Whilst September may be the “low season” in Pattaya there are quite a few tourists about – and the past two nights my favourite live music bar has been fairly full. Although this makes it harder to get a seat by one of the fans it does mean the band tend to put a bit more effort into the music – on the obvious basis that this means more tips or free drinks for them from the customers.
The number in the band has also gone down to four – the mama san – Nit - wants to cut costs and presumably when Noi was alive and playing it didn’t matter if they had five in the band as he was joint owner of the bar.
I first saw Nit last night on this trip – she’d been away at one of the temples in Bangkok making merit (or whatever) by doing a short stint as a Buddhist nun.
Whether she makes any merit or not she certainly knows how to make money and her instinct for cost control is alive and well.
On Tuesday I went to see the film “District 9” – about an alien spacecraft stopping over Johannesburg. I was offered an assignment there back in January of this year – which I turned down. Judging by all those aliens wandering around the place probably just as well.......................
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