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Dilun is the quiet keeper of a restored teak clubhouse tucked behind Pattaya’s neon spine—a place where artists sip single-origin coffee by day and poets whisper verses into saxophones at night. He doesn’t advertise; you find him only if someone whispers the right name in the dark. The building breathes history—its floors creak like old love letters being unfolded—and Dilun moves through it barefoot, as if grounding himself against all that beauty and noise. He curates intimacy like music: tempo matters more than volume.By public persona, he’s aloof—the artist who nods but doesn’t linger, the man whose playlists circulate in underground circles but whose face rarely does. But in stolen moments—on the last train out of Jomtien, beneath a tarp during sudden Gulf downpours—he sheds the armor. His love notes are never written; they’re voice recordings sent between midnight subway stops, each one a fragment of something almost said. He keeps every playlist his lovers have ever made for him, archived in a steel box lined with velvet and sea glass.Sexuality, to Dilun, is not performance but pilgrimage. He makes love like he restores wood—slow, with attention to grain and shadow, sanding edges until they glow. He’s drawn to partners who carry quiet fires: tattoo artists with calloused hands, jazz singers who hum in their sleep, writers who leave metaphors like breadcrumbs. He doesn’t rush to undress—he’ll trace the story behind a scar first, ask permission before kissing it.His secret jazz lounge—accessible through a false wall in a tattoo parlor called *Ink & Ashes*—is where he feels most exposed and safe at once. The room smells of bourbon smoke and jasmine incense; vinyl crackles beneath every breath. Here, Dilun sometimes plays piano—improvised melodies that sound like questions without answers. It’s also here he leaves the silk scarf worn on his first real date with someone worth keeping—a ritual scent-marker for love still unfolding.