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Yeah I used to eat at Japantown in San Francisco a lot. After that, Fuji and Zen don't rate. It's not only Japanese people that would get that.

Agree 100%. I lived in Tokyo for 2 years; Fuji and Zen are probably the best in Thailand (are they?!? I don't know others), but they would have NO customers in Japan

Central Festival: Never eat there, because

- food not to my taste

- too expensive

- too far

- don't like the people (in general) in Central (although they have some beautiful sales girls!)

- bad vibes

- Tesco and Big C are much closer and food is quite OK for me

1. They are not fake watches, they are 'genuine copies' or 'original copies'. They tell the time (for a short time)

2. First time I heard of 'watch seller gangs'

What else is new, pussycat?

Som Nam Na!!! I have stopped feeling sorry for all these stupid people who think they can drive a motorbike, and then have a accident. Driving a 500cc in shorts and T-shirt is just plain STUPID.

"Unlike other jumbos, La Aung Dow can swim" All elephants can swim. All of them.

This one is different; he is swimming free-style (front crawl) and thus he is the fastest elephant in the world

Time for jamsession in musicheaven:

Jimi, Janis and Lou !

He gave us some great music! I will miss you.

Indeed! Some day (not too soon, I hope) I will be there to listen to these guys. Must be an incredible jamsession

Farewell Lou, and thanks for all the beautiful music over the years I will miss you too!

Talk, talk, talk.... Nothing will change in Phuket... Ruled by greed and stupidity, just to get more money now... Long term planning?!? Nah, too difficult, just get the money now as long as they can...

Phuket: the most disgusting place of Thailand! Of course they have to make sure it stays that way!

How many more postponements? You really believe trains are going again on 1 Dec?

"The fire was predicted in this space just 14 months ago"

Does anyone (in Phuket) care? No...

Have Phuket learned their lesson? No...

Anyone surprised? No...

My prediction: there will be another big fire in Phuket in the next 14 months...

Will things change in Phuket? No...

SuperCheap fish for sale Only now, only in Phuket

The only things that talks in Phuket is money Why is everybody so surprised?!?

Unfortunately I do believe more in a cover-up story than in what "the officials" say

Sad but true! The last one to trust in anyone in a "official" capacity...

My New Year's Wish:

FFB down for 1 week every month; maybe, just maybe, people start to talk again to each other

Thais actually drive good compared to Indonesians....completely 'lawless'.... in Indo

Absolutely true!

I remember when I lived in Sulawesi and visited my friends in Thailand, they were all bitching about the Thai traffic. At that time, I just laughed and told them that Thai traffic is heaven compared with Indo traffic!

Nowadays, I just drive extremely defensive offensive

Don't worry: it is never going to happen

Nicely done! I am always surprised though that money is never an issue for these guys

Let's make the fine a percentage of the new price of the cars, something like 0.5% only for the first offense, 1% for the next and so on. More realistic....

Also, please give priority to BMW's, Mercedes, and other expensive cars to be towed away.

This method is fairer than the proposed method; more money for BIB is coming in; rich people pay more than not-so-rich people (side note: how come you have a car in BKK when you are not-so-rich?!?!?)

This is a Win-Win-Win solution

God and Buddha are the only friends I have in 'high places'

Naughty Nut

It is all speculation, but the following scenario is (Thai) plausible:

Fact: she left the keys in trunk, not him

Fact: after 3 hours Rescue services were called (by who? gf? why wait 3 hours?)

Speculation: maybe the gf needed 3 hours for undisturbed shopping, maybe she takes revenge for something completely else, maybe she is not so smart (as she has proven already), maybe a cocktail of the above plus more...

Anyway, these guys have plenty of money and more than enough (other) toys. Loss of face is involved, for sure!

...and now it is in the paper and TV, so how much loss of face now?.....

Just let it happen!!! I for one will not shed 1 tear, when Patong disappears... Under water is a good solution

Great for the diving community: instead of a wreck, they can 'do' Bangla on a night-dive

Pretty stupid to jump out of a riding vehicle... Real life is NOT a movie!

Hopefully she learned not to do that again.... Hopefully.....

She memorised his password (PIN)..........

Strange to trust someone so soon in a relationship.

Personally, I say NEVER divulge your PIN's to anyone ...except your grandmother's parents.

(PS..your grandmother must be older than 110).

Agree 100% Nobody, and I do mean NObody, gets ever my PIN number....

Maybe, just maybe, I make an exception for my grandmother's parents (I need to see some id though)

Just been told about a post in Thai on Facebook claiming staff closed the shutters to Supercheap to stop people leaving with goods when the fire started... I really hope it is just a rumour. Perhaps someone can translate - https://fbcdn-sphotos-a-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn2/1379413_4977762622173_863651496_n.jpg

I tried my best to translate ...

i am talking with my dads friend. He was at supercheap at the time the fire was starting he was one of the first people who saw the the flames starting at tried to leave quietly just as people were starting to shout FIRE and everyone started fighting to get out. The fire started to come from the area they sell bags and foam boxes. when the staff started to realise that there was a fire the they started to close the shutters because they were worried that customers would leave stealing goods, this caused lots of people to be trapped inside. My dads friend said that he thinks because of this lots of people have died inside. This story im telling you is true! right now he is still very nervous (in shock) The most important thing is that there was no fire alarm sounds to warn people and the staff tried to close the doors to stop people going out. thank you for reading

I do not want to believe this.... IF this is true, they should lock the staff that was closing the doors, in a little building, close the doors and put it on fire!!! It is MURDER!

No foreigners around to blame?

Nah, he just dropped them off