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And, please keep your youngest children when present away from rooms having electrical outlets build on instead of inside walls of stone or wood at heights too low. Don’t know whether or not addons exist in Thailand for protecting children from being electrically shocked. Not a pleasant thought. What I have experienced thus far now is that electrical outlets build on walls of stone can be torn off and/or broken much more easy than I initially during the design phase of our Thai home realized. Can’t answer the question related to the addons myself because all of our electrical outlets have been positioned at only for our children save heights. I’ve warned my wife and our baby sitters not to switch on the light and fans when corresponding outlets have been broken and openend. Those electrical outlets can also fall on the floor depending upon how cables have been positioned on walls. When cables enter sockets on walls from below then no heights are save. In our Thai home all of the sockets are entered by cables on walls coming from above, so I only need to collect empty broken housings / covers and warn and angry the wife and our baby sitters. Certainly in these matters I stop presenting myself as the most popular and easygoing guy around the Thai house. I miss my wooden shoes. I would smash them as hard as possible to the walls just as my mother did (outside the house) when she was feeling angry… :-) How many pairs I need ? Not too much.

Get yourself booked into Khao San rooooaddd. Sounds right up your street.

Quite right.

OP, everything starts with an e:

What you are supposed to listen to are the 1999 lyrics off the Dutch Alice DJ.

I became more a Mor Lam Lover myself.

the best beer in Thailand you get in Tawandang http://www.tawandang.com/eng/home.html

but you can not buy in a store.

the best beer in bottles is Chang Export, but only if it is not older as 3 month.

Heineken is not a beer, Heineken is a chemical water or better nam klong

Thanks.

Tawandang http://www.tawandang.com/eng/home.html points to one of my most favourate beers, Weizen. I learned to drink that beer in Bavaria(Germany). I also miss their weekly small Weisswursts each Friday morning at work in Muenich. When I’m in the neighbourhood I will first try a glass or two in Tawamdang and then take a crate or two. It’s on my todo list. I sincerely hope that an old witch (or should I say bat ?) possibly flying around that place around the local cauldron does not angry me by confronting me with some of her tricks. My taste has been properly educated with our local Dutch village brew which is called De Kroon, currently brew of our maybe possibly mutual (my local village) friends of Bavaria(the Netherlands).

I am quite capable of understanding your statement concerning the condition of our national bath water. People who’ve studied beer ratings at www dot ratebeer dot com will not throw that little Thai baby out with my countries bathwater before having tasted that local brew themselves. Since none of HK beers are (not yet) present in the current top 50 list of “Best Beers of the Netherlands 2012”, your additional criticism (“nam klong”) is believed to be correct, but not really necessary, and, sorry I’ve to say that, is also a little bit unworthy of the true German business spirit I experienced in the environment of Muenich. Let’s hope you do not really represent those guys. High quality self selling products do promote themself during time. Their beers do not really need beer festivals or games of soccer but it is fun participating in some of them. After having had all those wars in the past it is a nice opportunity to make new friends and to learn to speak our languages, especially for our children for building long term relationships which already happen to exist more than 40 years now.

HK produces a large amount of beer, and, yes, their ratings seem to be rather low. I am probably the only figure fetishist over here in this thread who noticed that those very large “2009 HK” numbers which are mentioned earlier do deviate more than a factor 10 from the real 2009 HK ones (in 2009 125.2 mhl HK worldwide and only 2.2 mhl HK in the Asian Pacific region). Maybe that’s why it’s much more difficult to find a HK friend in Thailand than one in Europe. No need to go figuring again. My numbers have been double checked. Btw.125.2 hml HK equals almost 3 times the total beer production volume of China. People in China and also in Thailand drink as much litres of beer per person as the people in France do. When the Chinese should decide to start drinking like Germans do than those 125.2 mhl HK is just enough to serve only the needs of the Chinese. Those 2009 2.2 mhl HK beer includes China. Why HK did not approach the Chinese beer market, not only amazes me, but also others after the very first decade of this century.I haven’t studied their latest numbers yet.

For pure flavour I don't think you can go past Heineken. Not that I want to drink it every day, but when the other beers start to taste a bit bland, I have a Heineken to wake up the taste buds. Pity they don't have the Heineken Dark here. Just about any ice-cold beer on a stinking hot day tastes like nectar to me.

Popular with MC-Clubs, especially those wearing vests with silly symbols.

Hey, I drink it because I like the taste, don't label people. It's also been the world's most popular beer at least 22 years in a row,so there must be a lot of MC members out there.

Heineken, the lager produced by the Dutch brewing company of the same name, was the most popular beer of 2009, with sales of 11 million hectolitres (1100,000,000 litres). It claimed the title for the 22nd year in a row.

I think you're quoting the wrong post. I didn't complain over Heineken Beer.

(... because of the allowed number of quoted blocks of text I removed a quote related to the amount of piss produced :-) ...)

Noted, but I think it's time to complain: a most populous state is not always necessarily a popular one (by definition) whether you think in terms of rainwater, fish, number of inhabitants of current German states or whatever comes to mind.

How do i vew this???

+ Normally we can’t view the content of that vid using our own pair of eyes.

Psychedellical effects of vids can be produced by todays high speed cameras.

Here’s a similar youtube vid related to surfing produced by the BBC using a TyphoonHD4 camera:

For me Hi-So is a flavoured state of mind e.g. parfumed by watching Aditya Assarat’s “Hi-So” (2010) movie, or Sofia Coppola’s 2003 movie “Lost In Translation”, or Kohn Kaen fellow farmer Martin Wheeler pushing one of his famous old lowtech Chinese wheelbarrows with or without the use of auxiliary power such as animal traction or the use of wind. Especially Coppola’s movie reminds me of my own very first day in paradise: a Hi-So experience in Bangkok many decades ago when I was travelling all alone in a Hotel minibus from the old international airport Don Muang to the Trang hotel in Bangkok. When we arrived the driver had almost completely lost his mind, felt very angry because of my "stupid" behaviour, simply because I answered all his questions politely with a nonverbal “Yes” but did not hand him over money for the toll roads he’d used. Once at our destination I guess we were both feeling completely lost in translation. The driver found his proper place in life back at the Hotel desk. I was in shock too because of the dirt around me in full daylight. The decision to return as quick as possible back to nature (at that time in Umphang) was an easy one.

Pretty sure these young ladies do not know exactly what they're doing here at Thai visa. Sorry it's not a Thai video, but I feel their presence here will make this ongoing thread much much more complete especially at the beginning of May 2012. Just take a quick look and guess who's pres[id]ent in this latest trend of EDM vid's : - )

Following page of the WWF describes an European fish which can grow up to an unbelievable length of 5.5 meters.:

http://wwf.panda.org...ecies/sturgeon/

( documentary )

At Thursday the 10th of May 2012 47 atlantic sturgeons will be reintroduced into Plas De Kaliwaal, a floodplain connected to river De Waal near Nijmegen in the Netherlands. The behavior of each of these fishes will be closely monitored via surgically implanted transponders. These relative young fishes were born in 2007 and 2009 in Bordeaux (in France) and can reach each an age of 100 years.

Source: http://www.visstandb...amer-steur.html.

In the far away past a very unfriendly bull was walking on one of the banks of a popular floodplain of De Waal in Heerewaarden who was well known for throwing fishermen into the water : - )

On this page you’ll find more information about the European sea sturgeon, including a clarifying slideshow:

http://www.arkive.or...turio/#text=All

Today, wednesday the 9th of May 2012 the first 3 "royal" sturgeons were released near Rotterdam:

http://nos.nl/video/371446-steuren-uitgezet-bij-rotterdam.html

Tomorrow, thursday, the other 47 sturgeons will follow.

Correction: these 50 Atlantic sturgeons do not seem to become much older than 50 years and 3.5 meters in length maxium. They are said to be extremely difficult to catch by anglers. Atlantic sturgeons are not tasty at all and not suitable for producing kaviar in comparison to Beluga sturgeons in the Caspian sea (those specs: max. 5.5 meters, 2000 kg !). Each of the build-in transponders has a lifetime of 4 years. The approximately 50 rather difficult to breed sturgeons grew up successfully in Europe’s largest estuary (600 km2), called the La Gironde Estuary, in Bordeaux. Btw. the La Gironde Estuary most famous fishing technique (called carrelet) is not very different from the one practiced by elderly Thai females. Current estimate of total numbers of sturgeons worldwide equals 1000.

Today in our free liberal world maybe too many incompatible perspectives coexist. Some people like to eat dog meat and other people prefer to watch e.g. following vid. Viewers who do not believe the hamster is playing the piano can mute the sound:

To prevent multiple thefts it is up to the owner of a dog whether or not to build-in some kind of protection. Same can be said for flagging fertile female dogs roaming unattended.

Why do (some) dogs leave a house unattended, especially at night, when owners close their eyes ?

Accurate reading is not one of my strenghts anymore: "yesterdays timestamp, the 21th of March 2012" is not exactly yesterdays timestamp.

Btw. in that area, when your back is not used to sitting on the floor anymore inside your own house, you’ll also be able (by asking locals) to find a group of skilled furniture makers living all closely together in a rather small village who are each quite capable of producing nice looking Flintstone-like large family tables and corresponding chairs for frequent shipments to Bangkok.

JACN -- can you please tell me where you read Mr.Gottfrieds review

Hotel booking site of agoda finds 1 hotel in Bueng Kan named “The One Hotel” having 2 reviews:

http://www.agoda.com/asia/thailand/bueng_kan/the_one_hotel/reviews.html#reviews

It will take me four months before I will be back in that area. Maybe we'll visit BKL again in sept. Most recent review of The One Hotel carries yesterdays timestamp, the 21th of March 2012, of Mr. Gottfried B. from Switserland.

Following page of the WWF describes an European fish which can grow up to an unbelievable length of 5.5 meters.:

http://wwf.panda.org...ecies/sturgeon/

At Thursday the 10th of May 2012 47 atlantic sturgeons will be reintroduced into Plas De Kaliwaal, a floodplain connected to river De Waal near Nijmegen in the Netherlands. The behavior of each of these fishes will be closely monitored via surgically implanted transponders. These relative young fishes were born in 2007 and 2009 in Bordeaux (in France) and can reach each an age of 100 years.

Source: http://www.visstandb...amer-steur.html.

In the far away past a very unfriendly bull was walking on one of the banks of a popular floodplain of De Waal in Heerewaarden who was well known for throwing fishermen into the water : - )

On this page you’ll find more information about the European sea sturgeon, including a clarifying slideshow:

http://www.arkive.or...turio/#text=All

To put things in perspective.

Some of the Chinese suppliers will do a 5000W grid-tied system with panels and inverter for about USD 10,000 = 300,000 Baht with free shipping (surface). Let's assume you can get this through customs with no duty (as per this post http://www.thaivisa....ost__p__3778237 ), just VAT @ 7% pushing the cost to 321,000 (I've neglected the 10% duty on the inverter for ease of sums).

If you believe what they say this will generate 25-30 units of power per day, say about 150 Baht's worth. So the system would pay for itself in 321,000/150 days = 2140 days = just under 6 years.

Could be worth doing

A stand alone system with batteries for off-grid applications would cost more like USD 15,000 pushing the cost recovery to 9 years, even if you neglect the cost of replacing the batteries.

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

“Most electricity meters accurately record in both directions, allowing a no-cost method of effectively banking excess electricity production for future credit.”

Especially old meters do. E.g. in case of a watermill digesting a continuous flow of water during night and day it will be possible to plug the generated energy directly into an available empty 220 Volts wallsocket. Consequently an old electricity meter will automatically be slowed down or run into the opposite direction. In such a case there’s no need to accumulate energy.

How about this gar from Texas caught last week.

How big do these things get in Thailand. I've only ever seen them up to about 30lbs. Caught 15 pounders before. They sure were lively on the bank!

We´ve to go back in time to find and see the really large ones

http://faculty.evansville.edu/ck6/bstud/hugegar.html

Some people believe that in the far away past, at the start of the 18th century, those things, not the alligator gars, but other simular fish in Thailand, could get really big, up to 4 meters.

All I know is that I am an alien; can someone enlighten me which race is this?

Yeah, here at home the others and I feel all free to call the father in the house whatever comes to mind, but everytime I step outside and enter public space others let me feel I'm one with a group of others who are called falangs. That's me, a group at large of many nationalities probably also including aliens. Reminds me of one of my family members in Big C who intially called every falang he saw "pappaah". Lucky me it was only a snow thing : - )

Only a few weeks ago, in 2012, in a small Dutch village, Oirschot, a 13 year old boy Stijn of 1.53 meter caught a most likely farmed catfish (in Dutch called a meerval) of 1.58 metres. References to the Dutch local and national news:

http://www.youjotube...tch/xYAqZNoi-PY (Dutch local news)

http://www.telegraaf...8_meter___.html (Dutch national news)

That length’s not spectacular but rather close to a reported normal largest average size of 1.60 metres (5.2 ft,).

Here’s the most recent European record holder, Jessica, a girl, 11 years old in 2009. She hooked a fish in Spain in the river Ebro which measured in length 2 times her size:

http://www.telegraph...nster-fish.html

According Wikipedia the largest specimens on record measure more than 2.5 metres (8.2 ft.) in length and sometimes exceeded 100 kilograms (220 lb). With recorded sizes of up to 10.5ft (3.2m) and 660lb (300kg), the Mekong’s giant catfish currently holds the Guinness Book of World Records position for the world’s largest freshwater fish. Here you’ll find more references to pictures of very large sized catfish in Thailand:

http://news.national...antcatfish.html

Glad to believe I’m much too old (in comparison to the ages of Stijn and Jessica) to accidentely hook such a fish up in the north of Thailand.

Btw. as an aside unmanageable killer whales, at least one of them, recently, understood the concept of a hook:

http://www.outdoorli...ks-killer-whale

Personally I do not really want to catch such large unmanageable creatures. Glad to read that they seem capable of learning to understand for example the concept of a hook.

Happy easter.

Could not resist to add following picture "easter-is-a-great-time-to-ponder-the-existential" here and now most applicable to this thread not referring to fighting businesses or catching cows with "their own" flies but posted in the spirit of the fishing aphorisme of the American philosopher Thoreau:

Personally, I prefer to use a simlock free MiFi router (Huawei E586) in which an internet simcard needs to be placed. That device will always function properly because its functionality does not depend upon what happens on a connected device. I do not have to use my dongles anymore. Those dongles did not always function properly. Once, but hopefully never ever again, I had to reinstall an OS to let them work again.

Another option (maybe more suitable for you) is installing and using a software router, such as for example Connectify Pro on a Windows 7 system (Pro version for being able to share WiFi from 3G/4G Networks). For only 23 euros the Connectify guys and girls will configure your computer system and offer their support. Google for reviews.

Hmmm I put recovery disk 1 (of 3) in the drive and restarted my laptop.

Nothing happened.....Windows 7 started normally.

How do I get this to begin?

press f8 repeatedly while it is booting, you should get a menu to choose a cd boot

Please read the troubleshooting manual of your model at pag. 21.

Here, by repeatedly pressing F8, you do have the opportunity to recover from a hidden recovery partition on your original harddrive, so when you are stil using the original well working harddrive and have not explicitly deleted that recovery partition you do not really need to use recovery disks. However, I would not go back to the original Vista system and then update that OS to Win 7. As I see it, you will run into exactly the same hardware related driver problems. Better try to solve them now.

Do not believe this for one second

Title of this article is rather short: an upward trend relative to what ? The American Dollar ? Fact is that last few days the Thai Baht went down rapidly, that is almost 2 % down, when accurately compared to the Euro.

Reminds me of an English subtitled movie "It's my life" of one of Belgiums most famous fisherman, Eddy Sterckx.

In that 2009 movie an English narrator talks about drops of a stealth bomber hopefully leading to explosive catches: it is quite understandable that a baitliner is not accepted everywhere. In that specific movie 'dun Eddie' was only capable of catching males, not the expected thicker females. Due to all the time on my hands that remarkable detailed fact alone makes me wonder about their most likely more important local[ly trained] strategies and other habits. A fascinating world.

I'm wondering would an English medical prescription cover me for bringing antifed into Thailand.

The question is: what is antifed ?

Antifed sounds very simular to actifed. A german diver in Egypt once made that slip of the keyboard some 5 years ago. Actifed is a well known OTC drug for which no medical prescriptions are required.

So I advice you not to throw away the original package. That will certainly help an official with his or her investigation. That guy must be wondering, just like me now.

Actifed was promoted by the Apollo crew after they returned to earth :-)

A cow called cow-men-men comes to my mind who always wears a huge properly spotted pant like the well-known Blueberry Training Pant. That not helps blackening the color of the local soil.