Grover

Are the actions of the Burmese monks in line with the Buddhas teachings ?

any comments ?

Also, does anyone else get these uncomfortable feelings when they go to heavily touristed places like MBK, its like 90% of the women in there are fishing for a rich farang boyfriend. I am pretty confident that I could marry many of them within a week if I wanted to.

illusions of grandeur.........

and where did you pull that 90% stat from ?

Really appreciate the replies, all very useful. Jimmyd, thx for the offer - I might have taken it up but i wont be in that area anytime soon.

Im going to sit on this for a few more days and make a decision.

Cheers.

I think the first couple of posts were George and Dr PP writing questions and answers to each other using differnt nics to get the ball rolling.

Correct!

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Other nics included Goose , Pot , Gander and Kettle

Cheers

haha, busted!

This stuff is really great. In fact, I got the brilliant idea to put it on my balls, thinking it would be exhilarating. Wrong. Bad idea. Don't do this unless you'd like to experience it firsthand. Anyone else ever try this?

reminds me of a movie I saw once where the guy accidentally grabs the super glue instead of the lube. another mistake.

I once borrowed a hammer from a neighbor to build a ladder at the dock where i keep my boat. as luck would have it i dropped the hammer into the sea never to be recovered again. i went out and replaced the hammer. upon returning their now new hammer they were confused about what happened to the old one. i didn't know the word for "sank" in thai so i just told them that their hammer went swimming. they eventually got what i was trying to explain but thought it was pretty a funny image.

hammer wai nam mai geng

Do you need recipes for Asian veg dishes? Should I post or put it on website?

Feedback required.

I'm much too lazy to cook.

I'm not sure if there is an Indian shop in your area, but if there is you might find something like this on the shelf

Its what ive been eating lately. Its only recently come onto the market, they are not frozen, not dried, use no preservatives, they use some special packet to stop it going bad, all vego dishes in the range, its got a shelf life of 1.5 years, taste really good.

I just put it in the microwave for a couple of minutes and add rice.

Out cycling and needing something cold to drink, I still had some lukewarm water in my bidons, I fancied a drink of ice cold milk. I stopped at the next 7-11, spoke to the young lady at the counter and said in Thai "Do you have a large bottle of milk?" but it came out as "Do you have large breasts?" She looked at me, then at her chest and said "No, small ones!" with a twinkle in her eye.

Can you write Thai or Roman Thai for this please?

probably said "mee nom yai mai krup"

should of said"mee nom, kuat yai mai krup"

When I was beginning in Thai language I met two female Thai uni students, their names were Moi and Maam.

A month or two later I met them again, and I wanted to say "Hi, I havent seen you around for a while" in Thai, so I said "mai dai hen Moi Maam dung naarn laeow krup". The key word here is Moi, which means pubic hair if said in the wrong tone.

They all had a good old laugh at my expense.

no ones mentioned CMDA or EDGE internet wireless through the mobile phone network.

never having been to chiang rai myself, im guessing the network coverage around the province is not good .

if there is coverage in your area, it might be an option.

parting of the

I'm sure that answering a phone and telling the caller that "I'm not here" is flawed....

how about if it's done in a high-pitched, squeaky voice to conceal your identity?

I suppose that is possible!

The comment was TIC though...

As was mine.... even if you distorted the voice, it'd still involve saying, "I'm not here"....

could pretend you are an answering maching "sorry, im not here at the moment.... "

probably get caught out at the "beep" imitation.

personally, tofu LARP is my favourite vego dish in Thailand.

followed by the ubiquitous PAT PAK and rice.

Admittedly, most of the time the choices are rather limited, at least in my experience.

^ your right eek. As you say, it depends on why Naranut wants to be vego.

I'm not a strict vego now though I was once - about 10 years ago.

Im going to get a canon dSLR soon, along with the well reviewed 50mm f1.8 lens..... do you think I should get a kit lens as well or just stick with the body ?

At this stage im thinking the kit lens would be redundant, but not sure.

sliced and diced vegetarian sausage with a hint of parmasan cheese and a drop of fish sauce.

^ cheers sceadugenga and thanks for not saying the word haze.

I see by your change in avatar you have arrived at the acceptance phase.

Winter in Chiang Rai - I can only comment on Last Year. I don't have a thermometer so can guess at the Temperature. As I recall it, Cool evenings , Nights and mornings. could be 10 degrees + and then rapidly back to 30 degrees + soon after the Sun Comes out. Still T-shirt weather for us Northern Europeans but occasinally wear a jacket early morning. Best to stay in Bed until the sun comes up if you can. I see Thais in Wooly Hats and duvet jackets. Its my favourite Season , If we are staying home in the evening, we generally sit around a small fire. Beautiful clear skies, funny thing about the winter here; no rain. I don't think it rained from November to February.

is it really true about the beautiful clear skies ?

some chaing raiers are constantly speaking of a haze, I still dont know if its a joke of some sort or not.

10 degrees is rather cold

thanks , ill give it a go

Def. from the buddhist dictionary:

http://www.budsas.org/ebud/bud-dict/dic3_c.htm

citta: 'mind', 'consciousness', 'state of consciousness'

Here's a rather long article http://www.budsas.org/ebud/mind/01_chap1.htm I can't say I've read more than the first couple of paragraphs but at the beginning it discusses the way Citta is sometimes translated as heart.

here is a relevant quote from that article.

...the meaning of citta as given in PALI-ENGLISH DICTIONARY can be presented as the heart usually in psychological sense, and further explained as the center and focus of man's emotional nature as well as that intellectual element which inheres in and accompanies its manifestations[11]. Emotional, conative, and rational or mental as the three sides...

I recall the ancient Greeks made a sharp distinction between the emotional and rational sides of the human, I think in the west it has carried to modern times, we also distinguish between the heart and mind.

In Buddhism they are lumped together as the quote above shows.

Obviously the good old "chock dee krup" doesnt cut it for a marriage good wish.

I believe that a farang guest's wedding hosts would be very impressed when the farang guest gives a perfectly toned and intonated version of the wedding blessing. This is real life Thai, beyond academic learning. Have a good time at the wedding!

hmmm. I wonder if it would go down well if you were to write a love letter to your "fain" using some of these expressions.

would she/he laugh at you, politely smile, or swallow it hook line and sinker ?

I'm sure that answering a phone and telling the caller that "I'm not here" is flawed....

I think the OP was referring to a situation in which his wife goes to answer the phone and he whispers in her ear, "I'm not here" so that she will tell the caller that he's not home. In which case withnail's translation is fine just as long as his wife understands he's telling her what to say and not making (an obviously false) statement of his current status. I could, however, see his wife just looking at him confused if he said ผมไม่อยู่ so it might be necessary to first say ช่วยบอกน้อยว่า...ผมไม่อยู่ (chûay bòk nói wâa ... pŏm mâi yòo) while pointing at the telephone.

-edited to add the thai2english.com transliteration for the Thai text.

with reference to this phrase in the post,

ช่วยบอกน้อยว่า...ผมไม่อย

I wonder if it is appropriate to insert a ให้ into the phrase so it reads

ช่วยบอกให้น้อยว่า...ผมไม่อย

??

ps, the observation by soundman was

Thai is a pretty poetic langauge, isn't it?

yes, and full of flourishes.

obviously the good old "chock dee krup" doesnt cut it for a marriage good wish.

hmmm.... I wonder if you can say this

จำได้ไหม ว่า ... followed by eg. "khao ayu tary"