English in Germany (it had to happen)

Sawadee Khrap –    Thanks Max for this update.

European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was the other possibility.

As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5- year phase-in plan that would become known as “Euro-English”.

In the first year, “s” will replace the soft “c”. Sertainly, this will make the sivil servants jump with joy.

The hard “c” will be dropped in favour of “k”. This should klear up konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.

There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the troublesome “ph” will be replaced with “f”. This will make words like fotograf 20% shorter.

In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.

Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling.

Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent “e” in the languag is disgrasful and it should go away.

By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing “th” with “z” and “w” with “v”.

During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary “o” kan be dropd from vords kontaining “ou” and after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.

Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.

Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze forst plas.

If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl.

Ciao

 

 

Wyoming State Troopers

Sawadee Khrap

WYOMING STATE TROOPERS

Gotta love then boys!!!!!

In most of the Northern States, there is a policy of checking on any stalled vehicle on the highway when the temperatures drop in the single digits or below.  One morning in March 2004 about 3 A.M. a Wyoming State Trooper responded to a call of a car off the sholder on the outside of the town of Casper

The Trooper located the car, with the engine still running, stuck in the deep snow along the side of the highway.  Pulling in behind it with his emergency lights on, the Officer walked to the driver’s door to find a man passed out behind the wheel and a near empty bottle of vodka in the seat beside him.

The Trooper tapped on the window and the driver woke up, seeing the rotating lights in his rear view mirror and the State Policeman standing next to his car, the man panicked.  He jerked the gearshift into drive and hit the gas. The car’s speedometer was showing 20–30–40 then 50 MPH but it was still stuck in the snow.

The Trooper, having a sense of humor, began running in place next to the speeding, but still stationary car.  The driver was totally freaked, thinking the Officer was actually keeping up with him.  This goes on for about 30 seconds when the Trooper yelled at the man ordering him to “PULL OVER!”.  The driver obeyed, turned the wheel, and stopped the engine.

Once out of the car the drunken driver asked about the Trooper’s special training and just how he could possibly run 50 MPH.  The man was arrested, still believing that a Trooper had outrun his car.

 

Ciao

 

Love Catcher

Sawadee Khrap

I was just going through some old photos and here’s a great shot I made LoveCatcherwhile visiting the “The Red Rose” motel in Chiang Rai last year.  I thought this was really funny but very appropriate for a ‘short time hotel’ as the Red was then. 

Now place has been completely redone and in my mind, nothing of its former glory. No longer touted as a short timer, It’s now a “family theme motel”, tame and not as exciting – unless you take your kids there, I’m sure they will enjoy it.   We liked it the first time we went but there were many choices to choose from for room themes – some adult in nature – times change, businesses need to cater to a different audience.

Nothing like telling it as it is – “Love Catcher”

Here the older post link to the former glory of the “Red Rose”

Ciao

 

We do make mistakes

Sawadee Khrap

A man was in a coma. he had been in it for months. Nurses were in his room giving him a bed bath. One of them was washing his private area and noticed that there was a slight response on the monitor whenever she touched him there.

They tried it again and sure enough, there was definite movement.

They went to his partner and explained what happened, telling him, ‘As crazy as this sounds, maybe a little ‘0ral sex’ will do  the trick & bring him out of the coma.’

The partner was skeptical, but they assured him that they would close the curtains for privacy.  The partner finally agreed and went into his spouse’s room. After a few minutes the guy’s monitor flat lined, no pulse, no heart rate. The nurses run back into the room. ‘What happened!?’ they cried.

The partner said,  ‘I’m not sure; maybe he choked.

NEVER ASSUME THAT EVERYONE UNDERSTAND.

 

Ciao

 

Medical Services in Chiang Mai

Sawadee Khrap

Nu was just at McCormick Hospital for his motorcycle accident and I have used Chiang Mai Ram 1 several times,  Here is a great list of Services for Chiang Mai.  but from what I am told by the locals is that: 

Maharaj Hospital  (Suan Dok Hospital)

should be the first place to go. 

Many Expats have told me of the great service they have received at Maharaj and that they also have the best pricing available. 

For example, my friend, Toivo and his partner Thip say;

 “I have (unfortunately) had a lot of experience with them, and have to say that the service has been top notch.  Thip’s stay last week with two Doc exams, two injections, hourly BP checks and a Private room with AC, Fridge, Bathroom, and guest beds was under a 100 bucks USA.  Amazing……  OH, and that included breakfast and lunch for the both of us. 

If you go to the 13th floor of the building with the emergency entrance  (The one nearest Suthep Road) at Maharaj Hospital, you end up in the Special Medical Services Center where lots of people speak English.   For a tour or an appointment, contact Kuhn Kessini at:

marketingcmed@cmed.cmu.ac.th

phone:  081-681-1616 after 9 AM.”

MaharajMap

 

Here’s some links to a little history of the hospital – and an Expats discussion group on the subject.  And a map  (also shows other Chiang Mai University sites).

I will set an appointment after Songkran to take a tour and set this as the primary hospital we use.

 

(Ya, that’s right – Songkran will be this 13,14,15th Thai New Year – Sawadee Pee Mai  and the famous “water festival”.  I’ll be at Central Shopping Center to capture the action  – stay tuned for more photos.)

Ciao

 

 

50 Free Temporary, Disposable and Forwarding Email Services

Sawadee Khrap

Check out this article on MalwareHelp.org

“Every time you give out your email address on the web, you risk getting your email address abused by spammers. Instead of giving out your private email address, give out a temporary Disposable email address (DEA) which receives the messages and forwards to your private email address or displays it on the providers Website. The spammers will never find out your private email address.”

Ciao

 

Max & Nookie’s leaving party

Sawadee Khrap

Tuesday night we went to Max and Nookie’s going back home to Germany party.  Max had reserved a table at the ‘Spirit House’ and many of his friends came for a farewell dinner.  Max took some shots and sent them to me so I thought I’d post them here:  I’ll leave the names out but I am sure you will be seeing more of these boys in the up and coming events around Chiang Mai in the future.  SUBMIT A COMMENT if you would like more information.

Max and Nookie are due back to Chiang Mai in Oct, but I will look forward to seeing and posting many of his photos from Berlin and around Germany – keep them coming Max and have a safe trip   ******

Here’s some party shots:

6 CM Abschluss-essen 8 CM Gabby Jens Teddy16 CM Gabby Jens Teddy

 

 

 

 

19 CM Abschluss-essen21 CM Frank Nu Nooky1 CM friend Gabby

 

 

 

 

 

12 CM Nooky J Gabby

P.S.  They have remodeled the front of the ‘Spirit House’ and it looks great – I know they spent a lot of time getting it done – maybe this explains why the food was not up to the restaurant’s usual quality – and they also added a misting device to act as air-conditioning – too strong, several quests, including Nu and I, made comments that after dinner we had to go have a shower – too much water (mist) in both food, clothes and atmosphere.  — hopefully better next time.

Ciao

Some Windows Tips

Sawadee Khrap

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Did you purchase a Dell or HP Notebook ?

Having motherboard problems ?  Read this article:

Dell and HP balk at replacing bad Nvidia chip

or   More reasons to postpone that upgrade to IE 8

WindowSecertsIf you are not a Windows Secrets subscriber yet – you should be – This is a great subscription to have coming. lots of great tips, articles and suggestions.

 

Try it  – It’s FREE version will alert you to what’s in the paid subscription.

Ciao

 

Accident – then Golf

Sawadee Khrap

Quite a day,

Nu left for school and on the way had a motorcycle accident.  He was traveling one of the back-roads going to the YMCA for English classes and collided with Aphinan Nilthong’s truck which turned in front of him from a side road – they didn’t see each other until it was too late. Khun Nilthong took Nu to the hospital and I meet them there.  No broken bones and the bike appears OK.  Nu is limping but is otherwise OK.

Khun Nilthong, it turns out is a PGA Pro Golf Instructor at Genius Golf Academy.  He took great pains and time to make sure Nu was OK and stayed with us for most of the morning at the hospital.  Thanks

NilthongGeniusGolfIf you are looking for any golfing training then I would suggest that you check with Khun Nilthong. 

 If his devotion to your learning golf is anything like his attention to helping Nu then you would be in very good hands.  I’d show more posts on golf but it is not my cup of tea, but Chiang Mai has some great Courses.

Ciao

 

Spiders

Here’s one from Jerry:

Poke and prod the spider with your mouse , also ‘grab’ one of its legs with your mouse and drag it around the screen– 

Tell me it’s not alive!

When you grab one of his legs, twirl him around a couple of times and then “fling” him off the page.  Watch and he’ll crawl back onto the page somewhere. Also anywhere on the map hit the space bar and it leaves little bugs, watch the spider go after it, this is totally crazy and creepy too! Do several in a row and he gets them all!

—– SPIDER —-

Ciao

 

Fly the Friendly Skys

Sawadee Khrap

First a little humor:

My flight was being served by an obviously gay flight attendant, who seemed to put everyone in a good mood as he served us food and drinks. As the plane prepared to descend, he came swishing down the aisle and told us that ‘Captain Marvel has asked me to announce that he’ll be landing the big scary plane shortly, so lovely people, if you could just put your trays up, that would be super.’

On his trip back up the aisle, he noticed this well-dressed and rather Arabic looking woman hadn’t moved a muscle. ‘Perhaps you didn’t hear me over those big brute engines but I asked you to raise your trazy-poo, so the main man can pitty-pat us on the ground.’

She calmly turned her head and said, ‘In my country, I am called a Princess and I take orders from no one.’

To which (I swear) the flight attendant replied, without missing a beat,

 
‘Well, sweet-cheeks, in my country I’m called a Queen, so I out rank you. Tray-up, Bitch.

Now the serious stuff:

AA-website

 

Check out American Airlines Rainbow policy.

and another article:

Commerical Closet: American Airlines Flies First Gay Print Ads.

 

just thought I give credit where credit is due.

Ciao

 

 

 

Bussiness lesson #1

Sawadee Khrap

Always check the fine print

Johnny wanted to screw a guy in his office…..but he belonged to someone else…

One day Johnny got so frustrated that he went up to him and said I’ll give you a $1000 dollars if you let me screw you….but the guy said NO.

Johnny said I’ll be fast, I’ll throw the money on the floor, you bend down, I’ll be finished by the time you pick it up. He thought for a moment and said that he would have to consult his boyfriend…..so he called his boyfriend and told him the story. His boyfriend says to ask him for $2000 dollars, pick up the money very fast, he won’t even be able to get his pants down.

So he agrees and accepts the proposal. Half an hour goes by and the boyfriend is waiting for his boyfriend to call. Finally after 45 mins the boyfriend calls and asks what happened……

He said “The bastard used coins”

Management lesson: Always consider a business proposal in it’s entirety before agreeing to it and getting screwed.

 

Ciao

Chiang Mai – Miss LadyBoy Apr 5

Sawadee Khrap

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Here’s the winner of the contest we went to on Sunday night.  Nu is working on a video DVD of the evening, at least the part we recorded, but I am not sure if we can make a flash version to show on the blog.

Nu has started to prepare himself to began entering the local school contests this coming semester.  He went to the doctor for help and is well on the way to becoming Miss Tiffany.

We will keep all posted on his progress and transformation.  We hope to be attending many future contest as he develops his stage presence and I will definitely try to get as many shots of all the contestants and for sure photos of all the cute boys and girls in the audience.  Stay tuned.

Ciao

 

Getting Old

Sawadee Khrap

Getting Old

There was a man who really took care of his body.  One day he took a look in the mirror and noticed that he was tan all over except for his penis.  So he decided to do something about it.  He went to the beach and got completely undressed and buried himself in the sand except for his penis, which he left sticking out.

Two old ladies were strolling along the beach, one using a cane.  Upon seeing the thing sticking up out of the sand, she began to move it around with her cane, remarking to the other lady, “There is no justice in this world.” The other lady asked what she meant.

 “Well, when I was 20, I was curious about it. 
  When I was 30, I enjoyed it.
  When I was 40, I asked for it.
  When I was 50, I paid for it.
  When I was 60 I prayed for it.
  When I was 70, I forgot all about it. 
  Now I’m 80 and the damn things are growing wild and I am do old to squat!”

 

Ciao

 

Doi Saket-Chiang Mai Ladyboy Contest

Sawadee Khrap

Contest-Ladyboy1Here is a great link to the photos of the winners of the “Doi Saket – Chaing Mai Ladyboy Contest”  held April 3rd 2009.

If your interested in LadyBoy Contests then the above link is a great site to follow – too bad it’s only in Thai – but then again we are only looking at the pictures  .

 

We didn’t get a chance to go but we did attend the latest contest April 5th at Chiang Mai and I will post some shots of the girls there soon.  Also took some video so maybe I can put up a simple video too.

 P.S.  I will have to buy some ear plugs because as usual in Thailand the music was so loud it could be heard for at least 5 blocks – next to the stage you could feel the vibrations in the air – my ears are still ringing.

Ciao