okay for me to come to the bar and pay barfine again tonight. I also say that we will go to a hotel and not come ‘home me’. She is okay with this and whilst it might kill me, it would be a damn good way to go.
At 17:15, I get a text from Kevin inviting me to join himself, Lord Flash and possibly The Fiend tonight. I send a message back saying that I had an ‘appointment’ and ever the true romantic, Kevin sends me back :
“Fuck early! When shag fest is over pm me. Can meet then. I will be Soi 6 or Walking”
I get to the bar just before 19:00 and am there when Nam arrives. She says “Sorry I have to go do something and change shirt” and after putting her nametag and ID card on the bar in front of me, she heads off to a parlour to get made up.
When she returns, she looks great, however she is unhappy about the eyeliner and too much powder, so starts modifying the effect immediately. The Mamasan even comes over and gives Nam a full up and down look and says. “Good. Very good. Better for you; better for me”, so I guess that’s a compliment.
We leave the bar to go somewhere else for a while and end up in the complex on Beach Road with the boxing and Blue Lagoon GoGo at the back. We’re in the bar at the front on the right hand side and Nam knows who I assume to be the manager here. The two of them play the dice game with the lowest score winning and double for a jackpot. The end result is that Nam loses 40 baht (Well, to be fair she loses 40 of my baht).
We then return to Amazing Paradise for an early nightcap and by 00:15, we eventually end up at a place that Nam knows called Deeden Apartments on Soi Khopai near the junction with Soi 8.
We pull up and the bored looking guy at the reception area simply asks "How long" Nam tells him we want all night and after parting with 350 baht we're shown to a basic but functional room with TV and en-suite. A can of Singha is ordered from the guy that shows us to our room and this costs an extra 40 baht.
Expenditure :
Tip & money for scooter taxi – 1100 baht
Scooter Taxis – 500 baht
Barfine – 300 baht
Drinks for two – 1330 baht
Deeden Apartment – 390 baht
Thursday 22 November 2007
Trip 4 - Day 105
November 22nd
A thumper of a hangover is not the most pleasant way to start the day, but ‘Som Num Na’. Everything seems to take an age to get done and after showering I just end up sitting on the sofa with a towel wrapped around me trying to get rid of my headache.
At 11:45, I’m surprised to hear A arriving home on her scooter. She is very quiet and there is obviously something wrong but she says she doesn’t want to talk. She wants me to get dressed, so she hasn’t returned for any ‘hanky panky’. Once dressed, I try to get more information and from what I can gather, she’s looking to change her daytime job as she’s only being offered basic hours now which reduces her income. She says that she is “tired too much” having to take Phil to and from school (It’s also affected her day job in that she has to leave early to collect Phil from school).
At 13:00, ‘seeter’ then turns up with Mama and I have no idea what is going on. All three of them proceed to gather up Phils ‘gear’ and I’m told that Phil is now going to live with Auntie.
I ask A why and what is happening. I simply get “I not want to talk because if I talk I sad”. This isn’t helping matters and I try to determine if it’s my fault “You ‘angly’ with me or something I have done?” which solicits the response “Is not you, but I tell you before I not want to talk. I not want to be sad more. You want me cry?”
They all then mount up on the over burdened scooters and set off. A announces “I see you Saturday okay?”, which isn’t really, but once again “What can I do?”
The timetable for tonight is a bit rushed, but I should manage. A couple of very swift beers with Kevin at Noi’s Bar at 19:30 (where I’m once again tempted by the girl that I sit with every time I’m in the bar) and then a scooter taxi to Beach Road to the Shami restaurant for which should be for 20:00 but I get there at 20:10. It’s the birthday of Nikki (Daughter of Robin & Kye – our old neighbours from #2) which I am supposed to be at with A. Kye knows that A is away, but Robin has called me earlier to check that I was still coming albeit alone. I feel that it would be very poor if I was a no show after confirming.
It’s a small gathering of mainly family and work colleagues in the room above the main restaurant. I’m made very welcome and it has to be said, the food was bloody good (Chicken Curry; Vegetable curry; Samosas; Pilau Rice and Chapatis) and washing it down with a few glasses of 100 Pipers & Soda worked just fine.
I end up staying until 21:15 which makes me late to meet up with Bryan at Party Bar on Soi 8 as the meet up time is 21:00. I guess that they will be there a while though, so take the opportunity to pop into one of my favourite bars on Soi 7 which is Amazing Paradise. I take a seat on the right hand corner of the bar in front of the dancers and just order a Coke.
After a couple of sips from the bottle, I feel my neck being massaged very firmly yet tenderly. I turn to see who is providing me with this service and whilst not a stunner there was a certain ‘something’ that I found very attractive, so I let her continue to do ‘her thing’. I had finger pulling; hand bending; hair ‘scrunching’ eyelid massage and several other techniques that I hadn’t undergone before, but were very pleasant.
I ask if my companion would like a drink and she just asks me “Why you want to buy me drink?”. This takes me unawares as I’m pretty much used to the “Thank you” and sometimes a little wai. I say I’ll buy a drink to pay for her time, but if she doesn’t want a drink then it’s up to her.
She does take a drink (Bottle of Singha) and suggests that we move over to one of the sofas in front of the fish tank which I readily agree to and she gets a cold towel and an ice cube from the bar whilst I carry the drinks and checkbin. I then get a massage that takes 20 minutes and includes having my feet, legs, arms, hands, neck and scalp all treated to a confident and competent pair of hands.
I try to kiss her, but she’s having none of it and says that she doesn’t like farang kiss and she imitates a quick pecking kissing motion. She says that she likes to kiss slowly and she moves her head close to mine and then says “Don’t do anything. Don’t move”. She gives me more of a suck than a kiss and her tongue is probing between my lips and at this point any thoughts of leaving to join Bryan and the guys goes right out the window.
I then try to find out her name and she says “Not matter. You notice I not ask you ‘What Your Name; Where You Come From’ bullshit because when you go I not remember anyhow” Her nametag for the bar says Numyai, but I later find that her name is actually Nam, however she couldn’t use that name as there were already 4 other Nams working in the bar.
We have another drink and the ‘snogging’ becomes very intense. I am a willing partner, however I do feel a little self conscious when we break off and find that several of the girls as well as one of the ladyboys and the Mamasan are all watching us. Nam explains that she never kisses customers and only gives massage, so the girls in the bar are surprised and that’s why they are looking.
She takes my hand and leads me the stools towards the back left of the bar and we continue in a little less of the ’public eye’ than before, but Nam is still self conscious. She gives in and we move back to the sofa, but rather this time I’m treated to another face, neck and head massage.
By 12:45, I’m unsure of where we go from here. I have insufficient money on me for a hotel let alone tip. I call for checkbin and am asked if I pay barfine. I say I cannot but will return tomorrow. This is not taken well by Nam and to try and prove my point, I give her 300 baht and say that it’s for the barfine tomorrow to show that I meant what I was saying.
“I not want your money” and the notes are thrown back in my lap. I am confused and annoyed with myself for upsetting her so much. I end up giving her the money back and saying “Okay. I pay barfine for tonight”
As we leave the bar, Nam says that all she wants to do is walk along the beach, so that’s no problem and we go and sit at the waters edge and chat for over 30 minutes. I admit to having a girl that I’m living with and that I am in a house in East Pattaya and not a hotel. It’s no problem as I’m told “Me and you no boomsing. Just massage and kiss”. I convince myself that this would be okay as there’d be no actual ‘sex’.
We head back along Soi 7 past Amazing Paradise and there are plenty of cat calls from the girls out front, but we manage to get past and I ask Nam where she wants to go. “My bar open 24 hours, but many closed now” It crosses my mind that Cherry Bar would be open, however I manage to dismiss this thought very quickly. Instead, we go to Party Bar (Bryan had obviously left by this point) for a couple of drinks where Nam is dancing in a very suggestive manner and the thoughts of not having boomsing are becoming a non starter and I try to explain to Nam that it would be best if I just gave her money for taxi and she went home.
Suffice to say, this was not the right thing to say and I receive a lecture on how farang are liars which I cannot really argue against. She’s got me beaten, so I end up on a deathwish. At 03:30, we’re three up on a scooter taxi back to Soi Khao Noi and I still haven’t got a real idea of what to expect.
We get inside and once the curtains are drawn things get a little lively. I’m stripped by Nam very quickly and at least a BJ is on the menu, but not to completion as she then goes off to have a shower.
When she returns, she is naked and although the belly isn’t totally ‘flat’ it’s a pretty good sight all the same. What came next took me totally by surprise; the “no boomsing” was completely out of the window and she was insatiable. After an hour or so of utilising just about every piece of furniture and several of the walls for support, we finally move into the bedroom and the sexual athletics continue. This lady has great muscle control and she amazes me with the short time it takes her to get me recovered between bouts.
Finally at 06:45, she has had enough and just announces “I sleep now” and I am so shattered that I am asleep within just a few minutes.
Expenditure :
Scooter Taxis – 200 baht
Amazing Paradise – 880 baht (inc 300 baht barfine)
Party Bar – 340 baht
Cigarettes – 45 baht
Lost at Connect 4 – 100 baht
A thumper of a hangover is not the most pleasant way to start the day, but ‘Som Num Na’. Everything seems to take an age to get done and after showering I just end up sitting on the sofa with a towel wrapped around me trying to get rid of my headache.
At 11:45, I’m surprised to hear A arriving home on her scooter. She is very quiet and there is obviously something wrong but she says she doesn’t want to talk. She wants me to get dressed, so she hasn’t returned for any ‘hanky panky’. Once dressed, I try to get more information and from what I can gather, she’s looking to change her daytime job as she’s only being offered basic hours now which reduces her income. She says that she is “tired too much” having to take Phil to and from school (It’s also affected her day job in that she has to leave early to collect Phil from school).
At 13:00, ‘seeter’ then turns up with Mama and I have no idea what is going on. All three of them proceed to gather up Phils ‘gear’ and I’m told that Phil is now going to live with Auntie.
I ask A why and what is happening. I simply get “I not want to talk because if I talk I sad”. This isn’t helping matters and I try to determine if it’s my fault “You ‘angly’ with me or something I have done?” which solicits the response “Is not you, but I tell you before I not want to talk. I not want to be sad more. You want me cry?”
They all then mount up on the over burdened scooters and set off. A announces “I see you Saturday okay?”, which isn’t really, but once again “What can I do?”
The timetable for tonight is a bit rushed, but I should manage. A couple of very swift beers with Kevin at Noi’s Bar at 19:30 (where I’m once again tempted by the girl that I sit with every time I’m in the bar) and then a scooter taxi to Beach Road to the Shami restaurant for which should be for 20:00 but I get there at 20:10. It’s the birthday of Nikki (Daughter of Robin & Kye – our old neighbours from #2) which I am supposed to be at with A. Kye knows that A is away, but Robin has called me earlier to check that I was still coming albeit alone. I feel that it would be very poor if I was a no show after confirming.
It’s a small gathering of mainly family and work colleagues in the room above the main restaurant. I’m made very welcome and it has to be said, the food was bloody good (Chicken Curry; Vegetable curry; Samosas; Pilau Rice and Chapatis) and washing it down with a few glasses of 100 Pipers & Soda worked just fine.
I end up staying until 21:15 which makes me late to meet up with Bryan at Party Bar on Soi 8 as the meet up time is 21:00. I guess that they will be there a while though, so take the opportunity to pop into one of my favourite bars on Soi 7 which is Amazing Paradise. I take a seat on the right hand corner of the bar in front of the dancers and just order a Coke.
After a couple of sips from the bottle, I feel my neck being massaged very firmly yet tenderly. I turn to see who is providing me with this service and whilst not a stunner there was a certain ‘something’ that I found very attractive, so I let her continue to do ‘her thing’. I had finger pulling; hand bending; hair ‘scrunching’ eyelid massage and several other techniques that I hadn’t undergone before, but were very pleasant.
I ask if my companion would like a drink and she just asks me “Why you want to buy me drink?”. This takes me unawares as I’m pretty much used to the “Thank you” and sometimes a little wai. I say I’ll buy a drink to pay for her time, but if she doesn’t want a drink then it’s up to her.
She does take a drink (Bottle of Singha) and suggests that we move over to one of the sofas in front of the fish tank which I readily agree to and she gets a cold towel and an ice cube from the bar whilst I carry the drinks and checkbin. I then get a massage that takes 20 minutes and includes having my feet, legs, arms, hands, neck and scalp all treated to a confident and competent pair of hands.
I try to kiss her, but she’s having none of it and says that she doesn’t like farang kiss and she imitates a quick pecking kissing motion. She says that she likes to kiss slowly and she moves her head close to mine and then says “Don’t do anything. Don’t move”. She gives me more of a suck than a kiss and her tongue is probing between my lips and at this point any thoughts of leaving to join Bryan and the guys goes right out the window.
I then try to find out her name and she says “Not matter. You notice I not ask you ‘What Your Name; Where You Come From’ bullshit because when you go I not remember anyhow” Her nametag for the bar says Numyai, but I later find that her name is actually Nam, however she couldn’t use that name as there were already 4 other Nams working in the bar.
We have another drink and the ‘snogging’ becomes very intense. I am a willing partner, however I do feel a little self conscious when we break off and find that several of the girls as well as one of the ladyboys and the Mamasan are all watching us. Nam explains that she never kisses customers and only gives massage, so the girls in the bar are surprised and that’s why they are looking.
She takes my hand and leads me the stools towards the back left of the bar and we continue in a little less of the ’public eye’ than before, but Nam is still self conscious. She gives in and we move back to the sofa, but rather this time I’m treated to another face, neck and head massage.
By 12:45, I’m unsure of where we go from here. I have insufficient money on me for a hotel let alone tip. I call for checkbin and am asked if I pay barfine. I say I cannot but will return tomorrow. This is not taken well by Nam and to try and prove my point, I give her 300 baht and say that it’s for the barfine tomorrow to show that I meant what I was saying.
“I not want your money” and the notes are thrown back in my lap. I am confused and annoyed with myself for upsetting her so much. I end up giving her the money back and saying “Okay. I pay barfine for tonight”
As we leave the bar, Nam says that all she wants to do is walk along the beach, so that’s no problem and we go and sit at the waters edge and chat for over 30 minutes. I admit to having a girl that I’m living with and that I am in a house in East Pattaya and not a hotel. It’s no problem as I’m told “Me and you no boomsing. Just massage and kiss”. I convince myself that this would be okay as there’d be no actual ‘sex’.
We head back along Soi 7 past Amazing Paradise and there are plenty of cat calls from the girls out front, but we manage to get past and I ask Nam where she wants to go. “My bar open 24 hours, but many closed now” It crosses my mind that Cherry Bar would be open, however I manage to dismiss this thought very quickly. Instead, we go to Party Bar (Bryan had obviously left by this point) for a couple of drinks where Nam is dancing in a very suggestive manner and the thoughts of not having boomsing are becoming a non starter and I try to explain to Nam that it would be best if I just gave her money for taxi and she went home.
Suffice to say, this was not the right thing to say and I receive a lecture on how farang are liars which I cannot really argue against. She’s got me beaten, so I end up on a deathwish. At 03:30, we’re three up on a scooter taxi back to Soi Khao Noi and I still haven’t got a real idea of what to expect.
We get inside and once the curtains are drawn things get a little lively. I’m stripped by Nam very quickly and at least a BJ is on the menu, but not to completion as she then goes off to have a shower.
When she returns, she is naked and although the belly isn’t totally ‘flat’ it’s a pretty good sight all the same. What came next took me totally by surprise; the “no boomsing” was completely out of the window and she was insatiable. After an hour or so of utilising just about every piece of furniture and several of the walls for support, we finally move into the bedroom and the sexual athletics continue. This lady has great muscle control and she amazes me with the short time it takes her to get me recovered between bouts.
Finally at 06:45, she has had enough and just announces “I sleep now” and I am so shattered that I am asleep within just a few minutes.
Expenditure :
Scooter Taxis – 200 baht
Amazing Paradise – 880 baht (inc 300 baht barfine)
Party Bar – 340 baht
Cigarettes – 45 baht
Lost at Connect 4 – 100 baht
Wednesday 21 November 2007
Trip 4 - Day 104
November 21st
We are woken by Phil calling out at 04:30, so A gets up and goes to settle him down. It’s the first night that she’s stayed over for more than a week and she’s incapacitated and not in our bed. I’m not happy with the situation and nor is A and I know that we cannot continue like this.
I hear her get up at 06:00 and after showering and providing breakfast she’s off again. I know that I shall not see her tonight as I am at Cherry Bar and it’s going to be a late one as there is the England game on at 03:00.
I grab a few more hours of sleep and after getting up, I make a phone call to the bacon shop and they have bacon ‘pieces’ in stock. I walk down Soi Khao Noi to the shop and get my bag of bacon as well as half a kilo of sausages. The ‘usual’ lady wasn’t there today, so there was no ‘banter’ today and I just paid and headed back with a quick detour into 7/11 for more Coke and a loaf of bread.
Bacon, Eggs, Sausage, Tomato & toast for lunch followed by a nap and then a couple of hours on the ‘net and then it’s time to iron my shirt and get myself ready.
I walk down the top end of Soi 7 and cut through to Soi 8 at the Pig & Whistle before wandering down Soi 8 and the whole area seems bereft of customers. Approaching the Cherry Bar things are very quiet as well. Two guys then arrive and sit out front. They call me over and introduce themselves as Nohlsson1 & Gunshy. They are at the bar to pay their money for the FLB Bar Crawl tomorrow. I get that sorted and then sit with them and I find that it’s Day 1 of their first trip. They buy me a couple of drinks (Cheers guys) and I give them instructions on how to use the baht bus to get down to Walking Street as they want to go and see Keeper at the FLB to pay for their party that they are hosting. Whilst we’re talking, Kevin wanders along and as he’s also going to Walking Street, I ask him to help the guys out. (From what I heard later, it seems that they had a pretty good first night taking in Sisterz, FLB and a couple of barfines out of Angelwitch.)
When they leave, the bar returns to its quiet state until another guy turns up and says he recognises me from the Cherry Bar website. He’s a poster on Thaigers rather than Talk or Addicts, so I don’t know of him, however we know a number of people in common such as Rixkix & Alleycat. (Another beer is bought for me which I also appreciate). Next to arrive at the bar is Streamer from Sweden. It’s also his first night in town and he’s here to pay for the Ban Chang outing as well. (He also buys me a couple of beers so I’m having a pretty good night.)
The night continues; the beers keep slipping down and I end up buying yet another Ladydrink for Mint, but what the heck? 03:00 arrives and the TV’s are switched over to watch the football and when the 3rd goal is conceded, everyone knows that it’s all over for England and they will not be participating in Euro 2008.
I’m not sure what the time was when I finally left the bar but at least I made it and I woke up alone, so didn’t do anything too stupid I guess.
Expenditure :
Bacon & Sausages – 140 baht
Bread & Coke – 64 baht
Scooter Taxis – 150 baht
Ladydrink for Mint – 100 baht
We are woken by Phil calling out at 04:30, so A gets up and goes to settle him down. It’s the first night that she’s stayed over for more than a week and she’s incapacitated and not in our bed. I’m not happy with the situation and nor is A and I know that we cannot continue like this.
I hear her get up at 06:00 and after showering and providing breakfast she’s off again. I know that I shall not see her tonight as I am at Cherry Bar and it’s going to be a late one as there is the England game on at 03:00.
I grab a few more hours of sleep and after getting up, I make a phone call to the bacon shop and they have bacon ‘pieces’ in stock. I walk down Soi Khao Noi to the shop and get my bag of bacon as well as half a kilo of sausages. The ‘usual’ lady wasn’t there today, so there was no ‘banter’ today and I just paid and headed back with a quick detour into 7/11 for more Coke and a loaf of bread.
Bacon, Eggs, Sausage, Tomato & toast for lunch followed by a nap and then a couple of hours on the ‘net and then it’s time to iron my shirt and get myself ready.
I walk down the top end of Soi 7 and cut through to Soi 8 at the Pig & Whistle before wandering down Soi 8 and the whole area seems bereft of customers. Approaching the Cherry Bar things are very quiet as well. Two guys then arrive and sit out front. They call me over and introduce themselves as Nohlsson1 & Gunshy. They are at the bar to pay their money for the FLB Bar Crawl tomorrow. I get that sorted and then sit with them and I find that it’s Day 1 of their first trip. They buy me a couple of drinks (Cheers guys) and I give them instructions on how to use the baht bus to get down to Walking Street as they want to go and see Keeper at the FLB to pay for their party that they are hosting. Whilst we’re talking, Kevin wanders along and as he’s also going to Walking Street, I ask him to help the guys out. (From what I heard later, it seems that they had a pretty good first night taking in Sisterz, FLB and a couple of barfines out of Angelwitch.)
When they leave, the bar returns to its quiet state until another guy turns up and says he recognises me from the Cherry Bar website. He’s a poster on Thaigers rather than Talk or Addicts, so I don’t know of him, however we know a number of people in common such as Rixkix & Alleycat. (Another beer is bought for me which I also appreciate). Next to arrive at the bar is Streamer from Sweden. It’s also his first night in town and he’s here to pay for the Ban Chang outing as well. (He also buys me a couple of beers so I’m having a pretty good night.)
The night continues; the beers keep slipping down and I end up buying yet another Ladydrink for Mint, but what the heck? 03:00 arrives and the TV’s are switched over to watch the football and when the 3rd goal is conceded, everyone knows that it’s all over for England and they will not be participating in Euro 2008.
I’m not sure what the time was when I finally left the bar but at least I made it and I woke up alone, so didn’t do anything too stupid I guess.
Expenditure :
Bacon & Sausages – 140 baht
Bread & Coke – 64 baht
Scooter Taxis – 150 baht
Ladydrink for Mint – 100 baht
Tuesday 20 November 2007
Trip 4 - Day 103
November 20th
I awake at 10:30 and see Joy sleeping next to me and the memories of last night come flooding back. It has to be said that I felt little shame and it was another hour before I was getting up to have a shower.
I left the money for Joy on her bag which disappeared quite discreetly whilst she was dressing and then handed her another 100 baht note “For taxi”. She thanked me and then I let her out of the house and watched her disappear down the Soi probably never to be seen again.
A sniff of the pillowcases was enough for me to realise that I was going to have another marathon clean up, so the duvet went through the wash as did the sheets, pillowcases and the clothes that I’d been wearing the previous night. Mop the floor and a good dousing of air freshener and the place was ‘as new’.
All this activity took me some time and I went out for some food. Feeling ever more confident, I ventured to a different cart and after lifting the lids on the many big pots of food, chose a chicken panang along with 5 baht of rice. I had also told A that I would get the ‘Buddha’ items for her, so I buy two apples; a kilo of oranges; 4 garlands & 4 bottles of Red Fanta.
After eating, I have a quick nap and then read for a little bit when I am disturbed by the ’toot’ of the bike and A has returned (with Phil). She is in obvious pain when walking and just heads indoors and crashes out on the sofa. She says that she couldn’t sleep last night as her foot hurt so much, but then she sits up and insists on going out to get food.
She returns and we all eat, but she is in a lot of distress. She’s also left the gauze dressing at Aunties, so she asks me if I could go to the pharmacy for her. She writes out a shopping list and I go for the various items.
Ibuprofen; Antibiotics; Gauze; Tape & Hydrogen Peroxide.
When I get back, she removes the old dressing and I can see her foot starting to bruising in several places and a nasty looking ‘hole’ in her foot with a nasty looking discharge.
She applies the Hydrogen Peroxide to clean the wound thoroughly and is reduced to tears whilst she carries out this task. By 20:45, she says that she is tired and so she gets Phil ready for bed and they both crash out whilst I clear away the remnants of dinner.
By 21:30, A calls out for me and when I go in to see her, she’s laying in bed and her face is streaked with tears. She is in pain and she cannot sleep and I feel pretty helpless. The best I can offer is a Vallium to assist in getting her to sleep. She takes a 5mg tablet and I sit with her for 20 minutes as she finally dozes off.
At 22:00, I get a call from Hammer asking if I’m coming to the Cherry Bar party that’s taking place and I try to explain why I need to ‘cry off’, but it’s so noisy that I don’t know if Eric or Hammer heard why I couldn’t come out.
Expenditure :
Short time – 1000 baht + 100 baht for taxi
Stall Food lunch – 35 baht
Stall Food Evening – 70 baht
Pharmacy – 115 baht
Buddha ‘stuff’ – 136 baht
I awake at 10:30 and see Joy sleeping next to me and the memories of last night come flooding back. It has to be said that I felt little shame and it was another hour before I was getting up to have a shower.
I left the money for Joy on her bag which disappeared quite discreetly whilst she was dressing and then handed her another 100 baht note “For taxi”. She thanked me and then I let her out of the house and watched her disappear down the Soi probably never to be seen again.
A sniff of the pillowcases was enough for me to realise that I was going to have another marathon clean up, so the duvet went through the wash as did the sheets, pillowcases and the clothes that I’d been wearing the previous night. Mop the floor and a good dousing of air freshener and the place was ‘as new’.
All this activity took me some time and I went out for some food. Feeling ever more confident, I ventured to a different cart and after lifting the lids on the many big pots of food, chose a chicken panang along with 5 baht of rice. I had also told A that I would get the ‘Buddha’ items for her, so I buy two apples; a kilo of oranges; 4 garlands & 4 bottles of Red Fanta.
After eating, I have a quick nap and then read for a little bit when I am disturbed by the ’toot’ of the bike and A has returned (with Phil). She is in obvious pain when walking and just heads indoors and crashes out on the sofa. She says that she couldn’t sleep last night as her foot hurt so much, but then she sits up and insists on going out to get food.
She returns and we all eat, but she is in a lot of distress. She’s also left the gauze dressing at Aunties, so she asks me if I could go to the pharmacy for her. She writes out a shopping list and I go for the various items.
Ibuprofen; Antibiotics; Gauze; Tape & Hydrogen Peroxide.
When I get back, she removes the old dressing and I can see her foot starting to bruising in several places and a nasty looking ‘hole’ in her foot with a nasty looking discharge.
She applies the Hydrogen Peroxide to clean the wound thoroughly and is reduced to tears whilst she carries out this task. By 20:45, she says that she is tired and so she gets Phil ready for bed and they both crash out whilst I clear away the remnants of dinner.
By 21:30, A calls out for me and when I go in to see her, she’s laying in bed and her face is streaked with tears. She is in pain and she cannot sleep and I feel pretty helpless. The best I can offer is a Vallium to assist in getting her to sleep. She takes a 5mg tablet and I sit with her for 20 minutes as she finally dozes off.
At 22:00, I get a call from Hammer asking if I’m coming to the Cherry Bar party that’s taking place and I try to explain why I need to ‘cry off’, but it’s so noisy that I don’t know if Eric or Hammer heard why I couldn’t come out.
Expenditure :
Short time – 1000 baht + 100 baht for taxi
Stall Food lunch – 35 baht
Stall Food Evening – 70 baht
Pharmacy – 115 baht
Buddha ‘stuff’ – 136 baht
Monday 19 November 2007
Trip 4 - Day 102
November 19th
A quiet morning; just tea and toast before reading up on any common configuration issues with MSN Messenger. The reason for doing this is that I’ve been sent a message by Volsfan asking me to go and sort out a problem on the PC in his condo. He is currently in Hong Kong and will be returning to China for another couple of weeks and he wants to keep in contact with Joy and his daughter in Pattaya. At 12:45, I set off for his place after getting the scooter taxi driver to talk directly to Joy first.
The problem is that Messenger insists that an upgrade be installed before Messenger will operate. The wireless connection at his condo is very poor and when Joy tried to do the upgrade by clicking ‘Yes’, it would often timeout and fail to upgrade.
I downloaded the msi package directly from Microsoft which took in excess of 1 hour for the 19Mb file and then installed it satisfactorily. I spoke with Volsfan in Hong Kong and we then got the Webcam working as well, so everyone was happy.
Whilst out, I had also received a call from Kevin saying that his broadband had failed once again, however when the fault was logged with Maxnet, they informed him that the line was fine. I said that I’d come over once I’d finished the job I was currently doing.
When I get to Kevins, I determine that the Wireless router configuration had not been saved by the Maxnet engineers earlier in the week and the ADSL logon name was now showing simply as ‘usrename’. As we didn’t relish the idea of trying to explain to Joy to speak with the engineers to get a new password, the first plan of action was to try and return the configuration to the way it had been working before (i.e Having the wireless router acting simply as a switch and using the Prestige Ethernet router.
This was a success and I stayed for an hour and a half to check that everything was working and stable.
Kevin has had his staples removed today and he’s been told that his next appointment is for the 18th December, so it looks as though he’s not going to get back to Iraq in time to let anyone leave to be home for Christmas.
Kevins Joy then gave me a lift home on the scooter, so that I would be there for the return of A.
At 17:05, A calls and tells me that she has had an accident and has had to go to hospital. I immediately envisage a mangled scooter and am actually relieved when she tells me that she has been bitten on the foot by a dog whilst she was waiting for Phil to come out of school. She’s been to hospital and had a shot (I don’t know what though), but she ‘hurt everywhere’ and will not be returning to Pattaya today.
To be honest, I’m unsure as to whether she’s telling the truth, but I know that there is little point in saying anything as she’s unlikely to change her mind and if I insist that she comes home, she’ll only be angry so I say that I’ll see her tomorrow instead.
As I hang up, my phone immediately bleeps with an SMS message received. It’s an announcement that I’ve missed a call from Alleycat, so I call him back and he asks what I’m doing tonight. I tell him that I have nothing planned now and he says that’s good and he insists that I come out with him and a few of the ‘lads’ for a night out. He also insists that it’s his treat and whilst I feel a bit of a ‘ponce’, I do look forward to meeting up with all the guys in town.
It’s a short notice invite and I’m told to be at the Cherry Restaurant on 3rd Road (opposite eXcyte nightclub) for 18:00. I just have time to SSS and rush out to get a scooter taxi to arrive on time.
There’s Alleycat, Bryan, DiscoCol, Seanie and a guy called Bruno whose boardname I forget. The meal is excellent and I strongly recommend the place to everyone. The food is mouthwatering and the presentation is beautiful. I have Beef Stroganoff followed by Cherry Tart and I could not fault it.
The next port of call is the Boxing Roo just a short walk along 3rd Road. Tonight is the wedding party of Eric and Lai (cashier at Cherry Bar) and as we enter the Bar, there are many very well known faces already there. Kev & Joy; Sparkydave & Porn; gs_joe & Wee, Hammer as well as Ning, Nam, Noy, Tai and many other staff members from Cherry Bar.
We stay for a couple of drinks and avail ourselves of the marshmallows in hot chocolate sauce before we leave the wedding party to have drinks in Buffalo Bar. We’re joined by Kaddafi and a couple of guys at this point and the night starts to become a little more raucous. There’s a girl that comes over to me and after asking my name, says “I have your name on tattoo” and she points out the location. Know we all know that this is highly unlikely and so she tries to bet me 100 baht that she is telling the truth. She is undone though as I have seen pictures of this particular tattoo and she is correct. She has the words “Your Name” tattoed on her and I guess that she has ‘won’ many bet with this ‘game’.
By 23:00 a decision has been reached that we’re going into town and I’m told that I have to come along and to be honest the company is so good that I need little convincing. We grab a taxi and head over to Soi Diamond where we all head up the stairs to Heaven’s Above and enjoy the company of the dancers and each others company for a while. We are also treated to a complimentary drink each by one of the owners.
From Soi Diamond, it’s off to Marine Plaza and Coyotee GoGo. I sit with DiscoCol and we talk about the place. There are a few good looking girls here, but the majority seem very bored and looking around there’s little interaction between the non dancing girls and the customers. I suddenly feel a splash of water on my arm and I look away from the dancers and realise that DiscoCol has just been hit full in the face by an ice cube. We look around to see if anyone is ‘owning up’ to having done this, but there’s no acknowledgement from anywhere in the bar.
DiscoCol goes over to explain to the management what has happened and simply gets a shrug of the shoulders as if to say “What can I do about it?”. We drink up and leave with DiscoCol saying that the last baht he’ll be spending there.
We’re now heading back up Walking Street and into Soi Diamond once again. This time, we go to Imsomnia Gentlemans Club which is a new venture by spanky4star and it has to be said is very smart.
We start off downstairs having a drink and a chat before heading upstairs where we meet Tomski808. After a couple more drinks, most of the guys are settling in with their ‘teerak du jour’, so I’m feeling quite out of place now, so I finish my drink and am about to leave when I’m asked what I’m doing. I say that I’m going to have a drink at TQ2 with ‘Avatar girl’ if she’s there and then head home.
I thank everyone for the wonderful night that I’ve had when I’m told that I’d been promised a no expense night and am given some baht to buy drinks in TQ2 which is typical of the big heart and generosity of Alleycat & DiscoCol.
Into TQ2 and there are hardly any customers. I see my ‘favourite’ service girl disappear out the back of the bar and wonder if I’ve done something terribly wrong. It seems not as she reappears with ‘Avatar girl’ in tow. I am feeling quite drunk by now and have few inhibitions. I know that ‘Avatar Girl’ & ‘Service Girl’ share a room together, but despite my best efforts to get an invite, my advances are spurned. I finish my drink and head off up Walking Street with the intention of getting a scooter taxi straight home.
There’s still a fair amount of traffic coming down Beach Road, so rather than cross over straight away, I stay on the side of the Beach where I am a target for the many freelancers plying their trade. I’m obviously a little ‘wobbly’, so 1 of the ‘ladies of the night’ takes my arm and says she’ll take me to the scooter taxi stand. En route she also says that for 1500 baht, I could enjoy a ‘long time’ experience with her. I say that I only have ‘little money’, so cannot. She continues walking me to the scooter stand and as I give the driver my address, she makes her final offer and says “Okay I come with you and look after you for 1000 baht long time”. “Okay” says I and make the mistake of once again taking a lady (Name Joy; Age 39; Baby 1) back home. It has to be said that having a warm sexy lady in bed that you can snuggle up to and simply fall asleep with is one of lifes luxuries that I have re-discovered that I enjoy too much.
Expenditure :
Scooter Taxi – 190 baht
A quiet morning; just tea and toast before reading up on any common configuration issues with MSN Messenger. The reason for doing this is that I’ve been sent a message by Volsfan asking me to go and sort out a problem on the PC in his condo. He is currently in Hong Kong and will be returning to China for another couple of weeks and he wants to keep in contact with Joy and his daughter in Pattaya. At 12:45, I set off for his place after getting the scooter taxi driver to talk directly to Joy first.
The problem is that Messenger insists that an upgrade be installed before Messenger will operate. The wireless connection at his condo is very poor and when Joy tried to do the upgrade by clicking ‘Yes’, it would often timeout and fail to upgrade.
I downloaded the msi package directly from Microsoft which took in excess of 1 hour for the 19Mb file and then installed it satisfactorily. I spoke with Volsfan in Hong Kong and we then got the Webcam working as well, so everyone was happy.
Whilst out, I had also received a call from Kevin saying that his broadband had failed once again, however when the fault was logged with Maxnet, they informed him that the line was fine. I said that I’d come over once I’d finished the job I was currently doing.
When I get to Kevins, I determine that the Wireless router configuration had not been saved by the Maxnet engineers earlier in the week and the ADSL logon name was now showing simply as ‘usrename’. As we didn’t relish the idea of trying to explain to Joy to speak with the engineers to get a new password, the first plan of action was to try and return the configuration to the way it had been working before (i.e Having the wireless router acting simply as a switch and using the Prestige Ethernet router.
This was a success and I stayed for an hour and a half to check that everything was working and stable.
Kevin has had his staples removed today and he’s been told that his next appointment is for the 18th December, so it looks as though he’s not going to get back to Iraq in time to let anyone leave to be home for Christmas.
Kevins Joy then gave me a lift home on the scooter, so that I would be there for the return of A.
At 17:05, A calls and tells me that she has had an accident and has had to go to hospital. I immediately envisage a mangled scooter and am actually relieved when she tells me that she has been bitten on the foot by a dog whilst she was waiting for Phil to come out of school. She’s been to hospital and had a shot (I don’t know what though), but she ‘hurt everywhere’ and will not be returning to Pattaya today.
To be honest, I’m unsure as to whether she’s telling the truth, but I know that there is little point in saying anything as she’s unlikely to change her mind and if I insist that she comes home, she’ll only be angry so I say that I’ll see her tomorrow instead.
As I hang up, my phone immediately bleeps with an SMS message received. It’s an announcement that I’ve missed a call from Alleycat, so I call him back and he asks what I’m doing tonight. I tell him that I have nothing planned now and he says that’s good and he insists that I come out with him and a few of the ‘lads’ for a night out. He also insists that it’s his treat and whilst I feel a bit of a ‘ponce’, I do look forward to meeting up with all the guys in town.
It’s a short notice invite and I’m told to be at the Cherry Restaurant on 3rd Road (opposite eXcyte nightclub) for 18:00. I just have time to SSS and rush out to get a scooter taxi to arrive on time.
There’s Alleycat, Bryan, DiscoCol, Seanie and a guy called Bruno whose boardname I forget. The meal is excellent and I strongly recommend the place to everyone. The food is mouthwatering and the presentation is beautiful. I have Beef Stroganoff followed by Cherry Tart and I could not fault it.
The next port of call is the Boxing Roo just a short walk along 3rd Road. Tonight is the wedding party of Eric and Lai (cashier at Cherry Bar) and as we enter the Bar, there are many very well known faces already there. Kev & Joy; Sparkydave & Porn; gs_joe & Wee, Hammer as well as Ning, Nam, Noy, Tai and many other staff members from Cherry Bar.
We stay for a couple of drinks and avail ourselves of the marshmallows in hot chocolate sauce before we leave the wedding party to have drinks in Buffalo Bar. We’re joined by Kaddafi and a couple of guys at this point and the night starts to become a little more raucous. There’s a girl that comes over to me and after asking my name, says “I have your name on tattoo” and she points out the location. Know we all know that this is highly unlikely and so she tries to bet me 100 baht that she is telling the truth. She is undone though as I have seen pictures of this particular tattoo and she is correct. She has the words “Your Name” tattoed on her and I guess that she has ‘won’ many bet with this ‘game’.
By 23:00 a decision has been reached that we’re going into town and I’m told that I have to come along and to be honest the company is so good that I need little convincing. We grab a taxi and head over to Soi Diamond where we all head up the stairs to Heaven’s Above and enjoy the company of the dancers and each others company for a while. We are also treated to a complimentary drink each by one of the owners.
From Soi Diamond, it’s off to Marine Plaza and Coyotee GoGo. I sit with DiscoCol and we talk about the place. There are a few good looking girls here, but the majority seem very bored and looking around there’s little interaction between the non dancing girls and the customers. I suddenly feel a splash of water on my arm and I look away from the dancers and realise that DiscoCol has just been hit full in the face by an ice cube. We look around to see if anyone is ‘owning up’ to having done this, but there’s no acknowledgement from anywhere in the bar.
DiscoCol goes over to explain to the management what has happened and simply gets a shrug of the shoulders as if to say “What can I do about it?”. We drink up and leave with DiscoCol saying that the last baht he’ll be spending there.
We’re now heading back up Walking Street and into Soi Diamond once again. This time, we go to Imsomnia Gentlemans Club which is a new venture by spanky4star and it has to be said is very smart.
We start off downstairs having a drink and a chat before heading upstairs where we meet Tomski808. After a couple more drinks, most of the guys are settling in with their ‘teerak du jour’, so I’m feeling quite out of place now, so I finish my drink and am about to leave when I’m asked what I’m doing. I say that I’m going to have a drink at TQ2 with ‘Avatar girl’ if she’s there and then head home.
I thank everyone for the wonderful night that I’ve had when I’m told that I’d been promised a no expense night and am given some baht to buy drinks in TQ2 which is typical of the big heart and generosity of Alleycat & DiscoCol.
Into TQ2 and there are hardly any customers. I see my ‘favourite’ service girl disappear out the back of the bar and wonder if I’ve done something terribly wrong. It seems not as she reappears with ‘Avatar girl’ in tow. I am feeling quite drunk by now and have few inhibitions. I know that ‘Avatar Girl’ & ‘Service Girl’ share a room together, but despite my best efforts to get an invite, my advances are spurned. I finish my drink and head off up Walking Street with the intention of getting a scooter taxi straight home.
There’s still a fair amount of traffic coming down Beach Road, so rather than cross over straight away, I stay on the side of the Beach where I am a target for the many freelancers plying their trade. I’m obviously a little ‘wobbly’, so 1 of the ‘ladies of the night’ takes my arm and says she’ll take me to the scooter taxi stand. En route she also says that for 1500 baht, I could enjoy a ‘long time’ experience with her. I say that I only have ‘little money’, so cannot. She continues walking me to the scooter stand and as I give the driver my address, she makes her final offer and says “Okay I come with you and look after you for 1000 baht long time”. “Okay” says I and make the mistake of once again taking a lady (Name Joy; Age 39; Baby 1) back home. It has to be said that having a warm sexy lady in bed that you can snuggle up to and simply fall asleep with is one of lifes luxuries that I have re-discovered that I enjoy too much.
Expenditure :
Scooter Taxi – 190 baht
Sunday 18 November 2007
Trip 4 - Day 101
November 18th
Off for meeting at 10:00 which lasts a couple of hours and when I return home Mama, Phil and ‘seeter’ have come back with A. Mama is busy in the kitchen preparing a lunch of bacon, prawn and noodles, whilst A is doing the ironing and ‘seeter’ is washing the scooters. Phil is playing on his computer games machine and everyone is engrossed until Mama announces that food is ready and we all sit around to eat a tasty and extremely filling meal.
After eating, Mama washes up and I discover that A needs to take Mama to get the bus home as ‘seeter’ is going to see friends in Pattaya. I also find that A is going to be working once again tonight, but she says that she will return after taking Mama to get the bus.
She is gone for a couple of hours as I’m told that they had just missed the bus in Naklua and A chose to wait with Mama for the next one. One benefit is that Phil has gone with Mama so our couple of hours of time ‘alone’ is put to good use and I don’t feel quite so disappointed when the time comes for A to leave.
I am missing having someone to cuddle up to though and A promises that she’ll be back tomorrow night and she will leave Phil with ‘Auntie’, so I have something to really look forward to.
I speak with Kevin on the ‘phone and his appointment at the hospital had been cancelled, so he’s still got his staples in. He asks if I’m out tonight, but I decide to just have a quiet night in.
I head out to a new stall tonight and get Pork with noodles I was expecting string noodles, but it turns out I get ‘flat’ noodles and so the meal is actually very similar to lunch (Ho hum). I also get a bag of what looks like Pork Scratchings but is in fact chicken pieces. Only 10 baht, so if I don’t like them, it’s no big issue.
I return home with my purchases and spend the night reading and drinking a single bottle of Chang before retiring for the night.
Expenditure :
Scooter Taxi – 120 baht
Stall food – 50 baht
Mama allowance – 500 baht
Off for meeting at 10:00 which lasts a couple of hours and when I return home Mama, Phil and ‘seeter’ have come back with A. Mama is busy in the kitchen preparing a lunch of bacon, prawn and noodles, whilst A is doing the ironing and ‘seeter’ is washing the scooters. Phil is playing on his computer games machine and everyone is engrossed until Mama announces that food is ready and we all sit around to eat a tasty and extremely filling meal.
After eating, Mama washes up and I discover that A needs to take Mama to get the bus home as ‘seeter’ is going to see friends in Pattaya. I also find that A is going to be working once again tonight, but she says that she will return after taking Mama to get the bus.
She is gone for a couple of hours as I’m told that they had just missed the bus in Naklua and A chose to wait with Mama for the next one. One benefit is that Phil has gone with Mama so our couple of hours of time ‘alone’ is put to good use and I don’t feel quite so disappointed when the time comes for A to leave.
I am missing having someone to cuddle up to though and A promises that she’ll be back tomorrow night and she will leave Phil with ‘Auntie’, so I have something to really look forward to.
I speak with Kevin on the ‘phone and his appointment at the hospital had been cancelled, so he’s still got his staples in. He asks if I’m out tonight, but I decide to just have a quiet night in.
I head out to a new stall tonight and get Pork with noodles I was expecting string noodles, but it turns out I get ‘flat’ noodles and so the meal is actually very similar to lunch (Ho hum). I also get a bag of what looks like Pork Scratchings but is in fact chicken pieces. Only 10 baht, so if I don’t like them, it’s no big issue.
I return home with my purchases and spend the night reading and drinking a single bottle of Chang before retiring for the night.
Expenditure :
Scooter Taxi – 120 baht
Stall food – 50 baht
Mama allowance – 500 baht
Saturday 17 November 2007
Trip 4 - Day 100
November 17th
First thing I need to do after getting up and showering is get out to the 7/11 for bread, eggs, a phone top up and a large bottle of Coke. Back home and brunch consists of bacon, eggs, fried tomatoes, toast and a mug of tea.
Next, there’s the laundry to be done, however there’s only the one load this week as A & Phil haven’t been about so much. Whilst the machine is doing its thing, I settle down to a read of one of the books passed on by Kevin earlier in the week and get quite engrossed for a few hours.
I then log on to send an email to a mate in England and this seemingly simple task takes over 30 minutes as the Webmail service keeps timing out as does the Hotmail account. The message has to be sent before 09:00 GMT, so I have plenty of time, but I do get somewhat frustrated.
Then I check the boards for recent activity and get up to date with who’s going to be around in the near future and what’s going on in town. I will not be able to attend too many events, so will have to be particularly selective when making my choice.
Kev invites me to join him at Cherry Bar tonight and as A will not be home I agree to meet him at 20:30. I’ll be drinking on my own tab tonight, so the plan is for a ‘Cheap Charlie’ night on the draught beer.
There’s a fair turnout at the Bar and I’m bought drinks by a few BM’s in town as well as by Kevin. At only 45 baht a drink, I do manage to get quite merry on ‘little money’ and have had a pretty good day today.
Expenditure :
7/11 Groceries – 99 baht
Phone Top Up – 100 baht
Scooter Taxis – 130 baht
Cherry Bar – 250 baht
First thing I need to do after getting up and showering is get out to the 7/11 for bread, eggs, a phone top up and a large bottle of Coke. Back home and brunch consists of bacon, eggs, fried tomatoes, toast and a mug of tea.
Next, there’s the laundry to be done, however there’s only the one load this week as A & Phil haven’t been about so much. Whilst the machine is doing its thing, I settle down to a read of one of the books passed on by Kevin earlier in the week and get quite engrossed for a few hours.
I then log on to send an email to a mate in England and this seemingly simple task takes over 30 minutes as the Webmail service keeps timing out as does the Hotmail account. The message has to be sent before 09:00 GMT, so I have plenty of time, but I do get somewhat frustrated.
Then I check the boards for recent activity and get up to date with who’s going to be around in the near future and what’s going on in town. I will not be able to attend too many events, so will have to be particularly selective when making my choice.
Kev invites me to join him at Cherry Bar tonight and as A will not be home I agree to meet him at 20:30. I’ll be drinking on my own tab tonight, so the plan is for a ‘Cheap Charlie’ night on the draught beer.
There’s a fair turnout at the Bar and I’m bought drinks by a few BM’s in town as well as by Kevin. At only 45 baht a drink, I do manage to get quite merry on ‘little money’ and have had a pretty good day today.
Expenditure :
7/11 Groceries – 99 baht
Phone Top Up – 100 baht
Scooter Taxis – 130 baht
Cherry Bar – 250 baht
Friday 16 November 2007
Trip 4 - Day 99
November 16th
Bacon and eggs with a mug of tea is the way to start the day off (well a way to start mid morning off), followed by a call to A. She says that she’ll be home for the afternoon, but she will be working again tonight.
After SSS, I sit in the lounge with just a towel wrapped round my waist and log on to the ‘net to check my emails, but my connection is terrible and keeps timing out, so it’s a bit of a waste of time.
Just as I give up, there’s a ‘toot’ from the gate. A has returned (minus Phil) and it’s great to see her smiling face. She has a drink of Coke and quicker than I’d take to make a move in a Soi 6 establishment I’m leading her to the bedroom without being sidetracked into showering first.
Afterwards, we both lay there and hug for a while before getting up; showering and getting dressed. She says that she’s hungry now, so off she goes to procure some sustenance. She returns less than ten minutes later with a ‘red’ pork dish with noodles and soup which is nourishing without being too heavy and we devour every last morsel.
Then it’s time for her to catch up on some Thai soap opera on the TV, so we just cuddle up on the sofa and I hold her whilst half watching the rubbish being broadcast.
After an hour or so, I’m feeling ready for another ‘round’; however A is having none of it. She gets up and busies herself getting clothes gathered up for Phil and fifteen minutes later she’s on her way back to work again.
I know that the visit was only a few hours, but I’m pleased that she made the effort and it was most enjoyable.
In the evening, I spend a long time online whilst listening to some music and drinking a couple of bottles of Chang. I persevere with MSN Messenger and actually manage to get a reasonably stable connection, but unfortunately the people I want to chat with in the UK are not online
Expenditure :
Stall food – 120 baht
Bacon and eggs with a mug of tea is the way to start the day off (well a way to start mid morning off), followed by a call to A. She says that she’ll be home for the afternoon, but she will be working again tonight.
After SSS, I sit in the lounge with just a towel wrapped round my waist and log on to the ‘net to check my emails, but my connection is terrible and keeps timing out, so it’s a bit of a waste of time.
Just as I give up, there’s a ‘toot’ from the gate. A has returned (minus Phil) and it’s great to see her smiling face. She has a drink of Coke and quicker than I’d take to make a move in a Soi 6 establishment I’m leading her to the bedroom without being sidetracked into showering first.
Afterwards, we both lay there and hug for a while before getting up; showering and getting dressed. She says that she’s hungry now, so off she goes to procure some sustenance. She returns less than ten minutes later with a ‘red’ pork dish with noodles and soup which is nourishing without being too heavy and we devour every last morsel.
Then it’s time for her to catch up on some Thai soap opera on the TV, so we just cuddle up on the sofa and I hold her whilst half watching the rubbish being broadcast.
After an hour or so, I’m feeling ready for another ‘round’; however A is having none of it. She gets up and busies herself getting clothes gathered up for Phil and fifteen minutes later she’s on her way back to work again.
I know that the visit was only a few hours, but I’m pleased that she made the effort and it was most enjoyable.
In the evening, I spend a long time online whilst listening to some music and drinking a couple of bottles of Chang. I persevere with MSN Messenger and actually manage to get a reasonably stable connection, but unfortunately the people I want to chat with in the UK are not online
Expenditure :
Stall food – 120 baht
Thursday 15 November 2007
Trip 4 - Day 98
November 15th
As I didn’t get to bed until 05:00, I am not best pleased to be woken at 08:30 with my phone ringing. I check who’s calling and have to take the call as it’s about a possible job prospect.
Straight back to bed for a few more hours of much needed sleep and then I get a call from Kev. The engineers have arrived to sort out his Internet access and he’s having difficulty getting things up and running, and we determine that the issue is not likely to be resolved using telephone support, so it’s necessary to make a trip over to see what’s been done. There’s also the ‘old’ laptop to be finished off, so there’s plenty to still be done.
Before leaving I shower and change as I might as well go directly from Kev’s place to the FLB for the Bar Crawl. I’ve already predicted that Soi 1 & 2 will win and there are plenty of ‘fun’ bars in the area.
When I get to Kev’s, I soon find out why I couldn’t resolve the matter over the phone. The engineers have disconnected the Prestige router and must have reset the password on the account as only the wireless router is now operational.
After sorting out the DHCP Server settings and setting up port forwarding for uTorrents, everything is working as it should.
Kev kindly provides me with a meal of ham, chips & spaghetti and as his back is feeling better today, he decides that he’s going to go on the crawl as well, so Joy is instructed to book the taxi whilst Kev goes to SSS.
What a turnout at the FLB! (Pictures courtesy of Hammer)
Many faces that I've met in the past and in the voting Soi 1/2 won by a landslide. At one point the voting was Soi 1/2 - 19; Soi Diamond - 7; 2nd Road - 1.
A quick drink in Hooty's to say "Hi" to BM treacle with his latest venture and then off to Soi 1. Joy Bar was the first stop where there was one really 'dirty' girl in particular that got the testosterone flowing for quite a few guys I reckon.
Down the road a bit to the complex containing Cosy Bar where there are is an extremely fine LadyBoy
Classroom GoGo next where they were a little bit overwhelmed by the numbers suddenly arriving. I found the service a little lacking and I was about to leave, however my mind was changed very quickly by a little lovely that came and sat with me. (I was so engrossed with her that I completely missed watching the shows that were put on for us).
Classroom beer bar next and an absolute stunner was playing pool. I couldn't take my eyes off her, but she was with someone else, however I still had some fun.
Ever onwards, we moved to Tropical Bar and the stunner followed. (Sheer poetry in motion). The pictures don’t do her justice in my opinion, but what a marvellous little body and big smile.
There’s no rest for the wicked and we had to move across the Soi to the last venue for the night which was The Honey Pot. This place can be a bit ‘hit or miss’, but tonight there was a good selection of eye candy for everyone to enjoy.
All too sudden the crawl was over, so there’s a quick trip down the Soi to Beach Road and a journey on a baht bus to Soi 8 where a few of us meet up for a 'nightcap' at Cherry Bar.
Not a night of total debauchery unlike the past few crawls, but a future return journey to Classroom beer bar could be on the cards.
Expenditure :
Scooter Taxi – 140 baht
Bar Crawl – 1400 baht
As I didn’t get to bed until 05:00, I am not best pleased to be woken at 08:30 with my phone ringing. I check who’s calling and have to take the call as it’s about a possible job prospect.
Straight back to bed for a few more hours of much needed sleep and then I get a call from Kev. The engineers have arrived to sort out his Internet access and he’s having difficulty getting things up and running, and we determine that the issue is not likely to be resolved using telephone support, so it’s necessary to make a trip over to see what’s been done. There’s also the ‘old’ laptop to be finished off, so there’s plenty to still be done.
Before leaving I shower and change as I might as well go directly from Kev’s place to the FLB for the Bar Crawl. I’ve already predicted that Soi 1 & 2 will win and there are plenty of ‘fun’ bars in the area.
When I get to Kev’s, I soon find out why I couldn’t resolve the matter over the phone. The engineers have disconnected the Prestige router and must have reset the password on the account as only the wireless router is now operational.
After sorting out the DHCP Server settings and setting up port forwarding for uTorrents, everything is working as it should.
Kev kindly provides me with a meal of ham, chips & spaghetti and as his back is feeling better today, he decides that he’s going to go on the crawl as well, so Joy is instructed to book the taxi whilst Kev goes to SSS.
What a turnout at the FLB! (Pictures courtesy of Hammer)
Many faces that I've met in the past and in the voting Soi 1/2 won by a landslide. At one point the voting was Soi 1/2 - 19; Soi Diamond - 7; 2nd Road - 1.
A quick drink in Hooty's to say "Hi" to BM treacle with his latest venture and then off to Soi 1. Joy Bar was the first stop where there was one really 'dirty' girl in particular that got the testosterone flowing for quite a few guys I reckon.
Down the road a bit to the complex containing Cosy Bar where there are is an extremely fine LadyBoy
Classroom GoGo next where they were a little bit overwhelmed by the numbers suddenly arriving. I found the service a little lacking and I was about to leave, however my mind was changed very quickly by a little lovely that came and sat with me. (I was so engrossed with her that I completely missed watching the shows that were put on for us).
Classroom beer bar next and an absolute stunner was playing pool. I couldn't take my eyes off her, but she was with someone else, however I still had some fun.
Ever onwards, we moved to Tropical Bar and the stunner followed. (Sheer poetry in motion). The pictures don’t do her justice in my opinion, but what a marvellous little body and big smile.
There’s no rest for the wicked and we had to move across the Soi to the last venue for the night which was The Honey Pot. This place can be a bit ‘hit or miss’, but tonight there was a good selection of eye candy for everyone to enjoy.
All too sudden the crawl was over, so there’s a quick trip down the Soi to Beach Road and a journey on a baht bus to Soi 8 where a few of us meet up for a 'nightcap' at Cherry Bar.
Not a night of total debauchery unlike the past few crawls, but a future return journey to Classroom beer bar could be on the cards.
Expenditure :
Scooter Taxi – 140 baht
Bar Crawl – 1400 baht
Wednesday 14 November 2007
Trip 4 - Day 97
November 14th
I wake up on the sofa and see that it’s 03:00. I turn off the TV and just crawl into bed for a few hours. I reawake mid morning and try desperately to remember what the hell had happened the previous night.
I remember being at The Rockhouse and then …. Nothing
I go to get a bottle of water from the fridge and find that I’ve got 3 unopened bottles of Chang there and a bag of water (used to be ice) on the floor. I guess that I managed to buy these last night, so I call Kev to check the ‘gory’ details.
I’m told that we left The Rockhouse and got a taxi to Noi’s Bar where I apparently started trying to mess about with the girl that I seem to sit with on a regular basis. He says that she was having none of it and declared that I was “Mau mak mak” (No kidding!)
By mid afternoon, I’m feeling ‘brave’ enough to eat and it does make me feel considerably better.
Around 17:30, I make a call to A and we have quite a long chat. She’s working ‘boat’ again tonight and I find that I don’t really mind too much. Time has marched on and I need to SSS and get myself ready for my Cherry Bar duties tonight.
At 19:45, I leave the house and get the scooter to the junction of Klang & 2nd Road as I do most Wednesdays. I make the walk down Soi 8 and everywhere looks very quiet tonight and I’m not even hassled to go into the GoGo.
Cherry Bar is quiet as well. There’s only Sean at the bar until he’s joined by Matrix a bit later. Tonight there are parties on at Sam’s Bar and Best Bar as well as one in the bar right opposite, so I anticipate a long drawn out night. Whilst sitting at the bar, I’m being fed melon on a stick by Mint which is rather nice and I have to admit to having a few ‘naughty’ thoughts.
Matrix receives a call from Alleycat and I’m told that DiscoCol doesn’t want to come to Cherry Bar tonight, so the two of them drink up and then head off to all meet up in Walking Street.
The bar is virtually deserted now and the girls have little success in tempting any new customers off the Soi. The lady from the bar across the Soi then arrives with a plate having a whole chicken on it. She says that it’s for me and when I say that it is too much, I’m just told. “For give you much power”. I manage to eat the legs and wings, but cannot manage the breast. Kwan then takes the plate away and the chicken is stored away under the counter and not just thrown away.
There’s a trickle of customers coming to the bar, but it’s still quiet and it’s hard to believe that this is the beginning of the high season.
One of the visitors to the bar is BM Chang who created a Youtube video that myself, Kev & Chris Brewer watched incessantly last year. I still think it rates as one of the best video clips introducing some of what Pattaya is like to a newbie visitor.
He has a selection of other Youtube presentations that I think some of you will enjoy watching.
Changs Youtube Presentations
The other bars in the complex now have their girls up dancing, so Nam instructs a couple of the girls to start dancing on the bar to try and compete with the other bars for the few farang that are about. There’s little success unfortunately, however Chang decides that he is going to get Nam up dancing. This is something that neither of us has ever seen before and she is unwilling to do so until a crisp 1000 baht is proffered. This has the desired effect, however she’s unwilling to get up on her own and Mint joins her. There are many pictures and video clips taken (Mine have mysteriously been deleted from my camera by A. “It was accident”). Chang has paid out 1000 baht and I’ve paid out 100 baht for Mint to have a LD.
Later, I’m invited over to the other side of the bar to have a Sambuca with an ex Cherry Girl (Anna). She’s drinking with Eric and Innis, so I pull up a stool and join them for a while.
We talk of Eric’s impending nuptials and he tells me that he’ll be joining in on the Bar Crawl tomorrow as a sort of stag ‘do’. As 04:00 looms, I think about going home, but Chang buys me another beer and we decide to play pool for a while. We play ‘triples’ which is confusing to say the least. There’s myself, Nam & Neng v Chang, Aoy & Mint. We play three games and win 2 – 1, but few shots that we could really be proud of.
By 04:40, I finally head off to get some much needed shuteye.
Expenditure :
Scooter Taxis – 150 baht
Toilet – 15 baht
Ladydrink for Mint – 100 baht
Beer / Ice bought on 13th – 115 baht
I wake up on the sofa and see that it’s 03:00. I turn off the TV and just crawl into bed for a few hours. I reawake mid morning and try desperately to remember what the hell had happened the previous night.
I remember being at The Rockhouse and then …. Nothing
I go to get a bottle of water from the fridge and find that I’ve got 3 unopened bottles of Chang there and a bag of water (used to be ice) on the floor. I guess that I managed to buy these last night, so I call Kev to check the ‘gory’ details.
I’m told that we left The Rockhouse and got a taxi to Noi’s Bar where I apparently started trying to mess about with the girl that I seem to sit with on a regular basis. He says that she was having none of it and declared that I was “Mau mak mak” (No kidding!)
By mid afternoon, I’m feeling ‘brave’ enough to eat and it does make me feel considerably better.
Around 17:30, I make a call to A and we have quite a long chat. She’s working ‘boat’ again tonight and I find that I don’t really mind too much. Time has marched on and I need to SSS and get myself ready for my Cherry Bar duties tonight.
At 19:45, I leave the house and get the scooter to the junction of Klang & 2nd Road as I do most Wednesdays. I make the walk down Soi 8 and everywhere looks very quiet tonight and I’m not even hassled to go into the GoGo.
Cherry Bar is quiet as well. There’s only Sean at the bar until he’s joined by Matrix a bit later. Tonight there are parties on at Sam’s Bar and Best Bar as well as one in the bar right opposite, so I anticipate a long drawn out night. Whilst sitting at the bar, I’m being fed melon on a stick by Mint which is rather nice and I have to admit to having a few ‘naughty’ thoughts.
Matrix receives a call from Alleycat and I’m told that DiscoCol doesn’t want to come to Cherry Bar tonight, so the two of them drink up and then head off to all meet up in Walking Street.
The bar is virtually deserted now and the girls have little success in tempting any new customers off the Soi. The lady from the bar across the Soi then arrives with a plate having a whole chicken on it. She says that it’s for me and when I say that it is too much, I’m just told. “For give you much power”. I manage to eat the legs and wings, but cannot manage the breast. Kwan then takes the plate away and the chicken is stored away under the counter and not just thrown away.
There’s a trickle of customers coming to the bar, but it’s still quiet and it’s hard to believe that this is the beginning of the high season.
One of the visitors to the bar is BM Chang who created a Youtube video that myself, Kev & Chris Brewer watched incessantly last year. I still think it rates as one of the best video clips introducing some of what Pattaya is like to a newbie visitor.
He has a selection of other Youtube presentations that I think some of you will enjoy watching.
Changs Youtube Presentations
The other bars in the complex now have their girls up dancing, so Nam instructs a couple of the girls to start dancing on the bar to try and compete with the other bars for the few farang that are about. There’s little success unfortunately, however Chang decides that he is going to get Nam up dancing. This is something that neither of us has ever seen before and she is unwilling to do so until a crisp 1000 baht is proffered. This has the desired effect, however she’s unwilling to get up on her own and Mint joins her. There are many pictures and video clips taken (Mine have mysteriously been deleted from my camera by A. “It was accident”). Chang has paid out 1000 baht and I’ve paid out 100 baht for Mint to have a LD.
Later, I’m invited over to the other side of the bar to have a Sambuca with an ex Cherry Girl (Anna). She’s drinking with Eric and Innis, so I pull up a stool and join them for a while.
We talk of Eric’s impending nuptials and he tells me that he’ll be joining in on the Bar Crawl tomorrow as a sort of stag ‘do’. As 04:00 looms, I think about going home, but Chang buys me another beer and we decide to play pool for a while. We play ‘triples’ which is confusing to say the least. There’s myself, Nam & Neng v Chang, Aoy & Mint. We play three games and win 2 – 1, but few shots that we could really be proud of.
By 04:40, I finally head off to get some much needed shuteye.
Expenditure :
Scooter Taxis – 150 baht
Toilet – 15 baht
Ladydrink for Mint – 100 baht
Beer / Ice bought on 13th – 115 baht
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