-- Khun Taoboxer,
- Thanks for your kind ack..
- As you visit HAT YAI then you'll be just the man to give us all an up-date on the scene there, if you would be so good?

-- Y'day., (01st.), a SGPean./Ch. acquaintance and I had tea together in the EREWAN TEA-ROOMS.
- Arriving early, approx. 15.oo.hrs., gave me an opportunity to cruise-around BIG C - R'DAMRI..
- Lttle to report; although in one hawng nahm a couple of attractive young men - but not in the eye-candy league - were making eyes at eachother and then left together to go whithersoever.
- Little signs of either Sec. Gds. or of janitrices at that time.

-- I ret'd. later on, roughly 17.30.hrs., quite quiet & with Ntg. To Rpt..
- Sec. Gds. & janitresses MORE in evidence.

-- After my 2nd. visit to BIG C - R'DAMRI. I went to LUMPINI PK., wch. I've not visited for a coon's age; my last visit was so long ago that on this visit I was able to note how the grass was re-growing on most of the olde & familiar trails!
- V. few people jogging.
- However, walking around I chanced to meet a student, who invited me to sit & to talk with him: 22YO. from BURI RAM, studying at R'HAENG. UNI..
- To cut-short a long story he accompanied me back to my app't.; but that's a story that I'll tell you all some other time! ('Spoil-sport, ain't he?' - Printer's devil.),. ;)

I haven't gone cruising in Hatyai for a long time now, or tried out any of the bars there, as I have mainly found my hookups from various gay dating sites like GayRomeo and Slave4Masters (a Recon site) - and found only guys wo are genuinely in search of fun and friendship. I have never hooked up with a Hatyai or Songkhla moneyboy on the internet yet.

The reason I haven't been looking in any of the gay bars there is that quite simply, none of the ones I used to frequent are around any more. Four years ago, after a frustrating 45 minutes walking around the 2 main streets that make up the town centre, I was informed that their new governor had shifted all the bars to a special red light district some distance away. As I had no idea where it was or how to get there, I decided not to take any chances and went cruising at the train station (a long time last gasp haunt of mine - gay guys on the left through the platform gate near the overhead bridge, gatoeys on the right in the station itself - all after 10.30pm when Robinsons closes). But since then I have made it a point to hook up only via the internet before I left Penang.

I can tell you about the town, however. The situation is quite peaceful in spite of what the newspapers say about bombings in the south - they're talking about the east coast states, while Hatyai is in Songkhla state and towards the west coast. The last bombing in Hatyai was a few years ago and the last "trouble" there was the rail strike during the Redshirt/Yellowshirt protests last year.

Things are expensive by my standards - almost like Bangkok and occasionally more expensive even. I have never paid more than 40 Baht for rice, veggies and meat during lunch at a Bangkok street vendor or coffeeshop but 50 or even 90Baht is closer to what I usually pay for the same amount in Hatyai.

The town is noisy, busy and full of traffic but the people are friendly and you can actually see a few farang families with kids walking around before they head off to Phuket (even more expensive now, from what my friends tell me).

I won't talk about shopping as Bangkok has better variety and more up-to-date selections or sightseeing as any internet search will turn up all you need to know - hatyai shops close by 9pm nowdays anyway, but I will say that hotels are much cheaper than Bangkok, though a 5-star Hatyai hotel is not in the same class as a 3 or 4-star one in Bangkok. Still, if you're not fussy and a clean, comfortable room with air-conditioning and attached bathroom (about 900 Baht) is all you need, then you won't be disappointed. No joiner fees that I know of either except at the JB Hotel. The funny thing is that hotel food is much cheaper in Hatyai than in Bangkok, for some reason.

I hope this helps if any of you are planning to come south.

Tao

Tell, tell. I've heard that guys from Buriram are the best endowed in the kingdom. Is it true?

1.- Curiosity killed the cat;
2.- There are exceptions to every rule!
- Satisfied?

-- Y'day., (22nd.) was in BIG C - R'DAMRI. from let's write 12.30-14.oo.hrs..
- Little activity from either para-mil'y. Sec. Gds. or from Janitresses.
- Little activity from the few other users.
- 3fl. Hawng nahm was patrolled frequently by 'RAJDAMRI TEAM.' member.

May be this is a new one.

Had the delightful pleasure of going into hawng nahm ground floor of JJ Mall yesterday and having a young man flop out his ample appendage which he proceeded to pump. With more (?) pressing things to attend to I could only stare with envy (?penis) and droool.

The mall has 3 floors with 4 or more HN on each floor! They are free (cf 3 baht at other spots) and lightly monitored by janitrices

Of course I was too busy conduction business to check out all.

For those who don't know JJ Mall is adjacent to the Jatujak Market.

I was also at Jatujak on sunday. On the periphery of the actual market there are a few toilets. One has a long trough of urinals that forces you to stand away from the stainless back: gives clear view of the occupant next to you. Some serious showing off was going on. Will return soon. Can't complain with the 3 baht admission fee!!

-- Y'day., (03rd.), a'noon. I went to JJ. MALL; taking the MRT. from SAM YAN, (approx. 30mins.), and walking some 750yds. from MRT. KAMPHAENG PHET, (exit 1.),.
- ETA.: approx. 15.hrs..
- The modern-looking JJ. MALL is on 3 floors, each one identical as far as the loc'ns. of the four Hawng nahm as far as I could judge. There are floor-plans shewing one the layouts on each floor - HNs. are indicated and there the usual & int'l. signs also.
- In the HNs. cubicles there are no toilet-tissue dispensers, (tissue is avail. from machines outside.); the partitions do not extend DOWN to the floor and are approx. 6'08". high; sofar there are no extension pieces upwards.
- There are soap-dispensers but neither HOT-air blowers nor paper hand-towels' dispenses.
- Home-sick Americans might be pleased to know that there's a branch/franchise of BUD'S, of SF., ICE-CREAM PARLOR on 1fl.; also BLACK CANYON COFFEE and CHESTER'S COFFEE & GRILL there; PLUS a food ct. and plenty of local food & beverage stalls.
- Talking with a French stall-holder who told me that sats. & suns. would be much busier.
- Plenty of Sec. Gds. in the main & shopping area but I saw none in the HN.; janitresses few & far between.
- It wasn't until after 18hrs., in WC16., that anything happened - some young man invited me to join him in a cubicle and then smoked me most expertly, after wch. I reciprocated. No money exchanged hands.
- After wch. I left, walking to BTS. MO CHIT, (N8.), some 1,000.yds.

-- Y'day., (03rd.), evening I looked-in at BIG C - R'DAMRI..
- ETA. roughly 19.hrs.. and stayed just over an hr..
- Little activity, although in one Hawng Nahm I saw a couple of young men playing with eachother until one of them achieved what he wanted. The other, a slighly built youth, was well-enough endowed.
- Para-mil'y. Sec. Gds. quite active and janitresses fairly busy cleaning-up towards the end of the day.

Well done Kuhn Sextile! A great report. Looks as though later is the go.

-- Looking-at my copy of Bangkok City Atlas - ISBN.: 9-789749-440780 - wch. has a plan of CHATUCHACK MKT. I see that there are quite a few hawng nahms. On the periphery I see HNs. near to sois 38., 49., 52. & 56. - sections 2 to 5..
- Further dir'ns. would be appreciated.

SILOM COMPLEX - Sec. Gds. advisory!
 

-- In SILOM COMPLEX SHOPPING PLAZA, (by BTS.Sala Daeng, [S2.],), the Sec. Gds. used to be readily indentifiable by their uniforms: white shirts, with gold bars on blue & slip-on epaulettes, over dk. blue trousers with a couple of gold stripes on each leg. Additionally and occasionally one was warned of their aproach by the chatter on their walkie-talkies.

-- But no longer.
- For the past few days at least one, tallest, tanned & hawkish-looking face has been in plain clothes: white shirt with bk. neck-tie, and an ID. hanging-down fron LEFT breast pkt., over dk. blue trousers; no walkie-talkie that I heard or saw.

-- Possibly, with the start of the Tourist Season, the Sec. Gds. are trying a plain clothes approach to deter the mainly farang cruisers who are seeming to become MORE plentiful these days?

-- Y'day., (08th.), a'noon., and having things to do in the R'Prasong area, I looked-in at BIG C - R'damri..
-- ETA.1.- 15.30.hrs.;
- Not at all busy, apart from 1 youngish man shewing himself in the gf.fl. hawng nahm;
- Janitresses & Sec. Gds. not present too obviously.
-- ETA.2. - 17.30.hrs.;
- As above, apart from a couple of young men shewing themselves to eachother in the 5fl. hawg nahm;
- Sec. Gds.: Para-mil'y. & R'damri. Team MORE in attendance.

-- Noted that both times that I was in the 5fl. HN. a Sec. Gd. - short & squat build, dk. skin, frog-like face with bk. hair brushed straight back, wearing thick & horn-rimmed glasses with silvery metal sides; wearing dk. bl. jkt. & trous. & a red walkie-talkie in right hip-pkt. - appeared; whether by chance or from watching the CCTV. system I don't know?

-- CENTRALWORLD, (incl. ZEN & ISETANN.), plenty of people walking-around but nothing in any of the HN. visited.