Monthly Archives: July 2006

Thailand #1 Gold Medal in tourism

July 16, 2006 – 10:27 pm

Thailand is famous for white sand beaches with gin-clear water. spicy good, and beautiful women but a recent report from Norwich Union, the insurance company, states that the Land of Smiles is also one of the most hazardous holiday destinations for British travelers, who will number almost a million this year. Tourists risk theft, food poisoning, […]

By Peter | Posted in Travel | Comments (0)

Computer Virus source in Thailand

July 16, 2006 – 9:11 pm

The most common source of computer viruses comes from surfing the web for porno. Everyone says they don’t do it, but if 90% of the sites on the internet are XXX, then someone has to be a porno addict. And unfortunately as Gore Vidal stated, “The watching of pornography only leads to the watching of […]

By Peter | Posted in Internet | Comments (0)

Marie Antoinette – the movie (it stinks)

July 16, 2006 – 11:58 am

I watch DVDs every night. My judgment on what is good or bad or mediocre is determined by how often I fast-forward to the next tolerable scene. Some movies once or twice, other often, but I just condensed MARIE ANTOINETTE into about 11 minutes. If the DVD player had sped at more the 16 times […]

By Peter | Posted in Movies / TV | Comments (0)

Happy World Index – Thailand #32

July 13, 2006 – 7:10 am

Today the UK-based New Economics Foundation announced that the tiny nation of Vanuatu, a Happy Isle of Oceania, topped a new index measuring the quality of life against environmental impact.  ”People are generally happy, because they are satisfied with very little”, said a local reporter for the Vanuatu Online. The CIA wrote a report of Vanuatu. Oil […]

By Peter | Posted in Thailand | Comments (0)

Real Estate Bargain in Pattaya

July 10, 2006 – 1:51 am

A friend recently drove me to view some luxury houses south of Pattaya in his Benz. The four bedroom houses were set on their own beaches with an estate of smaller houses scaling the sloping hillside to Sukhumvit. The sound of the waves on the sand was soothing and the architect had spent time getting the dimensions of […]

By Peter | Posted in Education | Comments (0)