...actually i could stop right at this point with my story - cause the name speaks for itself. but maybe i give it a shot and share my feelings and experiences i made in thalands capitol with you. yet another business trip brought me here namely the partner channel enablement bootcamp - which in fact is not more than a vast amount of workshops given to SAPs partners - so nothing that could probably interest you i guess.so lets start with the "bangkok" monologues instead. as nasty as it might sound now but i would actually rename the city to bang cock. quite frankly speaking the city is a pool for western european fuck ups who try to get some a game to the bedroom because they cannot get it at home anymore. this rough - but honest - summary of the cities major intent is caused by two major incidents. And here are the related storyboards:
1.Markus @ Hyatt Hotel Bar Bangkok
Since every club closes around 12 in bangkok on Tuesdays and we still felt the urge to get a cold beer our quest for some liquid nutrition brought us to Hyatt hotel. As soon as you enter this hell hole and encounter the strange sounds of the live band the magic starts to happen. caucasians mingle with thais - girlfriends get pissed off by women hitting on their husbands all the time and i am in the middle - touched and hit on all the time. the only way to overcome this unpleasant situation is by simply ignoring the fact that prostitutes are pinching your hand and butt all the time. this is about the time when they realize that 25 year old austrians are not interested in (granted) good looking hookers from the subasian continent. however though - there is some fat and ugly people making the pitch, dancing with these thin and unfortunate thai girls which made me feel really sad - namely by realizing that the stories i heard about this place are really not a hoax.
2.Markus and Hock Peng (my colleague) @ Patpong (Red Light District)
After my colleague and I got some cloths shopping done at 11pm last night (11.05.2007) he wanted to give me the real thai treatment and show me Bangkoks red light district). You cant really refuse as someone being me and therefore we hit the subway and went there. it started off quite ok with a couple of nice shops selling sex dvds - so nothing to get angry about and progressed to a shocking experience by walking the patpong stretch up and down. the middle part of the road is occupied by people selling fake products - the right an left lead to "clubs" presenting the interested tourist with "shows" of a wide range - starting from women doing freaky things with razorblades and ping pong balls up to women having sex on stage with ugly british guys...at that point in time i want to make the clear point that i did NOT attend one of these shows - i have been told these stories by my colleague while we were having a beer outside one of these noisy places. i am not even going to get into the prostitues running around and hunting for foreigners thing because it really disgusts me...
So overall the impression that bangkok left with me is the one of a troubled city that has lost the fight against sex tourism a long time ago and cannot get out of it anymore. there might be a lot of respectable places that i havent seen but you can really feel the inherent anger of people on us caucasians that we screwed up their country...
...which made me think and lead to the conclusion that - YES we ARE responsible for that mess - and NO - there is no foreseeable way out of this since its one of the major sources of income in thailand. we did it again dum dums...so whenever anyone who is fat bold and ugly tells you he is going to spend his vacation in thailand because of the nice landscape just give it a shot and spit on him...cause thats hard to believe once you have seen whats going on here in bangkok.
alright then - a drastic story with no ending this time - i a not going to be back in thailand soon i guess...but hey at least the food is good...
marc le conte
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Dear le Contes.
I must say that unfortunately i totally agree with you and your observations are sadly, very true. But as long as there are people such as your self seeing the issue instead of getting sucked in and being part of it there is hope.
Yours truly
John A.
Though ur observations are true and truly sad indeed, i have to add that these very impressions in a certain part of asia has led to the general stereotype of asian women. That that's what we are all doing, preying for caucasian men simply for their "big fat wallets" and an opportunity to flee our apparently godforsaken asian countries and thrive in a paradise land of Caucasus. The white man's burden indeed. *smirks*
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