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You'll be very surprised by all the changes if you haven't been there for 15 years. It's generally very safe -- the main threat to your safety will be on the roads. I hope you enjoy your trip and please let us know how it goes.

Just a head's up that the next Thai Fight will be held in Haad Yai at the Lan Khon Meaung Arena in Klong Hae.

I noticed they put up a huge billboard promoting it here in Ranode.

Unfortunately the fights promo website (http://www.thaifight.com/ ) doesn't include basic info like the fight card or how much the cost of admission is...

Anyway, these are usually pretty big events playing to nationalist elements and are televised on Channel 3...You can expect a few farang boxers to get their asses kicked...

'haa roey!' (ฮาโรย) is an old Southern  interjection of excited exasperation similar in meaning to 'Jeez', 'Just do It' or 'Get on With it'...this came out of my wife's mouth as she was playing Snakes&Ladders with a bunch of 7-year-olds...Also, that game in Thai is called 'bandai-ngoo' (ladder-snake for the literally)

Here's an idiom in Southern Thai that is fairly close to its English language idiom 'ants in your pants': mod chaay waan (waan being the southern Thai word from ass)

I think you really need to get a look at the raw copy and get a feel for it first, rather than say 'so much per page' or 'so much for word'. It can range from basically coherent and just in need of a grammatical touch-up to mind-numbing incoherence.

I have been doing this for extra income for many years now and have built up a small base of repeat customers for theses, academic papers and the like.

In fact, the extra income made though contacts is one of the few good things to come out of my university teaching stints, which never seem to pay well.

Another factor to consider when giving a cost estimate is how long you have to complete it.

On 5/21/2018 at 7:05 AM, MaeJoMTB said:

Expensive though, about 2,000bht ( ...... or was it 1,200bht).

According to their website, it is just 1,250 baht...seems like excellent value for anyone wanting to bypass Bangkok...also, they are offering a 15% discount on all r/t tix through June 30, according to the same website's promotion section.

On 5/22/2018 at 7:07 AM, Sandy Freckle said:

Yes

Yes indeed...., I fancied a bit of a sea journey but looks like I'll be combining rail, bus and ferry...., if the Hua Hin > Pattaya ferry is indeed still 'a goer'. Whichever way I'll still just sit back and enjoy the journey. 

Please let us know how it works out...I have been interested in the service for some time.

On 5/20/2018 at 7:09 PM, surfdog said:

awesome get some of those going Phuketsub, I’ll trade you some stuff from my garden


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Will do, but wish me luck...I am new to all this!

On 5/15/2018 at 12:31 PM, jvs said:

phuketsub, pm me your address and i will send you some seeds,just got 3 pods from one of our trees.

That's very kind of you. PM sent! (two PMs actually; the first I sent prematurely, by mistake!)

On 5/17/2018 at 10:22 AM, surfdog said:

Reminded of this one the other day, definitely our region.   'kot' which works just like the English "very" as far as syntax, it precedes the adjective.  Which is strange that syntax would change as well, but it it can not follow the adjective like 'mak, mak mak, mak hmai'

 

'kot nao' - very cold - nao mak mak

'kot rawn' - very hot - rawn mak mak

 

I'm guessing it may be spelled 'คต', but unsure at this time.

I am pretty sure that's one of the words spilling out of my mo-in-law all the time, so will keep my ears perked up to try and catch it in action. Thanks once again.

22 minutes ago, surfdog said:

just buy the seeds! Likely Ngan Dern Sip in Late September will have, if you want to wait. :)


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:) thanks again!

11 minutes ago, surfdog said:

https://www.nanagarden.com/search/มะรุม

Thanks Surfdog; I'll keep that as a last option as it's mostly supplements made from Marum, although I do see cuttings offered. However, my track record with cuttings sent through the  mail has not been  good. Maybe one of the big plant fairs like the one at PSU will have some.

Does anyone know where to buy Moringa oleifera , known as marum in Thai? The health properties of this plant are said to be really good.

I just want seeds or, preferably, cuttings...

On 5/12/2018 at 3:54 AM, Stocky said:

Total overkill, would be a white elephant.

 

If they want to do something 'environmentally friendly' they should concentrate on cleaning up the city, the river & canals and in educating the people of Hat Yai to dispose of their rubbish responsibly.

It sounds like they are eager to catch Phuketitis...

There isn't enough passenger traffic between the van terminal and the airport to justify such a project. You can get there by songtaew for 10 baht already.

I finally got to check that place out yesterday. It is convenient to the Immy office, just a few clicks west. The store had a wide selection of coconut oils, but none were cheaper than you can get them online.

The staff all behaved as if they really didn't want to be there.

I was also in the market for real coffee. They only had Doi Thung, which was way overpriced.

I don't understand why there is no place in Hat Yai to buy cheap coffee beans like they have in Phuket.

Anyway, thanks again for the tip Stocky. If I find a better deal I will let you all know.

1 hour ago, surfdog said:

yeh, someone just pointed that out to me in the other thread!

Yes they have seed grown and grafted, I didn’t ask the price but should go down from last year. ‘Ngan Dern Sip’ Sep20-oct 20? the annual fair at ‘Toong Talat’ here (nst zoo) will have.

I picked up grafted one for 450 last year and doing good at my house.


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Thanks for that. Will try to get up there. I have a friend in Pak Panang who can get them from Pattaya by EMS and one of his is nine feet high already..but there is something about sending living organisms through the mail that doesn't sit well with me...

Thanks Surfdog...I am pretty sure that yaa baang is used in Bangkok too,,,I used to have a lot of students tell me that when I was blocking their view of the whiteboard. BTW, at that agricultural fair you went to did you happen to notice any avacado trees? I'd like to try growing one here. 

Another Southern word I learned today is namkheng bok, whicn means popsicle. In central Thai it's waan yen. I don't know if it is across the south or just here in Songkhla though.

On 3/27/2018 at 2:48 PM, surfdog said:

Might be something in the spelling of the word to help distinguish what we should be attempting to say or say differently.  I'll see if I can come up with the spelling of this southern slang.

PM sent

So today I was informed that the word for 'ass or butt' is 'waan', not 'kon', as in central Thai. You learn something every day...I tried to make a joke by asking 'Does this mean pla waan [=whale] means 'assfish', but they didn't think it was funny. I am still at the point where my deliberate attempts as humor in Thai fail, whereas my blunders can still get a good laugh.

On 3/20/2018 at 9:03 AM, surfdog said:

yeah phuketsub there is some confusing things about that farang/chompoo naming still don’t understand, luckily for purchasing vendors like to stick to standard.

here is something just realized today, rainy season/dry season

‘ridu raan’ ‘ridu fon’ ฤดูร้อน ฤดูฝน

here always say ‘hna fon, hna raan’

หน้าฝน หน้าร้อน

this isn’t acceptable standard Thai as หน้า = face





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Yes Surfdog...sometimes I feel like I am stuck inside a computer simulation and the differences between local and standard versions were programmed in with sole intention of vexing me. Good point on the seasons...I definitely hear that a lot of naa rawn and naa fon down here, and I have even used it myself.  ฤดู (reudoo) sounds kind of old timey posh by comparison now.

I live next to the biggest temple in the district and need to pass by several tens of stray dogs and cats just to make a beer run to the shop at the end of the soi. We run a school on the most badly infested soi and several parents have been terrorized by territorial mutts, whose 'owners' don't do anything about them.

My daughter got bitten just last week and we had to take her in for vaccinations.

At the hospital were four other people, all bitten by the same aggressive puppy, who owners named him M100. He was disappeared the same day, but there are still plenty of other aggressive, disease-covered mutts in the area. I am all for a cull.

Another aspect that hasn't been mentioned is that all these street dogs are a major contributor to the road dangers here, which are now rated the most dangerous in the world.

9 hours ago, harada said:

I think I'll be avoiding burger joints for a while. 

Hilarious!

I heard a new one today when I was trying to find a good location to plant a small guava tree in our yard. It turns out that 'guava' in these parts is called 'chomPOH' not 'farang'.

AND, I later find out, the name for 'rose apple' is not chompoo, but 'nam dohk mai'.