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drnkurmlkshk, on 2011-11-09 20:15:36, said:

Fitness Thailand is a proper gym and would suit your needs, lots of a heavy duty equipment although i'm not too sure about the 100lb dumbells as i only ever  get up to the10 pounders

eek, on Yesterday, 14:32 , said:

I always wear a dress shirt and dress slacks when I'm out and about.  I'll just tell him I spent my last baht on proper clothes for job hunting.  

Or I could just point at my sandals with socks and he will know I'm too strange to talk with anymore.

EU Film Festival set to start on May 30 in Bangkok
BANGKOK, 26 May 2012 (NNT) – An annual international film festival, featuring a variety of cinematic works from Europe, is set to take off later this month.

The EU Film Festival 2012, which is scheduled to begin on May 30th in Bangkok, has boasted to present 23 films from 17 European Union-member countries.

According to organizers, a broad range of film genre will be available for interested movie-goers, from children to drama, romance, comedy and documentary.

Moreover, both latest films and those for the old days that tell stories of Europe in the 1900’s and the foundation of European culture will be available for screening.

Among interesting movies set to be presented this year are “The Substitute”, which is a comedy about an elementary school teacher who can read children’s minds, “Charlotte: A Royal at War” which unveils untold stories during the third Reich empire of Hitler, “Welcome” which tells the account of a 17-year-old boy’s swimming attempt through the English Channel, and “The Flying Pigs” which features the Polish football business.

The Bangkok’s EU Film Festival 2012 will be officially opened on May 30th and run until June 10th at the Bangkok Art and Culture Center, before the event moves to Chiang Mai, where it will run during June 15th and 24th.

http://thainews.prd....id=255505250027

hellodolly, on 2012-05-22 11:26:58, said:

If you must, hellodolly, die in an Isaan village.  Everyone will have a party, and pop you into the incinerator, and bob's your uncle.  

Only thing is, tell them to make sure you're dead first;  there have been cases where the corpse was lying on the floor of his house, being respected, when he sat up and said, "Hey, what's going on?"

A real wake up call there and the photos really drive the message home! Wow!

people don't really buy pre-made mashed potatoes do they?

tinfoilhat, on 2012-05-24 10:46:26, said:

If you make them just a little bit shorter, you can get six out of an A4 sheet.

How about companies that offer foreigners an indefinite semi-legal stay in Thailand through education visas, as long as people sign up to Thai language / culture classes?  Though it's perhaps just the Thai government getting conned as the 'students' are willful participants. Many such plays out there.

Monks are always good to hide behind when crossing the street.

How did the pedestrian cross the road?
In the ambulance.

Semper, on 2012-05-19 12:38:26, said:

I was driving through town last week when I saw a big fat "farang" stood in the middle of the road. I ran straight over him. I could have gone around him but I didn"t know whether I had enough petrol.

....but also whats annoying, just yesterday, parked in the petrol station station to walk over to Lemon Tree; dicing with death, looking for that non existant gap, finally grab the girlies hand and say ok get ready; after the red one....
the "red one" a songthaew, decides to dam_n well crawl up to me, wind the window down and want to know where we are off.
"I am going to the other side of the road"
"arai na?"
"go away i want to cross the bloody road"

aaaarrgghh!!!

Ulysses G., on 2012-04-30 11:17:54, said:

I'll have to read my ThaiVisa alerts more often, apologies for the late condolences, a good online friend.

How many of us will end up in the old folks home UG?
We spend our lives far from the safety of our old home towns and most of us put in many hours each year in those freakishly unnatural heavier than air machines.
As least when we line up at the gates awaiting final judgement we can say that we've lived.

Just give the kids the tablets, they will teach the teachers

edwardandtubs, on 2012-04-13 23:16:33, said:

So people lose all sense of logic and consideration??

I can get that many farangs dont know about some polite rules of conduct regarding Songkran (ie: stopping after dark) really think TAT (etc) should create a leaflet with information regarding this. BUT, that has nothing to do with people having a destructive and mean mentality...  i have to disagree.. just because i think that you dont need to act like a total barbarian just because you are given a water pistol and bucket for the day.. Erm..just my opinion.

A view of Doi Suthep,

a small hawk's circles
riding the invisible thermals
above the bridge,
over the klong
where a woman from a mountain
suckles her baby,
her beggar's cup
still empty

can't say how far above the hawk
heavy-with-rain may clouds
now merging with the flanks of the mountain
west of the flood-plain
of the Ping
backlit by a just gone eastward sun
are

can't say how far below the hawk
a small circle
of a baby's suckling mouth
is below a mother's breast
is below
my ability
to feel
... anything

can't say when hawk appears
stock-still
if there's a moment
of perfect equilibrium
with wind,
if there's a rising, or, a falling,
if 'steady' is only in my head

mother, baby, mountain, hawk,
clouds
i imagine
are immeasurably moist;
a state
i imagine
of near perfect
balance;
a symmetry
i imagine,
where what is seen in one eye
is the same in the other eye;
a perfect-balance
beyond imagintaion
with a warmth of mother's milk

not having
hawks' eyes
mother's breast,
thermals' freedom to rise-up,
child's instinctual hunger for comfort,
mountain's solidity,
clouds' reservoir of moisture

the only thing i can do
is put something
in the mother's begging cup

which i know will
never be
enough