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I want to install another sink in our rented house. Not looking for anything fancy. Just a cheap thai style sink. Like half table/half sink. It needs to be installed in the kitchen all connections for water and drain are there already.

Can anybody recommend me a cheap but decent local shop. preferable airport plaza/road to hang dong area.

That is the bottom of the barrel!

Last night, just for references sake, checked out The Fabric. Have to say, pretty obvious that this is the other end of the after 2am scale offered in Chiang Mai.

Okay thanks for the replies. I will ask again in CMR then.

The things sold in Boots is not what I'm looking for these are standard, I need custom made ones.

I'm not even sure if podotherapist is the correct word, it's what google translate gave me. Anyway. I have lay-in soles in my shoes and they are wearing down. I need these as my feet are not perfect and need to be corrected,otherwise a nerve will get stuck between bones which is painfull. Standard lay-in soles don't work, I need them personally made for my feet. I used to get them at home, but as they are very expensive (and my insurance doesn't cover them anymore) and I'm not home I would like to know if I would be able to find a professional in Chiang Mai. I've asked in CMR, but they said they didn't have one working there and no idea about the rest of the city. But I assume I'm not the only one with these soles in my shoes.

South Korean stopt wearing shirts with Guus Hidding prints by now I guess. I've seen the shop too in Chan Klan, sure they have a lot of shirts. Not sure they have ALL shirts. And on the nightbazaar they do have some shirts as well.

Well, so far we have-

A report of a tragic death (unsubstantiated).

A poll (that seems to have a tenuous connection to the above).

Much pontificating and rending of clothes, breast beating, etc. by the warm-milk-and-into-bed-by-9 crowd.

And the rather ironic report by one member, stating he believes the original poster owns a rival bar (in the neighborhood).

If true, that would certainly be a rather damning conflict-of-interest angle to this whole affair (or should I term it a tempest in a teapot?).

Hmmm....

Maejo, you have some high police connections. If you get a chance, run this story by them. Let us know what they say.

I was not even sugesting the story wasn't true. Even if it is true, then still that doesn't mean Spicy isn't a CM institute. I'm betting that most nightlife venues in Chiang Mai that have been around for as long as Spicy, have had their fair share of incidents. Tragic as it is, some ppl just happen to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. Chance greatly reduce when u take a hot coco and go off to bed at 9pm every day, but then I could've stayed in Europe as well.

This is another sad story and my condolences to the family and friends of the victim. I think damian500 has a fair point to ask why has there been nothing printed in the media? Not to say this story is false but since Ive been in Chiangmai Ive been told alot of stories, that have turned out to be false. A couple of weeks ago, I was told by our Thai neighbour that a bomb went off in Chiangmai Sunday market last week killing over 10 people. Our neighbour owns a restaurant in the Sunday market area and has got this info from a friend of hers, and it's been passed on as truth without anyone actually seeing it. I checked every newspaper, watched the news and nothing on a mass killing in Chiangmai. Although many people tell lies for the benifit of a good story, I doubt this to be the case here, I think information just gets jumbled, and wires get crossed along the way. I don't have the time to investigate every thing I hear, so I have to evaluate with the facts I recieve and trust I make the right judgment. R.I.P unknown woman, may justice be served on the nut job that ended your life.

Yeah, heard (and not believed it) too, that would have been all over the news. Furthermore a week before me, my visiting family and GF went off to Phuket, we received some phone calls from her family, not to go, as Tsunami's had been prededicted for the next week .

Oh and remember, always turn of your phone when a thunderstorm is coming, the lightning will addept to GSM frequenties and seek out to hit your telephone. Only in Thailand.

Furthermore, I think it's not fair to only picture Spicy as a low trash dirt pit. I've had many nights of good fun there when I was still backpacking, I have some friends who still end up their on occasions, for old times sake. It's a one-in-it's kind place in Chiang Mai. But indeed a place to be extra careful in a otherwise safe city.

As its been kicked up already I might as well post our findings.

We've seen 2 shops near CMU, but not really what the GF was looking for and another one was closed. Couldn't find the ones that I can see clearly now on the posted pics (thnx Dave2). We happen to come across a shop that has a large selection of paints and frames. Folow Moon Muang Road past Tha Phae Gate all the way till the end and go round the corner (after 3 years still no idea what the name of that road is LOL). And after about 300 meter on the left side, there is a shop not looking special at all,kinda like a standard Chinese stationary shop. They told us that most shops around CMU actually buy their paint with them. The GF was rather pleased with the selection of frames and paints, but they didn't have all the exact colours she needed from the exact brand that she wanted. But that happens on a daily basis, as the world is not ready for her yet.

Used to go there from time to time in the past. But haven't been there for a long time.

My GF went there when some friends wanted to go there, she was in and out in less then 3 minutes, dirty and bad smell she said. They went off to The Fabric, which she enjoyed a lot more. Kinda like RCA in BKK.

I personally have never been there, so will check it out soon.

Anyway very sad story, I've personally never seen any fights myself but have moved to the other side of the place a few times just to avoid ppl that annoyed me so much I felt like punching them soon.

Have heard some bad stories tho, I think most ppl know what's going on in there, it's not only the 'normal' meatmarket.

RIP, what ever happened. This ain't the right way to go.

Thailand doesn't really have a real 3G network yet. They have some very local tests, but mostly they are on weird frequenties that aren't being used in Europe. So while I enjoyed 7.2Mbit internet 2 years ago in Europe. I'm limited to EDGE here. From what I've read a few months back it's also not likely that real widespread 3G will ever happen in Thailand as everything is going so slowly that most operaters will likely just wait for 4G and try to bet on that one, rather then spending billions of baht to outroll something that will soon be outdated.

After typing, realised Im completely offtopic, but gonna post anyway even tho not about BB.

Use them to buy a book? I'm not good at English and pretty sure there are no difficult words in my post

Cabinet extends curfew 4 days, shortens hours

The Cabinet Tuesday resolved to extend curfew in Bangkok and 23 other provinces from Tuesday to Friday.

The curfew hours will be midnight to 4 am, one hour shortened from earlier curfew periods.

The Cabinet will assess the situation on Saturday and make a decision whether to extend the curfew again.

-- The Nation 2010-05-25

Someone refresh my memory--how much of the violence and illegal protest activity occurred between midnight and 4 a.m.?

True, however, I think that everybody in Thailand is well aware that it will benefit everybody when things go back to normal ASAP. I don't think the government is actively trying to get tourism down below 0 or trying to get as many businesses go bankrupt as possible. So my guess is that they have a reason to do this.

But in the end TIT...

I don't get this whole thing about portraying Abhisit as a power-hungry maniac. It seems pretty clear to me that he is just a talented politician who became the Democrat party's man at the wrong time. Anyway there seems to be a fundamental contradiction in the two charges most often leveled at him: that he is mad for power, and that he is just a puppet of more powerful interests.

Regarding the troubles of the previous Thaksin parties (TRT and PPP), they brought at least some of it on themselves. Calling a snap election then paying small parties to run and lose, in order to validate their own victories, is as fraudulent as you can get.

I noticed that after the Bangkok mayhem, a very pro-Thaksin neighbor who for the last 5 years has had his home and shop literally wallpapered with TRT, PPP, and PT posters, has taken down the signs. Change of heart or change of tactics?

For me anyway, the long hard road to building democracy in Thailand will be built on institutional reform-- creating an independent judiciary, accountable policing, an anti-corruption movement--more than electoral politics, which have proved dodgy. The country has shown its ability to subvert the letter and spirit of electoral law at all levels, from the village ballot box to the inscrutable workings of the EC. Regarding institutional reform, neither side has distinguished itself. Not Team Yellow, with its influence on the courts, and certainly not team Red, with Mr T's impressive track record of disempowering every independent state agency (NCCC, NHRC, NRC...) and centralizing control to himself. I'm not suggesting that there shouldn't be elections, but that I don't see any electoral outcome in itself leading to a more democratic state.

Well said. I agree. If you take a step back and try to see the big pictures and lines. I think that the main goal of the red shirt (a more equal dividing of the economic growth) is a very healthy and understandable one. A pitty, smart powerhungry people have been able to mix it with their own personal interests.

During the whole situation Abisit has shown nothing of powerhunger in my opinion he is really trying to be reasonable and understanding while trying to govern this country the best he can. I can see he has a point in saying this country is not ready for elections at this moment. He is right in saying things need some time to cool down. As long as he is true to his former promises to hold elections as soon as possible, I think that is not a bad plan for the short term.

In the long run Thailand does risk to get into the same circel again, if nothing changes, chances are red side will win elections and yellow side will step in again. Mix this with a King, who is respected by both sides, who is ageing and will sooner or later leave a huge power vacuum, it's not a sensionalist idea to say things ain't over yet.

I hope more people can try to focus on the red lines and major ideas, in stead of zooming into incidents all the time. This all IMHO.

completely on-topic: TIT

Prolly need to catch a nightbus to BKK later this week. But are they even going with this curfew?

If you have no idea what is actually written on the ticket. Wouldn't it be better to ask ur GF or somebody else tell you what it says, before deciding this must be a joke and ripping it apart?

Nice to hear that HD is getting started here. After spending most of the last few years here in Asia. I am now just back from Europe and kinda made a research what I am missing out on. In my former home country 20MB internet is the norm, 50MB everywhere available. Many channels are in HD but you gotta pay a bit extra as well.

I don't mind being a bit behind, we definitely have other advantages that totally make up for whatever high-tech thing we are missing

This is indeed an incorrect article. Tourist haven't fled Thailand that much and so quickly just because of the curfew. The whole situation is to blame, and now tourism really starts to feel it. People who were here already stayed as planned, but new people didn't arrive... So business is going down day after day. So it's normal that it takes some time before businesses really start to feel the pain, makes sense that time has come after more then a month of serious problems. Doesn't mean figures mentioned are incorrect tho, just the way they are presented.

Goodview probably has 10.000 baht running costs per day. And over the past few weeks lost over 100.000 baht due to this situation (not the curfew) but because the previously mentioned stuff, now they closed cause they are not meeting their minimal income on a daily basis, this is due to the whole situation and not only the curfew.

I would believe the story if a place was a real nightlife place, prolly not much business in the places that normally get going after 12pm. But ppl still need to eat and still go out for dinner.

Here in Chiang Mai seems like nobody cares. Drove home around 10pm. Lots of people outside, business as usual. There was some police but they also did business as usual

Care to share why?

Best of luck anyways

Just back from airport plaza. All banks are open, and the populair ones are enormously busy. Somehow even got a better exchange rate from the bank then is given on the internet for my Euro's. Altho better is hardly the right word as it's still rediculous

Used to go often to Hot Shot, not much of a dancer, their u got ur chair and ur just looking around sipping ur drink, enjoying the view. Last time I was there was Febuari and there were 6 ppl inside when I entered. Was this just a bad evening or is that place totally gone out of fashion?

Im renting in a moo baan in between tesco and airport plaza, walking distance for farang.

It's a normal 2 bedroom 2 bathroom house, aircon living and master bedroom, hotshower in 1 bathroom, non furnished 6.000 per month. During the hot weather the past few months around 3.000 baht for electric+water.

There are sometimes more houses for rent here, so it might be worth driving around in the area. Bring somebody who can read thai as 'for rent' signs are hardly ever in english.

There's an art supply shop on Sirimankalajan that sells all kinds of brushes and paints, including acrylics. Not sure about canvases as I haven't looked too closely but I assume they would have some? The shop is also a post office agent which is why I've been there, but haven't bought the art supplies :-)

Even Google Maps can't help me to figure out where Sirimankalajan is. Some directions when i'm coming from the road to Hang Dong, near Tesco.

Thnx for the advise will check out both stores.

Banks inside Tesco on the road to Hang Dong are also closed. This one is normally open on a Saturday, so I hope tomorrow it will be open again.