cmsally

4 hours ago, silverhawk_usa said:

Epicenter about 12km from my house in Doi Saket.  Felt, and sounded, more like a bomb going off and rattled the whole house. I went outside to see what happened. It didn't feel like the earthquakes I had experienced before.  Very strange.

Maybe because the epicentre was quite close to the surface.

http://www.earthquake.tmd.go.th/en/local.html

4.1 centred in Doi Saket

Yes definitely felt it in downtown CM. Quite a jolt but didn't last that long.

19 minutes ago, Bassosa said:

We're building to code and according to hotel licensing laws. 30% green space, wide corridors, fire safety measure, correct roof slope, galaes, the lot.

Cost us millions.

Thanks for the support.

Oh the whole kaboodle ! Best of luck! Hope tourism improves next year because it certainly wasn't great this year.

Hope you remembered your hotel license for when the next crackdown happens.

Then there will be the new land/building tax starting next year. Apart from that should be OK if the tourists turn up. The other big one is if the pollution will be as bad this year.

Not being negative but things certainly more upbeat in the past.

Hats off to anyone brave enough to enter the hotel business at this stage of the game !! Definitely not easy and probably going to get harder.

Tax is more expensive if english only. To get the Thai signage price you can have both Thai and English but Thai must be ABOVE the English. I have seen many where Thai is quite small in comparison but always above. If you hang it I think you would need to pay tax, normally they check in the daytime !!

Some off topic posts have been removed. I think the OP was just implying 80k was quite high.

Maybe doable in one of the larger hotels but very unlikely in a small place. Also remember you would need a fair bit of experience to get a job like this. There are a number of people who have had many years in the business that would be eligible for the top jobs.

9 hours ago, 55Jay said:

Meh.  It's actually easier to remember the most common venomous snakes you might encounter in your area, than trying to remember the plethora of non-venomous species. 

 

Like this one, for instance.  Horrible beast, looks like it's about to eat your dog in the garden, but really, you can let this one bite your arm with its tiny, virtually harmless teeth, then wash gently with soap after. 

 

This was the snake featured in the young Dicaprio film "The Beach", opening scenes in the BKK Bar drinking "cobra" blood. 

 

The radiated rat snake sure does put on a good show.  Hollywood. ????

 

 

 

 

We have one of those in our area (must be at least 3m) and there are smaller versions (offspring). The large version gave my cat chronic PTSD.

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World Cannabis Festival, Super GT, a Tour de France cycling competition and concerts featuring famous bands such as Tomorrow Land and EDC.

World Cannabis Festival (which in all the news releases seems to be "Ganja Festival"), seems to be newly invented.  Not sure about Tour de France when France not involved but maybe they will sort it out. Who the heck are Tomorrow Land? But EDC is very appropriate as I believe it is the acronym for a type of credit card charging machine !!

Golden tree snake. Not dangerous but stubborn.

4 hours ago, neeray said:

Thanks cmsally. I've been reading each post carefully trying to sleuth out the justification for using the word "hybrid" by the army chief. (thought that might mean guns and digital propaganda)

But your suggestion of "hydra" might be more correct. I had to do a Wiki on "hydra".

Hydra is a fictional terrorist organization appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.

Well personally I prefer the version from Greek mythology !

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According to Hesiod, the Hydra was the offspring of Typhon and Echidna.^[3] It had poisonous breath and blood so virulent that even its scent was deadly.^[4] The Hydra possessed many heads, the exact number of which varies according to the source. Later versions of the Hydra story add a regeneration feature to the monster: for every head chopped off, the Hydra would regrow two heads.^[5] Heracles required the assistance of his nephew Iolaus to cut off all of the monster's heads and burn the neck using sword and fire.

Strangely when I first read the title , I automatically inserted "hydra" for "hybrid". I had to go and reread to realise it was hybrid. This often happens when I skim read and brings up some interesting results such as this one.

You need to replace "hybrid" with "hydra" for it to make sense.

Call me a cynic; but is it just a coincidence that Somkid's son has founded a big data company which seems to deal in stuff just as this.

http://www.siametrics.com/en/

15 minutes ago, toenail said:

Example:  “Fire! Fire” .... a Thai will most likely sit and wait to be told what to do ( or lack the “preparedness of what to do); meanwhile a “Westerner will take action upon him/ herself on what to do.  

Yes, I am generalizing but I think you get the point. 

Totally get your point on this one. In the past 10 years had at least half a dozen fires break out in our area (mostly electrical on the street). I have had to put out every single one. Left me wondering why none of the Thais could just deal with it; I'm sure they have some idea of how to work a fire extinguisher. But its like they just shut down !