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Patong - The Wake
Well I'm still here in Patong and still alive, although still suffering from the occasional dizzy spell from being thrown off the back of a motorbike taxi, although my fractured coccyx has obviously healed but a few months of inactivity to help it do so, has resulted in some muscle wastage in my glutes (I think that's what they call them) so walking long distances is out of the question, as it becomes quite painful if I do. Having said that I did manage to catch up with a couple of friends at Blue Beach Café and Restaurant, really to say goodbye to a Canadian friend who was departing Patong however it's almost certain that he will be back here. He did own a bar here at one time, but that's another story Although there were a lot of people in Bangla, it was "walking traffic" and a few of the bars looked a little devoid of customers although a few were relatively busy. However I didn't stay long as I'm not a beer drinker per se, so after a meal and a couple of drinks in Bangla, I was walking/stumbling/shuffling my way back to my condo, which I only just managed to do. Thank goodness Patong has quietened down somewhat although I obviously feel sorry for the local small businesses because of their lack of custom, but then again the high and low seasons have been like this since time immemorial here. On the subject of businesses, it would appear that many Thai folk still do not have much in the way of business nous/sense and one case in particular stands out...... the joint owner of a reasonably profitable small massage and beauty shop in a small Soi where there is quite a bit of foot traffic, has decided to open another shop on her own and she has chosen to open a small shop in a small cul-de-sac at the south end of Nanai Road!! It's an area I know well because I lived just opposite the new shop and there is absolutely no foot traffic or any traffic come to that, so IMO it is destined to fail, and it would be no more than 20 m away from another small massage shop which has failed several times, which is next to a small laundry which has failed several times, which is next to a small shop of some description which has failed several times and has now been closed for many months – – you get the drift. Now for something completely different (as the saying goes) the local elections have just finished and I was surprised to learn that one particular candidate was offering 1000 baht per vote, whilst another candidate was offering 5000 baht per vote – – corruption, who said that? I asked one of the voters who had voted for the 5000 baht option and she had no qualms about it saying that it wasn't her fault if somebody was offering her money to vote a certain way, so she gladly took it! Ah, TIT, for all its faults and pleasures, just doesn't seem to change. I caught up with an old friend at Starbucks in Jungceylon and we were discussing the new "Patongo" area and how it seemed as useless as "tits on a bull" (an old Kiwi expression) because I'd never seen more than a handful of people in it and it's not inviting at all, so what it's supposed to be I don't know. However he informed me that it was built with Chinese money (Chinese investors) so someone has made a killing on that spare piece of land and IMO I doubt whether it will ever take off. Unfortunately nothing exciting to post about, mainly because I don't get out and about much in the evenings these days, and especially because I have stopped my singing sessions at Red Hot, which I used to enjoy, so any feedback from the night-time activities from yours truly has ceased, however one can read about the brawls, thugs and untoward goings-on in ASEAN NOW!!! Finally, as others have said in previous posts, this place has taken a turn for the worst over the last few years, sad to say. -
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Health Six Dead as Covid Cases Surge in Thailand
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BREAKING SPEWS: Weed Now Only Smelly When Foreigners Smoke It
Not even joking, just sit down at our hotel, nice glass of wine beach side and there they sit and smoke a fat one upwind from us. F A holes drug tourists Even worse, drinking chang -
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