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I live in Perth, Western Australia -

looking for..... metal buffet BBQ plates that ...... have like [?] holes in them where the fat drips through, and surrounded by a moat of water for cooking vegies.

Sounds like a Korean style table BBQ. Do you have any Korean restaurants in Perth? They could suggest a source.

http://www.12flight.com/

How does one use this site? I want to fly BKK => MNL, round trip. So I went to the site and

1. Selected international flights tab: got selected promotional destinations/prices (nothing to Manila). No option to select any other location and travel dates.
   
2. Selected the PI from the list of countries on the left. Page came up with one entry, Philippine Airlines -- BOOK NOW. No other option for the PI even though other airlines fly there.
   
3. Tried the book now page. Got a page requiring name, address, VISA card, more info; no page to simply check dates and schedules. I am not going to submit all the personal information just to see flight schedules.
   
4. Quit.
   

Does not appear user friendly to this potential user.

I believe that the franchise owner changed the beef content considerably. As I commented on one of the burger threads, I had a really bad tasting burger a month or two ago. Uncle Sam's has rectified that mistake. I now know why I disliked a burger at a competitor of Mike's last year. Bad meat.

I only go to Nimmenheimen to go to the dentist and twice now, afterwards, I have stopped at Uncle Sam's. The first time was just to try it; the 2nd time was because it was a very good burger the first time. Based on a sample of 2, I will be a returning customer (albeit infrequently).

Well, I tried the search function, but I could not come up with the right word combination. So, I will ask a question probably already covered in depth:

What is the most upscale food/grocery market in CM?

I am finally moving to CM and need to stock the cupboards.

If you do not care about prices, then do all your shopping in Rim Ping. If you would like to buy the same items and save enough to buy a bottle of wine or some beer*, then combine Rim Ping, Bic C/Lotus/Carrefour/Makro, and your local open air market.

* maybe not on one trip, but definitely over a short period of time. We will buy stuff at Rim Ping and then immediately stop at the open air market and buy fresh vegetables, for example, for 1/2 or 1/3 the price. And for another example, I find Skippy's peanut butter at the supermarkets for less than at Rim Ping.

hi, i am in need of a MRI scan. can anyone recommend a good hospital and suggest the likely cost of the scan for the arteries in the neck.

thank you!

I elected to have an MRI done at Ram with no advanced notice and it was done immediately. I do not know how usual that is there, but definitely a "selling point" for me.

I take my MIL to Sripat and would guess, repeat guess, based on the number of people waiting until noon to see a doctor on a 9 am appointment, that you would have to schedule it several days out, at least.

Can she not be legally registered now?

(Nice to read there is something out there for her, crossbones)

The grandmother and the village khamnan can go to the Amphur and enter the child on the grandmother's (or whoever's house they live in) tabien baan. That is allowed as the grandmother and khamnan will be swearing to the validity of the claim. The tabien baan includes birth date info and then can be used to get "no birth certificate available". From that point on, ID cards, etc., can be obtained.

I wrote this as fact based on one personal experience (abeit with an adult and not a child).

I quit reading here, so I may be repeating what a subsequent replier provided.

Its called smuggling and they can take you to court, fine and or jail you. UP TO YOU !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

is it worth risking just for the sake of a few cartons of cigs????????????????????????????

Aren't the "quotas" simply the duty free quantity and, if you declare them, you just pay the import duties on the rest? If you declare them, you are not smuggling and, worst case, wouldn't they just be confiscated?

I would think a search of the net for Canadian import laws would clarify this and might even state the duties levied on cigarette quantities over the allow duty free amount.

EDIT: just re-read your original post and see now that you are not talking about personal use quantities. Ignore the above comments as showing up with sufficient cigarettes to pay for plane tickets put you in an entirely different category. I have absolute no suggestions or thoughts for such a situation.

I don't know the name of the road but it connects Hong Dong road with highway 11. If you head north on HD road, turn left at the intersection just past the Big C dept. store. Go maybe five minutes and it is on the left side of the road.

If you are heading north and turn left, won't you be heading west? Probably a right turn to go east, and at the Big C intersection, not past it? The left side of the road going effectively east is correct (see carlosacao's map). If you are going south, then the left turn applies (again to go east).

I think there are 2 pretty young ladies in the middle of this; hard to tell but what else could it be?

Firstly, sorry for the less than interesting post!

Anyone know someone willing to teach a numb-nuts the ins and outs of photography?

Cheers!

Try the TV Photography forum; lots of help there from people (photogs) with expertice ranging from beginner to pro:

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/Photography-Arts-f84.html

Conculsions:

It's like stepping back in time ( and I already feel as though it's still 1967 here )

A little rough on the edges, but for a relaxing trip...still out on that.

Cheaper than air

About 2 months ago, some friends took the ride down to BKK and said the compartment was only slightly clean and had cockroaches (not too surprising) but seemed to have missed out on the overall mass cleaning that happened a while ago. Your pics made it look like it was reasonably clean for an old, old train.

And then they said that the toilet smell gawdawful bad. What did you think?

I can see all of those except for eggs. I think Thai eggs are much better tasting than eggs typically available in the West.

Hi. My wife and her mother love American pancakes, with Canadian maple syrup of course. Made with local butter, milk and eggs. We also live among a lot of small farms, we have a farm of our own too. We have neighbors with chickens, beautiful big healthy chickens, and they produce these gorgeous fresh eggs. So my wife has taken all of these pancake materials. She buys a lot of different mixes too. She has taken all kinds of foods to Thailand. These are things with not much value. I have never considered that it is necessary to declare $75 worth of food. The maple syrup does get expensive though. We always buy the best for our Thai family. She also takes various cooking oils. What else... Pistachios. 5, 10, even 20 lbs of pistachios. My mother in Thailand likes "Honey Nut Cheerios" too. Sometimes I look and there are three or four big Honey Nut Cheerios boxes getting packed up. The other thing that comes to mind are coffee flavorings.

I agree with Daveh....almost everything I see mentioned here I have found in at least one of the stores in Chiangmai (including your items, Mikemellow) so why bring them, why burden yourself with the weight and potential customs hassles. Yes, they may cost more with the import duties, but..... I always preferred to bring the old clothes, for example, that the poorer relatives will get years of use out of rather than food items.

ASIDE: I find the European chocolate available here so much better than the cheap Hershey bars.

Ok, I got the computer I think that I need .....next question is who to choose for the internet?? My room dont have a phone .......

Also does anybody know who can sell me a good second hand laptop for a friend...Thanks...

First, go to the computer club web site and see what you can find there: http://chiangmai-geeks.phpbb3now.com/ucp.p...a6e304c51c047f6 . The question has probably been answered.

But I would really recommend you come to the weekly meeting at 1 pm on Tuesdays at Tuskers. Get all the info you need and more first hand. And that way you can discuss what people recommend and make sure you understand all the options. The computer knowledge ranges from EXPERT to NOVICE, so everyone fits right in.

And the meetings are always an education to all of us.

anyone know where to buy mosquito netting on a roll? (NOT a bread roll)

Try the gad luang; they have everything. But it not the easiest place to find some of the less common items, so you may need to take someone with you that knows the market.

150 Baht charge for ATM withdraw starts April 17

I searched banking/business/finance forums, find nothing. Do you have an authoritative source?

not a day goes by where i don't wonder aloud... "what the fuc_k???".

yes, the day i stop having those same thoughts is the day i need to start worrying

While "life" here is quite different than in some other countries, how is it that much different than many other countries around the world? What is it that should cause us to rate Thailand as being the most unique of all (which is what I am picking out of the comments)?

Life's/cultural peculiarities in our home countries is something that we grew up with, absorbed in tiny, tiny increments from infancy through maturity (?) and, therefore, has sunk to a subconscious level where we do not have to think about. We just "know"/

Here, the little things are at the conscious level and, thus, so much more obvious.

Maybe I need to start worrying?

Colours look fine now.

sRGB is the acknowledged internet display allowing for most browsers to see "accurately".

The only other suggestion would be to resize your images at (say) 800 x 600 to make them more viewable

p.s. also corrected perspective and barrel

Thanks, I will size them smaller next time. I saw the perspective problem but kept getting emeshed in the colors and forgetting to do anything.

Any one else find them bothersome. But i guess not all houses have them here.

Yep..no sewers

If you get a 'bad smell' in your bathroom..check that the two small holes at the rear of the toilet, floor level, are still sealed. Also don't put anything down the toilet other than what purpose it is there for. Especially those plastic 'poking sticks'.

Normally, toilets flush/dump into the septic tank. Holes in the floor of some bathrooms are for the shower "grey water" to drain into, channeling the water into something that goes off property. Others have one in the shower and one outside in case you mop the floor and need it to drain. Bathroom and kitchen sinks all drain into the same pipe/channel going off property.

In most urban areas all this water will then flow into the street sewer that has openings all over the place. The odor you get walking along the streets, usually unpleasant, is just the chemical reaction of all the different liquids that get into the grey water, but no urine or feces.

In my particular moo baan, my house shower and sink drains are piped into a 12" square junction in a concrete pipe that runs along the back wall then down one side of the lot to the sewer under the sidewalk in front of the house. Each junction has a trap of sorts (i.e., each drain outlet from the house points down and is always submerged). There is another trap in each floor drain, such that it is, and under each sink. The only time we get odor in the house is when the water in the shallow traps in the bathroom floors evaporate.

Thanks....saw those but none were of any help. will scour the papers again tomollow....

I have seen the cheap Cebu flight ads to the PI in the Post, also. Don't remember the details. I also checked with the agent in the CNX terminal one time for flights to Manila and got some comparatively cheap prices. It was a year or so ago, so what I do not remember would not be valid today, anyway. But you might try them. Probably more reliable than an ad in the paper that may just be showing the teaser fare that doesn't have the 43 other fuel charges, sur charges, toilet charges, VAT, etc., added in.

EDITED TO ADD QUESTION: Looked at photo after posting and colors appear washed out, no vibrance. Went back to Adobe CS4 and Microsoft Picture Manager: both of those have the vibrance, but Thai Visa lost it all. Why is that?

Probably uploaded as RGB and not sRGB?

Apparently yes (phrased like that because I am in new territory; haven't posted to the web per se). Went to FILE ==>SAVE FOR WEB & DEVICES, selected convert to sRGB. Now to up load the results and see how that looks. In the meantime, if this is not the way to do it, any and all advice, short or lengthy, would be greatly appreciated.

EDIT AFTER POSTING: OK, it has the colors. I learned something new. What more could I ask for?

My favorite drink, better than a martini with an olive: sweet wine with pickled garlic!

EDITED TO ADD QUESTION: Looked at photo after posting and colors appear washed out, no vibrance. Went back to Adobe CS4 and Microsoft Picture Manager: both of those have the vibrance, but Thai Visa lost it all. Why is that?

Some of the brand name external drives have a function to back up ur C drive.

Maxtor and Western Digital have this software pre installed on the external drives they sell.

The Buffalo external drive station (I got the 500GB, USB connection, with power supply) comes with Memeo back up S/W loaded. It was 3590 baht at Pantip when I bought it. It can be set up to turn on and off with your computer and run auto back ups.

Well I won't rail on you for not looking at old topic, prices change do does ownership, so rave reviews from a year ago might not hold true. Though you failed to mention your pricerange. The idea of fairly priced might mean 8k baht to some and 25k to others.

Serendipity2 -- you said: I'm not looking for an individual apartment or condo as my time horizon is too far out What does that mean as, by definition, apts & condos are in a complex. And will today's recommendation apply too far out?

I am moving permanently to Thailand with my Thai family soon and I am interested in how others keep themselves busy.

My gallavanting days are over so that rules out the bars and nightlife. I am the kind of guy that needs to keep busy otherwise I go cabin crazy quickly.

But I know myself. If I settle into a static lifestyle I would put on heaps of weight very quikly, I would turn into a lazy fat slob.

What I read behind all the constructive answers you got and what is behind my own life style is very simple: live here the way you would in the country from which you are coming. Of course, there may be one minor difference in that the visa type might keep you from being a WalMart greeter or Costco/Makro receipt checker.

But other than that, every one I know (whose activities are not confined to the the tourist type) lives effectively the same way they would in their home country.

What are the pros and cons of buying/building in or outside a moo-baan?

Before I plunge some cash into land in Chiang mai, I wanted to know people's experiences with buying land and building a house inside or outside a moo-baan. Besides the obvious infrastructure benefits of being inside a moo-baan (depending on the moo baan itself), why on earth would you not buy land outside which could be much cheaper?

Thanks for any replies.

For me it was the security of a moo-baan - having guards available - although I have heard that places with guards have experienced thefts perpetrated by relatives/friends of the guards. However, I was gone for 4 months and nothing was touched. Another issue for me is the loud trucks that go by blasting advertisements or whatever through the speakers on top - never experience that inside a moo-baan. Lastly, no traffic within the moo-baan so we can go jogging, bicycling, etc. We know the neighbors and have community gatherings on occasion - this all works for me.

Similarly, in our gated moo baan, kids old enough to be out by themselves can safely bicycle all over all day and evenings to each other's house and play. Neighbors walk as a whole family group down the middle of the streets in the evenings and stop and talk with people. And many people leave their gates open to see and talk to you if you are the one walking by. You can't do that in other environments.