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I am not dure why but thais that i have been around have not considered me as a falang, not sure what the reason is. i guess due to my ethnic mixed background.

but they have all told me that they find it amusing how falangs can sit down and discuss a trail of ants for half a day.

Yeah, that's possible if you're talking about 2 farang with an interest in ants. The Thai equivalent would be, "I wonder where that ant trail leads">>> "get a bag and we'll collect some to eat">>> "ooooweee these are aroi mak mak">>>>"my auntie used to cook the most aroi ants, aroi aroi", "I was at my cousins funeral and yi brought some ants aroi, aroi, aroi">>> "the ants from my village are more aroi than these, aroi, aroi, aroi, aroi">>>aroi>>>>aroi>>>aroi, etc. Same half day spent talking about ants.

Hi All,

I'm looking for a factory that builds high quality Bamboo furniture (good stuff) I've seen the stuff for sale down by the Goodview going towards Rimping Condo (Bears Den) it's really sturdy and has padded cushions. Thing is I need it not put together yet.....So if anyone can help that would be great.

Thanks!!!!

SDH

IMO the best bamboo furniture available anywhere is from Gerard. It's not cheap, but it's very nice. I think they might have a showroom on Nimmanhamin near Kasem Store.

http://www.thaibamboo.com/html/custom.html

If it's really low to the ground, i'd just cover it in chickenshit and let it decompose. If it isn't knock it out with a tractor. Manure works pretty well though. A lot of stumps I find very decorative and a good base for orchids and such, so I just leave them in place.

http://www.servicemagic.com/article.show.S...oval.13971.html

I talk about 90% less than my girlfriend who talks about 200% more than other Thais. If ever there's something I need to convey that requires more than a few sentences I'm told I talk a lot. I think mostly they tend to criticize that which they do not understand. Same goes for many farangs I suppose.

No.

Just an FYI for GBP holders. The GBP formed a "key reversal" (bearish engulfing pattern) on its weekly chart against the $USD this week.

http://stockcharts.com/h-sc/ui?s=$XBP...&a=48806132

Might mean something or nothing. Just a heads up.

One islikely to be the victim of a violent crime in the USA, once in every 73 years. If one stays out of very well known areas where crime is more prevalent, that figure would be extended to once every few hundred years. I'm not sure what the lilihood of being a victim of violent crime in Thailand is.

Lonesome Dove

Best MINISERIES!

Don't be such a stickler UG. It's too hard to come up with just one. Lonesome Dove was very good. Loved the book.

Thanks very much for your fieldwork Tywais. I shall contact them and see what my options are.

Often the banana flower is chopped up and served on the side with Pad Thai, which adds roughage and is very tasty, but my favorite use is in Yum Hua Plee. It's indescribably delicious.

Some people add shrimp or sausage to it, but if you make it right, it doesn't need it (or too much sugar).

http://www.northernthailand.com/cm/recipes...rokkuaplee.html

Serve with a small bowl of dried red chiles on the side. Then you can put chiles in it to your taste.

.. If I was to play on the Chinese markets I would happily stop for guaranteed stop losses as I feel that large gap downs of panic selling with no buyers is possible.

Agree.

However....in China, the problem is that one can do that -a stop loss- but just for the day. You have to repeat that the next day if you didn't sell.

In other words, one has to fine-tune a stop-loss for the stocks on a daily basis and TRY not to be too greedy....

LaoPo

I'm not too sure of their "guarentee" execution if a flood of newbie day-traders decide to panic sell (although you could be saved by the 10% daily limit) ...

In third world "emerging" markets, when the party is over, it is not uncommon for stocks to open limit down and remain there all day. Then the next day and the day after they repeat the process. Lack of liquidity makes emerging markets like roach motels "you can check in, but you can't check out". I'm not saying that's about to happen at all, but a stop loss would not help one in that case. Every sale requires a buyer.

In one of your previous postings you were 30. Have you forgotten?

Instant karma.

Good Luck, and if you happen to find any that will accomodate 60 people please let me know as I am looking for something to cover the roof of our restaurant during rainy season, but so far have found nothing suitable.

We just set one up at our facility to cover machine shop equipment that is being stored outdoors while a new building goes up. I'll take a picture and put here and check where they got it and how much when I go to work Monday.

That's exactly what i'm looking for. Thanks very much.

Do you mean an outdoor gazeebo, the green tent style ones, or do you mean the one's that people use when they are having their houseblesings for example that can accomodate 20 people or so?

If its the former then I saw some at Global yesterday. IF it's the later I am afraid I don't know, but you could ask your other half to visit the local Temple and ask where they get them from, there must be some kind of supplier as all the Temples in Thailand have them.

Good Luck, and if you happen to find any that will accomodate 60 people please let me know as I am looking for something to cover the roof of our restaurant during rainy season, but so far have found nothing suitable.

Hi TP,

I'm looking for the latter type, used for funerls and weddings and political events and so forth. I have a lot of building materials and tractor implements I want to keep covered . I'm going to build permanent structures but but I'm not sure where exactly, whether I want one or two, what should be the design, etc. with rainy season upon us this seems the best alternative and i can use it again elsewhere later.

About your restaurant, I've seen a couple types. One type is the same as I'm looking for but with clear plastic covering. The other uses clear or tinted, flat or curved, polycarbonate panels over a wood or light steel frame. It's very nice for outside dining.

An American? As a fellow American, I'd expect (and recommend) nothing less than a good ol' American ass beating.

That also makes him VERY easy to track down.....

I'm hoping this is the case.

Yes... Canada loses to The U.S... heh but the games not over! Us Canadians are just way too nice... I really believed his whole story... Im an actor and I gotta say... he's a ###### good one.

Damian

As it's a farang. You should get the Tourist Police and Immigration involved. If he's using a website to commit fraud, contact the ICT Ministry of Information and Communications Technology). That's the one that's blocking websites and bringing legal action against many websites. Hopefully they'll believe your case is as important as their own crap agenda and do something.

You say you were overcharged. Was the 200 baht more than the listed price on the menu or what you'd been told by the staff? If so, why did you pay it? If not, you were not overcharged.

The OP's question is entirely valid and I doubt that he will find many people being completely honest and saying, yes, I do get bored - I certainly do and the other farangs I know are the same. Those that say they have hobbies or family to keep them busy, congratulations, you've organized your retirement well and have prepared for it. However those that sit in beer bars all day I suggest will have a short retirement or will get fed up with it over time.

I'm annoyed that the Thai government has missed a real opportunity with expat retirees in Thailand. The combination of experience and knowledge could easily be put to very good use in helping the country develop and I doubt (or perhaps I should say I like to think) that most would not want remuneration for such skills transfer and would feel happy to have made a contribution and to have spent their time doing something constructive. I'm also slightly surprised that no expat has come up with some ingenious idea for harnessing this talent and putting it to good use although it might be that it's simply not dooable. But I do think that the first step in all of this is for folks to admit that boredom is a problem.

Boredom was a problem for me in America, but it never is here.

You've all seen them. Those ubiquitous tents, or canopies with the steel pipe frames. They come in pitched and arched tops. Does anyone know where I can buy them ready made, or to order, and what price per sq. mtr. I might expect to pay? Even used would be OK. Though I imagine they're not discounted much for that. TIA

Yes, San Khampaeng has that reputation (or did anyway), as does Payao and I think Chiang Dao too.

My favorite color is green. I love all of the 100's of shades of green.

Happy Birthday Nignoy. A young 64. You've had so many experiences detailed here, over such a long period of time, I had imagined you were older. I hope to hear many more of your stories in the coming years.

Also, farming is a prohibited occupation. There are of course, "workarounds" for all these impediments, but it requires a lot of work, and IMO, time in country before beginning.

I have the D-Max 4dr/4wd now for 4 years. It's very rugged and needs little maintenance. I'm in 4wd everyday and it's never left me stuck anywhere (with the one exception of me driving off the edge of a road into a deep rice paddy). The only thing I can knock it for, is that the suspension seems to have been designed more for comfort than for work. I had to put a couple more leaf springs on it. Other than that it's been a very good truck. I looked at the Toyota first, and were they made the same as oversea, I would have bought one. Unfortunately they are not.

Update:

http://www.reuters.com/article/environment...18?feedType=RSS

Asian parasite killing Western bees: scientist

Wed Jul 18, 2007 11:02AM EDT

By Julia Hayley

MADRID (Reuters) - A parasite common in Asian bees has spread to Europe and the Americas and is behind the mass disappearance of honeybees in many countries, says a Spanish scientist who has been studying the phenomenon for years.