Suspected Canadian Pedophile, Frank Nader in Pattaya… Where Are You?

Photos- Pattaya City News

ANOTHER Canadian Pedophile wanted…

Do you know this guy?

Thailand ODD Photos Series (Part 4, Animals)

Odd Thailand Animal Photos

Monkeys pretending to have sex at a Ao Nang Beach, Krabi, Thailand. I don’t know why they do this - but they just get in the doggie style and pretend to hump for a bit and then find something else interesting. We descended from these things?

At Wat Tum Sua in Krabi is a stuffed wildcat. Not sure what kind, but I hope this isn’t what they’re calling a Tiger… for some reason I think it is… Wat Tum Sua means Temple Cave Tiger… Apparently a large “tiger” used to roam the foothills there. They can’t be talking about this thing, could they?

Dead birds on top of a temple in Sisaket, Thailand. I was trying to figure out why they died - and I couldn’t come up with anything. There was no nest around. Where I found them it was impossible they had fallen far if they did fall. The fact that they’re together means they didn’t happen to try to fly and found they couldn’t and both crashed there - unless they went at same time and got tangled like parachute jumpers. Any ideas?

Weird statue, Sisaket, Thailand.

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Thailand ODD Photo Series Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5
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8 Year Old Boy Abducted, Sold for Sex at Store in Pattaya

Wow, why is this stuff always happening in Pattaya? Is this where the sick farkers all go for vacation? I thought it was Cambodia… have things become too tough in Cambodia in Soi Kindergarten and now Pattaya is going to become the next Phnom Phen?

Anyone want to give me 40,000 baht per month and I’ll spend 12 hours per day finding the assmonkeys that like to do this kind of stuff? Seriously, I’ll go.

Anyone?

Bueller?

And it got so quiet that you could hear a pin drop… oh no, wait, that was a the buckle on a little boy’s pants falling to the floor…

Nobody really cares about this stuff…

8 Year Old Boy abducted and sold to Foreigners for sex in South Pattaya.

On 28th October, Khun Natarigar aged 39 made a report at Pattaya Police Station which stated that she had lost her 8 year old Son at the Carrefour Shopping Center. Since then she has been frantically searching the streets of Pattaya for him and in the early hours of Tuesday Morning, she spotted her Son in Soi Sunee Plaza in South Pattaya. The boy was with an older man and thanks to a quick response by Police, the man was arrested and the boy was returned to his Mother. At Pattaya Police Station, Khun Yotsapon aged 24 explained that he abducted the boy at Carrefour and then took him to Soi Sunee Plaza and sold the boy to foreigners. The boy was given 100 Baht every time he went with a customer. Police are now searching for the foreigners who engaged in sexual activities with the Boy and Khun Yotsapon is now behind bars on various charges relating to the case.

I Dick Big Shirts…

Some crafty Thai-Laos girl is selling these shirts at an astronomical price, but worth a look just for the shock value…

translated in Thai - means I Dick BIG.

I know none of my readers would ever buy such trash… but, seriously - would you buy that shirt for $23 canadian or make one yourself for 5 dollars?

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980,000+ Pages read at www.ThaiPulse.com

Man, I’ve been looking at the stats over the past few days… it’s unbelievable that I’ll have a million page views soon… Lately they’re increasing at the rate of 90,000 - 130,000 per month. This is excluding rampant bots that were grabbing my pages at the rate of a half million in a week!

If you think your stats are increasing - might be due to robots… check that out.

Finally it’s all kicking in for TP… but still too slowly for my mind. In my mind things were rocking from day 1.

At my AimforAwesome.com blog it’s going even much better than ThaiPulse is… that’s weird. I guess it has a lot to do with the market. The market for that site is worldwide - anyone that can read English. Anyone that wants to be inspired or just read something partly fun partly positive… partly bs.

Here at Thaipulse- it’s hard to get a readership. There are only 100,000 expats living in Thailand - and that estimate was pulled from a loooong time ago. Many changes since then. Anyone want to guess how many here now? I don’t have a clue…

There are a couple good Thailand expat bloggers out there now and I think the potential exists to pull something like 500 readers per day for a blog like this one. I know Jason at IsaanStyle was doing 300 readers per day when he was with the ThaiPulse network - on our servers…. 500 per day is ok, but it’s really not much in the big picture. Considering…

I have 306 posts on this blog - and some of those posts are LONG winded. That’s a lot of text and time.

I have only 40? posts at my AimforAwesome.com blog - and that one is kicking ass already.

Writing long-winded opinion posts here is a waste of time because only 200-300 of you are reading them. There I have more than 3 times that reading everyday.

By the time I get (or if I ever get) 300 articles written over there - should be a nice amount of traffic coming.

How about the other bloggers out there in Thailand… anyone getting more than 500 readers per day if you’re blogging about Thailand?

Trying to get things in perspective today…

Thanks in advance for any response!

Thailand ODD Photos Series (Part 3)

Monkey statue at Buddhist temple in Sisaket province, Thailand.

Monk clmbing light pole in Surat Thani for string ceremony. String was wrapped in an elaborate pattern around the provincial spirit house in Surat Thani.

Statue representation of a meditating Buddhist monk being tempted by a cobra with a nice chest and negligee.

Mummy monk in Koh Samui, Thailand. This is the real body of a monk that was much revered… and his name isn’t coming to me unfortunately. I know I have a post about this somewhere on my blog… let me see if I can find the link… Ah, OK, no, not a full post - but a list of 10 things to do on Koh Samui if you go…

10 Things to do on Koh Samui Island, Thailand >

Thailand ODD Photo Series Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5
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Thailand ODD Photos Series (Part 2)

In Ko Samui is a snake farm where they also have centipedes and scorpions and other things. This is snake boy - I think, he is married to Scorpion girl if I’m not mistaken. Scorpion girl holds a record for living with the most scorpions over something like 200 or 300+ days. I arrived here and there was no show, but for 100 or 200 baht the guy pulled the biggest king cobras out of the cage and let me take photos as they struck at me and hissed like banshees. Very fun morning.

Safety of toddlers in Thailand is NOT a major concern as you can see… here this kid is inside a stroller, no helmet and riding alongside in the carrier of the motorbike. Actually this kid IS safe compared to how they usually carry kids on the motorbike!

Cavemen traffic lights in Krabi, one street away from the river - (parallel with the river). There are 4 of these huge guys.

Buddha undercover. This is also in Krabi, at a new white temple downtown in Krabi - very close to the cavemen above.

More Thai kids being unsafe. I could SEE the bottom of this pool of water - but the kids insisted on diving in headfirst time after time… ughhhh

Thailand ODD Photo Series Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5

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Remote Spying Software…

I have “Keylogger Lite” installed on my notebook computer. I’ve had it for a while, and I really enjoy it. You know why? You know everytime you ever typed something - and it took you more than 5 minutes to write - and you lose it - you think it’s gone forever…?

Maybe the power dies. Battery dies. Lightening strikes. Page doesn’t load. Server dies at the host. It rains outside and the internet dies in Thailand… your computer blue-screens or locks up…

IF you had a keylogger - you can recover EVERYTHING you typed… assuming you didn’t just lose your hard drive in a lightening strike.

There is also remote spying software for your phone and for your computer. If you wanted you could monitor your computer at home and have it send you email every hour or day to let you know who is typing WHAT on your system, as well as who is looking AT what… The spying software can take screenshots at intervals you decide and send them to you as JPG files. At the same time it can monitor every keystroke and log it - so you can see what someone is writing on your computer at home, work, wherever…

VERY useful stuff.

Blogger.com’s STUPID Comment System on Blogs

STUPID blogger comment system…

Jeez it’s no wonder everyone that understands WordPress moves their blogs there… the Google Blogger.com comment system for blogs really sucks - tremendously…

I just rejected 5 comments. 4 of them were supposed to be PUBLISHED.

There is no undo button.

I selected the 4 I wanted to approve. I then selected one I wanted to reject… i selected reject under that one comment - thinking - it rejects JUST that one - nope. Rejected them all.

Apologies to MJ, Siamerican wanderer, Gunny, Brunty… you gave me some good comments and I’m sorry I farked it up.

I’ll check to see if there’s a way to find the comments and approve them once rejected - like wordpress has - but I don’ think blogger has it.

damn…

Writing Something Negative about a Thai Business?

Interesting day yesterday…

I’m in the video store picking out something to watch. I get a call from the guy whose internet shop I go to often.

He says he doesn’t like some things I wrote about him on my web site.

Huh?

I’m confused, because I don’t remember writing anything about him (yet), but I knew it was something I really wanted to make time for since the place was an incredible find for me - I get fast internet, air con, comfortable place, always music playing… and the guy is a business genius. We talk about a lot of topics… I was beginning to think that we’d be friends for a long time…

But, he’s telling me he doesn’t like something that was written - he is telling me the link he followed off my home page to get to the page…

He tells me that there are two things on my site that are not good for his business… I’m struggling in my mind to think - what the hell did I write about this guy? Honestly, I remembered NOTHING that I wrote about him or his business.

He tells me that I said I don’t like the coffee…

Hmm, wait a second - yeah, that’s true - how the hell does he know that? I MUST HAVE written something.

Now I’m afraid of what the hell I wrote because when I write and post to my blog or create a web page I’m doing it on the fly. It might take me 20 minutes to create a page and post it to the blog or site. I’ve written 1100 pages on www.thaipulse.com. I’ve posted 300 times at this blog. I’ve got other blogs that I’ve posted over 200 more blog entries at. I typically write a couple to a few thousand words per day. I’ve had a few instances now where I’ve forgotten something that I’ve written.

Writing everyday on different topics has that effect.

This was one of those times - and I was regretting having written anything since I must have written about him and his business when I didn’t know him at all. Likely, the first day I met him back on August 11th or 12th. That was 60-70 days ago.

Now, usually I remember things I’ve written - at least that I have written something at all. This time I didn’t remember as he’s telling me what else he didn’t like about what I wrote…

He said, you tell people that they may be able to get free WIFI from my coffee shop if they stay at the hotel next door on the 2nd floor.

Yes… now I’m starting to remember that I wrote something about this place.

Yeah, I wrote that… I don’t have any problem with saying that. It’s not negative about his store. It’s not going to affect him. If it’s 5 pm to 9am you might be able to get free internet… because he’s not OPEN. That was my point… but, sure anyone can get free WIFI anywhere there’s an open network - and I write about those places since we as visitors are constantly searching for a good internet connection and especially free WIFI.

If a shop owner doesn’t want someone to have free WIFI - restrict the network… and cut off the WIFI at night when the store isn’t open.

So, I don’t think that was such a big deal to him… not sure.

The other thing was, he was ordering lunch from next door at the hotel. They brought it over…I ordered kow pad moo - fried rice. In Krabi the price for fried rice is 30-35 baht. I stayed at that hotel before and I had room service… they charged me 30 or 35 baht - I forget which.

When I got it at his shop from this hotel he told me the price was 60 baht. I stopped for a second, going to ask WHY? But, I shut up and ate it. Making mental notes that I wouldn’t be eating anything from there again. I’d rather walk 5 meters to the hotel and get it for 30 baht.

As he’s telling me about this - he tells me that the hotel charged that much, he didn’t add anything onto it.

Oh, my mistake.

I thought I distinctly heard in Thai that the woman said 35 baht. They spoke back and forth quickly between them and then he said, “60 baht”.

So - I figured, of course, that he added the extra as a commission for eating it at his inet cafe.

I guess I was wrong… (and I shouldn’t have written it)

I still hadn’t the slightest idea what all I’d written. I was embarrassed that I had forgotten that I wrote about his shop and I was anxious to see what I’d written…

First stop after the vide place was a travel agency where my g/f and I were to drop off some vietnamese rolls that she made for the girl there. As we’re sitting there she gets a call from…. YOU GUESSED IT… This guy was calling her because he found her on my site. He was asking all kinds of questions about me, where I work, where I came from (live?), how does she know me… etc.

Then as she gets off the phone to tell us what happened she tells us that he tried to call my girlfriend’s work place! We called there later that night and found out that he did call and try to find out more information!

She also tells us that the guy is going to meet with the owner of another internet cafe in town that I wrote a negative review of… did they know each other before? I don’t know - but they know each other now.

The other inet cafe gave me some horrible service one day… I wrote up exactly what happened in a blog post, you may have seen it here… The owners were rude to me and they tried to add on a huge extra payment after I had bought the wifi ticket, having neither told me about the extra charge or having it written on their sign for WIFI. Anyway, that’s another story.

I went home and pulled it up on my site…

Wow.

I did write a BIG page of information…

The entire page was filled with good information about the place, the owner as the ultimate Thai businessman… the fast, consistent uploads and downloads. The awesome atmosphere. The guy’s accomplishments as web host business, coffee / inet shop owner, drummer, drum instructor, band member… etc.

I counted 19 POSITIVE THINGS versus the 2 negative things… I didn’t like the coffee, and the charge for the rice was way high.

Well, I’ve since changed the page to be ‘nicer’, but I’m not sure he’ll be happy with it as it is. Hopefully he’ll answer my email, SMS, or phone call today.

When I write something about a business in Thailand I’m writing to help other visitors. It helps them to know about free WIFI. It helps them to know, the service sucked at a place or the owners were rude, or they tried to tack on extra charges AFTER you already buy something that requires the extras… If visitors to Thailand shared information about the places they stayed, ate, visited, etc - we’d all have a much better experience in Thailand. That’s my idea…

I know it’s right from my perspective, but from a Thai person owning a business perspective?

Anyway - so, that was my yesterday.

Be careful if you have a site where you’re critical of Thai people or businesses. I keep thinking I understand the concept of “face” but you know what, I STILL don’t get it. I still don’t understand the MAJOR importance it has in Thais’ minds.

I don’t think I’m ever really going to understand.

It may well be THE MOST IMPORTANT thing in a Thai person’s life… be very careful about stepping on it, even if it’s softly…

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