jacko

Critical responses to trip reports tend to get moderated closely, flame free and all that. I wouldn't get too worried by the odd negger, it will be more than compensated for, and we all have more +s than -s available to us.

Well to be honest it was my fault! I had a plan when I first got a Thai SIM, whereby the balance lasted 12 months if I recall correctly, each time I topped up. That was suitable but I was thinking in tourist mode rather than considering my Expat status. Then I made a long call to someone a long way off on another network and all my credit got eaten up at 8 baht/min. Since then I have switched plan yet again for 1 baht/min all networks .... (although I get hit for international SMSs), but the credit duration is short. One just has to work around it. Finding all the details of the plans in English can be a challenge. Later Edit. I just logged on to the AIS site to check out all their packages.... a bewildering array, and calls priced in satang/minute, satang/6 seconds and satangs/sec..... had me tapping my calculator to learn all pretty much the same!

Catch Me if you Can.

Wayne's World

The 51st State.

Django Unchained

Get in touch with MeGoDanceNow.

Mine only extends 1 month per top up.... (12 Call)..trouble is I keep forgetting that fact and when I do need to top up put 500 baht on it... just get an extra month when 5x100 would get me 5! Topping up is a 2 second exercise with the mobile banking.

Gerard Butler

Jimmy Swaggart jumped into my head ...... but the list could be a lot longer!

Billy Connolly

The Wrestler. I am not a vigilante. I am just trying to get home to my little girl's birthday party and if everyone will just stay out of my way, nobody will get hurt.

Topsy Turvy (24hr)

Those look great!

They were painting white lines on the railway line bypass rd, heading South lane, just before Soi Siam CC junction yesterday. They were not central, but 1/3rd over from the 'kerb'. We all know white lines are a waste of paint here and normally used by drunks to guide them home, but my thought is... Getting ready to make no right turn there.... so a 1/3rd left turn and the rest straight on, and the traffic lights will be turned on. Oh 'aj', the schedule was 3 years (for the tunnel) so that means completion 2018! But we know schedules rarely work out anywhere, never mind here!

I went into town about 11.00am Monday, and decided to avoid this and turned off Suk into Nua (North Rd), it was really heavy going to 3rd Rd, a lot of coaches making worming my way through difficult. The lights at that junction could do with a longer scheduling for peak in and out traffic but I doubt anything will change. Prohibiting parking on that stretch of Nua would of course help, and the coaches stopping to drop off tourists for the World's biggest jewellery store, and turn into the bus station all impacting badly. I may have to try Sawang Fa and Naklua.

The sacrifices we guys have to make I suppose..... how was Ubon?

Closer to the Mall........and I hazard to say easier to get to WS from.

Location?

The chaos or the 'reports'....?

They have these annual events in and around Pattaya, this one recently happened at my end of town. Quieter than it has been in the past, but making enough noise to make paying a visit an alternative to simply hearing it. Free entrance and plenty parking. Despite being banned in so many places, a cold one available here despite being on temple grounds. One for me..... The safest ride in town.... You have to catch these fish with a 'net' made of tissue paper..... not as easy as it looks. They haven't been fed and look exhausted, and 2 died in the plastic bag. These guys were whizzez at the cork guns, knocking off tiny toy after tiny toy....... hold the stock so the end of the barrel is inches from the target! I think they were there to tempt you as they were at it a long time, perhaps given guns with more puff in them! Freshly cooked quail it suggests... maybe.... not many mynah birds about lately. Hot roasted chestnuts, candy floss and many more Thai delicacies! No happy ending here, and 250 baht for a body massage, ouch, they are strong these old girls!!! After walking around, sit and watch the entertainment, and pay 10 baht to dance with one of the surprisingly appealing girls. A katoey for Gonzo too..... Chang on tap in 3 foot high dispensers delivered by a chunky chang like girl. Where are the pretty long legged Leo girls in short skirts? And if driving in Pattaya doesn't do it for you, there were bumper cars too!

My Mrs reported that right turn off Suk onto Klang was closed off Saturday. Police watching things. I confirmed that on Sunday, the Suk/Klang lights were off so right out of Klang and in, both 'not available'. Although quite early Sunday I was able to make a right turn off Suk, somewhat riskily, I used a truck as cover. Soi Siam Country Club is still 2 way and the lights are operational again, so a right turn onto Sukhumvit there to head north possible.... unlike last week... I wish they would at least be consistent but one can't know from one day to the next what is open or closed off! Returning Northbound on Suk I thought the Klang junction would be easy with the lights being off, but no, the Soi Siam Country Club lights had taken over as the main impediment, adding to reduced lanes and a gang of idiots on bikes deciding that was a good spot to regroup into a convoy, as they are scared to ride on their own. Northbound Sukjumvit. Soi Siam CC Open. . Southbound Sukhumvit. Klang closed, sort of.