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Bangkok Short Time

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Bangkok in six words - a charming, exotic, seductive short time. That’s everything I’ve learned in the 40 plus years I’ve loved her. It’s the best I offer when asked for advice on Bangkok. Her oriental charms sparked my love affair with Asia and Asian women and she’s still home to many of my favorites. Bangkok’s enjoy life attitude, oriental mystique, sexual aura, and her go-go bars schooled me in short times, and who better? Short times are Bangkok’s heart and soul. They impelled her overseers to lay out a new airport, erect a sky train, pave over her khlongs and tunnel out a subway. Bangkok is a mega mall of short times. She offers them in infinite forms and in all colors, shapes and sizes. A Bangkok short time might be a one star hotel with rooms available for a short stay, usually two to three hours, 30 minutes if you’re on a tight schedule. The amount of working time a 2 or 3 star Thai pooying spends with a …show more content…

Every farang with a Thai visa stamp has a short time story or several. You live in Bangkok, you have collections of visa stamps and short time stories. Bangkok’s short time stories have larger audiences than any breaking news story about politics or movie moguls. Anywhere a conversation turns to bars, women and good times somebody will offer a short time story about Bangkok, one they own or one they have borrowed. The short time stories in this collection are from the archives of the Bangkok Village Daily, the VD. Not a well-known tabloid, but few publications boast a more dedicated group of reporters and readers. The VD joined the decadent caste of tabloid journalism at the start of a military exercise in the Philippines. Its feature stories and columns were intended to expand the exercise scenario and provide additional background and details to assist the planning and execution of special operations training along the shores and in the jungle covered mountains around Subic

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