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07 Nov 09
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Rock Climbing in Thailand This is about as much rock climbing in Thailand as you’ll see me doing. I gained a couple kg and just don’t have the arm strength like I used to have. It’s fun to screw around like this though. Here I am making it seem way harder than it... |
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07 Nov 09
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Writer from Philippines Needed in Thailand Pinoy – Pinay - Filipinos – Filipina – Philippines Writers
I’m looking for a writer from the Philippines that is currently in Thailand. If you already have a job teaching, writing, or other please don’t write me. I real... |
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06 Nov 09
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Thai Holiday – Makha Bucha, Buddhist Lent .
Related Posts:Thailand Buddhist Holiday, "Makha Bucha" with VideoBuddhist Temples in ThailandMonks in Thailand creating a SERIOUS String Ceremony at the Spirit House in Surat Thani, ThailandBuddhist Temple in Sisaket Built with Beer Bottles (and... |
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06 Nov 09
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Buddhist Temples in Thailand Here are a couple of recent shots of Buddhist temples in Thailand. The temples here are grand, sometimes ornate, and there is always something different about each Buddhist temple I visit.
Related Posts:My Thailand Photos at Flickr (links)Thailand Art:... |
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05 Nov 09
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Is Thailand Safe – 2009 – 2010 Season? Is Thailand Safe for the 2009-2010 Season?
Tourist season is in full swing – and it’s not that swinging yet. I wonder what the outside interpretation of Thailand as a safe place to visit in 2009-2010 is…
From inside the country –... |
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04 Nov 09
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Thailand Art: Buddhist Artists at Temple Thailand art fills the Buddhist temples across the country. Thai art is distinct in style, and has been copied over the years inside the temples so many of the temples look as if they are done by the same Thai artists.
If you enjoy art, Thailand is an... |
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01 Nov 09
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Free Ebook: Living in Thailand Releasing “Living in Thailand” by Mike Fook – a free, downloadable ebook that has been downloaded many thousands of times at MikeFook.com, and we’ve had it here on Thaipulse.com main for a few months maybe 2 years back.
Grab... |
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30 Oct 09
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Welcome Thailand Bloggers – Quit Ripping Off My Shi* I’ve only been blogging now about 3 years. I’ve learned everything I could during that time but there’s still a lot to learn…
What I do know is that 98% of all bloggers out there that are trying to make something of themselve... |
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23 Oct 09
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Did AIS Hose FTP for All Users? I use AIS EDGE connections from my mobile phone connected to my computer. I get decent speeds – 25kBps and it’s relatively cheap at 49 baht per day. It’s pretty stable, probably even more stable than ADSL lines that I’ve used. It... |
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29 Sep 09
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In Thailand: Google, Yahoo, Facebook, YouTube… All Blocked? Woke up this morning to a weird situation… and I won’t speculate on the WHY of it – because that is too weird a thought… and heck, might even be disallowed to say it here…
Youtube – down. Google – down. Yahoo... |
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24 Sep 09
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Easy Step by Step to Building a Better Blog: By the Master Darren Rowse is the undisputed champ when it comes to building a blog up to have traffic and make money. He’s been doing it for 5 years (today) and he has written about 5,000 blog posts in that time.
If you’re at a point where you need a plan... |
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24 Sep 09
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Amazing Australian Dust Storm – Darkness Covers Them! Great video showing the dust storm blacking out the whole area… like the end of the world…
Amazing Australian Dust Storm – Darkness Covers Them! is a post from my: ThaiPulse.com/blog/ website. Stop by and grab the RSS feed to view my... |
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14 Sep 09
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Eating Bamboo Worms – Gross Grub Series Eating bamboo worms was probably one of the more enjoyable bug snacks I’ve had in Thailand. They had a taste that was tolerable – and even, well – decent I think if eaten at a slower pace than I ate them in this video. Sort of the same... |
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13 Sep 09
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Thailand Snakes FAQ Page I created a Thailand Snakes FAQ page to cover some of the most frequently asked questions about snakes in Thailand – especially the poisonous (venomous) varieties.
If there’s anything else on the page you think needs mentioned about snakes in... |
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27 Aug 09
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Small Cobra Video In keeping with the wildlife and snake theme of the site lately here is a video of a small cobra my friend and I found on the street. We jumped off the motorbikes and shot some video. Neither of us were prepared to shoot video so the first half minute is... |
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24 Aug 09
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Eating Bugs Videos Quality Upgrade at YouTube I upgraded the videos of me eating scorpion, huge cockroach type thing, silkworms, red ant eggs and more. Much higher quality and you can really see clearly the insects, snakes, scorpions, frogs, etc.
Vern’s YouTube Channel > |
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20 Aug 09
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A New Way to Make Money in Thailand with Your Website I’ve been working on a project that will allow anyone with a website focused on Thailand to make some $. The goal is that I can make you more than Adsense does, so people will take all these ridiculous Adsense ads from their sites. (Me... |
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17 Aug 09
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My Sustainable Living Experiments I’ve been dabbling in sustainable living lately. Didn’t know that was the term for it until I did some searches on Google.
Specifically I’m looking into whether I could eat insects to survive. So far, the answer is yes. BUT, I’ve... |
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13 Aug 09
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Thailand Python Eats a Kid! I ate dinner at a favorite lakefront restaurant last night and on the way back I saw a crowd gathered around a large portrait of the Queen of Thailand… I kept going. It was the Queen’s Birthday. As I sat at the stop light something... |
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13 Aug 09
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Cave Snakes in Thailand There are snakes all over Thailand – even deep in the caves. The other day a friend and I got a guided tour from a monk through a cave that I’ve been through on about 10 occasions. Usually I just went straight through the cave to the other... |
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07 Aug 09
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Spitting on My House or Peeing on My Wall: Life in Asia This doesn’t happen in the USA. Someone might kill you for it.
If I caught someone spitting on my house – repeatedly – and leaving a couple hundred stains – or pissing on the wall in front of my house – even once, we’d... |
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20 Jul 09
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Best Beer in Thailand? It’s still Beerlao. BUT, recently Jason at “Isaanstyle” blog mentioned that he tried “Archa” and found it lovely.
I wasn’t initially fond of Beer Leo at all – but it grew on me. That’s the first sign that... |
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20 Jul 09
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Green Oriental Whip Snake Found this on a hike today – amazing colors and patterns on this snake. The snake guy at siam-info.de says it’s a “Ahaetulla prasina (Oriental Whip snakes” and found all over Thailand. Mildly poisonous but only if you let him chew... |
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19 Jul 09
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Longtail Boat for Sale in Phuket A friend is selling a longtail boat in Phuket, currently it’s sitting in Makham Bay. He wants 80,000 baht for it. It’s recently been overhauled – engine and wood work. If you know someone with a tour company that wants a boat –... |
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18 Jul 09
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Railay Beach, Krabi Photo Tour I started posting the original articles I wrote a while back but didn’t have them online anywhere. Here’s Railay Beach, Krabi – a photo tour. If you’re planning on going to Krabi you really should hit Railay for the... |
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17 Jul 09
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Thailand Last Country in Asia to Get 3G? This is my 500th post here at ThaiPulse… fitting that it should be about something that means a lot to me – and anyone else who uses the internet on a daily basis in Thailand. The 3g fiasco has become legend among expats and Thais that need... |
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16 Jul 09
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Yeah, SURE the Condom Broke… I can’t tell you how many times I’ve had friends tell me the condom broke. I believed it about the first 6 times I heard that line but when I was about 19 and in the Air Force, EVERYONE was saying the same thing. I said it a couple times too... |
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13 Jul 09
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Craigslist Thailand – Always Fun to Check Out Cruising through Craigslist Thailand is always entertaining.
If you have some extra cash to spend – this obviously skilled writer is going to write his phenomenal life story and it must be the stuff legends are made of… I’m seriously... |
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12 Jul 09
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Engrish at McDonalds and Another Funny Sign I took a photo at McDonalds the other day of something that was spelled wrong and I thought it was funny… but, nothing compares to this funny sign in Japan I snagged from weirdasianews.com. |
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09 Jul 09
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Thaksin Scoping Out FIJI? Thaksin Shinawatra is reportedly touring Fiji and some other Pacific locations as he tries to find a home.
Article here >
How is this guy traveling without a passport? His passport was revoked from Thailand…
(Photo credit: Fiji Boy, Flickr.com... |
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06 Jul 09
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Cobra Encounter… Flying fast down twisty roads, slammed on the brakes to avoid a cement truck fully parked in my lane – on a blind curve…
Speed back up and flying toward the hiking spot just as a light rain began to fall.
“What was... |
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05 Jul 09
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Banking in Thailand Anyone having a GOOD experience with Kasikorn Bank? We’re not. |
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02 Jul 09
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Just a Link re: Foreigners Charged on Les Majeste http://www.nationmultimedia.com/2009/07/02/politics/politics_30106547.php
I’m not saying anything man. This topic is hotter than what David Carradine was wearing in his hotel room when he passed. |
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01 Jul 09
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Snakes, Glue Sniffers, Se* Toys, and Blind Snakes A lot of videos coming up at the ThaiPulse Travel Channel on YouTube.
King Cobras – a guy kissing one on the face and pushing one with his hand (in the face)
Monocled Cobras – striking, hissing
Snake Hunting goes awry… Huge sex toy... |
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29 Jun 09
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Electric F-1 Racing? I’d like to see these electric cars start their own F-1 races. Look at how badly this electric car dusts the Ferrari and Porsche. Sure it’s got 1,000 lbs less weight (at least), but F-1 races would be ridiculously fast I think using some... |
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28 Jun 09
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Thailand’s Hash House Harriers (HHH) Here are some Hash House Harrier groups I could find online in Thailand. What got me started on this post is that I was floored to learn of an Ubon Hash House Harrier group that started 8/2008.
Ubon? I lived in Ubon for over a year and I gotta tell... |
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26 Jun 09
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New Video: Durian Tasting I posted a new video at my youtube Thailand Travel Channel the other day and forget to post it here. You might see it pop up in the video box to the right. If not you can go to my new Channel layout at:
Thailand Travel Channel > |
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24 Jun 09
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Those Big Black Flying Bees That Don’t Sting These things are big and they make a noise like a humming bird as they fly by, prompting foreigners to duck and find some cover.
Thais say these things don’t bite… I guess that’s true because I’m holding this one in my hand. Proof... |
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10 Jun 09
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Hiking in Thailand I went hiking in Thailand yesterday. Snake hunting really. It’s a nice mountain climb - about 90 minutes up, 40 down. I saw some footprints ahead of me - fresh. I never did see the hikers though. That was odd. There’s supposed to be one way up... |
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31 May 09
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Frog Sex Gets Animalistic on Back Porch Ok, there’s vanilla frogsex and there’s that which approaches the boundaries of extreme… this is somewhere in between. If you picture a female human being panting like this frog was - it would be banned from YouTube, I’m sure of... |
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23 May 09
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Vern Slapped Down by Snake Expert… If you didn’t see my last post - here it is:
Snake in the Dark >
I was a little bit stumped by the snake I found last night on the porch but I gave it a shot -and was completely wrong as to which one it is…
I thought it was Hagen’s... |
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23 May 09
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Thailand’s Snakes in the Dark This is not a ladyboy post, though some had to be wondering…
Last night I went out about midnight on the porch to secure the motorbikes together with some steel cables and big padlock like I do every night.
Something was strange looking on one of... |
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20 May 09
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Baby Copperheaded Racer Snake Video 3videos below -
These snakes are really beautiful - great colors and patterns, but besides that they are great when they strike. Even this little 12-15″ baby racer has balls at such a young age.
They curl up their necks in a multiple S pattern... |
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16 May 09
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No, That’s NOT Me on the Elephant I had a slew of people send me this today. I guess it made the rounds on Twitter.
They all thought it was me on the elephant! That would be a blast, but, nope - not me. Hate to disappoint.
The original photo from here. |
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16 May 09
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Nice Spider… A Batik Golden Web Spider Nephila clavata
On a hike yesterday I almost put my face through this spider’s web that took up the whole path. I was lucky to see it - and, I’ve never done this before but I used a stick to gently break the web so nobody else would end up... |
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09 May 09
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RE: Making Money With Your Website I posted a few days ago about a way you can start to make money with your Thailand website that goes beyond what you can do with Google’s Adsense program.
There are many - thousands I think, of expats in Thailand and those living in their hom... |
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07 May 09
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Welcome to Krabi… I just saw a blog post:
http://www.thainewsportal.com/swiss-tourist-found-strangled-on-krabi-beach/
A tourist strangled to death at Noppharat Thara beach - a 30 year old Swiss woman died today apparently. She was found with her handbag strap around her... |
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07 May 09
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Phi Phi Tourists Dying of Unknown Causes A couple tourists have died from something on Phi Phi island in Krabi province - more possibly than are being publicized according to one commenter on the story at ThaiVisa forum.
Mystery illness kills foreign tourists on Phi Phi Thursday, May 7, 2009... |
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05 May 09
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Phuket or Krabi? Choosing Phuket or Krabi is not that difficult for me, but it’s a question that many ask themselves because the two are close to each other and you’ve probably heard good things about both.
Here is a list of postives and negatives of both... |
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02 May 09
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Canadian Online Scam Artist in Bangkok Talking to a Thai girl today at dinner - a friend of my girlfriend… she used to date a Canadian guy that was scamming people online everywhichway for usually hundreds and often thousands of dollars on Ebay and through other means.
As foreigners in... |
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