Well, some things have changed and some have stayed the same.
The tattoos are still there… maybe some new ones, I’m not sure.
The bleached highlights are gone from the hair, and it’s back to it’s natural color. But the hair hasn’t been cut in months, and rather than the moussed bad-boy look it’s simply an unruly mass of mouse-brown hair.
He’s bigger. Not taller, but wider through the chest, shoulders and biceps.
His fingernails are painted a deep burgundy-red color.
When I first saw him he was wearing sunglasses indoors, with ragged shoes that probably should have been thrown out a year ago, and carrying a small duffel bag full of gear.
The cry of “Wolf!”, which is what he calls me, was the thing that alerted me to the fact that I was in the presence of Young Penfold once again.
I just saw this article in the Bangkok Post. If correct, it’ll be pretty dark here in about an hour:
A solar eclipse can be visible across Thailand from 4.05pm to 5.53pm Monday, the first day of the Lunar New Year.
The eclipse will be fully at 5.02pm, and 15 provinces can clearly see the phenomenon. They include Bangkok, Chiang Mai, Nong Khai, Uttaradit, Phitsanulok, Udon Thani, Nakhon Ratchasima, Ubon Ratchathani, Chon Buri, Surat Thani, Phuket, Songkhla, Pattani and Chachoengsao.
Another solar eclipse will take place on July 22, 2009.
This morning I woke up around 5 a.m., rolled out of bed and headed to the toilet. I took a good long pee, then headed back to my bed. I jumped in from the side closest to the bathroom and bumped against a body!
What the fuck!? Why is there a corpse in my bed?!
Well, the corpse moved, so it wasn’t dead. My addled brain flashed on the idea that it was my favorite go go dancer — no one else has been in my bed for nearly 8 months — but then I remembered that she’s in Europe. I peered closely at the face of the girl and then remembered.
I brought a girl home on Friday night… the first time since my favorite go go dancer left around Christmastime. This was her. I had to think for a moment to figure out where she had come from.
Back in July I wrote. She’s an interesting girl insofar as she is a prototype for an entire class of Thai women that exist here in Bangkok. They are NOT Pay-4-Play girls, yet they are intensely interested in Westerners. They usually have no interest at all in gettting involved with Thai men, and emphatically won’t have a Thai boyfriend in the background.
These girls usually spend a fair amount of time polishing their English skills, and then go where the farang are, which often means being in farang-oriented bars, either as an employee or as a customer. In my experience they often grab onto a Western boyfriend and move in with him, at least for a while. They will, if given the opportunity, travel overseas.
The idea of the ‘tweener is that she is caught somewhere in the middle between the world of P4P hookers and Thai “good” girls. She is probably much more active sexally, and often reliant on money that she gets from her boyfriend, or a series of men, but doesn’t believe that she is selling sex for a living.
I was a dickhead today and I got my way. This is very unusual in Thailand.
Back in the US, it frequently paid off to act like a dickhead in certain situations, but here in the Land of Smiles it usually gets you nothing but an uneasy smile, a shaky apology and a shrug of the shoulders.
This morning I woke up around 5 a.m., rolled out of bed and headed to the toilet. I took a good long pee, then headed back to my bed. I jumped in from the side closest to the bathroom and bumped against a body!
Back in July I wrote. She’s an interesting girl insofar as she is a prototype for an entire class of Thai women that exist here in Bangkok. They are NOT Pay-4-Play girls, yet they are intensely interested in Westerners. They usually have no interest at all in gettting involved with Thai men, and emphatically won’t have a Thai boyfriend in the background.
I was a dickhead today and I got my way. This is very unusual in Thailand.
