General Reports

[Boater Boy]

Dear fellow mongerers,

I am planning my next years trips and hope to start in February. I have trolled the net, however cannot seem to find any links to public hlidays.

Can anyone assist here please as I want to ensure that I can enjoy the benefits of BKK to the full. I guess I need to miss public holidays as I hear the ladies go back home for these events.

Just a link to a web site if there is one.

Thanks,

BB

Wha kind of a dummy am I? No please do not answer.

Jsut found the link on the forum.

Deeply reb Boater Boy

[Boater Boy]

Dear fellow mongerers,

I am planning my next years trips and hope to start in February. I have trolled the net, however cannot seem to find any links to public hlidays.

Can anyone assist here please as I want to ensure that I can enjoy the benefits of BKK to the full. I guess I need to miss public holidays as I hear the ladies go back home for these events.

Just a link to a web site if there is one.

Thanks,

BB

[Friar Tuck]

I am planning on taking a 2 week or so trip to Thailand in a few months. While I am there I thought it might be nice to shoot over to Angeles City for a few days while I am there. What would be the most cost-efficient way to do this? Should I try to book the flight (BKK to MNL or BKK to CRK) from the US or from Thailand?

A quick internet search shows me flights from BKK to CRK for a 4 day trip at over $2000 with at least one stop and around $550 direct to MNL. I have heard that cheap flights can be found between these two locations but I cannot find them. Any advice? Note this question will also be posted in the Philippines forum.

Hi Ed,

Just checked Air Philippines site, BKK-Mnl return for 4200Baht + taxes. Seems like a deal, depending on your travel dates. Ok, you still have to get to AC, easy enough though.

Always seeing cheap deals in agents around Soi's 5 & 7. The missus and I saw a sandwich board in Pratunam last Monday with crazy prices via Air Asia to similar locations. My gut feel is shop around once you arrive, always last minute cheap deals available to fill seats.

Have a friend in AC at present, the sod is sending me pics of little angels day and night! As my missus is not P4P, she is not impressed by this. .

Tuck

[Edward M]

I am planning on taking a 2 week or so trip to Thailand in a few months. While I am there I thought it might be nice to shoot over to Angeles City for a few days while I am there. What would be the most cost-efficient way to do this? Should I try to book the flight (BKK to MNL or BKK to CRK) from the US or from Thailand?

A quick internet search shows me flights from BKK to CRK for a 4 day trip at over $2000 with at least one stop and around $550 direct to MNL. I have heard that cheap flights can be found between these two locations but I cannot find them. Any advice? Note this question will also be posted in the Philippines forum.

[Kuratla]

Hey people, what does "flying a kite" mean in Thai?

"Fly a kite" --> "Chok wow". It is definitely a slang term for male masterbation. No doubt about it.

Perhaps it has other meanings as well but I don't know them.

[Tommylove]

Hey people, what does "flying a kite" mean in Thai?

In some random post out there, I saw this "This may sound like total rubbish but I assure you it's 100% true. Many many many many many moons ago when I first came to the LOS for a holiday I met in a bar in Cowboy a girl whose name I no longer care to remember. I spent about a month with her, gave her 14,000 baht, told her I loved her at the airport and almost started crying when it was time to go. It bothers me not to admit this, because I'm sure most of you at one time or another have probably done the same. Anyway, my story. At a fine hotel in Hua Hin she performed on me an action which is known locally as "flying the kite" and out of the blue had an amazingly intense orgasm."

I thought this meant masturbation, but this post seems to suggest it means something else?

[Aqua26]

Has anyone had experience using the adult friend finder or friend finder websites to hook up with FLs? I wonder if the listing are for real. It costs money to send a message so is it worth while?

I have started to try this avenue in preparation for my visit in a few days. Some of the girls who replied are pros, some are looking for caucasian guys, which i am not. Will report any success here.
cheers.

[Syzygies]

go to times square. across from robinson. there is an internet cafe there w/good speeds.

usb plugs can be good but depends on the carrier and signal strength.

thanks for that, duni.
i am going to try a friends ais air card first.
that way i can see if the card in usb might be adequate.
but your suggestion will be a great backup if the air card is giving too many problems.

[Further]

Try a polypropylene condom.

I meant non-latex condom.

I'm unable to find where Durex states what the original Avanti was made of. Some sources (and my memory) say polypropylene, others say polyurethane. The new Avantis are made from polyurethane and polyisoprene, though they don't state if it's a mixture or if the Ultima is made from one material and the Bare from the other.

[Further]

Anyone can recommend a good condom, ie., one that allows you to actually feel you are having sex? Needs to be larger than average as the ones I've tried squeeze so hard my dick goes numb.

Try a polypropylene condom.

Durex Avanti were made of polyprop. Didn't stretch much, so there was no squeeze factor on my larger than average. Never complained about 'not being able to feel a thing' when using these. At times the bottom of the condom creeped up the shaft, required a tug back down. That's a trade off I was gladly willing to live with.

But then Durex discontinued the Avanti and replaced it with the Avanti Bare and Avanti Ultima. New ones are also made out of polypro. I'll try the new ones after I've exhausted my stockpile of Avantis. I haven't seen or heard of any Avanti models sold in Thailand, didn't see any when in Malaysia. I expect I'll have to buy them on the net and not complain to much about shipping cost.

[Lord Farquard]

In summary... which I have heard before there is currently no 3G operation in Thailand?

LBM

3G is available in Chaing Mai and in select areas around shopping malls (MBK) in Bangkok, and at the airport, but the service is spotty at best, it is still in a "test" phase. That is what I know at this point, my air card is 3G, but I still am using the edge network, as I am not near BKK or CM, but I will be in BKK in a few weeks, and I will see what I connect with. I understand that is is running on 2100mhz and there was some testing on 900mhz. Please let us know if you have any additional information.
But as in all things in LOS, it could change tomorrow

[LittleBigMan]

bangkok has 3g in a few select areas, most of the three carriers have upgraded their edge nework to edge+ (whatever that is)
i use an air card with dtac and have not had any troubles, but i do not try to download video, just sending some small files and skype.


fyi
attached is a interesting tale of woe about the one persons problems with his iphone

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciyhy4p19-q

just a f.y.i taken from the pattaya people newspaper november 15-30.

after a long delay, the tot has finally decided to speed up the process for the 3g bidding, saying the first phrase will be in service by the second quarter of next year.
the tot board will grant a permit to only one lowest bidder to operate the third-generation telecomunication service (3g) for the whole country. the tot said the system was very complicated and should, therefore, be operated by only one company, which will be required to use the same equipment throughout the nation.
ais and true move have already sent their subsidaiary companies to join the tot in operating the 3g service. the two companies are acting as mobile virtural network operator (mvno) for the time being.
the terms of reference (tor) have been completed and are now under the attorney general offices consideration. the bidding wil take place in december and the name of the winning company wil be announced in january of next year.
the service is planned in three phases. the first phase, in which the service will be provided in important areas, is expected to be available in the 2nd quarter of 2011. serviced in the second phase will be provided for bangkok, four surrounding provinces, and 13 other economic provinces; it should be in operation within 180 days after the first phase has been in place.
the third and final stages, which will cover the whole country, will be completed within 4 years. the tot expect that the 3g service will be able to support up to seven million numbers.

in summary... which i have heard before there is currently no 3g operation in thailand?

lbm

[Lord Farquard]

quote:
originally posted by duniawala
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usb plugs can be good but depends on the carrier and signal strength.



skip the usb plugs in thailand. except in a couple of rare exceptions, the country hasn't even managed to get 3g speeds yet, let alone lte or 4g. so the usb cards usually run on edge, which gives you 100kbps at best (that's 540 times slower than the 54 mbps the original poster referred to...)

bangkok has 3g in a few select areas, most of the three carriers have upgraded their edge nework to edge+ (whatever that is)
i use an air card with dtac and have not had any troubles, but i do not try to download video, just sending some small files and skype.


fyi
attached is a interesting tale of woe about the one persons problems with his iphone

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciyhy4p19-q

[Jed Wordsmith]

quote:
originally posted by duniawala
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usb plugs can be good but depends on the carrier and signal strength.

..and on the cost!

skip the usb plugs in thailand. except in a couple of rare exceptions, the country hasn't even managed to get 3g speeds yet, let alone lte or 4g. so the usb cards usually run on edge, which gives you 100kbps at best (that's 540 times slower than the 54 mbps the original poster referred to...)

[BionicMan]

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USB plugs can be good but depends on the carrier and signal strength.

..and on the cost!