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You could try 'Oasis' in moo see sha thong

Down Chang Wattana road in a moo bahn past software park tower on the way to pakkret

They have a sports bar with big screen tv, pool tables etc over a hugh lake owned by a kiwi

It's about 15 minutes from impact arena by car

Complicated directions so if interested ask and I'll post

Started DIY renovation of the house a couple of weeks ago.

Was contemplating what water blaster to get, cheep or expensive and decided on going the cheap route.

Bought a Goldex 75bar-150bar, 360L/hr from Makro for 1950Baht. It's tiny and looks rather embarassing.

For old Thai concrete paint jobs it does the job better than I expected. Our house was last painted about 10 years ago with I presume poor too OK preparation.

Removes paint to the concrete in all exposed areas easily to moderate. Has problems with removing paint in the undercover carport area, although the old paint work is still durable with no flaking or lifting.

I suspect that it has a short lifespan (I'm thinking about 50 hrs) Used for about 35 hrs so far with another 10 hrs to complete outside. Still going stronge.

Try these places. Don't know where they are located though

Baan Yoga Tel: +66 (0) 2392 9869

BKRaja YogaCenters Tel: +66 (0) 2573 8342

Capitol Club, President Park Tel: +66 (0) 2661-1000-29

Iyengar Yoga Studio Tel: +66 (0) 2714-9924

Neohumanist Foundation of Thailand Tel: +66 (0) 2375 1680

Rising Star Tel: +66 (0) 2260-3322

Sahaya Yoga, Novotel Lotus Hotel Tel: +66 (0) 2261-0111

Yoga Elements Studio

Kitpanit Bldg. 2-18 Suite 401 Patpong Road Tel/Fax: +66 (0) 2634-3095

Try Bangkok Hash House Bikers

http://www.bangkokbikehash.com/

Dug this up somewhere?

The Thai Stix Ball Hockey Club

Ken Wright

[email protected]

The club at Pakkret is an equestrian club. About 40 mins on the expressway from downtown.

Has 12 rai of open land

Don't know much else but here is an English speaking contact for the club and facilities

Contact number: 09-8911714

Try this link

http://interaffairs.tu.ac.th/Housing_List_2003.htm

I use to live in Juldis River mansion and it was good.

Central chit lom has a reasonable range of snorkling gear.

Creese sub, mares, tusa and the like

Klong Yai close to Cambodia Trat way.

Beach fishing is poor as it's very shallow untill about 500 meters out.

I go overnight on a thai fishing boat sometimes. It's pritty pricy at 4,500 baht for 6 persons max for 24 hours. Last time caught a couple of dozen keepers between 5 of us. Good thai food dished up and bring your own drinks. Surprising that the crusty boats are equiped with GPS and Fishfinder. Even a live bait tank.

Catch baracuda (45cm), gropers (coral trout 30-40cm), perch (like NZ snapper without the bump on the head 20-60cm), sting rays and squid.

Going out on a 3 day 2 night trip on a bigger thai style fishing boat early next year. Should be out past koh chang. Max 10 people at 10,000 for the group. Have about 4 of us at the moment. If anyones interested PM me.

I thought my advice was quite helpful considering I have done it albeit in someone elses sudan and that I have the same model car as the original poster.

There was not much tar seal road about 5 months ago. The parts that were there were in disrepair and was worst then driving on the metal sections.

It took about 3.5 hours to drive in a sudan

If your sudan has a faring kit on the front end that reduces ground clearance to traverse steep angles then you will not be able to cross one of the collapsed bridges without damaging your vehicle.

Be prepared to damage your tyres if you are driving on passenger tyres and want to make the journey in reasonable time.

To take your own vehicle

1. Take your ownership papers or a letter from your company (if it's a company car) giving you permission to take the car out of the country.

2. Need to purchase insurance (at boarder)

3. International or Thai licence

Ask Thai immigration at the boarder and they will point you to the correct office to do the boarder crossing paperwork for your car.

Thanks for that

Problem

I have

1. Desktop (with ethernet port, several USB2.0)

2. 2 Laptops (with ethernet ports, IEEE1394 ports, several USB2.0)

3. Printer (usb)

4. Scanner (usb)

5. True ADSL with billion modem

6. Windows XP pro on all computers

I would like to share the internet connection, share/access files from the any of the computers on the network, and share the printer and scanner between the three computers using the desktop as the station where the printer and scanner are directly plugged into.

Questions

What other hardware do I need? Router? Hub? Cable?

Recomended brands from Panthip or somewhere? What do thing the cost is?

Then how do I set up the network with the operating system?

A lot of information I suppose. Appreciate any help.

This is good

just added my music and will add monty pythons and southparks later

I went by road about 4 months ago.

Considered taking my own car honda civic. Is a bit low in profile. I like to drive places in my own car as well

Glad I didn't.

The road surface was drivable (at low speed) in a sedan but it would seriously take a lot of life out of it.

When you got your car back to tar seal it would feel sick and rattle a lot and you would take a lot of life from your tyres.

I got a cambodian driver to take us. 1100 baht one way I think. They are easy to find. He drove a toyota camry?carolla. Averaged 60 kms/hr and it was pritty bone jarring in long sections. Some road was tar seal (10km or so in the towns along the way) but was bad as it was in disrepair, the rest was metal. One bridge in particular was bad as it had collapsed in places needing good front and rear clearance to make the angles. The camrys suspension has a lot more drift and clearance than a civic. He also was driving on commercial type tyres with a higher ply rating and they were pritty bullet proof.

There is an equestrian club in Pakkret, nonthaburi

Not sure on the contact details but ISB may know something about it as I think it has something to do with them

A book that has been turned into a movie as well would be good if you have movie facilities

one flew over the cuckoos nest

If you're flying royal brunei than you're probably going to have to walk a long way from the gate to customs. Did it a couple of weeks ago. Plane was delayed also because we were in a que for 20 mins circling Chonburi. When we came to make our first landing the pilot had to abort when we were about 100 meters from the ground over the runway as a plane was still on the runway. Another 20 mins and we were parked at terminal 2 and walked to terminal 1 for customs.

Summary of the Bangkok traffic problems

1. My understanding is that the Bangkok road network is based on the river and klong network. When road vehicles were introduced, klongs were filled and roads built over them in a lot of cases. People got to keep thier land and still remember how to get somewhere.

2. An international company was hired a decade or so a go to improve the traffic flow using computer technology. The traffic police were under the impression that there would be job losses so they frequently manually over-rode lights at intersections and vandalised electronics to throw a spanner in the works. Blamed the chaos on cockroachs shorting out the control boxes. One of the head traffic cops said something like, How can computers keep up with the human brain, blah, blah, blah. The company apparently continued to be payed over their contract life (maybe still going) but agreed to walk away.

3. Traffic cops duties before now, pritty much revolved around working the lights and sitting in their aircon boxes (apparently the idea and many of which were donated by uncle Chuwit) Now they have to meet thier daily/monthly quota of fines (of which they get a percentage depending on rank) and consequently have to create a bit more chaos by setting up random checkpoints. Unfortunately the random checkpoints are set up in areas where most violations occur (u-turn areas and confusing road design areas usually where you have to cross multiple lanes to enter a road) After all It's hot out there, dangerous and the the polution will kill you. Best do the job during peak times to hit the quota fast.

4. Unfortunately many of the newer traffic solutions have been designed by engineers that recieved their degrees from legoland. Overpass bridges built in the wrong lanes and specialy designed bottlenecks where 4 lanes merge into 3 or 2 seem common. Even the overhead highway where at least at one point traffic enters and merges on the fast lane.

5. The motorbike road rules are a bit of a nusiance. They seem to be able to get away with a lot. Not quite sure if it's true but my understanding is that motorbike drivers are never at fault in an accident. A friend of mine (car) was hit by a motorbike driving down her side of the road in the wrong direction and her insurance company paid. Maybe it's more of a cultural/economic thing where richer pays. Congregation of motorcycle taxis and the unpredictable nature of their diving rules around soi mouths causes people to slow dramatically when exiting main thoroughfares.

6. The practice of halting traffic for official motorcades is a major contribution that we turn a blind eye to. Traffic on overhead highways are even stopped when a motorcade passes undernieth. Unless your at the front of the line you don't see it, knocking it up to a red light or accident.

7. Deny responsibility in an accident is taken very seriously. Unless people have a camera on them and know the proceedure in an accident, then vehicles are left in place until a traffic cop arrives or the insurance man. A lot of traffic cops on the seen don't move the vehicles (law or lazy) Never even seen one attempt to direct traffic flow around an accident. When the insurance man arrives and takes the snaps then the vehicles are moved.

8. Driver education is very poor in Thailand. It appears to be not so uncommon to drive without a licence or any driver education. This is probably the main cause of solvable traffic problems in my view. Drivers here tend to drive in lah ah land. Forethought doesn't appear to be a necessary Thai driving trait. If drivers followed the rules and had skills that were a bit more predictable then traffic would flow a lot smoother. It seems like you lose more face when you overshoot a turn and do a u-turn then to stop in the middle of the road, reverse a little and then turn.

9. Placement of bus stops is bad. And driving standards of the drivers. The red buses are paid by the number of rounds they complete in their shift. The faster you drive then the more you'll make to feed your kids.

10. Narrow streets especially soi mouths. Proliferation in the amount of wide turning circle pick-ups doesn't even allow skillfull drivers the ability to turn into a soi when someone else is exiting.

11. Lack of street parking and carparks.

12. The dramatic increase in vehicles. And it is dramatic. I think I read something recently like several thousand new registrations a day in BKK.

so many more

Can anybody point me in the right direction or give experienced advice?

Where can you find out the laws about renting videos to the public through a video rental shop?

Do you have to pay royalties?

Thanks in advance.

One of our ponds has tiles but its not inground but above ground. Looks similar to the typical open water tank in the bathroom.

Easy to clean (easy to get dirty), but makes the water look dirty quickly. Quite common here.

Fish survive just fine.

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction.

The links are very useful

Anyone been to Angkor by road recently?

Is the road in reasonable condition?

Is it rainy season up there now?

Thanks to any replies

I had the same problem with outlook and TA.

I tried switching ISP to KSC and had the same problem

Thought it was my webhost but they kept telling me it wasn't.

They told me to change my outgoing server SMPT settings (in outlook) to that of my ISP (TOOLS/ACCOUNT SETTINGS)

i.e.

from mail.hostsave.com (my webhost) to mail.click.com (telecom asia) This didn't seem to solve the poblem

I changed email editor to mozilla thunderbird and now have no problem.

http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/

does the same as outlook but doesn't give me connection problems when recieving.

May help some people or get them into more debt. If you want a credit card and have a Thai partner earning over the requirements then get them to get you an additional card. Don't know what the credit limit is but it's reasonable. I just had to show a photocopy of a non-imm to get an AMEX. But VISA card wanted a work permit I think? no minimum income, bank balances or other requested. A lot of places in thailand don't accept amex, though internet always does. There are lots of commision based credit card sales people around that jump through hoops if there is a chance to get another customer and you don't have to pay fees for the first year. They're as thirsty as Amway reps.

It's interesting that the Thai economy at least last year was growing/recovering based on consumer spending, correspondingly credit card use has grown in leaps and bounds. Until some time last year minimum for a credit card was set at about 15,000 from memory. Now it's at 7,000. What % of the population earns over 7,000? per month? I presume most employed uni grads and apparently a large proportion of them are currently unemployed. When the economy needs a bit more of a show from the Thai Love Thai party does the limit get lowered to what most Thais' earn (3500 baht) I definately think that the majority of Thais are irresponsible when it comes to debt repayment.

a couple hundred baht for their troubles would also be highly appreciated.

Out of interest does the ship take passengers without cars, how much and how long to Brisbane?