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ผู้หญิงสวยสองคน - Liverpool FC vs. Thailand, Bangkok Thailand

Pii Kom and I made it through over an hour in traffic to get in to Rajamangala Stadium in Bangkok. Shot a few pictures but I didn’t bring a zoom lens, so most of my pictures are focused no farther than 10 feet or so. I was worried that the security might give me trouble bringing too much camera junk in with me. I figured that if the Prime Minister was going to be there, they might get a little antsy about too much electronics and what not.

Anyway, there wasn’t any security. They didn’t even check for tickets. I believe around 15 minutes into the game, they just opened the doors for anyone to come in to the stadium. I would guess with a full stadium it’s 60,000 people that came in to see this game. Liverpool was up 1-0 after 7 minutes but I give Thailand the win after they brought the game to a 1-1 draw. The rain held out until 10 minutes left in the game. And it poured. And we walked the long way around the stadium to get to our car. And it was still hot.

Liverpool FC vs. Thailand, Bangkok Thailand

Sepak Takraw, Bang Lamung, Thailand

Here is a nice shot from the other night at takraw. These guys were pretty dream team. But, I was pretty much the best white guy out there.

It’s a complete toss up, this Miike Snow album or Phoenix’s ‘Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix‘. I could ride out 2009 on these 2 albums alone. If Velveteen put out a new album right now, my head would explode.

And I leave you with nice picture of food taken by Lorraine. We tried to take the motobike over to Koh Larn which is a small island just off the gulf. We were denied for the noon ferry. As we were about to leave the pier we were treated to a nice moto-on-moto crash. I looked away at the last second but, Lorraine had to see how it ended. Jeb! Meh, we wound up at Jomtien Beach.

Food vendor on Jomtien

We now have our own Thai Premier League team, Pattaya United FC!

What a view! The Nong Prue Municipality Stadium is less than a 5 minute motorbike ride from our house. Lorraine and I took off about 10 minutes before the game. We arrived, she hopped off the bike, bought 2 tickets, hopped back on the bike, handed the tickets to the ticket taker (who I think was a police officer) and drove on in. In another 10 minutes, I had my new jersey and we had beers in hand. Now we just needed to find a place to sit.

I threw on my jersey and a fellow jersey wearing fan called to us and said “Pattaya!” and pointed to the stands across the other side of the field and led us to where the serious fans were. We took off in his direction and he kept looking back to us to make sure we were following him. He must’ve been the foreign ambassador because he brought us over to the packed stands and he introduced us as ‘new fans’ in Thai to everybody. Next thing you know, the obvious happens. They made room for 2 more seats in the front row for us. Just another one of those “man, I love Thailand’. The usual local hospitality was waiting for us. I think Lorraine and I will become a fixture for the home games.

Ticket to get in: 50baht ($1.38)
4 Leo beers: 120baht ($3.32)
1 Loaded home jersey: 780baht ($21.59)
Living in Thailand: Pretty f’in cool

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