World Trip (Winter 2007/2008)I knew I had not written here for a year; there were so many things to update. 2007 was a year that I went to New York City the most, part of it because of my crush! which you probably know that it turned out to be a crash instead! I felt it was so special to have a first white boy I really liked and had good chemistry with but life did not always turn out to be your fantasy; I was just good at dealing with that. 
After a disappointing gay pride in late June (you should go to pride only when you are emotionally single), I decided maybe it’s time to give it a break to go to New York so I went to San Francisco twice, once in August and in September. I met a Danish guy named John from club dragon who I could say I had one of the best sex of my life with! He was super my type and we had great chemistry in bed… too bad I didn’t think he wanted to create a 1.30hr-flight distance romanctic affair with me… huh. Were there any quality guys in Seattle who were not intimidated by a new yorker's directness at all?   
Then, I thought it’s time for me to do a big trip again before going back to Thailand for my brother’s wedding, and I had not been to the new country since 2004. When I looked for a new country to go to, of course Brazil became first on the list. I went to NYC again in September and got a chance to convince Tae and Aaron to go with me. I also went to Honolulu to visit my friend Mark in October and had a great time there. I spent the rest of the fall in Seattle and learned Portuguese a bit. 
In December, I started my trip from Boston (to see Mr.S). I flew on AA MD-80 on first class from Seattle through ORD to LGA then took a bus to Boston. Mr.S surprised me with a lovely hotel room in downtown with a bottle of white wine on the bed and we went out for a romantic dinner… I remembered we did many more times in 24 hours than my friend who was in the relationship had done in 6 months. What's the point of being in a relationship if life was gonna be that bad! well I had a great time. I spent 2 nights in Boston then took the bus back and spent the afternoon in New York before taking the long flight JFK-GRU-GIG on AA 777-200ER. We stopped in São Paulo where I saw the prototype A380 when it visited South America for the first time. An hour later I arrived in Rio de Janeiro. I spent the whole day alone because Tae’s flight was fucked up by the weather in DC. I was so excited to visit the new continent; we stayed on Ipanema Beach for the first 2 nights then moved to Sheraton in Leblon.   
These pics were taken at Copacabana Beach, one of the sexiest beaches of the world.  
The sun from the south side of the world was really strong; I got burned even before we hit the beach! We did sightseeing for only few hours and that was it! One thing I like about the beaches here is that they are so much like ones in Thailand with coconut trees and tropical fruits everywhere. I ate watermelons all day long! Traveling with these 2 boys made me feel like I had a belly. They both has 6 packs and great body!   
  
I spent the first 2 days in Rio walking around Copacabana and Ipanema trying to get used to the area. After Aaron and Tae arrived, we went to downtown and saw some old buildings and historical places. The weather had been bad, so we spent a lot of time in the museums. We went to the Museum of Art contemporary in Niteroi, a province on the opposite side of the bay. We had lunch at a hip modern Brazilian restaurant and the food was awesome! On Friday night we went to Le Boy, an old gay club in Copacabana, and I was drunk by only 2 drinks; I had no idea what they put in those drinks….  
 
Saturday was a highlight for our trip to Rio; the weather was great and sunny. We went to Corcovado (Cristo Redeemer) first thing, then Pão de Açucar (Sugar Loaf). We saw a great view from both places and I had to say that Rio had one of the most beautiful landscapes in the world! I got sun burned with only few hours (even before we hit the beach). The first beach we went to was Praia Vermelha (Picture on the right) which is a small local one near Sugar Loaf. Then we went to Copacabana and walked to Ipanema. The gay section of Ipanema was phenomenal! It was really happening. There were tons of hot boys there from around the world. This guy in the blue speedo was really to die for! LOL… and the guy in this white shorts was.... ahaa... yummy... look at his abs!  
Pics from the gay section of Ipanema Beach! We were the only 3 asian guys on the beach as I noticed. However, given that December was a high season I ran into many circuit party boys I knew of or have seen from Boston and New York.   
We spent the whole afternoon in Ipanema and waited til almost sunset! I did not feel hungry at all because I felt like I was fed by looking at hot guys hehehe.... The view of the sunset from Ipanema beach was really beautiful!  
 
We had Thai food on Rua farme de Armando and went back to the hotel to prepare for the big night at The Week, a big party that was held in a palace on the north side of the Centro area. There were tons of hot boys there and we danced until dawn!.. I met a hot big muscle Brazilian boy from Belo Horizonte named Paulo (Such a Brazilian name) and had a great memorable party time!  
These are pictures from the Museum of Art Contemporary in Niteroi designed by Oscar Niemayer, a famous Brazilian architect. We had lunch at a hip restaurant located right under this spacecraft. I had fried shrimp with Brazilian mango sauce and walnut rice. It was awesome! and there were so many eye candies at the restaurant as well.   
Now here are pics from downtown. There were mixed modern architectures and old buildings since the Portuguese were here. I remembered some art and decorations were similar to those I had seen when I went to Lisboa back in May 1998.   
  
These arcs (above far right picture) actually had the tram running on the top, I was not sure it was the oldest tram running or not but it must be pretty close. Tae and I were walking through the rain and we got soaking wet! We did experience a lot of things and ran into beautiful arts/old buildings though.   
Above are pictures from "The Week" on Saturday night. The dancer was to die for! Jesus ! look at that paxs! The music was super good too (similar to Alergria party in New York). I forgot who the DJ was. We danced all night and had great fun!  
Sunday morning, we were heading to São Paulo; Aaron and Tae went all the way to Galeao Airport and I had extra time because I flew out of SDU (Santos Dumont Airport) which located next to downtown. I went up to Corcovado again to take more photos. Flying out of SDU was an impressive experience for me because the airport was so convenient to go to, the terminal was modern and beautiful, and the view when we took off was awesome...arriving at CGH (Congonhas Airport) was also convenient to get to São Paulo. I also had a few hours to explore the streets in São Paulo before the 2 arrived. 
We spent Sunday afternoon walking around Pualista Ave., the financial district of this mega city, then we explored Liberdade, the Japanese town. São Paulo has the biggest Japanese population outside of Japan, so I was really curious to see how a Japanese town would have the authentic Japanese food that I am crazy about.   
The guy on the left was a TAM's super hot flight attendant I met at Congonhas Airport. The pic in the middle was a street painting in Liberdade (Japanese town). The right pic was Tomie Otake Art Institute building.  
 
Next day, we checked out the Centro area and went up to see the view at Edif Banespa which has a similar shape to the Empire State Building. The view was very unique!, there are buildings literally in every direction and all the way to infinity! Then we walked around town and ended up at the Copan Building (below) and I went up to see the view from another sight at Edif Italia.  
On the last day in Brazil I was all alone again; the boys went to the Iguazu waterfall at the border of Argentina, Brazil , and Paraguay. I met my friend Richardo who went to school in Paris in the morning. After that I checked out MASP which is the most famous museum in South America, then lunch at a really authentic Japanese restaurant in Liberdade and went to Instituto Tomie Ohtake. This is the most impressive modern art museum I have ever been to. Tomie Ohtake was a Japanese artist who traveled to Brazil for fun but later fell in love and lived there. Her son was an architect who designed this pink building. Later that afternoon, I went to Ibirapuera park to check out some more modern architectures and museums. Nearby the park, there’s The Unique Hotel which was another impressive building I saw from the trip; it has a shape of a cut-watermelon with the bar and swimming pool on the top and a stunning beautiful view of the Pualista area.  
After dinner (I had Japanese again), I went to 269 as Richardo told me; it was a nice, beautiful and clean sauna nearby the hotel I stayed. I met a really hot Brazilian boy who approached me around 9.30PM but didn’t get to enjoy very much because I was so paranoid that I wouldn’t make it to the airport on-time. Afterwards, when I looked at the schedule, it turned out my flight was at 2.30AM of the next day! L Guarulhos Airport was a fun place to hang out at night with lots of European flights leaving earlier in the night and US flights after that. My AA777-200ER parked just next to the EK777-200ER that flew nonstop GRU-DXB (Dubai). Seven and a half hours later I landed back in Miami 
  
I decided to rent a car and drive around Miami and its surroundings for a day. I got a chance to see those old places from the last visit when I was with my last ex Eddy and was totally in love! I went to Miami Beach, Lincoln Rd, Hollywood Beach, and Ft.Lauderdale. I still continued sunbathing and was super tan back then.
The flight from Miami to New York was also something I looked forward to because I hadn’t been on A300B4-600 in a long time, and as I had always heard from many aircraft freaks on airliners.net, it has mechanical reliability problems. We delayed for 3 hours and so I arrived in New York around 12.30 AM. One of the best things about New York is that people there are the most friendly and nicest; I did have some chat with a hot black guy who worked at JFK during the 5 minute- air-train ride to the Jamaica station and kinda got along. By the time I was paying for the air-train ticket, he bought me a LIRR ticket...it was so impressive to have a good-looking stranger buying you stuff and it always happened in New York. We talked all the way to Manhattan and I felt like time passed by so quickly. I could pick up things we had in common: we both were truely New Yorkers who got freaked out when we left the island. I was too shy that I didn’t even ask for his phone number, but well I didn’t even know if he’s gay or not!   
The weekend before Christmas was one of the best times to be in New York. All buildings, squares, shops, stores, are decorated beautifully. People were in the party mode dressing up nicely and came out to party a lot. I did lots of shopping preparing to go back to Thailand. I bought a new Jil Sander suit, Prada pants, and a lot more. I hung with Effendy and Steve, went to the bars and clubs every night, shopped on Madison Ave., dined at hip restaurants, went to the gym with Nicky … basically just did New York things. Mhu came up from DC to hang on Saturday. As always, I got lucky every night in this town :P   
  
The funny thing was that many people in New York thought I went skiing because I was so tan but white around my eyes. The pics above were at dinner at Morimoto, a new Japanese restaurant in Chelsea (nearby my old church Roxy on 10th Ave.). I went there with my date, Jim. The food was great and very pricey! there were so many unique dishes I had not see in other places. After 5 days back in the States, I took a long flight again this time to the oriental. I was on Japan Airlines B747-400 JFK-NRT; even though it was Economy class but the upper deck seats were really spacious with big storage bins next to the windows. I really did like the Japan Airlines service though. Japanese food during the flight made flying much more pleasant. Thirteen and a half hours after I arrived in the biggest city of the world “Tokyo” on Christmas eve. 
 
 
Richard my ex roommate from Atlanta was supposed to join me in the Tokyo part of the trip but then he back off last minutes and it was too late to find someone else to go with, so I was just gonna be spontaneous and saw what life was gonna bring me to. As I am very crazy about Japanese food, so I ate it all day 5 meals a day. I kinda knew my way around Tokyo very well this time since I did very good homework when I visited back in 2006   
Here are pictures taken from Senso Ji in Asakusa on a sunny winter day! and my favorite store Prada Epicenter in Harajuku on Omote Sando Dori, also known as Fair's fish-tank building (above right). It was only 16 months since the previous visit to Tokyo, there were lots of new buildings. The first noticeable in Harajuku was the Moma building next to Dior building on Omote Sando Dori. I spent times went into many small trendy stores in Harajuku to check out cool winter cloths but ended up didn’t buy anything because I was so broke from shopping big brand-name stuffs in New York.  
I went to walk at Ginza at night and went into Tokyo International Forum in Yurakujo. There were so many new shops in Ginza as well including this new Armani building next to white shining box of Dior. I felt really lonely walking alone in a foreign country by myself in a cold weather.   
  
That evening I stopped by Pierre Herme Chocalate Patisseries and decided to check it out. It was turely french! The place was super nice and had great atmosphere. I ordered the signature dish of course. All I could think of was "Payard"! (My favourite french patisseries on upper east side in Manhattan).   
That night I went to Arty Fauty, which was the only active gay bar on a Christmas night. Then I met this Israeli guy, Adi, walked in with his thick lonely planet “Japan” book that put me into a big laugh on him. He dragged me to go to 24 kaikan with so I did and we went to the fish market at 6 in the morning to eat really fresh (just off the boat) sushi there. We went back to sleep for few hours and did sightseeing all day. It was great that I finally have a hot jewish guy to hang out with. We went to Mori art museum in Roppongi Hill and had dinner in Shibuya. It was weird I noticed that since I met this guy the night before, we had not separated and we had a great time together.  
Next day was the last day in Japan. I went to Akihabara to buy some plane models and went to Senso Ji and Harajuku again. I wanna do as much as possible so I ended up eating lots of street food which were all nice and bento box pre-dinner on Narita-Express. 
The flight to Bangkok was really exciting! Guess what, it had been almost 4 years since I was in Thailand the last time and this is the first time I went back to Thailand as a single guy. I had not seen my ex, Eddy, since we broke up! And I hate to say this.. that he really DID broke my heart into million pieces. I remembered those days when I fought with my own feelings tried to be strong but finally collapsed and cried in the middle of time square on Valentine day 2005. One of my best friends who called me and told me his new BF was so good looking without caring about my feeling, those were still in my mind. I told myself at the time that I want my ex to die when he saw me the next time and inspired myself to go to the gym and work out regularly for 3 years. Now I’d changed to a different person inside out. Even though I was completely over him and no longer care for him (cuz I already got screwed by someone else), I still felt a little bit inside that I’d like to prove or to make him feel sorry that he chose to leave me….. Oh, I knew I was a little dramatic on that. Ok, so landing in Thailand this time, I wanna look fabulous at all time! LOL… that was what I meant. The second day, I met my ex for lunch. The food in Bangkok was the best of the best I had to say. Surprisingly, I don’t feel a thing for him. He literally almost did not change at all while I changed a lot. I spent the first few days with my family more. Saturday Eddy got a gym pass for me at the very gay gym in town, so we went there and he has his current BF along. It was pretty awkward to hang with an ex who broke your heart with his new BF. I actually did pretty well as there was a really hot manly big muscle but classy Thai guy flirted with me at the gym. He looked like one of Thai movie stars (Shakris) but I very masculine… hehe. After the gym, we went to have dinner at Vanilla Garden in Ekkamai. Luckily Ed asked other friends to come along to make it less awkward.   
We went to DJ station afterward and I ran into Ned, Mong, Pup, and surprisingly Um and so I hung out with these people for the new year countdown. It was phenomenal that this time I got so much action and attention at the party scene in Bangkok more than other places else. I was really busy going on a date every day. Even some guys I looked at in the past that had never looked at me back, this time, they were all over me. But the countdown this year was definitely could not compare to the year before when I had a handsome boy to kiss with. After one week in Bangkok, I had fun with food and dating around but somehow felt lonely so I invited Luis, my friend from San Fran to come over and party together. I picked him up at the airport around 12.15 AM and we were dancing at DJ by 1 AM. It was the best party night of the trip though. The weather was a little chilly for Bangkok, so I had a jean jacket on and later took the T-shirt inside off but still keep the jacket on so people can see parts of my chest and abs and it worked, I got the most attention that night! (As you know, I am an attention whore). Here came the white knight of the trip, another handsome Israeli guy showed up. His name was Asaf who was a F/A of El Al airlines. I imagined if I flew on LY and had this guy on my flight it must be the most enjoyable flight, ever. He was very very sexy, super my type, very beautiful smiles, and cute accent. He was about the height that I liked 5’8” and thick muscle. We kissed all night without caring about those hairdressers would gossip behind us. It was such a romantic night. I couldn’t believe how many time we did it too LOL. Luis also got lucky at the same night, he met O who later came to the US and they are kinda dating now. Next morning I had lunch at a noodle place I used to go on Silom rd. near Silom Complex, and it was such a memorable meal, everything was cheap and so so so good. I had dried egg noodle with crab meat which was my favorite dish ever. I picked Luis and drove home. The next night we went out again and ended up having congee at Sam Yarn it was also a memorable meal as well. I got a chance to see Asaf one more time before he headed back to Tel Aviv. Sunday night, Martin, a German guy I met a week before came back for a business trip, so we went to have a drink at my favorite place “Vertigo”. The second week of my stay in Bangkok, I went out every nights (literally). Sometimes Luis was not with me I hung out with P’Himm instead. We had a great time, even we hadn’t seen each other in so long but we both were still the same, we just got along. There were plenty of fun stories to be told from the Bangkok part of the trip but I scared you people would think I was a whore so I rather stop here.   
Luis and I got a chance to do some sightseeing one day, we went to the Old Siam to have variety kinds of Thai desserts and went to Wat Prakaew and Wat Poh afterward. That afternoon we took the boat back to Saparn Tarksin and connected to the BTS sky train to Paragon. It was nice to get to take the boat in Jao Praya River again! I did party like crazy in Bangkok this time. I went out to Silom Soi 2 for like 9 nights in a row! P'Himm was with me almost every nights. I got to meet some friends from Sydney through him. The nights at DJ were always fun even on the lowest Tuesday night. I got to meet Tien, my staight friend who helped me with a lot of things when he was in Seattle, so I hung out at RCA a bit.  
 
Almost at the end of the trip, it was my brother’s wedding. Generally Thai people have to please their parents to do the wedding according to how they want, but luckily, my parents and my sister in law's parents were all cool about it so they got to do it their way. Since they were both Ph.D. students in Architectures, they got senses of style and had a really beautiful classy wedding. (unlike many of my friends or relatives that had tacky ones...)   
All of my relatives and friends in my brother’s world that I knew showed up and the couple did a traditional Thai style wedding in the morning and western style party at night. The morning event was held at the traditional Thai house near Chong Nonsri Station.  
 
The evening party was held across the river from the Grand Palace and Wat Prakeaw. Wat Aarun could also be seen beautifully. I got to meet a lot of people I knew from my first grade teacher to my piano teacher. My violin teacher brought his band to play himself! I had my ex Eddy as my date, it was kinda tragic that my brother was getting married and I brought my ex who broke my heart into billion pieces to be my date. The place was really romantic and beautiful! I was busy helping my brother and my parents taking care of guests. But when I saw romantic beautiful place and time like that, I couldn’t help but thought about one person, the only one I felt special with (even it turned into a crash LOL)  
 
After the wedding, I flew back to Seattle via Tokyo and San Fran. I got upgraded from the BKK-NRT leg. The service on Japan Airlines was really impressive then it was changed from heaven to hell when I was on United Airlines up to Seattle on leg SFO-SEA. I only stayed in Seattle for few weeks and there was one Friday after I talked to my advisor and I felt like I was done for the week. I winded up to Luis about how bad the weather in Seattle was, so he said “why don’t you come down here?” so I was like.. OK.. why not. I went home, packed, went to the airport and go. The weather in San Fran was so nice that weekend I had a really good time. Two weeks after I went to New York and I didn’t really enjoy as much as I used to… the weather was bad and it was low season. 
Few weeks after that, the wait was over, it’s Spring Break. I flew again this time on First class 747-400 United Airlines to Shanghai, China. I went with Luis. The service was good. We had six courses lunch, watched lots of movies, and slept on a total flat bed. Eleven hours after, I found myself stuck in the traffic in mainland China. Next day I had to pick up the garment bag I forgot on the plane and I didn’t wanna waste my sightseeing time so I took the Maglev train which ran at 430 Km/hrs and was the only fastest train in the world running at the time. The travel time was 6 minutes to Shanghai Pudong Airport   
That afternoon I walked around by myself and got to taste a lot of street food. I went to the Bund, west Nanjing Rd., people square, etc. We went to Pinkhom that night and it was so much fun! This city is amazing too, I got actions like crazy! Saturday night was the night, it was again… phenomenal. I got hit on by many guys at Shanghai studio and I couldn’t decided who to go with… which rarely happened to me (they were all hot) so I went with the Scottish guy I liked the most (He was one of the most handsome guy I ever went with!) then came back to do Baltimore and New York guy later.. LOL  
 
Sunday afternoon, we went to had drinks at the bar on the top of Jin-Mao Tower, known as the highest hotel of the world. Finally, I had my greygoose martini on this trip. The view was awesome! 
Next day I was off to Beijing by myself. I flew out of Hongqiao Airport on Air China B777-200. It was an impressive flight. They served congee with salty duck egg and fruit salad on the flight on Economy class. The flight was only an hour and a half. I went to Tienanmein Sq., Forbidden City and walk around town all day. I felt like it was more difficult in Beijing than in Shanghai to get around and take a cab. The names in Chinese are all so long and hard to pronounce. The streets are so huge and hard to cross. I stayed in the youth hostel here and got to meet a lot of cool people that love to travel from around the globe. The guy in my room was from Manchester that took a year off to travel around the world. He was about to take the train from Beijing to Ulaan Bator and all the way to Moscow, that was impressive
  Next day, I was off to the great wall and got to spent sometimes with this guy I don’t even remember his name. He was from Winnepeg but lived in Kuwait. He was so much my type! It was really romantic to get to spend sometimes alone with just this hot Canadian boy! It really made my time there very memorable. However, the great wall was really impressive!   
Soon after I came back to Beijing, I went to the temple of heaven. The temple was so beautiful and calm. I thought I supposed to ask for something. What should I ask??  
 
 
Getting around in Beijing seemed harder for a person that can not speak Chinese compare to Shanghai. I spent the rest of the day laying low, watch movie and rest at the hostel. I was so tired from the long walk and some climbing at the great wall. The next day I got a chance to try the new terminal 3 at Beijing Capital Airport as a first day of operation! It was the biggest airport terminal of the world! It was huge. I was so excited and spent quite a long time walk around. I flew on Business class on the way back (also on UA 747-400) but the service was awful this time. I gotta watch my favorite movie "Enchanted" on the way back. And the scene http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yaHfpPrg6cI was super romantic... Oh.... 
I was very stressful with work for the whole April that left me no time for preparing the Mexico City trip. I always wanted to visit this mega city that was even bigger than São Paulo and New York City wanna see how it is like. The second Thursday of May, I flew first class on AA MD-80 through Dallas/Ft.Worth to Mexico. I think the first class service on American Airlines was better than United: the settings, food, flight attendant, attentiveness, etc. After I finished few problems on Network Dynamic System class homework, we landed in the thunderstorm. I stayed right in the gay street Amberes in Zona Rosa with my friend Sean and Xing. We checked out bars in the neighborhood and found that there was not many people with other races other than Mexican at all. There were no white guy, asian guy or even black. Xing and I were the only asian and Sean and very few other guys were the only white. Then I heard the song "Toca me" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xpXfbtfP1A) for the first time. I was not so sure I have heard from New York before. It was such a great song. I think I like this version more than "Toca Miracle" or "We belong togehter" versions. Next day, we went to check out all the main spots in town: Catedral Metropolitana, Palacio Nacional, Templo Mayor, then lunched at the top of the building across from the palace. Mexican food was awesome and spicy.. (at least I can handle it for few days I guess) We then walked over to Palacio de Bellas Artes and had desserts on the top of the highest building in the area (below middle)   
Next day, we spent half of the day in Museo Nacional de Antropologia (above right) and did shopping on the rest. We partied every nights but it turned out that I was not so impressed. There were not many big places to go to. Sunday we went on a trip out of town to Teotihuacan to see the Pyramid of the moon and Pyramid of the sun. At the end of the trip, I finished my late-homework. On the way back, we flew on United through Washington Dulles. That was pretty crazy! and Dulles was one of the worst place to connect in the afternoon. Later that month I went down to San Fran for Memorial day weekend. I gotta spent time with my lovely friend Tim and know his group of friends. Overall I did not enjoy very much and ran into couple of flaky people. It made me miss New York more and more..... until.. a week after that the movie "Sex and the City" came out. Well it was not like the series but I still liked it.. it made me tell myself "well it's time to go back there!"
Since I made a commitment to myself to go back "home" as soon as possible before I died of "out-of-manhattan sick" (a polite way to say "west coast sick"), I went to the airport a week earlier on my Toronto trip to ask if I could change the ticket just the section to New York to a week earlier. I talked my way through it and ended up pay nothing for the whole trip (since it was an award ticket at the first place). My professor was off to Europe the whole week so it was the perfect time to leave town. This time I did CO B737-800 nonstop to Newark. I was surprised that Continental was the only airlines left in the US that still serve food on the tran-con flight (I didnt fly CO as often anymore). Later that afternoon I did some shopping with Nicky and Brian around Chelsea and drinks at G. The whole night was fun; started from dinner in East Village, then G, Splash, and finished with congee in China Town. I ran into many friends that night including Patrick that just move back from Chicago. Sunday I was off to Boston, well, to see my boy... Mr.S (apparently I couldnt seem to have enough of him yet). The chemistry's never been better! it seemed like that was it? well he was a crash not a crush.. hehe. I felt really myself getting back to the Northeastern this time; I could say "the food was terrible" when Mr.S asked me at lunch; I could say "fuck" many times a day without someone felt offended and thought it was impolite. I was so glad to be away from the land of inefficient. I really didnt wanna stay in Boston too long so I came back down to New York after 2 nights. I had few dates here and there.   
Wednesday, Fu came up from Atlanta to attend a class at Columbia and we spent the whole afternoon together. I had not seen her since December 2005. I remembered one moment that day when we sat down to rest and chat over the Washington Sq. Park, she said she was so happy to get to sit and relax talking to a friend that she can trust. I was amazed that as time passed by, my friends were all over the world again and I didnt have many friends in the same city anymore. That sucked. 
The trip to Toronto was really unexpectedly amazing! I had a blast! partly because I went without any expectation! I had chatted with few people online before I went just to get a sense of how people there would be like. Turned out I met many conservative people which really surprised me as I thought Canada would be so liberal. However, once I got there the tide was changing. I only visited Toronto the first time so I really could not say much about it though. I met many new friends there more than I had had in Seattle over a year. Lots of new friends I made had boyfriends but they were very easygoing. They did not have to stick with their boyfriends all the time showing prosession when they went out and hung with other people. They all worked out, looked good, and liked to social with other people unlike in Seattle where boys said "I am not very social" as a trend and thought that it was so cool to say so. Boys in Seattle were really un-social and if you didnt like to ski/snowboard/hike/camp but like to go to bars/clubs, then they thought you were not a good boy. I still remembered chatting with a guy in Seattle a week before I left and he said "I am not sure my boyfriend would allow me to .... ". That was so stupid! Why did you have to have your boyfriend allow you to do something! Jesus! These people I met in Toronto were more independent, ambitious, and look great! I only know them shortly, I probably could not say much but at least they did not say somthing stupid since the first 5 minutes of knowing each other. Actually many friends in New York were like that too but I was glad I met a new group of friend in another city. I left New York on Thursday morning. From the hotel in Upper West Side on 72nd, Fu went to La Guadia and I went to Newark. I flew on Dash-8-300 on CO and it was only an hour flight. This was the first time I was on a propeller aircraft since 2001 when I took ATR-72 inside Myanmar. It was funny I saw many gay people at Pearson Airport once I arrived. I stayed with my canadian friend Scott whom I met in Seattle but his boyfriend was still living in Toronto. The apartment was in the center of gay village. First night we went to Madonnarama at Fly. I met a Thai guy named "Top" (who knows, maybe he is a bottom) and his Canadian boyfriend Daril whom both lived in Bangkok but were just visiting. I recognised his face from DJ station!.. funny! We made friend very quickly! That night I check out Steamworks and was amazed by how many hot guys showing up there. Alright, we can skip the detail here. I could just said it was a very memorable experience!   
Friday I spent sometimes at the gym with Scott and Ivan. I met Ivan's Brazillian friend 'Fernando' who was very hot! We had nice dinner and went to Bootcamp at Koolhaus. Dj Hector from New York spinned that night. My friends from New York Robert and Tres were there as well. I got to meet many new friends that night. Then I met this guy with the same name as Mr.S; clearly my type!.. ah... architect..umm.. and.. had a boyfriend.. Oh! hehehe. I went to Steamworks again that night and was very satisfied. I met my top favorite the pornstar "Luke Garrett" there and my compliment to him was "I am a big fan and jerked off to you more than 100 times". I thought that was a great comment. Saturday I woke up with a new friend inside the house. He was a cambodian guy who look like chinese, Tony (in the blue speedo). He asked me to go to another tea-dance party "Aqua" with him and so I did... and I had a blast! The place was located a bit west of downtown next to lake Ontario. There were so many many hot guys with nothing but swimsuit. Ok, here are the pics:  
 
Tony found a guy who has the same swimwear as him... and the guy was so hot! Look at that ass! I saw the architect again and felt I was really attracted to him. I made friend with his boyfriend who was also very hot. I mostly hung out with Tony and he introduced me to his friend Kris who, again, already had a boyfriend, but very sexy. In my opinion, the cutest swimwear of the day was the one on this guy below with colorful sunflowers all over his ass. He was so yummy!.. and blonde! Tony and I made friend very quickly and we had dinner that night. We had lots of thing in common: talked about Philosophy, cultures, etc.   
Later that night I went to Babylon at a very huge club I forgot the name. The size of the place was like.. bigger than Roxy or Crobar or any places in New York. At the end of the huge dance floor I thought it was a mirror but it was not! it was another huge dance floor all the way to the back full of hot men! There was a big patio outside that was full of people also. We could see the view of the whole downtown Toronto... well the size of downtown looked even smaller than Chicago though. The CN tower was lighten up in a rainbow color for Pride. Tony Moran spinned that night. I saw many friends there but... somehow could not find the architect!. I decided to go back with P'Top and Daril who stayed in a nice house east of downtown. They were a very cute couple... someone I loved to hang around with, liberal, no bullshit. They took care of me super well (made me pancake) considering we just knew each other and was not their lover.  
Next morning we got back into town to see the parade on Yonge st. From what I saw I think the parade in New York was bigger. However Toronto had Church St. that was closed for gay activities; that was great. My favorite pornstar "Luke Garrett" was on the parade of course (below left). There were so many gay people dress crazily on Church St. and many straight people came to participate as well. The guys on the pic below right was so so so sexy!... I guessed they were from Detroit.   
Tony came to join me a bit later that afternoon, then I got ready for a big night. Everybody was going! The party was held at the club "Government". I went with Scott and a bunch of his friends. The place was super big; there were 2 dance floors and patio. Again, full of hot boys! I was hoping to see my architect since we talked we wanted to dance together. I hung out with Robert and Tres ar first and made friend with many other people. The guy in the pictures below (left and middle) was the most gorgeous sexiest guy of the night (in my opinion): blonde and defined big muscle! really something I would die for! A while after seeing this hottie, I saw my architect.. then my favorite song at the time came up http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xpXfbtfP1A (the Toca miracle version http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufBHS2LrM6k&feature=PlayList&p=1FC6AB75D129D53B&index=13) After a whole hour of being in a hot dance floor, right at my song!, the spray of air/fog came up all over the place and was super cold! You could not see anything but a person stayed a foot away from you. They played the lasers and lights with it... it was just super super amazing! At the same time I was so so high. I did "e" for the first time after 2 years and was pretty sensitive. The one I got was super good!   
  
I could say that that night was the one of the best party times of my life. (The other comparable times were gay pride 2006 that I kissed a Singapore guy all night and the night at Fire in London, UK) The music was great. I was so high and had an attractive architect to dance with all night. It was amazing! I always loved it when I have lots of closed friends around and partied together. This time I only had 4 guys I knew before I came to Toronto but I connected with these new friends pretty easily and they were all friendly. People tried to make conversation with me more than just "my name is.. bla bla bla.. and have a great night" They did not only stick with a group of friends they came with but opened to knowing new people. I thought that was great. At around 4 am, I took another half and because it was so hot, at one point, I took the shorts off and left only the Gi | 