I shoot my Smoke and Kisses video on Pattaya Soi Six two days before the bars are to shut down on 1-15-2022. But will they? Who knows for sure?
But I have no intentions of going to Smoke and Kisses. I am sitting on a bar stool right in front of Lollytop bar. The prettiest woman in the bar sitting next to me. Having Thai whisky and sodas with me. I have brought my Nikon D-780 camera with me. So I am playing with it practicing my video technique.
Only a few months ago I traded my Nikon 750 camera body in for the new Nikon 780. On which I’ve mounted my favorite lens, a Nikon 24-70 2.8 lens. This is the God of lenses and I am not about to tell how much that lens cost.
A good friend of mine starts messaging me. And that’s when I decide to shoot my Smoke and Kisses video
I’ve known my good friend for five years now. Until the first covid lockdown she was working at Smoke and Kisses. That was two years ago and she’s not worked in any bar afterwards.
“Please go into Smoke and Kisses for me and buy the cashier a drink. Don’t buy anyone else a drink. Only the cashier.
I oftentimes joke with the Smoke and Kisses cashier calling myself ATM. So, although I want to head down to Soi Six Playpen bar. To drink with my friend Sam, who’s the bar’s manager. I will do a Smoke and Kisses video. But I have just one hour to visit three bars, Playpen, Night Wish and Toy Box.
The managers of all three of these Pattaya Soi Six bars all have exceptional personalities.
The most profitable Soi Six bar is Toy Box. Its manager, Tony, is an Englishman. Tony’s a dynamo of energy who’s always knocking himself out to make his customers feel at home.
I start out buying the cashier a drink. But another lady’s there. Who’s there all the time.
I often joke with her about how much I like small ladies. The Smoke and Kisses is here also. I start off having her play “This it it” by the Chain Smokers. Then I have her play Body Slam’s “Feat” on you tube. Body Slams a Thai group and they are terrific. The lady I oftentimes joke with comes very much alive. In this Smoke and Kisses video, even the bar’s owner starts dancing to the music.
We are all in our own little world there, thanks to my Nikon D780 camera. And I learn once again while shooting this Smoke and Kisses video that I’m deeply in love with that Nikon D-780 camera of mine.