Government urged Thai military to stay in the baracks.
Government says: Bangkok Airports remain closed until December 01 2008

On November 27 Bangkok University released a poll. The poll claims that support for the PAD had dropped below 12 per cent in Bangkok. Nevertheless PAD's leaders and its supporters are terrorizing the Kingdom, its government, its airports and its tourists. Old Thai Saying: The provinces elect governments, Bangkok topples them.

Goodfellas, just opposite of Pattaya's famous Marine Disco, replace the outdated '19th hole' on Walking Street. Goodfellas is a beautiful bar, restaurant and meeting point for Pattaya's Freelancers, every sport fan, gourmet and lover of Hollywood's gangster movies with terraces, a Pub, VIP-rooms, small lounges and a lot of large TV-sets. No surprise - it is managed by prominent members of Pattaya's Swiss Mafia... To enter Goodfellas' second or third floor use the now illuminated Soi Lucky Star and the Hollywood inspired stair. The large mirrors on the stair are a dream for every woman and every kratoey, but a horror for every fat belly.

Maximum Club, the new A Go-Go in front of Sabailand Body Massage on Second Road, corner of Soi 3, opened on Saturday November 29 2008.

On Friday November 28 the 20th International Rally of Thailand started on Walking Street and blocked the traffic until about 21:30. If you are interested click www.thailandrally.com. The Rallystart was a festive occasion covered by TV cameras and therefore most of Pattaya's notables attended the event. Later in the evening they all walked(!) to the opening party of Insomnia's Bar and Nightclub, almost all the celebrities in black clothes and shiny black shoes.

The bar on the ground floor and the nightclub on the second floor are both 'airy', but my girlfriend told me: nice but cold.
Insomnia closed its former venue on Soi Marine Plaza 'forever'.

	Top: The bar has a small stage for Insomnia's lovely Coyote dancers.
Top: You can't miss the new club. Advertisements already start in front of Lucifer's Disco. Right: Insomnia's main advertisement outshines all its competitors. The venue itself is located about 90 meters ahead of Lucifer between Ocean 10 Club and Hooty's A Go-Go.

After Insomnia's party I could spot some of Pattaya's 'celebrities' on Walking Street, undecided if they should have a look at the beauties at Sweethearts A Go-Go, Hot Girls, Lollipop or Champion's A Go-Go. Lastly they decided to admire the Russian dancer in Polo's window. 'Money saver!', said my lady. 'Why they look at that lady and don't walk down to the pump station at the entry to Walking Street. Since a few days it smells terribly bad', she bleated again. 'It seems the boys from City Hall are not married. They attend all the opening parties in the same clothes - and never accompanied by a lady', my girl told me. For sure, this Friday wasn't her best day.

Tony's was too optimistic with its timetable: Tony's food festival wasn't ready on saturday and will now open during the first week of december 2008.

Governments around the world tell their citizen not to fly to Thailand. Army chief Gen Anupong Paojinda tells the Thai Government to step down! With his declamation he is supporting the anti-democratic mob. PAD Mob occupates Suvarnabhumi Airport and its air traffic control tower. Suvarnabhumi Airport and Don Mueang Airport closed!
Flights heading to Suvarnabhumi will be diverted to U-Tapao Airport (now also known as Pattaya International Airport). Warning: PAD supporters are armed.
Thai TPBS television broadcast pictures of the violence on the main road to the capital's old airport Don Mueang. The footage showed shots being fired from a truck into crowds after rocks were thrown. TPBS said its cameraman had been threatened at the scene and that PAD personnel attempted to seize his tape. No coup, but...
Army chief Gen Anupong Paojinda ruled out the possibility of another coup, but First Army chief Lt-Gen Khanit Sapitak pointed out the decision does not rest solely with Gen Anupong. Lt-Gen Khanit said that the military had prepared contingency plans for a worst-case scenario. PAD
The abbreviation 'PAD' stays for 'People's Alliance for Democracy' and is a misguidance - it should stay for 'People Against Democracy'. PAD says that rural voters in Thailand are too poorly educated to be allowed to elect a parliament. Some influential, powerful and rich people with strong links to armed forces are financing PAD, its rallies, its ASTV TV-station and its ASTV Newspaper. It is said that Thailand's Drug Barons are among PAD's supporters too. Former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra and his successors want to eradicate them. PAD is not - and never has been - a democratic movement. Its leaders always suggested that the military be made a legitimate player in Thai politics. Please Read: Thai crisis exposes class struggle

On November 26 2008 Army chief Gen Anupong Paojinda recommended the step down of the Prime Minister and urged the parties to arrange a new election. Prime Minister and Defence Minister Somchai Wongsawat rejected the idea. PAD's leaders said that a new election won't remove the problem. PAD and the Military already know that the outcome of a new election will be a great desaster for the Military, the 'Democratic' Party and the PAD. Nowbody likes loose his face. PAD's goal is to bring the military back to power. The military likes to be back in power, but without the stigma of another unwanted coup. PAD and the Military will play their game until their time will come, regardless the country's economy, the country's image abroad or the investors confidence. To reach its endgame, the PAD has to destabilize the country and to call in the military. This would allow the PAD to rewrite the current constitution and to fashion the rules of the democratic game to guarantee elite representation in the elected parliament through partial appointments. iFarang ©2008

All these countries are large scale drug producers and drug distributors. BBC says that influential, powerful and rich people with strong links to armed forces are financing PAD, its rallies and its ASTV TV-station. Thailand's drug business is controlled by influential people. Everyone interfering their business will be removed. For the first time in Thailand's history, former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra as well as his successor former Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej wanted to erase Thailand's Drug Barons. They got their lessons. Acting Prime Minister and Defence Minister Somchai Wongsawat will get his lesson too - he is supporting Thaksin's war against drugs. iFarang ©2008

On Saturday November 29 2008 Pattaya City celebrated its 30th anniversary with a ceremony at the Great King Taksin Monument and at City Hall with free food for everyone and an exhibition of photographs showing Pattaya’s development from the past to the present.
Photo shows Soi Buakhaow during a rainy day & City Hall's forgotten promises.

Opposite to Byblos A Go-Go the new Club Mirage opened on November 20 2008.

Right: In front of Club Mirage is the entry to B4, a new Disco Club on the 2nd floor of the building.

Top: The large signs and the beautiful fountain at the entry to Soho Square disappeared. Russian ladies replaced them... Top Right: A band is playing at the openair stage in front of the Chang Beer Garden. Right: Utopia's A Go-Go Girls are greeting from and are dancing on the 2nd floor.

At least a snoopy dog is interested what happens at the new Bubbles A Go-Go on Soi Pattayaland.

The exclusive Stalactites Bar on Pattaya City Walk will open in a few weeks. It could be a perfect place for exhilarating ghost stories.

It seems that the new meeting point at the corner of Second Road / Soi Post Office will be a success. Almost every evening on my way back home I can see that Bamboo Boo Malibu is full of happy people.

Right: Mr. Krit Beer Bar, Noi One Bar and the new Cozy Bar opened already. Maximum, the A Go-Go Club located in the basement, will need another few weeks until it can open its door. The second floor will have a fast food restaurant. The remaining 3 floors of the building will provide 18 'Thai style' one room apartments.

BigC's center on Pattaya's Second Road was known for many years as Central Festival Center. For the new Central Festival Pattaya Beach on Beach Road it had to change its name to BigC Central Center. It's the same company that runs the two shopping centers. The closed bars in front of Sabailand Body Massage (and across from BigC) get replaced by a large shopping house - with bars of course.

Pattaya presents Thailand's most beautiful Ladies, Kratoeys, Gays and Cattles.
Now I am just waiting for Pattaya's first Pork and Chicken show.

According to the Central Department Store Group the festive opening celebration itself will continue for two months from January 1 to March 1 2009. Central Festival Pattaya Beach is a large department store and a 5-star hotel on Beach Road and on Soi 9. The new Central Mall has a space of 210'000 square meters. It will accommodate 200 top of the line stores, well-known Italian restaurants and brand name fashion stores. In the complex will also be an IT Center, an entertainment center, a tourist information center, a fitness center, a spa and an evening market. **Mardi Gras is known as the final day of the Carnival. Most famous for their Mardi Gras celebrations are Rio de Janeiro, New Orleans and - starting from 2009 - Pattaya.
Pattaya Mardi Gras being planned as an annual tourist draw. The only problem: Why celebrate the end of Carnival if we don't have any....

Central Festival on November 12 2008, a lot of work to do until January 15 2009.

Wonderful, a club designed mainly for japanese visitors of Pattaya, and Starbucks Coffee shop for the rest of the world.

During his election campaign Itthiphol Khunpluem, now the elected new Mayor of Pattaya, promised his supporters to solve Pattaya's chaotic traffics with a tramline transportation system. During a meeting on October 1 2008 Mayor Itthiphol Khunplome unveiled his ambitious plan at City Hall. Mayor Itthiphol said a world tourist destination such as Pattaya should have a mass transportation system of international standard. Thai Engineering Consultants Co. Ltd. (TEC) and MFC Asset Management Public Co. Ltd. representatives presented details for the construction of a four-billion Baht monorail public transport system in the city along the same line as the BTS in Bangkok. Nevertheless, as a Thai our Mayor should know that any kind of railway transport system will not work in Pattaya or will give new opportunities to keep the Baht Buses on the streets. Thai people in Pattaya don't like to walk. As an example: To bring the clothes to the laundry, all my lovely neighbours use their motorbikes. Not one of my neighbours is walking the 25 to 50 meters between his house and the laundry. On October 10 City Hall presented another new idea of our new visionary Mayor: A cable car. Sometimes it's good that City Hall's plans usually vanish with the dust - otherwise, it could happen that our beloved Mayor converts Pattaya just into another Disneyland. I recommend Mayor Itthiphol Khunpluem to visit Tuscon's Western Town. It has a transportation system based on stagecoaches - that's fun and it runs without electricity, fuel or gas!

A few years ago City Hall wanted to close Nang Nual, Pattaya's most popular Seafood Restaurant, as well as almost all other businesses on the sea side of Walking Street. Now Nang Nual is renovating its entry and its staircase and some of its neighbours are doing the same. In a few weeks the southern part of Walking Street will have a completely new face. It's part of history too - a history you can learn from. It tells you that nothing City Hall ever plans, promises or declares has to come to reality.

This part of Walking Street is like a scene from a bad american gangster movie, but here it's reality, real life, and therefore at least the Italian restaurant is OK.