easyas

Please tell me why mine wife can not stay at a party in Belgium and come later at home then me. Shy come home with a taxi and he stop at the door. But shy have to step outside and have to walk 10 minutes to go to the taxi. Yes I am sometimes afraid but then again, must I lock up mine wife ho is 32 years old/young? Its same when you tell me that shy cane not walk with shorts in the summer.

I understand that English is not your native language. But I must advise you that when referring to a female you should spell that word as "she", not "shy".

Also, when referring to people use "who", not "ho". People may get a very wrong idea of what you intended to say, especially when it comes to women

-Chad-

or shall I refer to you as -English- teacher?

-Eddy1960- sends 19 Posts in more than 5 years and you scare him off, even more?

Chad, please, write some posts in French, Dutch or German, Belgium has all three languages!

Not nice! No, "Fingerspitzengefuehl", a bit 'indelicate."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belgium

Just to confuse the issue, arguably Belgium has four languages! Dutch Dutch and Flemish Dutch are quite significantly different from each other.

Wikipedia, he say:

The differences between Dutch in the Netherlands and Flemish are significant enough for Flemish and Dutch television shows with rather informal speech customarily to become subtitled for the other country in the standard language.

So one of the attackers left his shoes behind......that will give the police something to go on

Yes, they're on the scent!

This is going to be fun, if it does go ahead.

Does Bernie realize just how many palms he will have to grease...

There must be something lost in the translation.

Bernie does not grease palms - it's Bernie's palms that get greased!

I must admit I'd never even heard of EQ.

Until I read a post which talked of "Emotional Quotient", I thought it stood for "Ethical Quotient".

Silly me!

This is Thailand after all!

Maybe it's because I have no self control when I see all those expensive imported items I love from the U.S.

I go to Tesco or the Old Hua Hin Shopping Mall and come out with an huge overflowing rolling cart of (a month's worth of) goods for 3 to 4k baht. When I go to Villa Market I come out with a plastic bag in each hand of stuff for 3 to 4k baht!

HH - it's all a question of self control! Don't let the Sirens of Madison Avenue control your shopping - given you don't shop at Villa, it must mean you have found other products to substitute for your beloved US brand names. Bet you will find those same substitutes in Villa if you look.

I too spend between 3 to 4K on a visit to Villa, but my spend always includes 2 * 1 ½ ltr bottles of 100 Pipers Scotch which accounts for 1.5K of it (incidentally Villa seem to be almost totally exempt from the 2 to 5pm liquor sales embargo regulation - mind you even on those very few very holiest of holy days I do know a place .... !).

Other than that if a 3 to 4K spend in the Old Hua Hin Shopping Mall is enough for a month you must be very short of vitamins in your diet as the month progresses and your fruit and veggies wilt in the fridge. Moreover the Shopping Mall has no worthwhile bakery items, nor any worthwhile deli items.

My lady friend likes shoppimg there for exciting items like washing powder and washing up liquid (and the odd item of intimate female apparel) while I sip on a nice coldie in All In Hua Hin virtually next door, which, incidentally, does have an excellent and highly recommendable deli.

Each to his own!

Love to see your latest liver test results lol....

Last time I carried out any tests ox liver came in last and it was neck and neck for first between chicken and pig's livers!

By the way you should learn to read a little faster - you're way behind on the news!

ok,point taken, will butt out.

OK, no drama!

Please just take heed of my "road condition report" - I'm only trying to help!

I will land around 12.30, by the time on the road may be around 13:30, would like to stop for the night around 7PM..

Hey Sitta,

Will excuse you hijacking my thread just this once, but this thread was about overnight accomodation Hua Hin to Donsak!

Can't offer you any constructive advice re hotels going north, but please don't ignore the warning I gave you in an earlier post re the appalling road conditions you face! Only two days ago I had the occasion to travel from Hua Hin to Prachuab and back. In both directions the road was liberally festooned with heavy potholes between Prachuab and Pranburi, going north slightly worse than going south. And these are big, big potholes! Centurion tank size - I exaggerate only just a little!

Add to that the rain! On the way back north the heavens opened around 3.00pm; so much so that I would have pulled off to the side of the road, save for the fact that the side of the road was no longer visible!

I live in Hua Hin, so I can tell you the wet season is already upon us - that afternoon deluge now happens every day.

Just watch out!

Phuket to Chiang Mai 2 hours by plane!

Hi All,

I will be driving from Surat Thani airport to Chiang may, will stop and rest two nights on the way, any advice on overnight resting place with safe car parking?

Fly! Two overnights not enough. The roads are already atrocious and getting worse the further north you go as the wet season takes hold!

for 3 days?? and with your permission BC?? happy days.... almost makes it worth all the abuse

UKJASE - have you posted on the correct thread?

Who's BC? And where is there any prior mention of 3 days?

Strange that this store is the only one being mention on opening, their are many 7/11 and Tesco Ltus Express that have been opened in and around Hua Hin which have not been mentioned, why?

Because its no big deal, unless you have no life like the 2 or 3 losers that have highlited the importance of this store to their obviously boring existance.

BazilFox, evidently you haven't been inside the store. It's no 7/11 or Lotus Express. It's a supermarket with pretty much everything the other Hua Hin supermarkets have as far as food and normal household products go (except Villa Market of course).

Instead of constantly making negative comments about it, why don't you go walk around in it and compare it with the Lotus Express downtown and you will see the difference.

Sorry this thread disturbs you so much but I think the main purpose of local expat forums here is to let others know of anything that will make their life better or easier or more convenient, which this store does for anyone living in the south end of town or Takiab.

You seem to be bothered by nearly every thread on the board. Why not just stop reading and take some stress out of your life?

HH - why don't you and others go to Villa Market? There are absolutely no parking problems and the produce sold there is far fresher than Macro, let alone any Tesco Lotus outlet anywhere In HH. OK - it may be a few shekels dearer on some items (but not all - some items are even cheaper than Macro) but it seems to be a mind set many farangs have that they will not shop there because they feel they are being ripped off in some way! Can't understand the cheapskate mentality!

the last time i was in there, the fist thing i saw was mangos for 120B a kilo!! now, unless these mangos were picked by topless virgins wearing velvet gloves, they did seem a tad expensive......

UKJASE - you are a sarcastic being!

Depends on time of year, whether local or imported, variety etc.

I've seen mangoes in Macro dearer than that.

Jut don't buy them ....

As they say here .... "up to you!".

Maybe it's because I have no self control when I see all those expensive imported items I love from the U.S.

I go to Tesco or the Old Hua Hin Shopping Mall and come out with an huge overflowing rolling cart of (a month's worth of) goods for 3 to 4k baht. When I go to Villa Market I come out with a plastic bag in each hand of stuff for 3 to 4k baht!

HH - it's all a question of self control! Don't let the Sirens of Madison Avenue control your shopping - given you don't shop at Villa, it must mean you have found other products to substitute for your beloved US brand names. Bet you will find those same substitutes in Villa if you look.

I too spend between 3 to 4K on a visit to Villa, but my spend always includes 2 * 1 ½ ltr bottles of 100 Pipers Scotch which accounts for 1.5K of it (incidentally Villa seem to be almost totally exempt from the 2 to 5pm liquor sales embargo regulation - mind you even on those very few very holiest of holy days I do know a place .... !).

Other than that if a 3 to 4K spend in the Old Hua Hin Shopping Mall is enough for a month you must be very short of vitamins in your diet as the month progresses and your fruit and veggies wilt in the fridge. Moreover the Shopping Mall has no worthwhile bakery items, nor any worthwhile deli items.

My lady friend likes shoppimg there for exciting items like washing powder and washing up liquid (and the odd item of intimate female apparel) while I sip on a nice coldie in All In Hua Hin virtually next door, which, incidentally, does have an excellent and highly recommendable deli.

Each to his own!

Strange that this store is the only one being mention on opening, their are many 7/11 and Tesco Ltus Express that have been opened in and around Hua Hin which have not been mentioned, why?

Because its no big deal, unless you have no life like the 2 or 3 losers that have highlited the importance of this store to their obviously boring existance.

BazilFox, evidently you haven't been inside the store. It's no 7/11 or Lotus Express. It's a supermarket with pretty much everything the other Hua Hin supermarkets have as far as food and normal household products go (except Villa Market of course).

Instead of constantly making negative comments about it, why don't you go walk around in it and compare it with the Lotus Express downtown and you will see the difference.

Sorry this thread disturbs you so much but I think the main purpose of local expat forums here is to let others know of anything that will make their life better or easier or more convenient, which this store does for anyone living in the south end of town or Takiab.

You seem to be bothered by nearly every thread on the board. Why not just stop reading and take some stress out of your life?

HH - why don't you and others go to Villa Market? There are absolutely no parking problems and the produce sold there is far fresher than Macro, let alone any Tesco Lotus outlet anywhere In HH. OK - it may be a few shekels dearer on some items (but not all - some items are even cheaper than Macro) but it seems to be a mind set many farangs have that they will not shop there because they feel they are being ripped off in some way! Can't understand the cheapskate mentality!

It might only be 520km and the roads might be good (by Thailand standards) - they certainly weren't when I made the trip up from Samui a year or so back - but I'm driving a Nissan Navara King Cab, not a Ferrari (I sold that years ago). 7 or 8 hours it probably may be allowing for a couple of prostrate stops, but then there's the probable wait in the Donsak ferry car park - if you're very lucky no wait at all, if you're very unlucky and the ferry's just left a 2 hour wait for the next one, so let's say 1 hour, then there's another 1 1/2 hours on the ferry itself, disembarking and another 30 - 40 minutes drive to my friend's house.

So that's why I'll overnight somewhere, preferably an hour or two south of Chumphon.

Ri Sawi Beach?

Laem Son Beach?

Tawan Chai Beach?

Or a little way north of Suratthani:

Tha Chana?

Nai Amphoe Beach?

Any recommendations?

Nice to realise that a small Tesco Lotus means so much to so few, really happy that this opening of a food retail store brightens up the lives of some Ex Pats.

Amazing Thailand.

i didnt realise you managed to survive here without using shops Baz.... are you still forraging in the forest for mushrooms, and tickling trout out of the rivers?

you are a sly one foxxy.... hats off to you my bushy tailed friend

Typical sarcastic Pommie response UKJASE - and you could improve your spelling!

Bazil the Fox is quite right - a small Tesco Lotus is no great addition to the pretty poor Hua Hin retail scene and nothing to get excited about.

I'd sit up and take notice if it had a really good deli section (which it hasn't), a quality bakery (which it hasn't) and crumpets!

Does anyone have a favourite overnight resting place for the weary traveller from Hua Hin to Samui (via Donsak) they are prepared to divulge?

Toasted cheese sandwiches not a goer then!

Not a chance of English Crumpets either I'll wager - the toasted variety that is, not the tasty two legged version!

I set up an Outlook.com account OK. I then tried to access it from Outllok 2007 as a POP server. Set everything up OK, sent test message from Outlook 2007, got message saying unable to log on to Outlook.com as either user name or password was invalid. Tried several times weith minor tweakings to Outlook 2007 account details - same result every time! Logged into Outlook.com directly using same user name and password to find all the test meassages Outlook 2007 sent in inbox. Puzzle that one out please people!

How come Indonesia isn't on any list? The Bali bombings in 2002 killed over 200 people including 88 Australians and there have been subsequent bombings in 2005 (Bali again) and 2009 (Jakarta) in which more Australians died.

I have a lady friend who is a Burmese citizen but with the legal right to reside in Thailand who maintains she owns a house in Chiang Mai. If this is indeed the case can other Asean country citizens with similar legal permissions to reside in Thailand also buy property?

Let's put Lady Gaga into perspective - she's a nothing, a nobody - who the hell cares what she says about anything?

Let's worry more about who's cosying up to the Chinese!

well she is someone who has sold over 4 million albums so thats already 4 million people who know her and willing to spend money on her music(legally)

You can double that amount if you count the illegal downloads, triple it if you account for people who actually follow any kind of music scene and multiply it by 10, when taking into account people who read fashion mags.

Now,, who and what exactly are you?

And who cares about Chinese? is this thread about Chinese? or unemployment or factory closure's?

May i suggest before you start to post total and utter drivel you actually think

Your own figures show Lady Gaga’s “Little Monsters and Fans” (her words, not mine) have bought 4 million albums. You manipulate this figure up to 120 million by including your own estimates of bootleg downloads and what people read in doctor’s and dentist’s waiting rooms! Even if your 120 million people figure is remotely close to reality Lady Gaga is known to no more than 1.68% of the world’s population of 7,106 billion (United States Census Bureau November 2011 estimate). Divide that figure by 30 to get the true number of people who paid good money for one of her albums! She’s not going to be running for any sort of World Office soon on those numbers!

Moving on to something more serious - are you a total ignoramus? Once it was Japan, then Taiwan and now China is the most efficient state sanctioned secret stealing faking nation on earth with a frightening 19.2% of the world's population. It is very close to more than 5 times the USA population. India, another problem in the making, is not that far behind China in thinking and population. China has long since left behind small fry faking of such trinkets as Rolex's for small fry countries like Thailand to pick up on (and idiots like Lady Gaga to comment on and annoy local people) and is now concentrating on big time industry. While you may still pick up high quality pots, pans and the like in Germany, France, the UK, USA and look to see where they are made, don't kid yourself all's well with the world when you see they are made in your country! Ask yourself instead, who owns the factory? Hence my "drivel" about unemployment and factory closures. (incidentally, the word is "closures", not "closure's" - schooling a bit lacking?) How is it unemployment in the West is as high as it's been since 1929 and getting worse and total countries are either publicly insolvent (Greece, Portugal Ireland and others) , or closetly insolvent - the USA particularly among them (nobody in the States from politician down to the man in the street having the guts to admit it)?

"Now,, who and what exactly are you?"

Ignoring the lousy grammar again - what business is that of yours?

This is hilarious. The Land of the Fake being called The Land of the Fake and the inhabitants crying foul.

its the HUB of the fakes man for god's sake get it right!

You are so ignorant it's not funny.

Thailand was NEVER the HUB of the fakes. That honour used to belong to Japan, then Taiwan, but both have been surpassed over the last 10 years or more by China. It’s become so good at stealing other people's trade secrets it too is no longer the HUB - it's the entire WHEEL! It's conned the entire World into believing Germany, France, England and that most gullible country of all USA delivers their own original products. Turn the product over - sometimes it may say it's made other than in China - but who owns the factories where it is built? And who unwittingly paid for these factories - those same countries from which the original trade secrets were stolen! And how have they paid for them? With factory closures, huge levels of unemployment, plummeting house prices, collapsing currencies, totally insolvent countries, and the worst depression since 1929 getting worse by the day.

Thailand's role in all this is minuscule.

Let's put Lady Gaga into perspective - she's a nothing, a nobody - who the hell cares what she says about anything?

Let's worry more about who's cosying up to the Chinese!

I must start off by saying I'd never heard of Lady Gaga - I'd no idea whether it's a her or a him or undecided. Googling her (it was a her I discovered!) shows that she herself is a copy - she took her name from a hit by Queen "Radio Gaga"! So she has some claim to expertise in the art of copying. However, she obviously has no taste - why waltz into a country with a proud reputation for fake watches (as, incidentally, have many of its neighbouring countries) and only aspire to a Rolex - such a crass choice! Me? I proudly wear a Patek Philippe bought from a highly reputable back room jeweller in Bangla Street, Phuket. I know it is genuine because when I bought it because it cost twice as much as those ugly old fake Rolexes - 6000 baht! I was told afterwards by Thai friends I had paid through the nose for it. Still, I don't care - I've had it two years, its authentic rose gold colouring hasn't worn off and it keeps excellent time - I adjust it by no more than 2 seconds a week! I was told by a proper (not fake) jeweller it was the best of its type I could have bought as it has a genuine Seiko movement. He also told me that genuine (really genuine!) Tag Heuer watches contain exactly the same Seiko movement.

So Thailand can be proud indeed of its reproduction (let's not call them fake, so pejorative a term that) watch industry, along with its reproduction software, CD's, leatherwear and the like. It need not bow its head to any of its competing neighbours save in the case of Vietnam, where it is still possible to have a excellent tuxedo with all the trimmings (cummerbund, dress shirt etc.) made from authentic Barathea cloth overnight or with two fittings one more day for US$250 ($3,000 plus in your home country!). What about a pair of patent leather made to measure shoes to match? Ladies, please don't feel ignored - a dress from a page torn out of Vogue or some such, complete with two or more fitting sessions to the same timetable for very little money indeed. Is this copying or good old private enterprise?

So keep up the good work Thailand - just a little improvement in the tailoring stakes and you'll be a world beater!

If gohmer had used the word "praised" in place of the "mocked" and "would be even more envied" in place of "wouldn't be mocked" I would have agreed with him! Don't we have a pretty successful tourist industry already?

Maybe she has a darn good point. Maybe if more Thais mocked Thailand, Thailand wouldn't be mocked by the rest of the world as a cheap place to vacation, a cheap place to get laid, a cheap place to buy illegal stuff, just a plain cheap place.

Out of curiosity, I talked with the Manco, that is the team that did the work for my villa.

They had a very good idea of the square meter cost for example for the floor laying and costs for all items and work.

They told me that if I can just give them the simple list of all the work needed and the sizes of all areas, they can also make a proposal and can start the work when ever.

They have the man power, tools etc here in Hua Hin on their other projects but can take a small job on the side as well.

Am in the market for a relatively small job immediately, leading a complete smallish house build on same site as soon as first job finished.

Could you give me contact details for Manco please?

as for the DVD Thai man who got arrested was he selling pirate copies? and not his own personal belongings

Apparently not - just his own individual copies, and not many of those even!

Why not just tag onto an existing market, Market and Car Boot sale.

good idea....... there is a big space of land next to Cicada market that doesnt seem to get used, yet the guy seems to be renting it out for car parking, so it is obviously available for hire.....

i hope you do manage to get one set up DocSpinnOff...... i am looking for a second hand lawn mower, and i bet at Hua Hin Car Boot sale there would be loads available to choose from....... i imagine in such a transient town, a car booty would do great

you could advertise it on the classified section here and on baht sold...... you already have a capitive audience there of people looking for second hand goods...... go for it Doc!!

If you are referring to the land adjacent to the Cicada Market just after the dual carraige way stops that's already being developed into a market - from recollection it's to be called Tamarind Market.

You still miss the point that you need to obtain appropriate licences to become a street vendor. I'm sure the people who organise the Cicada and shortly Tamarind markets will hold permits covering all of their stall holders.

Just set up anywhere without a permit - expect the Police to show up!