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You can and will be attacked for any post on PattayaTalk.

It's was a joke. Shut up and laugh.

Decent group of ladies. I see more than one that is doable. See ya in August/September. Mike, TheSimulatorGuy.

Take eight or ten pictures and then put the card in a reader, or plug the camera into the computer using the usb cord. Find the average size of the pictures and divide 512 by that number and you should get a pretty close approximation of how may pictures will fit on the card. My Sony Cybershot 7.2 averages about 3 meg per picture on highest quality. I would recommend getting a one meg mem card and shooting at the highest quality the camera offers. There are many utilities that will resize a picture for posting but if you want to get a print made or crop a section of a picture you will need that extra data provided by the higher quality setting.

OK, that's one "accounted" for.

Try pattayasecrets.com/forum lots of good info on Secrets. Be aware that the board is owned and operated by Secrets.

With my midwestern accent it comes out pa tie uh. Most people I know say it pa tee ah.

The Nana Hotel has a nice restaurant just off the lobby. Not fancy but the food is good and inexpensive. The breakfast buffet is excellent, all you can eat for what works out to be about US $3.00.

Every girl I barfined from Secrets was able to operate the toilet seat with out any guidance from me.

Spent 14 days from November 18 to December 2. Had a ball. Stayed in Secrets Room 306 the whole time and was, by and large happy wirh the room. First the nitpicks. The music from the pussy show next door is clearly audible in the room but after the first night it faded into the backround. It's not like a DJ or Karaoke as it is a constant beat like machinery. By day three I no longer noticed it. The a/c is good but it points right at the head of the bed. Turning the bed ninety degrees would solve the problem nicely. The stairs are a bitch and make up the most serious problem. If you have bad knees you will have problems. Not insurmountable ones, just ask for the first floor. Now for the good stuff. Being a newly opened place the fit and finish is excellent. Everthing is still like new because, for all practical purposes, it is new. The bathroom is easily up to modern standards. No tub but a shower area that is easily up to social occasions. Good water pressure but the water does not get what I would call hot. Somewhere between tepid and warm. I would happily stay there again but will probably take my own advice and book a room that does not involve three flights of very steep stairs. Just to point out the silver lining of the cloud, if you have your lady of the night precede you up the stairs her butt is just about even with your nose. The bar and restraunt are the big draw and justifiably so. It is done in black and red and prooved to be an enjoyable place to spend time. The place will comfortably seat about 75 - 100. It was never that crowded while I was there and I always had pleanty of room to move about and never had to worry about losing my seat at the bar if I went to the bathroom. The DJ station. The daytime bartender plays DJ during the day. Night time has a full time DJ. The music was always at a comfortable level and consisted of mostly pop rock. The food, as others have commented, is good. I had the cheeseburger several times but I also liked the chicken and cashew plate. Be forewarned, if you have breakfast there, breakfast #2 is enough food to feed a small army. Silly me, I ordered it thinking you have a choice of the items listed. No, it comes with all of them. The ladies are a good mix of body types and sizes. There are small, petite girls and a couple of slightly chubby ones. Not a complaint as I took one of the "slightly chubby" ones and was well pleased. Several of the girls are quite pretty but I can't honestly say any of them were stunners. In the first five days I pulled five different girls from Secrets and I was well satisfied with all of them. Not only was there zero drama, a couple of them helped me find a lady for the next night. There is truely no pressure for drinks either. If a lady sets down next to you who is not to your liking simply chat with her for a few minutes and when she realises you are not going to buy her a drink she simply excuses herself and moves on. Again, no drama and no explainations required. At least that was my experience, YMMV. I spent the majority of nights with Secrets girls but I did venture out on a few occasions. Two ladies from Lennie's and one from Mulphy's Rock House. Got to meet quite a few board members while I was there. I attended two of the Sunday get togethers and chatted with soi7 several times. Met up with him on one of his walks and saw a bit of the city from afoot. He was kind enough not to laugh when I confessed I could not find the Blues Factory after two nights of looking. When he showed me where it is I found I had walked right past it several times without seeing it. The Blues Machine turned out to be well worth the effort and I returned several times. All in all an excellent vacation. This was my second trip to Pattaya. I have been to Bangkok four times and now Pattaya twice and find them both enjoyable. Two completely different attmospheres

I'm stuck here in Korea. Give your lady my best. Happy Birthday and Happy New Year.

Of course the girls set their own prices. The bar sets the bar fine, the rest is between you and her.

Won't be able to take you up on your offer till later in the year but I'll be there.

Had the same problem with a room on the sixth floor. The room itself was great but the bass from the disco was a bitch.

The half dozen trips I made to the bathroom in The Blues Factory the caretaker did not make any attempt to molest me and in fact did not speak to me. He was making up trays of wash clothes for customers. The bathrooms were clean and well kept so I really didn't have a problem with the 10b "tip". From what you describe he probably deserves more.

meh

They're special.

11am to noon or there abouts. Boom sing then rest a bit. Boom sing a second time. Sleep then one more time before leaving. The clock starts when you pay bar, not when you get to the room.

I personaly would not use Ghost for periodic backups, there are better options. Where Ghost shines is the ability to make a bit perfect copy of your disk. For example when you buy a new computer and get it set initially the way you want it with all your programs installed and settings as you want them. Ghost it and if your hard drive goes south you can bring the system back to it's pristine state in minimum time. A lot of people do this once a year anyway, even if everything is working. That way only your data files need to be backed up on a regular basis. If you keep them in a separate partition you can backup just the changed files on a regular basis. There are literally dozens of utilities to do this or you can roll your own with dos commands from the command line.

I beg to differ. I have used it (xcopy) for exactly this purpose. If you know what extensions you want copied it will move only files with those extension. It will even create the directory structure if you use the correct switches. It's a very handy command once you play with it a bit. Not sure about Ghost as I have not used it. I seem to remember it will back up only the files you tell it to.

When you buy the laptop it will come with windows on it. Reinstalling your programs from scratch is probably better anyway so the only thing you need to worry about is your data files. Your website runs inside your browser. You will need any files (pictures, scripts, etc) that the site needs to run to be available on the hard drive which may entail some editing of the html code to make sure all your links lead to the correct location. Office files can be read by many different programs now so you may not even need to install Windows Office unless you have some macros installed that you just can't live without. If you know how to use the command line the xcopy command can be very usefull for simpleminded backups and it is included with Windows. The external usb drive is an excellent suggestion. Buy the kit and simply copy your data files.

A keylogger will still read your keystrokes even using a thumb drive. On a secure computer, preferably your own, download and install a password reminder onto the thumbdrive. Visit all the sites you normally do that require passwords and when the password reminder asks to remember them click yes. Now when you visit your bank site for instance you will not have to type the password, the program will fill in the password line and cover it with asterisks. Click ok and you are in. This way even if they take a screen shot they cannot get the password. Still could be a problem if the screen shows any info that could lead to you. Most professional financial sites are pretty carefull about not showing confidential data, but they have to show some or they are of no use. Also, if you are transfering money between accounts or some such you are going to have to type, and the logger will record the keystrokes. If your email has confidential data and is recorded by a screen shot you could still be compromised. If you can manage it, take your own laptop with a good firewall and virus checker.

poster on another board said the drivers were quoting a bit less than 1100 at the taxi stand. that included tolls

How long does it take to get to the US Embassy in Bangkok from the Nana Hotel by taxi ?? Is there usually a long line to get in ?? I need to get some pages added and that would be a convenient time to do it.