johng

Dave:

My better half, loved to watch that ready steady cook program when we where in England ,she especially liked " that idiot Ainsley Harriott "

(he's a clown aint he) errm so no more bad mouthing Ainsley or I'll send her round to your place with a big wet blanket to cover your UBC dish.

Hi Johng can you tell me where in Jomtien the engine is? thanks

Sorry I took so long to reply ....didn't see your question, You can see the steam engine from the beach road. If you drive from South Pattaya/North Jomtien all the way down untill you can allmost drive no further (and still be on the beach road ) keep looking left and you'll see it.

How is it buying a wife?

Sorry I meant, it is perceived by many ( westerners ) as buying a wife.

When you told your family/friends back in England that you where marrying a Thai woman and that you would be paying a dowry to her family, where there not a few raised eyebrows ??

I paid a dowry and was happy to do so

Well I'm glad that you where happy to pay a dowry, I'm not saying your decision to do so was wright or wrong.. that's for you to decide.

But the fact remains,the dowry subject causes much tension in Thai/western relationships.Just look to this thread for proof of that.

I understand that traditionally the "Sin Sot" is just for show,so the womans family maintain good face, and that after the expenses of the wedding ceromony are deducted the remaining money along with they money brought by guests to the wedding is given back to the newlyweds to start their life together.

That seems fair enough to me, ( a compromise ) but it doesn't allways happen when a "Farung" is involved does it ?

You must have read about and heard first hand accounts of the horror stories

if you have been visiting Thailand since 1982.

My first trip was 1982 and boy was Pattaya different then

Are you one of those pr*ts who still believe that the bride's family should pay for the wedding?

No but surely they should contribute some thing more than just the bride herself.

So is my mother in law buying a grandson

Only if you agreed on a price before you agreed to make one for her

But this is costum of Thai u should be honour her , if you love her

Yes... but it's not the custom of westerners sorry to speak so bluntly it's seen as buying a wife !! (Asbestos suit on )

So if the girl loves him she will agree to a compromise. Yes ??

Norfolk's going to be a bit boring

RDN: why would it be boring ? you could have a great time ogling the Norfolk broads

In 7-11 Just say "Counter service" and hand them the bill.

There is a problem with the new CAT telecom bills because they dont have three barcodes at the top of the page, now they just have one at the bottom and

no one has told 7-11 staff how to deal with that yet

If you can't pay in 7-11 then try a bank goto the information counter and say

" Jai tee nee dai mai ? " while holding the bill up for the bank person to see.

Ohh almost forgot.... they will charge you 10 baht for the service.

I hope you're not going to be putting them down your trousers !!!!

(sorry it had to be asked)

Ha ha Badman (Baldman ) beat me to it.

It doesn't seem to be on the Carabao website

at www.carabao.net

but I found it here http://karaoke.sansuk.com/view.asp?id=4586

บ้า ( D )

คาราบาว

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Intro 11 Bars...10...

11... ไม่ใช่ผู้ดี ตีนแดง

ตะแคงตีนเดิน

ไม่ใช่ผู้ร้าย จอเงิน

ต้องเดินเอียงคอ

ก็มีความฝัน วันวัน

ที่ขนมห่อ

ห้าบาท ก็พอ สิบบาทสองห่อ

ล่อกันท้องตึง หนังในตาหย่อน

Solo 6 Bars...5...

6... มีบ้านเป็นหลัง คาแดง

อยู่มานมนาน

ก็คือสถาน พยาบาล

อาการสมอง

ยังมีความสุข ทุกวัน

กับการเหม่อมอง

เกาะรั้วยองยอง รถราก่ายกอง

ว่องไววกวน ทั้งถนนรนแคม

แล้วมา วันหนึ่ง ถึงเวลาเย็น

ฉันไปเดินเล่น

เกาะลูกกรงรั้ว

เห็นรถยางแตก

กับหญิงสาวขี้กลัว

ฉันยืนยิ้มที่ริมรั้ว

ดูเธอเปลี่ยนล้อยาง

(ยางมันแตก)

เธอลนเธอลาน พลั้งเผลอ

เตะน็อตตกท่อ

ก็เหลือแต่ล้อ เปลี่ยนล้อ

ขาดน็อตยึดแน่น

จากความวิตก หวาดหวั่น

กลายเป็นความแค้น

เสียงตวาดแหว๋น

เสียงดังแป๋นแป๋น

แค้นที่มองหน้า

ยิ้มทำไมไอ้คนบ้า

Solo 9 Bars...8...

9... ฉันเป็นคนบ้า

เพราะว่าสติไม่ดี

ไม่ใช่คนไม่ดี ฉันมีสติไม่ดี

ฉันเป็นคนบ้า ไม่ใช่คนไม่ดี

ฉันสติไม่ดี ฉันเป็นคนบ้า

บ้ายังช่วยบอก ให้เธอใจเย็น

น็อตที่ฉันเห็น

ยังมีอีกตั้งสามล้อ

ถอดมาล้อละตัว

มาใส่แล้วก็ไปต่อ

เสียงเธอก็ร้องอ๋อ..

ก็ไหนว่าเป็นคนบ้า

Solo 6 Bars...5...

6... ไม่ค่อยจะดี อย่างเธอ

จึงต้องอยู่ในรั้ว

ไม่ค่อยมีเงิน ติดตัว อนาถา

สติสตัง ไม่ดี ไม่มีปัญหา

ใช่แล้วคนบ้า ใครก็ว่าบ้า

บ้าก็บ้าซิวะ

ถึงจะบ้า แต่ว่าไม่โง่

'poo dee dtin daeng' is for those sort of poeple (hi-so's ) who don't do anything for themselfs (won't get their feet muddy )

richsilver:

Excelent find thank's for sharing.

Can't cook --- won't cook ? ( Tv program )

Cooked myself a nice spaghetti bolognese today. Don't have a photo of it though. :-D

Pattaya celebrates Songkran later so that anyone who might have missed or want to celebtate it again can do so

The last day the 19th is called "wun lie" that day is total caos , Pattaya will be in gridlock. Songkran is good fun if you have nothing better to do,if you have any thing important to do on that day or the preceeding week just forget it !

Where are they going to get the water to throw in Pattaya

If all other reserves are used up there's always the sea

I agree with Lemel what could be a very nice celebration is normally spoilt by more than just a few idiots

Glad that it worked

There is a museam on the town side of the lake, it's part of the water pumping station they have lots of info about the types of fish to be found,and the history of the lake its self.

I'm also told by someone born there that you (in fact anyone) can fish in the lake as it's public property... there is also a fishing tackle shop nearby too.

H90

Hi-Net is not bad at all.... for the money.

If you just want to check email surf the web etc it's perfectly useable and much much better than dial up.

Is it suitable for connecting to your office in Bangkok ??? I don't know for sure (without trying) but probably it would work, how would you be connecting VPN ???

I know Hi-Net do block port 25 SMTP outgoing and maybe others but I have not checked... blocked ports may cause problems.

Bittorent and edonkey work (of sorts)

IRC, Skype, Yahoo and Hotmail mesengers all work (text audio and web cam). Online games ? don't know if they work because I have never tried.

Good value for home use yes most definitely. For buisness use probably not good except as a back up.

While visiting my relatives in London over Christmas

My girlfriend was flicking through the TV channels and saw

HM. Queen Elizabeth II delivering the traditional christmas message on the BBC.

The second paragraph was this.

"Religion and culture are much in the news these days, usually as sources of difference and conflict"

My girlfiriend turned to me and asked why is the queen talking about cornflakes ?

Today a customer came into our shop and asked for a coffee he looked confused when she said yes ok and pointed to the printer... she thought he asked for a copy.

Try these.

*** สำหรับผู้ใช้บริการในเขตนครหลวงที่ทุกๆความเร็ว

Primary DNS คือ 203.121.130.39

Secondary DNS คือ 203.121.130.40

SMTP คือ smtp.pacific.net.th

*** สำหรับผู้ใช้บริการในเขตภูมิภาคที่ความเร็ว Speed 256/128 กับ 512/256 kbps

Primary DNS คือ 203.155.33.2

Secondary DNS คือ 202.44.144.34

SMTP คือ totadsl.th.com

*** สำหรับผู้ใช้บริการในเขตภูมิภาคที่ความเร็ว Speed 1024/256 kbps

Primary DNS คือ 202.44.202.3

Secondary DNS คือ 203.150.213.1

SMTP คือ 203.150.218.198

Also you can try changing the SMTPPort fron the standard port 25 to port 587 I had trouble a couple of weeks ago my ISP just suddenly started blocking port 25.

You can test conectivity by opening an MS-Dos promt

and for example issuing this command

telnet totadsl.th.com 25 (enter)

if succesful you will see an anwer something like this

220 mailtest.ksc.co.th ESMTP Sendmail 8.13.1/8.13.1; Mon, 28 Mar 2005 17:53:51 +

0700

if not try another port

telnet totadsl.th.com 587 (enter) or try another server untill you get a welcome message.

Then all you have to do is set up your email client.

konangrit:

That bit of rain we had today knocked the power out for a couple of seconds, shortly after that the internet went down too ! it allways does when it rains here in Pattaya

Have you tried Ji-Net yet ? they where quite reliable for me when I had dialup.

1222 is permanently engaged

Would that be the free internet number by any chance ?

The most likely reason it's allways engaged is because they don't have enough modems to cope with the amount of customers.

Slippery when wet :

There are a lot of channels on Hotbird

have a look here Hotbird channel list

Most of the good ones require subscription that's where the Dreambox from my last post comes in nudge nudge wink wink.

Big Spuds : Yes it's possible to use a $ky reciever to view the Thai TV Global Network (one channel mostly output from channel 5. I did't try the Dhammas channel because it's not very intresting to me.)

However, it's not very convenient to use a $ky box because the Thai channels are on a different satellite. So you could get another dish and use a switch to switch between the two or buy another LNB to attach to your existing dish and some sort of switch to switch between the LNB's. what you choose depends on the size of your existing dish.

The $ky reciever's are intentionly cripled in an attempt to stop anyone viewing channels that are not $ky's. And if you're switched to another satellite for a while you might miss an update for your $ky smartcard.

It just so happens that Thai TV Global Network broadcast with parameters that are compatible with the cripled $ky box.

If if you invest in LNB etc and they change anything in the future you might not be able watch anymore.

So the best solution is...(in my dreams) throw out the $ky box and it's expensive subscription and buy a DM7000 info here. Dreambox

Connect the "Dreambox" up to a 1.5 meter motorised dish and to the internet via it's ethernet socket then you will be able to view a very large number of channels for free.

Raining in Pattaya now at 1pm on Friday 25th of March

Any one hear of this report

Yes it's in the "News" section somewhere.

here http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=29844

Only problem is how to tell if there is a commissioned officer present ????????

I hope it's ok to post this here.

Couldn't see any mention of it in the news clipping section.

BANGKOK : At least 14 people including 10 security forces were wounded in two near simultaneous bomb blasts in southern Thailand, rocked by an Islamic separatist insurgency.

The first bomb was detonated at 9:23 am Sunday (0223 GMT) at a park pavilion in the capital of Yala province shortly after policemen searched a group of four young men. The explosion injured seven policemen and the four men, police said.

Seven minutes later in neighbouring Narathiwat province, a bomb exploded outside an army checkpoint in Cho-ai Rong district, wounding three soldiers, including one seriously.

"The bomb was an attack on officials as the area is one where the military gather for work," a police officer told AFP.

At least 630 people have been killed in the predominantly Buddhist kingdom's Muslim-majority south since January 2004 in what authorities have described as a separatist insurgency.

- AFP

Yes the car is a very crappy Ford laser ! a rather apt name as it likes going in a straight line but not around corners

My girlfriend made a sticker for the back window, it said in Thai.

"if you are thinking about stealing this car you better have enough money to fix it first ! "

So if the parking fee at the airport is 250 baht per day 60x250=15,000 baht for two months that's more than the car's worth (well almost)

I don't know why the click to enlarge doesn't work anymore??? it did before.

Any way here's a link to the full size pic.

http://img161.exs.cx/img161/197/dscf00054da.jpg

Sexy Beast :

The thought never entered my head to pull her/his pants down

Besides I was with my other half at the time.. I don't think she would have been too pleased if I had done that