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How important were Japanese samurai during Siam’s Ayutthaya era?
2024.05.09 01:01 GodofWar1234 How important were Japanese samurai during Siam’s Ayutthaya era?
Towards the end of Japan’s Sengoku Jidai and during the early Edo Period, a decent number of ronin/former samurai left Japan seeking fame, fortune, and/or adventure. A lot of these ronin ended up in Ayutthaya and served in the military as part of the Krom Asa Yipun/Department of Japanese Volunteers. Notable former samurai who rose to power in Ayutthaya included people like Yamada Nagamasa/Okya Senaphimuk who held significant power and influence within the royal court.
My question is, from the reign of King Naresuan up to King Prasat Thong expelling the Japanese from the kingdom, how much of a difference did these ronin mercenaries make on Ayutthaya’s military?
I can understand the Portuguese/Spanish making a big difference when it came to introducing firearms but what did the Japanese ronin bring to the table in terms of military capabilities? I guess you can argue fresh combat experience due to a century of civil war in their homeland but Ayutthaya fought plenty of wars with Hongsawadee.
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2024.05.09 00:58 GodofWar1234 How important were Japanese samurai during Siam’s Ayutthaya era?
Towards the end of Japan’s Sengoku Jidai and during the early Edo Period, a decent number of ronin/former samurai left Japan seeking fame, fortune, and/or adventure. A lot of these ronin ended up in Ayutthaya and served in the military as part of the Krom Asa Yipun/Department of Japanese Volunteers. Notable former samurai who rose to power in Ayutthaya included people like Yamada Nagamasa/Okya Senaphimuk who held significant power and influence within the royal court.
My question is, from the reign of King Naresuan up to King Prasat Thong expelling the Japanese from the kingdom, how much of a difference did these ronin mercenaries make on Ayutthaya’s military?
I can understand the Portuguese/Spanish making a big difference when it came to introducing firearms but what did the Japanese ronin bring to the table in terms of military capabilities? I guess you can argue fresh combat experience due to a century of civil war in their homeland but Ayutthaya fought plenty of wars with Hongsawadee.
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2024.05.06 18:27 GodofWar1234 How important were Japanese samurai during Siam’s Ayutthaya era?
Towards the end of Japan’s Sengoku Jidai and during the early Edo Period, a decent number of ronin/former samurai left Japan seeking fame, fortune, and/or adventure. A lot of these ronin ended up in Ayutthaya and served in the military as part of the Krom Asa Yipun/Department of Japanese Volunteers. Notable former samurai who rose to power in Ayutthaya included people like Yamada Nagamasa/Okya Senaphimuk who held significant power and influence within the royal court.
My question is, from the reign of King Naresuan up to King Prasat Thong expelling the Japanese from the kingdom, how much of a difference did these ronin mercenaries make on Ayutthaya’s military?
I can understand the Portuguese/Spanish making a big difference when it came to introducing firearms but what did the Japanese ronin bring to the table in terms of military capabilities? I guess you can argue fresh combat experience due to a century of civil war in their homeland but Ayutthaya fought plenty of wars with Hongsawadee.
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2024.05.06 08:09 GodofWar1234 How important were Japanese samurai during the Ayutthaya era?
Towards the end of Japan’s Sengoku Jidai and during the early Edo Period, a decent number of ronin/former samurai left Japan seeking fame, fortune, and/or adventure. A lot of these ronin ended up in Ayutthaya and served in the military as part of the Krom Asa Yipun. Notable former samurai who rose to power in Ayutthaya included people like Yamada Nagamasa/Okya Senaphimuk who held significant power and influence.
My question is, from the reign of King Naresuan up to King Prasat Thong expelling the Japanese from the kingdom, how much of a difference did these ronin mercenaries make on Ayutthaya’s military?
I can understand the Portuguese/Spanish making a big difference when it came to introducing firearms but what did the Japanese ronin bring to the table in terms of military capabilities? I guess you can argue fresh combat experience due to a century of civil war in their homeland but Ayutthaya fought plenty of wars with Hongsawadee.
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2024.05.01 05:41 CrocodileGobby Unveiling the Masculine Roots of the Thong
Did you know that thongs, often perceived as women’s apparel, actually have a masculine origin? Contrary to popular belief, thongs are not a modern invention for women but are deeply rooted in male history.
The thong is considered one of the earliest forms of clothing, primarily designed for men. Its main functions were to provide protection, support, and modesty for the male genitalia. This historical attire has been documented in various ancient civilizations and is detailed in the Wikipedia article on thongs.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thong The thong, like its probable predecessor the loincloth, is believed to be one of the earliest forms of human clothing and is also thought to have been worn mostly or exclusively by men. It is thought the thong was probably originally developed to protect, support, or hide the male genitals. The loincloth is probably the earliest form of clothing used by humankind, having originated in the warmer climates of sub-Saharan Africa where clothing was first worn nearly 75,000 years ago. Many tribal peoples, such as some of the Khoisan people of southern Africa, wore thongs for many centuries. Much like the Japanese fundoshi, these early garments were made with the male genitalia in mind.
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2024.04.09 16:53 30needing40 Spent a year going through the dirty laundry of an attractive roommate
Few years ago I lived with 5 other roommates and 2 of them were in a relationship. The girl was a cute, petite Japanese girl I've always crushed on. Luckily, I usually work from home and would get the house to myself. Moment coast of clear, I'd go into their room and go through her laundry hamper, picking out all the dirty thongs and bras. I'd pull up her photos and some porn look a likes and go to town. I'd go through her dresser and pick out a clean one to wear, get the dirtiest from her hamper to inhale and wrap a dirty one over my dick to stroke. Inhaling her scent while releasing myself into her grool stains had to be one of the greatest highs. After finishing and leaving everything as it was, I looked into her bathroom and found some wash specifically for her vagina! (Vagisal i think) Feel awful looking back at it but in the moment I knew what I had to do. The thought of her rubbing my semen into her every day drove me wild and I unloaded as much I could into that bottle. Her shampoos, body washes.. Was so hot knowing she was basically covered in me all year.
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2024.04.08 18:26 tiny-tippy Backpacking with sandals in cold weather and snow
Overview: I have tried backpacking/hiking in hiking shoes/trail runners and I hate it. I backpack exclusively in sandals. Unfortunately, feet get cold in sandals when the temperature drops so I wanted to try out a warmer solution without sacrificing my sandal footwear. In comes my cold weathesnow sandal setup: Bedrock Cairn Sandals, Sousou Wool Tabi Socks, Luna Tabu 2.0. With these three things, my feet stay toasty warm, dryer than shoes, and no wet/frozen shoes to for my feet in the mornings. I have gone on some trips with this setup where temperatures got down to mid thirties F and it worked really well. Recently, I tried this setup on an overnight trip with deep snow conditions and down to 22F and am really pleased, with one caveat that I think could be fixed with a gear change for future trips.
Location: Mostly used in mountains in SoCal, ranging from 3000 - 8000 feet in elevation. Trails varied from wide dirt roads, to narrow woodsy trails, to a section of the PCT (near Wrightwood) covered in snow.
Lighterpack:
Gear used for snow trip Images:
Sandal setup in the snow Specifications:
- Bedrock Cairn Sandals M5/W6 - 12 oz - $115 - I have the original, they have come out with a new version with a wider toe box and adjusted sizing. I normally wear a 5.5 in women's and their smallest size fits me fine in their old version.
- Sousou Wool Tabi Socks - 1.5 oz - $13 - Acrylic 62%, Wool 15%, Polyester 15%, Nylon 5%, Polyurethane 3% - If you don't have super small feet like me, any brand of wool toe or tabi socks would do. I was a little disappointed with the wool content, but there are only a few brands who make wool socks with the split toe or individual toes, and those brands don't make them in my size and I hate it when the toes have extra fabric hanging off of them. I thought that buying from a Japanese company might make it more likely for the sizing to be small enough for my feet, and I was somewhat right. There's still a bit of extra material around my toes but it's not too bad. The acrylic is also not terrible. They might not perform as well as a higher wool blend, but they've been fine so far. It's nice that acrylic is very comfortable, especially when wet since my feet don't feel soggy in them.
- Luna Tabu 2.0 - 2.6 oz - $75 - Water resistant nylon, lined with washi (Japanese fiber) + polyester, Monkey Grip Technology soles
Pros:
- Awesome for those who enjoy hiking/backpacking in sandals, letting you wear sandals year-round, depending on how far you want to push the limits. Great alternative for anything you would do in hiking shoes or trail runners (would not try mountaineering in this) I have never once stubbed my toes, gotten blisters, or rolled my ankle in these (all of which have happened when I was wearing shoes). IMO Bedrock Cairn Sandals are THE sandals to wear while backpacking. I could probably make a separate post on why that is. It would be pretty long so I won't go into the details here, this post is more specifically about the cold weather setup.
- The adjustability of Bedrock Sandals makes it easy to wear with or without socks + shell.
- Feet are kept warm and dry in this setup. The socks provide the warmth, and the Luna Tabu shell provides a bit more warmth and water resistance. It was perfect in cold weather, feet stayed warm down to near freezing. In a bit warmer weather and dry conditions, you can do without the shell and just wear sandals + socks. Feet were able to breathe well through the shell. In the snow, my feet were kept dry much longer than my partner, who was wearing Merrell Moab shoes. I could walk through shallow puddles and the shell did not wet out. My feet/socks did eventually get wet, but only after walking through deep snow in which any shoe not specifically made for deep snow would inevitably get wet. Even so, as long as I kept moving, my feet stayed warm.
- No wet or frozen shoes to deal with in the morning! My poor partner's shoes had frozen rock solid by next morning (it was 22F throughout the night). My sandals, by comparison, were a bit stiff at first, but dry. My tabu shell was also stiff, but very dry due to the material being very thin and not absorbing much moisture. They both easily became flexible again after a bit of shaping. When I put my feet with fresh dry socks into them, my feet stayed warm and dry while breaking camp and for the first half of the hike until we hiked for awhile in deep snow. In wet conditions, sandals + shell will dry much faster than any type of shoe.
- Tabu shell can be used as a camp shoe if I don't want to deal with putting my feet into sandals. The soles are thin but durable enough for some light walking around camp, or even in the snow. A few times when I got out of my hammock to pee or do camp chores, I only wore socks and the shell in the snow and it worked out great while keeping my one remaining pair of dry socks from getting wet.
- Maybe a con for some people? As we passed other hikers and backpackers on the PCT snowy trail, I got lots of surprised looks and comments about my footwear choice. Comments ranged from positive to confused, with a couple questions mixed in. I found it amusing.
Cons:
- Not for people who dislike hiking in sandals, or sandals with a toe thong. Bedrock Sandals are zero drop with an adequately thick sole but minimal cushioning, so if your feet aren't used to that, you might not have a great time with weight on your back doing longer miles.
- Must use toe or tabi socks. This specific setup does not work with ordinary socks.
- As you can see in the pic, the shell has a slit that goes from the top of the shell to the straps of the sandals, which is a potential point where watesnow could come in. This is mostly where the snow was entering when hiking in deep snow, then it would melt and get my socks wet. Not really a big deal since my feet stayed warm while hiking despite being wet, but something to consider.
- In sub freezing temperatures and with wet socks in deep snow, you can lose heat in your feet fast once you stop hiking. I was never in danger, but I was very motivated to get my hammock hung quickly and get out of my cold wet socks ASAP. I think this would be true for any hiking/trail running shoe with wet socks in those conditions though.
- Limits traction options. I probably wouldn't try to wear this with crampons or snow shoes. I did try to wear microspikes with them (used a Kahtoola knock off) with semi success. They were not uncomfortable and in shallow snow or icy areas, the microspikes did well, however in deep snow they kept on getting sucked off my feet. It could be that the microspikes were too big for me (the smallest size they had was a medium, and as noted, my feet are very small) or that it was the fault of the brand, but I think in the future I will try to use a traction device that is more compatible with my sandals, such as the Vtrac Pocket Cleats or the Black Diamond Blitz Spike. Both of these will have less traction than microspikes, so that's something to keep in mind. Bonus: these two options are very lightweight.
Limitations: While I have used this setup plenty of times in cold weather with success, I have only tried it once so far in the snow. I had a great experience, but longevity and further testing of how the water resistance holds up is needed. I am likely done with backpacking in the snow for this season, so I won't be able to test it out more in those conditions for awhile.
Disclaimer: All items bought with my own money. I'm just a normal novice backpacker.
TLDR: For people who like hiking/backpacking in sandals, the combination of Bedrock Cairn Sandals, Wool Tabi Socks, and Luna Tabu shell makes an effective solution for cold weather and snow backpacking in sandals. Feet stay warm and dry, imo better than shoes, with only one significant con that I can think of which is a decrease in options for traction devices.
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2024.03.10 06:09 GodofWar1234 After having watched FX’s Shogun, I would love to see a mini-series about Yamada Nagamasa and his life in Ayutthaya
First off, absolutely love Shogun. Tbh I was initially more hyped for the Netflix LA Avatar series but Shogun has seriously won me over, especially since I find Japanese history (particularly the Sengoku period and Meiji Restoration) to be extremely fascinating.
If I had my way and a ton of extra money to throw around, I would love for the team behind Shogun to make a “spin-off” series revolving around Yamada Nagamasa, who has an eerily similar story to John Blackthorne/IRL William Adams.
Yamada Nagamasa was a Japanese adventurer and trader who sailed to the Kingdom of Ayutthaya/Siam (modern day Thailand) and advanced in rank and status within Siamese society, eventually becoming the leader of the Japanese community in Ayutthaya as well as head of the Japanese volunteer corps of the Ayutthaya Army (which was mainly comprised of ronin who left Japan due to either the persecution of Christians and/or because they were on the losing side at Sekigahara). He would also lead several trading missions between Siam and Japan, fostering positive Siamese-Japanese relations. Politically speaking, Yamada also commanded significant power within the Ayutthaya court, later becoming the Governor of Nakhon Sri Thammarat (although if my interpretation is correct, this was most likely a political move done to isolate Yamada and keep him from having a ton of direct influence in Ayutthaya itself since Nakhon Sri Thammarat is all the way in southern Thailand far from the capital).
Unfortunately later in life, Yamada became involved in a succession crisis where he supported the original dynasty and stood against the new King of Ayutthaya, King Prasat Thong, who committed regicide and took power in a coup. Yamada was poisoned and died in Siam during the crisis.
IMO Thai history is extremely underrated despite the fact that Ayutthaya history and politics was just as complex and intriguing as Sengoku-era Japanese politics. Like in Japan at the time, there were Siamese lords and princes who were jockeying for power and wealth while also having to contend with hostile neighbors (particularly Burma, who at the time recently fought and lost a series of wars to Ayutthaya).
It helps that Yamada and Adams both existed roughly around the same time period so it’s not like you’re jumping back or forward in time too much. Also, there’s already a Thai movie based around Yamada back in 2010 but a modern take on Yamada with current filming technology and technique would be awesome.
Idk, just an idea that I had while watching the series.
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2024.03.09 10:23 GodofWar1234 Would love a “spin-off” revolving around Yamada Nagamasa, I.e. the Japanese version of John Blackthorne
First off, absolutely love this show. Tbh I was initially more hyped for the Netflix LA Avatar series but Shogun has seriously won me over, especially since I find Japanese history (particularly the Sengoku period and Meiji Restoration) to be extremely fascinating.
If I had my way and a ton of extra money to throw around, I would love for the team behind Shogun to make a “spin-off” series revolving around Yamada Nagamasa, who has an eerily similar story to John Blackthorne/William Adams.
Yamada Nagamasa was a Japanese adventurer and trader who sailed to the Kingdom of Ayutthaya/Siam (modern day Thailand) and advanced in rank and status within Siamese society, eventually becoming the leader of the Japanese community in Ayutthaya as well as head of the Japanese volunteer corps of the Ayutthaya Army (which was mainly comprised of ronin who left Japan due to either the persecution of Christians and/or because they were on the losing side at Sekigahara). He would also lead several trading missions between Siam and Japan, fostering positive Siamese-Japanese relations. Politically speaking, Yamada also commanded significant power within the Ayutthaya court, later becoming the Governor of Nakhon Sri Thammarat (although if my interpretation is correct, this was most likely a political move done to isolate Yamada and keep him from having a ton of direct influence in Ayutthaya itself since Nakhon Sri Thammarat is all the way in southern Thailand far from the capital).
Unfortunately later in life, Yamada became involved in a succession crisis where he supported the original dynasty and stood against the new King of Ayutthaya, King Prasat Thong, who committed regicide and took power in a coup. Yamada was poisoned and died in Siam during the crisis.
IMO Thai history is extremely underrated despite the fact that Ayutthaya history and politics was just as complex and intriguing as Sengoku-era Japanese politics. Like in Japan at the time, there were Siamese lords and princes who were jockeying for power and wealth while also having to contend with hostile neighbors (particularly Burma, who at the time recently fought and lost a series of wars to Ayutthaya).
It helps that Yamada and Adams both existed roughly around the same time period so it’s not like you’re jumping back or forward in time too much. Also, there’s already a Thai movie based around Yamada back in 2010 but a modern take on Yamada with current filming technology and technique would be awesome.
Idk, just an idea that I had while watching the series.
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2024.02.16 10:18 redditduk [Megalist] SG Concerts, Gigs, Raves: End Feb (16-29 Feb 2024)
1 Mar: New List
https://reddit.com/singaporemusicchat/comments/1b3qeon/megalist_sg_concerts_gigs_raves_early_march_114/ 16 Feb, Fri - Esplanade Huayi Fest 华艺节
- ED SHEERAN, National Stadium, $88
- STAYC 1ST WORLD TOUR, The Star Vista Theatre (buona vista), $150
- Swee Lee Musical Showcase: Aggressive Raisin Cat, Alicia DC, Jeyes, swee lee music store & cafe @ star vista (buona vista), free
- TGIF Music Station周5音乐站 ft Hayley Ho, Kimberly Tan, Ya Hui, LimTayPeng, Jack Neo & Cast of Money No Enough 3 钱不够用3, SCCC @ 1 Straits Blvd, free,
- Beats on Baghdad Street: Malay Folk Music & Beats by Genbano with silat overture at 9pm, Baghdad Street Kampong Glam, free
- Rock Gig: Overdrive SG pres No Strings Attached - Sarco, The Signoff, Last Munute, DJ set by Isho, Everrich Jamming Space L5 @ 1 Tannery Rd (mattar), $25
- Stiletto - Only Death Release Show ft. SIAL, Silicon, Bondage (MY), Curb, Destiny, DJ Kissmenow, hardcore & emo gig, Phil's Studio @ High Street Centre L3, $30 at door
- All The Arms We Need - Ruckuz Invasion Afterdeath Release Party - ft Putrid Scum, Black Terror, The Fockers, IDX, Distrust, punky, hardcore, Lu Lian, $15
- Live and DJ, YRFN, B.MABOO, Chriskris (rnb hiphop) ft DJs Hanif, SOS - ICYBP PRESENTS REVAMP: VALENTINE'S, club iki @ ikigai izakaya riverwalk, $35
- SIFAS - A Carnatic Music Concert, SIFAS @ 2A Starlight Road (farrer park), $15
- Esplanade 华艺节: Drama - The Dog Who Wasn't Useful 《我的“汪汪”在哪儿?》Day 1, $30
- 华艺节: Theatre - 13·67 by Zuni Icosahedron (HK) adap The borrowed - Day 1, $48
- 华艺节: Theatre - Everything For You 《只在乎你》- Day 1, $38
- 华艺节: Microcosm – A sonic tea ceremony《微观境》感官•音乐•茶会 - Day 1, $38
- 华艺节: Huayi Huat Opening!, outdoor, free
- 华艺节: Festive Mix by Fusion FM (contemporary chinese english pop jazz classical), concourse, free
- 华艺节: Beats of the Dragon: Festive Drum & Wushu Performance, outdoor, free
- Ngee Ann Poly - The Love and Loss Show by m52, Ngee Ann Polytechnic, free,
- Jazz Loft: CARIOCA QUARTET Brazilian Jazz, Blu Jaz L3 @ bali ln (bugis), $24
- Maduro: Jazz After Sunset with David Loke, Rachma, Raf, Megan, maduro @ sofitel sentosa
- Blu Jaz: New Stream Brass Band at 9pm, Blu Jaz @ bali ln (bugis), free/bar
- Blackbird: Dom Turner & Al Terry (harmonica guitar delta blues), Blackbird Music Bar @ Gillman Barracks
- Outdoor Dragon Drone Light Show 5/6 now at 9pm, Marina Bay Sands Waterfront (w music), free
- DJ, Potato Head: Sundown Circle: Owens Sun (baeleric, house, disco), 36 Keong Saik Rd, rooftop bar
- DJ, heartwaves collective pres. dreamflow (modern indie & indie pop night), Projector X GV: Ruby Lounge (L6), free
- DJ, Fuego Night: All White (Reggaeton, Dancehall, Afrobeats), Yang Club @ 3A River Valley Road, Clarke Quay, $34
- DJ, Unfiltered pres. Flashback Friday 00s hits, hard rock cafe orchard cuscaden, $28
- DJ, Club Kiki pres PINK FRIDAY: NIGHT FOR THE BARBZ (nicki minaj, rnb hiphop) - Djs Li.A, Gosh, Taugay, lgbt friendly, Lion Brewery Co @ 36 club street, backroom, $25
- DJ, Oasia Hotel Downtown: CIN CIN X PROHIBITION - DJ set by Kris Haagensen (Element), free
- DJ, Naga House: Naga Sounds with Kins and Nicebluff, bar bistro @ 14 lor telok
- Drag, Projector X: QABARET Love Thongs! - Live Singing Drag Show & open mic, Projector X GV Ruby Lounge (L6), $50 w drink
- DJ, Wallich Manor: Alone Together for Valentines with Queen of Hearts male revue, Lounge @ Sofitel City Centre Hotel / Guoco (tg pagar)
- DJ, Behind the Green Door: DJ KFC and Sivanesh, 97 Duxton Road (maxwell), $25
- DJ, ARK11: DJ Sone (JPN), ARK 11 Club @ Orchard Central Mall L11
- DJ, Offtrack: Halal Sol (deep house), bs hong lim park, music gastro bar
- DJ, HQ: REKA (industrial techno), headquarters techno-house club @ 66A boat quay, $36,
- DJ, ROBAG WRUHME (GER microhouse, ambient techno) by ØGravity x Thugshop, tuff club @ 138 robinson rd cbd, $36
- DJ, Conducta (UK Garage, bassline) pres by GrooveTop: Pirate Material, MDLR club @ 62 cecil street (cbd), $35
- DJ, ROZA TERENZI (AU outsider house, progressive, breakbeat 90s chill idm) ft Super Enjoy, Daytime Dancing, Maurice Simon by ESCAPE 56, $50 now
17 Feb, Sat
18 Feb, Sun - River Hongbao ends
- Eric Nam 에릭남 , mediacorp theatre one-north, $98
- Zhaoze 沼泽 (chinese folk post-rock), Esplanade Annexe Studio, $38
- waa wei 魏如萱 (Wei Ruxuan TW singer-songwriter), Esplanade Concert Hall, $68
- Esplanade 华艺节: Low Wen Pei ft Alex Paterson (Mandarin and Hokkien), Concourse, free
- 华艺节: We are Singer-songwriters! • Zijian , Concourse free
- 华艺节: We are Singer-songwriters! • xxmxrcs (eng-chinese singer-songwriter), concourse, free
- 华艺节: Appreciation of Chinese Opera by Chinese Opera and Drama Society 7pm 830, OUTDOOR, free
- The Dream Composition 心情溶剂 bilingual song-writing competition by NUS KE7 Hall & TOUCH Music Publishing, SCCC Auditorium @ 1 Straits Blvd, $22
- Objects That Made Us Talk ft Aidli Mosbit - My Father Was a Rock Star! The local Pop Yeh-Yeh music and kugiran movement, Grassroots Book Room @ 25 Bukit Pasoh Rd (outram/maxwell), free rsvp
- SIFAS: RAAG ANURAAG A Classical and Film Music Fusion Concert (Hindustani and Carnatic music), SIFAS Annexe @ 3 Race Course Lane (farrer park), $20
- Timbre One North: Paws and Pints Yard Pet Friendly Day ft Shaneeta & Joy Alexis, free
- DJ, 🏖Drip Pool Party V15 - Hip Hop R&B Latin Hits Afrobeats - DJ Shai, K Faith, Knrck & DJ Smookey, 1-Altitude Coast at The Outpost Hotel Sentosa, $21
19 Feb, Mon
20 Feb, Tue
- Jaap van Zweden conducts Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra with Alexandre Kantorow, Daniel Lo, Rachmaninov, Mahler, ESPLANADE, $45
- Shelby Wang 王曉敏 - TODAY LET’S BE BLUE! Album Launch (c-pop, synthpop, singer-songwriter rock), The Mermaid @ 27 West Coast Highway, tix 🎟 $30
- Esplanade 华艺节: Joyful Reunion by Dicapella Dizi Ensemble, concourse, free
- Simply Jazz: Oriental Jazz Express, CHIJMES jazz bar b1, free/rsvp
21 Feb, Wed
- Esplanade 华艺节: Songs From The Heart by Schola Cantorum (chinese folk & pop choral)., free
- 华艺节: The Four Beauties 四大美人 by Shanghai Pingtan Troupe (narrative folk & music), Concert Hall, $48
- NLB: Piano Recital by Max Jiang, National Library Building (bugis) Lobby, free,
- Blu Jaz: The Monster Jazz Jam, Blu Jaz @ bali ln (bugis), free
- Lasalle: Piano Voyage X: Screen Serenades, Lasalle SIA Theatre @ 1 McNally St (rochor), free rsvp
- DJ, ARK11: the snow rave preparty - DJ Skabush, ARK 11 Club @ Orchard Central Mall L11, $25
22 Feb, Thu
- Tan Jing 谭晶《界·MORE》, Marina Bay Sands Grand Ballroom, $98
- Esplanade 华艺节: Joey Wee (faye wong, beyond, eggplant egg), concourse,free
- NUS: Bring It Back to Live: Bricolage by NUS Arts Production - Music from Relish, Rooftop Max (indie rock) & Soleil (singer songwriter) & Dance by Viva LatiNUS , NUS University Cultural Centre Theatre, free rsvp
- YST: Mathemusical Encounters: Closing Concert – Mystery Machines - w Elaine Chew, Gérard Assayag, Karst de Jong, Red Dot Baroque (generative electronics x classical), NUS Yong Siew Toh Conservatory concert hall, free rsvp
- YST Noon: Mathemusical Encounters: Maths and Music Lunch Concert, NUS Yong Siew Toh Conservatory Concert Hall, free rsvp
- NAFA String Ensemble : Concert Series: String Symphonies (Britten, Shostakovich), NAFA Theatre @ 151 Bencoolen St, free RSVP
- Flying V Metal Bar: Singer Songwriter series - Cronkite Satellite, Curtain Wax, Acoustic Heavies, Blake Stetson from Rule of Lah!, flying v metal bar @ the adelphi b1 (city hall), free
- Dinner DJ, Gotti Italiano - Glitz & Glamour with DJ K and Burlesque, 78 Amoy St
- DJ, Potato Head: Tunes by KC for margarita day, 36 Keong Saik Rd, bistro bar
- DJ, Offtrack: Bongomann (atmospheric), bs hong lim park, music gastro bar
23 Feb, Fri - Chingay Parade
- Chingay Parade 2024: Blossom - Day 1, F1 Pit Building (promenade), $20 more info @ https://www.chingay.gov.sg
- ESPLANADE 华艺节: Gareth.T 湯令山, Annexe Studio, $68
- Turn it Up v3 by Rabak Records - Forests, Four Daze, Impulse, Quit Line, Bear the Remedy, The Royal Code, alt rock chapalang, Phil's Studio @ High Street Centre L3 (clarke quay/city hall), $22
- Laselle: The Living Composers 2024 - Arrivals and Destinations Day 1 Plugged.. now includes pop, rock & electronic etc, Laselle SIA Theatre @ 1 McNally St (rochor), free RSVP
- NUS Electronic Music Lab: Omniverse the LoVers, chapalang electronic, NUS university cultural centre, $20
- Jazz Loft: Duncan & The Apostrophes (UK hard bop, painist and horns), The Jazz Loft @ Blu Jaz, $24
- Simply Jazz: Rachma Lim Fellowship Band, CHIJMES jazz bar b1 (city hall), free/rsvp
- Maduro: Friday Jazz Duo - Musical Storytelling by Weixiang & Joe Lee, maduro @ sofitel sentosa, $38++ drink credits
- Cool Cats Jazz: Rai Maia (neo-soul hiphop) - Day 2, nco club @ 32 beach rd, $38
- Tipsy's Midnights turn Afternoons - Taylor Swift Tribute - Day 1, Lady Wu Rooftop Attic Bar @ 11 North Canal Road (boat quay), bafree
- Blackbird: General Lee (blues, country, rock & roll, originals and covers), Blackbird Music Bar @ Gillman Barracks (labrador park), free/bar
- Esplanade 华艺节: Transplant 《移心 》by The Finger Players x RUDRA (puppetry x our Vedic Metal icons) - Day 1, Waterfront Theatre, $48
- Esplanade 华艺节: Blossoms in Spring by AcceleRUANdo - Chinese Ruan 阮 (lute) Ensemble, indoor 715 815, free
- 华艺节: Season of Blossoms by Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, School of Young Talents, outdoor 730 830 930, free
- 华艺节 : Dance a Dance from My Body《我所起舞的地方》- Day 1, Theatre Studio, $38
- 华艺节: Dear Governor Bao – A Crosstalk 相声 Production 《包黑子坏坏》- Day 1, Concert Hall, $38
- YST: Red Dot Baroque: Biber’s Mystery Sonatas, NUS Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music (clementi/kentridge), $10
- SCO: Chamber Charms: Night of Bowed-Strings 室内乐系列:弓弦乐之夜, Singapore Conference Hall @ 7 Shenton Way, $30
- DJ Morning Wellness, Wild Pearl & Yes You presents - Immersion, The Cold Plunge Wellness Rave, Year of the Dragon ft DJ David Jacob (US-PH), potato bistro bar @ 36 Keong Saik Rd, $22
- DJ, HOUSEWRK Presents: AVICII Tribute Party ft DJs Doppelgangerz, Mings (and 10s big room prog electro house), Projector X GV No Spoilers Bar Lounge @ Cineleisure Orchard L5, $16
- DJ, CULTURE X Who Hurt You ❓ - Fall Out Boy & Panic! At The Disco Alt Rock Hits, club iki @ ikigai izakaya riverwalk (clarke quay), $30
- DJ, Buttered by AOS Collective Presents: MELTED (00s 10s hiphop pop), Projector X GV: Ruby Lounge (L6) @ Orchard Cineleisure, $11
- DJ, Stickies: Wildin' v7.0 by DJ Sweezy, Kelibre, Snickaz (afrobeats hiphop reggaeton rnb), Stickies Bar Dhoby Ghaut @ 178 Clemenceau Ave, Haw Par Tower B1, $27
- DJ, Blu Jaz: BLASÈ - DJ K Birthday Ed. (Hip-hop, Rnb, Dancehall, Reggaetón), Blu Jaz @ bali ln (bugis), $16
- DJ, PlayGround presents LolliPOP (pop hits) with DJ MF & Prostatelatte, lgbt-friendly hard rock cafe orchard cuscaden, $30
- DJ, Trifecta: That Sht Slaps sort of Skate Party with Five2TenPM 5210PM Music, L.T.L.X, Dangdude, Loyboy, TRIFECTA Surf, Snow, Skate in Orchard (somerset, bs skate park), free/bar
- DJ & Rap, Drip: EASTOUT 第六集:元宵快乐 - Chinese Hiphop & Rap Battle, drip club @ 100 Orchard Rd Concorde Hotel, $30
- DJ, Offtrack: Monkey Timers & Remmy (JPN disco house, bs hong lim park, music gastro bar
- DJ, Cherry: Kitchen - DJs Loopinmotion (Kelvin Tan home club) & Rob Young play techno and Hall - Chambers (hiphop rnb pop edm), 133 cecil st (cbd), $30
- DJ, High House: Aldrin & Shaun Nocturnals (house tech progressive), One raffles place L61 lounge
- DJ, Yang: Back to the Old School 90s 00s, yang club clarke quay
- DJ, Potato Head: Seng Wei (disco house), 36 Keong Saik Rd, bistro bar
- DJ, 🏖Tipsy Unicorn: Kidd Royale and Mad Jester, Beach Club @ 36 Siloso Bch Walk (Sentosa)
- Drag, Tuckshop: Friday, 43 Neil Road (maxwell), lgbt drag bar
- DJ, ARK11: Space Bass Pink Party, ARK 11 Club @ Orchard Central Mall L11
- DJ, Club Rich: Bass Agents (hard bounce AU MY), @ 114 middle rd (bugis), asian club
- DJ, HQ: pres. HANG AOKI (GER techno), headquarters techno-house club @ 66A boat quay, $36,
- DJ, Tuff: ØGravity x Thugshop Presents - VONDA7 (prog house, melodic techno), tuff club @ 138 robinson rd cbd, $36
- DJ, CÉ LA VI: THEMBA (ZA afrohouse),marina bay sands hotel rooftop bar-club, $38
- DJ, Marquee: LIU (bass house, tech house), club @ marina bay sands shoppes, $45
Others / Arts Weekend
- 17 Feb- 3 Mar: Sailing By.... Exhibition of Chen Dongfan, 3 Kim Yam Rd (great world/river valley)
- 17-25 Feb: KIAT's Solo Art Show, Art Outreach @ Gillman Barracks (labrador park)
- 23 Feb - 2 Mar: BattleBox x Theatre: NO QUESTION OF SURRENDER: Three Days Before the Fall of Singapore, site-specific immersive theatrical exp Battlebox Bunker @ 51 Canning Rise (dhoby ghaut), $42
- 23-25 Feb: Bharathaa Arts: AARU: The Six Enemies of the Mind (tamil dance), Goodman Arts Centre Blackbox block m (mountbatten), $27
- 22-25 Feb: Malay play for kids: Hantu Kaki Kotor, national library, $20
- 23-25 Feb: Theatre: THE FACE OF JIZO by Hisashi Inoue staged by We Colour People x Theatre Boleh, Stamford Arts Centre @155 Waterloo St (bugis), $28
- 24-25 Feb: Kidsfest Theatre: I Believe in Unicorns, Victoria Concert Hall, $42
- 24 Feb: FTaylor Swift Friendship Bracelet Making Party, marymount, $45
- 24 Feb: Garden of Secrets Grand Opening Event (cafe-retail) with Singers Jason Yu & Fyrdaus Macbeth, DJs Olliedes & Akitokunt, Jagua Tattoo, Drag, pole etc, 37A Sultan Gate (kampong glam, nicoll hwy), $78 (kids free)
- 24-25 Feb: National Museum - End of Now Boarding Closing Weekend - Silent Disco, Music, Craft Programmes, national museum @ 93 stamford rd (bras basah, bencoolen, dhoby), various $35 to free
- 24-25 Feb: Singapore Airshow Public Weekend@Airshow , Changi Exhibition Center, shuttle bus at outside Singapore Expo Hall 5 (near mrt), $34 adult tix
- 25 Feb Sun: Carry Hope Carnival, Walk/Run, Singapore Sports Hub Stadium, free
- 24-25 Feb: DOUJINFES anime manga, Leisure Park Kallang (stadium mrt), free
- 26 Feb - 3 Mar: Portals of Longing by Refugee Artists living in Malaysia, Wisma Atria L1 (orchard),
- 28 Feb: SIAO CHAR BORS COMEDY FT. RUPALI BAHL (US), the projector golden mile tower, $22
- IVE THE 1ST WORLD TOUR , indoor stadium, $178
- 华艺节: Pei-Yu Hung 洪佩瑜 (tw singer-songwriter, chill pop), ESPLANADE Annexe Studio, $68
- EXISTS - reunion unplugged (MY rock), The Star Vista Theatre (buona vista), $85
- Chingay Parade 2024: Blossom - Day 2, F1 Pit Building (promenade), $20 more info @ https://www.chingay.gov.sg
- Black Metal Day: Surrender of Divinity (TH), Infernal Execrator, Ilemauzar, Nerraka, Nuurisk by Ventbox, WE Livehouse @ Atrix Building, 82 Lor 23 Geylang (bs. aljunied mrt), $45
- Bob Marley Birthday Bash 2024 Live with Reggae Remedy and DJs Rumshot, Sir Edy, The Stick (Reggae x Dub x Dancehall x Ska x Rocksteady ), The Coup Bar & Restaurant by BUNKERBUNKER!! @ 7 Ann Siang Hill, $15
- Cheap Buy Brawl: The CB Dogs, Overthrown, Class Sinners, C.H.U.T.E, Secret Army, Rejected Scums, Machine Easy, punk rock gig, Phil's Studio @ High Street Centre L3, $30
- SUTD Open House : Night Fiesta Celestia - Music Dance Performances etc, Singapore University of Technology and Design (upper changi), free
- Laselle: The Living Composers 2024 - Arrivals and Destinations Day 2 - acoustic... fusion, string quartet, guitar trio, Laselle SIA Theatre @ 1 McNally St (rochor), free RSVP
- The ITE Singer-Songwriters Showcase 2024, ITE College Central Ang Mo Kio, $4
- SSO: Singapore Symphony Orchestra - Magic Hour at Raffles Arcade Lawn, Raffles Hotel Lawn (city hall), free
- Candlelight: Candlelight: K-Pop Music on Strings with Vocalise String Quartet, The Arts House @ Old Parliament (city hall), $63
- Jocelyn Ng & Sueli Tang - pop & mandopop - piano & violin by Yamaha Music, tampines mall L4, free
- Cool Cats Jazz: Rai Maia (neo-soul hiphop) last, nco club @ 32 beach rd, $38
- Jazz Loft: Amanda Lee Swingtet , Blu Jaz L3 @ bali ln (bugis), $24
- Blu Jaz: Bushmen (reggae), Blu Jaz @ bali ln (bugis), free
- Esplanade 华艺节: The Sassy Princess 宫主刁蛮驸马骄 ft Law Ka-ying & Liza Wang by Boomabliss Cantonese Opera Troupe (HK), Esplanade Theatre, $38
- Esplanade 华艺节: Transplant 《移心 》by The Finger Players x RUDRA (puppetry x our Vedic Metal icons) - LAST, Waterfront Theatre, vid, $48
- 华艺节: Zheng Serenades by Pasir Ris Crest Secondary School Guzheng Ensemble 230 330, indoor, free
- 华艺节: Hits Rewind by Two Four And Six Fusion (beyond, jay chou, anita mui 715 815), indoor, free
- 华艺节: Nanyang Technological University Chinese Orchestra - Melodic Blooms 730 9pm, outdoor theatre, free
- 华艺节 : Dance a Dance from My Body by Choreographer: Chou Shu-yi 《我所起舞的地方》Last, Theatre Studio, $38
- 华艺节: Dear Governor Bao – A Crosstalk 相声 《包黑子坏坏》Last, Concert Hall, $38
- 华艺节: Jagua Tattoo Workshop《Jagua果胶纹身工作坊 》, $38
- Tipsy Flamingo: Tribute to Taylor Swift by Supershy by Tipsy Collective Day 2, Bistro Bar at Raffles City L1 (city hall), free/table
- Ek Shaam Suron Ke Naam ft Vidushi Suman Devgan on Vocals, SIFAS Annexe @ 3 Race Course Lane, $30
- The Objects That Made Us: Zhuo Yifeng's Hong Kong and Taiwan pop songs & records 那些陪着我们长大的港台歌曲, chinatown library @ chinatown point L4, free RSVP
- 24 Feb: NLB Central Arts Library Insider Series: These Goosebumps Moments: key figures in the performing arts industry share their experiences , national library (bugis) lobby, free
- DJ, DISJUNCTION Techno & PsyTrance: 4xF & Therapy Room - 2 Stages 16 DJS!, near Haw Par Villa, tix 🎟 $35
- DJ, EATMEPOPTART: ELECTRIC FEEL ft DJs KiDG & YA5TH (80s new wave, rock, pop, disco), Projector X GV: Ruby Lounge (L6) @ Orchard Cineleisure, $15
- DJ & Live Afternoon, Vibranté Music Festival by Group of DJs Asia (afrobeats, live saxophone by benson kong, live percussion by motus), Luxuria @ Tekka Place Mall Rooftop (rochor), $22
- DJ National Museum Silent Disco, Night at the Museum: Silent Disco Party - Closing of National Museum's Now Boarding, @ 93 stamford rd, $35
- DJ, Silent Disco: Pelagos Full Moon Silent Disco at Marina Bay Sands Observation Deck, MBS Hotel Rooftop, $45
- DJ, The Adults Are Dancing by Lincey x Fantastic Dinosaur , Wallich Manor Lounge @ Sofitel City Centre Hotel / Guoco (tg pagar), $27
- DJ, Snow Rave: The Ultimate Winter Party Experience (Rise of the Dragon) w lion dance (edm hard dance, rnb hiphop pop), Snow City @ 21 Jurong Town Hall (jurong east), $60 is open
- DJ? Kid Friendly: Tay Tay The Eras Party (taylor swift) with DJs Vall and Ayekay by hollandse country club, 22 Camden Park (bs japanese assc, adam rd/botanic), $40
- DJ & Live, The Exchange: The Annual 80's Night Party by Expat 101, Asia Square Tower 1 @ 8 Marina View (downtown mrt, cbd), $42
- DJ Evening, Sunny Side Up Rooftop Sessions by Thugshop x Fomohomo, lgbt friendly, Higher Ground @ 64 Boat Quay ,$21
- DJ, Two Queens Asia pres Stay Gold (disco, retro) with DJ Nicolette, queer, Bar NKD @ 95 Club St, free/bar
- Drag & DJ Party, RIOT! cum Baby Boy, lgbt hard rock cafe orchard cuscaden, $30
- DJ, iki: Latino Anthem (Reggaeton x Latin Pop), club iki @ ikigai izakaya riverwalk, $16
- DJ, Club Hell: Kpop in Hell, gay lgbt club @ 113 telok ayer st, $30
- DJ, ARK11: wastedsg Fraternity; The First Pledge (mainstage top40s), ARK 11 Club @ Orchard Central Mall L11, $22
- DJ, CULTURE: Full Moon UV Party, Sand Bar Sentosa @ 53 Siloso Beach Walk, free/rsvp
- DJ, Afrogroove: Black History Month, Blu Jaz @ bali ln (bugis), $15
- DJ, HQ: Friendly Waters with Dean Chew, Ramesh K, and Sivanesh (dtw, tropika, sivilian - underground sounds - from house to dnb funky hiphop) - downstairs: leland, loyboy, headquarters techno-house club @ 66A boat quay, $22
- DJ, High House: Mings & fred e (house tech progressive), One raffles place L61 (fmr 1 altitude), lounge
- DJ, Moonstone: Shane2Sweet (rnb hiphop funk soul jazz), Moonstone BAR @ 103 Amoy St, free/bar
- DJ, Offtrack: Reptile Skin Business Club - fruity rojak, bs hong lim park, music gastro bar
- DJ, Cherry: Posh Singapore (edm big room), club @ 133 cecil st (cbd), $22
- DJ, 🏖Manifest Pool Party feat DAYA + JAMIE HALL + KAVAN SPRUYT + DOBÉ (GER melodic house & techno), 1-Altitude Coast at The Outpost Hotel Sentosa, $36
- DJ, Zouk: DJ Blink (hardstyle, hard dance), zouk club clarke quay, $45
- DJ, CÉ LA VI Pres. MR SOUR (house, tech house), marina bay sands hotel rooftop bar-club, $38
- DJ, ICE CREAM SUNDAYS Presents: MONKEY TIMERS (JPN Disco, House) and farewell to Muto,Tanjong Pagar Distripark bs SAM @ 39 Keppel Road, eft $49
- DJ, Thugshop XXL Series - ANTIGONE & VANILLE (FR techno, industrial), MDLR club @ 62 cecil street (cbd), $47
- DJ, Marquee: CLAPTONE (GER deep tech house), marquee club @ marina bay sands shoppes, $45
- LIVE & DJ, ANIMAL TRAINER (SUI) Live on guitar & moog synth ft NICOSAN & MATSALLEH by ArtBeyond & ThugShop, tuff club @ 138 robinson rd cbd,$35
Sun, 25 Feb
- Esplanade 华艺节: Yo Lee 李友廷, Annexe Studio, $68
- 华艺节 : Woman Warrior: Mu Gui Ying 《穆桂英大破洪州》Starring: Law Ka-ying & Liza Wang, Boomabliss Cantonese Opera (HK), Esplanade Theatre, $38
- …and you let me in with open arms ft Flirt (GER screamo), heavener (MY shoegaze), Dongker (IDN post-punk garage revival) & Enola (IDN shoegaze), Intermission (postpunk) & Naedr (post-screamo), Phil's Studio @ High Street Centre L3, $25
- Singapore Symphony Orchestra Chamber: Sunday Afternoon Fancies (choral & string), Victoria Concert Hall, $20
- SMU Symphonia - Festiva XVII: Lights, Camera, Music, Action! (favourite films, musicals, and games), School of The Arts Concert Hall, $19
- Esplanade 华艺节: Parent-Child Workshop: Punch Needle "CNY Special" by Beadbadwolf, $50
- Esplanade: A Night with A Cappella by The Apex Project 515 615 715, free
- Esplanade: New Nanyang Jazz by Miss Lou 7pm 830, free
- Blu Jaz: L1: Dominic Chin & Jon (soul pop rnb) & L3 Jazz Loft Sunday Jam Session, Blu Jaz Cafe & Bar @ bali ln (bugis, kampong glam), free
- Lion City Brass Quintet - Yamaha Music, tampines mall L4, free
- Bedok NLB Drum Performance by SUN-DAC, Heartbeat Bedok Library L3, *free
- Blackbird: The Marmalade Jammers (big band swing music), Music Bistro Bar @ Gillman Barracks (labrador park), free/bar
- 🏖 DJ, Tanjong Beach Club: Dodgy Yamamoto + David J, 120 Tanjong Beach Walk, Sentosa
- 🏖 DJ, +Twelve Beach Club: Chris + Matty Wainwright, 54 Palawan Beach walk, Sentosa
27 Feb, Tue
- KNOWKNOW, capitol theatre (city hall), $98
- Music talk workshop & performance: Ning An - Bach Perspectives: Various Ways to Approach an Interpretation, NUS Yong Siew Toh Conservatory Orchestral Hall, $48 incl Lunch
- Live & DJ, Lunar: Hiền Hồ (VN), Club Lunar 月 (southeast asian diu club) @ Orchard Plaza L4
- Esplanade: Dichotomous Spring by composer Germaine Goh, clarinetist Ralph Emmanuel Lim and saxophonist Samuel Phua, indoor, free
- NUS RC4 Arts Night 24 : Morph, NUS university cultural centre, $20
Wed, 28 Feb
- Explosions in the Sky, Capitol Theatre, $98
- Shohini's EP launch show (somewhat jazzy singer-songwriter), 7 Tavern @ 1 Goldhill Plaza (novena)
- Warong Jalanan Kedai Kopi Acoustic - andi aziz & 1800-wicked, ribs & waflles @ 285 changi rd
- From 28 Feb: Kids Theatre: Errol's Garden by Singapore Repertory Theatre , KC Arts Centre @ 20 Merbau Rd (Robertson Quay) , $27
- Singapore Chinese Cultural Centre: Happy Sing Along 欢喜来唱歌 (nostalgia dialect and mandopop music), SCCC Auditorium @ 1 Straits Blvd (shenton way), $5
- Lemon 7's Alain Van Thilio Final Concert (90s alt rock), The Lemon Stand Comedy Club @ 12 Queen Street (Hotel Royal @ Queens, bras basah), donation
- Esplanade: IHclars at the Concourse! by SAF Central Band Clarinet Ensemble, free
- Cool Cats: The Blues Revue with Raw Earth, nco club @ 32 beach rd (esplanade), $30
- Awaken Generation Revival Night: worship Album Launch, bartley
- DJ, ARK11: Pyrexia, ARK 11 Club @ Orchard Central Mall L11
- DJ & live, Last of 42 Craig Road - Enclave Bar Cocktails & Dustyadam Live + DJ Rushamc, 42 craig road (outram)
29 Feb, Thu
GREENTEA PENG Cancelled, ESPLANADE, $102 - Lion City Jazz Festival - Jazz Composition Symposium – The Consolidation, Expansion and Longevity of Jazz, SCCC Auditorium @ 1 Straits Blvd (shenton way), $35
- NLB: Open Stage Originals: singer Tay Sia Yeun 郑夏韵, National Library Building Lobby (bugis), free
- * Flying V Metal Bar: Singer Songwriter Series - Raphael's Mercy & Dimension 124, bar @ The Adelphi B1 (city hall), free/bar
- Esplanade: 29 Feb - 3 Mar Sleeping Beauty 2024 by Singapore Ballet, Theatre, $48
- Esplanade: Love Blossoms by Priscilla Fong, Tina Lee (classical singing), free
- Cool Cats Jazz: Jazz to Funk with Elvira Arul & Chris Carpio, nco club @ 32 beach rd (esplanade), $30
- Kids Theatre: The Very Hungry Caterpillar Show, Victoria Concert Hall, $42
- DJ, Moonstone: Boogie Ball w KidG (disco), Moonstone BAR @ 103 Amoy St, bafree
- DJ, Offtrack: Sadat of Afrodisia (arab trap), bs hong lim park, music gastro bar
- Live & DJ, CABS Valentines Edition: Indonesian Live Music and Party ft DJ Nicole, Yang Club Clarke Quay, $24
- * DJ, Secret Pals x Brooklyn Bars - Brooklyn Beats Underground (hiphop rnb amapiano baile funk) - apetalkstrash, dee, knrck, pao2pat ft some guy (PH), Brooklyn Bar @ 14 Ann Siang Road (maxwell/chinatown), $15
- * DJ, Sopranos Bistro x Concorde Creative - ft Diraf, Ily Bag, M21Six (GER techno) Prob melodic house n techno, Sopranos Bar Bistro @ 18 Carpenter St (clarke quay)
- * The Marina Bay Sands Taylor Swift Light Show, marina bay sands
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2024.01.23 23:23 panderingmandering75 Trying to find a song I listened on youtube some time ago that had an animated twink in a thong
I remember it being japanese. Music was animated in such a way everything looked like it was a cut-out. There was a twink in a thong getting slowly dismantled and pulled apart to his limits before he finally goes ragged. There was no actual gore or blood, though.
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2024.01.23 23:22 panderingmandering75 Trying to find a song I listened on youtube some time ago that had an animated twink in a thong
I remember it being japanese. Music was animated in such a way everything looked like it was a cut-out. There was a twink in a thong getting slowly dismantled and pulled apart to his limits before he finally goes ragged. There was no actual gore or blood, though.
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2024.01.13 08:37 itsallalittleblurry2 The Buddha
We were at Base Camp Fuji for a while. Nights and early mornings were chill there. Piped-in liquid fuel heat stoves, two per, were used to warm the Quonset huts we were housed in. Those comprising Company streets of the same paved loosely with gravel or volcanic pumice. On rising tiers like stairsteps as the ground rose steeply toward the ever-present year-round snow capped mountain in the near distance from which the training camp took its name.
So the mornings were invigorating. And when you stepped outside, a panoramic view was presented. In the cool of early morning, the town far below at the base of the foothills, with its railway station from which you could journey anywhere you pleased, could not be seen for a while, until the mists burned away. Instead it was as if looking at the flat surface of a lake covered with a thick, impenetrable blanket of white fog.
And about halfway up on the steep slopes of the green-forested mountains on the far side was a Buddhist temple or shrine, in the form of that jovial deity. Quite large, and appearing as alabaster white as the lake of mist that hovered below it, against the encroaching dark green.
So a pleasant way each day to start the morning, before Hardass started yelling at your ass again.
A narrow road paved in asphalt, continuing to rise on its way past us, and winding steeply down into the valley below, was our physical connection there to the larger world.
A Japanese Army base was on the other side of it, their main gate opposite ours. Old enemies become fast friends and allies, and good men to now have on Our side. There rapid assistance in rescue and treatment saved or helped save the lives of many Marines of the unit that replaced ours when a typhoon knocked over huge fuel bladders mounted in sturdy steel frames, causing them to rupture and spread lighter fuel on top of streaming water down the terraces of our camp. One spark of ignition from one of the heaters in the quinsets, and the ground was on fire, with no way to escape it but run through it. Too many good Marines died, and too many others were gravely burned. But fewer than would have been if not for Japanese soldiers and medics responding bravely and quickly.
Go down the road a ways, and there was a small town nestled on the slope. A cozy bar there fronting on the road was, naturally, due to its proximity, a favored watering hole for Japanese military personnel. Few of them had much English, and none of us spoke Japanese behind a few basics, but “let me buy you a drink” is a universally understood language among military personnel wherever you happen to go. And cold beer and warm or hot saki helps halting conversation flow. And if you at least make an attempt, it was looked upon as a compliment, and with favor. I did meet one NCO there, though, with whom it was easy to communicate. His command of the English language was superior to my own, as I recall.
Behind the bar, in the other side of a narrow paved backstreet lane just before individual small homes began, was a small bath house under the same ownership as the bar. You walk through the misting drizzle in the cold of a dark night, enter through a wooden door, and approach the counter manned by a woman of middle years or a little less. You pay a fee, and ate given a clean towel, a pair of thong sandals with thick cork soles and woven straw straps, and a key to one of the small lockers in the changing room beyond the counter through another wooden door. On a lanyard that can be draped around your neck.
Behind that, through a hanging beaded curtain, is the bath itself. Not a sumptuous affair, that, as might be found in more posh metropolitan areas. No Olympic-sized communal baths of scented water with blooming hyacinth and lily pads floating luxuriously thereon, and fish tanks the size of Volkswagens filled with colorful carp for viewing pleasure and peaceful ambiance.
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2023.12.21 03:17 stinkface_lover Brandi stinkface story (written six year ago when she was in njpw)
Brandi Rhodes stood across the ring from Rikishi and Taguchi, behind her Cody was jumping up and down and shouting shit at them. How had she got into this position? Normally New Japan wouldn’t allow intergender matches, but ROH was much more easy going with WWE lite stuff like that, and this was a cross promotional show. That was the explanation for bringing in Rikishi, he was a nostalgia pop, so many people had fond memories of him in the attitude era, and even now whenever WWE brought him back he still got a massive pop. The stinkface was somewhat ironically praised as one of the most memorable finishing moves in the world. Looking at the size of his posterior that had only magnified in girth in the intervening years made her think it certainly would be memorable. Still, she’d only agreed to be in this match if ROH told him explicitly, repeatedly that the stinkface was banned. There’s no way her perfect face, with its flawless skin and lovely eyes would be anywhere near an obese Samoan man’s stinking ass, or a weedy, old Japanese guys ass either for that matter.
Rikishi had different ideas. He came back to wrestling for one reason, and that was to follow the legendary advice that Taguchi had given Kenny, to use the ass. Sometimes in his private moments he wondered what it was about sticking pretty women’s faces up his oversized ass. Was it the power? The humiliation? The gulf between something so beautiful and something so horrible being smushed into an unwilling combination? Yes, he guessed, to all of that, but at the end of the day it was about finding a way to scratch his never-ending itch. In the years following his semi-retirement his addiction to food had only grown, as had his problems with IBS, as he packed on the pounds he lost other things, like the ability to bend, or wash his ass properly. It didn’t matter how he bent in the shower, it was just too big for the water to ever fully cleanse. Sure, he might get cheeks cleaned, but in the depths where the sweat and fecal matter really built up, they were left untouched. He found on his frequent returns to wrestling that there was one cure, and that happened to be stuffing peoples heads up there. He could get them in deep, nuzzle their noses so close to his asshole it was just about possible to dislodge the sticky slimy substances that seemed to only exist to create a permanent, drilling itch that would haunt him his every waking moment.
Rikishi tagged in and Brandi immediately dashed towards Cody and tagged out. This was basically a handicap match anyway, there was no way she’d be taking much offense from either disgusting man. If it came down to it, she’d rather Cody get beat up than her. It would serve him right for boring her with comic books trivia every moment of every day. Seeing him opposed to Cody she realized how much bigger Rikishi had gotten in the intervening years. In WWE he’d been an obese man, yes, his legs had always looked like gelatinous tree trunk, his stomach had always bulged out like it was a balloon that was a little too inflated, he’d always had to make a noise like a deflating water bed if he got puffed out, but he’d still be relevantly human looking man. Now he was closer to Yokozuna levels of weight. Everything about him was oversized but being a Samoan most of the weight did go to the ass, which was a hideous sight to behold. It had always been bigger than her head, and indeed most people’s heads, but now it looked like it could consume her entire body. Brandi watched in fascinated horror as the two cheeks jiggled around like bean bags on a running machine. Wrestlers are famously cheap people, so while Rikishi grew he never even thought about buying wrestling gear that fit better. Most of his thongs had disintegrated due to overuse or just endless supply of ass sweat that they had to soak up on a nightly basis, but there was always old reliable, his first thong, the one he spent the most money on, and the one he never washed. As all other thongs fell in battle he developed the theory that washing them sped up the disintegration process. As such he refused to ever wash this one, much to his wife’s and children’s chagrin. He couldn’t lose this one. He had too many good memories of it. It was the thong he wore all those years ago when he gave Lita the stinkface. He was proud of that one. Other people seemed to like it too. Some weird anonymous guy on twitter messaged him almost monthly letting him know that was when he discovered his sexuality…it was weird. This was the thong that he wore when he stinkfaced Trish, the longest stinkface in wrestling up until that point. Over the years this thong and him had experienced so many different face shapes, people with big noses that pressed deep into his asshole like some kind of bead, people with small noses that squashed up against his asshole and made him feel like he was getting a prostate massage, no he’d never let this thong fall in battle, even if it barely fit anymore, and revealed so much of his he might as well not been wearing anything at all. He did admit it whiffed a bit.
As Brandi and Cody found out over the course of the match that while the stinkface was something to worry about, it was impossible to get through a match with Rikishi without gagging. The dried sweat that had gone rotten months ago that lived in between his fat belly folds would let out a pungent odor reminding everyone it was there. No matter how well ventilated the area if you’re even near a seven hundred plus pound man, who’s wearing an ancient piece of unwashed underwear and who has the ass about the length of an average child you will be able to smell that man’s ass. The smell was so foul that just standing on the ring apron Brandi felt like she was going to gag. It was like a malevolent brown cloud, that was just expanding and expanding encompassing everything in its smelly presence. She just wanted this match over. How much stamina could a man that fat have? He had to way about the same as a rhino, right? Did they have much energy? Brandi didn’t know much about animals apart from that she liked to hunt them, so while her mind slipped away from the match and she pondered the fuel reserves of rhinos she totally missed Taguchi locking in the ankle lock and Cody tapping out. The ringing of the bell snapped her out of her musings and she looked down on her husband screaming in pain on the floor. Well, she thought, at least the match is over and I can go back to spending his money, hope I won’t have to hear him whine about this for too long. She hated watching him talk too much, his tongue was so big and fat she thought he must be having a constant overreaction to something, that was the only reason it could be so swollen.
The crowd roared with shock as Rikishi kicked his legs out and landed full force on Cody’s chest. Brandi could see, and worse smell where the narrative was going and tried to make a quick exit, but Taguchi had already perved (and yes that is a verb) his way behind her and had grabbed both her arms and shoved them up behind her back. She screamed and kicked out her legs as Taguchi forced her into the ring.
‘Please don’t do this Taguchi.’ Brandi screamed as she writhed around and tried to stop herself being pulled by both arms into the ring. The struggle was futile. Rikishi had already waddled over and was lending a pudgy hand. A hundred and forty-four-pound woman fighting for her life can put up quite the battle. Rikishi was working up a second sweat just trying to keep her in the ring. Brandi flung her arms, kicked, screamed, tried everything she could to wiggle out of the two men’s grip. Deep down she knew it was pointless. If you were a woman and got in the ring with Rikishi, there was really one ending. He had an ass and it needed to be satiated. After putting up the best effort to escape she could she felt the last bit of energy leave her body. She wanted to keep going, but her legs felt like iron and arms like limp noodles. The two of them dragged her to the corner and forced her down onto her bum. Before adrenaline and terror could give her a second wind Taguchi had already darted out the ring to grab both her arms. He wrenched them back behind her. Brandi hated books, and never read anything but gossip magazines and as such didn’t have the literary prowess to describe his grip as anything other than vice like, as cliched as that was. Taguchi holding her arms back also did have the unfortunate side affect that it caused her head to jut forward. She could feel the eyes of the crow drill holes into her. It was almost a similar physical sensation as the drilling itch deep in Rikishi’s ass. She wanted to sink into the corner, hold her hands over her face and hide. Hide from the expectant and hungry glares of the hundreds of American fans, all of whom were chanting ‘stinkface, stinkface’ louder and louder. God how could anyone cheer for this man? Brandi personally believed all fat people should be locked up in cages, only to be wheeled out when beautiful people like her started to feel bad about themselves. They would serve as a reminder of the discrepancy in human’s value. Their only use was for reconfirmation of how perfect she indeed was. Fidgeting her arms desperately she gave one last attempt to worm her way out of this quite literally stinking situation. Putting both her legs on the matt she pulled with all her might and for a second she almost felt Taguchi’s grip break. She closed her eyes and strained with every muscle she had, she could feel his grip going. Something a lot of non-wrestlers don’t know is how hot it is under those lights, each one feels like a mini little sun blaring down on you. This was especially true in a small ROH show in a poorly aired out building in the middle of southern California in the middle of summer. Everyone was hot, everyone was sweating, and in the effort for freedom Brandi had worked up quite the sweat, which was making her skin slippy, it was almost impossible for Taguchi to hold on. He had to, he knew that. Kenny had won the title with a stinkface, Rikishi was getting booked, ass-based wrestling was starting to gain prevalence. Deep in his heart he knew ass attacks were the future of wrestling, but one man can not fight the stigma of the world alone. He needed Rikishi as an ally, and if that meant helping him stinkface women wrestlers stupid enough to get anywhere near a ring with him in then that was a price a he was willing to pay.
To Brandi’s horror her face sunk into something warm and smelly. Please don’t be his ass, she said to herself as she stopped fighting and opened her eyes, it wasn’t his ass, it was in fact his crotch, during her struggle he’d waddled over to her, he wanted to surprise her with a stinkface while her eyes were closed, but he got too close, and she’d nutted him in the balls. Rikishi knew it was an accident, but he was mad now. He was already planning on giving her a long one before this, but now he was going to try and break the record. Brandi took a second to fully register how disgusted and embarrassed she was with her positioning, it descended upon her like a vampiric predator.She flung herself backwards to get away from his crotch. To her dismay this allowed taguchi to regain his grip. There really was no escape now. Brandi sighed with acknowledgement of her fate. Rikishi was close to her now, and the smell wafting from him was unbelievable, he smelt like a blocked-up sewer if someone had poured a load of rotten fruit into it, just to add extra spice to the aroma. She tried to bargain, it was hard to do between all the spluttering and coughing that was a body’s natural reaction being this close to a sweating, unwashed, mostly naked monstrously overweight man.
‘Please, please Taguchi, let me go. I’ll let you stinkface me after, or Cody, whatever you want, just don’t keep me here.’ Said Brandi shaking her arms for emphasis. The thought of having a forty-year-old pervert doing his funky butt dance in her face was almost equally unappealing but she could smell a different kind of funk wafting from Rikishi and she knew Taguchi was at least well washed. Taguchi had to admit it was a tempting prospect. It was fairly well agreed on that Brandi was one of the better-looking women in New Japan. It was also sort of a default as she was the only one. It also wasn’t like many people were jumping to go up his ass, even if it would give them a chance to get to know the innovator of the future of wrestling a little bit better. Unfortunately for Brandi the universe has a sense of narrative. It’s like when you wake up and tread on a piece of leggo, or the keys you through on the floor after an exhausting shift at work, in the eyes of the universe that’s the start of a narrative that your day is only going to get worse, and it will do it’s damndest to make that narrative unfurl. It’s the same case if you’re in the ring with Rikishi, once he’d decided you’re going up his ass there’s not a lot you can do to unravel that narrative. Taguchi being knowledgeable in the ways of ass himself knew this. Also, he didn’t particularly want Rikish’s wrath to turn to him. He tightened his grip on Brandi’s arms as an answer. No way out she thought to herself and tried to steel herself for the degradation to come. But if smells could melt steel, it’d be possible for the odors wafting out Rikishi to do so. Brandi moaned again. Rikishi turned around. She was face to face with his ass now. She didn’t want to see it, especially not this close, they were only a couple of inches apart. Her eyes dropped down. Don’t look she told herself over and over, but in times of stress your brain goes into survival mode and sometimes causes you to do things you desperately don’t want to. Brandi knew that when she was submerged in there she’d have to find a way to breath, his ass needed a bit of study to work that one out. Slowly she brought her eyes up, noting the discoloration rash on his meaty thigh where they rubbed together when he walked. The skin was all red and some of it was blistering, the view only got worse she took in his two great cheeks. If you looked up cellulite in the dictionary there’d be a picture of Rikishi’s ass. Worse than that was the number of dimples, pimples and zits, his ass looked like cracked rock left out in Sahara dessert. In every way it was the exact opposite of Brandi’s flawless face. It was covered in stretch marks, they looked like little lines to map, but no matter how you followed the directions of the map it only ever lead you up his ass. Finally, she looked as deeply as she could in the crack, she swore she could see his skin darken. She hoped it was just another discoloration and not anything else. Oh God she was going to find out soon. The crowd was getting louder and louder. How had this been allowed for so many years? Allowed on national tv at that, it was the most humiliating thing imaginable. Her gorgeous face was going to be used as toilet paper for a sweaty beast of a man. It was too much. It was all too much. Brandi’s resolve broke and she screamed at the horror of it all. The second she opened her mouth Rikishi plunged backwards. The fumes were making tears fill Brandi’s eyes, they widened in terror as she saw Rikishi’s butt crack open as he bent towards her, and then before she could grasp what had happened her face had been gobbled up in the fat mans ass. The crowd erupted. For a moment neither moved. They were both taking stock of their entirely different situations. Rikishi was feeling great. While Brandi’s nose wasn’t very big, it was large enough he could already feel it pressing into his leathery thong. Her face would certainly be suitable to scratch his itch, maybe give him a couple days reprieve from it. Brandi’s thick jet-black hair was tickling the sides of his bum cheeks causing them to twitch and jiggle. He loved that feeling. He also loved that he could feel her head struggling around in his lower extremity, sometimes she’d press into the side of a cheek and take a breath through her mouth, as she exhaled he could feel her cool breath on the side of his cheek. It was like having a very gentle fan in your butt. Yes, having a pretty woman up your ass was the way to live.
Brandi on the other hand was in a very slimy, sticky and worse of all very real nightmare. She hadn’t had a chance to close her mouth before the assault of Rikishi’s ass and now she was tasting all kind of foul substances. Some of them tasted like iron, others salty, they were all beyond foul. His ass was so big and so deep she felt like there was no limit to how far her face could sink into its abyss. His two giant butt cheeks hugged her head. Every time his butt tensed and relaxed it felt like she was surrounded by very fleshy shifting sand. More than anything in the world she wanted Taguchi to let go of her arms, so she could as least push against the doughy cheeks, at least slap them or do something to distract her from the fact that she was actually, factually up another human being’s ass. How can one come back from something like that? The worst part of the stinkface, one could argue, was that for the rest of your life you’d know that at one point in rime you were nothing more than a human butt plug for a unhygienic fat man. However, one wouldn’t argue that because the worst part of the stinkface was the smell. The move lived up its namesake, it stunk. Descriptions of the smell flashed through Brandi’s head, images of blocked drain pipes, festival porta loos loomed in her mind, but none of them grasped the muskiness of his ass. It was like having your head pushed into a very damp, incredibly humid swamp. The slime and ass sweat coated her face. It dribbled into her mouth. She could feel the liquids corrupting every pore of her face. She tried to close her mouth, to stop the attack but Rikishi pushed backwards harder causing her tongue to roll out and lick the inside of his cheek. Brandi gagged while rikishi laughed with joy. The crowd was chanting faster now. To match them Rikishi had started twerking his ass. With every twerk Brandi sunk in deeper until there was nowhere left. Her face smushed up against his asshole. There was a thin layer of fabric covering it, but that was almost worse. From his time in WWE Cody had told Brandi how Rikishi only had one thong left and it’d never been washed. Behind it she could feel the outline of a gaping asshole. Her nose was being shoved against it so hard by Rikishi she could almost feel it going in. How many women had been in this position she wondered. Lining the unwashed thong was probably long forgotten particles of their makeup, of their skin and tears as they endured the same torment Brandi was enduring now. Her belly moaned. It was so hot, and the smell and tastes were so foul, she felt so nauseous and the rhythmic thrusts of his ass weren’t helping. Rikishi was now moving his ass in a circular motion. Brandi tried to resist, but it was like trying to resist the undercurrent of the sea, her head lolled backwards and forwards at the whims of another mans ass. How long had she been up there? She could feel the sticky mucus that leaked out his Rikishi’s ass minute by minute coat itself over her face. It burnt her eyes and tongue, it tasted oddly sweet, but with a tinge of copper. Was he ever going to let her out of his stinking crater? Brandi had been struggling against the grip of Taguchi, but after what felt like an eternity her arms went limp. It was so hot, she’d be so thoroughly dehumanized and embarrassed. She was so tired. As he rubbed back and forth with reckless abandon Brandi reflected that she was being treated as little more than human toilet paper. She could feel all the months of built up sludge and grime dislodge itself and find a new home on her face. Stink particles were worming their way onto her skin particles and making an unholy alliance with each other. Her face had been corrupted by his soggy ass. Rikishi after a lot of rubbing, a lot of jiggling, finally, finally felt like he was clean down there. The itch had been satiated.
Rikishi let Brandi go. Her head rolled forward she felt all the blood rush to her face in utter, abject embarrassment. The fans eyes bore into her. They’d seen it all, her degradation had been way too public. Now they were watching to see what her reaction was. She just wanted to scrape and scrape at her face to remove all the, hopefully, invisible filth. Her legs had turned to water and her stomach felt like it had turned into a blender. She choked and spluttered. She bit against one of the ropes to try and get the taste of ass sweat out of her mouth. Taguchi let go of her arms, they flew immediately up to her face, she dragged them over her stinking skin trying to get the dirt of Rikishi’s ass off her. It didn’t matter, she could feel it all over her skin. She’d been expecting for the stench to subside when he moved away, but she’d been up his ass so long the smell had really burrowed into her skin. Even now in clean air there was no reprieve from the scent of the man’s ass. Cody stumbled over holding his chest. He went to cradle her head and help her out the ring, but the stench of ass was almost like a physical wall. Her eyes widened as he recoiled. Cody loved his wife and took the hit of passing through the forcefield of stench. He made sure not to touch her face though. He helped her out the ring. As they stumbled towards the back, Brandi in between dry heaving and gagging turned and got one last look at Rikishi, him and Taguchi were dancing like mad men in the ring. Brandi made a promise to herself that as soon she got to the back she’d use every cleaning product ever manufactured to try and pull this stench off her skin, but the truth of the matter was she’d spent almost ten minutes up another human being’s ass, it would be a long, long time before the stench of it ever left her nostrils.
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2023.12.09 23:17 Competitive_Oil5227 An open letter to new hosts from a very experienced host.
Many years ago, someone told me about this new thing launching in my city called Airbnb. It was interesting, exciting, and I had a spare room so I signed up. I was host #4 in the city of Chicago. Many years later, I have hosted tens of thousands of people and currently have about 30 properties that are consistently ranked some of the best.
You are excited to start your very own Airbnb, sitting there thinking about the untold riches headed your way. Don't be fooled, if you are running things correctly nothing about this experience is going to be 'passive income'. More like agonizing income. Earmark half of the earnings for therapy; someone is going to need it.
You are going to spend time and energy setting it up. Some of you will go buy many plastic items from Walmart, some will spend 30K at Crate and Barrel. What you don't know is that none of it matters. Regardless of pedigree, guests will decide they don't like your porch furniture so the dining chairs will be out in the rain.
You will find mystery stains in mysterious places, as the only place anyone wants to eat cranberry jello shots is while reclining on your sofa. The art that you carefully find and buy from local fairs will either be stolen or shoved under the bed for being controversial. Nothing you place will be there for long; obviously a 90 pound woman will decide to swap the living room and bedroom furniture so she could have her head pointing to the East. It will not matter that you have custom blinds fitted into each window, as guests will yank the decorative curtains closed and use greasy hair clips to mush them in the middle. Every single item in the home will be unplugged during every singe stay, everything from the bedside lamps to the outlet behind the refrigerator.
You are going to have beautiful photos taken. Some of you will take snapshots with your Iphone...but you will do it while naked so we can see your bits in a mirror two rooms away. Some of you will spend thousands of dollars for an industry professional that will come it with a lighting rig and a drone. What you don't know is that it doesn't matter. Guests will never be able to understand your space and all will complain that the photos were not accurate. They will have either reviewed the photos for about 20 seconds while on the subway or spent 12 hours dissecting each image and making a list of everything pictured to complain about later. 'It looked bigger', 'Photos showed light filled rooms but it was very dark when I arrived at 10 PM', 'the photo shows a grey pillow on the sofa but it is now red, I need a refund.'
The better your photos are, the more likely someone in Russia will also like them and they become scam airbnb listings. If you include floor-plans, guests will assume that those are just a suggestion and you forgot to include the Japanese soaking tub and 5 extra bedrooms that must exist.
You are going to carefully describe your property. It won't matter as no one will read more than two sentences. You will still get a barrage of 'I thought this place had a hot tub' or 'there are 7 people here but I can find only one bed, what are you going to do about it'. Guests will universally be unable to figure out anything. Immediately upon arrival, they no longer understand how to use a microwave, what a dimmer switch is, or that using an iron in the shower is likely going to pop a breaker. For some, once they set foot on your property even the sheer act of walking will take too much thought and they will sit down on the lawn until you arrive to assist.
You are going to carefully clean and supply the space. That first time, you will look at the loo roll and think 'how many should I leave out for two people for two days'...whatever you decide will be wrong. Each guests will expect at least 8 rolls per person, per day. What they do with it all is a mystery, as you will find bits of poo on the towels, bedding, shower curtain liner. You'll learn that toilets can be shattered, that the only spot anyone will want to hang their 50 pound wedding dress on to steam it out is on the delicate arm of a mid century light fixture. Your carefully selected bed pillows will somehow disappear and $3 amazon prime pillows will appear.
People will book a room with a kitchenette and expect to cook an 18 pound turkey.
You will think long and hard about your refund policy. It does not matter, as no one ever needs trip insurance or to cancel a reservation until an immediate family member dies the day before they are to arrive. You'll be shocked at how many people will have a dead grandmother. Or they manage to break three legs. Or it looks like a week of rain, so a guest who is allergic to water needs to reschedule. You'll learn to look forward to airbnb customer service calling you to try and strong-arm you into giving full refunds for everything under the sun, from the guest sneezing upon arrival or the fact that you kicked everyone out for smoking meth.
Speaking of smoking, the first time you clean your listing you will be concerned because there is a whiff of smoke lingering from the last guests jacket. Within a year, you'll own three ozone machines and carry a spray bottle of white vinegar in your briefcase (just in case) and at a single sniff know the brand of cigarettes, what dispensary the pot was from, or if someone need a little crack to get motivated.
You will learn that it does not matter if it is 4 AM, your guests needs a (corkscrew, tampon, 13 more rolls of toilet paper, or all of the above) immediately or they will consider the inconvenience in your review. You will quickly understand that hell hath no fury like a guest who has learned the terror hosts have of a three star review. You will get requests for cleaning fee refunds, backed up by pictures of the inside of the basement furnace closet. Or of the baseboard behind the 400 pound tv credenza. Or of someone else's dirty anything downloaded from the internet.
You will get refund requests for ant infestations and squint at the picture of what could be a few ants on a dinner plate, but realize the picture was taken on the outside terrace. Ladies will run screaming out of your space because of a housefly and expect you to come kill it. At 7 AM on Sunday. The same ladies will then open all of the windows and remove the screens to take instagram photos, but then call at 10PM on the same Sunday because they left the windows open and there are mosquitos in the house.
You'll basically become one of those truffle sniffing pigs, but you'll be sniffing out used condoms in nightstand drawers, mystery pills that have rolled under the sofa, and thong panties. Speaking of panties, you'll develop a lost and found that no one wants to be found. Frayed cell phone chargers, stained nursing bras, about ten million hair things. You'll initially be excited when there is a bottle of premium vodka left behind in the freezer, until you drink part of it and realize that there appears to be a pubic hair floating in it.
In one year, you will destroy at least 5 vacuum cleaners...because you will soon realize that every guest strips down naked at arrival and spends the rest of their stay strategically ripping out all of their hair in different parts of your listing. The only logical solution is to vacuum every single thing, from areas rugs to stove tops.
You'll see guests roll up with 12 ESA dogs, 40 trash bags of dirty laundry to wash, at least one or two ladies who are either hairdressers or prostitutes (possibly both!). At least once a quarter you'll walk in on someone still naked in bed, the guest having forgotten that they were leaving that day. Your neighbor will call to request that your 400 pound guest shut the blinds while masturbating,
You'll drive by your property to see three men in a line urinating in the front yard and be impressed at their precision and just keep on going.
You'll learn to treat some weird pre booking questions as routine (is it ok to ship 35 amazon packages to you in advance of my stay) and some as red flags (anyone asking for any discount at any time). You'll realize that the people who spend $1200 on a place for 4 days are less likely to be horrible complainers than the people who spend $100 for the same property for two weeks in the off season.
You will become accustomed to living your life around the airbnb app notification. It does not matter if it's your wedding day, you are in the middle of getting your teeth cleaned, or your annual review at work...anytime that thing goes off and it is an inconvenient time to look it means someone is locked out of the property.
You will meet scammers, schemers, angry boomers who should really be at the Marriott, neighbors booking to have sex with their wife (or maybe even your wife) on the dining room table, and at least 50 cleaning people who wander into your life but then disappear right before a unit is to be cleaned. You will learn to have sympathy with customer support when you realize they are working in the middle of the night in a call center trying to understand what in the hell these American people are talking about.
But, magically, one day you will know it all. Everything in your airbnb (including your own soul) will be a little bit squashed and broken....but somehow hosting has become predictable. You have learned the quirks. You have idiot proofed the listing. You have hit on a magical hosting formula that works for you and keeps you sane.
That is when you can starting counting the money!
(By the way, everything referenced above has happened to me.)
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2023.12.09 16:43 EvolMada Charity raffle for my buddy Lucas
| Another benefit for my buddy Lucas!! Lucas is 13 and lost his mom in November. He now lives with his aunt and uncle a loving and caring family. They have a small home and need more space to help Lucas have his own room. So I’m helping by raising funds to try and help support an addition on the house for Lucas to have his own room. 3 different works of art to help raise funds for Lucas. You can go to my website link in my bio to help support this worthy cause. www.alphatangolima.com $10 spots. Drawing on Christmas night at 8pm EST. Tim Rowland of Rowland Cutlery donated an awesome Bunka style Japanese influenced kitchen knife. 195mm blade (7.75") 26c3 at 63rc Handle is Nicaraguan cocobolo and stabilized birdseye maple Alpha Tango Lima The Needle 13.5” TL 80CRV2 dressed with blue died and stabilized curly Maple scales. Re-Donated by Dan last month’s winner to raise more funds for Lucas. Alpha Tango Lima The David 8.5” TL 4” BL Antiqued 5/32” 8670 textured and a tapered tang. Bolstered Redwood Burl and stabilized birch plywood scales with natural micarta liners and black and brown Micarta pins. With a 1/4” natural thong tube. Thank you for your support. Please share so we can help support Lucas!! Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Happy Holidays or whatever you celebrate with friends and family! submitted by EvolMada to knives [link] [comments] |
2023.12.09 16:39 EvolMada Charity Raffle for my buddy Lucas
| Another benefit for my buddy Lucas!! Lucas is 13 and lost his mom in November. He now lives with his aunt and uncle a loving and caring family. They have a small home and need more space to help Lucas have his own room. So I’m helping by raising funds to try and help support an addition on the house for Lucas to have his own room. 3 different works of art to help raise funds for Lucas. You can go to my website link in my bio to help support this worthy cause. www.alphatangolima.com $10 spots. Drawing on Christmas night at 8pm EST. Tim Rowland of Rowland Cutlery donated an awesome Bunka style Japanese influenced kitchen knife. 195mm blade (7.75") 26c3 at 63rc Handle is Nicaraguan cocobolo and stabilized birdseye maple Alpha Tango Lima The Needle 13.5” TL 80CRV2 dressed with blue died and stabilized curly Maple scales. Re-donated to raise even more from Lucas. This knife was won last month by my buddy Dan who re-donated this knife to raise even more funds. Alpha Tango Lima The David 8.5” TL 4” BL Antiqued 5/32” 8670 textured and a tapered tang. Bolstered Redwood Burl and stabilized birch plywood scales with natural micarta liners and black and brown Micarta pins. With a 1/4” natural thong tube. Thank you for your support. Please share so we can help support Lucas!! Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Happy Holidays or whatever you celebrate with friends and family! submitted by EvolMada to knifemaking [link] [comments] |
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