Wasima

Most of the hotels we stay at don't offer halal breakfasts... but it doesn't bother us... we eat around it.. fruit, breads, salads, pastries, corn flakes, boiled eggs, toast... and sometimes, we find hotels that will fry eggs in a separate area from the omelette station which is a bonus . We travel quite a bit and used to worry about finding halal places to eat, but we've never gone hungry or eaten anything we're not supposed to.

Not our typical supper at home, but this is typically what we eat at night after we break our fast along with fresh soup or boeber (milky treat with vermicelli and sago) - pictured (front plate - savouries) are beef mince samosas, chicken and corn samosas, chilli bites (baji) (round deep-fried snack), sausage rolls, mini steak pies (square pastry), mini chicken pizza (front) and on the back plate are all the sweet snacks - front - koeksisters (Cape Malay snack), muffin, chocolate brownies, swiss/ jam

roll, fruit cake, bollas (cape malay donut) and potato fritters. All home-made - not by me lol... I only made the savouries, the sweet stuff comes from my neighbours. In fast we have a tradition here in Cape Town to share our snacks before we break our fast. So I send whatever snacks I made to my neighbours and they send back whatever they made . So by the time we eat, we have a whole variety... but I have to be honest, we NEVER even manage to eat a quarter of the goodies on the table at night and I end up taking it to work with me for my non-muslim colleagues. They love it! By the way, I'm Cape Malay means I am Malay in origin, but was born and bred in Cape Town, South Africa.

McDonald's is not halaal in Thailand, but there are plenty of halal restaurants around the Indra Regent Hotel area. Been to Bangkok plenty times and never had a problem finding halal food. Enjoy!

Food looks delicious and your table setting looks great too . Will post pics of tonights' supper sometime tomorrow... but don't get excited. I ordered Thai take-aways lol... but I don't live in Thailand... Will take pic of the snacks too... will all be Cape Malay goodies.

Good luck. Hope all goes well. Please let us know what happened after the interview.

Some nice advice and alternatives here ... I like the bushy hedges, but looks like a lot of work. See pic below... I've seen this quite a lot around where I live... in SA... I'm sure you can find this over there as well... called shade cloth and attached to the gates with small cable ties and very inexpensive. Comes in different colours too.

If I had nothing to do whole day and just be a keyboard cowboy, I would make time during my busy schedule to clean my pool and lovingly tend the dead flowers and my neighbours tree. But unfortunately, I HAVE A LIFE, A JOB, A FAMILY and more importantly, no time to JUDGE other people.

PLEASE... come to my house and clean up the dead flowers on a DAILY BASIS. I was just telling MY experience. I didn't know I was breaking any laws. And your opinion of me really doesn't affect the quality of my life nor do I care 2 stuffs what the hoi poloi there thinks of me. Lastly, I am responsible for what I say NOT WHAT YOU UNDERSTAND. I certainly did NOT tell the OP to do what I INTEND on doing. REALLY???? Who put sand in YOUR VAGINA???

There goes my supplier........

Ok. Noted. But I don't live in Thailand so I don't have to worry about thainess. I live in South Africa so my neighbour should be lucky I don't stone his house, take a shotgun to his tree or burn it down LOLOL. JUST KIDDING!!!

Good luck to the OP. It it was me in that situation, I'd wait for the bananas and just make banana bread LOL.

I have the same problem... neighbour's tree overhanging... big pink flowers which falls on our property. But the flowers go brown within and hour or two and with the slightest gust of wind, it ends up in our swimming pool and ends up in the weir box if we don't pick it out immediately. Been going on for years. The owner of the house rents his house out 2 years at a time and we told him about this already, but he blithely ignored us. So now what I've resorted to doing is cut back whatever branches hangs over on my side and then chuck it back onto his property. No complaints so far. But this happens too often and at the entrance of my property there's always a little pile of dead flowers greeting visitors... so now I'm going to buy some sort of weed killer or something and one night will just carefully lean over the fence and pour it under the tree. Hopefully that will solve my problem. In order to keep our pool clean at all times, we have paved our whole front-yard and placed big flower pots with yucca trees (no leaves) around it so as not to deal with having to keep cleaning out leaves from the pool.

I will just have to suck it up if my neighbour ever finds out that I killed his tree off... but won't worry too much about it for now.

I have to admit, it's not all that easy every time I do this... sometimes it takes the whole day to get it right. I live in SA and we only have two major airports where international flights take off from. I live in Cape Town and am about 8km way from Cape Town International Airport. Mostly direct flights from here with short stop-overs en-route.

I will give it a bash and let you know how it goes when I have a bit of time later. Will PM you if I can manage this.

Forgot to ask... can you please let me know your dates?

I have to admit, it's not all that easy every time I do this... sometimes it takes the whole day to get it right. I live in SA and we only have two major airports where international flights take off from. I live in Cape Town and am about 8km way from Cape Town International Airport. Mostly direct flights from here with short stop-overs en-route.

I will give it a bash and let you know how it goes when I have a bit of time later. Will PM you if I can manage this.

I have found over the years that it also depends on WHICH day you fly. I saved a total of Thb20K in flight fees because I booked to fly on a Wednesday and return home on a Wednesday. Booking on the Monday/ weekend or Friday would have costed me 20K more. I do that with ALL our travelling and always opt to fly out on the cheaper date. This time around I've actually extended our holiday by 4 days in order to save on travelling. And spending an extra 4 days in Asia costs nothing, so I'm all good. Same happens when we fly locally and is also dependent on the day you travel and whatever holidays are coming up over that period.

Lastly, I've stopped using travel agents because I found out here at home, the agent we always use, always adds a minimum of 25% onto the price it would cost me if I booked stuff myself.

Thanks

Hi there

We will be in Thailand next week, then Vietnam the week after that and then in Penang a week later.

Can anyone please advise me which sim I need to get for my phone? Preferably one that will be ok to use in all three countries, if possible?? I will need data mostly.

Thanks in advance.

Wasima

Been married for almost 18 years now. Have never checked up and neither has he. No reason to. We share same passwords on everything, email, phones, bank log-ins, everything. Nothing to hide. Also in some cases above, IMHO, I think some people don't check because they are BETTER OFF NOT KNOWING. Ignorance is bliss in some cases.

(1) Rent jet ski and refuse to pay damages.

(2) Drink all night in a gogo and then refuse to pay the bill.

(3) Walk down beach road and grope the girls.

(4) Have an arquement with taxi driver over the charge for a ride.

(5) Tell a ladyboy you would not touch him if he paid you.

(6) Go diving or snorkeling

(7) Walk along a lonely beach with your foreign girlfriend at night.

(8) Swim where you are taken by power boat and boats keep coming and going.

(9) Buy drugs from a motorcycle taxi driver.

(10) Sit in a bar and make trouble.

I did 6/10 and I am still alive.

Try harder next time

Maybe aliens abducted them??????

Thanks for all your helpful and funny suggestions. Really appreciate it. I think I have enough info now to fill up all our days there. A few more sleeps and we will be on our way!

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How to amuse 14yr old on holiday in Patts

Not should I take a 14yr old on holiday to Patts

Thanks for removing this guys' post and the one before him. There are so many great things to do with your kid in Patts, why would I deny my son some fun in a place that we don't visit all that often? Thank goodness I'm not small-minded, else my son would NEVER leave the house. Where we live we also have dodgy places, but it doesn't mean we actually go there or expose our son to it. Really??

Give him 10 Baht take baht bus down to Sunnee Plaza, I'm sure the boys there will give him a free nite to remember.

Well u did say any crazy suggestions. (Getting a baht bus I mean).

laughing so loud, i spat coffee all over the place.

A soapy in Soi Honey and for the next day S 6 with some cash for a nice afternoon.

I would have loved it at the age of 14...

LOL think we're giving that one a skip on this trip...

I don't have a 14year old son but if I did, Walking Street is the last place I would take him.

Don't assume that security staff will let him into bars at his age and, in any event, what sort of father would dream of exposing him to all that ?

We do not imbibe in alcohol at all (muslim and all that), but have no hang-ups about sitting in bars and people watch, but we do draw the line when things get out of hand and will never dream of letting him sit in a bar with us. By the way, my husband is a police officer back home... I would let my son get away with murder, but his dad won't lol. Thank you