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  1. Borax you can get at Mahidol Rd, left side when you come from the airport, before the Ping bridge. It's a chemical supply shop, blue color outside. 1kg for 90B IIRC. Lasts for a lifetime. And it's really good too. Even that nasty slow moving black ants eat it, the other ones really love it. Cockroaches should also be vulnerable, but haven't seen one for a while.

    worldchemical.co.th (throw into Google Maps search)

  2. Been in the city before lunch. They just started to throw stinking moat water at each other. Disgusting. Lot's of foreigners, not only asians, also many farangs, who don't know how to walk or drive. Queues in front of 7/11. When the crowd is drunk a bit later, accidents will just happen.

    The old city is again fully commercialized, sellers of all kind of cr*p everywhere, temples become bazaars, there is nothing traditional at all. Just a big, stinking, dirty mess with lots of id*ots inside.

    A bit further outside it's different, people have clean water, kids play at the side of the street and have fun. Nice enough for a short stop and a smile.

  3. Use borax, does not get simpler and all ants love it :)

    1/2 cup suger

    1 1/2 tablespoon borax

    1 1/2 cup warm water

    Mix and put it on some tissue paper, I usually use the caps of milk bottles, stuffed with the paper. Then place at a strategic location. Worker ants will carry it into their nest and poof....mass extinction. Don't use too much borax or they will die on the way home.

  4. It says immigration division 1, that is Chaeng Wattana. Someone there (that Maj.Gen.) obviously ordered one of his minions to "optimize" the tracking of evil aliens (us) and that came out with that comprehensive all-round checklist, inofficial as it does not carry a TM.xx number. Now they probably try to implement this in BKK. More reports are needed.

    Eventually that may become a one-time questionnaire at the time one applies for an extension of stay. Not for 90 days or re-entry permits. Even the generals will understand that such work load can not be carried on the shoulders of already understaffed immigration.

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  5. Standard supermarket prices are the same. However in Chiang Mai you have a lot of local products. Be it fresh vegetables (Royal Project) for as cheap as you can't imagine or local produced food (bread, sausage, pickles etc). Lot's of small factories that provide a huge choice of farang food of all kind for very reasonable prices. Local supermarket change Rimping aggregates a lot of this stuff, so it's centrally available. There is no tourist fee on top unlike I'd expect to see in Krabi. Of course you can get ripped off too if you don't do your homework.

    Fuel prices are a bit higher, but that's just a few satang, no real impact.

  6. We use TESCO points, just around the corner and cheaper than 7/11. They send a letter with discount vouchers every month. Not much but why throw it away.

    Other than that you get some 3% and points with many credit cards, HomePro, Central, this stuff, but it's more expensive to start with, in the end you don't save any money.

    I have an SCB CC, they give 10 or 15% for King Power, so you can get some industrial alcohol a little bit cheaper at the airport.

  7. Black label, no fruit mentioned.

    What it says is (in Thinglish, back label is English/Thai, one piece, with that warning or whatever in big letters):

    " An elegance Cabernet Sauvignon with black and distinct aromas of Blackberries and Black Pepper, selected and fermented by experience winemakers. Serve original tastes and traditional process of South Australia.

    Handpicked Cabernet Sauvignon from South Australia. Intense and spicy on the palate, mouth-filling and powerful ruby red ; fully bodied and round tannins with a long finish".

    Taste is so-so, have had worse ones, but for the price I'd say ok. They also had a white one, not sure what it was, did not look closer. Same price.

  8. Some years ago they had a stone old 747 parked at Don Muang with one engine missing. They were getting another one from another old plan and fitting it themselves, no hangar, just on the tarmac.

    Orient Thai, formerly known as 1-2-go buys the oldest planes even the Chinese don't want to maintain anymore and give them a new lease of life. If you fly with them you could also fly off the next balcony. The latter certainly offers the better experience :D

  9. Saw some new stuff in Makro today, 2l bottle, PRIM Bin 10. South Australia, Cabernet Sauvignon, no fruit mentioned on the label. 370B only. Got one bottle but haven't tried yet. Seems to be real wine and not fruit juice though.

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