TONY'S BANGKOK BLOG PART 2
Wednesday, January 24, 2007
Bangkok Thailand Trip - Part 2 Current mood: aggravated Category: Travel and Places
Ok let me get some more of the details of this trip down in writing before they get even more fuzzy, seems that the drinking I did while in BKK was way too heavy for even my standards. Good thing I was travelling with a few guys who are not drinkers; that is not strictly true becuase I never really get too drunk to remember what I am doing. But anyway, back to the details....First things first - posted the pictures of the trip online here - Bangkok - Thailand. Not a whole lot of pictures of me and really not much to photograph for the majority of the trip until the last day when I did some real sightseeing. All, by the way in the span of about 3 or 4 hours as I got up way too late that day as well. Oh yeah, one other thing just as a quick note - the hospitality at the Davis Bangkok was really great. Thanks to Annie and all the other girls at "Club 88" for making us feel welcome throughout the stay.So where do we want to start today - several things we wanted to talk about, but I guess I should start at the beginning (and talk about patpong later on). First night we arrived we went out to meet some local friends at one of the local hot spots called Royal City Avenue or RCA. It is basically a whole street of nightclubs or all varieties, all colorfully lit and all really, really crowded. Most of the clubs have outdoor seating and many people hang out outside the clubs at the tables because it is entirely too crowded inside. The music is much louder inside than outside so you might actually be able to hear what your friends are saying if you stay outside. Oh yeah, bring some ID because it is required to gain entrance into all the clubs. I will put the location down here becuase I really love the addresses in Bangkok - completely indecipherable to anyone - Rama 9, and Taurus in Soi 24 Sukhumvit. Good luck finding it if you don't know where to go and if you can't get a cab driver who understands English (not all do). The two clubs we went to were called Flix and Slim. One club played house and the other Hip-Hop, outside there was a live band playing Thai music - so all in all not a bad place to party. Interestingly enough what I learned about RCA is that local girls dont really like to hang out at these places - because there are TOO many girls there. Those of you single guys remember that as it is a very important lesson in your young development.The next place we hit after we left RCA was another local club called Glow. This place boasts 'the largest selection of vodka's in Bangkok'. But to be perfectly honest, I didn't even know they had vodka, at least nobody played that fact up at all. The place was very quite compared to the clubs at RCA and in fact the only people in the club were the owner and the workers. You of course had the pre-requisite "Thai girls dancing on the bar" but other than that the place was really quite. Again - anther fact that my young apprentices must remember, something I will now call "Tony's Number One Rule of Life" - Thai girls dancing on bars is a very, very good thing. Apologies to all my female friends - I know some of you might be upset by that statement, but I do stand by it whole heartedly. And if you don't believe me just give me the opportunity to prove it.One good point to the above listed nightclubs listed above is the lack of 'the dark' side of Bangkok. For the most part until this point in the trip I had not seen one discernable "lady boy" or "professional." Please note - I said discernable, this doesn't mean they werent around but I just didn't notice any. By this point of the morning it was around 2am the time that most clubs close in Bangkok. I did find a few other clubs open later - but these were basically filled with the dark elements. I cant remember the name of the first club, but the second was the 'only' after-hours disco in BKK, called Boss. Few locals and quite a few girls working late into the night (please read between the lines). I stayed at that place for several hours, after all it was a late night disco, and then returned to the hotel. By this point it was 6:30am and some of the guys decided to head for breakfast before sleeping. Those who know me realize this is not my style and I just retired for the night.The second and third nights in BKK basically blend into one for me after this point. I can't really remember what happenend when or why or where, maybe the alcohol or maybe the late nights mixed with too much sleep during the day. Some of the rest of this may get a little strange for some of you so read on at your own risk. The next few nights basically included seeing the sights that BKK is famous for - including such things as "Ping Pong Shows" (yes it is what you think it is) and other assorted strange things that people will do for money. Yes, I know this isn't right and morally I am opposed to all such behaviour, but in order for me to oppose it I have to experience and understand it. Right? So yes, the ping pong balls go where they are not supposed to go and get 'shot' across the room. One note to anyone venturing in for the fist time -DONT SIT IN THE FRONT ROWTwo reasons for this last statement 1). You don't really want to see it, and 2). you might get hit with something you don't want to get hit with or that you that shouldn't have been there in the first place. Let me tell you an interseting story:So we go into this place not really sure what to expect but intrigued none-the-less. We are offered watered down beer in glasess not pints or bottles, just random glasses. By the way, dont ever drink beer out or a glass in Bangkok - please take note I will tell you later. So what do I actually see in this place but girls (hard to dispute in this case) using their privates for random assorted household tasks: opening bottles, blowing out candles, storing their 2 dozen odd razor blades (yes, razor blades), shooting darts, transferring coke from one bottle to another, storring their athletic equipment (ping pong balls and the like) and playing catch with fruit. How do you play catch with fruit you might ask, well silly you put it in there and then you shoot it out and catch it, repeat several times. Then for your finale put the fruit back in and shoot it out into the audience. The only part of this trick is you should be able to find it after you shoot it into the audenience. In this one particular case the game turned into a magic trick as the fruit actually disappeared. The actress/performer tried to locate the fruit after it went into the audience only to determine that it had vanished into thin air. This is the birth of the nickname - "banana ass" - because you see, the banana although thought to have vanished into mid air was actually stuck to the ass of one of my friends - who will forever be known as BA or banana ass. How it actually got there we have no idea - true story.Oh yeah, why don't you ever want to drink beer from a glass in Bangkok - becuase as I realized on the way out, the bartender, the guy washing the glases and pouring the beer, was actually the performer in the "live" version of this particular sex show. Groowwss! The one last observation of these two nights is the club scene in Patpong. So these are not really clubs but more like 'go-go' bars filled, I mean filled with Thai girls dancing on the bars, so many in fact that they don't all fit on the stages. In one club I counted 60 barely dressed beautiful women dancing lustfully for everyone's enjoyment. Just remember that Bangkok is known as the city where you can get "the finest counterfit everything" and I suspect this includes the women. Yes they are not all real, but remember and never forget rule number 1 - "Thai girls dancing on bars is a good thing", the only caveat being if you can't tell that they are not really girls then does it really matter? Just enjoy!All in all my observations of Bangkok - go there if you can. It is a must see place, go there many times it is all good fun. Just be sure to stay alert and keep your wits about you at all times.
Bangkok Thailand Trip - Part 2 Current mood: aggravated Category: Travel and Places
Ok let me get some more of the details of this trip down in writing before they get even more fuzzy, seems that the drinking I did while in BKK was way too heavy for even my standards. Good thing I was travelling with a few guys who are not drinkers; that is not strictly true becuase I never really get too drunk to remember what I am doing. But anyway, back to the details....First things first - posted the pictures of the trip online here - Bangkok - Thailand. Not a whole lot of pictures of me and really not much to photograph for the majority of the trip until the last day when I did some real sightseeing. All, by the way in the span of about 3 or 4 hours as I got up way too late that day as well. Oh yeah, one other thing just as a quick note - the hospitality at the Davis Bangkok was really great. Thanks to Annie and all the other girls at "Club 88" for making us feel welcome throughout the stay.So where do we want to start today - several things we wanted to talk about, but I guess I should start at the beginning (and talk about patpong later on). First night we arrived we went out to meet some local friends at one of the local hot spots called Royal City Avenue or RCA. It is basically a whole street of nightclubs or all varieties, all colorfully lit and all really, really crowded. Most of the clubs have outdoor seating and many people hang out outside the clubs at the tables because it is entirely too crowded inside. The music is much louder inside than outside so you might actually be able to hear what your friends are saying if you stay outside. Oh yeah, bring some ID because it is required to gain entrance into all the clubs. I will put the location down here becuase I really love the addresses in Bangkok - completely indecipherable to anyone - Rama 9, and Taurus in Soi 24 Sukhumvit. Good luck finding it if you don't know where to go and if you can't get a cab driver who understands English (not all do). The two clubs we went to were called Flix and Slim. One club played house and the other Hip-Hop, outside there was a live band playing Thai music - so all in all not a bad place to party. Interestingly enough what I learned about RCA is that local girls dont really like to hang out at these places - because there are TOO many girls there. Those of you single guys remember that as it is a very important lesson in your young development.The next place we hit after we left RCA was another local club called Glow. This place boasts 'the largest selection of vodka's in Bangkok'. But to be perfectly honest, I didn't even know they had vodka, at least nobody played that fact up at all. The place was very quite compared to the clubs at RCA and in fact the only people in the club were the owner and the workers. You of course had the pre-requisite "Thai girls dancing on the bar" but other than that the place was really quite. Again - anther fact that my young apprentices must remember, something I will now call "Tony's Number One Rule of Life" - Thai girls dancing on bars is a very, very good thing. Apologies to all my female friends - I know some of you might be upset by that statement, but I do stand by it whole heartedly. And if you don't believe me just give me the opportunity to prove it.One good point to the above listed nightclubs listed above is the lack of 'the dark' side of Bangkok. For the most part until this point in the trip I had not seen one discernable "lady boy" or "professional." Please note - I said discernable, this doesn't mean they werent around but I just didn't notice any. By this point of the morning it was around 2am the time that most clubs close in Bangkok. I did find a few other clubs open later - but these were basically filled with the dark elements. I cant remember the name of the first club, but the second was the 'only' after-hours disco in BKK, called Boss. Few locals and quite a few girls working late into the night (please read between the lines). I stayed at that place for several hours, after all it was a late night disco, and then returned to the hotel. By this point it was 6:30am and some of the guys decided to head for breakfast before sleeping. Those who know me realize this is not my style and I just retired for the night.The second and third nights in BKK basically blend into one for me after this point. I can't really remember what happenend when or why or where, maybe the alcohol or maybe the late nights mixed with too much sleep during the day. Some of the rest of this may get a little strange for some of you so read on at your own risk. The next few nights basically included seeing the sights that BKK is famous for - including such things as "Ping Pong Shows" (yes it is what you think it is) and other assorted strange things that people will do for money. Yes, I know this isn't right and morally I am opposed to all such behaviour, but in order for me to oppose it I have to experience and understand it. Right? So yes, the ping pong balls go where they are not supposed to go and get 'shot' across the room. One note to anyone venturing in for the fist time -DONT SIT IN THE FRONT ROWTwo reasons for this last statement 1). You don't really want to see it, and 2). you might get hit with something you don't want to get hit with or that you that shouldn't have been there in the first place. Let me tell you an interseting story:So we go into this place not really sure what to expect but intrigued none-the-less. We are offered watered down beer in glasess not pints or bottles, just random glasses. By the way, dont ever drink beer out or a glass in Bangkok - please take note I will tell you later. So what do I actually see in this place but girls (hard to dispute in this case) using their privates for random assorted household tasks: opening bottles, blowing out candles, storing their 2 dozen odd razor blades (yes, razor blades), shooting darts, transferring coke from one bottle to another, storring their athletic equipment (ping pong balls and the like) and playing catch with fruit. How do you play catch with fruit you might ask, well silly you put it in there and then you shoot it out and catch it, repeat several times. Then for your finale put the fruit back in and shoot it out into the audience. The only part of this trick is you should be able to find it after you shoot it into the audenience. In this one particular case the game turned into a magic trick as the fruit actually disappeared. The actress/performer tried to locate the fruit after it went into the audience only to determine that it had vanished into thin air. This is the birth of the nickname - "banana ass" - because you see, the banana although thought to have vanished into mid air was actually stuck to the ass of one of my friends - who will forever be known as BA or banana ass. How it actually got there we have no idea - true story.Oh yeah, why don't you ever want to drink beer from a glass in Bangkok - becuase as I realized on the way out, the bartender, the guy washing the glases and pouring the beer, was actually the performer in the "live" version of this particular sex show. Groowwss! The one last observation of these two nights is the club scene in Patpong. So these are not really clubs but more like 'go-go' bars filled, I mean filled with Thai girls dancing on the bars, so many in fact that they don't all fit on the stages. In one club I counted 60 barely dressed beautiful women dancing lustfully for everyone's enjoyment. Just remember that Bangkok is known as the city where you can get "the finest counterfit everything" and I suspect this includes the women. Yes they are not all real, but remember and never forget rule number 1 - "Thai girls dancing on bars is a good thing", the only caveat being if you can't tell that they are not really girls then does it really matter? Just enjoy!All in all my observations of Bangkok - go there if you can. It is a must see place, go there many times it is all good fun. Just be sure to stay alert and keep your wits about you at all times.
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