jacnl2000

I guess OP has a shop where all the effects can be bought?

When will people start to learn that various traditions are not the same all over the globe.

This halloween stuff got introduced to my country as well, and the greedy shop owners jumped on the bandwagon immediately.

Guess x-mas is just a day or 2 away as well?

Sorry for the rant,

dear OP please have fun.

Don't worry, kids know how to make fun themselves. They do not really need Haloween for that.

Pretty sure to have visited somewhere a webshop which delivers Haloween products in Thailand. However that shop did not list a specific date I'm looking for. Google refuses to help me either. Google refers the string "trespassing Nicolas cage" not to a shop :-) but to a movie directed by Joel Schumacher in which a married couple is taken hostage by extortionists. Oh dear.

The Chinese Ambassador to London said last night

"We looked carefully at all the visa requirements of countries in our region and noted that those with very lax immigration requirements suffered greatly from what I think you English call 'riff-raff". We were particularly worried that China might become another Thailand - have you seen the quality of the people that are settling there, drunks, druggies, vagabonds and thieves the lot of them?"

Frontrunner for earworm of the year.

With the Honey bee populations collapsing in USA and Europe by up to 50% due to parasitic infection, maybe honey production could become lucrative in the next few years, but more than likely the parasite will spread worldwide and affect Asian bee populations also, if not already there.

I just thought of one more way to make money that I forgot about. With reduced honey bee populations, farmers and orchardists in the US are actually paying beekeepers to bring in the bees for pollination. The beekeepers, when I was young, paid the farmers for the rights to place the bees!

Now you have what accountants call a "switch." If I have $100 in the bank, and I take out $10, I have $90. But if I instead put in $10, I have $110, or a $20 difference which is double. (A switch is actually entering a $10 deposit as a check or a check as a deposit and being off $20 for the same reason.) So a $10 expense goes away and is replaced by $10 in income and you're $20 richer.

Here's a documentary for those who are capable of understanding German:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOZ-tarAa2A

Having sufficient food for bees in their neighbourhood (radius 3 - 4.5 km, 30 km2) is an important factor for keeping bees strong and healthy.

To stay tuned:

Heart of the matter may be that the expression "I think of buying" is being replaced gradually by "I think" and the verb "to think" has always been much more simpler to use than to define.

Yes, that's possible for Thai passports. Don't know the exact address, but the location is very close to the Thung Si Muang market place where they organize a yearly Festival/Fair during 15 days in December. Just ask the locals. Those people should know because at that place they present their local products. Translated papers can also be officially legalized at that location, so no need to travel to the MFA in Bangkok. Good luck. Jac.

Well at least they didn't get the prize for economics.

You´re probably right, but we´ve to wait until monday to be sure they have not been smoking something. Then the winner(s) will be made public.

Update.

Yesterday, Alvin E. Roth & Lloyd S. Shapley got this year Nobel prize of economics 2012.

Together they have lifted the problem of e.g. a Thai male who gathered enough courage to get his expensive Thai wife replaced by an other much more cheap and young specimen from Laos to an apparent higher spiritual level. The Thai male was responsible for shaping his own behaviour. Both Roth & Shapley are not experienced behavioural specialists a la Skinner and his contemporary followers but quite a different kind of breed who are called engineers. The ideas of these engineers in economics are also said to aid many others in quite different situations such as surgeons replacing disfunctional kidneys, schools selecting new students, employers and the unemployed, etc...

My first impression was seeing a man in a white suite laying down on his coffin. My relative old eyes must have deceived me again ...

Here's another fascinating picture:

Can also be added to the Rorschach cards.

One of these UFO's seems to have landed in a Dutch museum of art:

Looks quite good. Little bit British, isn't ? No rubbers! That's bad news for some of our Thai wives. Maybe in the future somebody decides to produce cars made of rubber.

[Well please enlighten on the significant grammatical differences? Did American English do away with tenses, adverbs or did it just lose an 'I' in aluminum?

Actually, it could be said that contemporary British English is the true bastardized version of the language. American English, ironically enough, is much closer to the English spoken in the UK and the colonies back in the 17th century.

Here is a little article worth a quick read.

Language is a living thing so is what you are saying is that Brits have moved with the times and the US lags far behind? Afrikaans is primarily 17th century Dutch and look where that has led the 'roineks'.

And you need to learn to use the accepted spelling of the word "Rooinek"....

The sound "Roi" is quite acceptable in my mothers ears simply because it points exactly to the place where her husband, my father, was born. Here "Rooi" is considered to be a more civilized pronounciation of "Roi" but the correct Dutch pronounciation would be "Rode" (in your case probably leading to "Roodnek" in stead of "Rooinek"). My mother was born in a village which name starts with "Oi" which is quite difficult to pronounce correctly. Locals say "oh", others use "oo" (more civilized) and some people who do not know what they are doing pronounce it as a German sound ("euer" with the r missing) by adding an e "oie."

Well, it will be quite a tough job to let the English first write down their correct pronounciations of their own words when in practice they do pronounce much more characters than they have actually written down thus far. Are the Thai going to assist them ? :-)

It is not only hate speech's look at all of Thaksin's meddling. I would not call them hate speech but it does far more damage than a lot of the hate speakers do.

i had lunch with someone today who blatantly said she was up country to buy land b because Isaan people are stupid.

Thailand, one nation under one flag, thainess all together. Yeah right. The only this country functions is feeling smug about being above ones neighbors.

And you wonder why the so called elite have their nickers in a twist about subsidizing farmers? Just the mere meaning of a wai shows it all. At least a handshake means just for a moment, two people touch hands personally as individuals.

I am married to a decent woman from isaan, and the comments she has had at company and official events in bangkok, would raise hilarity in an alf garnet sketch.

I had no idea women from Isaan could be so fair skinned. Your wife speaks excellent English for a woman from isaan. Really your wife us from******* , From her accent, I would never have guessed.'

The base judgments of peoples as groups are so pitiful to listen to it is mind blowing. Thus country only exists to pigeon hole people, but one day.....

Many individuals from Isaan are (world) travellers ;-)

Well at least they didn't get the prize for economics.

You´re probably right, but we´ve to wait until monday to be sure they have not been smoking something. Then the winner(s) will be made public.

Currently it is impossible to trace the Thai facts mentioned in this article back to the "All 2012 results" webpages already mentioned in a previous post.

Before the Culinary Olympics 2012 in Erfurt started a special award was given to Paul Bocuse in Lyon:

We didn't even make it halfway through the week before another new HUB was unveiled by the government!

Indeed. Also my thought.

Hubs are places where people look for inspiration. People and ideas are linked around a hub.

Those people are called fellow hubbers and they seem to have caged themselves in some sort of henhouse.

In Europe the word hub has many different pronounciations. Personally I especially like the Dutch pronounciation of hub

which may or may not relate to the existence of special hub ("hup") shoes. Look and feel of these wonderful shoes are quite good, but do not really let the Dutch walk faster. The Deutsche Bank director learned to pronounce hub as hoop, no, not to be confused with hope, to remind Germans of the functionality of a rotating fan in their beergarden aka Hub, Hub, Hubschrauber.

All dogs in heaven do seem to bark somewhat differently but as long as dogs and trees coexist dogs always appear to bark up a tree. The year 2015 mentioned in the article suggests that in 2012 the monetary related tree in Thailand has not been fully grown yet.

It's time to calm down now boys. Any more flames or snide remarks will get their poster a 3 day holiday. Promise.

If you can't be civil be quiet.

Sorry, looks like I created a monster.

I hope you get a refund from the drama school....

Not a monster, but this thread may have turned into some kind of Pandora jewelry box. It is not Christmas yet, but enough thoughts and imaginations are present to come up with a theme to decorate my own life and the past and future lives of others.

I am quite optimistic: it will be much easier for broadband to boost the economy than for free economists (freakonomists) to trigger the economic activity in monkeys.

Thus far I have only seen bad quality pictures taken in a cave somewhere and a picture of something that looks like a buffalo fallen from a plane. Would love to study more detailed reports but it seems I have to wait for the next visit.

You are quite right when you do not to let her notions of space and time block your access to the street.

Don't forget to ask the Amphur to legitimate both your kids (point 2 of Kor Ror 2).

For me a difference in ATM currency rate of 1.32 BHT is quite hard to explain.

Here's a more precize location of AEON ATM's in Thailand:

http://www.aeon.co.th/en/customerservices_servicelocation_atm_depositor.php

Quote:

"Even the worst possible internet connections via "aircard" (USB stick) would allow you to listen to news programs in english or other western language"

More than 2 years ago the quote above would be true in the most upper part of Issaan when using a laptop and e.g. Audials9 Radiotracker. Currently when using an internet AIS 3GandGPRSUnlimited799B SIM card the audio seems stops repeatedly after every few seconds. Playing radio stations on a small mobile GSM phone while using an AIS SIM card for phones works quite good.

So, currently (2012) I would nobody recommend listening to internet radios via an AIS "aircard" USB stick. Haven't tried other providers.

Sometimes the addition "Falang" is quite handy. In our home two different dvd's are present of which the first one is called "Mario" and the second one is named "Mario Falang" by our children.

On Thursday the 13th of September at approximately 23.30 hours we experienced quite a heavy rain in Issaan on the road between Ban Dung and Ban Muang. Found some pla on the road which we cound catch by covering them with a plastic bag. Sep!

R.I.P.

How many of those bottles of alcoholic beverages were found empty ?

Exactly one.

Statement "But the different from euro to pounds, is still, not higher than a half year ago" is most likely a wrong one. Please take a look at one or both of the following charts:

http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=GBPEUR=X&t=1y&l=on&z=m&q=l&c=

http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=EURGBP=X&t=1y&l=on&z=m&q=l&c=

Quite beautiful upward and downward trends which seem to falsify OP's statement.

Those small white 200 ml Thai-Danish UHT Milk packages do contain 100 % fresh milk. On those packages you'll find a message "no milk powder added." And, what's more important, according to my taste it's quite good fresh milk. One disadvantage exists however when you drink too much of that stuff: going to the toilet can become a rather painful experience. I believe that is a reason why both of my sons do not drink it but stick to the milk supplied by their schools.