Papa Sam

Time for deep cleaning TreeTown today: Source:FB https://www.topnews.co.th/news/214352

TreeTown apparently closed for three days after a "covid cluster" was found: https://www.posttoday.com/social/local/673365 https://www.dailynews.co.th/news/680429/ If TreeTown is closed, maybe time to go to Soi 6/1 to visit ladyboy Jom:

Today, the Thai public health minister Anutin again hints that there could be room for the relaxation of covid related measures, including those concerning the Test & Go scheme... The next meeting of the CCSA will be on January the 20th. https://www.nationtv.tv/news/378860709 https://www.infoquest.co.th/2022/164949

What's currently open in Bangkok? ATK testing sites in front of Fitzgerald's and other places. New bar called "The Jungle" is coming to Soi Nana (two shops down from Nana Plaza, where one of the Hillary bars used to be): Soi 7: Soi 7 Sunday night 10 p m.: Soi 10: Hi everyone! Soi Cowboy Monday morning 17 January: What else is there to report? -> Stickboy Bangkok has left Thailand for good. -> Street food customers getting more obese by the day: FB บดินทร์ จันทศรีคำより Where has the salesperson gone? Out eating better rice?

The outside area of Obsession ladyboy bar has reopened according to the January 2022 edition of the Midnite Hour: http://www.bangkokeyes.com/

Soi 7 bar area is open again Nordic Bar: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1185695595178292/ Pic source: Twitter

Deputy Mayor of Pattaya Manoch Nongyai gave a press interview where he expressed his concern over foreign tourists... Tourists apparently took ATK tests but only waited for 10-15 minutes for the test result. Why don't the test takers wait for the final result? he asked. The deputy mayor also said foreigners wouldn't cooperate without testing... Translated from Thai into English using Google Translate so please bear with me if it's not 100% correct.

Pattaya pool party busted: https://fb.watch/axnNgaWbnj/ https://www.77kaoded.com/news/sangk/2227311 https://www.khaosod.co.th/around-thailand/news_6834978 https://www.one31.net/news/detail/52449

How long will they be continuing this nonsense? ATK testing site Nana Plaza Bangkok yesterday Pic source: FB

At least one bar in Bangkok announced today that they would be open now again until 11 pm: Also: The Ministry of Public Health (MOPH) prepares to reduce the level of COVID-19 alert, and is recommending to do the ATK test only once a week. Dr. Kiattipoom Wongrachit, Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Public Health told reporters today that during the first week of 2022, the number of infected people increased dramatically but that the number was now stable and will gradually decrease as will the number of critically ill patients. The number of patients requiring tracheal intubation decreases also he said. If this continues, the Ministry of Public Health will consider taking back the level 4 warning. https://www.js100.com/en/site/news/view/113739 Better times ahead soon?

More police raids last night: Ma ha na Cafe on Jomtien Rd raided by police (again) last night: https://www.facebook.com/mahanacafepattaya/ https://www.topnews.co.th/news/210455 https://www.matichon.co.th/local/crime/news_3131077 https://www.ch7.com/amp/543326 https://www.banmuang.co.th/news/region/265806 https://board.postjung.com/1372642 Not only the Ma Ha Na Cafe, but several other places were busted last night:

Norwegian man falls in love with Cambodian woman working in Thailand, sends over $ 5,000 to get married A Norwegian man was tricked into transferring hundreds of thousands of Baht to a 'Khmer' girl living in Chonburi province he hoped to eventually marry. "A Norwegian man who fell in love with a Cambodian woman at Bang Saray beach three years ago and sent her 200,000 baht in cash to prepare for a wedding found out upon coming flying here that she is already involved with another man so reported her to police, Sanook.com said (Jan. 9). Mr. Kyrie Vigdahe, 55, asked Mr. Wynn Chainet, a restaurant operator at Chonburi’s Bang Saray sub-district, to help him get in touch with Mr. Prateep Nakbangkerd, an attorney at the Legal Aid Centre in this province. Once Prateep found out what had happened he took Vigdahe to file a complaint against the woman, Ms. Sreemom, 29, with Pol. Lt. Col. Samran Sukto, an inspector at Sattahip police station. He told the police officer that he fell in love with Sreemom via Facebook and met her at Bang Saray beach in early 2019. As he was happy with her he told her he wanted to take her to Norway to marry him there. However the Covid-19 pandemic delayed the wedding but he kept in touch with her via video calls. Sreemom had asked him to transfer money to her to prepare marriage documents for submission to the Norwegian embassy which he did at US$1,000 a time totalling 200,000 baht. However, when he came to Thailand a few days before last Christmas and contacted Sreemom to meet him at Bang Saray beach where they had first met, to his dismay she did not show up. He then checked and found out that she was working as a cook’s assistant at a restaurant in Bang Saray and was in a deep relationship with another foreign man. He asked her about her promise to marry him and the money he had transferred to her to prepare marriage documents but she refused to answer and evaded him. Kyrie said he is very unhappy about being betrayed especially because he had bought a new car to use after getting married to her. He asked Sattahip police to prosecute her to the highest level possible." --> Don't fall in love with girls you meet on Facebook! https://thainewsroom.com/2022/01/09/norwegian-man-reports-double-crossing-cambodian-woman-to-police/ https://theworldnews.net/kh-news/purs-n-rve-smnaak-sneh-naarii-khmaer-dhvoekaar-knung-prdes-thai-phnyoe-praak-jaang-5-baan-tullaar-triem-riep-kaar-diipmphut-naang-maan-ptii https://kohsantepheapdaily.com.kh/article/1467291.html

12 January 22: The three main red light zones for tourists / farang are: Patpong: very quiet Sukhumvit Soi 4 / Nana: quiet Soi Cowboy: very quiet

Still #1...

Police raids and MOPH inspections to enforce the 9 p.m. booze ban and the testing requirements continue: Sugar Cane Bar New Plaza Pattaya last night: 1 For The Road Bar: Lennox Bar: https://www.thairath.co.th/news/crime/2287152 https://mgronline.com/local/detail/9650000003775 https://www.topnews.co.th/news/209639 https://www.naewna.com/local/628308 https://www.77kaoded.com/news/sangk/2226150

Chonburi Suan Soi 12, three people are dead after a shootout: https://www.facebook.com/100014194448584/videos/1126326044794662/ Bloody birthday! Tragedy in Chonburi A family held a birthday celebration for their daughter, Ms. Sasinapa, 26, the eldest daughter of the family. Her mother and brother arranged the birthday party for her. The unemployed father suddenly shot the mother with a gun and then shot the son-in-law to death. The daughter was shot in her leg. Before escaping, the father hanged himself in the stairs of the house. The 23-year-old Sasina the younger daughter, was shot in the right foot snd was wounded, rescuers took her for treatment to Chonburi Hospital. At the scene, a 9mm firearm was found and a bullet casing was also found. The officers kept them as evidence. Translated from Thai into English via Google Translate so please bear with me... https://www.khaosod.co.th/around-thailand/news_6830953 http://khaochonburirayong.com/?p=5116 https://today.line.me/th/v2/amp/article/pe6wB7p https://news.ch7.com/detail/543009

The Pattaya BiB (and the MOPH?) apparently were quite busy last night: No mask wearing:

Jonny goes to Check-in Bar: - getting a fake airline ID - Cholos restaurant - Check-in Bar part starts --> 13:20 "This looks seedy as fuck" lol Would you want to be filmed inside a bar like CIB like the gentleman who Jonny met there playing pool? I wouldn't...

At 21.00 (9 p.m.) on January 11, 2022, a 64 year old Norwegian tourists named Mr XXX XXX XXX was found dead in Jomtien. He fell from the 5th floor of the Thip Condo on Soi 7, Jomtien, Nong Prue Subdistrict, Chonburi Province according to a Pattaya news site. R I.P. Mr S. https://fb.watch/atrArKSHuc/ https://www.77kaoded.com/news/sangk/2225539 https://www.matichon.co.th/local/crime/news_3127638 https://news.ch7.com/detail/542659

Molitor lizard likes to swim with farang on Hong Island, Krabi:

Transgender women share life stories on a channel called "Beautiful ME" Promotion video for the channel: Channel URL: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC01wOpBf86OqSwhHb6TIDcg/videos Episode 2: Transgender superstar and former boxer Janet: Episode 3: Tontan, a successful designer: Episode 4: Bangkok travel agent Katie: Episode 5: Hair stylist Ant:

Interesting interview with Naeya / Umrao from CIB: What age did you realize you were female? -> At eleven. I was dressing like a girl from then.

Fire destroys luxury yacht at Ocean Marina Yacht Club in Pattaya Yacht costing 18 million Baht on fire at the Ocean Marina Yacht Club Jomtien: https://www.matichon.co.th/local/news_3126034 https://www.amarintv.com/news/detail/116218

I'm wondering, how much the sheer increase in (ATK) testings had to do with Chon Buri getting to the #1 spot on the daily COVID charts... Metrics must be country specific IMO... Because the # of people going to a hospital (or to 'hospitels') in Thailand can hardly be compared to the # of people who have tested positive in farangland and go to hospital there because I think in farangland people go to hospital only (or at least primarily) if they're symptomatic... If they're asymptomatic they simply stay at home... In Thailand many people are sharing one bedroom or are sleeping in a common sleeping area. In Thailand it is not common that everyone has their own room - at least not for lower class Thais... And even in farangland, the situation differs from country to country (Portugal vs. the UK or the US for example). (Sorry, can't open the webpage https://ddc.moph.go.th/covid19-dashboard/ - probably because my ISP / VPN location is outside the LOS...) In summary: Yeah I totally agree with you: The ICU occupancy rate (or even the absolute number of people in ICUs) is a better short-term indicator than absolute case numbers I think...

A farang wielding a knife was arrested by Pattaya police this afternoon: A farang, wearing a white T-shirt, shorts, no shoes, but holding a sharp knife in his hands, was arrested today in Pattaya. When the farang saw the police officers, he ran away. The police was able to detain him in the apartment area of the Soi. He dropped the knife while trying to escape. Police discovered an iPhone 13 and some cash. His nationality is unclear. Police officers detained him at Pattaya City Police Station for further investigation. https://siamrath.co.th/n/312407