Chrome Pole Report

Out to dinner at Bob's. I had his bar-be-que baked beans, potato salad, and french fries. (I'm dieting, ya know.)

After that it was off to TQ2 to hang out with the gang. Took was along with me, but went home early because she was bored and tired. Bob, Steve, Alan, and Eric were there, and I met a guy named Bryan who is in exporting, and a doctor named Jeff from Sacramento who has a really interesting schedule: He does 3 weeks on call, and then comes to Pattaya for 2 weeks' vacation. He has an apartment here... plus two houses and building a third. Pretty cool way to live, I think... although the plane rides must suck.

From there, five of us were off to Supermodel-A-Gogo, where all drinks are 50 baht... nice. We did discover a funny/annoying thing about this bar though when one of us tried to barfine one of the girls: The bar fines for the regular dancers are 500 baht. The bar fines for showgirls are 600 baht. This is perfectly normal actually, since showgirls dance in shows and, if the showgirls aren't in the bar, there aren't any shows. Duh.

However, Supermodel thinks show girls are the dancers who get up on stage and show off their tits. There are no (what you and I think of when we think of) shows in Supermodel. So, if you're going to Supermodel, and you see a girl you like, make sure she doesn't take her top off. Stupid rules... especially to try to pull out on a group consisting of several bar owners.

Then, we were all off to Coyotee for a round. Now, compared to Supermodel, Coyotee is almost nothing but shows and showgirls. Oh... and as far as nudity goes, no bar does more to please the eye than Coyotee.

After Coyotee, Eric, Bryan and I went up to Third Road to check out what we call the "upper class Thai bars". There are about a dozen of them there, catering to Thai people who can afford to drink Heineken over Chang.

So our first choice was "Bitchy Pub". Being Thailand, this name probably doesn't have the cringe factor among Thai people that it does among English-speakers — not to mention "Hot Ass Bar" down the road.

Hated it. It was dark enough and loud enough to be a nightclub, but there was no dancing... just lounging. Too much lounging made it a crap place to meet new people and socialize, so it's a place to go with 6 or 8 friends. However, the music is so loud that you really can only talk to the person seated directly next to you.

From what I could see in the twilit gloom, there were lots of pretty girls there though.

After that, it was south down third road to a karaoke bar. I normally hate karaoke, but since all the singers were cute Thai girls, and they all were at least reasonable singers, and they were all singing Thai music, it was fun. After the girls finish singing, they come and sit with you, so there is a little bit of a "hostess bar" vibe to the place at the same time. A return trip there is definitely in the cards for me.

Unfortunately, it was midnight and I had to go home so that I could get up to work in the morning... but not without stopping back by the shish kebab lady's stand in front of Coyotee bar for some chicken pita to munch before going to bed.