wjmark

She is good isn't she!

It is interesting to visit her website and see the progression from her early 'snap-shot' pics to her current dramatic shots. Very clever eye she has.

Also nice to see a Thai woman traveling overseas so much! Such interesting places, too (I gotta get back to India myself someday!).

Here is a selected list from my personal collection (some are unobtainable - sorry)

TV

tv\Absolutely Fabulous - first 2 seasons are insane but pretty good

tv\Ali G - TV Series - if you like him...

tv\beggars and choosers - very cool inside view of the TV industry A+

tv\Big Love - normal american family, except he lives with his 3 wives...

tv\Bronx is Burning, The - based on the New York Yankees under George Steinbrenner A+

tv\Californication - David Duchovny as a sex addict

tv\Curb Your Enthusiasm - better than Seinfeld

tv\Danger Man - old Brit spy drama - some are very cool

tv\Deadwood - If Shakespeare had written about the west - with very bad language! A+

tv\Drop the Dead Donkey - Brit series about a newsroom - first few seasons pretty good

tv\Fat Actress - Christy Alley as big fat Christie Alley - quite nuts!

tv\Father Ted - mad Irish priests - mad, I tells ya - absolutely bonkers A+

tv\Fawlty Towers - from John Cleese - maybe the best comedy ever made? AAA+++

tv\Fernwood Tonight - Martin Mull as Barth Gimbal

tv\FREAKS and GEEKS - so good they cancelled it. American high school drama AAA+++

tv\Heroes

tv\History Bites - Canadian series with a a TV's view of history A+

tv\I Claudius - Roman empire drama, AAA+++

tv\Larry Sanders - funniest American tv series ever - AAA+++

tv\LAW & ORDER - not your regular cop show - the first few seasons are fantastic A+

tv\Life on Mars - Brit cop/SciFi series - only 2 seasons, but the story wraps up nicely A+

tv\Lost

tv\Minder - old Brit comedy/drama - some are fantastic "Tewwy? Tewwy?!?"

tv\Northern Exposure

tv\nypd blue - first couple of seasons

tv\Odyssey 5 - little known, but intelligent SciFi series A+

tv\Pride and Prejudice [1995] 6 Pt Mini

tv\Profit - very freaky. Very freaky!

tv\Red Green - Canadian comedy about a man with his roll of duct tape.

tv\Rockford Files - an old favourite

tv\Rome - a little overdone, but very watchable

tv\Sandbaggers - by far the best spy drama of all time AAA+++

tv\Sleeper Cell - terrorists in California - first season is vg, 2nd - so so.

tv\Steptoe & Son - if you like Sanford and Son (I do), this was the earlier Brit version

tv\Survivorman - Canadian gets dropped in the hardest of conditions, and lives!

tv\The Prisoner - weird sequel to Dangerman - cult classic

tv\Trailer Park Boys - lo-so Canadian drug dealers - crude, but first 3 seasons very funny

tv\Ugly Betty

tv\WKRP - another old favourite US TV show

tv\Yes Minister - it's funny because it's so true! A+

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FILM - favourites from my collection:

13 days

After the Fox - 1966

Allen, Woody - (1989) - Crimes and Misdemeanors A+

Apt Pupil A+

Babette's feast

Battle of Algiers A+

Being There A+

blood simple A+

Bowling For Columbine

Breaker Morant (1979)

Breaking Away (US) P Yates 1979, D Quaid

Bubba Ho-Tep

Catch Me If You Can

Crash A+

dead end kids - a story of nuclear power A+

Diner - Steve Guttenberg, Daniel Stern, Mickey Rourke

Dinner Rush A+

Dr Strangelove A+

Fast Times At Ridgemont High

Fiddler On The Roof

Flight of the Phoenix - James Stewart 1965 A+

Goodbye Pork Pie A+

Groundhog Day A+

Harold And Kumar Go To White Castle

Harrys Game (1982)

KANSAS CITY A+

King of Comedy

La Historia Oficial 1985 A+

MAX A+

Mohsen Makhmalbaf - Salaam Cinema A+

monty python - meaning of life A+

MY FAIR LADY A+

Neighbors - John Belushi Dan Aykroyd

Once Were Warriors A+

Phantom of the Paradise

QUADROPHENIA A+

Quest for Fire 1981 Ron Perlman Everet McGill

Rabbit Proof Fence 2002

RANCHO DELUXE [Jeff Bridges] 1975

Romance with a Double Bass 1974 John Cleese Connie Booth

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead A+

Run Lola Run eng subs A+

Shirley Valentine

SLAUGHTERHOUSE 5 A+

Supersize Me

Swimming to Cambodia

TAMPOPO A+

The Anarchist Cookbook

The Big Lebowski

The Day The Sun Turned Cold A+

The Front (Allen, Woody 1976 - Martin Ritt, dir) A+

The Gods Must Be Crazy A+

The Incredible Journey (1963)

The Long Distance Postman - Jame Bolam - (2.30)

The Party - 1967

The Producers - original A+

The Queen

The Secret War of Harry Frigg (1968)

The Shout (1978) A+

The Truman Show A+

The Hunley 1999 A+

The Usual Suspects A+

The Warriors (1979) A+

The Last King of Scotland A+

Three Men On A Horse 1936 - Frank McHugh, Joan Blondell, Guy Kibbie A+

TRUE STORIES A+

Tucker - The Man and His Dream (1988)

United 93[2006] A+

Walk the Line[2005]

Walk Hard - The Dewey Cox Story[2007]

Walkabout (1971) A+

Watership Down

West Bank Story (Academy Award Best Short Film 2007) A+

Where the Buffalo Roam - 1980 Peter Boyle, Bill Murray

Zodiac

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Samual Fuller A+ - obscure but powerful American director

I Shot Jesse James

Pickup On South Street 1953

Run of the Arrow

Shock Corridor - Samuel Fuller 1963

The Big Red One (1980) - best war film of all time - really! AAA+++

The Naked Kiss

The Steel Helmet 1951

The.Baron.Of.Arizona.1950

Underworld USA (1960)

White Dog (1982)

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BBC.Nuclear.Secrets.1of5.The.Spy.from.Moscow

BBC.Nuclear.Secrets.2of5.Superspy

BBC.Nuclear.Secrets.3of5.SuperBomb

BBC.Nuclear.Secrets.4of5.Vanunu and the Bomb

BBC.Nuclear.Secrets.5of5.The.Terror.Trader

Cambridge Spies (2003)

Bill Hicks - Revelations - very powerful political comedy A+

Hardware Wars - Star Wars Parody(1977)

Michael Nesmith's Elephant Parts A+

CARTOONS:

Simpsons

Drawn Together

duckman

Rocko's Modern Life

southpark

Lots of places carry copper pipe - I don't know about getting good solder flux...

I think that 15mm is small enough that it comes in large rolls and you can buy small amounts cut from the large roll. Larger pipe generally must be purchased in 3 meter lengths...

One place that carries it, and has end caps, AND has someone who speaks English, is a shop on SuperHighway.

If you are going east on SuperHighway (with Huey Keow behind you, and Carrefoure way in front of you), there is a small shop just before the Chang Phuak intersection.

The shop is in a row of shops, and has big rolls of black pipe in front (maybe the black pipe is at the shop next door), and long lengths of copper pipe lying along the front of the shop.

So, if you are going along SuperHighway, the shop is on the north side, just before (just west of) the Chang Phuak intersection (maybe 50-100 meters before). If you see the Chiang Mai Computer center way on the other side of the highway, then you are within meters of it!

There is also an big important shop that carries hard to find sizes and materials, and they have copper pipe too, but no end caps. That shop is on Chang Phuak road, about half-way between SuperHighway and the Chang Phuak Gate (on the moat). It is on the east side, and looks like any steel shop - big racks of material, etc. The shop is sort of situated alone - not any other shops right beside it. I bought some thick-walled 1 3/8 inch (30-something millimeters!) copper pipe from them (they sell copper by weight). Then I went to the other shop to get my end caps

Good luck, and let us know if you find any good flux...

A Glasgow Smile will sort the freak out - taste of her own medicine

Interesting approach to treating mental illness..

From Wikapedia:

A Glasgow smile (also known as an Anna grin, Chelsea grin or Chelsea smile) is a nickname for the malicious practice of cutting a victim's face from the edges of the mouth to the ears, often using a credit card to hold the mouth open in modern times: the cut - or its scars - form an "extension" of what resembles a smile. Sometimes to further hurt or even kill the victim, he or she would then be stabbed or kicked, most notably in the stomach (or in case of kicking, the groin), so that the face would be ripped apart when the victim screamed

Interesting question.

What Do You Want To Eat When You Get Very Needy?

To fill that emotional hole that rears its ugly head too often, the first answer is Pizza. Comforting, heavy, warm, full of endorphin-creating cheese. I can eat two large (extra large, actually) thick crust pizzas, and then I feel loved again...

Unfortunately, in Chiang Mai, we only have super-thin-crust Italian style, which are tasty, but not as psychologically active as a good old N-American thick-crust loaded pizza.

So.........

In Thailand, it is Kao Mok Gai without the Gai - curried Chicken-Rice without the chicken. I prefer the Kao Mok, with the chicken from Kao Man Gai - Gai Tom (steamed chicken). So, it is the curried rice from Kao Mok Gai, with the steamed chicken from Kao Man Gai.

And if I could find a true Hong-Kong variety of Dim-Sum here in CM, then that would fill that needy hole too!

Amorn has this bike; a Chinese-made XMOTOS XB-80 125cc off-road bike for 32,000 baht.

But lately I have seen many other small off-road bikes driving around CM. A Thai man told me there is a shop that has a wide range of cheap Chinese bikes (not Platinum), and the name sounded something like "Sunshine" bikes, but I don' t really know what he said!

So does anyone know where this shop is (perhaps near ChiangMai Gate), or any place that has cheap Chinese off-road bikes?

Thanks

Mark

I meant to ask - who did the photofinishing for the group? They did very good work...

Some real talent here in CM - great work!

Nice to see so many people at the exhibition - lots of Thais looking as well.

I hope people take the time to see it - definitely worthwhile.

(I wish I had entered something. Maybe next time...)

AMORN electric appliance should have it. The shop is located in same area in Icon square and ComPlaza (Maneenopparat RD). It sells everything from screw driver to ATV...

Good Luck

Amorn is my recommendation too - they have a huge range of electronic, electric, and misc stuff - parts, tools, etc.

Guessing - 200-300 baht for that rf converter at Amorn. I see them all the time around at second hand markets too.

Smoky ribs - count me in for sure.

Might bring some food myself - it is pot-luck, isn't it?

seeyaallsoon

But if he is like me if something is only a little broken it isn't worth getting someone to fix it. Of course after I am finished it is broken enough.

Harry, Nienke is a lady, and a very lovely one at that.

But surely she is just as capable as a man to learn how to fix things?

Some would say it is even more important for a woman to learn the technical skills that have traditionally been in the domain of men.

Isn't there a saying that women in business have to be twice as good just to 'keep up with the boys'?

Don't forget that there is a real satisfaction in completing a job ones' self - even something as basic and manual as digging a ditch can give a deep personal satisfaction. Imagine fixing binoculars, or a toaster of something for the first time. My mum (an extreme example!) got a huge thrill after changing the batteries in her TV-remote for the first time.

And perhaps Nienke wants to save money as well as become better at doing things - we don't all have 1500 dollars loose change in our pockets to throw at any (probabley simple) problem that arises.

How would you compare it to The Royal India?

Did you come by Gecko Books and tell me about some packets of Indian curry that are very easy to prepare at home?

That was me...

Thanks. I just wonder who is who sometimes.

Are those packets for sale? They sounded to be useful and convienent to a lot of the members who cook at home!

Hi - I am me. Usually...

Yes, I am selling these (very tasty) Indian boil-in-a-bag foods. In my opinion, they are better than most Indian dishes available here (no - haven't tried the New Dehli yet).

All vegetarian and all natural ingredients - I have about 20 different dishes available. Made in India to ISO9002 standards...

How would you compare it to The Royal India?

Did you come by Gecko Books and tell me about some packets of Indian curry that are very easy to prepare at home?

That was me...

Anybody know where in Chiang Mai I would go to get the recommended IRC wider tires?

Thanks!

I think that any little bike shop can get them.

I personally have found two shops that are not too bad - a little shy of Farang though!. Both are on the road that runs directly beside the Honda dealership on Huey Keow road. The first is about 500 meters up on the left with a vertical 'HONDA' sign sticking off the side of it. The second - just keep going on that road and turn right at the only intersection - the shop is the last on on the left - just before Canal road...

Also, I should say that they are not exactly the same tires as the CBR - the CBR tires are tubeless - the Waves' have tubes. But they have the same tread pattern...

Haha, another one of these "best of" threads. Miguels for sure, just like the others said. Don't waste your time anywhere else. Miguels, like UG says, utilizes ingredients that are imported, i.e. cilantro, cheese, etc. that give the Mexican flavor. I'm from California and picky about Mexican food. I can't find fault with Miguels at all. Was just there last night as a matter of fact.

Not to be picky (well, actually to be very picky!), cilantro is not imported! It is pak-chee here in Thailand, and is used in almost everything!

I read somewhere that the King once said that he "likes cilantro, but does it have to be used on everything?"

ps - I like Miguels too

cheers, Mark

Try either offshore bar in Ban Chang or the Camel bar, both have pizza ovens, dont know what they like as dont eat the sh*t

Thanks everyone for all the answers - hope I didn't offend by asking about the "sh*t"!!!

I like non-sh*t food too - had Gaeng Penang for breakfast today....

I should have asked about Indian food too. Any real Indian food in the Rayong area?

For a Thai woman, my gf is very adventurous - likes Italian, Indian, Greek, Mexican, big steaks, and just about everything except sushi (so far!).

Cheers, Mark

p.s. - not looking for home delivery - willing to ride anywhere for good food!

How about pizza? My gf loves real pizzas - both American and Italian style, and hates the Thai chain-pizzas. Any suggestions?

Also tried Italian Bistro 43 on the weekend - had great har-gow (Chinese dim-sum shrimp dumplings), and some of the pizzas had real anchovies!. Nice to have a variety of sashimi too. Pizza, dim-sum and sushi - heaven! Alas, when we went back on Monday to pig out again there was no buffet. Is the buffet only on weekends?

thanks, Mark

I bought a 125 Wave 3 years ago with 19,000km on it.

Replaced the chain and sprockets - about 500bt. Also did the brakes (front disc, rear drum) - I forget how much, but cheap enough.

I now have 40,000km on it and it runs like a dream (I always wanted to say that - runs like a Dream, but it is a Wave!).

Once had to do the cam - again can't remember how much - but certainly cheap enough - maybe 600 installed...

I also replaced the rims with original Honda rims (I drive on rough roads a lot), and put on the biggest tires they could handle (see this thread -

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/Tire-Question-t189349.html ). Thai mechanics tell me that the IRC tires are better in the rain than Dunlops. And also keep their stickiness longer....

So for putting 20,000km on a used Wave 125 with 19,000km already on it, my total cost (including tune-ups and oil changes has probably been under 5,000bt. Not bad for 3 years.

I get it tuned up regularly, and don't think they have ever changed the spark-plug (except when I first bought it).

It still does 120km/hr, and with the new bigger tires it is solid solid solid. And I do ride it flat out a lot - full acceleration all the time. No smoke or anything.

Oh yes - the only recurring problem has been the forks seem to get a little low on oil (no leaks that I can see), so every service and oil change (about 4,000km) I get them to check the fork oil - costs another 70bt. Then good for 1000's of km more.

so many supposedly 'in the know' foreigners believe that Samak and his circus show are deserving of power because of what can be loosely described as democracy. A complete sham in all respects.

Thank you for this. Democracy should not mean 'lowest common denominator'. Especially where millions of poor uneducated people get bought off for their vote. And especially when bought off by corrupt monsters.

Hitler was elected 'fairly' too.

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On a different note - is it truly democratic for winners of 51% of the vote to get 100% of the power? Democracy takes many forms. In some countries it is not the 'first past the post' style, but proportional instead. This gives smaller (but still legitimate) parties a voice...

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And back in the Excited States, Palin says that it is "God's Will" that there be an Alaska pipeline. Don't worry - she will probably be elected too.

Three cheers for democracy - no matter what form it takes, and how ridiculous the outcome.

beloved 'aunt'

Hi,

I have a good slide/negative scanner, but I won't be back in CM until late September.

Do you have a lot of slides to do?

PM me if you like.

Cheers, Mark

Excellent - Thank you.

I have been looking for a good recipe for pizza dough since I came here years ago.

As has been said,using 20% semolina to the flour gives excellent taste and texture

Another trick is to add some mashed potato to the dough - maybe 10%

Also, here is a photo of my pizza oven - incredibly hot (really hot!!!). Cooks a pizza in 5 minutes. Note the browning cheese!!! Does a great tandoori too... Ovens like this sell for 1200 to 1800 baht. (of course, being a Cheap Charlie, I bought mine second hand in a market for 500bt...)

Just about the last copy shop on the left of Suthep Road - just across from CMU gate - just to the right of a hair stylist - is the shop I always use.

Nice people, owner speaks English, same cheap prices as any of the other student places (does two sided copies!).

And as Flatouthruthefog says, the shop on Rachawitee is also good...

On Suthep Road, across from CMU, there are lots of print and copy shops. I use the last one on the left just across from the CMU gate. Nice people, good equipment (probably have a scanner), cheap...

You can also buy a decent scanner for 2000 baht

Good luck, WJ

ps - i am sure no one believes your reason for not wanting the staff to see your pics. C'mon, tell us the real reason! Show us the pics!!!

As I sit here trying to think of some either really weird or smartassed response, I just cannot think of one right now after looking at the pics.

I'm still laughing too hard.

I thought of one...

Hey Greenside! Are you causing these accidents to further your photography career? Totally inappropriate!

Cheers!

wj