Xonax

Better to buy from HongKong or China. The import duty is only 10%.

he was driving from Bangkok to attend his father′s funeral at a temple in Chonburi,

Shame his dad isn't around to tell his son to slow the Xxxx down. Not to be glib, but I wonder if the first thing he did when his father passed away was to buy a Lamborghini.

Either they are keeping the body for a long time or ordering and shipping is a lot quicker than I thought.

There are Lambos on sale in Bangkok right now. In fact there are two up country where I live in a showroom

Just waiting for that 2.2 Trillion Baht investment loan to pass through in parliament one of the next days.

Meanwhile in Phuket anyone foreign are being harassed for working the jobs the Thais are to lazy or to dumb to do. I love this place because it is so full of contradictions. It never fails to amuse.

That is of course because there are lots of easy money to be made in Phuket. No problems, if foreigners are taking the hard, dirty and low paid jobs.

Thailand is far from the only country who has a double pricing system.

Back in 1998, when I visited Universal Studio´s in Los Angeles USA, I had to pay 4 times as much, as my local friend had to pay.

UDD

United Front for Democracy and against Dictatorship?

The name is hilarious.

Surely agree, but kinda smart, as they won´t have to change the UDD logo, when reality strikes after Thaksin is welcomed back. UDD can also be used for United Front for Dictatorship and against Democracy!

It looked exactly like the photo, when I was there 5 years ago, so nothing new about the beach erosion. Just build the same protection as the neighbour, though it may be illegal to build such a construction on the beach. Going back to Khao Lak next month, I certainly hope, that my beachfront rental is not under water.

"Bystanders were questioned by the police as well. They told the police that the incident happened extremely quickly."

Smart observation. Don´t all car accidents happen extremely quickly?

Very impressing. Well done!

I used to have the same symptoms for years and years with lower back pain, probably caused by too much sitting in the office and too little exercising. I have visited doctors that suggested spinal surgery and anti-inflammatory medicine. I did not want to take the risk, there is always related with spine surgery and anti-inflammatory medicine just gives me a serious stommach pain.

The last year or so the pain was getting worse, so in Bangkok I firstly tried several sessions of accupuncture (Physio One), that helped a day or two, but unfortunately not longer. Then I tried several sessions of physiotherapy (again Physio One) with ultrasound, stretching and massage, which helped a little more than accupuncture, but not completely solved the problem. Then later I visited a chiripractor (Dr. Patrick Svensson at D-Spine, Sukhumvit soi 24), who found that something in my hip and SI joint didn´t move properly and used manipulation to treat this. After only 4 treatments, I am 100% pain-free for one month now. I have often visited chiropractors before, but not with long lasting results, so I am very happy that I found Dr. Patrick, who in my opinion is very skilled to treat back related problems. Before visiting Dr. Patrick, I went to Sukhumvit Hospital (use any hospital) to take a few X-rays (lower back and hip seen from the back and from the side), which costs THB 500 per photo, including a doctors written diagnosis, of what is seen in the X-rays.

P.S. Don´t carry your baby around more than absolutely necessary. Little babies can crawl and when they get bigger, they can walk, run and climb, so no need to carry them around all the time. In Thailand I often se mothers carry their 5-6-7 year old children around in the shopping malls. Find a way to let them get used to not be carried. This worked very well with my last baby.

Giving gold to parents, in connection with an engagement, is not common, but heard of from time to time.

I would say, that if she´s a virgin (and only if she´s a virgin) and will offer her sexual services to you after the engagement, but before the marriage, it would be a proper gesture to buy the parents gold, as they will not be able to sell her virginity again then.

Nice work and nice story. Good luck with your future visits to your lovely girlfriend and her family. I just hope that you don´t get burned, as many of us have been before with Isaan girls. Not many first time visitors pass by Isaan, so where and how did you meet your girlfriend? If you met her in one of the large tourist destinations, there is very good reason to be suspicious. Specially if you met her in a bar or a club.

More useful tips:

1. never accept a taxi that is parked; only flag one that is in motion

10. .... nothing outside needs to change. its magic

Please explain or amplify?

1. First warning sign for a cheating taxi-driver is, that he is not driving around searching for random customers, but is parked in a strategic place, where first time tourists often need to hail a taxi, like outside hotels and in non-organised taxi ques outside restaurants, nightclubs and shopping malls like MBK.

10. Sometimes it is easier to change the way you see the world, than to change the whole world, or even just change the mentality in Thailand.

the government will have to plough ahead with the project, as it is a stated government policy and the funds for the project have already been borrowed.

There we have the real reason the funds have already been borrowed and we now must spend them in order to get our rightful share.

I would imagine the bidders would be pretty cagy given that they are likely to face opposition from local people as well as all the aforementioned orginisations.

Probably their bids will reflect the problems they expect to encounter.

If I understand this government´s policies correct, the money has long been borrowed AND SPENT FOR OTHER THINGS. Therefore they are urged to go ahead with the water project as soon as possible and make loans for future projects like infrastructure, before the water project can actually start.

He said helping out on a regular basis. Look, there is no problem here, hardly a potential problem.... but you do need a work permit to volunteer English lessons - technically. It makes sense too, as I said, anybody could just claim "i'm a volunteer" if teaching English, no matter if they were being paid or not. If you have regular lessons, in a lesson type setting (ie people can see you), you can potentially (however unlikely) have problems.

No, you can't "claim you are a volunteer" if you are being paid. The very definition of volunteer means "no payment"

What about receiving little brown envelopes or donations instead of payment then? Seems to be widely accepted in this country!

It would be due to the sizable kick-backs from the investments, if the Thai government one day should decide to do something to prevent Bangkok from sinking.

If the judges do not resign by May 8, they will face an all-out campaign from the group, he said.

I suppose, that an all-out campaign means, that they will burn down the city again.

rise of price .... what about more cars ? those already used are packed with people ...... like sardines in a can ... I noticed , as I come back from Europe a week ago, that many things in Thailand is more expensive than European country , road tolls for instance ... the time for bag packing is over in the city .

The BTS is still a bargain compared to most city transport systems in Europe. And while it's crowded at rush hour and weekends when there is a reduced service, what public transportation system isn't? The BTS (and MRT) are one of the best things about living in Bangkok IMO.

The BTS is certainly NOT only crowded at rush hour, but all day! I am speaking about the Sukhumvit line and don´t know about the Silom line.

I bought mine i Srinakarin Road right opposite Foodland (shop closed on sundays). The sunglasses-function and detachable/washable inner lining is a must for me. The downside with Ozzy is that it doesnt cover your mouth area, so I have now changed to a full-face and higher quality Vemar helmet (THB 5900) from Panda-Rider, to avoid the dust from cars, trucks and busses. My "old" Black Ozzy in Size XL (61-62 cm) would be for sale, if you should fail to find a new one.

There's an oven type crematorium just within the ringroad near SanSai, it's a very weird thing but anyway then you haven't go trough all that Thai style cremating in open air including taking the body out of the coffin after it has been in there for almost a week. (sorry if this was a bit 'too much of an answer' to your question)

Must be the rental boxes you are talking about. Normally they will have to be returned within 10 days.

Note to myself: Have to get one of these Bhuddist Amulets as soon as possible.

"... avoid capturing it before he is absolutely confident that the elephant belongs to the rare breed."

Not really a "breed" are they? I thought it was the result of some genetic aberration??

"... to resolve the problem of wild elephants evading local farms..."

Still, there's nothing quite as exciting as a high speed chase involving a farm in pursuit of an elephant.

White (or pink / albino) elephants in the nature, is the result of a naturally occured but very rare genetic mutation. If you breed a white elephant (if fertile) with another elephant, you can more likely expect, that around 25% of the offspring will be white elephants. So maybe that´s what they are doing in the royal forests.

As for every unfinished or abandoned building in this city, the owners (typically banks) will only sell for Top-Dollar, or rather let it rot. A few years ago, I heard that a foreign (Israeli I believe) businessman, tried to buy the Sathorn Unique Building to finish the construction, but unfortunately was only met with the usual sky-high demands for Top-Dollar.

The Bangkok city administration should force the owner to complete the construction within a short time-frame, sell it on auction to the highest bidder, or simply remove it. For too many years now, this building has just been a shit right in the eye, for everyone visiting or living in Bangkok.

I´d love to see some MotocyTaxi´s get into the track and drive aginst the direction of the F1´s during the race.