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I note that my local Rimping (Nawarat) is not carrying the big packs of this palm sugar they used to carry from the Mittr Phool (spelling ?) company right now.

wouldn't it be easier and cheaper to just buy it at the open markets all over town? I say that in that we never have a problem buying it at those but don't worry about brand name or fancy packaging. Never had any problem with quality/taste.

by the way, the Thai spelling is with a B bai mai (leaf) and what I hear when the word(s) is (are) spoken is Nam tan beep

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hello,

i am on the prowl for a sliding ladder. you know the kind, with wheels at the bottom and a slide rail at the top. i don't want one to be manufactured especially, i had a quote prepared and i just about fell over:

stainless steel with aluminum treads - THB 36,000.

i am thinking only 2m high with a sliding range of 4m. has anyone seen an assembly kit type around ? are there any department stores with them on display ? i stumbled across this one at the new scg building on ram intra.

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Unless you are looking for one for industrial use (e.g., restocking shelves on a continuous basis by 200lb stock boys who don't care) why not look into having a really nice, attactive wooden one made? Looking at your photo, it would be easy to duplicate that ladder in wood, stain it to match the shelves, and have a nice looking "ensemble". It would be cheap in Chiangmai; don't know about BKK.

Added thought/question: of course, you have to factor in the rail, also.

Often just a saucer of fish sauce with prik kee neew, you can substitute the little tabasco chillies.

Fish sauce is available in in the US in every Safeway, Vons, and such type supermarkets I have been in from Calif to Wash DC via Texas and Alabama. Look in the oriental section.

I note that my local Rimping (Nawarat) is not carrying the big packs of this palm sugar they used to carry from the Mittr Phool (spelling ?) company right now.

wouldn't it be easier and cheaper to just buy it at the open markets all over town? I say that in that we never have a problem buying it at those but don't worry about brand name or fancy packaging. Never had any problem with quality/taste.

My 90 yr old father just suffered a broken hip and needs 6+ weeks of bed ridden recovery and buying all the hospital equipment would cost a fortune. Surely there must be a place in CM that rents these high cost items.....

does any one know of such a place??

or at least 2nd hand equipment??

urgent!!

There is a large pharmacy/equipment shop across the street from Suan DokHospital (on the south side), just about where the pedistrian signal is at the Thai Commercial Bank (north side of the street) which is on the Suan Dok grounds. They seem to have everything and may know of people wanting to sell equipment they no longer need.

In the mean time, I know someone who had a hospital bed and wheel chair they no longer need. I will see if they still have it and how much they would want for them. If they do have either or both, I will send a pm later today. No PM, no stuff.

I use only my one-2-call mobile prepaid.

Can't find international rates for 005 or 009 , however using only 009.

Europe , mainly to Germany.

What are the best rates?

Is there a quality difference because the providers

use very different routing? Often I hear a typical England answering ring .

Look into the calling cards. We use one and pay somewhere around 0.5 to 0.75 baht per minute to the U.S. and Germany. Maybe a little more or a little less, but significantly less than using the 007-009 options.

We buy them for 300 baht. Choice of Thai or English when connected to the service. After dialing the number, the service will tell us how many minutes we have left for talking to that number/country.

99 Club???

They either got the first numeral upside down which may have been a buit too racy then or you got a free ice cream when you went in (only applicable to Brits)

It was Club 99. I seem to recall it was originally called Club 69 until the connotation was pointed out to the owner! Patrick

To see if we are thinking about the same place..... but first, I don't understand Yabaaaa's "free ice cream" comment, but I am not a Brit.

It was the 99 Club when I started going there in '66, i.e., that is what my memory says my regular bai dum taxi driver called it. But after 43 years memory may have reversed the name. I want to say it was on Silom, but, again, memory after 43 years.

However, I do remember there was a small area to the left against the wall about half way back as you went in the door where there was an excellent Filipino trio playing. It was a fairly small place, calm, friendly. And it had cold champagne splits!

A few out of country R&R types would come in now and then, but not many and those would not stay long. They were treated ljust like everyone else, but I think it was too dull for them.

Sound like the same place?

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Just behave the way they would behave if they were living in their home country!!!

they would if they could; if they can, they do.

Suppose I go to a Thai restaurant and ask for spicy food and the waiter looks back at me concerned. If I want to say don't worry I can handle it how would I say this?

I know ทนไม่ไหว is I can't handle it so would ไม่ต้องห่วงผมทนไหว be ok?

Also what does ทนไว้ mean if anything.

Instead of saying "Don't worry, I can tolerate it" (which might be confusing as it is a slangy use of english), why don't you simply say you like spicy food and add how spicy you want it, medium, hot, very hot?

99 Club???

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If this is the wrong forum, please move. Other links seem to cover refugees and people who need a new birth certificate. My wife was born in Bang Konthi in 1963 and does not have a birth certificate, although she has an ID card. Thinks cert was 'lost' during relocation.

She tells me she cannot get a replacement/copy from the Amphoe at Bang Konthi - is she right? If so can anyone tell me where to get one. A forum on Bangkok Post suggested an Information Centre in Dusit Bangkok but reports suggest this is no longer operational, certainly the suggested link doesn't open up.

Any ideas?

Here are the steps I would recommend persuing (my wife had to take this route) . First, determine where she was born, i.e., at home or in a hospital. Back in 63 there were still lots of at home births. If at home...and I take it home is in Amphoe Bang Konthi.....

1. Most likely the amphoe said they could not give her a replacement birth certificate because they never issued one in the first place. At home births were only documented with the child's first entry in the amphoe records as an add to the house registration. Start with 1963 and search the old registration for her.
   
2. If her mother is still alive, get her and the village kamnan to go to the amphoe and sign an affidavit swearing the birth took place at home, no hospital birth certificate exists, and that the house registration documents the birth. If her mother is not alive, is the father or other close relative? What you are looking for is someone who was there at the time and would be someone the kamnan would know and vouch for.
   
3. The amphoe can then issue a substitute document saying words to the effect: "use this letter in lieu of a birth certificate as one was not issued for this home birth of girl child on this date 1963". It may be that Bang Konthi will tellher to take the letter from #2 and go to the amphoe where he current house registration is and get the substitute letter there.
   
4. Of course, take all the documentation you have showing maiden name, marriage(s)/divorces, etc., to provide a trail to the name she is currently using on the house registration.
   

If she was born in a hospital, check there to see if they don't have a record. If they do not, get a letter so stating and follow steps 1-4 with the necessary modifications to the wording. Tracing her back to the first entry on the official house registration as dek ying age 4 months or something like that and having her village kamnan swearing she was born should do the trick.

Hope this gives you an idea of how to work it.

quote (Not The Nation, 16 Jul 09)

Nancy Chandler Map Wins Turner Prize

Ubiquitous colorful and incomprehensible tourist map impresses judges with its "total disregard for convention and function"

LONDON - The Turner Prize, named after the painter J.M.W. Turner, awarded annually by the Tate Gallery to a visual artist, has been awarded to Bangkok resident and map-maker Nancy Chandler.

Museum director Sir Nicholas Serota, who chairs the judging committee, made the announcement at a press conference on Saturday, citing the "groundbreaking visual abstractions and seemingly impossible color-combinations of Chandler's 2005 23d edition Map of Bangkok" as the central work in her oeuvre. Lynn Barber, another judge on the committee, added that Chandler's maps were also "fearlessly genre-breaking, spitting in the face of convention and the dictations of function."

The committee also praised the map's "sustained conceit" as an actual commercial product to be "meticulous labor of post-modernism" in line with the prize's other famous recipients, including a shark in formaldehyde by Damien Hirst and a disheveled bed by Tracey Emin. Chandler could not be reached for comment, but all members of the Tate committee reportedly received free copies of her Thailand Coloring Book.

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Hi I need some help.

We are living near Sarapee on Koolpuntville 12 on the Sangkahpeng road

We are trying to find an cleaning service whom can come twice or three times a month to our house to clean it completely inside and outside windows etc.

Or we would like to find someone whom is willing to come 2 or 3 days a week to our home to clean it.

Preferable the cleaning service so that they can do it in one day

We like our privacy.

Hope someone can help me.

Thanks,

eln

Usually asking neighbors, guards, and neighbors' maids will get you lots of applicants. You have tried this?

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any ideas on this one? it disappeared before i could get a close up

I made a quick attempt to sharpen and filter out noise and crop. I would guess it is a bronzeback, also. I think I see the yellow stipes like my snake had.

The Striped Keelback is brown with heavy creamy stripes down it. It's a fairly common in n Thailand including gardens. Not venomous.

http://www.ecologyasia.com/verts/snakes/striped_keelback.htm

I have to say that this is a good suggestion based on what I wrote. But the pictures do not match what I see. So let me try to elucidate by saying the yellow stripes appear to be the same size as the brown stripes (i.e., the yellow brown coloring is of equal width).

I just now ran across another posting (http://www.ecologyasia.com/verts/snakes/pa..._bronzeback.htm) about the painted bronze back. In reviewing it I found it said: "The species is identified by its bronze head, black eye-stripe and mask, and black and cream lateral stripes along the length of the body. When threatened it will inflate its body slightly to reveal bluish or turquoise skin underlying the body scales. "

This seems to describe exactly what I saw. I thought I had checked all the previous postings on snakes, but apparently missed this one.

Nevertheless, thanks for the quick response.

And now that I have identified it, I don't have to tell my wife I was wrong. Despite the passage of many, many years, she still believes me about major things like this.

I seems to have several of these little snakes (around 18 inches or so) slithering around. We ignore each other and go our separate ways as we putter around the yard and do the gardening. I have assumed they are some kind of rat snake/garden snake. Normally we only see them in bushes, under things, etc. But today, apparently, one was was crossing the yard when I dragged the hose in front of it, dropped the hose, and turned around.

Thinking back, I think I cut it off and it changed direction to go back into the bushes. I saw a flash in the corner of my eye and saw this brown and yellow striped snake "running" toward the bushes. But in the 1.503 secs of time it was in sight, I thought I saw a spread hood close down. But what I was seeing had not yet registered and it may have been kind of an optical illusion of the snake against the grass.

I have searched the web several times and just did it again. No description or picture of cobras matches what I saw. If fact, I can find nothing about any brown snake in Thailand with longitudinal yellow strips (e.g., head to tail). The closest has yellow rings, not stripes.

You all out there have seen it all. Does one of you have a name for it?

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Hubby attends the meetings regularly and I've been to a couple. He especially likes the opportunity to order lunch from the Tusker's menu and drink a beer during the meetings. My observation is that the average age of the members is less than 70 but probably over 50, but younger people are always welcome.

Because of what he's learned at computer club, I'm able to watch TV shows that are suppose to be available only to US viewers, and he's hooked up our computer to our dinosaur TV. That took a bit of doing, but the computer club geeks guided him thru it over several weeks of meetings.

Sure this is stuff he could have learned about from searching the internet, but it's always nice to ask about something in person, especially while enjoying Tusker's food and beer.

NancyL described it very well; come and share and learn, have a nice lunch, meet new people.

Anyone interested in computers should come to (a) provide help to others and/or ( receive help from others. Some of us older types have been using computers and a whole multitude of different programs for 20-30 years, so we have intentionally learned a lot. And then we experiment with other programs, try things Wanda Sloan recommends, etc., and inadvertantly learn even more. It is surprising how broad the knowledge base is in the club.

Attendance should be based on what you want to learn and share, not on age of the members. But, maybe most importantly, use the web site and the agenda attached to each meeting notice and add what you want to talk about. That insures you get your specific questions answered at the meeting. And the leader is very accepting to the group suggesting that we may have strayed off the subject if one member starts dominating the discussion.

And, of course, you can limit attendance to only those meetings whose agendas interest you.

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DO YOU KNOW? Coke+Ajinomoto Can be Used to Rape Ladies

FALSE including the comment about Connie Ong! Reference: http://www.snopes.com/cokelore/msg.asp

Ok..so the question is in the title.

What actually goes on at the computer club??

If all a person does is write email and read the news, then they probably won't get much out of it. If they use use different programs, jump around the web, use wireless, try new things, read Wanda Sloan and try her suggestions, etc., you get invaluable info.

The first 3 weeks of the month is "technical", the 4th week is bring laptops, and do live work (Tuskers has wireless access).

The club follows an agenda that really makes the difference in the meetings. Members can go on the web site and enter whatever issues they want to cover and those will be guaranteed to be addressed. The issues can be PC, MAC, and/or Ubuntu; doesn't matter. You want to discuss something, the club discusses it.

We have some members (one in particular) whose hobbies are trying out new and improved hardware. This one individual reported on his success in transmitting his wireless around his moobaan and being able to get a signal driving up Doi Sutep.

We have discussed how to use sling box to get live TV from the US 24 hours a day at no cost after buying the H/W.

If you have any interest in the computer, how it works, and how to expand how you use it, you will be amazed at how much you can learn and how much you enjoy coming to the meetings.

I ....... was shocked that they didn't have a fresh bread section

Deli sandwiches would be a great draw. RE fresh bread: I have been in there numerous times where they are putting out bread with today's date stamped on it. RE bakery past cashiers: I, personally, like their products.