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Wonder how this year songkran going to be. Would thai gov imposed restriction for gathering to avoid a breakout? Spraying water around is a perfect way to spread the virus, and i doubt anyone want to wear mask and get sprayed. I recalled seeing ash wednesday in philiphines adapting to the virus by having the ash sprinkles on top of their heads instead of brushing the ash on the forehead, i guess to avoid contact. Will the thai adapt as well?

Hazing does exists, even in malaysia, and it happened more frequently in boarding high school but local university also hold one but in our case, only lasted a week. In Sotus, if the reality is similar in the stories, thai seems to have theirs much more elaborated complete with rituals and trips. In malaysia, we also have two pronoun (several more for dialects) and its formal and informal. For first meeting with someone who isnt obvious of their status, formal is the default setting, so i assumed thats what the thai will do too, until the leaen more. I know in south korea, one of the few introductory question when u meet someone new is their age, so they can sstart addressing the other correctly.

Actually as local and expat sees these place is now void of tourists, they might now enjoy the place more lol. We can finally see expats returning to boystown now that its no longer too crowded to even table a boy before this.

For BBB disco to close, its does means bad business. But bbb have many regulars from thai and expat alike, so they will still have customers especially weekends.

And if anyone interested in a more animated version of this article,at least the beginning of it, go ahead and watch SOTUS series and SOTUS S. As a bonus, its A BL series as well set in college.

There is only two ways, one dont tell him at all at the risk of him finding out. Two tell him the truth, he will be hurt but you'll to make up to him after. If you travel and go to bar scene in bangkok and pattaya, chances are high that your boy's network will let him know that you are in town. Option two might be uncomfortable but i always thing being honest of what you want is important too.

Lets hope the boys will also survive not making enough money due to severe lack of tourist during this supposedly high season for thailand

Short answer, no. But yeah, it can be arrange if u ask mamasan. And its my guess, but if the bar have a seperate area that is more private, you probably will have a better chance? Or maybe if u go to a bar and you are the only customer inside the bar. Of course without a doubt itll cost you money to do it. Some bars shows involve customers where the boys will dance for the customer, almost similar to what a lap dance is but its part of the show for everyone to see. So skill wise, there are boys who have done it, albeit ot is part of show and not a private lap dance, but its basically the same.

There is good pain and bad pain. Good pain, to me is always feels painful but at the same time pleasurable, as it is very deep pain and not like pinching your skin pain. And almost always, you will feel immediate release and instant painless feeling after the masseur let go of the pressure. If the pain is like pinching your skin, or the pain doesnt goes away after he release the pressure, i called it injury lol

My only fear or more a concern if i do catch it, ill have to let the authority do a check on my travel history and i really dont want to tell the world what ive been doing, who ive met, and wher ive been when i am in thailand lol. I believe that should be private matter but the fear of this covid-19 does mean you will have to be transparent about it or it might lead to another breakout. I really dont want the news to be "gay sex tourist amongst the latest confirmed case of covid-19, and he has been with multiple guys at a gay sauna party of 300+ people". And they will definitely contact all your family and friends of recent contacts too, within 14 days or so, which might include co-workers etc. Imagine the nightmare itll bring lol

What happened in south korea can actually happen anywhere really. It takes just one selfish individual to refuse being tested for the virus and starts a chain spreading where she went to few more services and infected hundreds more. But yeah, im not sure why the authority there allows for people to refuse being tested, when the virus is just waiting for a breakout. Other than china, we have seen local breakouts in singapore, italy, iran, as well as the cruise ship diamond princess. I foresee we will not see the end of this anytime soon, and travel restriction has been ineffective anyway. So i dont think basing decision to travel or not to a place where local cluster transmission has not been observed is justifiable. Keep abreast with the news and keep practising good hygene practices and if you show symptoms, wear a mask and get to a clinic asap.

They dont even ban chinese national going there, why would they ban singaporean?

Interesting point that made me googled about hotel rooms classification lol https://traveltips.usatoday.com/classification-rooms-hotel-2981.html In short, standard is the lowest or entry level hotel room, while superior, is usually a standard with view. Furama hotels rooms all have views as its only one side rooms, all facing the river, so i do think its appropriate to name their cheapest room as superior. Deluxe is a different room size or features altogether.

The boat only stopped for a while and there is not many alighted at wat arun at that time, so if we want to get out there, we need to wait at the back. But yeah, we were busy sitting at the front talking about boys lol

The real day 13 - Bangkok tourist revisit 2.0 I just realized I've been skipping 1 day on the labelling (skipped day 6), so from day 7 onwards, need to change the label to one day behind. Anyway, Ive been chatting with another forum member, @Syphion, who will come to bangkok for the first time. He told me he met with Divinemadmen already and interested to join the meeting yesterday but he left his phone and didnt noticed my text. At midnight, he texted me when im in moonlight saying sorry, and he asked if im free tomorrow, and i said yes, and we are set to meet tonight, at 8pm same place, red dragon bar. In the morning, Syphion told me he finally got a chance to do touristy stuff today. I dont really have any plan today so i asked if he would like to meet and i can bring him around the shopping mall icon siam as well as few other interesting place along the river. He is down for it so we plan to meet at Saphan thaksin BTS around 9.30am as our hotels isnt that close from each other. Syphion took the tuktuk thinking its quicker, and says the name of the BTS station, but instead the tuktuk bring him to the nearest BTS, and he needs to take the BTS to Saphan thaksin. I told him ive never took tuktuk in Bangkok, as i believe they are one of the tourist trap in Bangkok though in some other area, you dont have much choice but to hire tuktuk (hua hin for example). We finally met at the BTS station and went down to queue for the Iconsiam free shuttle. Its still early morning, so the queue isnt long and weather wise is also not so hot. At Iconsiam, we went around the ground floor street food and floating market and Syphion jokingly said he can write off floating market experience now lol. We buy some deserts, and after seeing the dance show somewhere in the middle of the market, we decided to explore the rest of the mall. Of course, I brought him to the garden terrace outside the Apple stores, and we also go all the way up to the exhibition halls floor, where there is a photography exhibition going on. After that, we went back to the ground floor for lunch. After that, we wanted to take the boat to Wat Arun, but we both was busy chatting and missed the stop lol. So we go to Grand palace instead at the next stop. Syphion says he is not interested to go inside the grand palace nor Wat Pho, so we just walked towards Tha Thien Pier and took the ferry to cross to Wat Arun. We spend some time here for picture taking and after that we went back to Sathorn pier and went seperate ways. Syphion wanted to sleep for the night, and i went to silom and decided to try one of the massage places. I walked along suriwong, and just wanted to have a foot massage and saw one few guy in front of Mantra massage and decided to try this place. The guy bring me up to second floor, and there is no sofa for foot massage, so he brings me to the matress on the floor, usually for thai massage. He did try to persuade me to change to body massage, but im not in the mood, and havent really showered yet, and dont think i want to take a shower there. Only curtains seperating other mattresses, and there is already another customer inside. The foot massage was actually really good and last quite a while too and the masseur moved to giving HJ without stopping to ask or negotiate tips. Alas, he didnt speak much english at all, so its a bit hard to get me in the mood, and its not for lack of trying. I still tip him for the effort but not as much as i would had it been enjoyable. Went back to hotel after to freshen up and out for dinner before heading to Red dragon for another forum member meet up.

Day 13 - Back to Bangkok We woke up quite early today, and i decided to follow Y to wear he had his breakfast yesterday. Y told me yesterday he actually ate steak for breakfast. I was equally in disbelief, both the fact that one can eat steak at breakfast, as well as the fact that there is a restaurant offering steak at breakfast time. Apparently Y found a nice french restaurant/cafe on a street a block from our hotel. I ordered french toast set with coffee, and Y, again ordered steak lol. Price is reasonable. Back at hotel, reconfirmed with reception on our shuttle to airport. Before leaving the room for checkout, I gave Y his tips. We arrived at the airport on time, not many people except for one or two group of tours. At the counter, they asked to weight our carryon, something that DMK didnt bother to do before. Flight was on time, and we took the taxi back to silom. Y asked the taxi to drop him off at the traffic light near chongnongsi bts, which is close to where he lives and taxi continue to drop me at my hotel, Furama. Checked-in and in my room by 5pm. Took a nap before heading out to eat dinner and back to hotel and ready for my night adventure. As i walked toward Silom, i bumped into Y and his friend getting ready to go to jupiter. Tonight however is another meeting with fellow forum member, @DivineMadman and @Keithambrose. We met at red dragon bar, at around 8pm. We chat for quite a long time comparing notes about boys, bars, massage places, as well as weahter politics, immigration as well as our plan for tonight. We drink and talked until close to 11pm, when keith and david announced they will go back for rest. Tonight i wanted to go to Moonlight. I already had my eye on myanmar guy, K, Jericho rosales look-alike, who i already saw on my first visit to moonlight this trip, and offed him LT before on my previous trip where he used to work in screwboy. I remember i had a nice time with him before. I arrived in the middle of the show, and somehow the middle row near the walkway have one seat empty, near the pillar in the middle. Not my favorite place but still allow me access to the model boom boom shake dance routine, and at the center will be Babe, though i prefer at the end where ill be closer to Nut but hey, i did came in late and Babe is cute hot and sexy anyway. For the first time as well, i saw Spai doing show, where he is the main with another ladyboy doing a number that is quite sexy. A saw me, but not for tonight, so i gave him 100 baht note for still being the best body there. I asked mamasan to bring K to me and off him without delay. He stills remember me on my first visit this trip, and this time i plan to off him so no point of waiting. He changed to his street cloth and off we go. As always, asked if he wanted to eat, he buy some street food on the way to the hotel. I told him i want LT, too bad he said he cant do long time as he has day job now, stating he wont have enough if he just rely on bar work. I guess partly my fault for not confirming at the bar if he can do LT or not, but thinking back, I wouldnt trade other guy anyway that night, so ST it is. His service is as before, great passionate and eager to please. His smile is a winner and he stays with me for more than 2 hours before he goes back home. So far, all my off in bangkok has been a repeat.

Used to get HE offered 1 in 4 times i went there. But last year, none of them offered out of my 3 trips to thailand. I always take the oil massage, and almost always the massage is very sensual and i always choose from the ipad except when its peak season (between christmas and new year)

This is why its always good to check comparison of price from the various booking websites. While i also shared the view that standard of this hotel is below what ill stay myself, the price is really cheap for those who can tolerate their downside.

Yup, in my report i did observe baht bus driver taking slight detour from jomtien to south pattaya, going through the area of sunee, my guess is when the bus isnt full, to get more customer, or when a local specifically asked the driver to let them off near the area. It happened twice out of the 5 days ive been back and forth that route.

https://www.pattayaunlimited.com/getting-around-pattaya/ Whether the baht bus wants to continue the journey to naklua or not is really up to the driver. Website above is pretty a ccurate and have a link to google map with the routes highlighted.

Today, the confirmed cased jumped 15k new cases, and death jumped to more than 200+ in a day though mainly due to change in acceptable method to determine the confirmed status. Particularly in wuhan, those who have symptom of pnenomia from clinical diagnoses and lesion found from ct scan is enough to announce as confirmed covid-19 so they can immediately put in specialised wards and receive treatment. I do think this is a great move by China gov. Now new cases there wont need to wait for lab testing. Wish they'd done this sooner though.

And, if one is wearing mask correctly, especially the more reliable N95 mask, it will make breathing difficult, and not practical to be used for a long period unless you are in constant exposure to person with the virus, like medical staff. Ive seen too many people did not observe proper handling of the masks too, like touching the masks with their hands, frequently removing the mask from mouth and put them underneath the face (Chin area) reusing the mask (surgical mask) multiple times, storing them in their bags etc in between usage. While this might not have much impact if you are healthty, if you are sick, improper mask wearing will still put others at risk. So i get it why people still want to wear mask even if they arent sick but i also agree frequent washing is much more important. Adding mask into that is additional protection if and only if they observe correct way to wear and dispose of them. Given that Singapore now has few cases of local transmission without known close contact to infected person, i do believe they needed to start adding mask as additional protection, though first thing to reduce is being in public gatherings and only go out for when needed. That link from the singapore gov advising only the sick should wear it is before they change the alert to orange. It is to avoid people who dont really need one to hoard the limited supply of mask so that those in need can actually have access to the masks.

Day 12 - Day 3 Laos trip cont' Heading back to the city, our next stop is the morning market near the bus station. I just wanted to see whats there, but its really just a local market selling lots of ordinary items, and some female sellers are stunned by Y handsome look there lol. We then went to Wat Si Muang which is a Khmer style temple. Very interesting temple with lots of interesting history. I actually planned to visit one more temple (Wat sisaket) and the museum Haw Phra Kaew, but apparently they closed at 6pm and we didnt make it. Instead, I asked the driver to drop us at the Hotel, and walked near the riverside to watch the sunset with Y. After sunset, Y asked me if he can go back to sleep, i said yes sure. We went back to hotel together and Y saw that his laundry is already returned when we went into the room. I told Y ill go out tonight and asked if he wanted anything, He said if possible buy some Lao food. As i usually do when i travelled to a new place/city, I like to explore the city by foot, and just walked to one of the point of interest that is within my walking distance limit and came back a different route. I saw in the pamphlet there is a place called Vientiane walking street, which is on the other side of Chao Anouvong Park, so i walked there with google map as my guide. I did walked pass the Presidential palace and the view at night is remarkable. But when i arrived to the location google said about Vientiane walking street, its pretty much deserted. I walked a little further and saw few a different interesting place, where there are few pop up cabin restaurants and have a stage in the middle of the L shape road, where there are a singer performing. But again, the whole area is empty, not many people, i guess maybe i was there too early and this place would be perfect for drinking. I walked back on the road next to mekong river and on the side there is another area with 3 big sections of shops and restaurants down the stairs from the road. One section have a fun fair style, the middle one have a stage where i spent most of my time there watching the performance, with a host that is clearly gay. There is a group of teenage Lao girls all donning Lao traditional costumes, i assumed from different tribes, and the host called few of them at a time to perform. Most of the performance are dance performance. But not traditional Lao dance that id hope for. Instead, they dance to K-Pop songs imitating the coreography from the music videos. I guess Korean wave is affecting Lao youngster too. It was very entertaining, but the event ended soon enough, so i continue to the last section, which is more shops and this time some restaurants selling international food, like dimsum, sushi, korean fish cakes etc, and there is a fountain in the middle. I went back up to the night makret, did a quick browse and buy one souvenir and then went to the main street to buy some street food for our dinner. I bought some grilled squid, with lao version of som tam, called tum mak hoong, and some noodles. Also bought a gift for Y in one of the shops on the street. Back at hotel, Y still asleep, so I put aside the food and get into bed too mostly on my phone. Not long after, he woke up and eat some of the food. Then he asked if we can go drink outside, but most of the closer shops are closed, so i suggest we go to the mini BigC so he can buy drinks to drink back at hotel. Tonight is the last night, as tomorrow we will go back to Bangkok. One thing i should mentioned about Y, he recently went through a really bad issue back home. So some of our chat has been about his issue and no, its not about money. Throughout our travelling together, there are times that he suddenly in a very bad mood, and I always gave him his space when he need it. Just a bit later after, he will tell me why or what happened, and im more than happy to lend my ears. And this intimate sharing somehow made me feel closer to him and I really appreciate it when boys feels comfortable enough to tell me some of his private issue.

Day 12 - Day 3 Laos trip Y woke up early today (7am, which is not too early for me), and told me he is hungry and want to go eat outside. I told him we got buffet breakfast at hotel but he said he dont want to eat the buffet, and dont mind going out alone. I told him ok, and i went back to sleep and woke up later when he came back. I had my breakfast buffet alone meanwhile and back to hotel for some more bedroom activities. After day activities, I have to say ive grown fond of morning gymnastic more than at night. Funny titbit during this session though. Y proclaimed that he dont want to cum this morning. I obviously has no issue with that, but also took that as a challenge. Needless to say, halfway through, he suddenly told me he wanted to cum, so mission accomplished lol. Y also asked if he can send some clothes to laundry as he dont have anymore change of clothes after today, so i called the hotel to asked when will we get the laundry and they say by evening, so I told Y he can just use the hotel laundry service. Revisiting Y proposal yesterday, we went to reception again, this time the older staff manning the reception. I asked about the restaurant where we can eat on a boat again and he seems to know the place, and tell us it is a bit outside the city as well. I asked him to give me a quote, so he called the driver and asked. Got a different quote this time compared to yesterday, and i asked if they can make the price similar to yesterday and got a yes and I added few more places near the city as part of the trip. Its already near noonish already so we decided to go to the boat/restaurant first. Thanks to Y, we are going to eat lunch on a boat on the mekong river (technically its Nam Ngum river). The restaurant is called Tha Ngon floating restaurants, and the reception told us it is quite famous amongst the Korean tourist. About 30mins drive to the restaurant, located in small village of Tha Ngon. It is a huge floating restaurant moored to the river bank. Y again took charge on the ordering and asked the waiter about the boat. Seems like we have to wait for a while for the boat, and Y is already hungry, so we sit at the floating restaurant first and order the food. As usual, Y order the food he thinks id eat, mostly seafood on offer here, farm and raised on the river itself. While eating, I can see few boats passing through, and the music is loud enough to be heard from the restaurant. One of the food Y order, which i wouldnt dare to eat is the dancing shrimp, which is small shrimp, eaten raw and alive. The waiter finally signal to us when our boat is ready, long after we finished our meals. Waiter asked if we would like to order anything for the boat ride, so we ordered drinks and snacks, and one plate of grilled shrimp. So, you can actually hired private boat by the hour here. We took one hour boat ride, and it was just me and Y, with 2 quite handsome Lao boatmen, one steering the boat, and another manning the Karaoke system. We had the whole boat, which can easily fit 20 people to ourselves. Surprisingly, there are some, limited amount of english songs VC on the karaoke system, and the guy manning the karaoke system even have a notebook listing some of the code for popular english songs. One thing i havent mentioned about Y, he likes to sings, and listen to ballads kind of songs (cambodian songs mostly). However, on the boat, he didnt find any of his songs, so I ended up the one who sings most of the time lol. Nevertheless, he said he enjoys the boat ride, of course, with him drinking few bottles of beers, and taking multiple selfies. He said next time he want to bring his family and friends here. I can see this would be an awesome location to hold private party very cheaply, maybe hold one for our forum members retreat?. The bills for the food is not much different than any other place in vientiane, but of course i have to pay for the use of the boat, which is extra, but all in all, definitely worth the experience.

Quite late to the party. But im on episode 5 of Kiss the series. Its the first of the trilogy. Kiss me again is a prequel to kiss the series, and dark blue kiss is a sequel. Regarding kiss the series, Na, the ceo of charisma magazine looks a lot like kurt hummel of glee lol. He looks very girlish, very unlike his character who hooked up with models and a bit of a womanizer lol Pete and Kao is featured in kiss the series of course but so far, i dont see any boy love other than two really close friends. Cant wait to get to dark blue kiss.