Pillow Biter Posted May 7, 2021 Share Posted May 7, 2021 Can see the forrest for the trees now with nobody around. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KWA Posted May 8, 2021 Share Posted May 8, 2021 On 5/7/2021 at 6:46 AM, Yesitisdakid said: Friday May 7th first coffee machine i have seen here That's the second one between your door and the front gate! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KWA Posted May 8, 2021 Share Posted May 8, 2021 On 4/29/2021 at 1:51 AM, forcebwithu said: Wonder if like with a lot of Thai projects they'll finish enlarging the drain openings, realize after they're done it didn't help, then rip up the road again and do what they should have done in the first place and put in larger drain pipes with a pumping station to get the water across 3rd Rd. This is more like what they need. These things are currently getting planted under Walking Street. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yesitisdakid Posted May 8, 2021 Share Posted May 8, 2021 4 hours ago, KWA said: That's the second one between your door and the front gate! I'll have to hunt the second one out Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
forcebwithu Posted May 9, 2021 Share Posted May 9, 2021 22 hours ago, KWA said: That's the second one between your door and the front gate! 18 hours ago, Yesitisdakid said: I'll have to hunt the second one out I saved you a few steps. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yesitisdakid Posted May 9, 2021 Share Posted May 9, 2021 4 hours ago, forcebwithu said: I saved you a few steps. Thats the same one i took the photo of Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
forcebwithu Posted May 9, 2021 Share Posted May 9, 2021 13 minutes ago, Yesitisdakid said: Thats the same one i took the photo of I deserve a duh for that one. Didn't remember the photo you snapped, so took a pic of the first one I saw. So the hunt continues. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chappo Posted May 9, 2021 Share Posted May 9, 2021 On 5/8/2021 at 2:25 PM, KWA said: This is more like what they need. These things are currently getting planted under Walking Street. thats part of the corruption game here ... make once, make again, make again, update and upgrade with the backhanders and brown paper bags going to the relevant contract signers and contract givers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yesitisdakid Posted May 10, 2021 Share Posted May 10, 2021 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yesitisdakid Posted May 10, 2021 Share Posted May 10, 2021 On 5/8/2021 at 2:01 PM, KWA said: That's the second one between your door and the front gate! Found it ! 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
forcebwithu Posted May 11, 2021 Share Posted May 11, 2021 I was a little worried when my lady announced a week ago they were going to come today and cut down a beautiful, old tree in our neighborhood (a blackboard or devil tree). Apparently the lady that owns the house across the soi from it complained about the dropped leaves making a mess, plus my lady didn't like the aroma of the flowers when the tree was in bloom. Told them both I thought those weren't very good reasons to cut down the tree. I wasn't too concerned though as they had mentioned it was the electric company that was going to do the chopping, so figured they were going to just trim back the branches that ran into and around the electric lines. And as it turned out, I was right. To the electric company's credit, they did a decent job on the trim. So the tree gets to live on. 5 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post forcebwithu Posted May 15, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted May 15, 2021 (edited) It looks like the electric company thinks their mess from tree trimming on Tuesday is someone else's mess to clean up. A cheap shelter for shops on the corner of Soi Love Inn and Arunotai is done. What I thought was going to be a new market near Nirun now looks like a new open air restaurant. Think they're also building a garden greenhouse, which isn't a bad idea for supplying fresh vegetables for the restaurant. The building on 3rd Rd near Klang is now sporting a decorative top. Construction progress at the Sea Side site, which is a bit of a misnomer since it's on Buakhao. And the south Beach Rd pumping station is getting shinny new pumps almost in time for rainy season, which starts today. Edited May 15, 2021 by forcebwithu 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
forcebwithu Posted May 16, 2021 Share Posted May 16, 2021 (edited) The big crane is back at the Beach Rd pumping station. The big piece of equipment that was removed last Dec has now been repaired and the crane was getting ready to lift it back into place. They better work fast as I'm hearing some thunder rumblings outside now. Edited May 16, 2021 by forcebwithu 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KWA Posted May 16, 2021 Share Posted May 16, 2021 On 5/15/2021 at 6:59 AM, forcebwithu said: A cheap shelter for shops on the corner of Soi Love Inn and Arunotai is done. A lass I know is waiting to move in and sell pappaya salad and noodle dishes. 5,000 baht per month rent so profit of maybe 200 baht per day to pay that and electric. Not easy in these times with the amount of competition around. On 5/15/2021 at 6:59 AM, forcebwithu said: What I thought was going to be a new market near Nirun now looks like a new open air restaurant Stalls for food again I think. These rows of what look like paint pots, kinda on a grid layout, are covering openings to underfloor ducting for a common extraction system, ending up at a big exhaust pump behind the brick section at the left hand side of the pic. You can see the stainless chimney above it. I couldn't think of anything else that would use extraction like that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
forcebwithu Posted May 18, 2021 Share Posted May 18, 2021 (edited) Had a look this morning to see how the path along the south Pattaya canal is faring. For the most part the path is clear. Some sections had a bit of overgrowth, but was still passable. Other parts you need to duck low to get through. If the water was cleaner and didn't have the scent of a sewer, the canal would make for a scenic walk. Probably could have pushed my way through this heavy overgrowth, but didn't fancy having to pull thorns and ticks out of, and off my legs to do so. This is the short, upstream section east of the makeshift bridge. I'd be careful driving a vehicle over the underground section of the canal. Edited May 18, 2021 by forcebwithu 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lazarus Posted May 18, 2021 Share Posted May 18, 2021 24 minutes ago, forcebwithu said: Had a look this morning to see how the path along the south Pattaya canal is faring. For the most part the path is clear. Some sections had a bit of overgrowth, but was still passable. Other parts you need to duck low to get through. If the water was cleaner and didn't have the scent of a sewer, the canal would make for a scenic walk. Probably could have pushed my way through this heavy overgrowth, but didn't fancy having to pull thorns and ticks out of, and off my legs to do so. This is the short, upstream section east of the makeshift bridge. I'd be careful driving a vehicle over the underground section of the canal. Good pics. Tells a story. 👍 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue Streak Posted May 18, 2021 Share Posted May 18, 2021 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
forcebwithu Posted May 21, 2021 Share Posted May 21, 2021 (edited) They've been working for a couple of years on trying to solve the flooding on the road parallel to the railroad. Last year was digging a deeper channel on the east side of the road and installing more pumps. That hasn't worked, so now they're digging out the ground cover on the other side of the road. And knocking holes in the crash barrier at the low spots to allow the flood water to drain on both sides of the road. And over at the Soi 9 police station, the latest in car accessories on display. Edited May 21, 2021 by forcebwithu 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
forcebwithu Posted May 25, 2021 Share Posted May 25, 2021 First time I've seen the BIB set up shop in a private business. Prom Guesthouse yesterday evening. The cashier at Prom told me they were processing vendor permits for the street carts. They were quite slow about it too. I watched them for close to an hour walking back and forth from the blue cart in the background with various bits of paper. They were still working on that one permit when I left. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KWA Posted May 25, 2021 Share Posted May 25, 2021 A few outlets open at the corner of Soi Love Inn and Arunotai. Doesn't take much to set up a business here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
forcebwithu Posted May 25, 2021 Share Posted May 25, 2021 25 minutes ago, KWA said: A few outlets open at the corner of Soi Love Inn and Arunotai. Doesn't take much to set up a business here. What I've noticed with the opening of the new markets and food outlets on that corner is a big uptick in customer traffic in the area. What was previously a rather dead area now has a positive vibe to it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
forcebwithu Posted May 26, 2021 Share Posted May 26, 2021 Pics from this morning's ride down to Na Jomtien and back. The new park in Jomtien. Think it's going to be more of a mosquito magnet than anything worth visiting. And a new water park under development near by. And looks like more development planned for the future. Certainly no shortage of water in the area. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
forcebwithu Posted May 30, 2021 Share Posted May 30, 2021 Looks like time has run out for the group of beer bars and shops along Naklua Soi 33. Whatever development is going in there it will take up the entire length of the soi and half the land in between two soi's. If there were more feet on the ground here, this would make for a good post in the where was this taken topic. 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
forcebwithu Posted June 1, 2021 Share Posted June 1, 2021 Current state of the upgrade to the pumping station that was to be finished May 31st, Thai time. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
forcebwithu Posted June 8, 2021 Share Posted June 8, 2021 Another long time Pattaya bar, Buffalo Bar is heading into the dustbin of history. Don't think we can blame it in on the pandemic though as the bar's decline predated the China virus. Construction update on Tree Town's Pattaya Beach Club. Not sure what this hole in the floor will be. Fountain maybe? Never noticed before, but most, if not all the bars on the south facing side of Tree Town have 2nd floor seating. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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