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Unfortunately the new schedule posted was incorrect.

Rather than keep incorrect information visible - as not all people read all the replies in the thread! It is best removed.

Once the new schedule is verified it will be reposted. Hopefully early next week

In the meantime contact PB air direct with any queries you may have

Odd it is incorrect as I recieved via email from PB Air on Oct 11. Any indication of why it is incorrect?

Unfortunately the new schedule posted was incorrect.

Rather than keep incorrect information visible - as not all people read all the replies in the thread! It is best removed.

Once the new schedule is verified it will be reposted. Hopefully early next week

In the meantime contact PB air direct with any queries you may have

Odd it is incorrect as I recieved via email from PB Air on Oct 11. Any indication of why it is incorrect?

I too wear an amulet given to me many years ago by a cherished friend. It has and always will be something I just discretely wear out of habit everyday. In no way do I consider it a symbol of physical protection or religious belief.

The path to enlightenment or redemption from sin lies in careful study and adherence to the sage advice one gains from the insightful posts on the TV Forum!

I lived in Phuket for some time and I don't know if it is coincidental but after the tsunami I noticed a drastic change for the worse in the general attitude of just about everybody. Not sure why but maybe some of you Phuket forum people noticed the same.

Wow, you and I agree on something. There are just so many things that the local government and tourist industry could do that are low cost, but would reap enormous immediate benefits. 2 things come to mind; Rubbish bins so that tourists and locals could discard trash in them instead of on the street or on the beach. (Man it so pi$es me off to see the litter at the end of the day on the beach) and proper pedestrian crossings to facilitate beach access. Sit near the beach road in Karon or Patong and count how many elderly people or parents with kids nearly get creamed trying to cross. WOuld it kill the municipality to put up a pedestrian crossing with lights or even a stop sign?

Well this year, instead of dealing with the onslaught of tourist season, we're going to try something unconventional - a trip to Issan. I am going with my Thai friends that are treating this as a journey into the badlands. They have never been there and have been telling me stories all month just to scare me - sort of like Englishmen that go to Germany expecting some teutonic villian to greet them, or Americans that go to Canada expecting igloos and roaming hungry polar bears.

Let me know when your coming. If you're in the Roiet area we'll get together. We are fresh out of villains. Reading these posts I think they all moved to Phuket so your Thai friends will be disappointed.

Yep, big improvement in the sticks today also. CAT CDMA seems to have sorted it's speed problems.

To get tomatoes to grow fast give them a good soil (I'm organic so I'm big on lots of organic matter in the soil) and I put them in full sun.....although some people say they do well or maybe even better in shade or partial shade. Whether organic or not don't give them too much nitrogen as this will delay onset of flowering and subsequent fruiting...lots of phosphorous is good. About now is the time to start plants or plant out starts if you have them in pots. I have started tomatoes in pots and then transplanted out and I have direct seeded in the garden and then transplanted when big enough....both seem to work equally well. Best to not water on the plants I guess because this encourages some diseases and don't splash dirt or mud onto them if you can help it because this causes disease too.....in fact my experience has been that your plants WILL die from disease and the hope is that you can get a good crop of tomatoes before they succumb.

Primitive types of tomatoes are more disease resistant than the inbred types.....beefsteak tomatoes are inbred to get the huge size and great taste...but...this process purged them of their disease resistence....ooops...very very difficult if not impossible to grow in Thailand. Primitive types have smaller and sometimes harder fruits......sounds like Thai tomatoes, doesn't it.....my guess is that Thai tomatoes are much closer to the primitive strains that all tomatoes have been bred from. My experience has been that you can get a very flavorful tomato here if it gets enough vine time before picking...and that even some not quite ripe picked tomatoes can ripen up on the shelf and be very tastey.....obviously the market tomatoes don't always make it....one reason is that for somtam you don't need really ripe tomatoes and in fact I think that a completely ripe tomato is not preferred for somtam.

Dinner time,

Chownah

Great and big thanks. I will try the tomatoes as you suggest. May not get much yield but who cares. The enjoyment is in the trying when you don't have to depend on selling them. A little like fishing. The fishing is always great but the catching varies from bad to good.

Much more to be learned before murder or suicide can be determined. Police should consider the lady a suspect. Unfortunately for the lady, that's just the way things are in an investigation. Nothing racial or unusual. She was the last one to see him alive. Assuming the police do investigate and they may not they should as in all investigations look for mom. Motive, opportunity, means. As of now we know of no motive. She was there when he "fell" so opportunity is a given. Means is unknown until it can be determined that she had the strength to overpower and lift him over the railing or had an accomplice. Should be a pretty straight forward investigation if the police even bother. The effort put in may well depend on how much "incentive" is offered by the family of the deceased.

Guess we will just have to wait for more to come to any conclusion.

Finally got my bill in the post today - 631.30 bht - just one month, no arrears.

Hey, good news. Sure mine is on the way and will be here soon if the buffalo doesn't blow a hoof.

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That's using wireless connection in the middle of ricefields.

Are you using CAT CDMA? That's what I use and it has been really bad for the last several days.

Also for those that have asked, I have not received a bill in 4 months from CAT. Have also went to CAT office in Roiet and asked about it thinking they might not have the right address. Got the usual smiles and a mi pen rai. Guess at some point we will all get an enormous bill!!

Go look at the vegetable seeds for sale and those are the ones you can grow....just about everything except for root crops.

lettuce has always grown well and seems to have no pest or disease problems. Chili peppers and the various type of eggplant dowell.....brocolli and cauliflower also.....pak ghat does well too but there is a bug that eats the small plants so you need to time this one if you don't want to use pesticides. Cabbage does well....corn too....and lots of others.

Tomatoes are difficult and you need to get them to grow fast so you can harvest before they succumb to various diseases.

Chownah

Good info, I too want to expand the selection in our small garden. Watermelon and pumpkin (fuktong) seems to do well in mine along with most all the leafy veggies. Also have an abundance of lemon grass. I will try brocolli and cauliflower. I would like to try tomatoes. How do I get them to grow fast? Also, do you know if the larger varieties of tomato such as beefsteak in Northern Hemisphere would do well here? I have never seen them at seed stores or markets so guess they won't do well.

BTW, I am in Isaan.

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Cuaviet?

Oh, oh. Garden, snake and wife. Care for an apple dear?

There always seems to be the assumption, on this type of thread,that just because you live on less than 30,000 THB that this is all you can afford. Some people just don't need that much money. If you want to live like you're back in Europe or America it will cost you a bit more. If your needs are simpilar it costs a lot less.

"Sufficency". Just because you have it no need to flaunt it. HM The King would be pleased!

What happens if you miss it by a lot....say...just in theory mind you....I have a friend who has a friend who knows someone....if it is like a year late ??

2000 baht fine. Could be more now but that was what it was a year ago.

Another thread dedicated to generalizations and bashing of the Thai people.

Do you guys get off on this?

I don't see any bashing going on. Just a good humoured discussion.

The lack of applied Western logic is one of the things that makes Thailand such a great place (sometimes!).

How do you define western logic? Is there such a thing as 'western logic'. If so then is there such a thing as 'eastern logic'? What are the differences?

Where is the west by the way? Do you think there is such a place as 'the far east'?

As a young student in Canada many years ago, it sure confused me when the teacher referred to Japan bring in the "far east"!

Dare we ask, wheres the wife ?

Nah - she is at home half way through a 73 disc Korean movie series!

My god, soundman! How could you have failed to mention this in your OP. This heinous addiction is the root cause for the wife's bizarre behavior. The addiction called KSOA (Korean Soap Opera Addiction) has become pandemic with addicts estimated in the millions worldwide. Even Tiger Woods has signed on to star in a Korean soap opera because his mother is a fan. A UN study costing $283,000,000 and conducted by 1250 prominent experts from over 100 countries has concluded "Unlike other forms of entertainment, KSOAs are unable to separate reality from what they see on the programs". Having failed to form a consensus on what to do about the problem they have formed another committee to further study the problem.

So far the only thing family and friends can do is watch the programs with the KSOA so they will be aware of potential problems. The husband of one KSOA watched episodes of "Jewel in the Palace" which include an evil court lady's plot to hide a bad luck charm in the kitchen; a competition on how to cook whale meat; and a doctor using his acupuncture kit to save a woman who ate poisoned berries. His wife, who refused to cook before, now happily prepares whale meat for every meal. Performing a regular search of the kitchen, he is able to remove bad luck charms planted daily by his wife. He now avoids eating any type of berry.

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Not hearing a lot of noise from the southern hemisphere this morning! Great games! Great results, congrats to all team involved. Spectacular entertainment.

They play Rugby there?

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C-sip-degree (our forum diplomat), Lickey, Ray23 and Lite Beer make some very good points. It is not likely you actually chatted with the lady's mom and dad. At best she might have been typing what they said or simply telling what she would want you to think. Check out the situation before you open up your pocketbook. You will only be visiting for 5 days and if these people are sincere, they will not ask you for anything. If they start to tell you sad stories about how sick a family member is, how they need money to buy or fix something or anything like this, beware!!! There are a lot of scam artists working the "friendship and dating" internet services in Thailand. I hope all goes well for you but don't be crushed if this turns out not quite as you expect.

edit -added Ray23, he beat me to the post!

Suggest you keep it simple on the first meeting. A gift for the lady is really sufficient to start. She will be thrilled with a brand name perfume such as Chanel or others of like kind. For the rest of the family, an evening out for dinner is always great fun for all. MK Resturant, specializing in steamboat meals, seems to be a real treat for most folks in Isaan. Not sure where in Issan you are headed but MK Resturants seem to be just about everywhere.

In my part of Issan we don't scare them away, we use "rat glue" on a stick to collect them. I have yet to see anyone eat them though.

Eating flies!! How gross.

However, the larvae are very tasty in kow tom.

Titanium Club - great all girl thai band.

Yes, they are good and ROCK!!! But is it what OP looking for??

I'm thinking it will be next to impossible to find what I'm looking for except in local pubs with Thai bands (and I actually have but like I mentioned, they play 90% thai songs) so I might have to make do with what's available. Tis a pity I'm not a jazz fan as there seems to be a ton of venues with good live jazz.

Jazz is an acquired taste. Kinda like brussel sprouts. Couldn't get me to eat a brussel sprout or listen to jazz when I was younger but now still hate brussel sprouts but listen to jazz 90% of the time.