Not a House Building Thread .

[Wasp]

..... this seems to be a "macho" forum - there are more males than females. :

You're right katie . But there's not many farang ladies building houses in Thailand .

I'm sure there's loads of gurrlies on the " hello kitty " site .

The loofah doesn't really grow on trees. It's not a fruit tree, it's a vine. Here, people grow them using trellises as support. Your loofah was a social climber and used the tree to rise in the social strata. Cheers

This stuff about loofahs is more interesting than I would have thought . A vine !
How does it get out of the sea and up a tree like that ?

And you used to eat it ? Honest ?? Yuckitty.

[Wasp]

No don't stop Wasp if you have something to post stick it on. I look at all the threads everyday so don't feel lonely. I also enjoy reading about the Indolent brother to see what he is not up to.
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bankao , Roobarb , FatOne , koman , roger77 ....... when I asked if anyone is still reading I wasn't thinking just of my stuff .
I wrote on Roobarb's and on Bettyboo's two days ago and I'm disappointed when I look there again two days later ( today ) and I see the last comment was from ' Wasp ' .

The last person I want to read is Wasp FGS . So indeed it has gone a bit quiet generally .Except one of the chief villains is holding Nelson's telescope to his Nelson's eye when looking out for who the assassins are !

bankao ... thanks . I'll stop feeling lonely .

And The Indolent Brother ??? ..... Well .... he gets his own chapter soon because he seems to be out of his lifelong coma and has been seen buying a drill !!


........ Wasp

[koman]

No don't stop Wasp if you have something to post stick it on. I look at all the threads everyday so don't feel lonely. I also enjoy reading about the Indolent brother to see what he is not up to.
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bankao , Roobarb , FatOne , koman , roger77 ....... when I asked if anyone is still reading I wasn't thinking just of my stuff .
I wrote on Roobarb's and on Bettyboo's two days ago and I'm disappointed when I look there again two days later ( today ) and I see the last comment was from ' Wasp ' .

The last person I want to read is Wasp FGS . So indeed it has gone a bit quiet generally .

And bankao ... thanks . I'll stop feeling lonely . Anyway I'm sure katie will kick off when she reads about hello kitty !

And The Indolent Brother ??? .. well .... he gets his own chapter soon because he seems to be out of his lifelong coma and has been seen buying a drill !


........ Wasp

A general malaise has fallen over the build threads, mostly because of Betty's unjust and damaging remarks about Frankie. (and yes, Betty has the build thread with no kitchen or wall or anything that lines up properly)....and he's sitting in some Emirate gloating and trying to master three chord riffs, while his long suffering Thai family struggle to complete the project.

Then we have that Roobarb guy cheering him on.....mainly to distract from his salvaged wood being eaten by termites and various boring worms. Sinkholes opening up on the land, causing earth tremors... and hoards of villagers cleaning out his snail supply.....not to mention knee-high kitchen counters.....

To cause even further discord, Betty introduces a prototype pickup truck into the mix and then posts color charts asking for advise on which paint he should use....as if anybody else gives a shit what color he paints his house.

No wonder the bloody build threads have cooled off.....I mean they have turned into Twitter accounts FFS..... Even YOU Wasp have hopped on the anti-Frankie bandwagon....in a low key sort of way....but still. Now you veer off into discussions about plant growth on parasitic vines.....

There's hope thankfully....FatOne is in the early build stages, with Monks and holes full of rebar.....so he may be able to drag us all back to "building" and bring back some life to the construction section of TD. I see Lost and Found running a new thread on building a fucking chicken -coup in Cambodia that is creating far more interest and action than the lot of us put together.

In the meantime we can only hope that BettyBoo, Roobarb and a few others bone up a bit on kitchen design and oven cabinets in particular, so they can appreciate early formwork and be more inclined to encourage the disclosure of small imperfections in other people's efforts, rather than exploit them for their own ends........

I'm thinking of posting a whole series of wall building photos just to piss BB off......but I'll hold off for a day or two just to see how things go....

[Roobarb]

Dont stop. I'm reading too

Welcome Roger, good on yer for showing your appreciation.

I just dont have anything clever to say.

Keep posting, you'll clearly fit in well around here...

[Wasp]

Dont stop.
I'm reading too, I just dont have anything clever to say.

Doesn't stop Bettyboo .

[bankao dreamer]

A whole chapter regarding the indolent brother !! cant wait.
Whats he want a drill for ?

[BKKBILL]

I have been following all these builds for quite some time now and am starting to sense some problems brewing what with Frankie being male, female, gay, bi goodness me maybe koman is right there is no hope.

Now we have to study chicken coops in Cambodia, kitchen design, massive amounts of wall building. This is getting hard very, very hard.

Understandable katie23 is wandering.

Knee-high indeed.

[Wasp]

A whole chapter regarding the indolent brother !! cant wait.
Whats he want a drill for ?

It looks profeshnull if you can say " Hav Drrrrrrrrrrrrrrr " .

Just needs to learn to hold the other end .

[Wasp]

bankao dreamer; A whole chapter regarding The Indolent Brother !! cant wait.

............. there's also LadyPig to look forward to .


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[roger77]

I just dont have anything clever to say.

Keep posting, you'll clearly fit in well around here... [/QUOTE]

Was that sarcasm ???

[Roobarb]

^ No, very genuinely Roger, few of the rest of us have much of a clue about what we are going on about but it doesn't stop us from polluting the threads with our drivel.

You're welcome to join the fray any time, having something clever to say is certainly not a prerequisite to posting around here...

... indeed some might say it's frowned upon

[comet8]

Keep up the good work Wasp with more reports and photo`s...i`m sure everyone loves all the build threads with photo`s. This page was a bit of a downer with no photo`s..but Komans comments made up for it...awsome. And what would we do without the Franken-lith.

[katie23]

@roobarb - Hi Roobarb, pleased to meet you. <curtsey> I sometimes come to the construction threads, when time permits, and when my net cooperates. I think I should've said the "male farang mind", since I'm already familiar with how the minds of my countrymen work.

In case you guys didn't know, I'm not a female farang, I'm a Filipina. (too many F's there, lol)

@koman - I've been reading a lot about this Frankie...

@wasp - what's this hello kitty site? Is it this?


hello kitty world in Malaysia?


which is very near Legoland? (me wants to go there in the future)

[katie23]

@wasp - re: loofas, we didn't eat them when they were mature and fibrous like in your pics. They are harvested when they are green. They're soft and succulent. If it's the loofah, Luffa cylindrica, it's cooked as a soup with some soft rice noodles (misua).


If it's the bottle gourd/white gourd, Lageraria siceraria, it's just sauteed like this. This one was cooked with vermicelli noodles (noodles & shrimp optional).


The dishes look similar, I know, but the veggies/fruit are of different consistencies. Together with bitter gourd, squash, watermelon, melon, zucchini, cucumber, they all belong to the cucurbit family - Cucurbitaceae.

Comet said this page lacked pics. If you're offended by Hello Kitty and friends, I will edit them out next time.

[sabang]

Quite the makeover this one- I don't think we have many examples of that in the builders threads, mainly stuff put up from scratch. Entertaining commentary too, and part of putting up your new house is about getting into your new home and it's surrounds, the Lifestyle. Quite a large part actually- I think we have several part builders/ part lifestyle threads, my 'dummies' thread an obvious example.

Cheers Wasp.

[Wasp]

Katie : They're soft and succulent. .............. Sounds nice .

Katie :Comet said this page lacked pics.
Well that's just one Page . These stories can go pages and pages without pics as folks gets sidetracked .

Katie : If you're offended by Hello Kitty and friends, I will edit them out next time.
No . Not at all . I introduced Kitty so I must take my punishment .

.... and Katie - if you are in Thailand and you are a Philipina then yes you ARE a falang !
Missy cannot get used to this idea that when she is in England she is the falang .She is most offended by that .
In her mind " falang " means old , white , male and probably overweight.

I think that's based 90% on me.

And Katie ....... it's hard to believe that you are a Philipina .
You speak English far better than most English and certainly better than every single member of my family !!

Wasp

[Wasp]

Quite the makeover this one- I don't think we have many examples of that in the builders threads, mainly stuff put up from scratch. Entertaining commentary too, and part of putting up your new house is about getting into your new home and it's surrounds, the Lifestyle. Quite a large part actually- I think we have several part builders/ part lifestyle threads, my 'dummies' thread an obvious example.

Cheers Wasp.

Sabang .... Your ' Dummies 'thread was what got me going really on this site .
I read it all the way through because I found it so entertaining with your Mrs Santa Claus , your shopette , the cute munchkin , stick insect , scorpions , Abo painting , pegleg dog , Doghouse .....
You even fitted in some house-building too !

I don't know why your thread doesn't get referenced more because it's as thorough as koman's excellence and Roobarb's quirkiness .

But most of all Sabang - it was the words about your MIL that still haunt me as they describe some people that I know too .
When you said ... This is a woman who laboured all her life to ensure her children received the best she could give them, and who also took care of the rest of the family in Ubon on what she could send back from Bangkok on her measly wages. There is no more deserving Happiness- this woman Humbles me.

Still moves me sabang .

And good on you for saying it .


Wasp

[Wasp]

Maybe some building photos are needed here .

After Hello Kitty and loofah soup .

So .....





Night Time at Wat Wasp .

It pleases me to see the expensive clothes rail being put to its proper use .

The Indolent Brother's sunlounger left out for the dogs to use , the bag of cement and the long-reach brush .

Lovely stuff .





A few more rags left out for the ants to nestle into .

Only thing missing is a dog .

In this photo that window on the upper floor is a large bedroom .
Photos of the interior following .












Missy was very happy with that glass door .
So happy she went downstairs and made a little video walking around and then walking upstairs and she and the camera walked into the glass door !

She's an idiot really ... and I tell you the next bit with my hand on my heart.
HONEST . Hand on Heart ..... she knows fallangs like steaks and sausages and chicken nuggets et cetera . But salads/fruit not quite as much .
She on the other hand loves vegetables . Partly the original poverty but mostly a genuine love for different leaves and veggies .

So she was astonished in England at the popularity of a song on the radio all about fruit !!

There was a hit song by 'Lulu' with 'Take That' . " Relight My Fire " .

She listened to it a lot on Radio 2 and she tried to sing along --- utterly convinced they were singing " We Like Papapaya " .

Hand on my Heart .

Try singing it !!!!




This one is only here to show the ceiling .

These three photos are of the upper floor extension .
If you swivel around with the camera you are looking into the original upstairs room of the original house .

Hang on .

No photos !!!

OK ..... I'll go and look and come back in a bit .


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[bankao dreamer]

In the one photo the Roman Kings stand out in all there magnificence ( gleaming white against a green wall ) but oh dismay in a couple more they have been painted the same as the wall. This diminishes them terribly please please ask Missy to rectify this travesty.

If I may Wasp I would like to thank Katie for her valued input regarding Loofahs.

[Wasp]

In the one photo the Roman Kings stand out in all there magnificence ( gleaming white against a green wall ) but oh dismay in a couple more they have been painted the same as the wall. This diminishes them terribly please please ask Missy to rectify this travesty.

If I may Wasp I would like to thank Katie for her valued input regarding Loofahs.

You're right about Katie's loofahs .




You know .. I forgot about the change of colour with those internal Roman Kings !

And I don't know which way they finished up but Missy is there right now so I'll get some photos of how it is today .

I suspect it was me getting a bit weary of Romans everywhere I looked .

You can even lean against one when you're not feeling well and you're sitting on zee crapper !!!!!







Took a fine bit of planning to get that just there .

Supply of Paracetamol behind . Handy spray gun for various cleaning needs .

She thinks of everything .

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Wasp

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[BKKBILL]

Must agree with BD the white does make the Roman Kings look good, that green is a powerful shade although it could diminish future sales.

[Wasp]

Must agree with BD the white does make the Roman Kings look good, that green is a powerful shade although it could diminish future sales.

I'll get my Thailand team to look into this .

[Bettyboo]

You may want to consider contacting the Greco-Roman column company and asking for sponsorship. They could take pics of your home and put them in their catalogue and showroom, perhaps an arrow and a sign on the main road towards your home, a banner hanging from the second floor. Ask for 10,000 baht per month, initially, then negotiate the best deal you can - it's all beer money!

[Wasp]

You may want to consider contacting the Greco-Roman column company and asking for sponsorship. They could take pics of your home and put them in their catalogue and showroom, perhaps an arrow and a sign on the main road towards your home, a banner hanging from the second floor. Ask for 10,000 baht per month, initially, then negotiate the best deal you can - it's all beer money!

Hello Betts .

I already tried this Betty .

I approached Google Maps and showed them that it would be worth sponsoring me to promote their maps .





They were amazingly disinterested in the idea !

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Wasp

[koman]

Have to agree with BD's comment about the Roman columns being painted green. NO Roman would have green columns......but white....promotion to Tribune stuff.

The white ones do look nice and definitely distinguish the place from your regular village houses.

Can't believe Google Maps dismissed your proposal......they won't last with that kind of attitude....in fact I'm so disgusted, I'm going out to buy some paper maps today so I don't have to access them anymore.....assholes....