Thailand Webzine, Bangkok Pattaya Thailand
Longtime farang residents flee Pattaya during the Songkran festival, however the city council has reported that over a half-million people visited the Last Babylon to participate in the festivities and mayhem, spending as much as 1000 baht a day. Mostly on beer and whiskey and hotel rooms. Business leaders have reported that the total visitors […]
If the most sacred part of the body is the head, then the feet are the lowest. I personally would have chosen the lu tut or asshole, but the Thais must elected the feet centuries ago.
You don’t want to point with the feet or kick them up on a table to show your soles to […]
When I first toured the Orient, friends and family asked, “Are you scared of someone robbing you?”
“I live in the East Village.” The neighborhood welcome wagon in 1977 had been Hakkim and his junkie friends cleaning out our apartment. “I’ll be careful.”
Truthfully the greater danger was my losing something.
Nothing of value can stay in my […]
Today’s Bangkok Post features the yearly horoscope predictions in its Outlook section. Their 2007 forecast for Geminis was spot on the money or lack of money especially this autumn. Today’s paper says good news Jan.-March, Obstacles solved April-June. Money flies into my pocket July but out for the next two months and then it’s smooth […]
Nai comes from a Ban Nok in Isaan. After his military service he boarded a bus to Pattaya like thousands of 20 year-olds before him. The beach city provided an easy life and he succumbed to the allure of its vices. Even the good are weak in Pattaya. Nai told his parents he worked in hotels […]
In the summer of 1965 Frank Sinatra sailed on the yacht Summer Breeze. He supposedly was hiding from the media, however the yacht’s arrival was greeted by reporters and fans. His passenger, the 20 year-old Mia Farrow waved to the crowd with a Hollywood smile. My mother and I were standing on the dock. She […]
Gold has been the staple gift for Thai girls from their farang boyfriends since the Vietnam War. 5 baht of gold on a bar girl’s neck or wrist is a dead give-away she has a love-struck sponsor in the closet. The girls love this show of wealth, for the sheer pleasure of rendering other bargirls green […]
