chang35baht

Thanks a lot for the heads up James.

Cheers,

C35B.

Nobody knows the answer though!!!!!

Bear in mind the price follows what oil is doing. I live in the wettest part of Thailand, and most people here turn it into mats. The reason is if it is raining, they go quickly gather what is in the cups and process it. Dry cup rubber price depends on the moisture content. Mat rubber is about 85 Baht.kg. We have 1 Burmese tapping 700 trees, and he's confident he can do the other 800 when they are mature enough.

Mosha, are you saying that your burmese guy will do 1500 trees per day when they are all mature? I would have thought that at already doing 700, he is at full pelt.

Unless you are supplying him with early mornig yaba doses.

Do you know of this website? http://www.rubberthai.com/ If so can you tell me if these are local market prices or wholesale to larger processing factories?

Cheers.

C35B

Totally agree James. Well said.

Someone sent me a PM wanting to know if there was a left luggage booth at CR airport. Personally I don't know. Never had occassion to ask. Just found it strange that he would PM me instead of asking on the forum to a wider audience.

Anyway for his benefit, if any of you folks know wether there is or isn't, please could you post it here.

Thanks,

Chang35baht.

I would have thought that a short course of antibiotics would be wise to guard against infection. I could be wrong of course.

C35B.

Your parent in law is already running their own rubber farm!!!!!!

You already have the perfect people to answer yor questions.

I`ll have a stab at the restaraunt.

Muang Thong, on the corner up past the Wiang Inn.

C35B

Before I started booking online I always used this shop. Gave lots of alternative airlines to let you choose from. There is no "by far and away the best TA in Chiang Rai". There are though the best ones that we`ve used.

PP Travel Mumbo. you were nearly right.

How much do you pay for a 50g bag of fertilizer chang50baht and would you fertilize now ?

Yes I would fertiize now. just make sure you try to get the fertilizer a few inchs under the soil. When(rubber) trees are young you probably would fertiize 3-4 times per year. My wife would sometimes supplement the fertilizing in between with 'shivapahp' or 'kee wua'(ask your wife) . My rubber trees are nearly 5 years old now and are 2-3 times thicker than other surrounding farms who have not stuck to a regime of fertilization, so I cannot stree enough the importance of this.

Of course it all depends on wether you can afford it or not.

Cost of fertilizer. Not sure at the moment. Went up to 1400BT+ Year before last when the Chinese (where most bags come from) put 100% export tax on all their fertilizers. Between 950-1000BTat the moment I think. Shop around. If you find it cheaper than that you`re doing well

C35B

I believe they have already started the land preparation virtually opposite BigC.

If the shop sizes are no larger than 300 sq.metres then there should be no competition to bigC. But I`ll bet every dollar I have that there wil be shops larger than that in the new "Centran".

P.S. Not 100% sure about location. but a few people have told me that the land clearing there is for the new Centran.

NPK: 20-10-12.

How old are the trees?

Planted just last rainy season.

About 200g per tree will be ok I`m sure your relatives know how to apply it to the topsoil. Clear grass/weeds around the tree, mix it in with the first couple of inches of soil around 2-3 feet from the tree,

Why are they not getting this info locally?

C35B.

NPK: 20-10-12.

How old are the trees?

Me Me Me, buy mine please.

Just did another 24 hr r&r in Tachilek. Some observations:

>>> dogs bark a whole lot less than in Thailand. Why is it Thailand has gnarly dogs on every block? When I have friends visit, at my rural house in Chiang Rai, they can't walk up or down the road without packs of shitty little dogs barking ferociously. They bark and nip at Thai also. I haven't experienced more than a modicum of that problem in Burma.

>>> Burmese, like Thais don't know how to make a sandwich. Burmese are less adept at Thais in that dept. A Thai sandwich is 1 cm thick with 2 mm of colored jelly, a Burmese sandwhich is 60 mm thick with 1 mm of something between the lifeless bread. We need the Laotians and farang to go out and teach the other SE Asians how to make a sandwich.

>>> MSG is prevalent, as least as much as in northern Thailand. Must be because Shan State is closer to China than Thailand. Stopped at a roadside eat place in the evening. They hyper salty veges and meat were palatable, barely. However, I tossed and turned all night at my hotel, because of MSG poisoning.

There were good things to report, such as long bicycle rides down country lanes, but it's more fun to hear about the complaints, isn't it?

No.

I have a dedicated line from TOT for internet. I pay 738 per month. For this I regularly get download speeds above 300KB/s. Except when the kids are out of school until around 8pm. Easy to stream or download movies and tv.

If there are no phone lines in your village then the phone company probably won`t install any cables until there are enogh houses wanting lines.

Sorry I don`t know anything about satellite internet, but I believe the stsrt up costs may be high.

Just didn't understand what you meant by the above quote about whistles and flutes.

Thinking of it, where I come from a 'whistle and flute' is a suit but that's a very tenuous link to what you were saying and even more cryptic than I'd care to imagine!

I hope you can elaborate

A 'black whistle' is a corrupted referee that gets paid to let a team win.

Gambling has so far been taking place mainly on the English Premier League football.

That's one of the reasons of the popularity of English football.

That's why you stumble over magazines about English football in Thailand.

Add that Manchester United and Liverpool as the great super clubs win the hearts of

every real football supporter worldwide and it is no wonder that English football is popular.

English football players earn very big salaries, so they won't risk messing up for a couple

of hundred thousands. And millions of people can have a repeated close-up, even in slow motion, on the referee's decisions.

So you can't buy the results.

That makes it a good thing for bona fide gamblers.

The new organisation of the Thai Football Association is a good beginning: a premier league and two divisions.

OK, you can still buy a prominent club and move it to your town, but Chiangrai United has done it the clean way.

We got a good team together and we made it!

I think this year Muang Thong against Chonburi was the big match with a crowd of 16.000.

The average number of visitors at the home matches of CRUTD of seven to eight thousand is therefore very high.

The football fever happened in all Thailand this year and it is great that we are part of it.

We have only 5500 seats in the old stadium (already thirty years or more), but behind the fences in the corners there

are enormous crowds as well. Nice that these people can look for free (tickets are now 20 and 60 Baht).

But I am afraid that we are a little bit off topic here with our football story.

About upgrading forums:

Compare a forum with a nice square in for instance Amsterdam (Leidseplein, Rembrandtsplein).

Around these squares are a lot of pubs and cafe's. Some people go to the one, others to the other.

Not all people like all pubs. If they would, they would be the same, so let's thank the Lords on our knees

that this is not the case.

And that is not necessary either ....

The important thing is that everybody enjoys visiting the square and respects the others.

Then the all different subgroups add something to the whole.

As Kandahar noticed: the Chiang Rai forum is a very pleasant forum compared to many others.

A general upgrade?

It is about respect and tolerance, for those who contribute.

If you think you do good, do, but don't tell others what to do. That would kill the forum.

If CMJantje wants a list with good shops, he is free to make this list. I am very curious what he is going to offer to us.

And he might get help.

There will always be people who think that they are better than others and that they should be in charge

and tell the others what and how they should write.

But that's not the way it works in a forum. That's more the blogger's style, very personal, a little bit

mentally masturbative so to say.

Limbo

If the answers were not available before then that is because nobody has that info for you.

Maybe you just have to be patient and keep askng.

If these are to be pinned topics, then the info must come from the same source. But at this moment in time it`s not there.

When information is asked for , if it is available then that information will be given. Perhaps not right away but as a matter of course the info will be given. Wether people have the info at hand or are gracious enough to go out of their way to find out for their fellow TV members

Personally, I think the forum is fine as it is. Certainly new ideas are always welcome. But let them be spontaneous.

Nobody has an 'agenda'. The mods see to that.

Could you give an example of needs not being met by new arrivals/members to the forum.

And yes, I agree with you regarding some of the pinned topics being dormant for a long while. But that is only because there is no new info available to update said topics. When a new hotel appears in Chiang Rai then I'm sure it will be added to the list etc.

If it aint broke don't fix it.

I hope you skin is thick enough to read this post and not construe it as a personal attack VF.

HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ONE AND ALL ON THAIVISA. ESPECIALY TO ALL OF OUR REGULAR CONTRIBUTORS TO OUR FORUM.

Chang35baht

Nomad, check with you hotel. Maybe they can arrange to pick you up for free.

C35B.

Tell a little bit more about yourself, it might help.

Limbo

I was asked so I told. Sorry

Can you really say you said anything about yourself in your post previous to this. You've almost turned this topic into one of your blogs. A topic that you've said on a few occassions that I don' t know why I am answering, persisting 'but'.

You probably wouldn't find me interestting because you would't get the chance. I live in a Thai village, I work on my rubber farm, I play golf, I go fishing(all Thai styles off), I drink with my friends 2-3 times a week. And I must confess on bended knee that it may be in a bar. Sometimes in a restaraunt too, where we meet to shoot the shit and put the world to rights. We even allow our wives to follw us and interject if the politics (Thai and Western) get to serious. Yes people who drink have independent minds also and are capable of intelligent thought.

And yet I feel my life is settled even though I manage to indulge in all of the practices you steer away from.

You've let this topic drag on far to far and yes it's your fault for not listening to anything that has been posted.

Maybe that tells us more about you than your willing to let us know.

Frankly I'm bored with this topic and wish you would stop replying and that would end it.

You've asked for what you want but more or less told us that you probably won't like what you may get.

You don't go to places where the average person congregates because in you own mind now, if not previously, you are above average. There are always plenty of funerals in the village. Keep looking for interesting people there.( Be careful, they drink there also). This is no dating agency.

Believe me when I say this will be my one and only post on this thread, and quite frankly I do not care about peoples thoughts on my post.

Enjoy Yourself if you can VF,

Happy new year.

C35B

P.S. I'm just of to play tennis now with interesting people.

Kandahar, I don`t know where your based but popping into the nearest water authority yard might be helpful

Was Village Farang there???

I would, however, like to know how many of us are out there even though I can't yet envision actually meeting anyone. Just curious I guess.

I'm curious about this comment.

Probably a bit hard too as CRmembers seem a bit snobish. Went to a school Christmas party with my wife's neice and of the six or seven europeans there only got a faint nod from one. Didn't feel left out as the Thai parents there were quite welcoming.

Not one of your most thought out comments Harrrrrrrrry. Maybe they were not TV members at all.

On many occassions in CR BigC I have nodded to farangs that I had never seen before and got no response.

Of course this would never be the case in Chiang Mai