vinapu

Welcome to the forum. No need to be shy and no need to get drunk. Mamasans will pressure you, mainly to off a boy or buy next drink indeed but it's not like strangulation and can be easily shaken off. Drink your drink slowly and it doesn't need to be alcohol, they have water , soft drinks some bars even hot tea or coffee. All drinks in bar cost the same 400-500 depending of venue. Best way to prevent from overspending is to take only that much money. I'm sure somebody will find you there to be your guide even if it's relatively low season there. Mamasans at Jupiter , Moonlight, Dreamboys and Hot Male are relatively tame so you mat start with one of those bars. But first step should be Hot Male beer bar on street level on Patpong 2. No mamasans, drinks are cheap and no pressure to off the boy as they are mostly for drinking company. Don't confuse with Hot Male go-go bar which is on 2nd floor right above.

March closure, The One, new incarnation of Tawan is opened and depending on reports and days seems to be busy or slow

that impressive falls up high on Mt Kulen would do nicely to power some hydropower station , spoiling environment in process.

you are spot on and it was picked up already for few seasoned commentators as wells. Oh well , if they strangle each other , no harm done I guess

yes, I don't know technical term in English , " peak and pump" perhaps. at night when power is cheap and abundant they pump water to reservoir, in peak times water it's released powering turbines while tumbling down. I wouldn't be surprised it it was actually developed / invented in Russia . a lot of hydropower plant don't require daming whole river across , canal and artificial lake will do

yes, those days when luggage usually comes at a price , if airline offers free checked-in I tend to utilize freebie. Long life Aer Lingus !

both

Once by mistake I booked rooms in both Zing and Copa for the same night and it turned out to be great idea I utilised few times since. Having 2 rooms at disposal at both ends of Pattaya in inexpensive hotels, avoiding travel need when it's late and I'm hot under collar

as they say where I was born ' bell sounds but nobody knows from which church". There were various versions of reason for sudden closure circulating but I guess it's better to leave them to whispering, if at all , than put in print. Even from their boys I got two completely different reasons.

Great to heat Gop is alive but questions lingers - who was cremated on that Wednesday mentioned in OP. I know dead body but whose ?

in that case , yes , although I observed that usually , regardless of destination, my connecting luggage comes out rather close to an end.

exactly, often when I see that kind of lists on any subject I suspect their only purpose is to instigate discussion of how stupid they are

that's prejudice of us, English speaking people. May be less of requirement for Japanese, Brazilians, Germans, French etc.

power plant is one thing and dam across the river is another one

I posted it somewhere already but repeat, Prestige massage by Chong Nonsi station offers treatment called "Jet Lag Recovery" at 1950 for 90 minutes and 2150 for 2 hrs. Hopefully somebody will try it and tells us that it works

size of your endowment perhaps ? Not trying to be smart, while leaving one of Bangkok hotels for breakfast there was short exchange between my boy and night time receptionist and boy told me later receptionist asked if farang was generous. Diplomatically I did not ask what answer was

In May I was flying to Berlin with 12 hrs layover in Dublin. Got both boarding passes at home and my checked in luggage was sent through all the way despite such long layover. I was free to go to the city which I did. Interestingly, in Berlin my suitcase was first to pop out on the belt.

I rater spent that money on deserving but poor boys

doesn't matter how we call it, never hurts to use our own intelligence instead

tell us something we don't know

air in Japan is different

brilliant, elegant and yet simple

not being involved in military conflict in first decade of XXI century did not prevent certain country located between Belarus and USA from attacking her neighbour and being first country post World War II to change borders in Europe by force. I , with many other hope an pray that we will be able to say the same highlighted part about certain country between Latvia and North Korea before w we close our eyes forever. But since you mentioned US and Cambodia , I'm 100% sure that we agree that USA committed many gravely since against Cambodia in 70 and 80 ties, starting with Lon Nol coup, through secret bombings (Mr. Kissinger, hope you are not cold in hell ? ) to supporting UN seat for Democratic Kampuchea fully knowing about Khmer Rouge atrocities.

That's not a point which average product of Russian schooling with their cult of war and military will take well. Picture this : Perestroyka times under Gorbatchev, Trans Siberian train stops in Novosibirsk, heavily pregnant lady and her husband are boarding, elderly couple, presumably parents or in-laws are sending them off and elder lady says " bring back son, we need a lot of border guards " . Who heard that ? among others myself looking through the window

https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/world/fierce-storm-topples-tree-at-cambodian-angkor-temple-complex-killing-1-and-damaging-statues/ar-BB1qxohF?ocid=winp1taskbar&cvid=40e5cf8007ad40579bd696eacb5c72ae&ei=12 Southern Gate is kind of main one , connecting Angkor Wat with walled city of Angkor Thom and all of us who visited Angkor crossed it any times.