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I love it! "apply beginning October 1" for your free tickets to ride on December 5...haha, only in Thailand...

Hmm, don't know about the breakfast burrito, but I went in there once for a "Tex-Mex" lunch and was quite disappointed. Luckily, the drunk-out-of-their minds and highly playful staff made up for it with the entertainment they provided...

You won't have trouble bringing BGs to any good Isaan place, hey, it's their people! Also, in the Sukh area, the Soi 5 Food Center on the corner of Sukh Soi 5 (the one with the open air bar) has quite decent Thai food and really nice staff and owners, they will treat your girl with plenty of respect. Farang prices, but not as bad as many places.

I second that one, Madrid has really decent pizza. Plus the whole place is a trip back in time, it's been open continuously under the same owner for about 40 years, and looks it (in a good way). A nice, laid-back way to begin an evening in Patpong.

I know this isn't really "new" news to many, but I just discovered it on my recent trip: if you have an AIS SIM card, their "Mobile Life" program is quite a good way to connect if your hotel or apartment doesn't have DSL, and you don't want to throw your money away in an e-mail shop. Basically, you authorize them to subtract a certain amount from whatever you have charged on your SIM (via those cards you get at 7-11, etc.), and then you use your cellphone as a modem to connect to your laptop (either via USB or Bluetooth). For 100 baht, for instance, you get 20 hours of connect time and a month in which to use it; 300 baht gets you unlimited connect time in a given month. The connection is not lightning-fast, but quite sufficient to check e-mail and do moderate web-based tasks (Facebook, reading blogs, etc.).

It was set to open on the Queen's Birthday (Aug. 12)--well, after many previous delays--but alas, it did not. I was hoping to check it out for the first time on my recent trip, too, since I was traveling lighter than usual (I wouldn't take it if I had a lot of bags, I'd still go with a taxi). My bet is Dec. 5, they pretty much always open such things on either the King or Queen's Birthday. That is, of course, if it's going to open at all in 2009...TIT.

Same pharmacy: Penagra, 300 baht for a four-pack.

Well, I guess I should say "allegedly" robs bank...but, um, they did kind of arrest him in the act: American Arrested for Robbing Bank in Rangsit Can you imagine?! Yeah, there are a few even MORE stupid things for a farang to do in Thailand...but, jeez...not too many! And for a measly 146,000 baht!! I spent more than that on my last trip...!