patongphil

Wow this has got to get the brain surgeon of the year OP for Phuket.

Any ideas here? I bought a Upod for my little daughter for 4,000 baht but not impressed at all. Cannot connect fast enough to wifi for decent viewing of nursery rhymes, cartoons etc so she has now taken over my Ipad leaving me with nothing.

Basically looking for something that can connect to youtube at a decent enough speed and with a fair screen resolution so I can claim my ipad back.

Anything from 8,000 baht down would be ok - even a second hand item.

Just a question but why does the OP's friend not post the question himself?

Only one response to this - RUN RABBIT RUN.

Kallot, Say Juan, near tesco

What are their opening times? Every time I drive past it looks like it is closed.

I am building a village with my wife and we dont offer any cars just one air con. the village is 70% sold and we have stopped advertising because we cannot build the houses quick enough . Most Thai people do not like old houses. Dont ask me why they seem to want a new house , maybe keeping up with the friends .

No ghosts in new houses.

Ghost thing, is just an excuse. Who would not prefer a new house, when it is paid for in cash, by your beloved partner?

Besides houses are so poorly built, so an old house quickly becomes worthless.

Mate you really need to talk to some Thais about ghosts and houses before you comment.

Here are my two favorite Phuket restaurants 2013:

Number 6 Restaurant in Patong: Good and affordable authentic thai food. Don't waste your time waiting for a table in the Number 6 Restaurant on the main road, but ask the waiter for the free shuttle bus up to their second restaurant up in the hills. It's more quiet there and you have a wonderful view over the bay. Unfortunately, the waiters are a little bit slow, but the food is very good.

Kata Kitchen in Kata Beach: If you like personal service and authentic thai food, don't miss Kata Kitchen in Kata Beach. It's quite a walk away from the main road, but they offer a free pickup service: cheap cheap and good good! Check my review on Phuket-Trip

Have a good Dinner

genuine thai food in the tourist ghetto? dont think so..

What do you think the Thais that live there eat???

I wonder how much her Wellies are worth?

Funny Thing Today we Phuket Game Fishing Club took an American visitor out Fishing and he really wanted to catch a Wahoo . We got him one and we got 16+ 1 1/2" Steaks out of it Great eating.DSC00476.JPG

Why didn't you put it back into the water for others to enjoy as well ?

This is called wound and release. Are we "trolling" instead of trawling for fish??

I wonder what the fish would prefer - to be "wounded and released", as you put it, or bashed on the head and cut up into 16 steaks?

mom and pop in isaan about 25 for a large Leo ,3 for 75 ,not bad eh

Mate you have either been on too much sauce for too long or are still living in about 1970.

25 baht for a lrge Leo Bullsh*t.

Sorry mate cannot really help there but see many rentals on the road and have never heard of anyone having a problem.

There are lots for rent in Patong. Try outside the kasikorn bank on the road on the southern end of the beach.

Anyone have a good contact for installing stainless steel security screens/ burglar bars on both sliding doors and opening windows?

Funny Thing Today we Phuket Game Fishing Club took an American visitor out Fishing and he really wanted to catch a Wahoo . We got him one and we got 16+ 1 1/2" Steaks out of it Great eating.DSC00476.JPG

Why didn't you put it back into the water for others to enjoy as well ?

first it is a very tasty fish, secondly, not very easy to handle as he got razor sharp teeth, so put him back is always a gamble with your fingers if not handle correctly.

regarding the tip walking down the beach road and search for it, dont think so, you will find mostly king mackerel, wahoo is not very common in sea food restaurants here.

Ok, so we go out purposely trying to catch a Wahoo, for a paying client, and when we catch one, only then we realise he is a really nasty fish with BIG NASTY teeth so we KILL him just in case he hurts us.

Oh and just for the record he tastes nice too.

Phuket Game Fishing Club indeed.

Showed this to my wife she just shrugged her shoulders and said "trust no one". Her brother asked to borrow 1,000 bht and she asked for some form of deposit, car, gold, motorcycle...said the only person she trusted was herself.

My wife thinks the whole family is in on the scam including your wife. No doubt once all is done and dusted your wife's bank account will have a few extra zeros behind it.

My God this is sick. Your wife obviously moves in different circles to my family.

Funny Thing Today we Phuket Game Fishing Club took an American visitor out Fishing and he really wanted to catch a Wahoo . We got him one and we got 16+ 1 1/2" Steaks out of it Great eating.DSC00476.JPG

Why didn't you put it back into the water for others to enjoy as well ?

Can she cook tasty food?

Is your house clean?

Does she deal with the motorbike taxis/ tuk tuks/ shopping at the market/ insurance salesman/ etc etc?

If so who cares?

Whoo Hoo did my 90 day report today.

5 mins to get there on the bike and parked right outside

5 mins to get the report done

5 mins back home

Thats more like it!!!

I just read on Phuket Wan that three over stayers were arrested at the PTT gas station on Chao Fa West in Chalong at 10 AM this morning. Maybe time to carry my passport around.

Crazy and very sad.

For the first time, I'm carrying a photo-copy of my passport, TM stamp and card.

I would never carry my passport around with me. To lose it would be a massive pain-in-the-arse, not to mention, a loss of income.

If I get stopped and the photo-copy is refused, then a quick call to the missus to bring the original, is a much better option.

I am never without my passport, it's what you should do so that is what I have always done!!

NO WAY....I am with KB on this one....

Never carry original passport around town.

You take your passport with you to the beach to the bar out for a run,?? just asking for trouble damage or lost passport to risky....

A photo copy of passport picture page and TM arivial card stuffed under the motorbike seat is all you need ....

Exactly what I have started doing since this latest cr$p started. Never been stopped yet though.

Ok:

Many thanks. I will not add the snake heads and depend on the catfish to eat the baby nins.

Hey Donald if this is a sport fishing pond then I have much the same. I put a dozen spotted featherbacks in about 18 months ago and they are now about 70 to 80 cm long. They eat the Tilapia Fry. They are also breeding in the pond. I bought them at a local market at the aquarium stand - they are pretty common.

Anyway they are very good sport fish to catch and also good to eat.

I have also put in Jungle Perch for the same reasons. These I catch in the wild and transfer back into my pond,

Here is one of the small ones bred in the pond.

And one of the Jungle Perch just about to make his way back to my pond.

Wife's driving 55555 is all I can say.

Try Doctor V on the southern end of Rat-U Thid road in Patong.

There is also a very good place opposite the main Tesco Lotus just outside Phuket Town called Phuket Aesthetic Surgery Clinic 076 304 222.

.....and I bet you didn't see a single Thai under the age of thirty.

Whoo boy are you wrong there. I went today as well and there were at least 2 school groups there at the same time - about 100 odd little noise machines running around.