A Singaporean's guide to living in Thailand

[Froggy]

A Portuguese colony they were better off than Spore in the 60's but declined after independence in 70's due to protracted civil wars.
One of the poorest in Africa where you can find people peddling second socks and underwear at US 1 a piece in the market and little kids selling plastic bags, similar to NTUC @ US0.20/pce.

Fresh seafood aplenty and one can get them cheaper than the socks at the beach in the morning.
No skyscraper mostly colonial style buildings and you'll be surprised to find many roads named after Chinese leaders like Mao Tse Tung, Chou En Lai...and many others. Now I am not sure how much they have progress.

They treat Chinese like how Sinkies treat Angmo. Chinese is their saviour in rebuilding the infrastructure after the civil wars ended in the 90's.
Nice place to visit if you have the patience waiting for the waiter to return with the ketchup he went out to purchase.

Wow thanks for the short post on this country. Sounds very interesting to me. I like these old style undeveloped places. Will go read more.

 

[yinyang]

Paying price (for unrest) for drop in business, Thai Airways

http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/transport/405973/thai-blames-huge-losses-on-unrest

 

[Froggy]

Saw a funny stand alone shelf display yesterday



Notice condoms, lubricants and hong-yew, VICKS, Mopiko muscle oil together. What has these two things for to do with each other I wonder?

 

[Leongsam]

A few more shots on the lower floors

Soi tanniya

Renaissance hotel it's a really good hotel

Too much HDR. Tone it down a bit so it looks natural.

 

[Froggy]

Shiok sial, soto ayam kudus with tahu and tempeh, inside the soto only chicken strips and lots of towgay.

 

[Jah_rastafar_I]

Too much HDR. Tone it down a bit so it looks natural.

Yup I knew about it and am trying different software like photomatix which works with adobe Lightroom



I really like this picture here that i posted 2 pages ago.

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brahma statue at lebua state tower

 

[Froggy]

Hey guys, I'm into juicing these days so not much food pics from me. Just so you know.

 

[Leongsam]

Yup I knew about it and am trying different software like photomatix which works with adobe Lightroom

All HDR software does the same thing. The trick is to tweak the parameters so that you enhance the detail without making it obvious that the image went through HDR processing.

Try Topaz adjust.

 

[Jah_rastafar_I]

All HDR software does the same thing. The trick is to tweak the parameters so that you enhance the detail without making it obvious that the image went through HDR processing.

Try Topaz adjust.

Never heard of this software before. I have already installed photoshop and lightroom will check out this topaz adjust.

 

[yinyang]

Thought this piece was fair commentary on state of affairs in LOS. Who's running the country?

http://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/opinion/406831/is-thailand-a-failed-state

 

[Froggy]

Its bloody 2am now here in Bangkok and I just back from supermarket because I need to juice tomorrow morning

So this is what I bought



So even during midnight there is no bloody excuse.

 

[Froggy]

I normally post food photos here so for a change I post the staff at this restaurant. Food in Krua Makmai is always great just that I have not posted the service staff before so here you go (its a little dark and I was a little pissed from the half bottle Hennessy so please don't mind the lousy photo quality)

If you guys prefer more of these pics over food please let me know.

 

[Grago]

Joe I thought you into "juicing", what happen, buay tahan...... :p

 

[tonychat]

Joe I thought you into "juicing", what happen, buay tahan...... :p

This is also juicing.

 

[Leongsam]

Joe I thought you into "juicing", what happen, buay tahan...... :p

Yes the juices were flowing.

 

[Jah_rastafar_I]

As of now joe is in the land of the rising sun probably looking at some sushi chicks. Lucky guy.

 

[Leongsam]

As of now joe is in the land of the rising sun probably looking at some sushi chicks. Lucky guy.

Sushi with free toppings of Hep B and C, warts and herpes.

 

[Jah_rastafar_I]

Sushi with free toppings of Hep B and C, warts and herpes.

Your powers of observation are so good that you noticed this chick had them all.

 

[Froggy]

You can have cooked noodle in front of you at the TG lounge in Suvarnabhumbi Airport

 

[Stompiss]

The boots looked like going to drop, can I go and grab it for her?