Sawadee Khrap

To be truthful I’m not really in the Christmas spirit this year.   No snow, and it is just a grand tourist shopping event here.  Tonight I sat in front of the computer and this is the best I could come up with.  Not depressed, just not into the festive mood.  But for all of you out there   MERRY CHRISTMAS and a HAPPY NEW YEAR.

There’s going to be lot of parties around Pattaya and shows for the holidays and I will try to record some shots or maybe a video – but no promises.

Sawadee Khrap

Just went to the “Venue Christmas Show” – little darker than usual and the new LED background display is really bright and causes some problems for the camera.  But still I think I got some good representative shots of all of the acts.    Always something.

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This is big slideshow – 307 photos

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Check this out this YouTube video.

http://www.youtube.com/v/F7pYHN9iC9I

Thanks Kevin this is something to be aware of:

Ciao

Sawadee Khrap

Haven’t posted lately and Kevin sent me this good story – so I thought I would share:

A guy is walking along Pattaya Beach and a fantastic-looking hooker catches his eye. He strikes up a conversation and eventually asks the hooker: "How much do you charge?"   The Hooker replies: "It starts at 1500 Baht for a hand-job."

The guy says: "At today's rates that's $50 dollars? For a hand-job? Holy crap! No hand-job is worth that kind of money!"   The hooker says: "Do you see that Bar on the corner?"   "Yes"   "Do you see the Bar about a block further down?"   "Yes"  "And beyond that, do you see that third Bar?"  "Yes"   "Well," says the hooker, smiling invitingly, "I own those and I own them because I give a hand-job that's worth 1500 Baht."

So the guy says, "What the hell? You only live once. I'll give it a try."  They retire to a nearby motel. A short time later, the guy is sitting on the bed realizing that he has just experienced the hand-job of a lifetime, worth every bit of $50. He is so amazed, he says, "I suppose a blow-job is $100 ?"

The hooker replies, "6,000 Baht."   "I wouldn't pay that for a blow-job!"  The hooker replies, "Step over here to the window, big boy. Do you see that Shopping Center just across the street? I own that building outright

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Usually I don’t want to bring any politics or like controversy into this blog – But I have always maintained that the only want to clean up this mess is to clean up Congress.   Thanks Jim for sending me this.

Subject: Warren Buffet - please read. Date: September 9, 2012 12:40:09 PM EDT

Warren Buffett, in a recent interview with CNBC, offers one of the best quotes about the debt ceiling:  "I could end the deficit in 5 minutes," he told CNBC. "You just Pass a law that says that anytime there is a deficit of more Than 3% of GDP, all sitting members of Congress are ineligible For re-election.

The 26th amendment (granting the right to vote for 18 year-olds)    Took only 3 months & 8 days to be ratified! Why? Simple!   The people demanded it. That was in 1971 - before computers, e-mail, Cell phones, etc.  Of the 27 amendments to the Constitution, seven (7) took one (1) year Or less to become the law of the land - all because of public pressure.

Warren Buffet is asking each addressee to forward this email to A minimum of twenty people on their address list; in turn ask Each of those