First week

Me and John have been going out pretty much every day and every night which, has gotten pretty exhausting. I really feel like we're starting to get a hang of this city though. The dirtier the restaurant/food cart with tables set up is, the better and cheaper the food is generally. You have to make the taxi driver turn his meter on when you get in the cab or else you'll take a hit. The hottest local girls are only to be found on the back of dudes' street bikes. Many an adventurer have attempted to pluck these precious flowers from the bud in vain.

The first big night out we went to an open air bar called "Gazebo" on Khao San road (where all the white people are). Chilled with this crew of German/French/Spanish kids. One of the dudes does Muay thai so we vibed on that. At one point we went down the the 7/11 down the block(I dont think there's anywhere in bangkok where there isn't one within eye shot) and met the brazilian dude who had just fought in the Kings semi cup final fight (and won!). I went back to tell the french dude at the club and he literally ran downstairs to go talk to duke. The fighter guy seemed mad cool. Didn't have a scratch on him. Duke is a monster. His entourage dude showed us the belt he got. John talked to him for a while in Portuguese. Got his facebook (trynna hit?).

Second night our dude Frank, hes the guy whos place he's letting us stay in, took us out to Patpong(one of three red light districts along with "Na Na" and "Soi Cowboy"). We marched along at a fairly quick pace chain smoking and peaking into different Ping pong show clubs until we just picked some random one. We opted not to stay at the one thats famous for hookers sucking you off at the bar. The one we did pick though was pretty fucking intense. There is of course an interactive show going on on-stage, when i say interactive i mean a mediocre looking to hideous hooker is either drawing your picture on stage with a marker in her pussy or shooting ping pong balls at you (also of course with her pussy) and then harrasing you for tips. When we entered, we were immediately mobbed by hookers who fought for our attention and rubbed up on us. Frank yelled over them to tell us we had to choose one and buy her an over priced drink along with our own. They then proceeded to vigorously rub our joints through our pants and offer to suck/fuck us in the bathroom(as is the custom here in the land of smiles). Which we politely refused upwards of 20 times. Honestly I don't think i could ever really do that again. On the street there was a million dudes trying to get you to ride their taxi or tuk-tuk. A million more trying to herd you into bar/brothels. Kids as young as like 4 years old grabbing your hand and trying to sell you flowers/trinkets. I gave one kid 20 baht and he did an adorably sad dance away from us. Then we hit up a pool hall on the strip (much classier and more relaxed). Frank had the go go dancers play a couple games with us (he's a shark and a half). Most of them were cute and friendly. They mostly dance at night and go to school for business in the day. After it gets a little later the waitresses and the dancers get a little drunk and dance and joke around and play pool. Actually makes me miss working at a similar type of place in new york. These chicks are all way less stuck up though. Afterwards we checked out another strip which was pretty eerie. Same type of shit except this one is full of africans and arabs. The neighborhood is even complete with african street walkers.

I feel like maybe i don't really know how to use parentheses. If anyone can give me any writing tips in the comments i wouldn't mind. I'll post some pictures of some stuff that has nothing to do with what I've been writing about.