schlog

58 minutes ago, BinKata said:

Did they re-open Patong Immigration?

Yup.

It's their duty to keep "the others" under 1%!!!

Robinson.

35 minutes ago, stevenl said:

Better look at the photo again, limit is indicated as being 80 10 meters after the 60 sign. Increase in maximum speed just before a U-turn?

They even admitted incorrect signs some time ago, Thai road design and signs are not clear, even worse, a contributing factor to accidents.

Yup 80 is correct. 

Displays always incorrect. Driving 100 ist shows 120.

It's only for show and budget sucking.

No air freshener rotten meat odour laaa?

1 hour ago, xylophone said:

Hey Schlog, will these guys upgrade an old computer??

Xylo I guess they do but i'm not sure. You could give them a call. JIB 076-307-044 / 062-875-5933.

1 hour ago, marvin1950 said:

Is that in Phuket town?

 

I will be in Patong once i can book a flight from Udon.

Yup. Central Festival in Town.

Try the computer shop right next to the Cat shop in old Central 2. floor.

This guys are good and can fit you with high quality to built order.

They done a special computer for me before. Would buy there again.

On 5/28/2020 at 9:05 AM, xylophone said:

Many have shut down and don't have the money to start again, so will stay permanently shut.

 

Some areas here looking like ghettos, and a collapse of business like this is extremely difficult to "restart".

Isn't that what we see already the last years and now with a booster?

Sad but this slogan reflects it good. Why do we need many different small optic shops when we only can have topcharoen shops?

I guess on the beach road we can see the future. Erase 50 small businesses and build 1 for the big boys.

The good times are long gone at the end of the 90' but it's not all bad what's going on in the background. We will see the facts in the high season.

10 hours ago, ChasingTheSun said:

it is always darkest just before dawn.

There is allot of pentup demand for holidays around the world.

 

The thai gov has taken an extremist approach to the lockdown, but they know they need to significantly loosen travel restrictions soon.

 

Thai resident travellers and Chinese, Taiwanese, Koreans, and ANZ will be the first permitted back to Phuket in the next month or so. Followed soon by many European countries who seem to have the kungflu under “control”.

 

May be a little while longer until they permit large gatherings/groups at clubs, sports, cinema.

 

I suspect that fall 2020 should look fairly similar to fall 2019 in Phuket.

The “good times” will definitely come back.

 

I'm with you about most points but we need to wait for high season.

As i said in march when the big boys with the deep pockets got what they want and the change of power here on hkt is arranged then they will open it and we are back in business in some month.

Why should only the europeans start to travel alone in juli?

Why is this Governor still here on Phuket? That's the more interesting question.

White lines.

32 minutes ago, Almer said:

Pagallim, wrong you are with regard massage, 80% of my wife's massage businesses comes from Thai's

Where are this massage shops?

Only can think about phun phon or the blind massage where 80% are thais here on hkt.

Patong beach closed today but beautifull like in the 90'.

20 minutes ago, Fling said:

If I were you I’d go look for myself because if you read what they say on here they have you believing that everything is closed and it’s not. My area is a great example because very little has closed contrary to what they report on here. I believe very little of what I read online especially after COVID 19! 

Hmmm.....i don't believe you.

The health crisis is over. No need for the 'new normal' brainwashed nonsense.

After doing the usual big show i hope that this sign/scan nonsense will head the same direction like speeding cams/bomb detections. Junkyard!

1 hour ago, steelepulse said:

Ouch!  

 

Did everyone just buy water from the trucks then, or did the gov't step up and do something?  How'd the wells do up there?

Dry...our, neighbors and mubaan wells are dry and no gov tap water.

2 times per day they pump a water truck tank full of water into the gov water pipe. That's all what you get for some minutes but it's better then in february were we had absolutely no water for 2 weeks.

Reduce it by 5 min is more then enough lol.

16 minutes ago, steelepulse said:

Did any areas actually run out of water for a prolonged period of time this long dry season?  I don't recall seeing near as many water shut off articles as the previous few years.

 

 

Maikhao since 3 month.

Never happened this way before.

50 minutes ago, xylophone said:

Thanks Schlog, I will have to get down there quickly, probably tomorrow now, as I do like that wine, however there may be a catch.......if you look at the label, next to the price, it says "Negroamaro Puglia", and the Negroamaro grape/wine does not fetch the premium price that Primitivo does, so it seems as though they may have mispriced it!!!!

 

Will definitely stock up on a few bottles in that case!
 

Yup i also saw that but didn't had a second thought. I guess for both same 585 baht price like always in makro or tops both i muri priced same with 749 baht.

Good hunting tomorrow.

Was yesterday after many years again at Phuket Grocery in Town. Got wet eyes after check out wine there. Stocked up this zolla i muri primitivo some days ago in makro for 749 baht/bottle. Phuket Grocery is much more cheap. Xylo maybe worth a trip for you to.