Heavy Rain Alert

Heavy rain forecast overnight Saturday to Sunday and Sunday Bangkok Post

  Sunday Update  

Overnight rainfall 3 mm (.12 inch)
When I first read the weather alert I noted some slight chance of rain, nothing to be alarmed about locally.  The weather has been consistently moving mostly from North East for over a week.
Traveling overland, these weather systems tend to be exhausted before they reach us.

Generally during the rainy season the heavy storms come directly from the East.  
Nothing big in the Pacific is heading our way.

Hopefully local hot weather and humidity will create some local showers

Tough Times in Thailand

Aljazeera Report

OTOP Sale through Sunday

10 AM to 9 PM

New "One Year Extension" regulation

No one year extension will be granted to persons whose passport expires within that period.  Extensions will only be granted until passport expiry date.

Read more at  Thailand-Tip

Lost in Translation

Bangkok Weather Forecast, August 30

"...heavy rain somewhere"

Where's the rainy season

Weather continues to approach mostly from the north.

Even though up to 90% rain chance had been forecast daily this week, the total has been less than 10 mm (.04 inch).

Increased rain is again predicted for the weekend, starting with moderate to heavy this afternoon.  Personally I'm ready to post drought alerts

Sakon Nakhon OTOP Fair

OTOP Fair

municipal grounds (near police headquarters), through Sept 1
started August 27 

Leave your mobile/Internet provider at home

Makes the news a couple times a year. 
Person returns from vacation and is confronted by phone or Internet charges costing more than the weeks of vacation. 
If you use your hometown services while traveling, you're going to get stuck with roving and international charges.
Use the services in the country you are traveling to

U.S. Citizen Services. Consular Outreach

Udon Thani, Wednesday, September 18, 2013

Sales of laughing gas  is no laughing matter	Mostly teenagers selling the stuff have been apprehended, no suppliers yet.
Pattaya has  a Mafia Free Zone	Rent a jet ski
Thailand Cuts Interest Rates	.25%
Briton plunges from balcony	A "very common" accident in Thailand.
Angry farmers  block roads, railway	"...Sept 3 when the Thai cabinet will consider a 25 billion baht budget to help the (rubber) farmers

T.i.T Plus

Drugs planted on Melbourne couple' in Thailand

Thailand looks to repeat 'Thaksinomics' economic success 
BBC

"...Thaksinomics is proving less successful."

"...high possibility of greater foreign capital outflow..."
THE NATION

Tesco Rumor

Tesco now has four shops in the area.
The main store and three mini markets called Tesco Express, which seem to be in competition with 7-11.

The rumor is that the main store will be expanded with additions to the present building, adding other outlet stores.

Highway flares not appropriate for Football Fans

Those flares spit hot lava. Anyone on the receiving end will have severe burns.
I've seen these droppings leave some nasty scars back in the seventies, at a rock concert



At Sakon FC they are now no-no. At other stadiums they continue to be in use

 

Surin
25 Aug

Sakon FC has slipped into eleventh place in the league standings.  It's a very rough road ahead for the team:

• Mahasarakam, Sunday, September 1, at home.

Sakon Nakhon FC ends this season on the road, 

• Sept   8 at Nong Kai, 
• Sept 15 at Surin.

2013 Royal Longboat Races and Wax Castle Festival October 15 - 19

Posters from past years
   
   

Phu Phan Tunnel Dream

A case for the Phu Phan Tunnel has been a rem state dream for quite a while.
Somebody wake up the dream team

Cover page of  

sakoneconomic on facebook 

The page houses 

a nearly ten minute Thai video

The film emphasizes the need for new trade routes

The film envisions a very modern highway of the future

Slaughter at Sisaket

And another one: Thai train derailment No injuries.

Fourth derailment since July 13  Bangkok Post

Possible cause heat expansion of the track.
That clickety-clack sound of the train is the sound of the wheels passing a slight break in the track to allow for heat expansion.

The frequency of recent rail mishaps could become a detriment to Thai tourism 

wikipedia State Railway of Thailand 

• The older passenger cars in service were manufactured in the 1960's.

• The newest passenger cars date from 1996.

Nong Kai 2005

Bangkok Airport exit 1966

THB watch

• Plunge in the baht 'a short-term issue' thejakartapost

• ..rules out recession for Thai economy pattayamai
  

• 5 day plot US$ / THB  finance.yahoo

The clouds looked ominous But passed us by

ห้า = 5 pronounced Ha 5 5 5 5 5 = HaHaHaHaHa

t h  is

2005 Sakon Nakhon FC was created as a Pro League Team

T.i.T. and beyond

Enjoyed the cool temperatures of the "drizzle" rain we've been having for over two days.
(6 mm .24 inch rain past 24 hours)
Expect less rain, warming temperatures by this weekend for a few days.
Winds mostly from the west, south west
Weather arriving from east-northeast 

"Many youngsters today not interested in history..."Global Times

• Why Hitler is hip in Thailand 

 "Medical assistance software" Asia Pacific future GOV

• Thailand introduces mobile SOS software 

  THB

• Thailand Enters Recession  Armstrong Economics

• Thailand Holds Rate ...  Bloomberg

• MPC maintains policy rate at 2.5% Bangkok Post

• Dollar is  again king as Asia slumps;
  capital flows back to US The Economic Times

What did he expect, the welcome wagon?

• Death threats’ in Thailand for UK whistleblower Times Higher Education

Sex Tourism, yes there is

• HIV-AIDS biggest health risk in Thailand ABC Radio Australia

Floods, some the worst in 100 years

Warning: This Video may make you ill

Dog meat trade. Easy Money makes this a hard habit to break.
No animal control and an overpopulation of stray's causes many people to close their eyes

• Canadian arrested in Phuket after Facebook gives away his locale

• Thailand Wants to Monitor Conversations on LINE App

Perhaps the secret to eternal youth

In Search of the Aging Off Switch  

Good News for Expatiates and possibly even Thailand

• SET sinks further, baht at 12-month low Bangkok Post

• Recession wikipedia

Opinion: Expatiates and tourists are breathing a sigh of relief: 

"more spending money!" 

In the short term unemployment is rising slightly, 

mostly in the foreign labor force

Crime is the stepchild of unemployment.

Further on the calendar 

Thai products  become more competitive on the international market.

Imported goods become pricier

There's pro and con, depends who you are, where the bulk of your cash is...
Possibly a minor currency adjustment, or maybe not.

Indian rupee slides to record low | Journal

Always wash your vegetables

Don't understand the Thai? Don't need to in this video.

The visuals are informative enough to tell the story.

Rainfall last 24 hours: 10.6 mm 0.42 inch

Latest weather map at wunderground

Google Earth Weather map

Let's be friends

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Sakon FC vs Udon FC video

Video by djmzaa

It has to be said: The Udon team budget allowed the team to arrive in Sakon Nakhon the day before the game. They were well rested for the game after overnighting at a local 4 star hotel

Rainy season seven days no rain

Thundershowers had been in the forecast by all weather services for the past week.
Instead we've had a mixture of occasional sun and mostly clouds with westerly winds and occasional gusts.

Thunderstorms in the western pacific continue to move into southern China Tropical Storm Trami

All weather services are again forecasting rain beginning late today.
Overnight rain chances increase with occasional heavy rain Tuesday.
According to Meo weather, we are experiencing a four year high in temperatures today

2013	2012	2011	2010
32c	29c	28c	27c
90f	84f	82f	81f

Third Train derailment in 30 days,ninth rail accident this year

Lost count of Hubs in Thailand

Thailand To Become Seafood Hub In Asia

Thai Poor Man's VIP Bus

Room for more

Whats on the Net about You 02

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Eastern League Football Referees got no balls

Sakon FC 0
 Udon   FC 3
There is no denying Udon FC is the better team.
First half turned out to be a really good game.
A couple of bad calls by referees were minor and nothing to get upset about.

Absolutely different situation during the second half.

There were a few times when penalties should have been called.
In fact at one point it seemed like the referee backed down after being confronted by an Udon player.

The Udon coach started to get into the face of one referee.  He repeatedly left his designated area.
From where I saw things, the coach became absolutely obnoxious.




The Udon Coach repeatedly stepped onto the field, then called Udon players off the field, stopping the game.



At this point Udon should have forfeited the game, or at least the coach should have been removed from the game.



Neither the coaches or the suits had any balls to penalize the coach and team.
The game resumed as if the whole incident never happened. 
No apparent challenge by Sakon FC staff.



Not all referees are bad, but in recent Eastern League games referee inadequacies have been really noticeable.  As if they have their own set of Thailand Football rules.

Got no balls: 

• doesn't have the guts to do something
• coward
• lack of ability