Gay Boy Thailand

As usual when I have been on a trip Chalerm wants to go somewhere too. He has Singapore in mind. He had seen that Air Asia had a promotion if we booked now and traveled in May to October.

I said one expense at a time, please. Chalerm has promised, on my behalf, that we will give 15,000 baht to the grandmother’s post-funeral ceremony after New Year. This is what Chalerm came home with after visiting his father in Ayuthaya.

In related news, Chalerm has spoken harshly to his father on the phone, and said he doesn’t care if the father lives or dies but the least he can do is to show up in Petchabun for the ceremony. The father was not at the funeral as he was hiding from the police at the time.

Also in related news, Chalerm has told his biological mother, who he tracked down and met for the first time since birth when he was 20, that he doesn’t want her to call anymore.

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I had promised to attend this ceremony. They said it would be on the 13th of January and I planned my visa runs accordingly. Then they changed the date without telling me, it is now the 10th and I will be out of the country on a visa run.

Never mind. At least I get the pleasure of paying for it.

The guests at the belated 100-days ceremony will be neighbours of Chalerm’s aunt in Petchabun. None of them knew the grandmother. Why not have the ceremony where the granny lived in Anyburi, I asked, so people who knew her could attend?

This was not the point. The point is to make merit by inviting a hundred people, feed them and play music and have a party.

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Fashion Boy wrote from Laos. He thanked me for the photo I had emailed him and said he wanted to go to Bangkok. But he had one problem - no money. Could I help him?

What would you say?