"Popular among my friends' boyfriends" is hardly anything beyond "name recognition". Unlike you, after the same thirty years in Thailand I don't speak much Thai and I certainly wouldn't be watching Thai television. I rarely pick up a printed newspaper unless I'm in Starbucks and I'm really, really bored. How is Thonglor 55 (in every sense in which you use it) these days? Still using it as one of your email addresses?