RAWBangkok

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RAWBangkok is here to tell you about Bangkok in a way that no one else can or will. When I first suggested the idea of the blog to my friend Penfold, he replied with an enthusiastic email that really sums up what this blog is all about:

Wolfie baby ~

I gotta say first and foremost i fucking I love the idea of the joint blog.

Ive always wanted to start my own, but never felt i’d be able to add to it daily to keep people interested, and i’m a complete dickhead to anything technical like admin etc etc. and if i was gonna write, i’d want it to be completely uncensored.

I think a domain like rawbangkok.com would deffo be better then a blog-based addy like xxx.wordpress.xxx.xxxx like your current one?

rawbangkok really grabs me, i love the sound of it. It encapsulates the theme of things

As it goes I’ve been writing a load of shit down lately. Random Shit. Like i wrote a really crass piece about something basic like choosing either a laptop or desktop PC when i come back to BKK, and interlinked whoring stuff and the like into it. I’ve also rough-written a piece about a failed trip to Star of Light a while back, gym etiquette, the first whore i fell in love with and stuff along those lines. Ill send you a very rough piece on the laptop piece, lemme know what you think.

Its weird, like i will see something totally non-descript in BKK, and in my mind really break it down, reckon that could make good reading

I have a big catalog of stories and stuff, which i need to get written down and I reckon my in your face style would definitely compliment your more refined day to day styling. bit like day and night really. So many people used to comment on your blog how cool it is to read about your everyday life in BKK, i reckon we can offer something unique in that you can have that, but also my take on it from the perspective of a wide eyed early twenties lad making his way.

We could also incorporate a mini bar review bit as well. Not in the typical fashion, but have a list of places that are hot and not. Nothing in between. Only a place that deserves it for being either great or gash.

Put a new place up every week and keep a list of the places. Like a simple thing of places we recommend, and places to avoid like the plague and a description why. But try and mix it up from places to party, eat, relax and stuff and kerep descriptions basic

For example

Shit-hot

Mojos soi 33 – Slick pool tables, great food, well priced beer and dick-stiffeningly edible coyotes from 11pm onwards

Coyote Dancers at Mojo, SukSoi 33

Kuang Fu restaurant sukhumvit soi 20 – Quaint basic layout family run Thai restaurant in a ‘thai’ neighbourhood with best tom-yam kung in town for just 80 baht. Prices crazy cheap and 140 baht set menu for 4 dishes. My fave place to eat in BKK

Shit

Angelwitch Suk soi 4- Wank tired shows, medicore bitches and expensive beers. Id rather contract the clap

Sunrise Tacos Paragon – Rubbery shit food. fajitas were as appetizing as a turd sandwich, garnished with poo

I think there needs to be a site out there that names and shames shit places, websites and stuff with no limits and we might be able to build up a strong following. I dont see why not. Just call a spade a spade with no apologies — at least a credible effort that pulls no punches and makes no apologies.

I am honestly really escited about the possibilites here, i been having a flood of ideas for stories and stuff today which i been jotting down, then will go beserk when i get home and start writing them up

Anyway get back to me, as im bursting with ideas

Penfold

Introducing Werewolf

Werewolf is one of the co-authors of this blog.

I moved to Thailand in mid-2005. A year later, in May 2006 I woke up one day and started writing a blog titled Werewolf’s Lair. It was a blog that was written by me about my life in Bangkok, and posted as a daily diary of my life. The aim of the site was to offer a real look at one man’s life as a sex-pat in Bangkok Thailand.

In my mind’s eye, I was writing to an audience of men living in places like England, Australia and America who were occasional visitors to the Land of Smiles, and who sometimes considered throwing it all in back home and moving to Bangkok. My goal was to honestly share as much of my life — living, working and playing in Bangkok — as I could in order to offer a realistic picture of what it means to live here.

I never pretended that my life was typical or prototypical… all I ever promised was that it would always be truthful.

For fifteen months, I wrote in excess of 50 blogs a month, giving people a daily look at my life. Over time I developed relationships with commenters on line, and told my story.

In July and August of 2008 I found myself struggling to add new things to the blog. Like most people, I guess, my life is made up of routines. I had, in large measure, described them all. I’d shared photos of my apartment, talked about work experiences, the bars I drink in and the girls I had sex with. It was beginning to reach a point where talking about my life was getting boring. I started struggling to find something to say on a daily basis.

And one day at the beginning of September I decided that through the blog I had accomplished what I set out to do. I had described my life for fifteen months, and anyone who had read the blog along the way would have found it a pretty good resource for deciding whether or not Thailand should be their home.

But I didn’t think I could really add to Werewolf’s Lair in any meaningful way. It was complete.

In my final blog on that site I wrote these words:

Everything is finished at some point.

The football season, movies, paintings, childhood, blowjobs and blogs all reach a point where they are over. Some more satisfactorily than others.

Werewolf’s Lair was finished because it was a daily diary and I simply didn’t have something new to say every day any more.

But that doesn’t mean I don’t have anything to say at all.

After living in Bangkok for more than three years, I find that there’s a lot I do want to say, but not necessarily in the daily diary format of Werewolf’s Lair.

The one thing that most of my regular readers commented on most often was my brutal honesty. It was a central tenet of my blog that I wouldn’t sugar-coat the stories or try to make myself the hero. I recounted each story about my life as faithfully as I could, showing it “warts and all”.

I wanted to continue to comment on life in Bangkok, but I wanted to shift the focus away from me and my life to the broader playing field. I also wanted to find a way to make the blog more entertaining.

And then it occurred to me that I knew another guy here in Bangkok who is known in the ‘kokosphere for his brutal honesty, self-deprecation and incredible humour. He’s so outrageous, that some people who haven’t met him openly question whether he even exists at all.

I’m talking about my friend Penfold.

We could hardly be more different. I’m 48 years old, and Penfold’s in his early 20’s. I am tall and bald, while Pennie is below average height and has a scary looking hairdo made up of a bad bleach job and lots of mousse… in fact if you got a picture of Homer and Bart Simpson in your mind when you thought of the two of us you wouldn’t be far wrong.

Penfold’s claim to fame in Bangkok is to openly discuss his fondness for getting blow jobs from ladyboys. I, on the other hand, am a bit ‘phobic’ about Thailand’s third gender.

Like so many men of Napoleonic stature, Penfold is a gym junkie with a fairly sculpted physique, while my physique has been shaped by lots of beer and pizza.

He is a stylish young man while I can genuinely be described as a conservative old fart.

When it comes to writing styles, Penfold has an Englishman’s artful turn of phrase at his disposal. He writes quickly and with great wit, rarely pausing to insert commas or apostrophes, or to run the spell-checker. What Dali was to painting, Penfold is to writing. His stories are weird and wonderful stream-of-consciousness concoctions that have only a passing acquaintance with the English language.

I write in a much more structured style. While I lack Penfold’s mastery of the colorful use of language, people who enjoy my writing usually point to thoughtfulness, detail and the ability to craft an interesting story out of mundane circumstances.

But what we share in common is the desire and the ability to tell the truth with no regard to political correctness or the sensibilities of others. Neither of us wastes time trying to impress other people — we are impressed with ourselves and that’s enough.

So, while we seem an unlikely pair, I called Penfold up and asked if he’d like to write a joint blog together.

His response was immediate and positive:

i fucking I love the idea of the joint blog

And so RAWBangkok was created.

Our intention is to offer a unique look at Bangkok that will entertain and elucidate.

Penfold and I don’t always agree… you might read the site and find that he says one thing and I say the opposite. Don’t let that surprise you or worry you — after all, he is a young English stud with style and flair while I am an aging and overweight American/Australian sexpat. We didn’t promise to agree on everything when writing the blog, what we agreed to was to offer brutal honesty in what we write.

You won’t find me writing anything positive about ladyboys. I will be writing the occasional blog about Thai politics. If Penfold has any political views, I’d be surprised if they correspond with my own. We’re two different guys, with completely different styles, who will work together to bring you Bangkok in a way that we believe will be unique and interesting.

No doubt some readers will prefer to read blogs by Penfold and some will prefer mine. No problem! There should be plenty for everyone.

So, here at the beginning of the journey, let me invite you along as Penfold and I explore the streets of the City of Angels and bring it all to you here on RAWBangkok.

Penfold’s Story (written by Penfold himself)

Penfold is a co-author of this blog

Where to start?

Not much to say really. I’ve just turned 24. Most people will argue I look about 12. I’ve lived on and off in Asia for 2years now.

I took a routine holiday to Phuket when I was 21 and things havent been the same since. I tied up a load of loose ends in England, gathered up a dirty fucking huge pile of cash and flew out to Asia with a mate of mine in search of the Asian dream. Things at 1 point were sweet. I worked as a Personal Trainer in Penang, and lived with a membership sales girl (a former Malay model) who was bringing in serious cash. Rent for the apartment, supplements, food, clothes….. you name it she bought me. She also loved doggystyle with a digit in her brown which is a personal fave of mine.

While this was going on I was also routinely screwing the nuts off 4-5 gym members on the sly. I also received a number of other offers of sexual companionship, however these were offered to me in the male locker room.

The 90days on my tourist visa were all but done and was granted 5days annual leave from work. Some smart cunt suggested I meet him in Bangkok for 5days R&R…… That has now strecthed to nearly 2years R&R

Dont know if Id class myself as a typical sex-pat. For a start im not fat or old. I smell good. I can get girls in my home country too. I just despair the fucking retarded western way of life. I decided to get out before I become another asshole busting my nuts in a shit job, for shit money, surrounded by shit people.

Dont get me wrong, the woman here are still the biggest draw for me. Without a shadow. The first porno I ever watched was 1 of my late grandads I came across (not literally you sick fuckers I was only 10) and was 2 asian babes muffing each other, and since then Ive been hooked.

My dream as a kid was to nail an oriental girl. Now im well on the way to hitting around 150

I’ve always wanted my own blog, but Im a dick when it comes to anything technical. As you’ll notice even the spellchecker is too advanced for me, so I steer clear of it. No time for it. Im a proud little fucker, and would be gutted if I was pouring out my soul and no cunt was reading it. Then Werewolf emailed me asking if I was into doing a joint gig. He would do the admin and all the techy nerdy shit, and Id write 2-3-4 pieces a week. DEAL. he had his own successful blog before, so generating readers wouldnt be an issue

Thats me really.

Peace

Penfold