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Thanks for that, and it is a good point about RAM.  When I went in (6.am), a real young doctor took a look at me.  I explained that the pain in my throat had moved along to the ear as well, he never looked in the ear.  He gave some meds that have not been effective at all - cost me a bit though!!!  Thought about going back to RAM just to say I want a second opinion from this hospital and don't want to have to pay, seeing as how I was I got no relief after paying close to 3,000 baht.

I'll call right now and try to make an appointment with one of the docs you mentioned.  Thanks again Upthos.

Rimping definitely has it.  Of course, it comes and goes on the shelves but I have seen it recently. 105 baht a box.

I really know very little about it, but when my dog went missing, a Thai friend translated my "Lost" poster into Thai and put it on a local Thai classified page.  Apparently it gets a lot of traffic. Ask a Thai friend who may be in the know.  
Put up lost posters in English and Thai, add the reward bit.  Wouldn't hurt to put something in to Chiang Mai Mail's facebook page, that seems to be the place where people are putting out/getting a lot of updated information concerning the floods.
I wish you and your cat all the luck in being reunited.

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A lot of interesting perspectives have been raised by this thread.  I saw this video about a week ago and found it hysterical.  I found what happened at Sacred Heart school chilling, offensive and wrong.  Am I a hypocrite?  I don't know - again the Falang vs. Thai point of view will always come into play.  I lean heavily toward 'the administration and teachers dropped the ball' in terms of a teaching opportunity and, if I did have children in the school, I would undoubtedly pull them out. You want your school teaching values along with the curriculum.  That responsibility falls on administration and staff.  This decision reflected SH's values.  Children can plead ignorance but responsible educators  - regardless of the hemisphere they were born in - may not.  If the administrators and staff responsible for allowing this to happen justify their decision with ignorance, mai pben rai, and that was something that happened in the past so we don't need to respect it, again they are exhibiting their values.  Now it's up to the paying parents to exhibit their own.

RTD:  Last year I heard shouting on a pretty consistent basis during the evenings, coming from a garage right down my soi.  Turns out it was beetle fighting.  It lasted for a little bit over a month.  Think they must be keeping it on the DL because of the gambling.  If it happens again, I'll give you a ring.   Lis