* When all else fails help another alcoholic they say, but in these clashing times who was to know; standing in the Sky Bar drinking non-alcoholic beer with swathes of Bangkok spread out before them; sipping, fabulous, the boy there, looking sweet in his new shirt, foreigners drinking their 400 baht drinks, a scattering of often paid for Thais, yes well no doubt, the millionaire Australian wondering what he felt like drinking next, there in the nightfall, the sun setting across the Chao Phraya River; and all else, no doubt fabulous, the best seats in the house; of course; everything is fine dear boy, fine, marvellous in fact, I love it here, he repeated, when they asked him how long he was staying and wifie was going on about how now was just the best time to buy property in Bangkok because the government had cut the taxes, and he thought: you live in a different world, a moneyed world, and I'm happy to be here, in fact would like to stay here, but is this the real authentic experience, 64 floors up with attentive waiters and waitresses hovering at one's elbow.
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* When all else fails help another alcoholic they say, but in these clashing times who was to know; standing in the Sky Bar drinking non-alcoholic beer with swathes of Bangkok spread out before them; sipping, fabulous, the boy there, looking sweet in his new shirt, foreigners drinking their 400 baht drinks, a scattering of often paid for Thais, yes well no doubt, the millionaire Australian wondering what he felt like drinking next, there in the nightfall, the sun setting across the Chao Phraya River; and all else, no doubt fabulous, the best seats in the house; of course; everything is fine dear boy, fine, marvellous in fact, I love it here, he repeated, when they asked him how long he was staying and wifie was going on about how now was just the best time to buy property in Bangkok because the government had cut the taxes, and he thought: you live in a different world, a moneyed world, and I'm happy to be here, in fact would like to stay here, but is this the real authentic experience, 64 floors up with attentive waiters and waitresses hovering at one's elbow.