Gay Boy Thailand

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This bomb business made New Year less of a full-speed-ahead party in Bangkok than it usually is. Not only do they try to kill us, they want to kill our fun too. To Thais killing the fun is the worse offence.

The staff at the 7-Eleven in the soi had a party in a storage room behind the shop. To hide the loud party music they had loud music in the shop too.

The Internet cafe was closed on the 1st of January. I was shocked to discover this. The Chinese family who own it are of the sort who used to stay open 24-7-365, just like any other Chinese business. What is next? Will they take Chinese New Year off too?

The Mansion’s management are too soft with my maid. They give her holidays. Where I lived before the maid had to show up regardless every day, but in The Mansion the maid has public holidays such as New Year off. Is it any wonder the Thai economy is in trouble?

The Mansion’s management wrote me a letter saying we had stayed with them for so long that we were like family. After this creepy introduction they apologised for bothering me with signing a new lease contract. It only took them a year to discover that the previous contract had expired. They also sent us cookies.

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I can’t go to Anyburi with Chalerm because I can’t find my driver’s licence. I can’t be more than two hours in Anyburi without a car. If I have no car I must stay in the village where the bus stop is the local cruising zone and the straight tractor repair guys across the street are all I have to look at.

The village is the same, with shopping limited to the rows of goods someone has stacked in front of their house. But 15 km away Anyburi town, or should I say metropolis, now has two 7-Elevens. Since the size and importance of a provincial town is measured by how many 7-Elevens it has, Anyburi has done well lately.

The new 7-Eleven has opened at the town market, but across the soi from the old one. This can lead to confusion. The old 7-Eleven was a hot gay area on Saturdays between 7pm and 8pm, with activity concentrated around the one baht weight scale. As many as one or two gay boys per week were spotted there. Now that there are two 7-Elevens, where should eager gay boys go? Will they run from one to the other? Will one of the shops win the pink baht and become the new gay district?

The 7-Elevens also face competition from the weekly night market, which is in a field near the railway line. This is where fashion conscious local boys (who by definition are gay or transgender) go to see the latest on offer from Paris and Milan. The night market opens at sunset and keeps going till 10 or so. When it is over the exhausted locals go home to recover from this wild night out on the town.