One man in Bangkok

I was in a shopping centre in Silom - the main business/hooker/gay area of town - recently when I came across (figuratively speaking, of course) this wonderful little thing outside a seafood noodle restaurant. I don’t think it’s going too far to say that those little guys, especially the crab, look waaaaaaay too happy to be food!

So now you can call me Mr. 90%. Who’s yer daddy? It would have been higher still if I had remembered more than days of the week. Oh well, C’est la vie.

This is my friend Tabo.

Handsome in a rugged and manly way wouldn’t you say? He’s just left Thailand to go back to South Korea. I first met Tabo in Korea and together with a great group of friends, we had some wild nights out in Seoul. It’s mainly down to him that I’m with Mina now; they’re good friends from school and she was visiting him when I first met her. So thanks for that ‘Bo.

Here’s a few more pictures of the young and eligible bachelor. Drunk with Mina

Dancing in the rain outside Carne Station in Seoul with our good friend Saejin (miss you SJ).

Finally a picture of Tabo, our friend Onn and me at Doi Suthep in Chiang Mai. The pagoda behind us is actually covered in gold.

Safe trip ‘Bo hope to hear from you soon na.

My friend Spevs sent me this picture from when we were on a school trip to Germany. I think I was about 13 at the time. I think you’ll all agree that I was already quite a dashing fellow. If you look closely enough, in the top right corner, you can see the shady reflection of Spevs taking this picture on his phone from a old real photo (the type that used to exist in the past and were made from special paper - aaah, you probably don’t remember them).

As you can see from this picture of me last year at the Dunn’s river waterfall in Jamaica (which I climbed - one of the greatest experiences of my life!), nothing much has really changed since those days except for the fact that I now make a “V” with the other hand.

I’m having my Thai exam tomorrow. I wish I was having a mai Thai exam instead - in fact I’d probably prefer a muay Thai exam. Wish me luck!

I think I’ve mentioned before that I’m a bit of a freak for my blog statistics. I’m not as bad as I was when I first started, but I still check at least once a day. One thing I like to check up on is the search engine terms - things that people have typed into search engines that linked to my site. Some of my favourites so far have been

“ladyboy sit bangkok” from a Norwegian search engine

“photo of monkey drinking beer” and

“jellyfish dead human”

However, my absolute favourite, all time best search item came in today. Somebody searched for

“one man in bangkok blog”

Yes! Somebody actually searched Google for me!! Word is spreading, I am growing (and it’s not only my waistline). You have made my day that person, thank you.

I haven’t had much time to post over the last few days because I’m supposed to be studying. I have a test on Saturday from the first book of my Thai class that I want to ace. I’ve also got a short kind of thesis to write for my other course. The other day I took a break from (*cough*) studying and went to The Mall Bang Kapi to see the parrots. There’s a little island in the middle of the shopping centre with parrots living on it. The big blue one on the middle right often makes grumpy noises, but none of them ever try to fly away.

In the water around the big birds are some enormous fish. Masive, massive, massive fish. I like them.

I can still steal internet, but only intermittently. Anyone who has proper broadband and is/was a Star Wars fan should check out youtube and search for Chad Vader for a funny spoof. Also, football fans (as in the proper football - where the players use their feet, not the hand ball, egg chasing played in North America) should search for Rio Ferdinad singing.

My fan is growling at me - should I be scared?

Yesterday I let Mina fiddle about with the computer for a while whilst I did something manly and when I came back, the clever computer had gone and connected itself to some kind of wireless broadband network all by itself. Needless to say, I was quite overjoyed about this. Yesterday I had the best home browsing experience of my life. Seriously, this unsecured wireless broadband network that somebody has set up near my home is wonderful, but the fact remains that I can’t decide if I’m stealing or not. It’s obviously something I haven’t paid for, but if I could get reliable surfing like I had yesterday, I would most certainly.

Am I stealing internet? Does this make me a bad melv?

Ok, it’s time to admit it. Despite evidence to the contrary on Google, I’ve always maintained my bad melv innocence. However, today the truth has come crashing home. You see, today is my friend in Korea Rachel Lynn’s birthday - and I forgot. Despite several subtle and not so subtle reminders. Sorry Rachel Lynn.

I urge you all to visit her website now and buy her something she is desperately in need of - sweaters. I mean, she’s going into the Korean winter with just 22!!! Don’t be shy, act now.

Here are some hot pictures of my hot birthday friend.

 HAPPY BIRTHDAY RACHEL LYNN

i berry is the bestest most wonderful place in the world. The ice cream at that place is worth the trip to Thailand all on it’s own. This is Mina, looking cheesy and enjoying a double scoop of strawberry yoghurt and cha yen. Cha yen is a kind of Assam tea that is often translated as Thai tea. It’s very sweet, very milky and always served with lots and lots of crushed ice - delicious!

All the ice creams in i berry are home made (at whose home, I’m not sure) and the range of flavours changes quite often. You can sample such delights as Horlicks, rambutan sorbet, cookie malt, red bean & green tea (I’ll leave you to sample that one though - I wouldn’t touch it with your spoon!). There’s even some kind of cheese ice cream that I’m yet to try (surprisingly), you can actually see the pieces of cheese in it. I’ll let you know when I’ve done it.

It appears I was wrong on a previous post about Lumpini Park. The statue of the king isn’t King Rama V, but according to Mina, and I quote “King Rama VI, or King Rama III, I think, maybe.” Thanks. For. That. Anyway, this is King Rama V.

Also, according to the precise one, those pictures of my eyes in another previous post weren’t taken by me (in fairness, the closest I ever came to claiming them as my own was when I said “I can’t even be sure if it was actually me that took them or not”) . They were in fact taken by Mina when she was thinking about making them into something pop arty, or something. So I am hereby officially granting the rights of those particularly fine pictures of my eyes to one Miss Mina Chan. May she use them wisely.