Tag Archives: Pattaya

THE AMNESIA OF ME by Peter Nolan Smith

July 23, 2021 – 11:32 am

Eight years ago I was sitting on Pattaya’s notorious Soi 6 listening to SOMEBODY TO LOVE. As I grooved to the Jefferson Airplane’s hit, a trio of sub-20 Thai girls had invited me to visit an upstairs short-time room. “You sexy man. How old you? 40?” asked the youngest. Even through beer goggles my mirror […]

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Thai Perfection or Lak-sa-na-tee-dee

April 29, 2021 – 4:25 am

The Standard English joke about the perfect girlfriend is that her father owned a pub, she’s 3′4″ with a flat head so you can put your beer on her. Simple needs, but in Thailand more than likely your girlfriend’s father is distilling moonshine lao khao or rice whiskey, she’s 5-3, and there is no way […]

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LOVE YOU LONG TIME – CHAPTER 4 by Peter Nolan Smith

April 15, 2021 – 1:55 am

The staff of the front desk at the Malaysia remembered my room. 203 overlooked the pool. Overweight farangs basked in the torrid sun like walruses oiled for a boiling pot. The bar girls sheltered in the shade, eating sum-tam or spicy papaya salad like the world was ending tomorrow or beginning by waking up next […]

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COME ALL YE FAITHFUL by Peter Nolan Smith

April 4, 2021 – 2:14 am

Pattaya is not a city known for monogamy. Promises of fidelity last, until you leave the room, because this city on Thailand’s Eastern Seaboard offers temptations by the thousands and those temptations rarely say no. Bar girls, rent boys, ka-toeys, booze, and drugs added up to damnation according to Reverend Joe Stannis of the Holy […]

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April Fool’s Day – Thai Visa

April 1, 2021 – 3:11 am

Thai visa is not normally known for its humor, however back in 2007 a morning’s alert about a new Luxury Tax on internet usage in Thailand struck a ‘Orson Welles’ Invasion from Mars panic in the blog’s readers. Even I fell for it, until my comrade Sam Royalle reminded me of the date. April Fool’s […]

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