October 27th
I call A to see if she’s returning this morning, but she says that she is also feeling unwell and only finished work at 06:00 this morning. She’s going to take Phil to see Mama and have a sleep before coming home later. (Well that’s the plan.) It seems that we are all suffering with the same bug as the symptoms seem similar for all of us.
So it’s another day comprised mainly of sleep and watching the TV, however I am getting my appetite back, so maybe I’m over the worst of it now. I consider wandering down to Noi’s for a few beers and to have some company, but decide I’m not really that fussed, so once again just a trip to the corner shop for beer & ice which is consumed at home whilst watching yet more movies.
Before going to bed though, I log on to the Internet to check the football results and it’s another unbeaten game for Leeds and they’ve made it to the play off area even with the 15 point penalty that they’ve had imposed. This cheers me up and I go to bed feeling the best that I have for many days.
Expenditure :
Beer & Ice – 115 baht
Saturday 27 October 2007
Friday 26 October 2007
Trip 4 - Day 78
October 26th
Friday morning and I still don’t feel right and I know it’s not alcohol or sleep related as I’d had such a quiet day yesterday. I need to eat though as I’ve not had anything since yesterday morning. As A is due home later today, I decide to head off to Carrefour to get some basic supplies in for the weekend. Pork Loin & Chicken Breasts are the staple foodstuffs and at around 85 baht per kilo they are extremely good value too.
I buy a cooked Pork Panang curry and a bag of rice for 25 baht which will do me for lunch and I ‘treat’ myself to a baguette for a further 25 baht. A couple of bottles of Coke, a dozen eggs, tomatoes, cold meat and a bag of salad complete my purchases and I return home to eat.
I get a call from A telling me that the rain last night delayed getting their work done and “if is okay” she’ll work tonight and return tomorrow. To be frank, the way I’m feeling at the moment this doesn’t bother me too much. I cook up some strips of chicken and have these with the salad that I’d bought earlier. I then collapse on the sofa and watch TV between naps.
In the evening, I watch a couple of DVD’s and manage a couple of bottles of beer, but by 22:15, I just call it a day and turn in for the night.
Expenditure :
Carrefour – 387.25 baht
Beer & Ice – 115 baht
Friday morning and I still don’t feel right and I know it’s not alcohol or sleep related as I’d had such a quiet day yesterday. I need to eat though as I’ve not had anything since yesterday morning. As A is due home later today, I decide to head off to Carrefour to get some basic supplies in for the weekend. Pork Loin & Chicken Breasts are the staple foodstuffs and at around 85 baht per kilo they are extremely good value too.
I buy a cooked Pork Panang curry and a bag of rice for 25 baht which will do me for lunch and I ‘treat’ myself to a baguette for a further 25 baht. A couple of bottles of Coke, a dozen eggs, tomatoes, cold meat and a bag of salad complete my purchases and I return home to eat.
I get a call from A telling me that the rain last night delayed getting their work done and “if is okay” she’ll work tonight and return tomorrow. To be frank, the way I’m feeling at the moment this doesn’t bother me too much. I cook up some strips of chicken and have these with the salad that I’d bought earlier. I then collapse on the sofa and watch TV between naps.
In the evening, I watch a couple of DVD’s and manage a couple of bottles of beer, but by 22:15, I just call it a day and turn in for the night.
Expenditure :
Carrefour – 387.25 baht
Beer & Ice – 115 baht
Thursday 25 October 2007
Trip 4 - Day 77
October 25th
I awake early feeling pretty lousy with a sore throat and a runny nose. I manage a bit of breakfast and then head over to Kev’s to update the Blog and have a quick Messenger chat with Kev. His back is still playing up, but he has wangled it that he can get the treatment done in Pattaya rather than Kuwait, so he has sick leave and holiday leave for his next trip.
I don’t feel any better by lunchtime, so I just head back home to grab some shuteye and hope that I’m feeling better this evening as it’s the GoGo crawl and they are usually good fun.
I get home and stick the TV on and lay down on the sofa, but before I manage to fall asleep, there’s a call of “Jarge” from outside. It’s Kye (Lady from #2) and she’s turned up to collect the buffet cooking ‘ring’. She’s spoken to A and she knows where it is, so she heads past me and into the kitchen where she rummages around and then reappears clutching the utensil.
As she’s about to go, she points at the rear wheel of the scooter and I look to see what she’s pointing at. Damn! The rear wheel is flat and a closer inspection shows a shard of glass embedded in the tyre. Once she’s gone, I push the scooter to the repair place which is thankfully only opposite the end of our Soi and the chap there inspects the tyre. He tells me that the tyre is too badly damaged and needs to be replaced as well as having a new inner tube, so it’s 580 baht for the tyre and 120 baht for an inner tube.
When I get home, I finally get to grab my ‘nap’, however it ends up as a sleep rather than a nap and I don’t wake until 21:00 which means that I’ve completely missed the Bar Crawl. With the way I feel, that’s maybe not such a bad thing to be honest. I have a single bottle of beer then have a shower and just go to bed.
Expenditure :
Scooter Tyre : 700 baht
I awake early feeling pretty lousy with a sore throat and a runny nose. I manage a bit of breakfast and then head over to Kev’s to update the Blog and have a quick Messenger chat with Kev. His back is still playing up, but he has wangled it that he can get the treatment done in Pattaya rather than Kuwait, so he has sick leave and holiday leave for his next trip.
I don’t feel any better by lunchtime, so I just head back home to grab some shuteye and hope that I’m feeling better this evening as it’s the GoGo crawl and they are usually good fun.
I get home and stick the TV on and lay down on the sofa, but before I manage to fall asleep, there’s a call of “Jarge” from outside. It’s Kye (Lady from #2) and she’s turned up to collect the buffet cooking ‘ring’. She’s spoken to A and she knows where it is, so she heads past me and into the kitchen where she rummages around and then reappears clutching the utensil.
As she’s about to go, she points at the rear wheel of the scooter and I look to see what she’s pointing at. Damn! The rear wheel is flat and a closer inspection shows a shard of glass embedded in the tyre. Once she’s gone, I push the scooter to the repair place which is thankfully only opposite the end of our Soi and the chap there inspects the tyre. He tells me that the tyre is too badly damaged and needs to be replaced as well as having a new inner tube, so it’s 580 baht for the tyre and 120 baht for an inner tube.
When I get home, I finally get to grab my ‘nap’, however it ends up as a sleep rather than a nap and I don’t wake until 21:00 which means that I’ve completely missed the Bar Crawl. With the way I feel, that’s maybe not such a bad thing to be honest. I have a single bottle of beer then have a shower and just go to bed.
Expenditure :
Scooter Tyre : 700 baht
Wednesday 24 October 2007
Trip 4 - Day 76
October 24th
I awake with a serious hangover and feeling like absolute shit. I then realise that I’ve been a complete pillock, but that’s what happens when you’re pissed up and letting yourself be controlled by your prick.
I spend the day doing lots of laundry and ensuring that there will be no evidence for A to find of my visitor from last night. As the ‘deed’ was not done, I feel that I’m a little ‘safer’, but what the hell was I thinking? And why oh why did I do it?
Add to that some of the details that I’d previously forgotten about and it seems that I have a deathwish. I shall just have to wait and see what the fallout from this is (I fear it could be pretty bad).
As it’s Wednesday, it’s Cherry Bar duties tonight. When I arrive, there’s already quite a crowd at the bar, but many are there only for an hour or so before moving on. Many BM’s turn up to say hi during the course of the night including (but not limited to) ajsp9 and his mate on his ‘newbie’ trip, Don Dadda, Shuggabear, Dirty Sanchez and suprice.
I last out until 04:00 when I finally give up and decide I need to get some sleep. Sods law though that the scooter taxi that I get is the same guy that dropped me off at the house last night (and he knows the girls at The Cherry Bar!) Pattaya is just too small sometimes.
Expenditure :
Scooter Taxi : 150 baht
I awake with a serious hangover and feeling like absolute shit. I then realise that I’ve been a complete pillock, but that’s what happens when you’re pissed up and letting yourself be controlled by your prick.
I spend the day doing lots of laundry and ensuring that there will be no evidence for A to find of my visitor from last night. As the ‘deed’ was not done, I feel that I’m a little ‘safer’, but what the hell was I thinking? And why oh why did I do it?
Add to that some of the details that I’d previously forgotten about and it seems that I have a deathwish. I shall just have to wait and see what the fallout from this is (I fear it could be pretty bad).
As it’s Wednesday, it’s Cherry Bar duties tonight. When I arrive, there’s already quite a crowd at the bar, but many are there only for an hour or so before moving on. Many BM’s turn up to say hi during the course of the night including (but not limited to) ajsp9 and his mate on his ‘newbie’ trip, Don Dadda, Shuggabear, Dirty Sanchez and suprice.
I last out until 04:00 when I finally give up and decide I need to get some sleep. Sods law though that the scooter taxi that I get is the same guy that dropped me off at the house last night (and he knows the girls at The Cherry Bar!) Pattaya is just too small sometimes.
Expenditure :
Scooter Taxi : 150 baht
Tuesday 23 October 2007
Trip 4 - Day 75
October 23rd
The early night has done me a power of good and after eating the meal that A has cooked before going to work, I set off to Kev’s to get pics uploaded, the TR written and posted and some general website maintenance. It’s now been 1 year since I first ‘discovered’ Pattaya and I end up reading the TR from those early days of discovery and realise that I’d like to know how Nok is doing, so rather then going home from Kev’s, I head over to Soi 3 and this time she is at the bar and is looking really great.
I spend just an hour chatting with her and then it’s back home to meet up with Casper UK at Noi’s Bar as it’s the curry night once again and Chicken Madras was on the menu this week. The ‘plan’ is to just have a few beers and then make the short walk home. Tuesday night is becoming a regular ‘fixture’ where it’s virtually guaranteed to meet up with a few people and not have to make ‘plans’. The girls may not be ‘stunners’, but they are good fun and good company.
Casper has a taxi to go into town though and says that I should join him and his ‘teerak du jour’ for a while and once again my will power is found to be lacking and I agree. I’m pissed already and shouldn’t be doing this but this is Pattaya and many things are done that shouldn’t be.
We go to the bar his lady works at (can’t remember the name) and I play several games of Connect 4 and am very pleased that I can now win sometimes at this game.
Next stop was Cherry Bar
Then the ‘sensible’ brain closed down and the ‘stoopid’ brain kicked in. Back to Soi 3 to see Nok and it’s decided that we’re going to go for a skinny dip at Kev’s place, so we jump on a scooter taxi and once he’s been paid, he disappears back to civilisation. I unlock the gate and to my horror, I find that the landlady has locked the screen in front of the door, and I don’t have a key for that. We are now in the middle of nowhere in the middle of the night and there’s no way we’re going swimming without towels as it’s a bit ‘cool’ to dry off naturally.
We head out on to the new ‘highway’ and are lucky to find a scooter taxi dropping someone off at the next complex, so we jump on the back and I end up giving directions to my home. (My saving grace is that I’m too drunk to manage anything ‘naughty’, however the intentions were most definitely there.) When Nok goes to leave, I walk with her to make sure that she gets a scooter taxi okay.
Not one of my cleverer days in Pattaya.
Expenditure :
Night Out – 2150 baht
The early night has done me a power of good and after eating the meal that A has cooked before going to work, I set off to Kev’s to get pics uploaded, the TR written and posted and some general website maintenance. It’s now been 1 year since I first ‘discovered’ Pattaya and I end up reading the TR from those early days of discovery and realise that I’d like to know how Nok is doing, so rather then going home from Kev’s, I head over to Soi 3 and this time she is at the bar and is looking really great.
I spend just an hour chatting with her and then it’s back home to meet up with Casper UK at Noi’s Bar as it’s the curry night once again and Chicken Madras was on the menu this week. The ‘plan’ is to just have a few beers and then make the short walk home. Tuesday night is becoming a regular ‘fixture’ where it’s virtually guaranteed to meet up with a few people and not have to make ‘plans’. The girls may not be ‘stunners’, but they are good fun and good company.
Casper has a taxi to go into town though and says that I should join him and his ‘teerak du jour’ for a while and once again my will power is found to be lacking and I agree. I’m pissed already and shouldn’t be doing this but this is Pattaya and many things are done that shouldn’t be.
We go to the bar his lady works at (can’t remember the name) and I play several games of Connect 4 and am very pleased that I can now win sometimes at this game.
Next stop was Cherry Bar
Then the ‘sensible’ brain closed down and the ‘stoopid’ brain kicked in. Back to Soi 3 to see Nok and it’s decided that we’re going to go for a skinny dip at Kev’s place, so we jump on a scooter taxi and once he’s been paid, he disappears back to civilisation. I unlock the gate and to my horror, I find that the landlady has locked the screen in front of the door, and I don’t have a key for that. We are now in the middle of nowhere in the middle of the night and there’s no way we’re going swimming without towels as it’s a bit ‘cool’ to dry off naturally.
We head out on to the new ‘highway’ and are lucky to find a scooter taxi dropping someone off at the next complex, so we jump on the back and I end up giving directions to my home. (My saving grace is that I’m too drunk to manage anything ‘naughty’, however the intentions were most definitely there.) When Nok goes to leave, I walk with her to make sure that she gets a scooter taxi okay.
Not one of my cleverer days in Pattaya.
Expenditure :
Night Out – 2150 baht
Youtube - My Birthday at Cherry Bar Soi 8, Pattaya
1st October 2007 spent with a great bunch of people
Monday 22 October 2007
Trip 4 - Day 74
October 22nd
Monday morning, so A is up early. Before leaving, she cooks me a meal and as she kisses me goodbye, she says that the rice will be ready in about ten minutes. She will be back home at about 17:30 tonight as she’s going to be away three nights this week (Tuesday – Thursday). I get up and eat but am very lethargic and find doing anything to be a great effort. I’ve got a sore throat and a headache right behind the eyes, so I end up just spending most of the day laying on the bed hoping that it’s nothing serious.
When A returns, it seems that Phil is also not well with a temperature and a hacking cough, so A says that she’ll take him to the ‘hopital’ tomorrow (He’s on the 30 baht treatment scheme).
After eating, we watch a bit of TV before all getting a very early night.
Expenditure :
0 baht
Monday morning, so A is up early. Before leaving, she cooks me a meal and as she kisses me goodbye, she says that the rice will be ready in about ten minutes. She will be back home at about 17:30 tonight as she’s going to be away three nights this week (Tuesday – Thursday). I get up and eat but am very lethargic and find doing anything to be a great effort. I’ve got a sore throat and a headache right behind the eyes, so I end up just spending most of the day laying on the bed hoping that it’s nothing serious.
When A returns, it seems that Phil is also not well with a temperature and a hacking cough, so A says that she’ll take him to the ‘hopital’ tomorrow (He’s on the 30 baht treatment scheme).
After eating, we watch a bit of TV before all getting a very early night.
Expenditure :
0 baht
Sunday 21 October 2007
Trip 4 - Day 73
October 21st
Sunday morning and Mama and ‘Seeter’ are coming over today. A goes to collect Mama from Laem Chabang and when they return, they set to cooking the bags of seafood that they’ve bought in Naklua on the way home. There’s a pot full of crabs (about a dozen of them), a big bag of prawns and what looks like a bag of shells.
When ‘Seeter’ arrives, we start to devour the mountain of food and it has to be said that really fresh food like this is extremely tasty.
Once we finish eating, Mama once again does the ironing, whilst Phil just plays with his toys and the rest of us do little chores including cleaning the scooters and mopping the floors.
Late in the afternoon, ‘Seeter’ leaves and she takes Mama with her. The three of us then settle down on the sofa and end up watching cartoons on the TV for several hours until A decides that it’s time to eat again. Our evening meal is stall bought rather than home cooked, however there’s a good selection of dishes and I’ve probably eaten enough today to last me for several days.
Expenditure :
Food – 500 baht
Beer – 100 baht
Coke & Ice – 70 baht
Sunday morning and Mama and ‘Seeter’ are coming over today. A goes to collect Mama from Laem Chabang and when they return, they set to cooking the bags of seafood that they’ve bought in Naklua on the way home. There’s a pot full of crabs (about a dozen of them), a big bag of prawns and what looks like a bag of shells.
When ‘Seeter’ arrives, we start to devour the mountain of food and it has to be said that really fresh food like this is extremely tasty.
Once we finish eating, Mama once again does the ironing, whilst Phil just plays with his toys and the rest of us do little chores including cleaning the scooters and mopping the floors.
Late in the afternoon, ‘Seeter’ leaves and she takes Mama with her. The three of us then settle down on the sofa and end up watching cartoons on the TV for several hours until A decides that it’s time to eat again. Our evening meal is stall bought rather than home cooked, however there’s a good selection of dishes and I’ve probably eaten enough today to last me for several days.
Expenditure :
Food – 500 baht
Beer – 100 baht
Coke & Ice – 70 baht
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