soap

The anniversary hash is in 5 days so please rsvp Namron - <email removed> as soon as possible if you haven't already so that Chang Garden can get an accurate head count for dinner and rooms.

The hash is an A to B, approx. 8 km. There are a few rolling hills but nothing overly strenuous. Again, a couple sections with thorns will be your biggest challenge but that can be overcome with long pants. However for hashers who don't aspire to complete the whole 8 km, there are numerous places where you can bail out after 4 km.

For those who can make it to the half-way point within a leisurely hour and continue to the end, you will be on schedule to be treated to a spectacular sunset on the second half of the hash and get to the resort just as the last light fades to darkness. Namron has worked hard to set a beautiful hash that takes you into the forest, past lakes, as well along rolling hills with views of the mountains - all in virgin territory so why not take advantage of this chance to see a new place in Chiang Rai, somewhere you would have never gone to otherwise?

So far we have confirmation from the following hashers:

Mile High - B

SoreAss and Marmalaid - B

Shocking + 2 - C

Wirgin Bluce - C

Namron + 3 kids - C

Able Semen + 1 - C

Flying Dutchman - C

A = just the hash

B = hash and dinner

C = hash, dinner and stay

Still waiting to hear from the Beaver crew, Do It Yourself, Lost Samurai, Titanic, HandCock and the rest of the regulars.

Let me try again.

Chiangrai Family Friendly HHH Run No 109

9th Anniversary Hash, Saturday 17th November 2012 Start 3-30pm

Founded 15th November 2003

The 9th Chiang Rai anniversary hash will be on November 17th. The location will be the forest park just past the police check point south of Mae Chan as you are driving north. Since it is our anniversary hash Namron has decided to do something special and has arranged an outstation at Chang Garden in Mae Chan. The cost per person to stay the night will be 350 baht with American breakfast and 300 baht if Thai breakfast. There will also be an on-on dinner at the resort and the price will be at most 200 baht per head (depending on the menu we choose.) Please contact SOAP as soon as possible by PM and let him know if you are interested in the dinner and spending the night or just the dinner. Chang Garden does have a swimming pool so bring your swimming suit whether you plan to stay or not. The hash will start from Chang Garden at 3:30. Drive to Mae Chan, turn right at the light after Tesco and drive about 2.5 km down the road and look for HHH signs on the right.

Since it gets dark at 6 pm and much of the hash will be in the forest, if you think there is a chance you will need longer than 2.5 hours to do 7-8 km, bring a flashlight. Finally, during scouting we found that although the trails are there, it is at the end of rainy season so some sections have some bush. Therefore long pants or gators are probably a good idea.

On On

NR

Chiangrai Family Friendly HHH Run No 109

9th Anniversary Hash, Saturday 17th November 2012 Start 3-30pm

Founded 15th November 2003

For some reason i cant copy from a email and paste here without it being to small to read.

will sort it out and post again

chiangrai Family Friendly HHH Run No 109

9th Anniversary Hash, Saturday 17th November 2012 Start 3-30pm

Founded 15th November 2003

The 9th Chiang Rai anniversary hash will be on November 17th. The location will be the forest park just past the police check point south of Mae Chan as you are driving north. Since it is our anniversary hash Namron has decided to do something special and has arranged an outstation at Chang Garden in Mae Chan. The cost per person to stay the night will be 350 baht with American breakfast and 300 baht if Thai breakfast. There will also be an on-on dinner at the resort and the price will be at most 200 baht per head (depending on the menu we choose.) Please contact SOAP as soon as possible by PM and let him know if you are interested in the dinner and spending the night or just the dinner. Chang Garden does have a swimming pool so bring your swimming suit whether you plan to stay or not. The hash will start from Chang Garden at 3:30. Drive to Mae Chan, turn right at the light after Tesco and drive about 2.5 km down the road and look for HHH signs on the right.

Since it gets dark at 6 pm and much of the hash will be in the forest, if you think there is a chance you will need longer than 2.5 hours to do 7-8 km, bring a flashlight. Finally, during scouting we found that although the trails are there, it is at the end of rainy season so some sections have some bush. Therefore long pants or gators are probably a good idea.

On On

NR

Outstanding photo Krobert

Outstanding photos Sven

Keep the good work up

Chiangrai Family Friendly Hash report Run No 108

Saturday 20th October 2012

The usual suspects met up off the old Chiangmai highway for our latest hash.

Unusually Wirgin Bluce was not present,and will therefore not be able to offer helpful editing tips for the improvement of this report,however he did email the scribe a list of the attendees,from which the scribe is able to report that the attendance consisted of 16 hashers and 2 children

(not married to any of the hashers)

Wirgin Bluce"s statistics even divulged which of the hashers sprung for beer as opposed to the soft drinks option,and upon close analysis it becomes clear that the Chiangrai hash is indeed very family- friendly,to the extent possibly, of running counter to the worldwide hashing creed.

Hmmm.The hash was ably hared by Able semen,who was able to lay a very series of checks etc,to the extent that at one point he was able to trick two groups of hashers into encountering each other going in opposite directions on the same path.

The trail was in fact so confusing that Able Semen wisely decided to drive around it on his scooter in order to offer assistance to lost hashers.

Somehow, as always,everyone made it back safely and the circle began.There was a newcomer from the UK,and Shocking,scenting weakness,

managed to rapidly sell him a t-shirt.Mercilessly,on a roll,he tried to sell him a second one.

There was also a naming ceremony for a third time hasher who will henceforth walk the earth rejoicing in the name Lone Walker.He is from

Liverpool, like Shocking,and his hash name is some kind of an in-joke from Liverpool.Shocking and Lone Walker then continued for some time with their in-jokes from Liverpool,unfortunately this was over the head of the scribe and therefore cannot be transcribed.

There was a brief business of-of-the-day debate about whether the forthcoming 111th Chiangrai hash should be a special occasion,during which it was democratically decided by Shocking that it should not be.

Comes Twice

Pro bono and pro tempore scribe for 1 more month

Here are the directions to the October 2012 Chiang Rai SSATTO Family Friendly Hash, Run Number 108.

Date: Saturday 20th October 2012

Time: start at 3.30 pm so be at the meeting point no later than 3.15 pm

Directions:

Proceed south down the Old Chiang Mai Road until you reach Kilometre Stone 18. Please note that 18 is the number facing the road and not the number facing you as you approach the stone. Also please note that the number 18 has faded so watch out for stone 17. 18 is the next one along!

0.75 kms after the stone, there is a turning to the left. It is immediately after a school, also on the left side of the road. Turn left here. There will be a Hash sign on the corner.

After 100 metres turn right. You will see another Hash sign here.

Go down this road for 4.15 kms until you reach a x roads. Turn right here - another helpful hash sign! (Note that the road to the x road takes a sharp rt turn after 1.2 kms. At this point, there is a minor road which goes straight ahead. Keep to the main road and follow it round to the right and continue to the x road).

After turning right at the x road, go on for another 0.55 kms and you will see the meeting point on the right.

Brief Descriptions:

There will be a short and a longer run of +/- 6 and 9 kms respectively. Given the rain during the early part of the month, I thought it wise to opt for a flat trail, with no natural nor man made hazards - but it does have some tricky checks!

On on. Able Semen

I think you are missing the poit. I am a professional photographer and know very well what editing is required and done in many different scenarios.

The thread is about the CR sky and if anyone is expecting to see the sky as represented is very much mistaken.

The shots would be better placed in the photo section.

I have attached a shot where the sky is (as shot). Taken with a Canon 1ds Mark III and a 24-70L Lens at f11

I don't believe I am missing the point. As a professional photographer you should certainly know very well what editing is required to satisfy your clients, but you can't be expected to know what editing is required to satisfy people whom you don't know.

Another myth about photography is that the camera never lies. As a person who has taken photos with both film and digital cameras over many years, I know very well that skies can be a problem. The reason is, that the camera normally gets just one exposure at one F/stop and one shutter speed that has to be sufficient for both dark areas in the foreground and exceptionally bright areas in the sky.

What tends to happen with automatic, in-camera processing, or even the K-Mart processing of film and prints in the olden days, is that a compromise is made. Skies are often sacrificed in the interests of lighter shadows in the foreground. Skies often tend to become insipid and uninspiring, or even sometimes completely blown, white and devoid of detail.

This is one of the many instances when the camera lies (metaphorically of course).

However, when the photographer views the scene he is about to photograph, his own eye does not use just one F/stop like a camera lens. As he gazes at the bright sky, his pupil will significantly contract so that the retina will not be swamped with light, and so that he can discern every subtle shade of cloud detail in the brightest part of the sky.

Likewise, as his gaze shifts to the dark shadows in the undergrowth of the green foliage in the foreground, the pupil will dilate within a fraction of a second, so that the eye can discern with great clarity that grasshopper lurking in them thar shadows.

As I've mentioned before, this thread is about the Chinag Rai sky, and Villagefarang depicts that sky in his photos marvelously well.

Now it's true that I've never lived in Chiang Rai so I cannot argue with you about the accuracy of those skies in VF's photos. However, in Australia, where I spend most of my time, I've often seen skies as dramatic and brooding, and colorful and vibrant, as in VF's photos, so his depiction of skies are credible to me, and I like them. That's what counts.

However, as an aspiring Buddhist, I can state that everything is an illusion, so don't worry about it.

　

Nice post Vincent

Sorry i think i should have pressed the I Like button instead

I think you are missing the poit. I am a professional photographer and know very well what editing is required and done in many different scenarios.

The thread is about the CR sky and if anyone is expecting to see the sky as represented is very much mistaken.

The shots would be better placed in the photo section.

I have attached a shot where the sky is (as shot). Taken with a Canon 1ds Mark III and a 24-70L Lens at f11

I don't believe I am missing the point. As a professional photographer you should certainly know very well what editing is required to satisfy your clients, but you can't be expected to know what editing is required to satisfy people whom you don't know.

Another myth about photography is that the camera never lies. As a person who has taken photos with both film and digital cameras over many years, I know very well that skies can be a problem. The reason is, that the camera normally gets just one exposure at one F/stop and one shutter speed that has to be sufficient for both dark areas in the foreground and exceptionally bright areas in the sky.

What tends to happen with automatic, in-camera processing, or even the K-Mart processing of film and prints in the olden days, is that a compromise is made. Skies are often sacrificed in the interests of lighter shadows in the foreground. Skies often tend to become insipid and uninspiring, or even sometimes completely blown, white and devoid of detail.

This is one of the many instances when the camera lies (metaphorically of course).

However, when the photographer views the scene he is about to photograph, his own eye does not use just one F/stop like a camera lens. As he gazes at the bright sky, his pupil will significantly contract so that the retina will not be swamped with light, and so that he can discern every subtle shade of cloud detail in the brightest part of the sky.

Likewise, as his gaze shifts to the dark shadows in the undergrowth of the green foliage in the foreground, the pupil will dilate within a fraction of a second, so that the eye can discern with great clarity that grasshopper lurking in them thar shadows.

As I've mentioned before, this thread is about the Chinag Rai sky, and Villagefarang depicts that sky in his photos marvelously well.

Now it's true that I've never lived in Chiang Rai so I cannot argue with you about the accuracy of those skies in VF's photos. However, in Australia, where I spend most of my time, I've often seen skies as dramatic and brooding, and colorful and vibrant, as in VF's photos, so his depiction of skies are credible to me, and I like them. That's what counts.

However, as an aspiring Buddhist, I can state that everything is an illusion, so don't worry about it.

　

Nice post Vincent

Chiangrai Family Friendly HHH Run No 107

Founded November 2003

Location: Mockingham Palace, Behind Big C

Hares: G.M. Shocking, Pat on the Back and Flying Dutchman

The skies had poured rain all week but as our very own infalible meteorologist Thaitanic predicted (or precipitated) the skies cleared, the sun emerged and the rains ceased just in time to create yet another “family friendly” hash. This time however there were no children to make a family. Of the twenty-four hashers present, the women outnumbered the men 14 to ten.

There was no need then for the Plan B which would lead the team through the Central Plaza underground parking, up the Little Duck stairs and into the Sriburin maternity ward. However time and weather was not sufficient to dry the route so the hares offered two options: (1) for the foolish, a walk through 100 meters of mud; and (2) for the sane, a shorter route avoiding it. The group then naturally split into two equal numbers, the first group being mainly FRBs while the latter had all the Thai women plus a few farangs like Hand Cock, Alan and your faithful correspondent who gallantly followed to keep the ladies from going astray.

Our perpetual G.M. used his hare-ship to achieve many firsts in the Chiangrai Hashing world. For example this was the first hash to propose two plans A and B. It was also the first time our family friendly group had hashed along a super highway. Thirdly it was the first time the sweep used a vehicle to shepherd lost hashers along the straight and narrow. Finally this hash set a new gold standard in environmental consciousness, reducing the use of paper to well below the minimum needed to clearly show the route. As a result the saner group got thoroughly confused and had to call upon the vehicle-bound sweep to show the way forward.

Our favourite G.M. hare informed the group that the trail would pass over two bamboo bridges. He claimed that he had personally tested these bridges so he could guarantee their safety. Wiser hashers now began to look doubtful wondering if the bridges had cracked or come loose under the formidable weight of the biggest G.M. in our family friendly history. Able Seaman was so worried that he chose to deviate from the papered trial in order to cross a different bridge and then created his own parallel trial in hopes of never having to cross water again.

As the trail wandered behind Sriburin Hospital, this truthful reporter began to worry that some misinformed hashers may have mistakenly opted for the abandoned Plan B. So always thinking of others, he took it upon himself to investigate the hospital’s sanitary facilities while the others raced madly ahead.

Finally back at Mockingham Palace, Pat on the Back put out a fine meal that fully compensated the forlorn for her husband’s excesses. It was also in celebration of her birthday which the charming G.M. pointed out is no special deal in their household as everyday is like a birthday since the day she married him. Delicious odors from the fine food must have drifted to the Dutch village for shortly thereafter Cop Out’s better half appeared.

Once the crowd had eaten and were less inclined to lynch him, the G.M. called the circle to order to toast himself and the two other hares for what he considered a job well done.

The first of the Snow Birds, notably Scotch on the Rocks and her better half, Allan plus long absent Do It Better were also toasted. This being Khun Joy’s third hash, the group deliberated on a name. Wild Woman testified to No Longer Virgin Joy’s bicycling speed but the crowd refused to honour her with the name “Fast Woman,” preferring “Dynamite in a Hole” as proposed by Do It Yourself who hinted at some inside knowledge. The G.M. knighted her accordingly using a nearby umbrella.

Nam Ron, the Beavers along with the Flying Dutchman and Bottoms Up among others ensured that the party went on into the night so long as any hash beer stock remained.

On! On!

Wirgin Bluce

Hash Sec

We have now received the green light from our resident storm watchers Wirgin Bluce and Titanic.

Tomorrows hash is On On On

Chiangrai Family Friendly HHH Saturday 15th September 2012

Run No 107 Start 4pm prompt

Directions

Head south past the Big C,at the first set of traffic lights(opp Little duck hotel ) turn left

onto the 1020 road,travel this road for 500 metres then turn left at the HHH sign, aprox 1k

You will come to a sharp right hand bend,park up 300 metres after this bend HHH sign.

Allow 5 minutes from Big C, FRBS 4minutes.

Hares, Pat on the back,Flying Dutchman, Shocking.

Hurricanes/Tsunamis

At this time of the year are storm tracking duo of Wirgin Bluce and Titanic will be on 24 hour alert,

they will monitor any Hurricanes or Tsunamis within a radius of 2,000 kilometres,if they give the red light we will then put plan B into motion.

PLAN B

We will use are all weather hash trail,we will hash twice around the BigC carpark (undercover of course)

then over the bridge to the Central Plaza car park,once around the car park straight through Tops,Robinsons and of course Mcdonalds.

The long trail will take the FRBS up and down ten flights of stairs in the Little Duck hotel.

BE WARNED

Any hasher seen riding the escalator or stepping into a lift, will be punished by drinking a double downer while

standing on their head (as Bottoms up does this every hash anyway, she will be made to sing the stars and stripes as well)

The Circle

Will take place in the maternity ward of Sriburin hospital were the virgins will be toasted

On On

Looks like you've got a cracking team this year lads. And a good start for a change. Bac in the 80's I sat with an everton fan in a bar in spain and watched man utd beat you 1-0 in the cup final , said he wasn't really a betting man but pre season he had £50 on Everton to do the double ,cant remember the odds but do remember he'd have won £20,000!!! really serious wedge!!!. what do you reckon a champions league spot? what Terrible news about kevin sheedy, a good season for you will not do him any harm.

I dont think the Everton fan had the bet to do the double,not at those odds maybe the treble, in the 1984/85 season Everton won the league,went to

Holland and beat Rapid Vienna in the cup winners cup on the Wednesday or Thursday then went to Wembly on the Saturday and were beaten by Man U

Taking nothing from Man U but my local pub team would have beat Everton that day, they were knackered,they looked if they had been on a 3 day bender from the cup winners cup

Champions League, one can only hope but its still very hard to break the stangle hold of these sugar daddy chairmen clubs,compared to them the Everton team only cost a bag of sweets

Just wonder if it's time to do a Pienaar and buy Rooney back - he must be worth 15m quid, if we could afford it, and I bet he'd perform for us too.

Maybe they would give Everton 15 m quid if we took Rooney in exchange for Fellani

Just interested to know what people are watching since True visions encrypted their programs

(1) Have you taken a legit subscription out for True visions.

(2) Are you downloading from the internet.

(3) Using the Dreambox for something else

(4) Reading books

(5) Not watching anything.

Thanks

Hi All

Im from Chiangrai, if anyone is interested i will sell the red flesh Dragon fruit cutting (over one metre long)

for 15B each or 10 for 100B plus EMS

Thanks

Very sorry to hear Kevin Sheedy as been diagnosed with bowel cancer

Kevin played 350 games for the blues over a 10 year period and is now coaching the youngsters

Im sure he will battle his cancer the same as he battled for Everton over the years

Good luck Kevin

It's best to hand carry them if you or someone you know is traveling to the States.

You have to ask the vendor ( there are many more ) for the Phytosanitary certificate.

It is expensive and time sensitive; you must be really determined.

If you do get it; entry in Thailand will be trouble free.

Thanks for the info and I'll also ask you to please keep me in mind should you ever have some seeds or starters available...I'd appreciate it...For some reason I'm having problems receiving notifications of messages that I receive here...so if you want ..my email is [email protected]

thanks again

I may be way to late but for what it's worth,I found seeds for the red flesh variety on ebay (uk) and ordered them and they arrived 3 days later.Then found the yellow ones on ebay from a different supplier and expect them any day.It turns out that the 2nd supplier is the husband of the 1st and they are posted from Buri Ram so no problems with customs.I hope this has been of some help for you.

Click on image to enlarge.

I dont understand why you are growing the Dragon fruit from seed,you are putting at least 2 years more before you start getting fruit.

The Dragon fruit are VERY durable and hardy,all you do is take a cutting say 1 metre from the Dragon fruit tree and just plant it in the ground

supported by a concrete colum,it certainly wont die and it will save you a couple of years to bear fruit.

I have at least 12 in my garden and i took all the cutting from this mother tree i bought first so far this year we have had about 100kilo

of the red flesh fruit,the best part of the Dragon fruit is seeing the flower burst out and of course eating the tasty fruit.

If you want to try a couple of cutting PM me and i will send you for the cost of the EMS and a bottle of beer

Chiangrai Family Friendly HHH No 107*

The August 18 hash was once again a welcome break in the deadlines- and stress-filled lives of the Chiang Rai expat community. Thankfully we have this venerable institution to be able to dress in casual clothes and find the time for a drink at least once a month.

Thaitanic and Iceberg were supposedly the co-hares, but judging by the sweat-drenched and slightly haggard appearance of Thaitanic versus the fragrant appearance of Iceberg at the beginning of the hash it would seem that Thaitanic did most of the work.

The hashers met off highway 1020 at the foot of the hills with the mobile phone masts which are one of the distinctive architectural landmarks of our glorious city so full of architectural masterpieces. Thaitanic gave a brief description of the walk which awaited us; the gist of it was that there was nothing to worry about, there would be only one fork, with an L for the long route and an S for the short route, and nothing much else to report. The briefing was clearly deceptive, sinceone group of 5 hashers got thoroughly lost, and within that group a sub-group of 2 (Comes Twice and Andrew from Australia who doesn’t yet have a hash name)got even more lost and ended up having to aim for those mobile phone masts in order to find their way to the road leading back to the OnOn meeting point.

Andrew and Comes Twice were concerned during their separation from the group about the anxiety their absence was surely occasioning the rest of the group, but upon their return it became apparent that these worries were unfounded. The only comment was from Nam Ron who helpfully pointed out that even the 9-year olds had made it back faster.

Four new members were indicted, sorry inducted, 3 of them being recently arrived teachers who have now considerably lowered the average age of the CR HHH membership. They rejoice in the hash names of Bottoms Up, Curly Beaver and, er, (*emails Wirgin Bluce and Shocking*) dam_n Beaver.

The fourth new member, who was christened Walking Wreck, does not lower the average age of the membership.

We were also introduced to a first timer, ‘Francesco from Spain’ who looked slightly apprehensive and didn’t say a word, possibly because he was having trouble following what Shocking was saying.

Comes Twice %

The bag of sweets team as done it again,that Fellani he came to Everton as a rough diamond and now hes a top of the range roller.The BBC

"sport today" have just called it a "shock defeat"needless to say cry baby Fergie never came out for the after match comments he sent Vidic

to make the excuses.

i

No doubt these sugar daddy chairman clubs will be after Fellani and Moyles before the season is out

Hi Everybody,

Yes today, Saturday's hash is going ahead. The hare Thaitanic has looked at the weather synoptic maps and based on his twenty years as a merchant marine captain, has determined that while we may experience some light rain, the big storm will pass to the north of us. So he is out laying the trail as you read this.

Looking forward to seeing you all at 4 pm.

On! On!

WB

Chiangrai Family Friendly HHH No *106

the next outing of Chiangrai "family friendly" hash will be this Saturday August 18 beginning at 4 pm. For driving directions see below:

On! On!

My daughter goes to the condotel a couple of times a week for yoga

complete rubbish im nothing to do with Phuket

and i never sell cardshare that is illegal satellitetvthailand only sell receivers and official products nothing to do with cardshare totally wrong and bad information to say that

Your not Alan from what was Sat Thai TV ??

No im James Bruce and in sukhumvit nana soi and your welcome to come and have a chat and view demo anytime your around sukhumvit

i have never been to phuket is it any good ? might take a trip for few days but what i hear in press out me off little bit

Well, my Maige TV order was placed in www.iptv-thailand.com. And I received the merchandise from Alan Reeks with address in Sukhumvit Soi 13. Who is Mr. Alan Reeks anyway.