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Does bamboo count as a tree?

Bamboo is a actually grass but we are all broad-minded adults here so we will accept the bamboo it for its beauty .

if you want bondcrete for a smooth consistancy for mortars or rendering just use dishwashing detergent in the mix . Most building sites use it as a substitute and unless you want waterproofing properties it works just as well, You don't need much and you will soon learn what works best for the application you are using it for. Many brickies in Oz will tell you the same thing.

He is talking about bondcrete for strength not bycol which we use to make it smooth and consistent, adding dishwashing liquid does help but might weaken the mortar strength, big teams use mortar very quick and will not add bycol.

Bondcrete is a excellent product, I would add some when bagging walls.

You are right, Getting confused with all the heat,

if you want bondcrete for a smooth consistancy for mortars or rendering just use dishwashing detergent in the mix . Most building sites use it as a substitute and unless you want waterproofing properties it works just as well, You don't need much and you will soon learn what works best for the application you are using it for. Many brickies in Oz will tell you the same thing.

Don't know what kind of tree this is, but the flowers were beautiful.

Seen only one on the way to WangNamKeaw, yesterday.

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I have seen them but i couldn't identify it either so i asked at the office and comrade of mine who is brilliant on Tropical trees and he thought it was Cassia javanica .Don't ask me a comon name but in wiki they say it is in Thai: ชัยพฤกษ์ .

It is difficult to tell though and my eyes are getting worse too but the leaves are they compound or simple ? They look compound to me but the cassia has simple leaves so that id may be incorrect on that basis alone.

Also i concur that the palm certainly looks like a pony tail palm to me. Great specimen too in the photo .

As a world wide convention all architectural and technical drawings or plans orientate themselves with north being the top of the page , whether they are printed or electronic . Landscape plans will have a northpoint on the title block as matter of convention. Often the north point will show both north and magnetic north . But at the same time when you first open the plan you always verify and not assume.

Not all.

Most of our plans are aligned according to the route of the project, or to the grid of the building.

As I recall, the BTS local maps in the concourse are aligned to the station.

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Interesting . I take it they are civil engineering plans for roads etc. It is not my field - most of the civil engineering plans i see are details . i can always can stand corrected.

As a world wide convention all architectural and technical drawings or plans orientate themselves with north being the top of the page , whether they are printed or electronic . Landscape plans will have a northpoint on the title block as matter of convention. Often the north point will show both north and magnetic north . But at the same time when you first open the plan you always verify and not assume.

I remember reading about Mumbai where all the buses are private contractors and the buses race each other to collect passengers standing at the bus stop and on a regular basis they run over the waiting passengers or injure /kill others. Sounds like a more extreme version there.

It would not as difficult as explaining the plot of the film "Predestination " .

Great film incidentally .

You appear to have a pretty good grasp of horticulture - but the first step i would take is identify the beetle. You can't progress unless you know what it is. From the description i would guess Harlequin beetle

or does it look more like this ? the Broonze Orange bug. (stink beetle) they emit a nasty solution that stains the leaves and fruit for market and smells putrid )

Once identified then read up on the life cycle of the insect and spray when the insect is in the breeding stage with an appropriate spray. Most likely a systemic spray for sap suckers will be necessary , but it does mean the bark and fruit will transport a deadly chemical so strictly observe your withholding periods. . Look up Integrated pest Management for further information .and you find out how to save money and unnecessary use of chemical and often organic sprays will work very efficiently by knowing the right time in the life cycle to spray. By looking at the life cycle also take into account your location, weather conditions and micro climates and so on that may slightly alter the life cycle.

Also , what is the bird life like there in your area. If you are spraying indiscriminately and your neighbors are doing it too then a lot of the natural predators will be absent.

We replaced a screen on a Samsung 7" on Wednesday at Fortune for 1500 baht. took one hour ( and a bit ) . Very happy with the job and the service . From Samsung it was going to be 3000 + baht . PM me if you want the shop address although there are a quite a few shops there doing the same thing.

You were robbed.

My daughter had the screen replaced on her Samsung Tab 3 at Tukcom in Chonburi about two weeks ago for 600 baht. Replacing the screen on her friend's Galaxy Grand phone also cost 600 baht at the same shop. Likewise they were repaired within an hour or so and they phoned us both times when they were ready for collection.

Maybe we could have got it cheaper but not knowing the going prices and it was half the price of Samsung it seemed reasonable at the time. It is working well now and my son is happy he has his tablet working again .I have had a phone screen repaired at Tukcom too and it was crap and had to get it redone again so it can be a gamble .

We replaced a screen on a Samsung 7" on Wednesday at Fortune for 1500 baht. took one hour ( and a bit ) . Very happy with the job and the service . From Samsung it was going to be 3000 + baht . PM me if you want the shop address although there are a quite a few shops there doing the same thing.

And if he smashes it and he has not paid the insurance or drives it without oil in the engine - worst case scenario of course - everybody looses except the finance company. If i gamble i like to have a hand that has the prospect of winning. .

Do anyone of the posters here above new why they use a nickname in Th. Can tell you it's NOT seen as a joke in Th.

I remember reading in Dennis Segllars book - "Thai Ways " that nik names are given so if a spirit wants to make mischief it will attach itself to the nik name and not to the real idenity . A decoy so as to speak. There are probably other explanations as well.

I understand what you want but not why. It may not be an appropriate suggestion but if you want "collectors" coins try the Royal Mint . The Australian Mint does presentations of coins, but i am not too sure about in perspex, but in other formats for coin collectors and investors so perhaps the Thai Royal Mint does similar.

This is a great development for other diseases as well such as blood cancer like multiple myeloma ,bone marrow disease and perhaps thyroid ..

I have seen them in Big C too More than 230 though - if you get them for 230 go for it.. I don't know why they are so expensive so i bought my own in a few trips ago .Minimal weight and good padding for the other supplies.

I always get a perverse pleasure in calling a Thai a Falung when they are in Australia . A lot don't understand the irony , or the humour, but a lot also think about it and have a chuckle .

Went a couple of times to a pub near Seacom a few years ago . Just a pub that nobody told me the name of and it was nearly all Thai customers . Remember the quite a number of big bikes parked in a line near the door. . But some damm good Blues Bands - there was one band with about a dozen guys - a full rhythm section . Excellent stuff. Some reggae type blues bands ( think Toots in Memphis style) and some just plain good ol' dirty blues . Great nights. Great music and not so great hangover symptoms for a usually light drinker the next day. My gf just told me it was close to Seacom Square and it was closed about 18 months ago because of drugs. Sorry , ignore my rant.

In hindsight the tree should have been pruned and shaped as it grew but what can you do now except wait for the fruit up the top to ripen and yellow and wait for them to fall . No green mangos from the top of this tree.

I have not read every post so perhaps somebody has mentioned that many multinationals buy and pay for their stock often a few years beforehand . The contract is signed and payment is placed in a suspended account until a delivery date , perhaps two or three years in the future. For example if the parent company of Big C has purchased 500 tons of frozen peas at x amount in 2012 and the market for frozen peas was high then then the company still has to base it selling price on the 2012 price to make back the loss when they are delivered and sold in 2015 . It works both ways of course - it is the basis of the futures markets and most multi - national companies play this game as a hedge against inflation..

You must have a different experience as me. I have a friend who is general manager of a Carrefour hyper market in my home country.

In the past when I was still in business I also sold sometimes to supermarkets.

The multinationals pay 90 days AFTER delivery, not up front, and with many items specifically new in assortment they pay only what is sold.

They will pay some on 90 day no doubt , usually the smaller or local suppliers who do not have the clout to negotiate like the bigger suppliers, but for the big players, the big multi-nationals it will be on the signing the contract, the money will go to a third party , usually a bank , who will hold the funds until and it will not be released until an agreed date , usually the delivery date , or certain conditions are met. . Interest etc will be negotiated in the contract of course. Therefore most of the prices are based on what was agreed to by the supermarket, or whoever is the purchaser, on prices agreed to ,perhaps a few years previously and the costs such as shipping has been factored in based on the costs agreed to in the contract . This will explain why with lower oil prices the shipping costs have not fallen..

So to get to the point now. Big C is owned by Geant-Casino in France, while tesco lotus is owned by Tesco in the UK.

Their homebrand products, which in case of Big C is Casino, are shipped over from the head office in France who pays their stock in Euro's to their suppliers. So for the head office the cost stays the same.

The office in Thailand needs to pay the French office in Euro's, because the origin of goods is Euroland. So even with your scenario it still means that the Thai branch get their goods cheaper than 6 months ago, due to the devaluation of the Euro.

Now even if the shipping costs have stayed the same, they make up for only a fraction of the price per item.

Same will happen with the goods Tesco-Lotus gets from Tesco in the UK.

No Anthony, the price paid is what has been negotiated and agreed to at the time of the signing of the contract and the contract will specify what currency it will be in . That is unless they renege on the contract . Again it is speculation that the right currency has been chosen for either party.. It is the same as plying the futures market. The company takes a punt on the price they agree to today will return them sufficient profit when the goods are delivered in whatever specified time frame..The goods are probably not even grown or manufactured . Many farmers will grow crops on consignment to a supermarket chain or a food processing chain on a the basis of a future agreed delivery date for an agreed amount . If a storm wipes out the crop then the farmer is in deep shit but if the crop comes in then all parties should be satisfied and the farmer gets his money.