I had a licensed vending table in Soho NYC early '90's and saw many celebs during my time there. Kim bassinger had a loft above my stand and would occasionally see her. one summer day,a stretched limo stopped in front of me and out came a beautiful blonde with her entourage. she comes over to my sta...

after 33 years in Thailand, I chose to move here in 2015 for 2 reasons:visas and my Khmer gf. I played the tourist for all that time til the "general" took over in '14 and I could see then my time in Thailand was slowly coming to an end. for visas there,i was offered two options. first wa...

after 33 years in Thailand, I chose to move here in 2015 for 2 reasons:visas and my Khmer gf. I played the tourist for all that time til the "general" took over in '14 and I could see then my time in Thailand was slowly coming to an end. for visas there,i was offered two options. first was...

Thailand used to be a fairly weed-friendly country back in the 90's. That changed when Thaksin, who was a copper back in the 80's, became PM and initiated a "War on (some) Drugs". Although the focus was on "ya ba" aka "ya ma", possession of cannabis became a lot riskie...

hi. went to Sharkey's bar on St 130 to play in their weekly 8 ball tournament and the place was shuttered with the dust screen up guessing it's under renovations.
does anyone know where there's any other 8ball tournaments to play in around Phnom Penh during midweek/weekends? thanks.

Is that the “barangs are special snowflakes and need chairs and shade” tent in the last photo? haha i noticed that lol They have actually had a barangs only tent, I believe, the last 2 years but there was one last year for sure. I also seem to remember you got a free beer as well. [emoji106][emoji1...

phuketrichard wrote: ↑Sun Sep 17, 2017 10:52 am i brought my land when the baht was $1-52!!!
when i moved to Thailand ( 1984) it was $1=22

I think you're abit off that rate. from the time I arrived in '82 to July '97 it was 25b/$1.very stable as you always knew what the u.s.$ would be worth to the baht months/years down the road.

by one pocket you mean there's only a single pocket to pot all the balls in.challenging sure but fast hardly.

hi phuket richard. we used to play the same game(chicago) but had numbered little ping pong balls from 1-15 to pick from. you won when you potted your number but lost if someone potted yours and thus you were out of the game. best was with 4 players. anymore than that,you were likely to get tossed o...

there's a snooker hall on st 63 on the right-hand/east side of the street just south of st 154. has a few tables under fans but also 3-4 air-con rooms with 1-4 tables in each room. I was quoted $4/hr for an air-con table. they had a food /drink menu as well. I didn't play since the only available ta...