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October 16, 2005
Saturday Night Fever
Saturday was a big Child’s Dream night out: Mark, Daniel, Ursula (CD’s Treasurer from Zurich), Heidi, Pamela, Gene (Pam’s visiting American friend) and I all went out in the Child’s Dream VW Bus for a nice Thai dinner at Baan Raai.
Afterwards, we headed for our favorite starting point, SanS-O’s which was very crowded with farangs. We quickly made our way to Warm Up where we ordered our first liter of Piper 100 whiskey and chatted about all sorts of stuff. After two or three rounds of drinks it was time to hit Rodeo, a wild club that has live cover music by the house band and singer acts until about midnight when then the tunage switched to a respectable ‘90s and later dance stuff. When the music switched, “the Golden Girls” (as a friend of Marc’s remarked) Heidi and Ursula went home with the rest of us staying on in full party mode. Rodeo’s cliental is very interesting. There were two other farang guys there (separately, apparently), our little mixed group, and the rest were local Thais. The fascinating aspect was the broad spectrum of masculinity to femininity in the guys and the shear number of katoeys in various states of transformation—-all getting crazy. This one katoey with big, fake breasts was dancing on a table and showing off her silicon wonders to the crowd with pure joy. At 2am, the end of legal drinking in Thailand, the club closed up so we headed of for a small, illegal karaoke joint called Relax. We were finishing off our second bottle of Piper 100 by then and really started to get sleepy about 4am. Time for bed.
Posted by stu at October 16, 2005 04:20 AM