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I've bust my mp3 player now, and thought I'd kill two birds with one stone and get the Nokia 101, just 999 in BigC with MP3 player. I'm not sure what kind of battery it comes with. I heard rumours it's +1000 mah in Europe but the cheap Asian version has an 800 mah. Question is, how much juice does just playing music use, how many hours on one charge do you think?

I'm completely nicotine-free for six months and also calorie counting, though for some reason, I never thought to count calories in my sugar-free gum. I buy the white tubs of wrigleys 'Extra, white' and eat about fifteen or so a day (maybe twenty). Apart from that I eat about 1800 calories a day, am male, weigh 83kg approx (depending on where I put my feet on the scale).

The label on this gum, in Thai, has the numerals 2, then 2.8, then 20, with Thai writing inbetween, I'm guessing it's saying 10 calories a piece? I mean, it's supposed to be sugar free, but the one they sell in UK seems to be a different product.

Does anyone know the exact count? Is there a better brand, calorie-wise? I like gum rather than sweets that dissolve, and I don't like spearmint/peppermint/fruits but like the strong mint/ice/white/sharp type things.

Thanks for any input.

I've frayed the cord for my much loved eeepc 7014g. I went to the service centre in fortune and she said a new one from Taiwan will be 670 baht and take two weeks.

Today I went to the third floor service centre in Panthip. She said three weeks, but if I don't mind fake parts, then  there's a shop over there. I went over. He pulled out an adapter that looks very, very similar to mine, except it has four visible screws not one recessed, and the identical Asus sticker is inverted (to how mine is). This adapter says: input 100-240v 50/60hz 680mah. Output 9.5v === 2.5a medel Ao59930. He wants 700.

He also showed me a battery, it looks like mine but bigger, and says 6600mah 7.4v. Serial 07G016101875p Li-ion battery pack A23-700.

He wants 700 for the adapter, and 1900 for the battery. The business card says 'Laptop parts' Ekkaphol Chanuwanjana. Pantip Plaza (Water GAte) 3rd. room 3110/2 (Cyber.com2). www.lp-storeonline.com.

So, I went to a shop I know in the basement, asked about an adapter. He had a generic one that might fit (didn't have the netbook with me), and it would be 700.

I looked on Amazon and generic adapters start at about ten quid (cheaper) but genuine Asus is about fifteen quid (about the same as Pantip if it's a genuine one (yes, I know that's not likely)). Batteries on Amazon are about thirty quid for 10000 mah, with warranty, so Panthip is quite a bit more expensive.

I'll try and pop over to Fortune tomorrow to see if there's a better deal. The question is, are fake parts meant to be a lot cheaper, or it's the same manufacturer without the mark up? Should I haggle? Is there any point haggling if he's got the only one? *Has* he got the only one?

Thanks for any answer/advice.

OK, I'm in Krabi Town for a few weeks. I need to receive a software cd for a course I'm doing. My neice will send it from the UK. I've searched the forum here for advice, which seems to be: avoid Bangkok and avoid couriers.

So I'm going to have it sent to post restante here. There are two ways it can be sent.

1 - Royal Mail 'Airsure' service, 'from 5.98'

2 - International signed for service, Airmail postage plus 4.95.

Is one better than the other? Any issues with post restante here? If it's marked as a 'gift', reckon they'll tax it? It's from Open University, so will likely be a proper printed thing.

I'm in Krabi town for a couple of weeks. The cord on my netbook (eeepc 701) is frayed near the plug. I kept self-repairing but it's finally too much. Is there some repairer who can sort it for me? It's a proprietry plug and the fray is near the plug itself, plus another one halfway down the cord, so it's going to have to be opened up.

Thanks for any recommendation.