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I haven't seen any improvement in the area where we have our condo near the Phetchaburi MRT station. If anything, the traffic is worse with all the new condos that have recently been built, and are still being built in the area, including the huge twin towers of One 9 Five condo, among others.

Give them a stretch in jail, big fine, ban them from flying, and deport them once they have served their jail time, with a 10-year visit ban thrown in.

More utter nonsense. Spouse and I owned 9 View Talay condos, at various times, scattered around VT3, 5C, 5D, and 7. Sold every one of them at a profit. Each of the projects is in a good, beachside location. From VT3 on, the projects offered much larger units, many 90 sqm or more, in addition to 48 sqm studios, which are actually larger than a lot of studios in new projects of 25 sqm or less. We have been in some stunning VT condos, including a beautiful condo of a friend of ours in one of the bigger units in VT3. Like Pattaya itself, you get a number of people that don't know what they are talking about when they discuss condos, VT included. Contrary to some of the snide remarks here, including yours, the majority of the residents I encountered when I lived in the VT condos with my spouse were normal folk, living normal lives. That was also true for the other projects we lived at--from Garden Cliff in the north to Lumpini Park Beach in the south--with a number of stops at other condos in-between. Some married, some single. Some living there full-time, some living in their condos only during the winter months, escaping European, Canadian, and US winters. The VTs have a very reasonable condo fee so many from cold countries can afford to keep a VT condo year-round, even though they may only use it during the winter months. When we lived at VT3, in a large 100+ sqm corner unit much bigger than many of the smaller condos in new buildings, we met a nice couple from Europe who did just that. Originally, they rented a VT3 condo just during the winter months but then decided to buy a condo so they could keep their stuff in it year-round and not have to move in and out every year--the low condo fee made it an easy choice.

More utter rubbish.

Utter rubbish.

Guess you are unfamiliar with Ford's pardon of Nixon, which covered any crimes he 'may have committed'.

Just another sign of booming Pattaya.

I like to keep busy and engaged so I am never bored--whatever time of the day it is. My morning routine usually consists of coffee on the terrace where I read the latest news on the laptop, check my stock portfolio, read any emails, check Facebook, do WORDLE, etc. Then, breakfast, workout at home gym, have a swim, shave, shower, and it's on to the rest of my day. When I have free time I like to read mysteries and suspense novels and watch some of the good tv being produced today. Spouse and I are in the planning stages for our next house build and also planning our next travel trip. The house build and more travel than last year will keep us engaged this year, I think. And, we want to get to Bangkok more often this year than we managed last year. Life is good. Enjoy each day.

Yellow Bank. GH Bank. SCB.

If someone poisoned them likely they were dangerous or creating a noise problem and needed to be put down.

Yellowstone was on my list that I posted. Great series, and I also like the others of his on your list.

Thanks for posting. Lots of redevelopment going on in that area, with the new shopping/entertainment complex going in at Again Pattaya on a large plot by the circle. Also, the really huge Centre Point 3 resort is now going up in front of Cape Dara. A new highrise condo is planned near the recently finished Akara Hotel. Centara Grand Resort is undergoing a rather large renovation and another new luxury highrise condo, Arom Wongamat, has opened or is about to open. Have also seen signs for a Wyndham Grand condo project.

Currently reading the new Reacher novel, In Too Deep. Have been reading some of the Robert Crais novels I missed featuring private detective Elvis Cole. Found a wonderful Japanese writer, Keigo Higashino, and have been reading his mysteries. John Sandford's Virgil Flowers novels are excellent--a companion series to the Lucas Davenport 'Prey' novels. Also catching up with some of the Robert Harris novels I missed. Good stuff. Waiting next to be read, The Waiting, by the always reliable Michael Connelly.

The Sound of Music Grease Love, Actually National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation Casablanca Gone with the Wind Titanic

Rewatching Mad Men; I think I missed some of the episodes first time around. Wonderful series, and easy to see why Variety named it the second best tv series of all-time. Also watching New Amsterdam, Slow Horses, Yellowstone, The Good Place, A Man on the Inside, No Good Deed, Outlander, The Agency, Dalgliesh, and Black Doves.

Likes or dislikes?

Sure, 49.9 vs. 48.3. Neither got 50%. Both were liked, or disliked, about equally.

Yes, but still couldn't reach 50% of the POPULAR vote. Still just 49.9% vs. 48.3 no matter how you try to slice it. Still roughly half wanting Trump, half Harris.

Thank you. Exactly the point I was making. You look at the map and if you didn't know and had to guess you'd think Trump won maybe 80% of the vote to Harris's 20%. Look at all that red! My gosh! The reality is 49.9% vs. 48.3%. The reality is roughly half of the actual voters preferred Trump and roughly half of the actual voters preferred Harris. But that reality is not reflected with either your map or the EC. As I said in a previous post, the map could be entirely red--or blue--and the winner could have won by just 51 votes.

49.9 vs. 48.3.

I understand the EC just fine, more's the pity. Basically, you had roughly half of the voters wanting Trump, roughly half of the voters wanting Harris. That's the reality. Neither reached 50% of the vote. The EC vote can give a very false impression. A candidate can win every state by 1 vote and have a huge EC win, but the popular vote was razor thin. Was he or she overwhelmingly favored by the voters? No.

I wouldn't call 49.9% of the vote vs. 48.3% a 'landslide'. Once again, out of 3 tries, Trump failed to reach 50%.

It started out being about the service charge but several post have been about the food quality and quantity, which I responded to. Yes, we pay the service charge, and don't give it another thought.

Spouse and I eat at Fuji maybe 2 or 3 times a month, usually at lunch because you get a free drink and a little fruit cup dessert thing. We almost always order the teriyaki chicken and one of two different appetizers we like. I don't think either of us has noticed any change in the portions of the dishes we order---no change in the size of the dishes, soup bowls, rice bowls, etc. Perhaps other menu items we don't order have changed. We are still happy with the food quality of what we order or we would no longer dine there.

Good advice.