Made it to the soft opening of Club Blu and it is difficult to report on the bar or it's staff as it was difficult to see either for the customers. It was standing room only from the get go.
From what I could see the bar has been fitted out to a high standard with electric blue neon and mirrors much in evidence. As suspected the bar has a bit of the Honey Pot about it with Coyote girls dancing in the windows to what I can best describe as 'dance' music. A long counter runs down the centre of the room for customers to sit and enjoy the view. With the large picture windows on all sides you get the feel of being in an open bar but with the added benefit of air conditioning.
A unique feature is the revolving spiral staircase to the upper floor. It's a strange sensation rotating as you go up the stairs and you have to wait for the top step of the revolving stairs to line up with the floor before you can get off. It's tricky going up and scary coming down. The upper floor is a lounge come pool room with the classiest ST rooms I've seen in Pattaya. My comments on the Mile High rooms at Insomnia Gentleman's Club are just as applicable here. If you or your partner are screamers then everybody in the lounge will share in your special moment.
Beer is competitively priced at 80 Baht for a Heineken which is will be okay for the bar's target market but possibly a bit rich for the Soi Buakhao regulars.
On the girlie front it looked as though the bars own staff were supplemented with a few 'temps' for the opening night. I'm sure it won't be long before the backers have Club Blu stocked out with top tottie.
Overall, a welcome addition to the Pattaya nightlife scene and a bar you should add to your hit list the next time you are in Pattaya.
Sierra Tangos
- There'll be no post on Sunday Feb 3. The next post will be late Monday, Feb 4, Thai time
- Inflation in January was at its highest level in 18 months, at 4.3 per cent year on year. This was mainly due to the increase in consumer goods prices, which drove prices up around the globe. [via The Nation]
- Pattaya City Hall are already holding meetings to discuss what actions to take in the event of water shortages in the hot season. I'm sure during the last shortages when the industrial zones on the Eastern Seaboard were affected, somebody important instructed the water authority to run pipes from rivers in the north to the eastern seaboard. Must have dreamt it.
- Stephen Cleary has written an interesting article in today's Nation about foreign journos and their propensity for sensational rather than factual stories when reporting on Thailand [The Nation]
- The Pattaya Players are a troupe of amateur thespians recently established in January of 2008. The organization was created to provide an artistically adventurous environment that attracts and excites diverse members of the Pattaya community by providing theatrical productions that entertain, inspire and inform.
Open auditions will take place on Wednesday, February 6th at 6:00 PM in the Lake Mabprachan area. The play titles and rehearsal schedules will be announced at the audition call. Backstage help, costuming and production support is also needed. For directions and more information, please e-mail pattayaplayers@gmail.com.
- With Chinese New Year holidays starting around Asia this week will Pattaya see another surge in visitors. Let's hope so.
- Firefox add-ons to manage your tab jam
Every Firefox user spends a lot of time dealing with tabs. Thus, improving the tabs directly adds to the browsing experience. You can make them better, faster, beautiful and lot less overwhelming. So here you go, 7 powerful add-ons to improve your tabbed browsing:
(1) Vertigo - This awesome extension moves your tab bar to the left side of the browser window and stacks tabs vertically. Highly recommended for people with 20 and above inch screens. You can add a splitter to resize the tab bar to any width you want.
(2) ColorfulTabs - Colors tabs into different colors and makes it easier to distinguish and navigate between multiple tabs. Simple yet very useful. Alternatively you may consider numbering the tabs.
(3) Tab Scope - Quickly preview tab contents by hovering your mouse cursor over tab. Preview window shows a mini version of the page and a bunch of navigation buttons (Back/Forward/Reload/Stop). Extremely convenient. Although, I wouldn’t recommend using together with Vertigo. Both of them are great addons, but they just don’t go well together. (Note: Tab Scope doesn’t work on Mac OS X.)
Highlights include:
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Real-time preview of tab contents.
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Scroll pages using a mouse wheel.
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Click links or buttons directly in preview.
(4) Tab Mix Plus - Extremely useful extension that adds lots new features to Firefox’s tab browsing capabilities. Some of the better features include undo closed tabs/windows, line tabs in multiple rows, show tabs at the bottom and crash recovery. (Needs some settings adjustments when used together with above mentioned Vertigo.)
(5) Faviconize Tab - This extension adds a “FaviconizeTab” option to the tab context menu. When it is clicked, the width of the tab becomes small up to the size of the favicon (tiny logo icon). When clicked again, the tab window is back to normal.
(6) PermaTabs - This can turn tabs of your choice into permanent tabs. Permanent tabs don’t have close option so can’t be closed accidentally. Even if you close you tabs accidentally they will reappear in the next Firefox startup. Tabs can be set to (and removed from) permanent mode via right click menu. (Again, may not work on Mac OS X.)
(7) FishEyeTabs - As the number of open tabs increases tabs get smaller and harder to distinguish. Enter Fisheye. It allows user to zoom tab labels by moving the mouse cursor over them.
[via MakeUseOf]
- Double Killer: Hunt down and remove duplicate files
If duplicate files are your resident pest, then DoubleKiller is your exterminator. This free program from Big Bang Enterprises (we're not making this stuff up!) will scan your computer or selected directory for duplicate files and allow you to easily remove them from your system.
If permanently deleting files makes your neck sweat, not to worry: DoubleKiller protects you from any mistaken or dumb deletions. First of all, DoubleKiller ensures the accuracy of duplicate files by checking the name, size, date, and CRC32-checksum of your files. You can also limit scans to particular masks and exclude files matching certain masks (by default, DoubleKiller excludes any .dll, .sys, .vxd, and .inf files).
Simple to use and easy to customize (not to mention free!), DoubleKiller is the ideal program to do your duplicate dirty work. Windows only. [via DownloadSquad]
- Jessica Canizales in black, sometime
- Sam Cooke's spread in Nuts
- Soon to be crispy critters - I can't effing believe this. The power extension is floating on a pair of flip flops !
- A Message from John Cleese (British comedian)
To: The citizens of the United States of America:
In light of your failure to nominate competent candidates for President of the USA and thus to govern yourselves, we hereby give notice of the revocation of your independence, effective immediately. Her Sovereign Majesty Queen Elizabeth II will resume monarchical duties over all states, commonwealths, and territories (except Kansas , which she does not fancy). Your new prime minister, Gordon Brown, will appoint a governor for America without the need for further elections. Congress and the Senate will be disbanded.
A questionnaire may be circulated next year to determine whether any of you noticed. To aid in the transition to a British Crown Dependency, the following rules are introduced with immediate effect:
You should look up "revocation" in the Oxford English Dictionary.
1. Then look up aluminium, and check the pronunciation guide. You will be amazed at just how wrongly you have been pronouncing it.
2. The letter 'U' will be reinstated in words such as 'favour' and 'neighbour.' Likewise, you will learn to spell 'doughnut' without skipping half the letters, and the suffix -ize will be replaced by the suffix -ise. Generally, you will be expected to raise your vocabulary to acceptable levels. (look up 'vocabulary').
3. Using the same twenty-seven words interspersed with filler noises such as "like" and "you know" is an unacceptable and inefficient form of communication. There is no such thing as US English. We will let Microsoft know on your behalf. The Microsoft spell- checker will be adjusted to take account of the reinstated letter 'u' and the elimination of -ize. You will relearn your original national anthem, God Save The Queen.
4. July 4th will no longer be celebrated as a holiday.
5. You will learn to resolve personal issues without using guns, lawyers, or therapists. The fact that you need so many lawyers and therapists shows that you're not adult enough to be independent. Guns should only be handled by adults. If you're not adult enough to sort things out without suing someone or speaking to a therapist then you're not grown up enough to handle a gun.
6. Therefore, you will no longer be allowed to own or carry anything more dangerous than a vegetable peeler. A permit will be required if you wish to carry a vegetable peeler in public.
7. All American cars are hereby banned. They are crap and this is for your own good. When we show you German cars, you will understand what we mean. Holden Monaro's are also approved.
8. All intersections will be replaced with roundabouts, and you will start driving on the left with immediate effect. At the same time, you will go metric with immediate effect and without the benefit of conversion tables. Both roundabouts and metrication will help you understand the British sense of humour.
9. The Former USA will adopt UK prices on petrol (which you have been calling gasoline)-roughly $8/US gallon. Get used to it.
10. You will learn to make real chips. Those things you call French fries are not real chips, and those things you insist on calling potato chips are properly called crisps. Real chips are thick cut, fried in animal fat, and dressed not with catsup but with vinegar.
11. The cold tasteless stuff you insist on calling beer is not actually beer at all. Henceforth, only proper British Bitter will be referred to as beer, and European brews of known and accepted provenance will be referred to as Lager. South African beer is also acceptable as they are pound for pound the greatest sporting Nation on earth and it can only be due to the beer. They are also part of British Commonwealth - see what it did for them. American brands will be referred to as Near-Frozen Gnat's Urine, so that all can be sold without risk of further confusion.
12. Hollywood will be required occasionally to cast English actors as good guys. Hollywood will also be required to cast English actors to play English characters. Watching Andie Macdowell attempt English dialogue in Four Weddings and a Funeral was an experience akin to having one's ears removed with a cheese grater.
13. You will cease playing American football. There is only one kind of proper football; you call it soccer. Those of you brave enough will, in time, be allowed to play rugby (which has some similarities to American football, but does not involve stopping for a rest every twenty seconds or wearing full kevlar body armour like a bunch of nancies). Don't try Rugby - the South Africans and Kiwis will thrash you, like they regularly thrash us.
14. Further, you will stop playing baseball. It is not reasonable to host an event called the World Series for a game which is not played outside of America. Since only 2.1% of you are aware that there is a world beyond your borders, your error is understandable. You will learn cricket, and we will let you face the South Africans first to take the sting out of their deliveries.
15. You must tell us who killed JFK. It's been driving us mad.
16. An internal revenue agent (i.e. tax collector) from Her Majesty's Government will be with you shortly to ensure the acquisition of all monies due (backdated to 1776).
17. Daily Tea Time begins promptly at 4 pm with proper cups, never mugs, with high quality biscuits (cookies) and cakes; strawberries in season. God save the Queen.
Only He can.
John Cleese
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