Tuesday, July 24, 2007
Saturday, July 21, 2007
The Western Club - Chiang Mai Airport Plaza Mall
Banana Tree Restaurant - Chiang Mai, Thailand
This is like a omelet with greens cut up and put into a soup. Tastes really good as a side dish.
Steamed mussels. I think this was $3 or $4!
Grilled steak. Delicious!
Shrimp cocktail. Had to try it for $2. Wasn't that great with the thousand island dressing drowning it.
Some coworkers...
I think the total bill was like $30 for three people eating and drinking as much as we could handle!
Wednesday, July 18, 2007
Young Honolulu entrepreneurs run $2.2 million business
Tuesday, July 17, 2007
Monday, July 16, 2007
Honolulu Advertiser mobile site
Here's where you can access it:
m. honoluluadvertiser.com
or:
" Text HAWAII to 59523 and we will send the link to your phone via text message. "
Sunday, July 15, 2007
The importance of Surge Protection
Here are the main points:
All you rich bloggers(that would be Myong's Madness, Pulpconnection, and Tabasco Man) with the HDTVs and Macs should make sure you have one of these protecting your equipment.
They love live music in Thailand!
Here's the banjo playing country band:
Here's the classic rock band:
Pics for DaBoyz....
Also, did you know that Red Bull comes from Thailand?! I didn't. Here's another energy drink from Thailand that looks like Red Bull:
Thursday, July 12, 2007
People just care about food and women from Thailand!
Had some authentic German food for the first time ever. The soup here was soo good!
Starbucks in Thailand
The coffee here is just like Starbucks back home and it's the same price so that's way too expensive. I can get good Thai coffee for around a $1 - $1.50 at local coffee shops and it's just as good if not better. The only thing I don't like about Thai coffee is they like it pretty sweet. Almost everything here is sweetened. The iced tea is really sweet and alot of the times they add milk to it as well. Yech! I've been taking pics of alot of different food that I've been eating and I'll post those later. Chiang Mai is such an international city with many different restaurants to choose from.
Sunday, July 08, 2007
Beer!
Got this site from a friend...
Alcohol content of beers in Hawaii:
Bud Light - 4.2%
Budweiser - 5.0%
Heineken Light is 3.5 %
Coors Light - 4.2%
Friday, July 06, 2007
Blogging from Don Meung Airport in Thailand
I was able to get 30 minutes of free wireless Internet because my Thai cell phone provider runs the hotspot here. You just text a code to them and they send you a username and password. Pretty cool. There area lot of different people here. It's kind of strange seeing muslim women completely covered. Here's a pic of me and some of the people I've been working with for the past couple of weeks. The girl in the white/green is a PR girl for a beer company and they have these girls at most restaurants. All they do is pour beer! Well, gotta catch my flight....
Thursday, July 05, 2007
Youtube blocked from Thailand
Wednesday, July 04, 2007
Cost of living in Thailand
This kind of gives you an idea of how much things cost compared to the U.S. The baht rate is around 33baht to a $1 so prices have gone up some.
Accommodation | 1 USD = 41 baht |
The average cost of a 3 bedroom house in the city | $ 38,891 |
The average cost of a 3 bedroom house on the city outskirts | $ 31,593 |
The average rent of a 3 bedroom house in the city (un-furnished) Per month | $ 109 |
City appartment rental (per month) | $ 85.26 |
Average Hotel Room (Per day, 2 people) | $ 17 |
Average electricity per month (No air-con) | $ 9.70 - $ 14.63 |
Average electricity per month (with air-con) | $ 36.58 - $ 48.78 |
Average water cost per month (Small house) | $ 4.80 - $ 9.75 |
Average water cost per month (Large House) | $ 14.63 - $ 19.51 |
Cable TV (Home cable) or UTV (per month) | $ 7.30 |
UBC Satellite TV (per month) | $ 22.50 |
Average shopping bill per week (Single Western person) | $ 29.00 |
Average shopping bill per week (Large Western family) | $ 73.17 - $ 97.56 |
Monthly washing and ironing service | $ 9.75 - $ 12.19 |
Monthly house maid service | $ 48.70 - $ 73.17 |
Getting Around | |
Second hand 2-3 year old Toyota Solona car | $ 8,536 |
New Toyota Solona car (Standard Model) | $ 14,146 |
New Honda 100cc motorbike | $ 418.64 |
Secondhand Honda 100cc motorbike | $ 209.32 - $ 279.09 |
Car rental (per day) | $ 29.26 |
Car rental (per month) | $ 658.53 |
Thailand's version of Yahoo.com
This link gives you an idea on what some of the women here look like:
http://star.sanook.com/gallery/gallery_13018.php
Of course that's on the high end of the spectrum.
I must admit I didn't know what to expect since we don't have too many Thai people in Hawaii but when I got here...wow. They have a hapa look kinda like Vietnamese women.
Tuesday, July 03, 2007
They have slurpees in Thailand!
Last night, I went to the night market which is kind like a swap meet at night. Here's what I had for dinner:
- 2 corn on the cobs - 40¢
- Fried chicken(thigh/drumstick) with sticky rice - 90¢
- Pad Thai - 90¢
- Big bottle beer - $1.20
And I couldn't finish all of it. Might have been the fried grasshopper and scorpion I had before. That wasn't as bad as I thought it would be but I didn't eat the huge grasshoppers or scorpions.
They were also selling golden retrievers for $90. They were so cute! I hope they go to good homes.
Sunday, July 01, 2007
Sawadee Kop from Thailand!
Talk about culture shock! It's been really interesting here to say the least! It's been kind of a pain to blog because Google thinks I'm a Thai person since I'm coming from a Thai location so it redirects me to a Thai Google site and changes the language which of course I can't read.
Well, the food here has been so cheap and good! I can eat a decent dinner or lunch for $1. I can get a really good meal for $3. Today I had shiitake soup, spaghetti with a little steak on the side for $6! There are all you can eat buffets for $2!
Movies are cheap here as well. $3 for tickets. I saw Fantastic Four and Die Hard 4 so far. FF4 I really liked. Way better than Spiderman 3. DH4 was a bit out of hand but still it was good action. I wanted to see Transformers but they only have it in Thai so far.
I was able to drive to the border of Laos and Thailand yesterday. Ate really good Vietnamese food along the Mekong river among shops that sell all kinds of stuff for super cheap. Mostly stuff I don't really want or need but still cheap. Things like toys, medicine, woodworks, knives, calculators, chips, candy, clothes, cell phones.
Today I actually drove here and after a couple of windshield wiper/blinker issues I was fine. For those who have driven on the left side of the road, you know what I'm talking about. I drove stick shift when I was in Japan so it wasn't much of a change. I didn't know they drove on the left till I got here. Rules of the road aren't as crazy as Korea but they pass alot here because there are alot of slow cars, mopeds, and motorcycles here. I've seen up to four people on a motorcycle. Road safety isn't practiced in this country. haha
Internet access here is cheap like in Korea. It can get as cheap as 45 cents an hour. I'm in a cafe that charges 60 cents an hour. Speed is pretty good. Computers are good as well.
There are so many things there that are different from anything I've seen and going out every day is like information overload. Just going for a run outside is weird. I don't have any pics right now since I'm at an Internet cafe but I'll try and post it later....