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Anika อะนิคา

Mikayla มิแคย์ลา

See what others think

Parachute cord ?

Have you lost a friend whilst you have lived in Pattaya either by natural or un natural causes?

I personally have lost four friends, one to a motorbike accident and three to plastic bags on the head and zip ties around the wrists. But none as yet to natural causes.

I feel the plastic bags and zipties comment needs explaining.

I took it to be a euphemism for suicide.

"เลี้ยง – use in front of แม่ or พ่อ for step-mother/father"

Use AFTER - surely?

Its a Chinese Temple/Museum has a long name starts with Viri........... Its located about a 1km before the mountain that has the large buddha image ingraved on it's side.

Been there a few times it's about a 20min drive from Pattaya. You turn off down the Sukumvitt towards Rayong then theres a twisty road that leads to a large lake and it's at the end near the lake side.

Sorry to be a little vague but both times that i went i was taken there by taxi.

Well worth the visit to both, the mountain too.

That would be this place - Viharn Sien at Wat Yansangwararam; A great place for a visit with many interesting exhibits. Your directions are about right - just watch for the sign for Wat Yansangwararam left off Sukhumwit road heading towards Sattahip and follow the signs.

To OP - just google (or search engine of choice ...) for Viharn Sien

I just lost my very good friend 2 weeks ago to cancer, from being all go to dying in 6 months, very sad and we are many that miss him very much.

RIP to Don.

His English family sent this poem to be read at his service, I think it was very beautiful.

Do not stand at my grave and weep;

I am not there. I do not sleep.

I am a thousand winds that blow.

I am the diamond glints on snow.

I am the sunlight on ripened grain.

I am the gentle autumn rain.

When you awaken in the morning's hush

I am the swift uplifting rush

Of quiet birds in circled flight.

I am the soft stars that shine at night.

Do not stand at my grave and cry;

I am not there. I did not die.

That poem was also read at the first funeral I went to for a friend in Thailand, at Wat Chaimonkol some 20 years ago now. It was for Bob Price, part owner of Sugar Shack bar when it was located on the corner of Pattayaland1 and Beach Road. The poem was found on a clipping in his wallet and was also translated into Thai for the service.

Been to three funerals so far in my time in Thailand. All natural causes, although none of them really had a 'full innings'. RIP

'And what's the tartan?'

... Might need explaining to some of the 'non-native' speakers on the forum though!

The key word software definitely needs some fine tuning. I've just been reading the thread 'How Many Tv Posters Are Using "poor Taste" Avatars?' and the (completely dissimilar) similar topics referenced were ones that had part of the title in "quotation marks".

Doubtful it actually came from Qantas, and the "Number 3 engine missing" comment tags that one as a 4 piston-engined aeroplane which is well old! Here's Snopes page - http://www.snopes.com/travel/airline/squawk.asp

No - it's not a question, simply a statement that may or may not lead to the person on the phone identifying themselves. I see nothing wrong with ใครพูดครับ; it's short and polite. I normally use นั่นใครพูดครับ (who is that speaking) which seems to get the desired reply.

And it's a duplicate.

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=196830

Can someone tell me where I can get my shoe laces tied please, a gprs ref would be helpful.

38°37'59.22"N

90°12'0.83"W

I was bored - I just had to look. St Louis City Museum?????

and shoelace factory

- so they make them ready-tied and then display them?

edit - this isn't exactly helping OP to get his passport photos taken. Probably got them done and got the passport by now though!!

And it's a duplicate.

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=196830

Can someone tell me where I can get my shoe laces tied please, a gprs ref would be helpful.

38°37'59.22"N

90°12'0.83"W

I was bored - I just had to look. St Louis City Museum?????

Great thread! And, what about "Shaun"?

ฌอน

I see from another thread that the company "Shell" (เชลล์) use ช as their 'sh' sound and not ฌ. Both characters are more a 'ch' as in 'chips' sound than 'sh' as in 'fish' (or indeed Shaun!). Given that ชอน is probably not a good word to have tattooed how about ชอร์น

Quote - "or whatever fear-mongering is driving the herd this week"

Beautiful! Succinct and to the point. Made me smile, thanks.

Btw, I have a password protected Simcard. If I lose my phone, the numbers will not be lost as I always save them on the card.

Just a thought - but wouldn't the numbers on the sim card be in the same 'lost' place as the phone?

You can get a new simcard from that provider, and all the numbers will still be there.

I lost a simcard once. I was changing over cards, and when I came home I noticed the other card was lost. I bought a new card, contacted the company. Used the same code when I put it in the mobile, and voila, the numbers where there.

Are you saying that your telecoms provider keeps a record of the contacts you have on your password protected simcard?

Libya 115 Says:

"If someone asks you to smell a bit of cloth; just say NO"

SOURCE: Pattaya People: June 27th 2008

Arabian Tourist Falls Victim to Theft

Mr. Ahmed Albriki, from Dubai, came into Pattaya Police station on the morning of the 26th June to report that he had been drugged and robbed of his possessions.

He claimed that whilst he was talking to a group of Thais one of them asked him to smell a piece of cloth that was dangled before his face. He did so and quickly fell unconscious. When he woke up his wallet containing 79,000 baht and is Nokia mobile phone were missing and so were the Thais.

Same chap and same day as the original post, but 2 different stories and 2 different amounts of money. Quality reporting from the Pattaya media as usual

Btw, I have a password protected Simcard. If I lose my phone, the numbers will not be lost as I always save them on the card.

Just a thought - but wouldn't the numbers on the sim card be in the same 'lost' place as the phone?

" the limit would reduce the amount of visitors during holidays by half and by 2030 per cent during the normal days "

If these new figures are a reduction of over 2000 percent, they must have quite a few visitors at the moment !!

lets get one thing straight its not my thread, and how am i back peddling ?? so that 2 counts ur incorrect on i was making a statement, whether it is correct or not, we will see and if you take into account the average salary in Thailand percentage wise it must be a lot more expensive than the UK, why do u think its lights out at about 8pm up in jungle,

2 counts eh?

I never said it was your thread -

You made a statement - "it's a bug to me that electricity is double the price compared to the UK". Thaifan2, PattayaParent and Begsaresponse queried it quite strongly. Your later quote - "but perhaps there isn't a lot of difference in the unit charge" looks like a backpedal to me -

As the thread seemed to have gone off tracks into the realms of how much it cost to run an a/c I was interested in whether electricity was actually more expensive here than UK or not. I think we've shown that it isn't, and no mention of 'relative to salary' was ever brought into it.

.... and lights out "up in jungle" is early because they are up at dawn and work hard in the fields all day, not because they can't afford a baht to keep a flourescent tube burning for a few hours.

Hmmmmmmm .....

Travel to this one -

http://www.snopes.com/travel/foreign/olympics.asp

It's a long time since the unit cost was 0.05p (3.25 Baht) per unit in the UK (60 years?) but it's not just the UNIT COST but also the extra QUARTERLY STANDING CHARGE (40 quid last time I get a leccy bill in UK 5 years ago) that makes it so expensive in UK.

From the nPower website it's between 13.600p and 21.600p (excluding 17%VAT) per unit for the first 728kWh per year and then between 11.410p and 14.190p (excluding 17%VAT) per unit thereafter depending on your Payment Plan unless you use the electric at night when it can be as 'cheap' as 4.420p (excluding 17%VAT) per unit.

So even at the cheapest unit cost of 4.420p the leccy in Thailand is only 1.13% (excluding 17%VAT) of the cost of leccy in UK and 0.23% (excluding 17%VAT) of the 'standard' unit cost in UK.

At todays Baht rate (From the TV link) of 66 to the pound, I make 3.25 Baht to be about 5p which makes it slightly more expensive than nPower's cheapest rate, and about 1/4 (25%) of the expensive rate (ignoring standing charges and VAT) give-or-take. Therefore I think we can say that electricity in Thailand is significantly cheaper overall than its equivalent in UK. Problem solved - argument over. How much you use - and how big your resulting bill is, is completely up to you.

PattayaParent - not sure how you came up with the highlighted numbers. There seems to be a problem with decimal point positions

Why all this talk about airconditioner usage when debating telaksslave's original assertion that electricity is double the price of UK. How much you use is totally irrelevant in this argument - the price per unit is what is important. Using more will simply put your bill up, and could make it several times a bill in UK without taking into account the amount of electricity bought for that price.

Does anyone have any actual figures for electricity prices per unit in UK, as opposed to 'my bill is/was' sort of tales. Then perhaps we can figure out whether telaksslave's initial statement was right or wrong before he back-pedalled with this quote:-

" but perhaps there isn't a lot of difference in the unit charge, it is what the cost of running air con is and any farang who tells me they prefer to live without air con it is normally because they cant afford to run it or they are super kinyaws "

Its just you. But, having said that, you are partially correct, but your timing aint. The sun has 800 years to go, (then its finito here) thats about 50 incarnations, if you average 80 years, and spend the same times in spirit. By then, hopefull you are spritually well enough developed/learnt/advanced not to have to re-incarnate. Again BUT, by then, actually quite soon, we will have beamship technology, (secret govt and et already have it) so you can always migrate. At any age there is talk of doom and gloom, and there is also cheer and happiness. depends on state of mind, and partly on bamk account. Maybe your emotional bio-rhythm was on a low cycle when you felt your world falling apart. See how you feel in two weeks.

I'm not sure which is worse - your astronomy or your mathematics. The sun has about another 5 billion years to live, and 50 x 80 x 2 comes to quite a few more than 800. Your English is allowed, as I guess you're not a native speaker.

I do agree that the spelling "Preah Vihear" is a very bad transliteration of the Thai name พระวิหาร , but the question remains, is the Thai script a correct transliteration of the sound of a Cambodian temple's name? The problem would appear to be that there is no agreement on the actual pronunciation of the temple's name, and as I have never heard it from any other source than a Thai reading the Thai name, I can't really say what it should be. Given that the Cambodians end the name with what appears to be an 'R' sound, I would guess that it doesn't really end with an 'N' sound. This will have evolved from the Thai way of pronouncing all syllables that end in an ร ® or an ล (L) as 'N.

That would be one from the list of "Travel Agent" stories that did the internet rounds a while ago. Some are daft enough to be actually true!! The message went like this:-

The following are actual stories provided by travel agents: