koknia

Bloom is probably the best custom printer in town.

http://bloomprolab.com/

I have flown Air Asia dozens of times and while it ain't Singapore Air, I have never experienced something like that.

I would register a complaint.

As a former restaurant owner I can tell you it is a lot of work to make money in the food biz. Maybe you know this, but you want to have a tight business plan or else you are going to work like crazy for very little profit. If you want to charge reasonable prices you are going to have to do serious volume. With deliveries over a wide area, that makes it very complicated from Day One.

Same. I came in this week at midnight. Wheels touched tarmac at midnight, by 1am I was home near Victory Monument.

A lot of chatter here about horrific cues etc, but I'm just not seeing them, and I am in and out all the time.

troll

I bought an 11" Mac Air for travel processing etc. (I have a 15" MacBook Pro for day to day photography work.)

The Air is a perfect solution IMO. You would want to have a USB drive as well to make sure everything is copied to 2 HDs.

Thais learn from reading, not just speaking. The country has an adult literacy rate of 94%. How did they get there if they don't learn by reading?

Also, it's not true that it takes forever to become fluent. I know two foreigners who have become native speakers quite quickly. One guy spoke 15+ languages so it was very easy for him. I know one other who spent one year of intensive study and is completely fluent. He is on Thai TV a bit and is becoming quite well known.

As above, Shahrazad. Great hummos and awesome baba-ganoush. I have been eating there for over 20 yrs and it hasn't changed at all. Some of the same waitresses are still there.

I was eating there last month and one waitress asked my friend if he was still living on Petchaburi Soi (I forget) and he said "no, I moved in 1997". She remembered from his take-away orders.

I just learned this grid 20+ years ago when I started studying a bit of Thai. I found it massively useful for learning tones.

http://blog.joshsage...teToneRules.jpg

or

http://www.its4thai.com/assets/tonerules/5.gif

Yes, Canon will fix that known problem quickly. I have always had excellent service from Canon Thailand, except the last visit to drop off a busted flash unit in early February. Still not fixed. (Last time took 5 days.)

I just pretend to pick up a rock and they usually run. If there is actually a rock handy I will throw it hard at the head.

I have around 30 external HDs I use for my work as a photographer.

I really like the WD portable ones, mainly because they have adapters that can make them either USB or Firewire compatible. (So I can use them with my Mac Air while traveling.)

Here is a shot I took a few years ago of skinned frogs and rats at the wet market in Battambang.

At 20 baht a kilo for fresh field rat, a cheap and apparently very tasty source of protein.

http://www.flickr.co...knia/140314342/

Then it's just about 80B for each scan (good for 8"x10" or a little bigger). Then prints are pretty reasonable as well.

The only variable is the shape the slides are in, whether they need retouching for scratches etc. You could always take the slides their main location and get some feedback from a tech person.

It's useless to get all worked up about this stuff.

Just watch the locals, if they do it, follow. If they don't, then don't.

In BKK I would start with IQ Lab.

There are other, cheaper, foreign options if you have a lot to do.

nobody cares

I lived in Phnom Penh for 6 years and never heard about fake name brand booze. (Unlike India where it's a huge problem.)

The difference is that there are no taxes applied at any point in it's journey to market, and the retailers sell at extremely low profit margins. One of my clients was a large beer manufacturer and when we would go out into the countryside to visit retailers the usual margin on a 24 bottle box of beer was 1000 riel. (25 cents US) This is pretty standard for all retailers there. (A Khmer friend of mine worked as an accountant for a Chinese electronics company. Average profit on a "ghetto blaster" type stereo - 2000 riels, or 50 cents US.)

Cambodian are incredibly adept at getting stuff into the market cheaply and quickly using local channels. In the 90s we would regularly get the new Beaujolais before it was even legally available in France, and at a cheaper price. (No, they were not making fake Beaujolais.)

A lot of the hard booze has spent time sitting in containers on the dock in Singapore.

I know of at least one very famous bar in BKK getting cheap designer booze through Cambodia back in the day.

See a doctor. Asking for medical advice online is a complete waste of time.

great idea ....then he will get 1/2 kilo of pills including antibiotics and antacids....guaranteed to give him the squitters....

Stomach upset and Hershy squirts are a fact of life here ..even the Thais get it...lots of remedies in liquid and powder form out there some work even...they say you should avoid dairy product with the squitters.

Of course if OTC remedies do not work within a short time you should see a doc and he or she will be more than happy to insert 1/2 metre 'scope into your land of darkness to check for Colitis or other horrid things

&lt;deleted&gt;? I've been going to <good> Thai doctors for 20+ years and have never been given "1/2 kilo of pills". Having a sore stomach in the morning is not normal and you have no clue whatsoever as to what is causing it.

If you have a persistent problem, see a doctor.

Someone should have just popped the stupid things and deflated the issue before it blew up.

See a doctor. Asking for medical advice online is a complete waste of time.

Please correct me if I'm wrong, but there may be some exceptions to the straight forwardness.

For instance when getting a price quote at a flea market. If the merchant simply says พันสอง

he means 1200 not 1002.

That's common.

To say 1002 wouldn't they say "หนึ่งพันสอง"?

Soi Rangnam

I have never seen them used. They impart a very distinct flavour that isn't Thai whatsoever. In southern Indian cooking you see them all the time.

Have you looked at dry cabinets, like these?