The Wonders Of The Internet,

Diana was laughing so much I had to see what it was about,

 she was playing Tetris with her younger brother,

I know you can chat to each other over the net and realised that people can play games against each other, but this is the first time I had actually seen it in action, it looks great fun,

we decided to pop along to Soi Bukaow market, taxis are no longer allowed to queue up on Pattaya Tai, so the traffic flows a little easier,

 lots of spices to chose from,

 the live fish shop was also here today,

 as you would expect from a market lots of fresh vegetables too,

outside one of the houses at the plant end of the market I spotted this Frangipani, (Plumeria rubra), it is also known as the Hawaiian Lei flower, is native to warm tropical areas of the Pacific Islands, Caribbean, South America and Mexico,

 not a great picture, but the flowers almost look like they are unreal,

Diana did not see anything she liked, so we had an ice coffee each and made our way home,

of course not having the taxis lined up in Pattaya Tai meant that the traffic could go straight to the traffic lights at the intersection of Third Road, unfortunately the lights seemed to make matters worse,

as soon as we were at home we had some good news, Mahendra, Sunda and Jay had all arrived safe and sound from the UK, so we popped over to see them at their hotel,

 the aquarium in the reception area of Sabai Resort looked good as usual,

 as did the pool,

 whilst telephoning their room at reception I noticed this golfing figure om the counter,

looking closer I spotted this moth, it is a Oleander Hawk-moth, Daphnis nerii (formerly Deilephila nerii), it is found in wide areas of Africa and Asia, it is a migratory species, flying to parts of eastern and southern Europe including the UK during the summer, so this is quiet a traveller! incidentally if you want to buy some eggs in the UK have a look here and grow your own,

 left to right Jay, yours truly, Sunda and Mahendra, we had a drink and a chat,

then we were off to the market, arriving there I saw this, I have never seen one of these before, it is a 200c.c. Keeway Superlight,

single cylinder going into a twin exhaust, not sure I like the matt black finish, but it does stand out from the crowd, if you want to buy one over here it retails for 59,900 baht, at today's rate £1,227 Keeway was established in 1999 in the European Union, thanks to its strategic geographic location in the continent, during the following several years Keeway quickly expanded to Central Eastern Europe and on to Asia,

 the stalls were just about open as we arrived,

 ominous looking skies, but the rain held off,

 a few bits and pieces for the garden,

 three wise frogs,

 opposite the bar Nitipon had a stand this evening,

I had a look along the pet section, our next door neighbour disturbed a burglar a few days ago, so as she lives alone she is going to buy a dog as a deterrent, so I was interested to see what was available,

Diana was interested in some of the Nitipon products, but did not buy any,

 at the bar we meet Dave from the UK and Eve and had a nice chat,

 Brian was there too,

 naturally the girls had to have a ice cream or similar!

we are now one step closer to our dream of watching 3D movies at home, we have about 15 3D Blurays and now we have the player, a Panasonic DMP-BDT210 3D BluRay, I had thought of keeping with Samsumg as that is the television we want to buy, but for the price and the reviews this model has beat the Samsung hands down, 5 out of 5* in What Hi-Fi and a 9 out of 10 from Trusted Reviews, also a great recommendation from Richer Sounds, now all we have to do is wait for the price of the television come down, as we get near to Samsung announcing the 2012 models then the price of the 2011 model we are after will hopefully come down,

we watched Spiderman 2, the BluRay a great improvement over the last time we watched it, on cable, the special effects stunning, I wonder if any of the Spiderman movies will come out in 3D?

to round off the evening Sailor, a great series, if like myself you like things nautical, it sort of runs in the family, Uncle Harry of Christmas rabbit fame was a crusher (the Regulating Petty Officer in charge of administration and discipline) in the Royal Navy, you will like this fly on the wall series, but remember, it was filmed in 1976, so things have moved on a bit since then, with that we were off to bed.