May all your troubles just float away.......
I always float my Kratong at the Wat on South Pattaya Road and the place is generally pretty busy, with 'farang' in a clear minority. This venue has one stand out feature for me. You see more talent here during Loy Kratong than Walking Street in high season. Okay, much of it is with 'teerak' but it doesn't stop you from looking and it certainly doesn't stop the more opportunistic young ladies from acknowledging your interest. Sad, I know but as much as I enjoy Loy Kratong, I just can't limit myself to pure thoughts......
I'm heading there right now which explains the earlier than usual, and shorter than usual, post. Have a great evening wherever you may be.
Sierra Tangos
- Immigration announces new requirements for retirement visa - applicants using visa application form TM 7 have to enclose their passport, a 4 x 6 cm photograph, 1,900 baht fee, proof of income (certificate of bank deposit and bank book savings account, or a fixed account for at least the last three months), and proof of an appropriate amount of money from abroad through the bank in a certain period of time, such as a certificate of transfer from abroad or copy of a banking transfer order.
The authorities reserve the right to ask for any additional necessary documents in the event of requiring a copy of an ATM and credit card statement, a bank statement, a bank book, and a certificate of pension from the embassy in the event the source of such an amount cannot be checked.
Regulations for taking into consideration a foreign applicant’s extension for staying in Thailand require that the foreigner be more than 50 years old, and not forbidden to enter into the kingdom. The foreigner must have financial proof of a deposited amount of no less than 800,000 baht, or a monthly income of no less than 65,000 baht, or an annual income of no less than 800,000 baht in total. For more information please visit www.immigration.go.th [via Pattaya Mail]
- For 36 years, Michael Parkinson has been a near-permanent fixture on TV but not for much longer, because last night Michael Parkinson recorded his last ever celebrity interviews before fades away into a retirement of autobiography-writing and complaining about how rude young people are. And it's even been reported that professional northerner Michael Parkinson even got a bit teary-eyed during the filming of his last show. At the very end of filming, Michael Parkinson is reported to have welled up while telling the audience:
“I was told to pick a wish list and I put down these names and every single one of them is here… Over the years it has been a privilege to meet some of the most intelligent and interesting people. It has always been a great joy and I shall miss it.”
And this wish list of perfect Parkinson interviewees included Billy Connolly, Michael Caine, David Attenborough, Judi Dench, Dame Edna, David Beckham, Jamie Cullum and Peter Kay, with Dench apparently singing an amusing song about Meg Ryan to the host and Kay dressing him up as a lollipop man.
The final Parkinson - actually the penultimate Parkinson, since there's also a one-off lifetime retrospective episode to come - will be broadcast on December 15 [via Heckler Spray]
- Validate your MP3 collection - most software mp3 players do not report playback errors which is not such a big problem most of the time. It could however become one when you copy the mp3 to a player, be it software or hardware, that does not play the file because it checked for those errors before playing the mp3.
MP3val checks your mp3 collection for mpeg frame consistency and several other possible issues like the length of the stored VBR header. It is possible to load the entire mp3 collection into MP3val and let the software check all of the mp3 files at once. It does that really fast and either reports a Problem or OK.
The problem is mentioned once you click on the line of the mp3 file in question. A total of 16 different problems can be found by MP3val and it just takes a click of the button to fix all of them. Every fourth mp3 on my computer had a problem which I did fix automatically with the application.
MP3val creates backup files of every mp3 that is fixed by it in case that this process does not complete or deletes information in the file that the user did not want to delete. [via gHacks]
- Luana Lani Asian web cam cutie
- Here are 12 of the finest (unintentional) double-entendres ever aired on British TV and radio:
1. Pat Glenn, weightlifting commentator "And this is Gregoriava from Bulgaria. I saw her snatch this morning and it was amazing!"
2. New Zealand Rugby Commentator "Andrew Mehrtens loves it when Daryl Gibson comes inside of him."
3. Ted Walsh - Horse Racing Commentator : "This is really a lovely horse. I once rode her mother."
4. Harry Carpenter at the Oxford-Cambridge boat race 1977 "Ah, isn't that nice. The wife of the Cambridge President is kissing the cox of the Oxford crew."
5. US PGA Commentator - "One of the reasons Arnie [Arnold Palmer] is playing so well is that, before each tee shot, his wife takes out his balls and kisses them ..... Oh my god!! What have I just said??"
6. Carenza Lewis about finding food in the Middle Ages on 'Time Team Live' said: "You'd eat beaver if you could get it."
7. A female news anchor who, the day after it was supposed to have snowed and didn't, turned to the weatherman and asked, "So Bob, where's that eight inches you promised me last night?" Not
only did HE have to leave the set, but half the crew did too, because they were laughing so hard!
8. Steve Ryder covering the US Masters: "Ballesteros felt much better today after a 69 yesterday."
9. Clair Frisby talking about a jumbo hot dog on Look North said: "There's nothing like a big hot sausage inside you on a cold night like this."
10 Mike Hallett discussing missed snooker shots on Sky Sports "Stephen Hendry jumps on Steve Davis's misses every chance he gets."
11. Michael Buerk on watching Phillipa Forrester cuddle up to a male astronomer for warmth during BBC1's UK eclipse coverage remarked: "They seem cold out there, they're rubbing each other and he's only come in his shorts."
12. Ken Brown commentating on golfer Nick Faldo and his caddie Fanny Sunneson lining-up shots at the Scottish Open: "Some weeks Nick likes to use Fanny, other weeks he prefers to do it by himself."
- England are going to change their shirt emblem. The Three lions will be replaced by three tampons to represent the worst ****ing period they have ever had.
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