stout of heart

Which school did you end up choosing?

You may not need sat if your local cable company provides it. There are a number of local area systems in Bangkok now which you will only find out about by word of mouth, costing about 300 baht per month for 60-80 channels.

many thanks lopburi3 and to all above for your help. I will ask for small local cable shops and look up happy home cable tv. best regards to all

The Golf Channel Via satellite or a smaller cable operator? Many thanks for yoru help.

It is on the Astro TV Network from Malaysia via satellite.

Thanks joncl,

That means I would have to go the satellite route, eh? Would you happen to know a reputable satellite installer/dealer? There are a lot out there and would prefer someone with some positive feedback and first hand experience.

Thanks for your help!

I get mine from the local cable company called Happy Home.

If you are in Bangkok you shouldn't have much problem getting it though maybe thorugh another cable company.

Happy golfing

I live in Bangkok so looks ok. I will look them up on the web. Just for comparison sake, could you give me an approximate on the pricing that you have?

Thanks for that losangels, and keep it in the fairway!

Now there is a growing realization that bodyweight workouts are as incredibly effective as they are simple.

Thanks for the link, youtube has some great videos. I agree with your opinions, but I'd add to that by saying that I think equipment-free home-workouts are excellent for general fitness only. Therefore I think you have fully answered the original question of the poster who started this thread.

I think that 'robblok' has shown how building a home-gym can be cheaper, more convenient and less hassle than joining a gym, if you have the space and stay here a long time. He has the option of either bodyweight-exercises, free-weights or machine exercises and those photos have certainly given me a few ideas.

I'd like to know where can I buy a power rack from?

There are two places where i have seen them Jakies Fitness and ultimate fitness. The one at ultimate fitness is around 30.000 while the one i bought was 39.000 but it had 50 kg more weight. If you want to know more i can give you the email of ultimatefitnessthailand they were really fast at sending me an pricelist.

Im just looking to buy an 50mm EZ bar and a few other bars and handles. That is why i contacted them.

Great pictures Robblok, thanks for them. I too am thinking of setting up a home gym and want to start with a power rack. Can I confirm that this is the Jacky Fitness at this link:

www.

jackyfitness

.com

Which store habe you had better experience with: Jacky or Ultimate? And you paid when you bought it, about 39 thousand baht? How tall is the power rack? I live in an old house and the cielings are not that high.

Thanks for your help and keep up the good posts.

I recently had to stay over night at Samitivej Hospital and I was surprised to see that they had The Golf Channel on their tv system. Does anybody know if I can get this for my home? Via satellite or a smaller cable operator? Many thanks for yoru help.

Many thanks for the HK report!! Now I know where I can get it should the need arise. That said, it looks like the iPhone (2G) will be the one phone that I had the longest of any phone ever. There is no 3G in Thailand for the foreseeable future so owning a 3G in Thailand is not any better than having a 2G.

Back home, I also found that the carriers in Europe haven't yet figured out about pre-paid data plans, so if you get a prepaid card there, there is no data. Period. Not for love or money.

Then there is the issue that the 3G isn't all that fast on many networks (e.g. USA, there are many reports of GPRS-EDGE-like speeds).

So that leaves a single advantage for the 3G: The built in A-GPRS sensor. More accurate and more importantly way faster location detection. As it is, getting the location on the 2G iPhone is very slow and error prone.

As for why the iPhone 3G is not sold in Thailand - maybe Apple will only sell in countries that have a 3G network?

Having had the new iPhone for a week now, I suppose there might be a couple of other advantages. It's smaller, although I have to admit that I liked the aluminium back on the classic iPhone. Apparently Apple had to go to plastic to facilitate GPS reception. The GPS is actually quite handy, and it can even calculate and display driving directions in English. I've found that many locations in Bangkok can be found, including hotels, shopping malls, place names, and the search can be entered in English. The Google maps are quite detailed, although those display in Thai. The v2.1 software has some advantages as well, although I guess that can be done with an upgrade on the classic iPhone.

And one minor revision to the 3G: the phone jack is now a normal surface mount jack so I can use my Bose headphones on the plane without carrying around that silly adapter, and I have lost two of those already!

There are a couple of other new features for the 3G, such as UMTS/HSDA capability (which should give you access to more networks). The speaker is much louder, which is a big advantage from my experience.

Interestingly, unlocked 3G iPhones seem to be going for 30K baht and up at MBK, while they are freely available in Hong Kong for less than 24,000 in Hong Kong.

Bubba, I just received a Hong Kong 3G iPhone here in Thailand as well and am wondering if you were asked for Country Information when you registered it via iTunes? Would it matter if I wanted to register that my address is in USA versus Thailand? What country did you put down? Thanks for your help and this was an excellent post. I had the same questions you had as well.

Regards,

Stout

Hello all, am thinking of purhasing a Toyota Fortuner and have heard from locals that this car will have brake problems at about 1000 km. Has anyone else heard this and any owners of the Fortuner have any issues/pluses they can tell me?

Basically looking for a second car, maybe an SUV-type/non mini van looking vehicle.

Thanks All.

Hello all, am thinking of purhasing a Toyota Fortuner and have heard from locals that this car will have brake problems at about 1000 km. Has anyone else heard this and any owners of the Fortuner have any issues/pluses they can tell me?

Basically looking for a second car, maybe an SUV-type/non mini van looking vehicle.

Thanks All.