Global Nanpa : Golden Super, ep.1

Global Nanpa is back with a fresh, updated design and some new features. We are still working on more stuff which isn’t availabe yet. It will will take around another year to get some ideas implanted.
The video guide section is now much better structured than before already, thanks Ni. It is not finished yet, it will take until fall 2012 to make it better.

The last trip really broke a barrier. In general I would say : everything is possible now. I just have to decide for which action I want to spend my energy on. The old limits of money and time can hardly be felt anymore. Still, I dislike wasting resources of all means where I don’t see any value for.
Once you cross the EUR 1000 per day stay barrier you are mainly paying for having everything private for yourself and at a level beyond that (3000++) you are mainly paying for the prestige/show.

This amateur video stuff can hardly improve by me alone anymore that’s why I called for external help to hopefully bring things to a higher standard. I had worked with Jakob twice before and now we will focus on a more serious project that will take almost a year to get officially released.
I still try to involve as less people as possible here, but I had reached my own limits on the former website that’s why I asked other people for help.
There is not much time left until the next trip and I am so damn busy again with my real job that I have no idea how to release 10.000 pictures and 100 GB video material (can’t call me lazy…) from the last trip.
That’s why I decided to kick out a summary video at the beginning now because it can take some time until you see the independent videos of it.

Who knows, maybe Jakob and I get to see Brad Pitt and a big Hollywood crew next time we are out there ?! When I stayed at Six Senses Koh Yao Noi in November, the news just came in that Brad Pitt and a Hollywood crew want to rent the entire resort in December, most likely working on a massive new Thailand project. On my day of leave of Six Senses, they delayed their plans because of the current flooding problems those days in Bangkok.
Hollywood landed a big hit with Hangover 2 where the action takes place at Ritz-Carlton-Phulay Bay, Krabi and in Bangkok.
It is too funny, but Cherry (Baccara, Soi Cowboy, Bangkok) and some other people (friends of Sam/Tilac bar, Soi Cowboy, Bangkok) told me that some staff people from the Hangover 2 crew still often frequent their bars, sitting outside (not inside) the bars and barfining girls. And now you tell me that Thai bargirls aren’t a powerful weapon of mass destruction ?! LOL.

Angeles City news :
Gerard, Angeles City’s most innovative entrepreneur, from ABC (Angeles Beach Club) hotel introduced me to some of his grand plans in Makati, Manila – a real shocker, but more about that later. He actually did fly 1 day after me to Pattaya and the guy from La Pasha was on the same plane to Thailand like me.

What’s new in Bangkok :
Mr.Klingenberg (former Anantara hotel, Chiang Saen) from Muse hotel showed me around the hotel, Medici restaurant, when we accidentally ran into each other.
The Siam Hotel will most likely be opened mid of June 2012 and the Central Embassy mall / Park Hyatt hotel might be finished around end of 2013.
The new shopping mall Terminal 21, next to Sheraton hotel Sukhumvit, got an interesting airport theme.
I met plenty of cool characters and there are lots of things to report about – if I only had more time…

Check it also on my new video channel http://www.globalnanpavideos.com/
Soon almost my entire video library (500+ vids) can be watched there.

I am listing the different locations with times here, independent videos and reviews of it are about to follow :
0:01 royal suite, St. Regis hotel Bangkok; 1:15 champagne sabering, St. Regis hotel, Bangkok; 1:30 Bentley chauffeur service at St.Regis hotel, Bangkok; 1:45 Hanoko restaurant, Bangkok; 1:56 Sherbet, G-Club, Bangkok; 2:00 the drawing room, St.Regis hotel, Bangkok; 2:20 Thai models at Siam Kempinski hotel, Bangkok; 2:48 duplex suite, Siam Kempinski hotel, Bangkok; 3:15 Jojo restaurant, St. Regis hotel, Bangkok; 3:32 Reflexions restaurant, Bangkok; 3:40 Plaza Athenee hotel, Bangkok; 4:00 Six Senses resort Koh Yao Noi; 4:38 long-tail boat beach discovery and sunrise; 4:48 „secret lagoon“; 5:33 Monkey beach; 5:40 Kovalam beach/Koh Phi Phi Don; 6:10 Four Seasons hotel Tented Camps, Golden Triangle, Chiang Saen – Explorer tent; 6:37 baby elephant camp; 6:44 Golden Triangle; 7:05 market in Burma; 7:08 Wat Chedi Luang in Burma; 7:20 Wat Rong Khun near Chiang Rai; 7:40 Tented Camps spa; 8:15 Six Senses Yao Noi spa/treatment room 5; 8:30 Doi Ithanon, Chiang Mai; 8:40 Mandarin Oriental hotel Chiang Mai/Dhara Devi/villa 99; 8:50 terrace suite, Siam Kempinski hotel Bangkok; 8:45 royal suite, Siam Kempinski hotel, Bangkok; 9:17 avantgarde suite, Le Meridien hotel, Silom, Bangkok; 10:00 Sheraton hotel Pattaya, Balmy’s villa; 10:23 Cosy beach, Pattaya; 10:30 small restaurant, Chiang Mai; 10:35 Muse hotel, Bangkok; 10:45 Medici restaurant, Muse hotel, Bangkok; 10:50 Central Embassy and Park Hyatt, Bangkok, construction ground; 11:00 The Siam hotel Bangkok, construction, mid of November 2011; 11:10 Hilton hotel, Pattaya, oceanview suite; 11:20 Sheraton hotel Sukhumvit, governor suite; 11:34 Gerard, ABC (Angeles Beach Club hotel), Angeles City, Millennium wing; 11:54 The Penthouse hotel by LGH (Lewis Grand hotel) construction, end of November 2011, Angeles City; 12:10 Fields Avenue/Walking Street/Angeles City, Philippines; 12:30 Lewis Grand hotel, poolside jacuzi room; 12:48 Soi Cowboy, Bangkok; 12:54 Nana Plaza, Bangkok; 13:30 Inside Tilac bar, Soi Cowboy, Bangkok; 13:35 short-time room, Nana Plaza, Bangkok; 13:45 St.Moritz, G-club, Bangkok; 14:30 Fields Avenue, Angeles City.

Global Nanpa’s Top 25 videos : 2011

The site is now inactive until sometime early next year. There is so much stuff now going on at home that I will be glad to stop running this hobby for a longer while. I also don’t see a chance to make bigger releases between the breaks because I am just damn busy, 70 hours per week outside of Global Nanpa are my norm. When I have a bit more time – like summer next year, you get the popular (girls…) stuff, so expect strong release delays.
My style and approach might change a bit from now on. I will be doing a lot of preventive measures on the new version site to avoid potential trouble. Further I decided to close all comments after the update – thanks to the haters and spam. More people get involved here now, before I was mostly doing everything myself on this site, but i hope it is worth it. I am also happy to continue working with Jakob next year for Global Nanpa. There is in addition some cool video stuff coming up from the home base Berlin summer next year. New destinations outside of Asia are as well on the itinerary for 2012.

Here is my Top 25 list for 2011, personal choice :

1.  The Big Mango
2. Pattaya Pool Party
3.  The Big Durian
4.  Helicopter flight from Bangkok to Pattaya
5.  Ladyboy/katoey interview at Nana Plaza, 2011
6.  Bangkok : She has him
7.  Bang, Bang, Bangkok : The World Warrior
8.  Sinful Lady, ep.1
9.  The concept of Global Nanpa
10. Bali : A tribute to K. and a journey beyond the infinite
11. Pattaya Pussy Galore 2011
12. Global Nanpa’s Party at 808, RCA, Bangkok
13. Sexy Thai bargirl @ Nana Plaza
14. Bangkok Hospital Pattaya
15. Sexy Thai chicks @ St. Regis hotel, Bangkok
16. Double Satisfaction : Rockin’ it hard on Bali
17. The shadow of equinox
18. Angeles City invaders must die
19. CGK : That bule is crazy
20. Jakarta : The Big Durian – you’re my breakfast
21. Big Bunda Land
22. Achi likes Justin Bieber
23. The Nothing Man, 1/2
24. Welcome to Global Nanpa
25. GHP blows your mind

Global Nanpa : Sinful Lady, ep.1

This is the summary of some of the highlights of the recent trip.
When I am someday around 70-years-old and out of the game, I will probably look back at such videos with a smile, sharing those stories with maybe a handful of real friends.
Everyone will be telling his stories over and over again. Who will believe my stories when I have just words and a few pictures ? Worse, I might lose the memories myself or get alzheimer. The alcohol (primarily) already causes that I instantly lose a large amount of the memories on a trip when I return to normal mode. When watching my videos later on, the memories mostly return in detail and even better, they get preserved that way maybe forever. And that I also see as the main purpose of this site : it is a memory database and diary of my travels and thoughts before being an entertainment portal or travel guide site to others.
I believe my style will change a lot over the years. Please let me do my own mistakes. I will go my own way anyway. Some people write to me that they see all that as an inspiration source, morever I get to influence things, can create additional stuff over it and that’s the main reason why I share those videos on public mode.

Enjoy the video :

Global Nanpa : Sinful Lady, ep.2

This is a picture compilation of some of the highlights of the recent trip.

Bangkok : She has him

The time with Tar was without doubt the best thing that happened to me during the recent trip.

I already know her since more than 2 years, she was part of 2 of my parties. She is ok and just a very sweet lady. I don’t think I really know much about her, but I experienced enough to feel comfortable with her.

She is also the person I selected for helping me with the review/guide section for Thailand. Having a steady person there also makes things a lot easier with the video stuff. But the style shall remain amateur, POV-way and not forced. I don’t want to lose the fun, moreover things shall remain independent.

I am really looking forward to continueing exploring more nice places with her. Currently I actually would simply like to have it peaceful and harmonic, keeping all “mosquitos” in distance from us. That might not result in the action-packed videos with lots of girls, but next time I will play almost half of the game more slow.

Tar was showing me parts of Bangkok I had never seen before. We did the longest motorbike drives together I had ever done. Sometimes we drove more than an hour high speed and non-stop around on the back, arriving at places that looked fascinating. I really enjoy driving around on motorbikes in Bangkok : no traffic jams can stop you, that feeling of freedom is special and there is so much going on / to watch on the streets of Bangkok. I totally love it.

Tar is currently living together with 3 other girls, but she changed her living places 2 times this year already I think. They have to pay THB 40k rent together for the house, so THB 10k each. The area around is nice, quiet and got a few trees around the neighborhood, but it is just really far outside.

Huai Khwang is a great place for eating street food late at night, it is more exciting than on Thonglor or Sukhumvit from my point of view.

Lots of fun and strange things happened to us. She never lost her smile.

Many thanks for the memories Tar.

The Pent, G-club, Bangkok : May 2011

The Pent on Wireless road, next to Swissotel is still the number #1 G-club of Bangkok for me. They have the best organized shows, you feel that things run professional and the girls mostly speak ok English too, happy to cater to farangs as well.
The location is good and the location will even win higher attraction when they start constructing the shopping mall Central Embassy and the Park Hyatt (2014) close to it. I think the ground was sold from the British Embassy, I am not sure. The japanese Okura hotel will be soon on that street as well. Nothing can stop the Pent….

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYdYe_fcKFY

BKCoolClub got a Vimeo channel now, the videos are made by a guy who was also doing some stuff for Pink Vacation. Check “Eternal Rain” at Sherbet :

http://vimeo.com/28362442

A Journey Through Vietnam – by Leon Visser

This must be the coolest video I have seen so far of Vietnam. I am really impressed. Those 2 guys are from the Netherlands and they enjoyed having some “tour-guides”, imported from Thailand. Their honeys don’t look bad and they seem to have a good time together. On the one hand it shows well how easily the westerners fall for the SEA girls and on the other hand also how available “normal” girls are for such spontaneous trips with white foreigners. I would not call them good girls but also not bad girls. For Bangkok I would say such “normal” girls are best to find for white foreigners at Bed Supperclub or Flixx or Shock 39. Those girls don’t have fixed jobs and they will take every opportunity they get to travel the country with, in their terms, quite wealthy and good-looking guys. The attraction on both ends is just really high.
In 3:25min you see a really cool restaurant spot. Thumbs up guys !
One of them seems to have made photos for National Geographic magazine. Check the video :

http://www.vimeo.com/28454865

Sexy Thai chicks @ St. Regis hotel, Bangkok

This post again is for the people who only want to watch the chicks and shit.

Yes and the girls love the place too. Really stylish, they love the decor, only the vibrant lobby is missing. But having a few drinks at the drawing room with such a view is hard to beat. I am a nerd anyway, for me it does not need to be crowded with people, I can easily enjoy it there alone with a few beer.

We had a fun time there. Sometimes you really can feel like Bruce Wayne in the hotel, especially when having such hot chicks around.

Tar said she would like me organize a Bangkok pool party there, I also talked with a friendly British guy there who manages the pool bar who said it should not be a problem. But currently I am really done with events, it is too much stress.

I really liked to have Dome around, I didn’t expect I could actually need a butler but after I found out how fun it can be, I see the value.

The St. Regis got an in-house Mercedes S-Class and Bentley limousine service. They have the new S-class. Next time I try it as well. But Mr. Frank is simply my prefered driver and he knows me well already.

Check the video :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dywgXEIQrA

Bangkok Hospital Pattaya : Not a bamboo hut !

The idea for this video was to show the hospital in a neutral, authentic perspective of a touristic outsider.
You will see people walking towards and away from the camera, strange and “unwanted” things are not getting cut out. Of the 1 hour walk I originally was planning to cut a 30min video but I liked all so much that I actually only cut out 10min of some longer walks. This just shows how authentic the whole video is.
My motivation for this is : I simply love Thailand, if I can help a little a good place like this one, it makes me happy. I am not doing this for everyone, only if I really consider something to be worthy to be portayed.

The staff I encountered at the Bangkok Hospital Pattaya is extremely friendly and helpful. I had the opportunity to have Dr. Ian Corness as a guide. He is a very knowledgeable person, an excellent communicator and he got a great sense of humor. Thanks to him, this whole walk doesn’t appear sterile and boring.

Video 1 explains general things about the hospital : They have 400 beds, are accredited by the Joint Commission International, their international service speaks 22 languages. They are even a little more international orientated than Bumrungrad in Bangkok making 60% of their revenues with foreign patients.
Dr. Corness shows a standard room which costs something around THB 5000 / day. Rates in Pattaya and cost of living in general are cheaper in Pattaya than in Bangkok. Dr. Corness liked to stress that Bangkok is considered as a transit for most people (not me !) whereas Pattaya is a destination. Traffic in Bangkok moreover can be so bad that the transport from Bangkok Suvarnabhumi airport to Sukhumvit can take sometimes almost same time (usually around 40 min) like driving down all the way to Pattaya (usually around 2 hours).
Dr. Corness explained in a great way why people should not be worried about the standard of the hospital although the city being best known as the world’s largest sex destination.
Nowhere in the world except in Thailand you will find the hospitals being constructed like a hotel. The main reason for the medical tourist coming is still the very lower price which can be around 25% of what you would pay in the USA or Germany.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZMoAvm1RBs

In video 2 we see the dental cosmetic & implant center where 28 dentists work. We learn about the efficiancy of the health promotion center : for example you get your blood test results only 45 minutes later after the blood was taken. Some befriended MDs in Germany might get mad when they read it here. Things in Thailand just work easier, heavy beaurocracy like in Europe helps creating extra jobs but it won’t get more efficient…

The hospital employs 12 cardiologists who all have extensive experience and are fully accredited specialists. I have a quite high trust that hospitals like Bangkok hospital and Bumrungrad employ physicians that really work on a very high level. Local universities like Chulalongkorn or Chiang Mai university for example have reached a standard that appears really good to me.
Because they are a private hospital they are able to pay higher salaries to their physicians than a public hospital could pay. This is clearly an advantage to get and maintain some of the best doctors of Thailand.

Dr. Corness already works 12 years for the hospital. He explained in a funny way that he came to Thailand 14 years ago like many other foreigners who had been through a lot of shit in their home country. I bet he really could write a best-selling book about life in Thailand from the expats point-of-view. He is a great character. He got re-married 10 years ago with a Thai and got a son and a daughter with her.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3ntoLt2nVo

In video 3 we see at first the Arabic reception area and Intensive Care. They are the only hospital in Pattaya that has an MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) scanner.
Dr. Somchai who studied medicine in Munich, Germany, introduces his supersight surgery which isn’t LASIK. He brought a lot of technology and knowledge from Germany to Thailand. He works together with Carl-Zeiss from Jena for the lenses he uses. Dr. Somchai works since 15 years for the hospital, he developed his technology in 2002 and had 205.000 operations being done with it. Dr. Corness refered to him as one of the leading lights of the hospital. He was also responsible for getting the Icelab from the German company Zimmer to the hospital.
In total the hospital employs 100 full-time physicians and 100 part-time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNGVcsepKBM

In video 4 you see the brand-new, cutting-edge Icelab, a cryo therapy spa, which is the only one across whole Asia. You can heal all kinds of conditions with it at minus 110 degrees, especially pro sports men like to use it for healing faster. I should inform Mr. Rainer Calmund about it to send his football injured pro-players down there for a little fun rehabilitation time. It costs only around THB 1000 per session, around 10 you should do depending on what you use it for. You walk through 2 chambers with different temperatures and try to last in the 3rd chamber around 3 minutes. Next time I come to Pattaya I want to try it. You get a big boost of endorphines and oxygen from it because of the density of the air. After all the heavy partying and drinking in Pattaya that I am used to : this is just what I need. In case they don’t like my video portray, they won me at least for the Icelab already. LOL.

Later you see the cantine and the dermatology & cosmetic surgery center. They employ 5 cosmetic surgeons. The most popular surgery there for forgeigners is breast augmentation (enlargement) and for locals a nose operation from flat to more western looking. A big part of the medical tourism happens within beauty surgery. Pattaya as a nice, touristic beach destination is clearly scoring in convincing patients to stay for a longer time if the operation demands it.

Bangkok Hospital Pattaya is a fully digital hospital. All your data (for example blood tests, diagnosis, X-rays, prescriptions, etc…) is electronically stored and you get identified with a barcode you carry along. Moreover they share data with hospitals abroad, so let’s say you want your doctor in the USA to have all the info on what you did in Pattaya : no problem, they are very cooperative. I am very impressed of it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwW5j6LoQOM

In video 5 you see the MRI scanner. The hospital got their own busses and can arrange picking up international patients from Suvarnabhumi airport. The International Service Department can also take care of visa and other issues.
The hospital got 11 ambulances, the majority of ambulances run in Pattaya are public, run by various foundations. Their own ambulances go out with a doctor on board and treatment could already start there.
The Emergency Medical Service got 16 beds. Pattaya, let me assure you, is so much safer than any place in the USA I know of.
We make some jokes about the large amount of public holidays in Thailand : Dr. Corness wants to produce a small pocket calendar for Thais which lists the days when Thais are actually supposed to work. LOL.
The International Service Department will also help you with your insurance, trying to figure out if your insurance abroad will cover fully or partially costs of your stay at this hospital. What I learned about insurances is : they really don’t give a shit about people, of course we all work in the monetary system. The insurance looks at the numbers like everyone does : as long as they don’t have to pay more, it is very likely that they agree to a stay/treatment at the hospital. That’s why price matters so much. Plastic/beauty surgery however is nowhere covered anyway.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vLFKMuByVE

I want to say many thanks again to the entire Bangkok Hospital Pattaya staff, especially to Dr. Ian Corness taking the time and guiding me around that spontaneously. I am always shocked and impressed how helpful people in general are towards me in Thailand, like giving me permission for such video tours. Taking into account my aggressive logo and sometimes controversial website content : When they give me their trust, I am all the more willing to help.

Global Nanpa : The Nothing Man, 1/2

Here comes the buzzer beater. This video is a summary of the best scenes of the last trip. I doubt life can get any better than that from this level on. I have never seen any other video where I saw something that I liked more than what I am doing here. For me personally I am living my dream for this moment : it is my life, my money, my time. My values might change over time and then I simply do something else later on, but right now I am very happy that I can do just that…

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xid0mz