phuketrex

Does anybody know the number for the shop in Phuket town in the one-way Road just after the shell garage that sells items for the disabled?  I know there is a sign in the window with the number on it for when they are closed.

I've been told 8 killed yesterday in a landslide between Patong and Karon so presumably onto a Burmese workers camp? Yet there is nothing in the media.

Maybe this will be like when I posted about the 2 poisonings on PhiPhi 2 days before it appeared in the local farang media.

So you've read it here first BUT my source is Thai! This isn't something anyone is likely to make up but maybe they have their facts wrong. Anyone else heard anything?

Rumourmill says that the owners of the new resort are pressuring the authorities to have all the gogo bars in Seadragon relocated and for the touts licensed by the police to have their times restricted when they can operate. Somebody's idea to improve the image of the Bangla area!

I heard recently of 3 guys getting hit with a bill of 2700 baht for 3 beers in one of the gogos recently. You don't mess with the touts though...bit like the tuktuk  drivers can be some nasty repraisals as one gogo owner can testify.

I've been dealing with several of the hospitals here for a while and getting a bit tired of the runaround about pricing. Now I'm looking to get a cortisone injection in my spine. Orthopaedic at Phuket International when I asked him how much the cortisone injection would cost ummmed and arred a bit then said about 30,000 baht and I would have to go in at 9 one morning and would have to stay in overnight and go home following morning. I agreed to have it done but when looking on the internet find it shouldn't be anywhere near that price and reckon he didn't have a clue what it would cost and just thought of the first figure that came into his head and added 10000...or more likely he DID know the cost and was trying it on...and I had told him I lived here and didn't have insurance. So PIH gets a vote of "no confidence" from me now and I won't be going back.

So I phone up and cancel the injection appointment at PIH. I go back to Bangkok Phuket where I had first started out to ask them how much it would cost thinking they will probably quote about the same as they are an "insurance" hospital too and the first thing the girl asked me was if I had insurance so I said no. BP say it will cost 7500 - 8000 maximum and I will be allowed to go home after 3 or 4 hours if there are no complications! So a 1/4 the price of the hospital down the road! I should have asked her how much it would be if I did have insurance...I would guess 15000+.

I've not been to Vachira but no doubt it would be even cheaper there!

ladykata wrote>>>

anyway the latest thing i bought off the internet, a import from china reduces your electric bill, a replacement fuse box with a digital readout, don't know the technical name for it, my bill was on average 3500 baht, now never over 600 baht, i know a electrical device uses electric so how can it use less to work, i don't know but within 3 months it had paid for itself, now all my friends are buying and installing them.

3500 baht for a month!!!!...and you're a lady living on your own? What on earth are you running there? I've been here 5 years. Apartment I'm in now I have a fan and computer running almost all day and nighttime I run aircon all night. My bill has NEVER been more than 1800 baht. Seems to me before you installed all the money saving gadgets you were being ripped off. You sure you weren't paying for next doors' electric too?  That goes on a lot.