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After getting my mobile stolen under the fun Thai New Year ‘Songkran’ it was time for me to find a new one….  so I can now be reached again - my Thai number is +66 844231427.

Bonus info: in the huge tech mall MBK I was running around 2 hours time to decide what mobile to pick…  damn, there’s a lot to chose from!
I ended up trying out a LG - small, rather cool and a decent camera (1,3 Mpixel as last time) - its a LG 320…

SO PLEASE write me - I lost every phone number in my old one… DAMN!

Wild Orchid Villa showed Thomas and I the bad side of people yesterday - I cannot recommend to stay at a hotel/restaurant showing that kind of BAD service and attitude!
Yesterday was the last day with LOTS of water and chalk and at Wild Orchid Villa the staff and some friends of theirs was really celebrating spraying water with a water hose, starting already at around 12.00… everybody was having fun and it was certainly a party…
Thomas joined me at 14.30 we got a couple of beers and went around….
Came back to Wild Orchid Villa around 21-22 (I was staying there…) and we got a couple beers more and got invited to join the fun, so some of the local guys gave us some BIG water guns… NICE…
At around 2245 it was just Thomas and I sitting at the wet area and some girl (she turned out to be a psycotic manager of Wild Orchid Villa!!??) came and ask us casually to bring in a 400-600 liter ice cooler… a cooler filled with water used for the splashing of people… we smiled but did nothing.
She came back again and tried to do it herselves and we shot her with just a small spray of water and she went balistic!!! Slapping Thomas in the face, being held back by her collegues, but even managed to throw 2 rather big water guns at Thomas…. Great managers they have at Wild Orchid Villa!
After some long talk with the staff that openly said that they didnt care about it or to help in any way… I mean her apology would have been aporeciated… in fact they just asked us to pay the bill, which I refused before we could have a talk with the manager… that made them ‘order’ a beating squad… YES… they staff and their friends was telling us we better pay now or suffer the consequences… yeah, in fact rather scary!!!
Luckily a police man came around… I tried to the the staff to call the Tourist Police, but they refused…. so I got the nice staff at New Siam 1 to help me… and I guess that was the Police man showing up. He was very polite and checked the case….talked with the shouting manager at Wild Orcid Villa and us…. and asked what we would like… we just asked for an apology… and the manager manged to give a very angry and cold apology… yes, she was still furious!
I went up, packed my backpack and we left for another hotel - even having payed for the night it was certainly not worth staying there or EVER spending anymore money at Wild Orchid Villa!!
Strange how people can snap like that… never got that kind of BAD service and attitude i Thailand before!

Just changed my hotel from New Siam II - nothing wrong with Siam II just wanted to try something new…..  And Wild Orchid Villa is pretty nice and their lounge and restaurant is more cozy…
Gonna be another wild day of WATER and CHALK….  these thais and farangs (thai for foreigners) are going totally insane in shooting and throwing water and chalk celebrating the New Year - and everybody is just in such a great mood….
But I do hope that I can leave for one of the islands tomorrow…

Latest news - eventhough I lost my mobile Thomas and I are in contact, so he’ll be joining the ‘party’!

Yeah, the Thai New Year is an experience full of joy and good fun - and LOADS of water and chalk… unfortunately I decided to put my mobile phone and a little money in a plastic bag (sort of a good idea), and in the huge crowd it got stolen…. stolen on the first day here… never got anything stolen before…

SOOOO Please send me your mobile phone number on a email!! I lost everything!!!
And until I’m back - email me at nk(at)Addvisors(dot)dk

This really sucks

I even lost the pictures from today…. damn it!

Yes, I took the really really monkey class trip…  rather cheap but with a 4 hours stop in Moscow….  and this airport is really in a tough competition with Charles de Gaulle in Paris - what a boring place to be….  even the ‘first class lounge’ is NOT first class, but they do have free old computers with Internet (blogging from one) and free coke ect….  but the food in the ‘restaurants’ is just as crappy as the food in Charles de Gaulle - isnt it ironic that France and Paris with is fine food has one the worst airports when it comes to food, and everything else in that airport….  the airport in Sharm el Sheik, Egypt, has better sandwiches…
Anyway for a 4 hours wait this airport could be worse….  and the trip over here went fine - I booked Aeroflot and got an half empty SAS airplane…  of course with the new SAS policy, you pay for everything…  like 3,5 USD for a Coke…  upside is that you dont have to politely tell them that you dont want their crappy sandwiches…  now you need to buy them, whoever is mad and hungry enough to do that…

CU!

Damn it! One thing I forgot to check… and now 12 hourse before I leave my apartment I realize that my diving computer Suunto Stinger is low at battery - tooo low to do any kind of diving with it…
So now I need to find a diving shop in Bangkok to fix it before I go diving… and Google is as always helpful!

Skaiste Knyzaite, CEO Addvisors Vilnius, has been invited to speak about Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and PPC at a local 2 days seminar in Vilnius, Lithuania - a seminar about online marketing and business in a broad sense with speakers from both Google Poland, local Adnet and now also Addvisors Vilnius.
I will be at vacation at the time for the seminar, which is (in that sense) a shame…  I would have loved to she her speaking at the seminar…  Good luck Skaiste, the invitation is well deserved!

Damn it! Because of Songkran, the Thai New Year, every small hut, bungalow or room at a resort is booked by the Thais moving out from Bangkok to the small islands around - islands like Koh Chang and Koh Samet. So Thomas and I decided that we’ll stay in Bangkok and try to see how the Thais celebrate the Songkran…  gonna be interesting!
But Monday I’ll be going to Koh Chang, thats for sure…  a great thing about going with a backpack and only the airplane ticket is that changes can be anytime or anywhere…  gonna be fun!

Oh yes, I do know that Hobbits are small and my friend Bilbo Stilbo is not an exception, but check Bilbo Stilbo out as a kid…  nearly everyting is just soooo small..
Btw rather nice kid…  did change a lot over time… 

Btw thanx for the picture Christian…  brave of you..