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Health officials wearing protective gear will take the temperatures of passengers, he said. Cooperation from airlines, airport, and health officials is needed, Somchai, adding such measures have been adopted in some countries like Japan.

Uh oh. I hope it's *not* like Japan. Arrivals from the USA into Japan require a small squadron of medical folks in protective gear taking the temperature of each passenger and crew member, and a full 747 can take over an hour, *especially* if someone shows a high temperature. Then, the surrounding passengers/crew are kept on board waiting for some sort of secondary test results to show negative before they are released. I talked to some flight crew members who were held on board for more than 1.5 hours, and that was after working a 14-hour flight from Washington D.C.

Any reports on which flights into Thailand will be targeted?

Is there a gym in Central shopping(I couldn't find one)?

Quite a while before Central opened, it was reported that Fitness First was going to open a gym there. Does anybody here know if that is still a possibility?

How about: "Jomtien: Everything Waikiki Isn't!"

isn't this just normal Pattaya behaviour, bar girls, sex and naked people.

Looking at your other posts it seems to me that you don't like Pattaya very much, but you persist in joining in on the Forums with you sarcastic comments, slagging the place off. Maybe its best if you stay in Chiang Rai. Have a nice day.

isn't this just normal Pattaya behaviour, bar girls, sex and naked people.

Did you join Thaivisa to come and post sarcastic comments on the Pattaya Forum?

You seem to hate the place so much, yet almost every post you make is about Pattaya.... Seems like your fascinated with the place

Check his/her status now: "Group: Banned"

Also in the not-so-good Fair Properties news category: Avast! anti-virus software now rings an alarm whenever any fairproperties.com web page is accessed: "A Trojan Horse Was Found!"

The Supreme Administrative Court appeal of Rayong Court Decision of 31 March 2009 is well written.

It may be "well written," but can you summarize in plain English, in one sentence or less, what it means?

Suggestions: either (a) "View Talay 7 is legal because it is 100m from the required measuring marker," or ( "View Talay 7 is illegal because it is not 200m from the required measuring point?"

If you use the program Whatsrunning (Freeware, download at: http://www.whatsrunning.net...

Reimar, can you edit the [ url ] string to not include the right parentheisis ")" before the closing [/url]? It will save folks getting an error from their broswer if they click the link.

Just to be sure, by any chance is the box "wait for dial tone before dialing" (or some such wording) checked? The dial-tone in Thailand is "non-standard" and may not be recognized by some modems.

As I just posted in the other thread where mymonkeyhusb just posted the same message (twice...), I am also quite happy overall with TT&T MaxNet in Jomtien.

While I do get irritated some times with the frequency of Comodo's alert messages, I'm grateful for them for pointing out such things as Adobe and Google who stealthily (try to) do updates in the background. I'm an old fuddy duddy and like to be control of what happens, especially with hogging online bandwidth, and take great pleasure in denying such "we know what's best for you" type of apps like Adobe and Google ones. Harrumph!

On my home computer I have flash enabled in Opera, but on my notebook I have it disabled. Actually, there aren't very many sites that I encounter with my notebook that require/recommend Flash.

And, on the other hand, I just happily prepaid another six-month package for TT&T MaxNet Indy.

MaxNet is not perfect -- there have been periods where connectivity was spotty -- but I had the same experience in Bangkok with KSC and QNet, and in fact, I think it was more frequent with KSC. I'm particularly happy with the free upgrades from 1MB to 2MB to 5MB for a constant B1,000/month.

That said, I am not a heavy torrent downloader nor online game player (player of online games, that is), but when I do have the occasion to download large files (like Windows 7 Beta) the speed is there for me.

One time when I was sitting next to a smoking guy on a baht bus, the thought crossed my mind: "Wouldn't it be neat to be able to projectile vomit on demand? Aim it at him and say his cigarette smoke triggered it?" Hey, it might even extinguish the cigarette, as well.

Both drugs works differently, Propecia's active chemical is Finasteride, works by suppressing your DHT hormone which are blocking your hair from regrowing. This means, Propecia is decreasing your male hormone in a way or another. The most undesirable adversed reaction are impotent, but only 1% of the test subject had been reported to have it.

Alternative orals would be Regaine, which works by stimulating the hair cell to grow more hairs. This promotes other parts of your body to grow those hairs fasters too.

Am I understanding correctly then that Propecia won't promote hair growth on other body parts, like Regaine will?

The hair on the top/back of my pate is thinning noticeably, but the rest of my body still is covered with (what I consider to be) too much hair. I would like to regenerate hair growth on my head, but not promotoe hair growth elsewhere. Will Propecia do that?

The UA check-in counters DO have the destinations of UA890 on the signs above the check-in positions, but only the destinations of UA890: Tokyo, Los Angeles and New York. If you are changing planes in NRT, LAX or JFK to some other city, your gf will still not know your destination, unless she sees your boarding passes or can decipher the airport codes on the baggage claim stubs.

From Bangkokairport website:

Do you have a URL/link to the quote you provided in the opening post? I searched www.bangkokairportonline.com and couldn't find it.

I did a Google search on a snippet of text you quoted and got two hits: this thaivisa.com thread and a LonelyPlanet thorntree thread which also had no link to the original source.

I have now, for the second time, had something (minor) stolen from luggage checked in at BKK airport and two other times it was clear that someone had rummaged through my checked luggage.

Did you read the subtitle?

Uhm, no, obviously not.

topic title edited to show date.

Really? I just opened the thread thinking it was a new fire, as well. As of now, the thread title does not show a date...

Regarding the SCB SFF account, which is a bond account like a mutual fund, I recall a discussion about the acceptability of it somewhere (perhaps here on thaivisa.com?) and one "risk" that Immigrations may see with such a account is that the fund share balance fluctuates daily on market conditions and could drop siginificantly below B800,000 without notice.

The other contention raised was that Immigrations officers are not Harvard Business School graduates and probably have no great understanding of the banking industry, so that to keep it simple (K.I.S.S.) they require savings accounts, and only savings accounts.

Maybe get inside the room, lock the door, draw the curtains, bang on the a/c and forget the WP! Don't forget to take one of your staff inside with you though because they will be doing the "work", right?

Either way, good luck.

Actually, that might not be so far off the mark, as he could be "training" the staff member how to do it. The only way to train is by doing it several times (however many times = the number of guest rooms to modify) to show the staff member, right?

Further modifying MTH's suggested changes, how about putting the toilets back-to-back?

How about having a small "deck" at the top of the outdoor stairs to extend to, say, the kitchen window? Could put a bench (or even a stool) there to assist we more mature folk with shoes, and maybe a potted plant below the kitchen window to have greenery right outside the window?

Sheryl, thanks for that link and referral. I need to clean out my fridge (that's where I keep my meds) and get in contact with them.

I really do not know what drugs people are taking prior to replying.

You can always take a taxi and not stress or rush and you WILL NOT pay the rates some have stated

You have 2 choice,

1 Follow the signs to Meter Taxi-this will cost you no more then 700

Are you talking about the meter taxi queue on the arrival level at Suvarnabhumi Airport? While the fare has fluctuated since the airport opened, I've never been offered a fare of less than B1300.

If you are talking about going to the departure level and negotiating a fare, I have friends who have done that, but B1000 seems to be the cheapest they've managed to get, but I wasn't there so I don't know how aggressively they bargained.

If anybody can find websites for either Bell Travel or the Yellow Bus company please post them here. I and my mates have searched and searched but so far come up with nothing.

http://www.belltravelservice.com/

I was prompted to start this thread by a comment in another thread that a person decided the medication s/he had wasn't working, so the pills were flushed down the toilet.

I know in the USA that there are recovery programs for unwanted/expired meds (I think you take them to a pharmacy?) for disposal. The problem is that by flushing them down the toilet all sorts of chemicals are introduced into the environment, and if they are tossed in the trash they can end up in a landfill and leach directly into the ground water. I read where there are municipal water supplies with levels of hormones (for one example) much higher than recommended.

So, what should I do with the increasing supply of outdated/unwated pills that I have? With the propensity of Thai doctors to overmedicate, I often decide after getting home and doing online research that I do not want to take all the stuff they prescribe. I'm reluctant to toss them in the trash or flush them away (I'm pretty sure my condo has a waste water septic leach field so the chemicals could well soak down to the water table).