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My True Move 3G works great. Rarely do I not have a 3G signal anywhere in the country and it's usually always faster than WiFi!

Congratz America! There are a lot of countries that can only dream they had a president of that caliber.

Is there any way we could send him to those countries instead?

No good deed goes unpunished...

Is this sarcasm? What was the good deed?

I guess that I better be careful. I put bleach in our water supply on a regular basis. One thing to keep in mind is that if it has a strong smell, you put in too much. It doesn't take much.

Seriously you do?! Why?!

This is very true about the parking. Every one of our friends has been recommending Sripot to have our baby which is due in about 4 months. I've now been there 3 times for appointments and a tour. That place is a nightmare! My friend's wife just had her baby in the lobby two weeks ago while she was waiting on him to park. No joke. We are going to take a tour of RAM this week. That is where I have always gone for stuff and I can not figure out why someone would want to go to Sripot over RAM. RAM has easy parking, great service and is the nicest looking hospital in CM on the inside. Usual not too many people there either. Sripot is an absolute mad house.

Is this the traditional one? http://www.worldfestivaldirectory.com/2012/06/08/yee-peng-or-yi-peng-festival-chiang-mai-thailand/

"...thats the private section mostly used by foreigners..."

Not sure if it's what you meant but foreigners make up less than 10% of the people who use Sripat. Maybe I didn't read it the way you meant it.

He's talking about the private section of SuanDok, Sripot. It's where every farang I know has had their baby. Farangs may make up 10% of the folks at at Sripat but I bet 95% of the farangs having a baby here use Sripat.

Does anyone know the date of this year's big mass Khom Loy release out in Maejo?

Uhm, maybe this is more something for the Internet forum, but how can someone track a GPS phone?

Does it require specific things to do so?

Just curious!

All iPhones now have this ability. You can use Apple's website or an app on a friend's phone to track your phone, lock it, or even wipe it! It's pretty cool.

This item from CM108 Facebook shows something happened around 8:30PM.

CM108

Thanks! It sounds like 2 cars collided and a third car, driven by a drunk driver, tried to avoid them and went into the moat. It says the driver was taken to the hospital. Not sure what they were diving for then.

Does anyone happen to know what was going on down on the west side of the moat last night? Huge crowds of people watching as a scuba diver looked around for something. They had bright lights on the water and everything.

If they are just doing this now then what does the 3G icon on my phone mean?!

It means 1G and sometimes it means no internet. And don't get truemove or you will end up in tears from frustration.

I've had True Move for over a year and a half now and I love it. At first I had "E" when I was with 12Call and it was painfully slow. Then I got True, which offered "3G." It was indeed WAY faster than "E." I was able to use 3G in Phuket, BKK and CNX with no problems at all. And then I got an SMS from True saying they now offered a faster service they were calling "3G+." They said to come by the shop for a free SIM card upgrade. So I did and it was indeed faster than 3G. I've really enjoyed having this new 3G+ service and now, I've noticed that I always have 3G+ or at least 3G no matter which province I am in. And it's always a TON faster then my friends using Edge ("E").

If they are just doing this now then what does the 3G icon on my phone mean?!

May be just fog? I don't know but it's raining almost every day?

No, it's smog for sure. The smell of smoke is in the air. It's better today. Rain?! We haven't had rain (near airport plaza) in over a week!

Went to play golf at Hangdong this morning and there were 4 fires burning at dawn,one quite large on the canal road near Home in the Park,still burning when I returned.

A few months early!

Yeah, too early!! Whats up with that?!

Anyone have any idea where the massive amounts of smoke and smog coming from Hang Dong are originating?

งูๆ ปลาๆ usually gets a laugh.

Yup! That is the one I use. "Snake snake fish fish." I've been told it means "I'm not the best but I try anyway!" The Thais always think it's cool I know that riddle and it diffuses the question.

Same trouble for us in Chiang Mai as well. True Internet. On our computers and phones.

I can't imagine drivers "detouring" to run up fares. After the 35baht flag drop, you are eating away at their time.

A big part of their "F1" driving style is based on the fact that they wan't to get you where you are going and snag a new flag drop.

Time? You mean wasting time they could be sitting and waiting for another passenger? I think they are happy to have customers. And I've noticed that on the meter time doesn't really drive up the cost that quickly, but distance does. So, it makes sense to me that they would drive around in circles in order to drive up the fair. I live in Chiang Mai and though I've spent a good amount of time in Bangkok I don't know my way around the outer city that well. So I wouldn't have a clue if the driver was taking a round about way of getting from the airport to Siam Center, for example. Even though I am carrying on a conversation with them in Thai about their families, jobs, etc.. they probably know that I don't know my way around and are smiling all the way to the bank as they chat it up with me

I am about the age of folks that do all the partying on Phi Phi. I go there once or twice a year but I go for the daytime outdoor activities. I've never been into the night scene. But as soon as we finish dinner when we are there we always see on our walk home the sidewalk vendors setting up shop. Typically it is just a table with buckets full of various concoctions. But they buckets always contain the unopened bottles of whatever the concoction will contain. So the partyer will buy the bucket and pour all of the contents on the individual bottles into the bucket and then share with friends via straws. This could be, for example, vodka, redbull, soda water and rum. Or something like that. But you can tell these vendors are trying to keep things at least close to legal. I've never noticed these guys selling anything shady, such as freakin DEET. I suspect to find that stuff you need to go to the back alleys. These girls may not have known specifically what it was but they probably knew it was not the usual. Someone probably said "you gotta try this '1-2-call'!" (as one person here said it was called.)

Thailand is not a dangerous place if you stay out of the bar/club and underworld scenes.

I've seen people do some pretty strange things to get high, but drinking DEET was not one of them. That crap in banned in the US because it is so toxic. The girls probably never knew what they were drinking. So sad.

Actually, I don't believe it is banned in the states. I think it is legal to be used as long as it does not account for more than 30% of the product. I think it is still used in OFF as has been mentioned here.

Simple solution. Don't be out at 2am. If you are you are asking for trouble.

Maybe I am missing something here, when I applied for my license in BKK at chatterjack I simply did a color blind test and a timed reaction braking test, is this because I had a USA current license at the time ? was this test the same as a first qualifying test? if so what a couple of dummies.

Was an International Driver's License? If so yes, you by pass most everything. If it was simply a USA license then you would by pass the driving test but should have still taken the written test, color blind test, depth perception test and reflex test. Of course, in the many times I have gone with many people (to translate/assist) I have found that depending on the day you could get a pass on any of those depending on who is on duty, how busy they are, etc.. But technically you are still supposed to be given all those tests.

What's with the use of "farang" throughout TV???? . . . could we not use the slightly less derogatory "foreigner" or perhaps even the actual nationality as it's usually already known in the original articles . . .

Farang is not a derogatory word in the Thai language. It basically means white foreigner. Here at TV, and around Thailand in expat circles, that word has been adopted as an easy way to refer to us.