I think it’s time that we had more pictures of me on this blog; who’s with me?
2007
Last night (the evening of the day I sixty-nined Mae, although chronology hardly seems to matter in this journal, I thought I’d just mention that again, ‘cause it was fun) Chris was out of action with a sore throat, so I took the opportunity to have a nice, restful, cheap night in.
Not in this fucking life.
What I really did was head down to Sukhumwit to check out new places to grab chicks.
My plan was to grab beers out of the Seven, wander around, check things out, then every time I had to piss or take a dump (2015: or even just go to the toilet?,) I’d get a beer somewhere and use the khazi.
First off, I walked up the way from soi 4 (where Nana Plaza is) not really expecting to find much, but just wanting to satisfy my curiosity.
Well shit; I found a complex of hostess bars called Soi 1 Plaza, which I only saw the ground floor of, which was surprisingly empty of customers. (2015: it’s gone now. No big loss; trust me.)
I went in to the last bar, which I think was called Sexy Bar, and got fucking mobbed. There was four or five chicks pawing at me, wiping my brow, massaging me, asking me questions in Thai, and fuck knows what. If I’d had even a couple of beers I’d have been better equipped to deal with it, but as it was; it was like being a foxy white chick at a football match in Delhi.
They clocked it too, and kept telling me to calm down and not be scared, because they don’t eat men and shit, but I felt like screaming ‘Just fucking leave me alone for a second and I will calm down!’ But I didn’t, and it was alright, just a bit much for my fragile sensibilities at that moment. (2015: fucking pussy. No fucking way I’d have put up with that horseshit these days.)
I played Jenga with a girl called Ja Ja (Binks?) who reminded me a lot of my mate Dave’s pregnant girlfriend Pym, who I always thought was cute.
They told me that there’s a disco on the fourth floor (I seriously doubt I’ll ever get the compulsion to go there; at that moment it could’ve been an all-you–can-snort Scarface ride at Universal, and I’d still have gayed off.)
Anyway, I had to leg it from Soi 1 Plaza, ‘cause it was just too much at the time, but I definitely plan on returning once Chris is back in action.
My initial mission brief, or the reason that I was wandering in Sukhumwit, was to find out where the fuck the Beer Garden was.
Beer Garden, isn’t a fucking garden at all, although the high roof does give it an ‘outside’ feel. I’d been there once with Chris, and walked past it a couple of times, but we just couldn’t remember where it was.
The place is fucking brimming with bar-girls, (quite a few ladyboys too, so be careful) and there’s no bar-fine to take them away. I chatted to a really cute chick named Sang, but I think she decided that I was a time-waster, and fucked off after a bit.
After that, whilst I finished my Heineken, I talked to exactly the sort of over-fifty geezer that you don’t want to see perving around young Thai girls. He reckoned that you were looking at 1500 for short time with these chicks, but fuck him: He’s old, I’m young, and that’s life (-Miguel Ferrer. Robocop. Sort of. I’m fucking paraphrasing; alright?)
Then I just wandered about, had a drink at Soi 5 Bar with a couple of Irish guys, one of whom got steadily more rude and offensive as the night went on (I returned after visiting Goong at Big Mango, which was a good job, because I’d forgotten to pay for my beer, which I remembered as I approached. The girl Kim, behind the bar, who I like, seemed relieved that she didn’t need to convince me of the fact.)
Then I talked to a Scotsman, who lives on a house boat in Windsor, but is rarely ever there ‘cause he works for the U.N., and he’s been in twenty-five different countries in the last year. This impressed me no end, and he really strengthened my yearning to go to Columbia.
Goong blew me out again, (2015:;cunt) with some excuse about her friend being really drunk (I’m starting to worry about this shit. Maybe she’s making excuses, or maybe her friend is jealous and trying to put a spanner in the works, I don’t fucking know, but I’m beginning to see Chris’s prophecy about me getting bored putting in the effort coming true) so I hooked up with Mae at Popiang.
I found out that Mae and Odie hate each other (great!) and I explained to Mae that I can’t give her money every time I shag her, which seems to be becoming quite a regular thing. She was fine with that, and then this morning I gave her 200 Baht ‘for a taxi’ which she didn’t ask for, and then realised that I hadn’t even shagged her last night! We must have both been too drunk! Gay! (2015: Christ! No wonder I gave up paying for sex! Sometimes I still have the urge to pay out for sex that didn’t happen though; probably always will, I guess.)
The Mae Team: If you’ve got a hard-on, and no one else can help, and if you can find her; she’ll probably not bang you for 200 Baht.
Chris being ill and not wanting to do much brought out a temporary laziness in me, so it’s been a few days since I’ve written anything.
The night after I discovered Soi 1 Plaza, I couldn’t help but return, but this time I went back to Sexy Bar after a few beers and was much more relaxed. I had a couple in there, and then received a belated text from Goong, who hadn’t seen my earlier text ‘cause she was playing in a pool competition.
Out of a sense of duty (to myself more than Goong) I didn’t blow her off and stay at Sexy Bar like I wanted to, but instead went down to Big Mango to see her, bought her a drink (although she was already quite pissed from the competition) left early to bump the bar fine, and waited for her at Soi 5.
Again, I got a text message, bumping me because she was too drunk and tired, but I only saw it after I’d phoned her. I had to mention that she was kind of making it look like she didn’t like me much, but she just said ‘I tell you before have to go slowly.’
Goong. Silly moo. You know how much hurt and heartache you’re passing up here?
The conversation ended on a bit of a downbeat note, and now, three days later, we still haven’t been in touch, although I intend to go see her today for a quick drink, and try to get things back on an even keel at the least.
Half-disappointed, but half-overjoyed, (‘cause even if Goong comes out with me, I’m unlikely to get laid) I immediately called Ja Ja from Sexy Bar, whose number I’d gotten earlier. She was still there, and I paid her bar-fine (500) and arranged a grand for her to come home with me.
Ja hasn’t been in Bangkok long, and hasn’t really been out of the Soi 1 complex. She usually goes up to the guest house on the third floor if she goes with customers, so my apartment in Pinklao, which is a 7 k taxi ride across town, could be the end of the earth for her.
Luckily, because I didn’t want to shell out for a guest-house, the 511 bus runs straight from pretty much my front door to hers, so Mama agreed to let her come with me (although she was hoping that I’d accompany her back and buy more beer.)
Ja, sans warpaint. What? Tell me you never fucked a chick who looked rough in the morning…
Even after I’d paid Ja’s fine, the rest of the girls kept pestering me and competing for my attentions, which I didn’t mind, and I told them about Chris who they were most anxious to meet.
Ja is thirty-two, but doesn’t look it when she’s dolled-up. She was really sweet and affectionate, and we ended up doing it three times (I managed to blow every time too! Result!) Something to do with her reminding me of Dave’s missus Pym, gave me the horn (I guess I’d always seen her as someone I couldn’t have, and this was good enough, without me having to be a cunt, which I don’t do to my mates.)
2015: Not much of a cumshot to today’s instalment really, was there? Well that’s just fucking life; sometimes it’s so banal that even I can’t make it funny. But one thing that might make you chuckle, is my bike getting run over by a fucking articulated lorry the other night.
I walked out after my last shift of the week grinning ear to ear in the bright sunshine, almost tasting the beers waiting for me at home.
As soon as I looked at my bike something struck me as wrong. On closer inspection I found that the frame was bent. Like 30 degrees fucking bent.
I’m gonna miss my dead, gay bike…
The smell of an insurance pay-out goes well with the almost taste of beer, as I’m sure you’d expect.
So I fucked around reporting it to the relevant authorities, then got a lift home from my dad and got drunk.
The next few days were a bit uncomfortable with my torn ass-cheek (which is getting much better; but nowhere near right yet) and lack of transport meant that I was forced to have a couple of sunny-as-fuck days off work.
Insurance say they’re gonna pay me 300 quid, for a bike that cost me 25 second hand about a decade since (although it was expensive when new) so as long as that all comes off; at least I’m laughing, eh? Back of the fucking net!