Good one from Sunday Funnies

Sawadee Khrap

A 10 year old Irish boy stands crying at the side of the road. a man passing by asks ‘What’s wrong, lad?’

The boy says ‘Me ma died this morning’

‘Oh be jaysus,’ the man says. ‘Do you want me to call Father O’Riley for you?’

The boy replies, ‘No tanks mister, sex is the last ting on my mind at the moment.’  

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Pattaya’s best Masseur

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Let me introduce you to “Lek” – I believe the best masseur in Pattaya I have met so far, actually I have him come every week to my condo. 

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You can find him at “The Blue House” on Soi Day/Night behind Tukcom.  or for a private massage at your Condo call him at  089 043 8939. 

He’s a little shy but promised to pose for some more erotic images  – stay tuned.

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Building the Caribbean – watching it from my Condo

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Using Google Earth for the area image and Photoshop to impress the Grande Caribbean Pattaya Facilities drawing – I placed a red sight line from my condo to the construction area.  This is what you are seeing in the photos about the crane and others which have been posted following the construction.  Check out their website for full details about the new complex.   As we approach final construction I will get some ground level shots of the facilities.

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Scary Job – you’d never catch me out there

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I was watching and photographing as they installed another crane in the building site for the new   Grand Caribbean Condo Resort – Pattaya _MG_4398_MG_4447


Take a close look at the new small crane on the middle left of the photos.  That’s the one they were putting up today and with a storm brewing.  In the second image you can see one of the guys who was installing it – way out on the edge of the arm, two others were crawling around the center mast.  And I was astounded that he had no harness, secure rope or safety equipment, and was barefoot to boot,    I suppose that would be better than flip-flops.  Here’s the close-up as he was walking back in.  Unbelievable

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You’d sure as hell never see this in the States – the inspector and Unions would have a shit fit.   But alas, that’s working in Thailand.

Glad I’m retired.

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"All at Sea" – Pattaya Players – Venue

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pp131122-383x512 Went to this show “All at Sea” last night – a very entertaining, audience participating, Cinderella-Blackbeard story presented at the Venue.   II t was a lot of fun and very engaging.  If you’re here in Pattaya now, make sure you catch one of the other performances. 

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New format for Gallery Slideshows

Sawadee Khrap

This is the new Slideshow HTML Gallery format.   I believe it will show up better on mobiles and iPads -  At least I hope so.  Please comment if it is not working for your device.   Images are random ones posted before for something to use in testing. I am also going to test including videos to Gallerys. vi


Loy Krathong 2013 Jomtien – Boy O Boy was I wrong

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Boy-O-Boy, was I wrong – I just had breakfast with a friend visiting from Chiang Mai and his description of Loy Krathong at Jomtien Beach was the exact opposite of what I expected.   He, Kevin, said that this proved to be the best Loy Krathong he has ever attended since moving to Thailand – Wow – – and I stayed home and got no photos.  Damn ‘it,  I shouldn’t be so pre-judgmental and lazy.  -  just go  – if it’s bad,  don’t post  – if it’s good  then I have the images.   I hope I can learn this lesson if I want to become a true photographer.

CaptureI also missed the “Miss Mimosa” pageant held on Loy Krathong night – some lovely  girls  were there. Winner Ms. Nong Nut got 100,000 Baht.   Here’s a write up and video from “Pattaya People”.

I’m getting sloppy – sorry.

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A little thunderstorm in Pattaya

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_MG_2890-EditOn the 14th we had a little thunderstorm, quite spectacular actually, I tried to catch the fury but most of the images were completely over-exposed because the lightning was so close that the radiant light was just too strong and over-powered the camera.  I did manage a couple of good images at the tail end of the storm when it was well over Chonburi to the north.  That’s about 30 Km away.   This is a composite of those images.

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Happy Loy Krathong or Yi Peng in the North

Sawadee Khrap

“Loi Krathong  takes place on the evening of the full moon of the 12th month in the traditional and they do this all evening on the 12th month Thai lunar calendar. In the western calendar this usually falls in November.”  This year Nov, 17th,  2013.

This year I’m staying home and not going to celebrate at the beach – I really miss the pageantry in Chiang Mai and the floating the krathongs on the Ping river.  It was always a lot of fun and great crowds. But this year I’m not ready to brave the flood of mostly Russian tourist that will be flocking to Jomtien Beach – not knowing what it is all about  – just making a lot of noise.   Much different that Chiang Mai which is almost all Thais.

But for good news, I just got a absolutely wonderful oil massage, best I’ve had since ‘Khun Pea’  in Chiang Mai.  Khun Lek came to my condo and gave me a superior 90 min Oil massage – and we have set a repeating date for the future.  He has also agreed to model for some photos – and I will be posting his mobile number and contact information shortly.  Very handsome young man with a super figure and smile – stay tuned for some great images and how you can contact him for a great massage.

AGAIN:      Happy Loy Krathong,  – Yi Peng.

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iSwifter Browser for the iPad – view Flash content

Sawadee Khrap

I just heard some disturbing news, at least to me.  The Apple products, iPad, iPhone, and iPod will not work with  Adobe products.  Not owning any Apple products, I have never thought about this problem and just set my blog up with slideshows made with Lightroom using Adobe Flash.  Most of my Model and other posts have slideshows, over 8,000 images on the Blog, all  in Flash Slideshows.

iSwifterMaybe iSwifter  can come to the rescue – it’s free and states that it can show Adobe Flash on the iPad – for now maybe this would work.   Since I don’t have a iPad I can’t  check it out.   It would be almost impossible for me to convert the old slideshows to another format. 

I am going to redesign my slideshows to eliminate Flash – from checking the web, I think Adobe is or has pulled the Flash Player from Google Play store and intends to go to HTML5 for mobile platforms rather than Flash  – more research if I want my Blog to be readable by all -  Shit, problem, problems, problems.

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My thought for Today

Sawadee Khrap

“Neither do I condemn you. Go and live in sin no more. ”  Jesus told the lady –

“The final judgment on the world contains no condemnation. For it sees the world as totally forgiven, without sin and wholly purposeless.  Without a cause , and now without a function in Christ’s sight, it merely slips away to nothingness.  There it was born, and there it ends as well.  And all the figures in the dream in which the world began go with it.  Bodies now are useless, and will therefore fade away, because the Son of God is limitless.”

©ACIM. Lesson 331  #10  What is the last Judgment ?

To all those that condemn certain lifestyles or any other perceived sins of this world,  Jesus did lead the way.

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