frostfire

Very nice looking condo. Good luck with the ad.

Been watching this thread but not put my 2 cents in yet.... but will do now. My first experience at lone star was terrible... steak ordered medium rare and came out well done and more like beef jerky than steak. The onion rings were ok... but not great, and the potato skins were just plain nasty - obviously cooked much earlier in the day (many many hours) and microwaved before they were served. At the time I could not get internet on my phone so I didnt even check in, but related the report to a few friends here... Now... that all said, after reading Evil's review I am willing to give them another go... but no more after that if it turns out bad again. I will say that there was a good flavor to the meat... even tho it was way too cooked. If they had cooked it properly it would have been a excellent steak. Too bad they fucked it up beyond repair lol I will give it a shot again some afternoon in the next couple weeks and update this report... sounds like one of the shifts just totally blows and one may be good... need to figure out which is which.

So... me and a couple fellow BMs decided to swing by and take a look at this place today (heaven, not the yard bowling or whatever that is place). It is very very very much NOT heaven... or even remotely heavenly. First, there was 2 girls sitting when we came in. I think one of them may have been young enough to not have been my mother, but I kinda doubt it. After some yelling about 6-7 more came down, all about the same age group and varying degrees of fugly. Then... the prices. Originally he shows prices of 2000bt and 2500bt... but after some discussion in Chinese (thanks to Gaijin) he figured out that we were not brought by anyone (no commission) and dropped the price by 500bt (1500/2000). We got to this point about the same time as the 6-7 other fuglies got sat down. I tried not to look. In short - there is a VERY good reason this place is not mentioned here or anywhere else on the net... its not worth a visit. No idea how they make money.

Hi Guys, A good friend and fellow BM here is finally making the plunge and moving over here. He will start the process of getting his retirement visa this month, and asked me for input. I had a great contact in the USA for issues like this, but since I moved here she has retired and is no longer available :/ So... how do you guys that have done this recommend he go about it? Do it himself, or hire a lawyer... come over here first on a tourist visa or get the O visa before leaving the USA (as far as I know he is supposed to get the retirement visa in the USA before coming here). Any and all input from people that have been thru this process in the USA is greatly appreciated! Frosty

1 or 2 of them look doable... but the last 2 times I was there I saw no girls worth even talking to. The promotion is a good idea... but a better idea would be to get more girls and let word of that trickle out for better results. For me, right now there is absolutely no reason for me to go there instead of Kinneree, where there are 30-60 girls at any given time, with many of them doable.

Not sure farman, but I have used them several times now and am very happy with them. I highly recommend them - They have been on time (within 5 minutes) every time they have been here (which has been several times now), and no problems at all.

If you still have it, gimme a shout. Just building the 3rd PC for my house and could use it as a second monitor for that. Small, but its for guests lol. :) Just shoot me a PM if you don't have my number.

Its only one... I forget his name, but he visits cherry bar from time to time. Adam knows him.

Count me in. Cant think of a better reason to visit :)

Ya they have those several times a week on Soi Khow Noi, but have never once even stopped me... If I have my visor down they wave at me, but when I open it they pass me thru. Not sure if they recognize me or maybe they are just not looking for falangs.

Thats exactly right 99% of the time. I think I have had to show my passport page once, and that was on Suk road in najomtien, just before the turnoff to Khow Chee Chan. That was a random police stop, but since everything was in order he let me go with no fine. All the rest of the times either I was not asked for anything at all (usual), or only for the tax paper and international drivers license (which expired in 2009 but they have never noticed). Seeing both of those and without even reading either, they usually just pass me thru.

I keep a copy of my passport in my motorbike with my international license and other paperwork, but I have not carried even a copy of it around with me in 3 years. In the last 4 I have never been asked for it except during minor traffic stops when I am with my motorbike... I have been present during police raids of clubs, after fights, etc but never been asked.

125 baht is on the high end of "normal" for walking street now. 120 is the norm for the majority of the gogos... If I remember right it was 140... same as bkk... but after some feedback he dropped the price. If he has a good lineup, its worth it IMHO.

I have had this happen 3 times so far since I have lived here, and didnt get my card back from any of them. First they require your passport.. no problem there. BUt they (or at least the 2 banks I had issues with - 2 cards from 1 and 1 from the other) not only required that the signature on the card be there, they required that they be able to read it and that it matched the name on the card as well as the passport. On my first card the signature had worn off - was gone... the second and third times the signature was there, but nobody can read my signature - its a bit of a scrawl, and they said since they could not read it they could not return my card, even tho the name on it was the same as on my passport... er well one one of them it was, the other was a business card with my business name. In short, do not expect to get the card back. In all cases I requested that the card be physically destroyed, which they did. Takes 3+ weeks to get a new card

Yes MM, it is. My bank daily limit is only $400, so I can't take advantage of that.. but wish I could, considering the 150 baht per transaction fee.

Just noticed the yellow one on Soi Khow Noi today gives the option to take 30k... I thought the physical limit was 20 bills (20k) at all ATMs... but apparently they are getting newer hardware.

I agree. In a car, assuming he drove a car, it would take more than a hour of driving to get to your place and back if traffic was moderate. If heavy, it could take longer. Can't fault him for that, especially if he was having a busy day.

Agreed. I dont know of a single instance where he has changed what someone said, with the exception of fixing links, etc. I guess I could imagine a couple cases where he *would* and rightfully, but I dont think they have happened here.

All moderators can do that...

I use one thats on Naklua road just past the Windmill plaza.. forget the name, but its a big place and sign says they have XRAY (one of the only clinics I know of that has their own Xray machine). The Doc is very good... good english, and very knowledgeable. Have gone there a dozen times in the last 5 years... usually between 200-500 baht (including medicine), and even when I needed 3 shots it was only 600 baht. Very reasonable, and always professional.

Its secure... but not foolproof. For instance, if the computer you are using has a keylogger installed on it, your password can be seen easily by whomever gets the keylogger reports. What a secure connection means is that the information transferred over the internet (once it leaves your computer) is secure. The average encryption strength right now is 128 bit, and at 128 bit it would take a CRAY supercomputer over 100 trillion years to brute force the key used to encrypt the data. Even using a distributed brute force system with thousands of computer (like SETI@HOME uses), would take hundreds of years. To put it very plainly, if the information you are sending is not compromised before its sent (like with a keylogger), it is very secure. I had to re-new one of my secure certificates about a month ago, and the smallest key size they would accept was 2048 bit... so security is becoming even stronger... am sure most banks and stores will be updating to that before too long. You should also know that the more powerful the encryption (e.g. the longer the encryption key) the slower the website will be, since the "data" sent gets larger and larger with the increased size of the encryption key... which is one reason most websites still opt for 128 bit even tho you can get up to 4096 bit with most major certificate suppliers right now.

Never been stopped... and I had expected to when I moved to Thailand. I had 4 suitcases and 2 computer monitors in their cardboard boxes, and even with a trolly had a hell of a time packing it all myself. Still tho, not a blink as I went thru the "nothing to declare" line. In all the times I have come thru I dont think I have seen anyone stopped at the declare line for anything...

You can stream a good video/audio stream with a 1mb/s connection if that connection has a good path (low latency) to wherever the server is that is hosting the streamed content.

My first house here in Thailand I had the Electric and water in my name... only the internet was in the owners name (that was a nightmare). My current place has the utilities in the owners name.. in both cases I paid first + last + deposit. In the first home, which was Thai owned, I had to raise hell to get my deposit back. Threatened to go to the police before they agreed to hand it over. The place was pristine - even had a cleaning crew go in and do a deep clean before moving out. They just simply didnt want to give it back. You just cannot trust Thai landlords... keep that in mind when laying down a big deposit.

That happened to me once, also in Tesco, south pattaya. I put my basket on the counter and walked out. She tried saying something (in thai), but I ignored her. That might have changed her opinions a bit, but somehow I doubt it. They want to be like that, they wont get money from me... period.