A Singaporean's guide to living in Thailand

[chonburifc]

Ok here's my dinner at regular khao tom(teochew porridge). Order the usual fresh oyster, fried fish salad and braised duck with dao gua and also chang beer. This is 1 pax.

Fried fish salad (yam pla sa li)

Fresh oyster. I sure kena jialat jialat one day because of this.

Braised duck. Have to admit food ordered is to go with beer (puay jiu).

 

[ArjanParangToh]

aroiiiii... ti ni tao rai?

 

[chonburifc]

aroiiiii... ti ni tao rai?

Hehehe. Have not check bin. Watching stoke vs arsenal.

 

[chonburifc]

Siao liao. Stoke scores in less than 10 mins.

Ang mohs also eat here. This group not russian.

 

[ArjanParangToh]

enjoy your food bro, arjan me need to go chanting liao, talk to u next sat. Chok de.

 

[Froggy]

Sawasdee krup. Good Saturday morning. Its 7.22am. I am so very happy because was able to sleep through the night. So should be able to overcome the jet lag easily.

Hehehe, what is the verdict? The serving looks big.

Seriously? Serving is not that big for American standard. Its good la just enough for the two of us not too much.

 

[chonburifc]

enjoy your food bro, arjan me need to go chanting liao, talk to u next sat. Chok de.

Hehehe. I think i also need to chant 45 mins is draw between stoke and arsenal.
Chok dee krab, ajarn.

 

[chonburifc]

Sawasdee krup. Good Saturday morning. Its 7.22am. I am so very happy because was able to sleep through the night. So should be able to overcome the jet lag easily.



Seriously? Serving is not that big for American standard. Its good la just enough for the two of us not too much.

Hehehe. A little plaek plaek saying good morning at this hour.

 

[Froggy]

Hehehe. A little plaek plaek saying good morning at this hour.

Today should go find our way to downtown. Maybe go Hollywood.

 

[rotikosong]

Re: A Singaporean\'s guide to living in Thailand

Ya only 3 more direct flights before it ends tomorrow to 30th. Lucky me. Hotel is just half a km from airport waited for free transfer for 40mins. Finally took taxi. Because its so near there is a minimum charge of US$20. Told staf about it during check-in and got the US$20 reimbursed. Not too bad.

Yah TG cannot make money on that route so they will be operating a 1-stop (incheon?) I believe. Can't believe you still sober after such a long flight cos if it was me, sure hit the bottle hard after the doors close

Very good that you got $20 comped. In the US, jai yen yen works too. BTW all taxis from LAX have a minimum charge of $19 ($15 + $4 surcharge). Even if you wanted to, you cannot walk from LAX to your hotel - there simply are no sidewalks. How I know? Tried it once

If you are super pro and know the neighborhood, you can take *any* hotel shuttle to/from LAX - there are several LAX airport hotels clustered on the same street next to each other (I've done this before too). These free shuttles you must call the hotel and ask them for pickup - I'm sure you did that but maybe they forgot. Next time call again and again (maybe you did that too)

 

[rotikosong]

Ok here's my dinner at regular khao tom(teochew porridge). Order the usual fresh oyster, fried fish salad and braised duck with dao gua and also chang beer. This is 1 pax.

Must remember to get makan suggestions from you when I go to Pattaya in June

 

[Froggy]

Re: A Singaporean\'s guide to living in Thailand

Yah TG cannot make money on that route so they will be operating a 1-stop (incheon?) I believe. Can't believe you still sober after such a long flight cos if it was me, sure hit the bottle hard after the doors close.

Surprisingly the flight was full. Anyway I'll be coming back through Incheon, you're right. I had only 4 brandy with soda, I mean its a special request, half brandy half soda, most of the time its 1/5 brandy 4/5 soda. I was worried I couldn't sleep in the hotel but I did by 1.30am so I'm pretty well adjusted, but not madam, after breakfast came up slept now still not wake.

 

[Froggy]

Must remember to get makan suggestions from you when I go to Pattaya in June

Let me know I will try to join you guys in Pattaya at least for a night of painting the town red.

 

[chonburifc]

Morning guys and afternoon joetys,

Hehehe. Still not use to new apartment yet. Last night after dinner, forgot I am staying at new place and went back old apartment. Have to make u-turn. Traffic is bad even at 10 pm because of a few road closure/diversion due to the current music festival.

Let me know I will try to join you guys in Pattaya at least for a night of painting the town red.

Must remember to get makan suggestions from you when I go to Pattaya in June

Hehehe. June is a nice time to be in Sin City. Weather is at least not as hot as now.

 

[rotikosong]

Let me know I will try to join you guys in Pattaya at least for a night of painting the town red.

Set. Cannot paint too red na pii.

 

[chonburifc]

Set. Cannot paint too red na pii, cos mi landlord duey kan (not same as BKK landlord so ssshhh kow jai na khap). kwaam lap na.

Hehehe. There's something for everyone here in Sin City, eg. Singles, doubles, group, young, old, male, females and the undefined.

Had usual American breakfast at Took Lae Dee (Foodland) and took pics of some advertisements. The advertisements are mainly properties, vehicles and jobs.

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THB 35K/mth for the above.

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For those who like to have own swimming pool. THB 7.99 Million Nia (cheaper than HDB 4 room pigeonhole)

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For those that need a big garden, this one is going at THB 4.2 million.

 

[chonburifc]

For the car/motcycles, Here's some interesting one.

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This 900KM Fino is a good buy. My less than a year Scoopy already 2800 KM. Think can bargain to THB 30K.

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This 2011 fino one even cheaper but did not mention mileage.

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2005 CRV selling at THB 575K. Think can go down to THB 520K or even THB 500K. Have always like CRV but have yet to own one.

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40 year old Mini Cooper! Yours for THB 115K provided you have another few hundred thousand to maintain this car.

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1974 Mercs at THB 360K. Ang Mohs like to play this type of old cars. One of my neighbor is 'playing' old Vespa Scooter. And it's not cheap. Have to get specialized mechanics for many repairs. Spares also very expensive.

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10 year old Cefiro. Guess what? The mileage only 80K.

 

[chonburifc]

For those who prefer condo/apartment style living. Here's some pics.

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This is a very nice studio unit for 1-2 with good seaview. It's nice to wake up every morning with a good scenery. Also very conducive for those who love natures while playing bedminton.

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OK, this one is very hi-so. 220 sqm but at a price tag of THB 11.6 million (can buy 2 of the houses in my previous post).

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This is View Talay at Jomtien. I went there to look for a unit to rent and trust me, this is a nice place to stay. Only THB 3.5 million. This one 82 sqm is the bigger unit. The unit I was interested is 50 sqm.

 

[Froggy]

Felt for pizza goggle and found this highly recommended place Papis Pizzeria. Now waiting.

109 East 8th Street

 

[Froggy]

Ceaser Salad is here. Didn't want any creamy sauce so just olive oil and balsamic. Boss came by Marcus is one of the friendliest guy on earth.