30 September 2005

FIRST NIGHT OUT

Side streets here are known as ‘soi’s’ and they’re numbered in order from the main street that they run off. I’m in Silom and the main streets ‘Silom’ St – so the side streets are Silom Soi 1-30.

The club we went to was on Soi sii – 4th Street – or as it’s commonly referred to, Gay Soi. The street is so camp it’s hilarious – even down to the places only employing gay waiters who swish about the place. We went to a bar/club, which was OK, or more specifically the décor was pretty good but the music was terrible.

The place filled up with Thai people, which I was a bit surprised at, and to tell the truth a little intimidated by. Not that they were threatening (well maybe some looked a bit so) but it’s more that I didn’t know the rules of what was going on. Were the girls hookers? Were the girls girls? Were the guys the thugs they dressed up to be? Would I get beaten up for looking at the wrong person the wrong way?

Who knows, obviously nothing happened and we all just had a drink chat and very limited boogie – as I said, the music was terrible.

JAMES THINKING LIKE A DICKHEAD: 1
BEERS: 1 too many

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