Gay Boy Thailand

Yesterday evening Chalerm and his buddy Lek went to Pantip Plaza. I assumed it was Lek who needed something computer-ish. But the boys came back with a web camera Chalerm had bought.

When I agreed that Chalerm could buy the PC I made him promise that he would not come running to me with technical problems. It is Micro$oft Window$, there are bound to be problems.

Of course he comes running to me with technical problems. How to install the web cam? He had not read the tiny manual. That would be cheating. I told him to unplug the camera and install the software, as the manual said.

These things are amazingly cheap. 500 baht. Chalerm has asked me in the past to buy a web camera for our other computer, the Macintosh, but when I looked they were over 2000 baht. That’s a few years ago.

We got the camera up and Chalerm is now online in 480 pixels and colour. He will use it for Internet chat. Most of the other gay friends he has do the same. I don’t mind. I trust him not to do anything silly. But I did remind him that he should be careful whom he showed his face to on the net. They are not all nice out there. Chalerm said yes, sure, whatever. He doesn’t like it when I nanny him.

I had the idea of getting one of these cameras to put on the balcony, where we have a view of the high-rise buildings along Silom road, and of the Skytrain. I could send the view around the world on the Internet, as is getting popular these days. But I don’t want any wires. I am anti-wire. If I had a Bluetooth camera I might try it. They are wireless but cost more. We’ll see. Maybe one day.