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I think if you're looking for something with rear seats and 4 doors the very worst of what's available will be nearly double your stated budget. If you can get by with one of those "stretch cabs" with a little bench behind the front seats you may find something quite old in that price range. It's a strange thing, but prices of used vehicles stay quite high here (compared to where I come from) for quite a long time. Good luck.
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They have a website, but it doesn't seem to be operating just now. Very entertaining show.
www.thaiwaysmagazine.com/chiang_mai_ad/simon_chiang_mai/simon_chiang_mai.html]http://www.thaiwa
ysmagazine.com/chiang_mai...chiang_mai.html
///edited to avoid direct link///PB
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As far as I can tell, Chinese girls do not carry the "mai bpen rai" gene.
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Elvis --- All Shook Up!
And in the uS on that date:
Elvis ---- Let Me Be Your Teddy Bear!
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When talking of "khao soi" don't forget one of the originals "Just Khao Soi" just south of White Lotus on Charoenprathet Road.
One of the originals? Hardly, more like the newest khao soi place in town, and oriented mainly towards farang, with coconut milk served on the side (most Thais find that practice borderline disgusting!).
I've never tried that place as it seemed tourist oriented, but I don't understand the coconut milk comment. Real Khao Soy doesn't have coconut milk in it. Many Thais add coconut milk/sugar to many dishes however to mask inferior ingredients, and because they've got a sweet tooth. You could put coconut milk on wood chips and make it palatable.
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China hopes political situation in Thailand will return to normal
Foreign Affairs Minister Nitya Phiboonsongkhram (นายนิตย์ พิบูลสงคราม) said he has spoken to Chinese Ambassador to Thailand Zhang Jiuhuan about various aspects concerning bilateral relationships between Thailand and China.
Prime Minister Surayud Chulanont will meet with his Chinese counterpart Wen Jiabao during the ASEAN-plus-three summit in Nanning City. Mr Nitya said Gen Surayud will have a two-party talk with the Chinese prime minister to elaborate on the current political situation.
Mr Nitya added that Bejing has expressed concern regarding the political situation in Thailandand hopes that Thailand's situation will return to normal quickly.
Source: Thai National News Bureau Public Relations Department - 25 October 2006
No champion of democracy, China. One can only assume that their wishes for a return to normalcy means a return to a government where China can weild greater influence.
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I am interested in buying a tuk tuk for personal use in the Pimai area.Does anyone know where to purchase?I have checked previous threads...suggesting overpriced websites geared to Falang wanting to export....Where do the Thai's buy? Where are the thousands in Bangkok manufactured?
Here's one:
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I partially agree. What I don't agree with is posting the ALL positive and no negative. Nothing is ever perfect and Thailand is far from perfect. We do have some all negative posters and I too get tired of their whinging. I like that word.
Much better description than whining. I think adults whinge and kids whine although there are exceptions to that too.You're an American, since when does the word whine or whining have a "g" in the middle of it......not in the states it doesn't.
Beachbunny
I'm American, but I have picked up whinge from English buddies as they have picked up mother____er, _____, and sc*mbag from me. My favorite expression that I have picked up is w*nker.
Isn't cultural mingling a wonderful thing?
Ok, I can accept the "g". Now can you help me with "spit the dummy" and the various nuances of "taking the piss"?
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Believe it or not, but even Americans sometimes borrow things, including words, from other cultural spheres.
Almost all non modern "American" words, are borrowed from other cultural spheres. We only removed the superfluous letters.
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Hi all,
Yep I know it sounds stupid but how can you have a bizz as a bank.
So how you can set up a bank as a bizz.
Alex
You could take a look here:
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Thailand does have its own faults, but i know that my life here in Thailand right now is better than my life in the U.S.A.
Well, that's the most constructive comment I've heard from you Gabe. Maybe you've gained the ability to accept the things you cannot change. I hope your life keeps getting better and better.
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Greetings all,
I'm not a farmer by far, but greatly enjoy reading the posts here.
Out of curiosity, has anyone got experience with neem trees in Thailand? The Thai name is "sadao".
It's a tree from India with drought resistance and insecticide properties:
* The leaves can be ground and mixed with water to spray as a bio-pesticide.
* The seeds can be pressed to extract oil that may be used in cosmetics.
* The cake residue from oil extraction can be used as fertilizer, again with pesticide properties.
Young shoots can also be used for cooking. The taste is bitter, but reportedly good for health.
In a previous life I have seen some in the sahel region south of Sahara, and wonder how easy or difficult they are to grow in Thailand.
Pete
Source:
I think these folks could answer any questions you may have:
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BANGKOK (XFN-ASIA) - Elections in Thailand are likely to be postponed until December 2007, two months later than the leaders of last month's coup had promised, according to a minister.
The long process of writing a new constitution will delay the polls, and an elected government is unlikely to take office until February 2008, said Thirapat Sereerangsan, minister to the prime minister's office.
'The constitution drafting is scheduled to finish by early November 2007, leaving 45 days for the new election to be held by December 15,' Thirapat said.
'The new parliament is expected to convene in February to name a prime minister, while the new government would be formed by February 28,' he told reporters.
Thirapat had said earlier in the week that the military government might remain in power longer than the one year promised by the generals.
Source: XFN-ASIA - 22 October 2006
That's got a ring of familiarity to it.
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Colon. Panama (It's called colon for a reason. Also I'd give Mogadishu a pass.
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. If you had a chance to ask the new miltary government to change something, what would it be???
The adoption of a law similar to the RICO Act in the USA:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racketeer_Inf...ganizations_Act
I can dream, cant I?
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Married 20 yrs..your idea, and wifes idea about many things in not the same anymore.
You mean she's not as keen on the TGF in college you're wiring money too?
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Measured the boat, it's a 12 footer, not 14.
This is the kind of motor I meant.
Honda used to call it ME or ZE engine. General purpose engines. The fame of Honda has apparently seen many other local companies producing similar engines with the same red&white look.
There are probably shops where they are sold with shaft and propeller or build-your-own kits.
Yeah, that's the one I was talking about. The shaft and prop is about 7,000 Baht at farm supply places that sell motors, pumps, sprayers weedwhackers , tractors and the like. You pick the motor. My recollection is the Honda 13hp is about 15,000 Baht.
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both asain country's seem the same.Probably not unlike your local Chinatown. You should save the arirfare.
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Hi Tony,
My local farm equipment / tractor dealer sell the shaft setup similar to the one in this picture. My recollection is that it was about 7,000 Baht. It is made to accept a motor of your choosing. Maybe the Honda 13HP might be about right?
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Ipstar
in Chiang Mai
I had Ipstar for awhile. 2 years ao. My experience was, that it was cloudy or windy or raining, or a forecast of rain or dark outside, it didn't work. If you have any other choice of ISP provider, RUN!
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I think Buddhadhassa's "Heartwood Of The Bodhi Tree" is the best book on sunnata / voidness I have read. He makes a very profound subject very accessible for the reader. I enjoyed it very much.
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Thanks a lot, but, sorry, I don't know my way about CM. Where do I find the 21 Karaoke Club and the Thai Mint?
Sorry Ormgard, I didn't see you down here. Go north from Chang Puak Gate on Chang Puak Road (chiang Mai / Mae Rim Rd.) about 5 km (there will be a detour on the superhighway, take it, but U turn so you get back travelling north on Chang Puak). about 1-2 km from the construction intersection you'll come to the Lanna Golf Course on your left. You just went a block too far so do a U turn a the next available place. After the U you're travelling south now, and a few hundred meters up on your left will be the "21 Karaoke Club". Turn left there just past it, but before the Thai Mint which is a big inverted pyramid looking building with a glass facade. then follow thye directions from the other post. bon apetit
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Emptiness
Emptiness is a mode of perception, a way of looking at experience. It adds nothing to and takes nothing away from the raw data of physical and mental events. You look at events in the mind and the senses with no thought of whether there's anything lying behind them.
This mode is called emptiness because it's empty of the presuppositions we usually add to experience to make sense of it: the stories and world-views we fashion to explain who we are and the world we live in. Although these stories and views have their uses, the Buddha found that some of the more abstract questions they raise — of our true identity and the reality of the world outside — pull attention away from a direct experience of how events influence one another in the immediate present. Thus they get in the way when we try to understand and solve the problem of suffering.
Say for instance, that you're meditating, and a feeling of anger toward your mother appears. Immediately, the mind's reaction is to identify the anger as "my" anger, or to say that "I'm" angry. It then elaborates on the feeling, either working it into the story of your relationship to your mother, or to your general views about when and where anger toward one's mother can be justified. The problem with all this, from the Buddha's perspective, is that these stories and views entail a lot of suffering. The more you get involved in them, the more you get distracted from seeing the actual cause of the suffering: the labels of "I" and "mine" that set the whole process in motion. As a result, you can't find the way to unravel that cause and bring the suffering to an end.
If, however, you can adopt the emptiness mode — by not acting on or reacting to the anger, but simply watching it as a series of events, in and of themselves — you can see that the anger is empty of anything worth identifying with or possessing. As you master the emptiness mode more consistently, you see that this truth holds not only for such gross emotions as anger, but also for even the most subtle events in the realm of experience. This is the sense in which all things are empty. When you see this, you realize that labels of "I" and "mine" are inappropriate, unnecessary, and cause nothing but stress and pain. You can then drop them. When you drop them totally, you discover a mode of experience that lies deeper still, one that's totally free.
To master the emptiness mode of perception requires training in firm virtue, concentration, and discernment. Without this training, the mind tends to stay in the mode that keeps creating stories and world views. And from the perspective of that mode, the teaching of emptiness sounds simply like another story or world view with new ground rules. In terms of the story of your relationship with your mother, it seems to be saying that there's really no mother, no you. In terms of your views about the world, it seems to be saying either that the world doesn't really exist, or else that emptiness is the great undifferentiated ground of being from which we all came to which someday we'll all return.
These interpretations not only miss the meaning of emptiness but also keep the mind from getting into the proper mode. If the world and the people in the story of your life don't really exist, then all the actions and reactions in that story seem like a mathematics of zeros, and you wonder why there's any point in practicing virtue at all. If, on the other hand, you see emptiness as the ground of being to which we're all going to return, then what need is there to train the mind in concentration and discernment, since we're all going to get there anyway? And even if we need training to get back to our ground of being, what's to keep us from coming out of it and suffering all over again? So in all these scenarios, the whole idea of training the mind seems futile and pointless. By focusing on the question of whether or not there really is something behind experience, they entangle the mind in issues that keep it from getting into the present mode.
Now, stories and world views do serve a purpose. The Buddha employed them when teaching people, but he never used the word emptiness when speaking in these modes. He recounted the stories of people's lives to show how suffering comes from the unskillful perceptions behind their actions, and how freedom from suffering can come from being more perceptive. And he described the basic principles that underlie the round of rebirth to show how bad intentional actions lead to pain within that round, good ones lead to pleasure, while really skillful actions can take you beyond the round altogether. In all these cases, these teachings were aimed at getting people to focus on the quality of the perceptions and intentions in their minds in the present — in other words, to get them into the emptiness mode. Once there, they can use the teachings on emptiness for their intended purpose: to loosen all attachments to views, stories, and assumptions, leaving the mind empty of all greed, anger, and delusion, and thus empty of suffering and stress. And when you come right down to it, that's the emptiness that really counts.
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What took so long?
Much better description than whining. 
I think adults whinge and kids whine although there are exceptions to that too.
Sewing Machines
in Chiang Mai
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There's also a shop across from Central Kad Suan Kaew, but west a few hundred meters that sells sewing machines. I forget the brand name, but it is in the shop that has a "Smeg" sign out front.