Established in 1993
VOL.XXVI No. 44
Pattaya’s First English Language Newspaper
FRIDAY NOVEMBER 2 - NOVEMBER 8, 2018
26th Year
30 BAHT
Indonesia Lion Air flight with 189 on board crashes into sea Chantaburi fishermen ask Sonthaya to lobby PM over restrictive fishery laws Warapun Jaikusol Chantaburi subsistence fishermen have appealed to Pattaya’s mayor to use his close ties to Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha to get them exempted from new fishing laws enacted to protect Thailand’s seafood exports to Europe. Former Chonburi MPs Yukol Chanawatpanya and Thawatchai Anampong met Oct.24withSonthayaKunplome on behalf of the independent fishermen, who say stricter laws on boat registration and equipment have put them out of business. The three requirements they say they are most
concerned with are: 1. The boat’s hull must be registered by the Marine Department, 2. Captain, helmsman, and mechanic must have licenses issued by the Marine Department, and 3. A fishery license must be applied for at the district office. The fishermen want Sonthaya to lobby the prime minister personally to get the government to pay the outof-work fishermen compensation, exempt them from laws against environmentally dangerous fishing nets and make it easier for them to employ Southeast Asian migrants as crewmen. Continued on page 3
A member of the Indonesian Search and Rescue Agency (BASARNAS) inspects debris believed to be from the Lion Air passenger jet that crashed off Java Island at Tanjung Priok Port in Jakarta, Indonesia, Monday, Oct. 29, 2018. A Lion Air flight crashed into the sea just minutes after taking off from Indonesia’s capital on Monday. The search and rescue effort has recovered human remains, and based on their condition, one of its top officials said they’re not expecting to find any survivors. (AP Photo/Tatan Syuflana) (Full story on page 6.)
2 FRIDAY NOVEMBER 2, 2018
PATTAYA MAIL
VOL. XXVI No. 44
Record companies look to Pattaya police scramble to quell chaotic Terminal 21 traffic mayor regarding license fees
Pattaya Music Association President Banjong Banthoonprayuk meets with Mayor Sonthaya Kunplome, asking that he negotiate on the group’s behalf with the Provincial Commercial Office and copyright owners to resolve their long-running dispute.
Music copyright holders have asked Pattaya’s mayor to enter the ongoing dispute between record companies and entertainment venues over license fees. Pattaya Music Association President and former City Councilman Banjong Banthoonprayuk met with Sonthaya Kunplome Oct. 24, asking in writing that he negotiate on the group’s behalf with the Provincial Commercial Office and copyright owners to resolve their long-running dispute.
In September, Banglamung District said it would act as a mediator between musiccopyright holders and Pattaya-area bars and clubs. Apparently Banjong – who served with Sonthaya’s brother Itthiphol in city government – wants a friendlier face involved. Banglamung organized a meeting earlier this month to address complaints by bars and clubs that collection agents – both real and fake – continue to pester them over paying just to play
music in their businesses. Many times, bar owners complain, they’re being forced to pay multiple times for the same license. Meanwhile, music companies claim they’re losing out on revenue legally guaranteed them and have threatened to sue entertainment venues. Banjong earlier said copyright holders wanted to find an amicable resolution, admitting some bars had been paying fake agents for as many as 10 years. (PCPR)
Traffic inspector Pol. Maj. Aruth Sapanon said authorities are taking steps to improve traffic flowing near the new mall.
Warapun Jaikusol Pattaya traffic police are scrambling to quash the congestion caused by the opening of the new Terminal 21 shopping mall. The Oct. 19 opening of the new mall on Phettrakul Road at North Road brought traffic Armageddon to North Pattaya, with many of those caught up in the gridlock venting their frustration online. Traffic inspector Pol. Maj. Aruth Sapanon downplayed
the opening weekend madness, saying it was just the initial crush of huge crowds there for the first few days. However, he said authorities are taking steps to improve traffic flowing near the new mall by painting curbs as “no parking” zones from the Best Supermarket to the Phettrakul intersection. Jaywalking pedestrians also are to blame, he said, so crosswalks will be repainted and those on foot urged to cross only on them.
Finally, orange cones will be placed to sort traffic during rush hour, much as is done near Central Festival Pattaya Beach, another huge mall placed on busy streets with narrow access roads to parking leading to terrible backups on weekends and holidays. The long-term solution to the Terminal 21 traffic mess, Aruth said, would be to completely reopen the Dolphin Roundabout and get the mall itself to do more to control its traffic.
Minivan operators appeal to Pattaya mayor to lobby PM against new safety rules
Nongprue canals dredged Jetsada Homklin Nongprue dredged drainage canals near Soi Nonghin to mitigate flooding. Banjong Kumbungka, head of the sub-district’s Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Department, led the Oct. 24 operation, which scraped out garbage and natural debris from waterways to increase the amount of storm runoff they can handle and relieve flooding. Wider is better when it comes to flood drainage canals.
Interprovincial minivan operators appealed to Mayor Sonthaya Kunplome, asking him use his influence with Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha and lobby on their behalf.
Interprovincial minivan operators appealed to Pattaya’s mayor to use his influence with Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha to lobby for relaxation of rules phasing out old vans and
requiring operators convert to larger, safer minibuses. The rules, put in place in response to Thailand’s world’s worst highway fatality rate and the large number of fatal minivan crashes, call for the phasing out of more than 2,000 minivans this year and thousands more in each of the next three years. Boonsong Srisakul, president of the Provincial Public Van Association, and the heads of associations of operators of Bangkok and interprovincial minivans, presented a letter to Mayor Sonthaya Kunplome, asking him to give it to Prayut and lobby on their behalf. Sonthaya, appointed by Prayut as Pattaya’s mayor after serving as his political advisor, is seen as having
the premier’s ear. The van operators want the prime minister to extend the lifetimes of minivans facing forced retirement by up to five more years and drop entirely the requirement that operators switch to larger minibuses, which are considered far safer than minivans, which repeatedly have been overloaded, crashed and burst into flames. If the government insists on making operators switch to minibuses, Boonsong said, the government should give operators tax cuts and credits plus financial assistance to buy them. Sonthaya listened to the van operators’ pleas without giving his opinion and said he’d pass on the letter. (PCPR)
VOL. XXVI No. 44
PATTAYA MAIL
Chantaburi fishermen ask Sonthaya to lobby PM over restrictive fishery laws
Former Chonburi MPs Yukol Chanawatpanya and Thawatchai Anampong met with Sonthaya Kunplome on behalf of independent fishermen, who say stricter laws on boat registration and equipment have put them out of business.
From page 1 Sonthaya, a former MP himself, was appointed Pattaya mayor by Prayut after serving as his political advisor earlier this year and is seen as having the premier’s ear. The appeal came after a large number of small boats were impounded by the Marine Department for failure to comply with laws put into effect in 2015. Thailand took swift and strict action to bring its fishing industry up to world standards after the European
Union threatened to ban all Thai seafood imports for failure to meet its laws on illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing. It took nearly three years to get Thailand off the hook, but not before many smaller fishermen went out of business. The Chantaburi fishing association says 80 percent of its members are independent subsistence fishermen who have now had their boats locked up. Some members quit the industry, others fell into debt and went bankrupt, kids dropped out of school due to families being unable
to pay tuition fees, and some fishermen even committed suicide, the MPs told Sonthaya, because they either could not register their boat, get licenses for crew or meet equipment requirements. The fishermen are seeking compensation for lost wages, exempting them on prohibitions against certain nets and a restart of a “one-stop shop” program that allowed Cambodians and Burmese to easily enter the country to work on fishing boats to address a labor shortage.
Pattaya announces 3-phase flood-mitigation project Jetsada Homklin Pattaya officials said they have a three-phase plan to reduce flooding on Beach Road, but although details were lacking for the 3rd phase. Deputy Mayor Poramet Ngampichet met Oct. 25 with city engineers and sanitation staffers, Marine Department officials and the consultant to the ongoing Pattaya Beach restoration project. The meeting was called in response to another disastrous rainy season in Pattaya where, unable to use existing pipes to drain water from Beach Road efficiently, the city demolished parts of the shoreline footpath to let water drain into the sea, cutting huge swaths out of a beach currently being rebuilt at the cost of more than a half-billion baht. Poramet said the first urgent stage is to clean out all the pipes leading to the
Deputy Mayor Poramet Ngampichet met with city engineers and sanitation staffers, Marine Department officials and the consultant to the ongoing Pattaya Beach restoration project to discuss a three-phase plan to reduce flooding on Beach Road.
beach and manage the existing drainage system at critical points. The second phase, he said, calls for improvement of the
existing drainage system along Beach Road, including relatively new, wide and long pipelines at Soi 6/1 and near the old pier in South Pattaya. Old pipes will be linked with the newer, larger pipelines every 30 meters so that water moves through them at 0.6-3 meters per second. Any slower and sediment builds up and clogs pipes. Any faster and the pipes break. The third phase, Poramet said, would entail long-term development. No other details were forthcoming.
FRIDAY NOVEMBER 2, 2018 3
4 FRIDAY NOVEMBER 2, 2018
PATTAYA MAIL
Nongprue police hunt sidecar burglars
VOL. XXVI No. 44
Chinese loan-shark call center raided in Pattaya
Boonlua Chatree Nongprue police are hunting a pair of burglars caught on video escaping in a sidecar motorcycle. Police were called out to Suaymaingam Village Oct. 19 after the thieves took two televisions, brand-name clothing and a gold watch. Panthip Somjai, 22, said she had gone out to work at 9 a.m. and returned to find the 100,000 baht in property gone. Neighborhood security cameras captured the burglars casing the neighborhood on their three-wheeler
Nongprue police are hunting a pair of burglars caught on video escaping in a sidecar motorcycle.
then take just 10 minutes to get in and out of Panthip’s house.
Police have the video images and planned to check pawn shops to nab the burglars.
Pharmacist, 73, jailed for selling prescription drugs to teens
An elderly Sattahip woman was arrested for selling a mixture of cough syrup and pain relievers that sent two local teens to the hospital.
Thai teens increasingly are grinding up packs of 20 500mg. tablets of the potent pain reliever, mixing them with 60 ml. of Mano-coff and diluting it with up to four liters of soda water or Coke. The mix supposedly gives them a euphoric high. But it also leads to liver and kidney failure, seizures, depression, addiction and even death. A prescription drug and controlled substance in the
west, Tramadol is easily and cheaply available over the counter for just 70 baht for a pack of 10 fast-acting tablets. She sold the Mano-coff at 170 baht. Public-health officials said Chaiyaporn Pharmacy was licensed to sell only overthe-counter drugs, not controlled substances. Wandee faces up to three years in prison and fines of up to 35,000 baht.
Isan man fined for pleasuring himself in public Boonlua Chatree A Khon Kaen man was arrested for masturbating on his motorcycle in front of bar hostesses in Pattaya. Jetpinit Nonseiharach, 26, was taken into custody at
Boonlua Chatree Pattaya immigration police arrested 13 Chinese nationals on charges of working without a permit in a loan-shark call center aimed at extorting mainland victims.
Patcharapol Panrak An elderly Sattahip woman was arrested for selling a mixture of cough syrup and pain relievers that sent two local teens to the hospital. Wandee Sirisamphan, 73, was taken into custody Oct. 22 at the Chaiyaporn Pharmacy in Sattahip Market by District Chief Anucha Intasorn, narcotics officers and public-health officials. She was charged with selling unregistered drugs, selling medicine not allowed under her license and working as a pharmacist without a license. Police seized 3,820 capsules of pain reliever Tramadol, and 123 packs of sexual performance drugs Caverta, Viagra and Sidegra. The arrest came after two teenagers overdosed on the so-called “4x100 mixture” of Tramadol, cough syrup Manu-coff and cola.
Pattaya immigration police arrested 13 Chinese nationals on charges of working without a permit in a loan-shark call center aimed at extorting mainland victims.
his apartment in Sattahip Oct. 24 after he was caught on video pleasuring himself outside the Season Chill pub on Third Road. It was the third time Jetpinit was arrested for public indecency and lewd behavior.
Read more news at pattayamail.com
Police said Jetpinit confessed that while he has a girlfriend he likes to masturbate in public. He claimed he was undergoing mental-health treatment in Isan, but stopped taking his medicine. He was fined 5,000 baht and released.
Officers stormed the rented house in Nongprue’s Moo 6 village Oct. 24 where they found the Chinese living there working on 13 computers and 28 mobile phones to contact compatriots back home via chat applications. Police said they worked as
debt collectors for a mainland loan-sharking ring and brought in about 12 million baht a month from 2,000 victims. If anyone did not transfer cash to their accounts, the call center dispatched gangsters to threaten the borrowers.
Police finally act after serial wife-beater attacks toddler Boonlua Chatree A Cambodian woman who repeatedly reported her Thai husband for spousal abuse turned him in again after he attacked their 3-month-old son. Kimhong Mao, 37, told officers that she was holding her toddler when her husband of about a year, identified only as Golf, 32, hit them and refused to let her leave their apartment on Soi Khao Talo 8. Finally, she said, Golf left the room and she escaped. The woman said she had reported Golf several times
to police, as he has been doing drugs and beating her since she was pregnant. But police did nothing after he promised not to hit her again. This time, officers were dispatched to bring him in and Kimhong and her child were placed temporarily the AntiHuman Traffic and Child Abuse Center for protection. A Cambodian woman who repeatedly reported her Thai husband for spousal abuse turned him in again after he attacked their 3-month-old son.
Chinese gamblers accuse Nongprue police of demanding 5-million-baht bribe Boonlua Chatree Six Chinese nationals arrested in September for allegedly running an illegal online casino claim Nongprue police demanded a 5-million-baht bribe to drop the charges. Attorney Sirichai Piyapichetkul said his clients planned to submit a letter to national police chief Pol. Gen. Chakthip Chaijinda calling for an independent investigation into Nongprue police, who allegedly barred them access to an attorney, unfairly charged them with additional crimes and used a legal-office representative to solicit a bribe. The six were captured at a rented house on Soi Khao Talo Sept. 18 where they operated online sports-betting and casino websites.
Officers seized computers, mobile phones and 36 ATM cards. The suspects were charged with various immigration offenses, online theft and working without a permit. Police said the operation, allegedly run by Liew Chang, had daily turnover of 2.3 million baht with Liew paid more than 1.3 million baht a month. All the suspects denied they were involved in any crime and said the computers belonged to the previous homeowner. But, because police took their mobile phones, they were unable to contact the Chinese embassy to get a lawyer. Sirichai said that, while his clients were behind bars, they got a chance to contact a legal office for help. This legal office said police wanted 5 million baht to drop
the case and 1.6 million baht for bail in fees. He continued that, on Sept. 26, Nongprue police returned the suspects cars and all the evidence they seized. Again insisting the computers were not theirs, the Chinese crew destroyed them. Nongprue police then charged the six with destroying evidence and demanded an additional 350,000-baht compensation, Sirichai said. Nongprue police chief Pol. Col. Chidecha Songhong denied any wrong-doing by his officers and said police followed proper procedures at all times, although he admitted officers accidentally left the evidence in the car when they returned it. He said he is explaining the details of the case to his superiors.
VOL. XXVI No. 44
PATTAYA MAIL
FRIDAY NOVEMBER 2, 2018 5
Naklua Soi 18/1 exemplifies Years later, East Pattaya village still suffering flooding from neighbor Pattaya’s garbage crisis Somchai Kothlamkaek No street shows how badly Pattaya is coping with its growing mountain of garbage than Naklua Soi 18/1. Even if it were possible to stroll down the sidewalks – it’s not, due to trees that have fallen on them – pedestrians have to traipse through piles of rotting rubbish, plastic bags, food scraps and leaves. At night most the bulbs are burned out, leaving it dark. Neighbors have had enough and are demanding Pattaya City Hall do its job and clean the streets, fix the lights and trim the trees. With a number of hotels nearby, Soi 18/1 paints an ugly picture of Pattaya for tourists.
No street shows how badly Pattaya is coping with its growing mountain of garbage than Naklua Soi 18/1.
The street is only one of many plagued by garbage. Pattaya has been incapable
of picking up trash regularly and, when it does, doesn’t have enough places to dump it.
Baywatch Tree trimmers needed on Soi Arunothai 2 Jetsada Homklin Soi Arunothai 2 residents are calling on Pattaya tree trimmers to do their job before lowhanging branches cause a fire. Branches hanging close to power lines prompted complaints to city hall about possible power outages or fires. They called on the city or Provincial Electricity Authority to cut back the branches.
Deputy Mayor Pattana Boonsawat and Sanitation Department officials inspect Darapan Village 5 where new sewage pipes haven’t solved the long-running fight over wastewater runoff from Eakmongkol Village 8.
New sewage pipes haven’t solved the longrunning fight over wastewater between two East Pattaya villages. For years, the lack of a proper drainage system under Eakmongkol Village 8, off Khao Talo Soi 3, wreaked havoc on residents of neighboring Darapan Village 5. Darapan residents repeatedly have suffered inundation from Eakmongkol storm runoff. Proper drainage pipes were
installed in Eakmongkol in 2015, but the owner of the housing development raised the ground level and blocked a key natural drainage path to the railway parallel road. So, despite new pipes, Darapan continues to flood. Deputy Mayor Pattana Boonsawat and Sanitation Department officials brought bags of consumer products to 50 families affected by the most-recent flooding, telling them that city hall has instructed Eakmongkol’s
operator to open the flood channel. City workers also repaired a flood-damaged road and cleaned out sewers. The long-term plan to solve the area’s flooding woes is a new pumping station with six pumps and a reservoir to catch storm runoff and send it to Huay Yai and Jomtien for processing. The project is only in the design stages, however, so it will be years before it is operational. (PCPR)
6 FRIDAY NOVEMBER 2, 2018
PATTAYA MAIL
VOL. XXVI No. 44
Indonesia says survivors unlikely from Lion Air plane crash Achmad Ibrahim & Stephen Wright Karawang, Indonesia (AP) - A Lion Air plane crashed into the sea just minutes after taking off from Indonesia’s capital on Monday, likely killing all 189 people on board, in a blow to the country’s aviation safety record after the lifting of bans on its airlines by the European Union and U.S. The search and rescue effort has recovered human remains, and based on their condition, one of its top officials said they’re not expecting to find any survivors. More than 300 people including soldiers, police and fishermen are involved in the grim search, retrieving aircraft debris and personal items such as a crumpled cellphone, ID cards, bags and photos from the seas northeast of Jakarta. The accident involving a new plane has stunned Indonesia, and President Joko
Widodo ordered the transport safety commission to investigate. He urged Indonesians to “keep on praying” as rescuers search for victims. An air transport official, Novie Riyanto, said the flight was cleared to return to Jakarta after the pilot made a “return to base” request two to three minutes after taking off. It plunged into the sea about 10 minutes later. Weather conditions were
normal but the aircraft had experienced a technical issue on its previous flight. Lion Air said the jet, on a 1 hour and 10 minute flight to Pangkal Pinang on an island chain off Sumatra, was carrying 181 passengers, including one child and two babies, and eight crew members. It said there were two foreigners on board the plane: its pilot, originally from New Delhi, and an Italian citizen.
Relatives of passengers comfort each other as they wait for news. (AP Photo)
12 of 200 stray dogs rounded up at Banglamung Hospital
Members of the Indonesian Search and Rescue Agency (BASARNAS) stand near debris and personal belongings believed to be from the Lion Air passenger jet that crashed off Java Island. (AP Photo/Tatan Syuflana)
Distraught friends and relatives prayed and hugged each other as they waited at Pangkal Pinang’s airport and at a crisis center set up at Jakarta’s airport. Indonesian TV broadcast pictures of a fuel slick and a debris field in the ocean. The search and rescue agency said the flight ended in waters off West Java that are 30 to 35 meters (100 to 115 feet) deep. Weather conditions for the flight were safe, according to the Indonesian meteorology agency. It said clouds associated with turbulence were not present and winds were weak. The Boeing 737 Max 8 was delivered to Lion Air in midAugust and put in use within days, according to aviation website Flightradar24. It was leased from China Minsheng Investment Group Leasing
Holdings Ltd., according to the official China News Service. Malindo Air, a Malaysian subsidiary of Jakarta-based Lion Air, was the first airline to begin using the 737 Max 8 last year. The Max 8 replaced the similar 800 in the Chicago-based plane maker’s product line. Lion Air president-director Edward Sirait said the plane had a “technical problem” on its previous flight from Bali to Jakarta but it had been fully remedied. He didn’t know specifics of the problem when asked in a TV interview. The pilot of Flight 610 had more than 6,000 flying hours while the co-pilot had more than 5,000 hours, according to the airline. “Indeed there were reports about a technical problem, and the technical problem has been resolved
in accordance with the procedures released by the plane manufacturer,” he said. “I did not know exactly but let it be investigated by the authorities.” Boeing Co. said it was “deeply saddened” by the crash and was prepared to provide technical assistance to Indonesia’s crash probe. The Transport Ministry said the plane took off from Jakarta at about 6:20 a.m. and crashed just 13 minutes later. Data from FlightAware showed it had reached an altitude of only 5,200 feet (1,580 meters). The crash is the worst airline disaster in Indonesia since an AirAsia flight from Surabaya to Singapore plunged into the sea in December 2014, killing all 162 on board. Indonesian airlines were barred in 2007 from flying to Europe because of safety concerns, though several were allowed to resume services in the following decade. The ban was completely lifted in June this year. The U.S. lifted a decade-long ban in 2016. Lion Air, a discount carrier, is one of Indonesia’s youngest and biggest airlines, flying to dozens of domestic and international destinations. In 2013, one of its Boeing 737-800 jets missed the runway while landing on Bali, crashing into the sea without causing any fatalities among the 108 people on board.
Pattaya Hospital promises clearer communication after hothead reporter lambasts non-preferential treatment Keng Na Songkhla
Pattaya’s dog catchers rounded up a dozen stray canines behind Banglamung Hospital Oct. 22.
Jetsada Homklin Pattaya’s dog catchers rounded up 12 stray canines behind Banglamung Hospital, making only a small dent in a problem that’s been going on since March. Pattaya veterinarian Dr. Surapong Wongsuttawad and
support staff visited the vacant lot behind the hospital Oct. 22 following renewed complaints about stray dogs chasing motorbikes and people. More than 200 stray dogs have taken over the fecescovered Naklua Soi 13 parcel that Banglamung Hospital uses as a parking lot.
For seven months, hospital customers and neighbors have complained, saying that, with Chonburi declared a “red zone” for rabies infection, the dogs need to be cleared out. Dog catchers captured only 12 and said they would be sterilized at the Sattahip District shelter.
PATTAYA MAIL PUBLISHING CO., LTD. 62/284-286 Moo 12, Thepprasit Road, Nongprue, Banglamung, Chonburi 20150. Administration, Advertising and Editorial Offices: Tel: 038 411 240-1, 038 413 240-1 • Fax: 038 427 596 E-mail: ptymail@pattayamail.com • Website: http://www.pattayamail.com Managing Director Pratheep S. Malhotra e-mail: pratheep@pattayamail.com Executive Editor Daniel M. Dorothy e-mail: dan@pattayamail.com Kamolthep Malhotra e-mail: prince@pattayamail.com Deputy Managing Director Director-Business Development Suwanthep Malhotra e-mail: tony@pattayamail.com Editor Nopniwat Krailerg e-mail: editor@pattayamail.com Sports Editor Martin Bilsborrow e-mail: martin@pattayamail.com Executive Editor-Pattaya Blatt Elfi Seitz e-mail: elfi@pattayablatt.com Director of Communications Supa Kukarja e-mail: sue@pattayamail.com Senior Special Correspondent Peter Cummins e-mail: npetercummins@hotmail.com Advertising Department Nutsara Duangsri e-mail: nutsara@pattayamail.com News Department: Boonlua Chatree, Jetsada Homklin, Urasin Khantaraphan, Patcharapol Panrak, Theerarak Suthathiwong © Copyright Pattaya Mail Publishing Co., Ltd. (e-mail: newsdesk@pattayamail.com)
Pattaya Hospital administrators are promising to communicate better with patients following a blowup with a self-important reporter who spewed online his anger over not getting special treatment. Deputy Mayor Poramet Ngampichet said Oct. 24 that he had assigned the Public Health Department to meet with all medical personnel to emphasize clear communication of hospital and medical procedures to prevent a repeat of what the hospital now calls a misunderstanding with the parent of a sick child Oct. 22. In both photo and video posts to Facebook, an unidentified reporter claimed that Pattaya Hospital had refused service to his child, who had the symptoms of food poisoning when he went to the emergency room around 4 a.m. With only the reporter’s slanted side of the story and few of the fact, keyboard warriors had their usual field day, lambasting the hospital, causing consternation for
hospital administrators who knew the specifics. Pattaya Hospital Director Dr. Kitti Poramatpol posted the hospital’s official response on his personal Facebook page later that day, a message that was repeated by Pattaya City Hall in its official press release on the matter two days later. Kitti explained that at 4 a.m. there were seven serious cases in the emergency room, including a brain injury and a severe allergic reaction. The reporter’s child, meanwhile, was only vomiting. Nurses took the child’s temperature and checked vital signs which all were normal. Furthermore, Kitti said, the child could walk fine and oxygen saturation levels were 99%, or normal. The child was in no danger and the parent was asked to wait while the critical patients were cared for. The reporter allegedly exploded into a tirade, taking photos, shouting and pointing in the faces of doctors and nurses, threatening to spread bad publicity about the hospital if the child were
not cared for immediately, Kitti said. Unable to get his way, he stormed out of the facility, only to drive back to the entrance way and threaten the E.R. doctor again, Kitti added. The reporter then went home and posted his complaint to Facebook before returning later that day to file an official complaint. When he did, he started recording a live Facebook video and shouting again. The Pattaya Press Association was quick to disavow both the reporter and any involvement in the situation, which President Samart Thoangrod said unfairly damaged the reputations of both the hospital and the media. Samart said the reporter was not a Pattaya Press Association member and condemned his behavior, saying it was unprofessional and unbecoming a member of the media. Kitti now calls the entire incident a misunderstanding and said it was possible hospital staff did not communicate as clearly as possible with the reporter.
VOL. XXVI No. 44
PATTAYA MAIL
FRIDAY NOVEMBER 2, 2018 7
8 FRIDAY NOVEMBER 2, 2018
PATTAYA MAIL
VOL. XXVI No. 44
Poll: Young Americans say online bullying a serious problem Matt O’brien & Barbara Ortutay Wethersfield, Conn. (AP) Teens and young adults say cyberbullying is a serious problem for people their age, but most don’t think they’ll be the ones targeted for digital abuse. That’s according to a new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research and MTV, which also finds that about half of both young people and their parents view social media as having a mostly negative effect on the younger generation. Fifteen-year-old Matty Nev Luby said she’s learned to navigate Instagram and other social media apps by brushing aside the anonymous bullies. “When I see a really mean comment about my appearance or something I did, if someone said that to me online, it means nothing to me, but if I pictured someone I know saying that, I would be really upset,” Luby said. Roughly three-quarters of 15- to 26-year-olds say that online bullying and abuse is a serious problem for their peers. Seven percent of young people say they have
already been a victim of cyberbullying, with young women (11 percent) more likely to say they were bullied than young men (3 percent). “People will make fun of their outfits or weight, their choices,” said Luby, who lives in a suburb of Hartford, Connecticut, and has been dabbling in social media since age 12. Her popularity on the lipsyncing app Musical.ly, which merged this summer into the Chinese video-sharing app TikTok, helped win her some modeling contracts. Now she’s mostly focused on Instagram, where she follows makeup artists and fashion trends. Her mother, Kerrylynn Mahoney, said she’s impressed by her daughter’s ability to keep bullies at bay. “Her responses blow my mind,” Mahoney said. “I’d be fists up at her age. She’s like, ‘I’m sorry you feel that way. You should probably think in a more positive way and then we’d have more peace on earth.’” But she’s also vigilant about monitoring her daughter’s accounts, blocking any followers who seem creepy or fake and trying to steer her away from fixating on pages that degrade women.
Matty Nev Luby holds her phone and logs into the lip-sync smartphone app Musical.ly, in Wethersfield, Conn. Luby said she’s learned to navigate Instagram and other social media apps by brushing aside the anonymous bullies. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill)
“I have to constantly keep her grounded,” Mahoney said. “I’m thankful she’s aware that this is not real. It’s our jobs as parents to reel them back in.” The poll shows majorities of both young people and their parents think parents have a responsibility to help prevent online harassment. The long-documented problem with online bullying is that it is relentless. It doesn’t let up when kids get
home from school, safely in their homes, or even when they move away from their tormentors. Still, like Luby, many young people tend to be more resilient to trolling from strangers online. “If they don’t know who it is, it doesn’t seem to bother them as much,” said Justin Patchin, a criminal justice professor at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire and codirector of the Cyberbullying Research Center. “What
Europe, Japan send spacecraft on 7-year journey to Mercury Mari Yamguchi & Frank Jordans Tokyo (AP) - European and Japanese space agencies said an Ariane 5 rocket successfully lifted a spacecraft carrying two probes into orbit Saturday, Oct. 20 for a joint mission to Mercury, the closest planet to the sun. The European Space Agency and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency said the unmanned BepiColombo spacecraft successfully separated and was sent into orbit from French Guiana as planned to begin a seven-year journey to Mercury. They said the spacecraft, named after Italian scientist Giuseppe “Bepi” Colombo, was in the right orbit and has sent the first signal after the liftoff. ESA says the 1.3 billion-euro mission is one of the most challenging in its history. Mercury’s extreme temperatures, the intense gravity pull of the sun and blistering solar radiation make for hellish conditions. The BepiColombo spacecraft will have to follow an elliptical path that involves a fly-by of Earth, two of Venus and six of Mercury itself so it can slow down before arriving at its destination in December 2025. When it arrives, BepiColombo will release two probes - Bepi and Mio - that will independently investigate the surface and magnetic field of Mercury. The probes are designed to cope with temperatures varying from 430 degrees Celsius (806 F) on the side facing the sun, and -180 degrees Celsius (-292 F) in Mercury’s shadow. The ESA-developed Bepi will operate in Mercury’s inner orbit, and
concerns them is when it’s some kid at school.” Patchin said that among adults, the people perpetuating harassment tend to be strangers, not people they know. Leslie Hernandez, 39, said she thinks the impact of social media on people her age has been mostly positive. “Adults tend to stay away from the drama that is part of adolescence,” said Hernandez, who lives in Tucson, Arizona. “It allows you to connect with people from your past.” According to the poll, she is in the minority. Among parents of 15- to 26-yearolds, about a quarter, 23 percent, say social media has had a mostly positive effect on people their age, while 31 percent say it’s been negative; 45 percent say it’s neither positive nor negative. Among people aged 15 to 26, 47 percent say it’s had a negative effect on their generation, and 26 percent say it’s been a good thing, while another 26 percent think it’s neither. About half of parents, 53 percent, agree social media has had a mostly negative effect on their child’s generation. No matter their age, the overwhelming majority say they see people using discriminatory language or posting such images. Seventy-eight percent of people aged 15 to 26 say they see such posts either sometimes or often, compared with 65 percent of their parents. Only 4 percent of young people and 10 percent of their parents say they never see discriminatory
language or images. Companies like Facebook and Twitter have been trying for years to clamp down on abuse and harassment, with varying degrees of success. Both parents (72 percent) and young people (67 percent) think the companies play a major role in addressing these problems. Roughly two-thirds of parents also attribute responsibility to schools (68 percent), law enforcement (66 percent) and other users who witness the behavior (61 percent). Currently, young internet users report using YouTube (48 percent), Facebook (47 percent), Instagram (40 percent) and Snapchat (39 percent) several times a day or more. Fewer use Twitter, Reddit, WhatsApp, Tumblr or LinkedIn as regularly. Parents who use the internet are most likely to report using Facebook (53 percent) several times a day or more, with few being heavy users of other social media sites. Hernandez said she’s “pretty active” on Facebook, in part because of her job as a student housing manager at a college. “Snapchat feels a little less personal to me,” she said. “On Facebook you can kind of follow people and see what’s going on in their lives in a more permanent kind of way. A Snapchat image, people will forget. On Instagram, people can enjoy the pictures but don’t really see a whole (life).” Online: AP-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research: http:// www.apnorc.org
12-pound lunar meteorite sells for more than $600,000
In this photo released by European Space Agency (ESA), the Ariane 5 rocket carrying BepiColombo lifts off from its launch pad at Kourou in French Guiana, for the mission to Mercury, Saturday, Oct. 20, 2018. (JM Guillon/2018 ESA-CNES-Arianespace via AP)
JAXA’s Mio will be in the outer orbit to gather data that would reveal the internal structure of the planet, its surface and geological evolution. Scientists hope to build on the insights gained by NASA’s Messenger probe, which ended its mission in 2015 after a four-year orbit of Mercury. The only other spacecraft to visit Mercury was NASA’s Mariner 10 that flew past the planet in the mid-1970s. Mercury, which is only slightly larger than Earth’s moon, has a massive iron core about which little is known. Researchers are also hoping to learn more about the formation of the solar system from the data gathered by the BepiColombo mission.
“Beyond completing the challenging journey, this mission will return a huge bounty of science,” said Jan Wörner, ESA Director General, in a statement. JAXA President Hiroshi Yamakawa, who earlier managed the project, said, “We have high expectations that the ensuing detailed observations of Mercury will help us better understand the environment of the planet, and ultimately, the origin of the Solar System including that of Earth.” It is the second recent cooperation between the Europeans and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency. JAXA’s Hayabusa2 probe dropped a German-French rover on the asteroid Ryugu earlier this month.
(AP Photo/ Rodrique Ngowi)
Boston (AP) - A 12-pound (5.5 kilogram) chunk of the moon that fell to the Earth as a lunar meteorite has been sold at auction for more than $600,000. Boston-based RR Auction announced Friday the $612,500 winning bid for the meteorite, composed of six fragments that fit together like a puzzle, came from a representative working with the Tam Chuc Pagoda complex
in Ha Nam Province, Vietnam. RR predicted it would get $500,000 at auction. The meteorite was found last year in a remote area of Mauritania in northwest Africa. It is considered one of the most significant lunar meteorites ever found because of its large size and because it has “partial fusion crust” caused by the tremendous heat that sears the rock as it falls to Earth.
VOL. XXVI No. 44
FRIDAY NOVEMBER 2, 2018 9
PATTAYA MAIL
Wonder Cures! Big Pharma has developed so many wonder cures, there will soon be nothing left to cure. If that were only the case. However, every week the pharmaceutical world manages to get itself banner headings across the globe, with headlines such as “Arthritis pill beats Viagra as best seller.” Certainly attention grabbing. All they have to do is to send out press releases with ‘cancer’ or ED (Erectile Dysfunction) in the subject line and the story will get a run. For example, I must admit that my first thought was that somehow this new arthritis cure-all was able to give Willy the Wonder Wand a new lease of life as a sort of pleasant side effect. However, this was not the case as I found by reading further. The new wonder cure is purely for pain relief from arthritis. Reading further down the story it appeared that this new drug was supposed to fix the aches without drilling holes in your stomach the way the more usual arthritis drugs do. Even further reading showed that the manufacturer claimed that the new wonder cure “MAY (my capitals) cause fewer ulcers than other drugs” although the American Food and Drug Administration still required the manufacturer to put the same warnings about stomach ulcers on this new drug as they have to with the other older drugs for pain relief.
All of a sudden, this newspaper article did not look as informative as it did before. Even the reference to Viagra was somewhat suspect, especially when the writer said, “A significant amount of usage of Viagra was recreational and after a while the users got over the novelty of it.” This quotation was attributed to a Jack Lamberton, an analyst from a securities firm and apparently a part-time comedian. Who is he trying to kid? Recreational? Were all these 80 year old men supposed to use Viagra for PROcreational purposes? Come on! Looking at this article a little bit further, and as a medico I began to feel more and more that I was being manipulated by the drug companies. This has become an increasing ploy of the pharmaceutical industry of late. Produce a demand in the general public and the doctors have to go along to write prescriptions to fill an apparent need. Meanwhile the drug company profits go through the roof. The correct way to introduce any new drug is to fully test it, put the reports of the tests into the medical journals (not the popular press) and have their reps detail the doctors so that the medical profession can decide how and when this medication should be used. When the demand is coming from the patient, this is not the best way for either the patient or the profession. I tend to look back at the other “wonder drugs” that the
drug companies have released in this way. Take Prozac for example. The newspapers were running articles on this drug before it appeared in the legitimate medical press. Again this produced a demand (and expectation) in the general public before it was proven to work in clinical practice. Do not get me wrong - it is not a bad drug, but it is not the panacea for all depressive ills. No, I tend to be very skeptical of these breakthroughs that the patients tell me about, rather than the other way around. There are no real wonder cures, I’m afraid. Even Viagra has had more than a few drawbacks - especially when used for “recreational purposes” and thank you Jack Lamberton! Of course the other trick to give these articles some legitimacy is the quotation from some specialist in the field. However, read further down and you find that the specialist was in the employ of the drug company. Or even more sneaky, the testing was being bankrolled by Big Pharma. With new drugs having the potential to make billions for the parent company, no wonder they want the medical profession to prescribe it. Your protection against this? Stick with ethical practitioners prescribing ethical medications from ethical pharmacies. Patients sometimes complain at the cost of meds from my hospital. That’s the price of getting the real thing.
Immunotherapy scores a first win against some breast cancers Marilynn Marchione, AP For the first time, one of the new immunotherapy drugs has shown promise against breast cancer in a large study that combined it with chemotherapy to treat an aggressive form of the disease. But the benefit for most women was small, raising questions about whether the treatment is worth its high cost and side effects. Results were discussed Saturday at a cancer conference in Munich and published by the New England Journal of Medicine. Drugs called checkpoint inhibitors have transformed treatment of many types of cancer by removing a chemical brake that keeps the immune
system from killing tumor cells. Their discovery recently earned scientists a Nobel Prize. Until now, though, they haven’t proved valuable against breast cancer. The new study tested one from Roche called Tecentriq plus chemo versus chemo alone in 902 women with advanced triple-negative breast cancer. About 15 percent of cases are this type their growth is not fueled by the hormones estrogen or progesterone, or the gene that Herceptin targets, making them hard to treat. Women in the study who received Tecentriq plus chemo went two months longer on average without their cancer worsening compared with those on chemo alone - a
modest benefit. The combo did not significantly improve survival in an early look before long-term follow-up is complete. Previous studies found that immunotherapies work best in patients with high levels of a protein that the drugs target, and the plan for the breast cancer study called for analyzing how women fared according to that factor if Tecentriq improved survival overall. The drug failed that test, but researchers still looked at protein-level results and saw encouraging signs. Women with high levels who received the combo treatment lived roughly 25 months on average versus about 15 months for women given chemo alone.
EU drug agency urges approval for dengue vaccine London (AP) - Europe’s drug regulator has recommended approving the first vaccine for dengue despite concerns about the vaccine’s wide use and a lawsuit in the Philippines alleging that it was linked to three deaths. The European Medicines Agency said last Friday it had adopted a “positive opinion” of French pharmaceutical company Sanofi’s Dengvaxia. The vaccine is the world’s first against dengue, which sickens about 96 million people annually. The mosquito-spread virus is found in tropical and sub-tropical climates across Latin and South America, Asia, Africa and elsewhere. It produces a flu-like disease that can cause joint pain, nausea, vomiting and a rash. In severe cases, dengue can result in breathing
problems, hemorrhaging and organ failure. There is no specific treatment for dengue and there are no other licensed vaccines on the market. Earlier this year, the World Health Organization said the vaccine needs to be dealt with “in a much safer way” and should be given mainly to people who had dengue before. The vaccine is licensed for use in about 20 countries. The U.N. health agency said there were “significant obstacles” in using the vaccine and that a rapid test should be developed to determine if people had previously been infected with dengue. Sanofi previously warned that people who had never been sickened by dengue were at risk of more serious
disease after receiving the vaccine. The company said it expected to take a 100 million-euro loss based on that news. The Philippines was the first country to introduce a national dengue immunization program - which it halted after Sanofi’s announcement last year. The government also demanded a refund of more than 3 billion pesos ($59 million) from Sanofi. In February, the Philippines said the vaccine was potentially linked to the deaths of three people: all of them died of dengue despite having been immunized against it. The country imposed a symbolic fine of $2,000 on Sanofi and suspended the vaccine’s approval, charging that the drugmaker broke rules on how the shot was registered and marketed.
This undated fluorescence-colored microscope image made available by the National Institutes of Health in September 2016 shows a culture of human breast cancer cells. For the first time, one of the new immunotherapy drugs has shown promise against breast cancer in a large study that combined it with chemotherapy to treat an aggressive form of the disease. (Ewa Krawczyk/ National Cancer Institute via AP)
That’s a big difference, but it will take more time to see if there’s a reliable way to predict benefit, said Dr. Jennifer Litton of the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. She had no role in running the study but enrolled some patients in it, and oversees 14 others testing immunotherapies. “We’re really hopeful that we can identify a group of women who can get a much bigger and longer response,” she said. Another breast cancer specialist with no role in the study, Dr. Michael Hassett at DanaFarber Cancer Institute in Boston, said he felt “cautious excitement” that immunotherapy may prove helpful for certain breast cancer patients. Side effects need a close look, both doctors said. Nearly all study participants had typical chemo side effects such as nausea or low blood cell counts, but serious ones
were more common with the combo treatment and twice as many women on it stopped treatment for that reason. Three of the six deaths from side effects in the combo group were blamed on the treatment itself; only one of three such deaths in the chemo group was. Cost is another concern. Tecentriq is $12,500 a month. The chemo in this study was Celgene’s Abraxane, which costs about $3,000 per dose
plus doctor fees for the IV treatments. Older chemo drugs cost less but require patients to use a steroid to prevent allergic reactions that might interfere with the immunotherapy. Abraxane was chosen because it avoids the need for a steroid, said one study leader, Dr. Sylvia Adams of NYU Langone Health. The study was sponsored by Roche and many study leaders consult or work for the company or own stock in it.
10
FRIDAY NOVEMBER 2, 2018
Odds and Ends The Associated Press
Doggy bag: Beagle intercepts roast pig at Atlanta airport Atlanta (AP) - A passenger traveling from Ecuador was relieved of leftovers when an intrepid beagle found a roasted pig’s head in baggage at the world’s busiest airport. The U.S. Customs and Border Protection says the Agriculture Detector dog named Hardy alerted to the baggage at Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport on Oct. 11. CBP agriculture specialists then discovered a 2-pound (1-kilogram) cooked pig’s head, which was seized and destroyed. The agency says pork and pork products from other continents are not allowed into the United States in an effort to avoid introducing foot and mouth disease, classical swine fever and other animal diseases. CBP Area Port Director Carey Davis hailed Hardy’s work as illustrating “the tremendous expertise of our four-legged K-9 partners in protecting the United States.”
PATTAYA MAIL
Crossword No 1318
VOL. XXVI No. 44
sponsored by
Massic Travel
Across 1 Greatest possible quantity (7) 5 Cringe (5) 8 Distinguishing feature (5) 9 Not artificial (7) 10 Pudding or sweet course (7) 11 Loathed (5) 12 Garbage (6) 14 Chaffed, teased (6) 18 Lariat (5) 20 Robbers (7) 22 Culinary art (7) 23 Large striped cat (5) 24 Americans (5) 25 Duke’s wife (7)
Down 1 Bullfighter (7) 2 Skeletal pictures (5) 3 Fingerless gloves (7) 4 Extremely small (6) 5 Capture (5) 6 Fine wool fabric (7) 7 Governed (5) 13 Mode (7) 15 Foolish (7) 16 Forsakes (7) 17 Be present (6) 18 Fortunate (5) 19 Leaves out (5) 21 Hazy (5)
Last week’s answers Across: 1 Airmen, 4 Nugget, 8 Tempt, 9 Barrier, 10 Mallard, 11 Green, 12 Realistic, 17 Otter, 19 Teenage, 21 Bourbon, 22 Smash, 23 Twenty, 24 Exceed. Down: 1 Autumn, 2 Rambler, 3 Extra, 5 Upright, 6 Grime, 7 Throne, 9 Badminton, 13 Acrobat, 14 Charade, 15 Sorbet, 16 Method, 18 Truce, 20 Essex. (U.S. Customs and Border Protection via AP)
Good Samaritan driver revives squirrel after car scare Brooklyn Park, Minn. (AP) - A motionless squirrel apparently stunned by a passing car has been revived by the driver who performed chest compressions beside a Minnesota road. Police officers on patrol in the Minneapolis suburb of Brooklyn Park thought the man might be performing CPR. In police video posted to the department Facebook page, the man tells the officers he swerved to avoid the animal and didn’t think he struck it. The squirrel was not bleeding and the man says if he had hit it “he would’ve popped.” The man flipped the squirrel onto its belly and as he strokes its back, the animal starts to come around. The squirrel eventually darts away and an officer declares: “There he goes! You saved his life, dude!”
Cattle roundup over: Last cow caught weeks after truck crash
Ten-Minute Sudoku An easy Sudoku puzzle that should not take long to complete. The rules of Sudoku are simple. Enter digits from 1 to 9 into the blank spaces. Each row must contain one of each digit. So must each column and each 3x3 box. Answer next week.
Last week’s answers:
Atlanta (AP) - Officials say a cow that hoofed it for two weeks on the lam after a livestock truck overturned on a busy interstate junction north of Atlanta has been caught. News outlets report 89 cows initially escaped when the tractor-trailer wrecked before dawn on Oct. 1 on a cloverleaf linking Interstate 75 with Interstate 285. Eleven cows died in the crash. The Georgia Department of Transportation’s metro Atlanta district tweeted a photo of the runaway cow standing in some woods Monday morning. Department spokeswoman Natalie Dale says it was safely captured by the afternoon. Officials had said they called in real cowboys to round up the escaped cattle Oct. 1, closing some roads as police dealt with four wrecks caused by the wandering animals. No one was hurt in those accidents.
No. 221
Nacho Cheese or Cool Ranch? Doritos lure rogue pig back home Highland, Calif. (AP) - Deputies in California have used Doritos to lure a pig “the size of a mini horse” back home. The pig was running around a neighborhood when the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Office received the call Saturday. One of the deputies had Doritos in her lunch bag. Video shows the deputy leaving a trail of the chips, which the pig followed. Deputies had responded to previous calls about the pig and knew where to take him. He was returned to his pen, and deputies secured the gate.
(Photo: San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department via AP)
Answers next week.
VOL. XXVI No. 44
PATTAYA MAIL
FRIDAY NOVEMBER 2, 2018
11
How to produce “different” images
There is so much more to photography than pictures you take of your wife at the beach with her sister and your brother-in-law. You know what I mean, and you have taken lots of them in your lifetime. Photographically, we call these ‘record shots’ as all they are doing is recording an event. No ‘art’ or even artistic input by the photographer. Here’s a simple (and cheap) way to put some art into your photography by using filters, without having to buy expensive filter kits. Filters can be used with any camera, the old “film” days, digital, compact
or SLR, but digital will certainly give you an instant result. I also believe in not spending too much on filters, and when I say cheap, the first one costs 1 baht (and is recoverable) and gives you a center-spot soft focus filter. It will enhance portraits, particularly of women, giving a soft dreamy look to the photo. Using this filter this just means the center is in focus and the edges are nicely soft and blurred. This effect is used by portrait and wedding photographers all over the world to produce that wonderful “romantic” photograph. Here’s how you do it. You will need one can of hairspray, a one baht coin and a clear piece of glass or plastic (perspex) around 7.5 cm square. This piece of perspex needs to be as thin as possible to keep it optically correct. One supply source can be hardware shops, glaziers and most picture framers.
Dear Hillary, This is more of a warning for all the young chaps who come to Thailand on holidays and get sucked into marriage and dowry. These poor suckers think that if they marry the girl who adores him that she won’t go back to working in the bar he found her in. This is a scam, mainly seen in the poor folk in the north-east who can see an opportunity to get some Thai whiskey out of some poor, besotted idiot. Village weddings are not even accepted in Thai law, so why would you waste 25 satang on this nonsense. It is not a Thai custom today especially while the Thai government pushes for Thailand 4.0. This is 2018, not 1018. John Dear John, You are so right, Petal. To all you males out there, if your GF suggests a dowry is the next step in the wonderful relationship, get the running shoes on and never go to that bar again, while saying “Thank you Hillary (and John)”. If there is something you would like to be remembered for, it should be for stamping out dowries. Unfortunately there seems to be a never ending supply of foreign males with too much money and a never ending supply of young ladies from the Isaan area willing to take on the onerous task of liberating the money from the foreign male’s wallet. Dear Hillary, Who was it who said you catch a man through his stomach? My problem is the other way round. The GF insists that it is her job to cook for me, right. But she can only cook Isarn food and I cannot eat the stuff, just too spicy for me. There there’s that other stuff called Pla Ra which smells like old socks and it is so bad that when I come home after work I can tell if she’s even opened the bottle. The smell is
Having cut out your square, put the coin in the center of the perspex and then gently wave the hairspray over the lot. Let it dry and gently flick the coin off and you have your first special effects filter – the center spot soft focus. Now set your camera lens on the largest aperture you can (around f5.6 or f4 is fine). Focus on your subject, keeping the face in the center of the screen. Bring up your magic FX filter and place it over the lens and what do you see? The face is in focus and the edges are all blurred! You’ve got it. Shoot! Take a few shots, especially ones with the light behind your subject. Try altering the f stop as well, as this changes the apparent size of the clear spot in the middle. Simple, cheap and easy art. Here is another, the Super Sunset Filter. This one will give you that wonderfully
warm “tropical sunset” which will make people envious that they aren’t over here to enjoy such spectacular endings to the day. To produce the warm glow, just take off your sunglasses and place one side over the lens. It’s that simple! Just look at the difference yourself, with and without the sunnies. The camera will see it the same way. Soft romantic effects can be produced super inexpensively
unreal. I’ve tried telling her I cannot eat her food, but she won’t even try cooking European food. I even bought some cook books dealing with Euro food in Thai. That didn’t work either. What’s next Hillary? Grant Dear Grant,
You know what the answer is – you just don’t want to face it. Your GF is very stubborn, and doesn’t really care for you at all. Sure, in Thai society, the woman cooks, but she cooks for the husband, not for herself and Isarn friends. The answer to your problem is find somebody new in the kitchen, or there’s the drive-in at the local hamburger joint. Your call, Petal.
Dear Hillary, I am a lady based in the UK. You have had a column in the Pattaya Mail for many years and we often read about hapless foreigners who lose their savings due to meeting the ‘wrong’ lady. Some of the posts are hilarious. How can some men be so stupid you might ask? The ladies don’t care; there is always another tourist on the plane to Bangkok. I have no experience of the scene, but even though I only read about things there, I still can’t understand just how many guys end up this way. Lyn Dear Lyn, Take a look in the mirror. Do you see a 45 kg black haired, brown eyed vision of loveliness looking out at you? A vision that hangs on your every word? A vision that will give up working in a bar, just to look after you? (For the three months a year that you are actually in Thailand.) The
as well. The first is to gently breathe on the end of the lens just before you take the shot. Your warm breath will impart a “mist” to produce a wonderfully misty portrait, or that early morning mist look for landscapes. Remember that the “misting” only lasts a few seconds, so make sure you have the camera pre-focussed and ready to shoot. If you have control over the aperture, try around f4 as well.
Here’s another. Use a piece of stocking (pantyhose) material. Stretch it over the lens and tie it on with a rubber band. Cut a small hole in the middle and go ahead and shoot romantic portraits. There are also other ways of bending, refracting or just generally fooling the camera’s lens system. This you do by holding transparent materials in front of the lens when taking your photographs. I suggest you get small pieces of glass or perspex (around 10 cm by 10 cm) and use these as the final filter. You can even use semi-transparent material like shower screen glass. The concept is just to produce a “different” effect, one that the camera will pick up. It is very difficult to predict the outcomes in these situations, but you can be pleasantly amazed at some of the results. The main idea is to give it a try!
western women have adapted to their society ever since they got the vote. The Thai woman already has the vote, but most can’t be bothered to register. West and East are quite different, Petal. Dear Hillary, Love your column, Hillary, but it amazes me that so many farangs end up with empty wallets and broken hearts. I don’t live in Pattaya, but read you on line each week from the UK. Gerald Dear Gerald, You don’t happen to live next door to a lady called Lyn, do you? Both of you have no idea what Pattaya is like, but both are quite happy to make judgments. The latest figures I can get has the British divorce rate about 50 percent, and the second marriage even worse. Thai statistics are harder to find with the Amphur (read proper) marriages and the village marriages (not recognized by even the Thai authorities). I have always said that mixed marriages never work – that’s men and women. Totally different types of being. Dear Hillary, Why do the bar girls change jobs so much? I get to know some of the girls in the bar, but the next time I go there, it is a different lot. Jaime Dear Jaime, It’s called inflation. The girls get a small salary and the rest of their monthly salary comes from a complicated system of lady drinks, bar fines and what they get from their customers. To keep the popular girls, they are given a larger slice, which works until another girl comes to work and steals the customers. So the first girl moves on, looking for more money and this cycle keeps on happening.
12 FRIDAY NOVEMBER 2, 2018
PATTAYA MAIL
VOL. XXVI No. 44
Tykes hit catwalk for Pattaya Kids Fashion Week Jetsada Homklin The movie stars and models of tomorrow took the spotlight on stage at Central Festival Pattaya Beach as DVK Star Talent Academy presented Kids Fashion Week. Darada Phanthusak, vice president of PTS Holdings Group, opened the Oct 19-21 show with Pattaya business leaders. This event was organized to give children ages 4-15 productive use of their free time, demonstrate their creativity and develop basic acting and speaking skills. For many of the youths, it was a chance to take
The movie stars and models of tomorrow took the spotlight on stage at Central Festival Pattaya Beach.
the stage for the first time, although some professed a
desire to one day be a movie star or fashion model.
Darada Phanthusak, vice president of PTS Holdings Group, opened the show with Pattaya business leaders.
Long-neglected youth center finally gets repairs
DVK Star Talent Academy presented Kids Fashion Week.
WAFCAT donates 300,000 baht in scholarships, equipment After years of promising to complete the youth center and fix its many problems, something is actually being done now.
The Wheelchairs And Friendship Center of Asia donated more than 300,000 baht in scholarships and equipment to the Redemptorist School for Persons with Disabilities.
Jetsada Homklin The Wheelchairs And Friendship Center of Asia donated more than 300,000 baht in scholarships and equipment to the Redemptorist School for Persons with Disabilities. Deputy Mayor Poramet Ngampichet opened the Oct. 23 ceremony with top school
and center officials and entertainment from the Klong Sabadchai Show. WAFCAT launched its Education Promotion Fund in 2003 and this year staged its first “empowerment camp� for disabled students at the Father Ray Foundation school. As part of the educational camp, the organization also
Pattaya officials checked the progress of two big flooding-mitigation projects at the Youth Center Stadium and Royal Varuna Yacht Club. Deputy Mayor Pattana Boonsawat led the delegation of engineers, sanitation workers and community leaders to the troubled youth center on Soi Wat Boonkanjanaram 2 which was built nearly a decade ago and barely maintained since.
Since its opening, the stadium has flooded badly, damaging infrastructure which, in some cases, was never even finished. After years of promising to complete the youth center and fix its many problems, something is actually being done now. A project funded by the 2019 budget will see the installation of 678 meters of the 0.60-meter-diameter pipes to drain storm runoff and the
dilapidated fencing replaced with a retaining wall and new fence. A planned second phase will raise the ground 800 centimeters and level the surface while the third phase lists vague aspirations to raise its overall quality to support national competitions. Officials then moved to the yacht club where a sewage and flood-drainage system is being installed for the first time. (PCPR)
presented the Redemptorist school with 10 wheelchairs, a special wheelchair for basketball competition, and 300,000 baht in scholarships. The stipends will help students with expenses including transportation, tuition, dormitory rent, learning equipment, and mobility aids and computers.
A project funded by the 2019 budget will see the installation of 678 meters of the 0.60-meter-diameter pipes to drain storm runoff.
VOL. XXVI No. 44
FRIDAY NOVEMBER 2, 2018 13
PATTAYA MAIL
Laem Chabang Port opens Rail Transportation Center Laem Chabang Port opened the first stage of the government’s plan to make the Eastern Seaboard the logistics hub of Southeast Asia with the opening of the Rail Transportation Center. Deputy Transport Minister Pairin Chuchotavon opened the new freight-loading complex on a 600-rai parcel between the B and C piers at the port Oct. 25. The rail center project was launched in 2015 as part of the government’s push to build double-track freight and high-speed passenger rail lines linking the Eastern Seaboard with Bangkok, the Northeast and Myanmar. The plan later was folded into the Eastern Economic Corridor strategy. The RTC operates as a single-transfer station, where up to eight trains can park on two sets of track. A rail-mounted gantry crane can load the trains with the equivalent of 28,000 twenty-foot shipping containers.
Pattaya officials plan video to reverse drop in Chinese tourist arrivals
Deputy Transport Minister Pairin Chuchotavon bangs the gong to officially open the Rail Transportation Center.
The center links to 4.3 kilometers of State Railway of Thailand double-track line. The first phase of the RTC project can handle up to 1 million containers per year with a planned second stage doubling that. (CPRD)
Pattaya officials plan to produce a new tourism-promotion video to keep Chinese tourists coming to the city.
Jetsada Homklin
No ambiguity Editor; Re Rodney Girvan’s letter, October 26, there isn’t any of the ambiguity suggested. If you are an American or Brit, your embassy will Write to the Editor:
E-mail: mailbag@pattayamail.com
soon stop “verification” of your income. Your only choice will be to put the required lump sum in a Thai bank account well in advance of your
application date. Period. Will other foreign embassies follows suit? Nobody knows for sure. Will immigration change its policy? Likewise. Barry Kenyon
Note: Letters printed herein in no way reflect the opinions of the editors or writers for Pattaya Mail, but are unsolicited letters from our readers, expressing their own opinions. No anonymous letters or those without genuine addresses are printed, and, whilst we do not object to the use of a nom de plume, preference will be given to those signed.
Destination LONDON
ECONOMY PRICE FROM VALID .
EVA HEATHROW EVA AIR ELITE ECONOMY THAI AIRWAYS BRITISH LON EDI MAN NCL GLA BRITISH LON EDI MAN NCL GLA GULF AIR FINN AIR OMAN AIR
18500++ 35500++ 24000++ 13500++
3M 3M 21D 12M
8000++ 6000++ 14700++
3M 1M 3M
FINN AIR (GVA) FINNAIR (DUB) GULF AIR (FRA)
13000++ 12000++ 7500++
Panicking over the steady loss of Chinese tourists, Pattaya officials plan to produce a new tourism-promotion video to keep their golden geese flying to the city. Thailand has been living on Chinese tourism for the past four years, with – at one point – mainlanders accounting for one in every three international visitors to the country. But July’s twin boat sinkings that killed 57 Chinese in Phuket, followed by several high-profile social media scandals showing Thais
BUSINESS PRICE FROM VALID . 86000++
3M
98700++ 28000++ 75000++ 55000++
12M
1M 1M 6M
75000++ 69000++ 59000++
12M 12M 2M
22500++ 22000++
1M 12M
91000++ 94000++
6M 12M
3800++ 7500++ 5800++
14D 4M 14D
20500++ 19700++
1M 1M
8500++ 6000++ 16000++
14D 12M 14D
29000++
1M
20000++ 17500++ 16000++
3M 3M 3M
108500++ 119400++ 88000++
1Y 3M 3M
6700++ 14000++ 14000++
12M 12M 12M
33000++
12M
63000+
3M
DUBLIN/GENEVA /FRANKFURT
3M 1M
ECO PREMIUM
SYDNEY MELBOURE BRISBANE THAI EMIRATES
SINGAPORE/HONGKONG CATHAY (SINGAPORE) ROYAL JORDANIAN (HKG) EMIRATES (HONGKONG) SINGAPORE AIRLINES
taking advantage of, or abusing Chinese citizens, have put a serious dent in arrival figures. Despite statistics showing that Chinese tourists contribute little to local economies and spend less than western and Russian visitors, Thai tourism officials are desperate to keep their stats up, including Tourism Authority of Thailand Pattaya office executives. TAT Pattaya chief Pinnart
Charoenpol met with Deputy Mayor Poramet Ngampichet, business leaders and former city administrators Oct. 24 to plot how to reignite Chinese interest in Pattaya after a disappointing October Chinese holiday week. A new video was suggested to gain these Chinese public’s trust and show Pattaya is a warm, safe place with delicious food and exciting activities during the day and at night.
CHINA VISA ASSISTANCE SERVICE THAI PASSPORT HOLDERS 5 WORKING DAYS 3,600.EUROPEAN PASSPORT HOLDERS 5 WORKING DAYS 6,400.Need: Passport, 2”x2” photos Permanent residence permit/Work Permit/Retirement visa ALSO. Assist with Vietnam. Myanmar,India visas. Application assistance for US, UK, Schengan visa ADVISE ON ALL THAI LEGAL MATTERS BUSINESS REGRISTRATION WORK PERMIT EXTENSION OF VISA ETC
JAPAN/KOREA HONGKONG AIRLINES (NRT) JEJU AIR(ICN) THAI AIRWAYS (NRT/HND/OSA)
USA EVAAIR CATHAY PACIFIC (LAX) PHILIPPINES AIRLINES (LAX)
AFRICA EGYPT AIR (JNB) EGYPT AIR (CPT) KENYA AIRWAYS (LOS)
FARES SHOWN ARE INFORMATIONAL AND SUBJECT TO AVAILABILITY. " ++ " DENOTES TAXES & SURCHARGES AND NOT INCLUDED IN THE FARES. VISIT US FORLATEST ALL INCLUSIVE OPTIONS. FARES AND CONDITIONS MAY CHANGE WITHOUT PRIOR NOTOCE
www.massictravel.net ALLFARES ROUND TRIP UNLESS STATED WE OPEN : MON-FRI 09:30 - 18:00 | SAT 09:30 - 16:00 | SUNDAY CLOSED. |
14 FRIDAY NOVEMBER 2, 2018
PATTAYA MAIL
VOL. XXVI No. 44
Is there a Magic Bullet to health? his water, especially from plastic bottles into glass containers. Next the good professor decided best to remove the “empty” calories and sugars from his diet. And to remove processed foods. A good cleanout of cupboards resulted. He knew that “willpower only” isn’t enough when you are hungry at midnight.
was needed for weight loss. What was this for him? Fasting... Not the kind where you are always hungry, but the fasting where your body has a chance to heal itself. In fact, Karl attributes intermittent fasting with the largest change in his health. Well, along with limited fast foods and no added sugars! So back to what is the magic bullet to health? Karl
“Professor Karl” Hahn started his presentation to the PCEC with a question, “Is there a magic bullet to health? He then described his magic bullet, which he cautioned may not work for everyone, but it did for him.
At the Sunday, October 21st meeting of the Pattaya City Expats Club, “Professor Karl” Hahn presented his journey from sickness towards health. As he stated, at some point life throws you a curve, and the outcome is not what was expected. In early 2016 Karl was shaken to the core with the results of a health check special at Bangkok Pattaya Hospital. Karl was expecting just to be told to lose weight and exercise more, just like his American doctors had told him. And he expected the same results... more weight instead of less.
But the most disturbing news was that there was something in his bladder that needed further examination. After having a procedure going into his bladder and removing what was there, it was confirmed. It was the big “C” and unless he did something it could come back. This became the motivation to learn all he could about health and what a person could do besides eat less, exercise more. This was the beginning of his journey to lose 96 pounds (43 kg), remove the fat from his liver and from around his internal organs; plus beat back any return of cancer.
Using this slide, “Professor Karl” Hahn said a very important step is removing as much sugar as possible from what you are eating.
But at BPH the outcome of the examination declared that he was obese. Ok, this he knew. That he had a mildly fatty liver. No doctor had ever explained this before; especially that it could lead to diabetes in the future. Now this was worrisome.
The professor’s health plan would follow several stages, the first being removing as many toxins from his life as possible. This included plastics (such as BPA), cooking utensils such as Teflon, nonorganic soaps and cleaners. Plus he started filtering all
Member Ren Lexander interviews “Professor Karl” Hahn about his presentation to the PCEC. To view the video visit: https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=HlXM9DB9q1w&t=2s.
Studying on-line and through many books, Karl was now certain that he needed to stop being obese. The question was how. In America he had tried many diets, and following his doctor’s advice of eat less. Knowing this didn’t work for him, he reviewed many new diet approaches. Diets such as Ketogenic, Paleo, Vegetarian, Mediterranean and so on. It became apparent that going on a fad diet never worked for him, and probably never would. What Karl needed was a healthier lifestyle. So, he has adopted an eating strategy, a mixture between paleo (meats) and vegetarian; which is heavy on vegetables. Such a strategy is the inverse of the American food pyramid. A more Ketogenic approach. All of this was helping the good professor become healthier, but one more thing
is a firm believer that fad diets, special pills, eating less and exercising more is not the way... at least for him. What he feels is the magic bullet is “YOU” - that you need to make a commitment to learning about health, what works for you and then follow it. A happier, healthier retirement is available to all of us. If you have questions, or want some coaching, please feel free to email Karl at: HealthyExpats@gmail.com After the presentation, MC Richard Silverberg brought everyone up to date on upcoming events and then turned it over to the Open Forum portion of the meeting where questions are asked and answered and comments made about Expat living in Thailand, Pattaya in particular. For more information about the PCEC and their activities, visit www.pcec.club.
VOL. XXVI No. 44
PATTAYA MAIL
FRIDAY NOVEMBER 2, 2018 15
Baroque Beat
Spanish baroque architecture.
The recent arrival of November reminded me of the cold grey days of early winter in the Old Country and as a teenager, having to traipse to school in the damp and dismal island air. I often used to listen to baroque music first thing in the morning before going to school because a fix of a lively baroque beat would give me enough firmness of spirit to deal with the bleakest of days. I suppose nowadays, this kind of behaviour might be considered a bit nerdish, if not downright peculiar. My favourite starter for the day was any of the six Brandenburg Concertos. These are not concertos in the sense that a single instrument battles it out against an
entire orchestra but an older type of work known as the concerto grosso or “big concerto”. The main feature of the concerto grosso was that single instruments or small groups of instruments in the ensemble were contrasted against each other. The original title of Bach’s work was Six Concerts à Plusieurs Instruments which in 1721 he presented to Christian Ludwig, the Margrave of Brandenburg. At the time, Bach was job-hunting, and he sent the concertos to the Margrave as an elaborate form of job application together with a long-winded dedication of toe-curling obsequiousness. Although they were presented as a set, the music had actually been
cobbled together from earlier works that Bach had written at various times during the previous eight years. Perhaps Christian Ludwig had been tipped off that he’d been given a recycled offering, because he was evidently a bit miffed and didn’t even bother to thank Bach for the music, let alone pay him. Bach didn’t get the job either. The concertos were consigned to the Margrave’s library and remained unknown until they were eventually rediscovered in 1850. What the Margrave clearly didn’t appreciate was that they represented some of the finest examples of baroque orchestral music. The chapter in history that we now refer to as “the baroque” lasted roughly between 1600 and 1750. The movement gradually spread from Italy and influenced music, painting, sculpture, theatre and architecture throughout Europe and beyond. Baroque buildings were ornate and imposing, with impressive detailed facades; paintings had a sense of grandeur, richness and drama. Some of these features were echoed in music. Melodies were often elaborated with trills and various other
ornamental devices. Rich, sonorous textures created by elaborate counterpoint were the order of the day as were dramatic contrasts of sound, with lively rhythms dominating the fast movements. Baroque music nearly always used the so-called basso continuo, an improvised accompaniment usually provided by a harpsichord and cello or double bass.
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750): Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G, BWV 1048. Orchestra Mozart dir. Claudio Abbado (Duration: 10:19; Video: 480p) This is one of the most exhilarating performances of the work available. The playing is crisp with a superb sense of ensemble and rhythm. Third Concerto is scored for three violins, three violas and three cellos with basso continuo. Unusually, there’s no slow movement and the printed score merely shows two sustained chords. Clearly something is missing. It’s thought that a
slow movement might once have been improvised at the harpsichord, possibly by Bach himself. This would have made an effective contrast between the two bustling outer movements. But really, there’s no way of knowing what Bach originally wanted. The two chords (which if these things interest you, form a Phrygian Imperfect Cadence) lead into the rollicking, foot-tapping third movement which is full of lively rhythms and brilliant counterpoint. The groups of strings hold sparkling musical conversations between each other and sometimes the entire ensemble plays in octaves, a dramatic technique which Bach had borrowed from Vivaldi. And in case you’re wondering the letters BWV stand for Bach-Werke-Verzeichnis (Bach-Works-Catalogue), a complete listing of his music and first published in 1950.
George Frederic Handel (1685-1759): Concerto Grosso in G, Op. 6, No. 1. L’Arco Magico Chamber Orchestra dir. Antonio Puccio
(Duration: 12:42; Video: 1080p HD) Handel wrote a couple of dozen concerti grossi (to use the correct Italian plurals), most of which were published in two sets as Opus 3 and Opus 6. The latter collection consists of twelve concertos that Handel wrote in 1739. They’re scored for a group of two violins and cello supported by string orchestra with harpsichord continuo. In this five-movement work, Handel brings a huge variety of interest to the music and these concerti, like those of Bach are generally considered to be amongst the finest examples of the genre. Typical of the late baroque, the concerto uses contrasts of loud and soft, contrasts between one or two instruments and many, charming question-and-answer patterns and in the faster movements, the lively chugging beat that Handel evidently enjoyed so much. Notice how the instruments imitate each other when they play the elaborate melodies. This lively music still makes a great start to the day.
To watch these YouTube videos, either use your Smartphone to read the QR codes or go to this article online, click on the “live” links and go direct to the videos. If you have a laptop, sound quality can be improved significantly by using headphones or external speakers.
‘Hardship Posting V5’ goes forth Lang Reid Stu Lloyd has done it again. Dragged his mentor Colonel Ken Oathe, he of the walrus mustache and lascivious ways, back to the keyboard and has compiled another ball-buster “Hardship Posting”, the 5th in the series according to author Lloyd. The fact that Lloyd’s abacus lost its 4th ball may explain why this newly released book is the 5th in the series with no 4th. With the alacrity Lloyd managed to produce this book (15 years and counting), expect the 4th “chat na don bai bai” (poorly translated from bar room Thai) as “in the next life, sometime in the afternoon”, referring to the date of repayment of loans by the LBFM (read the book for further elucidation.) The book is a hefty tome, approaching 450 pages, so will keep you reading for quite a while, though Lloyd does want you to skip through it to whet your appetite for any forthcoming “Hardship Posting 4”. Being the speed writer that he is, all readers over 85 should give it away as by that time they will be lifeless, having returned home in the hold of the QAINTASS aluminium tube and headed for a grassy patch outside Mooney Ponds. The format of the book is to give Colonel Ken his say on any appropriate (and non appropriate) subject and follow that up with anecdotes from previous readers. It is the short and pissy items (Oops pithy) that keep the Colonel going and also bestows upon V5 the appellation of a “bog book”, a pick up
and read while putting out and read. Symbiotic really. Another extra feature in “Hardship Posting V5” are a dozen cartoons penned by the Pattaya Mail’s resident funny man Mike Baird, hiding behind the acronym MJB. Mike has a keen eye for the vagaries of the expat life, which for many is Viagaries of expat life. Principal amongst these is a warm beer on the forecourt of the closest 7-11 (take your pick - there’s one on every street corner). The visual is a great addition to the printed word. Lloyd has sectioned his book into 18‘stories’, or rather chapters, with the intro on each being from the mustachioed Colonel himself. Subjects covered (or uncovered) include Airline and Flying, Bribery and Corruption (though there’s none of that here), Language and Miscommunication (described as Lust in Translation), Embassy and Diplomatic (Enema of the state) plus another 14 whose calculator has enough batteries to figure it out. Lloyd mentions that despite the misogyny that might be construed from some of his contributors, he has received items from a Thai katoey, a Filipina brothel worker, an Indonesian bar girl and some guy called Bridget, at that time serving time in the Bangkok Hilton prison. I enjoyed reading this book which happily gives a loud raspberry to all the PC nonsense and its concomitant offspring such as #metoo. Colonel Ken suggests #youtwo as being more appropriate (or #youthree on a good night). “Hardship Posting 5” will be available through the usual literary outlets and if you like a laugh, then go get it.
16 FRIDAY NOVEMBER 2, 2018
PATTAYA MAIL
VOL. XXVI No. 44
40 years later, ‘Halloween’ slashes again Jake Coyle Los Angeles (AP) - With hollow eyes and sagging cheeks, the flabby white mask of Michael Myers is horror’s great blank slate. Project your fears here, it says. Myers doesn’t speak. His movements never rise beyond a deliberate gait (well, aside from all the stabbing and strangling). Even his name is purposefully bland. Decades after John Carpenter’s slasher landmark, David Gordon Green has resurrected the faceless Boogeyman of “Halloween” and set him loose on another Halloween night, 40 years later. Time has done little for Michael’s personality. He is still a poor conversationalist. (He hasn’t uttered a word in the intervening decades, says a doctor at the sanatorium that holds him.) He is still handy with a knife.
There are no roman numerals in the title of Green’s film, nor any of those dopey subtitles like 1998’s “Halloween H20,” which presumably delved into the very real fears of dehydration. As if to draw closer to the original (and to ignore the nine sequels and reboots in between), this “Halloween” has simply taken Carpenter’s 1978 title. And with gliding cameras, Carpenter’s score and original cast members Jamie Lee Curtis and Nick Castle (the man under the mask), it has tried very hard to take much more, too. But while Green’s “Halloween,” which he penned with Danny McBride and Jeff Fradley, has faithfully adopted much of what so resonated in Carpenter’s genre-creating film — the stoic killer, the gruesome executions, the suburban nightmares — what makes his “Halloween” such a thrill is how it deviates from its long-ago predecessor. Setting the template for countless slashers to follow,
Carpenter’s film often reserved its most painful endings for more promiscuous girls or drug-using teens. As a grim reaper carrying out a metaphorical reckoning, Michael had questionable biases. But what Carpenter did do was equate sex with violence, a connection that Green has elaborated on with a more feminist streak. Having survived the “Babysitter Murders” of 40 years ago, Laurie Strode (a fabulously fierce Jamie Lee Curtis, reprising the role that was her film debut) is now a self-described “twicedivorced basket case” living in a run-down house on the outskirts of the fictional Haddonfield, Illinois. She has turned her home into a training ground and domestic fortification (beneath the kitchen island is a well-armed shelter) for the second coming of Michael she’s always been sure will happen. Her daughter (Judy Greer) and her son-in-law (Toby Huss) have grown tired of Strode’s fanatical survivalist
Danny Boyle to gather Britons on beaches to mark end of WWI London (AP) — Filmmaker Danny Boyle is urging thousands of people to gather on British beaches and make silhouettes in the sand on Nov. 11 to mark 100 years since the end of World War I. Sand artists will also create giant portraits of people killed in the war, which will be washed away by the incoming tide. The beachside commemoration caps four years of British cultural activities marking the centenary of the 1914-18 conflict, in which 20 million people died. Boyle said beaches “are truly public spaces, where nobody rules other than the tide.” “They seem the perfect place to gather and say a final goodbye and thank you to those whose lives were taken or forever changed by the First World War,” he said. The “Trainspotting” and “Slumdog Millionaire” director stepped down earlier this year from the helm of the next James Bond film over what producers said were creative differences. He has been replaced by Cary Fukunaga. Boyle said giving up the 007 job had helped create more time to work on the World War I project. “I was absolutely desperately keen to do this,” said Boyle, who also directed the
This image released by Universal Pictures shows Jamie Lee Curtis in a scene from “Halloween”. (Ryan Green/Universal Pictures via AP)
paranoia. Certain that the world isn’t so bad a place as Strode insists, they plead for her to get over it. Their highschool daughter, Allyson (Andi Matichak) isn’t so sure, and she naturally gravitates to the grandmother she’s been shielded from. The curiosity of “Serial”like podcast journalists (Jefferson Hall, Rhian Rees) introduces us to both the locked-up Myers and the withdrawn Strode. Before curtly dismissing them, Strode insists their investigation into Myers is pointless. “There’s nothing to learn,” says Strode, surely no fan of, say, neo-Nazi newspaper features. Hunt evil, she believes, don’t analyze it. It’s a message peppered throughout
“Halloween” with clear reference to today (and to some of the earlier “Halloween” installments that sought to understand Michael). Needless to say, both those who dismiss Strode’s deepseated trauma and those who would rather study evil than confront it are gonna get their comeuppance. When Michael is transferred to another facility, hell predictably breaks loose. Once Michael is again stalking the suburban streets of Haddonfield, custom kitchens start seeing their cutlery disappear, and the shadows and closets of seemingly safe neighborhoods are again rife with danger. Evil — soulless and unkillable — lurks everywhere, even if does wear a silly mask.
Green, the sometimes brilliant, sometimes confounding filmmaker of art-house indies (“George Washington”), broader comedies (“Pineapple Express”) and, more recently, a few starry studio projects (“Our Brand Is Crisis”), can’t recreate the eeriness of Carpenter’s original. But he pumps more blood into the story, both literally and figuratively. Foggy nights and gas-station bathrooms turn predictably gory, more so than the original. But the scenes that fall between those foreboding, twinkling piano notes have far more warmth and spirit than you’d expect. You almost wish Green — easily the most talented filmmaker in the franchise since Carpenter — was instead making something original here on the same streets, with the same cast (including the scene-stealing Miles Robbins) and none of the skull crushing. But there are rituals to observe, and this “Halloween” lives up to its name. “Halloween,” a Universal Pictures release, is rated R by the Motion Picture Association of America for horror violence and bloody images, language, brief drug use and nudity. Running time: 105 minutes. Three stars out of four.
‘Wonder Woman’ sequel pushed back to summer 2020 British filmmaker Danny Boyle holds a photograph of Private Walter Bleakley, who lived on the same street where Boyle went to school, as he announces plans for his Armistice Day First World War centenary commemoration, on the beach, in Folkestone, England, Friday Oct. 5. (Gareth Fuller/PAvia AP)
2012 London Olympics opening ceremony. “My involvement in it would have been slightly compromised by that workload. “But I was still very, very keen to do it because it’s a real, proper privilege to do something like this where you hope to connect with everybody in the country in some way, as much as you can, rather than through your normal channels, like the box office.”
Los Angeles (AP) — The world will have to wait a little longer for the “Wonder Woman” sequel, which will now arrive in theaters in summer 2020. Warner Bros. have announced that “Wonder Woman 1984” will now open on June 5, 2020. The film starring Gal Gadot as the Amazonian superhero had been slated for a November 2019 release. Patty Jenkins is returning as director and has teased fans with tidbits about the series’ time jump to the 1980s. The first “Wonder Woman” was a major blockbuster for Warner Bros.’ DC Comics franchise. The film earned more than $800 million globally. The original became the most successful live-action film directed by a woman. The sequel would have been released a month after the “Joker” which is scheduled to open on Oct. 4, 2019.
Actress Gal Gadot will reprise her starring role in a “Wonder Woman” sequel, now slated to open in 2020. (Clay Enos/ Warner Bros. Entertainment via AP)
VOL. XXVI No. 44
PATTAYA MAIL
FRIDAY NOVEMBER 2, 2018 17
The Wildhearts: ‘Earth vs The Wildhearts’
mott@pattayamail.com For a couple of years at the beginning of the Nineties, the Wildhearts were the band on everybody’s lips in Britain; on the cover of all the rock magazines, smashing up media offices and grabbing headlines in national newspapers. They were even on Top of the Pops. The band started when Ginger (David Wallis) was kicked out of the Quireboys for being rather a bad influence, so he decided to start his own group with him playing all the lead guitar parts, writing the songs and even reluctantly taking over the position of lead singer. So there was no chance of him being fired again. A few other lead singers were initially tried but nobody fitted in. So a band was put together with CJ (Christopher Jagdhar) on guitar and harmony vocals, Danny McCormack on bass guitar, while Dog’s
D’Amour’s Bam was kidnapped to fill the drum stool. Bam subsequently returned to the Dogs and was replaced by Stidi (Andrew Stidolph), who, after recording the first album, was himself replaced by Ritch Battersby. This is the lineup that most consider to be the classic Wildhearts. Ginger produced the goods in the song writing department, combining such influences as The Beatles, Yardbirds, Metallica and punk rock. The result was spikey rock with meaning. Demos were recorded and submitted to various record companies. East West finally got The Wildhearts to sign on the dotted line but then did not really seem to know what to do with them. Eleven of the best demos were compiled and without re-recording were put out on vinyl. The album cover was a picture of Ginger’s face in an oil bath wrapped in barbed wire with a giant cockroach crawling out of his mouth. This was 1993 before Photoshop, but it was thought a better idea than some of the others put forward. The album was re-released in
1994 with the addition of the superfast hit single “Caffeine Bomb”. The songs, in their rough and ready state, certainly had a roguish charm and were lapped up by an already growing fan base. A stunning guitar solo on the song “My Baby Is A” was laid down by the great rock guitarist Mick Ronson (sadly it was to be his last contribution to the rock & roll recording world.) All of the songs concerned Ginger’s life experiences, which meant that most people of his generation could not only rock along to the music, but also relate to the lyrics. The opening track referred to Ginger’s apartment in London while the remaining songs follow a similar theme of girlfriends, drinking, hangovers and general rabble rousing.
The Wildhearts headlined the second stage at 1993’s Monsters of Rock Festival above such bands as Terrorvision and Skin. The album only reached number 46 in the album charts but it still remains highly influential. A bright future seemed to beckon but if nothing else, The Wildhearts (and Ginger in particular) are masters of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. The next a l bum, cunningly titled P.H.U.Q., got to number 7 in the charts but during the recording of it Ginger, in a moment of madness which he was soon to regret, fired CJ and thus upset the balance of the band. It was a blow from which they never recovered. These days The Wildhearts occasionally get together for irregular reunions, but the early magic is gone. Track List: Greeting from Sh*tsville TV Tan Everlone Shame on Me Caffeine Bomb Lovesh*t The Miles Away Girl My Baby Is A… Sucker Punch News Of The World
Ginger from The Wildhearts.
Drinking About Life Love U Til I Don’t The Wildhearts: Ginger - lead guitar and vocals
CJ - guitar and harmony vocals Danny McCormack - bass guitar and vocals Stidi - drums
Paul Stanley: Kiss farewell tour could include ex-members “In the emotional state that we were in, we thought that it’s better to put down the horse rather than nurse it back to health,” Stanley said. “We in essence threw the baby out with the bath water.” Those tensions are never far from the surface when former Kissers get together — and could still scuttle a last hurrah for them, despite everyone’s best intentions. “There are personalities and histories and things that
Wayne Parry Atlantic City, N.J. (AP) — It won’t be all night, but former members of Kiss might get the chance to rock ‘n’ roll with the band one last time. Kiss frontman Paul Stanley says the band’s (second) farewell tour could include former members performing onstage. In an interview in Atlantic City where he was promoting his artwork, Stanley told The Associated Press the band’s “End of the Road” world tour starting next year could include appearances by former members. He did not single out anyone by name, but living ex-members are guitarists Ace Frehley, Vinnie Vincent and Bruce Kulick, and drummer Peter Criss. Since the tour was announced last month, Kiss fans have been clamoring for a farewell that includes former members. “I wouldn’t discount any possibilities,” said Stanley, who plays the Starchild character in the band. “I learned long ago to never say never. Would I negate the possibility of former members making appearances? Absolutely not. I don’t know in what capacity.” Stanley then went on to extol the virtues and stability of the current lineup: himself, bassist and vocalist Gene Simmons; drummer Eric Singer and guitarist Tommy
In this Oct. 13, 2018 photo, Paul Stanley, singer and guitarist for the rock group Kiss, poses next to his artwork at a gallery in Atlantic City, N.J. (AP Photo/ Wayne Parry)
Thayer, calling it “the crux and the core of the band on tour.” That lineup is already rehearsing the farewell show, even as its elements remain undecided. Stanley said the set list will be expanded from the recent 16 songs to 25, adding the band has “thrown away every piece of hardware that we used on any of the previous tours and created a completely new show.” Formed in 1973, Kiss did a farewell tour in 2000 with the
original lineup of Stanley, Simmons, Frehley and Criss. Yet within a year, Simmons and Stanley decided to keep the band going, promoting guitar tech and band assistant Thayer to the role of full-fledged lead guitarist, and bringing back Singer, who first drummed with the band following the death of Eric Carr in 1991 through the 1996 reunion tour of original members. Tensions within the band soon resurfaced in 2000.
may make it impossible to spend a romantic evening with your ex-wife,” Stanley said. Speaking of ex-wives, Stanley started painting several years ago while in the midst of a divorce. “Anyone who’s been through a divorce probably spent a lot of time either banging their head on the wall or crying a lot,” Stanley said. “It’s a very tumultuous time. My best friend said to me, ‘You should paint.’ I never painted. But my life is pretty much built on the
premise of ‘why not?’ instead of ‘why?’ I had no idea how or what I was going to do. And I started painting.” His pieces include self-portraits, paintings of fellow Kiss band members, as well as Jimi Hendrix, Marilyn Monroe, and more abstract art. It’s heavy on bold color and simple in brush strokes and design. He has sold over $10 million worth of art through the Wentworth Gallery in the past five years.
18 FRIDAY NOVEMBER 2, 2018
PATTAYA MAIL
VOL. XXVI No. 44
East marks Chulalongkorn Day
Pol. Col. Apichai Kroppech, Superintendent of Pattaya Police, takes part in the wreath laying ceremony for HM King Chulalongkorn, King Rama V.
Sattahip District Chief Anucha Intasorn led the public and representatives from 30 organizations in laying wreaths in front of a portrait of King Rama V.
Jetsada Homklin
Chonburi Gov. Pakarathorn Thienchai leads the alms giving ceremony at the provincial hall.
The Eastern Seaboard remembered “the beloved great king” who brought democracy to Thailand on Chulalongkorn Day. Banglamung District Chief Naris Niramaiwong presided over the Oct. 23 alms-giving ceremony where rice and dried food were given to 57 monks. Afterward, the district chief laid a wreath on the King Rama V monument. King Chulalongkorn was only 15 when he ascended to the throne in 1868, ruling until his death in 1910. He transformed the country, then called Siam, from a backward Asian land to a modern 20th century nation. In Sattahip, government officials presented alms to 57 monks at the district office.
Students pay homage to a great king, King Rama V.
When he assumed power, Siam had no schools, roads, railways, hospitals or well-equipped military forces. To achieve the enormous task of modernization, he brought in foreign advisors and sent his sons and other young men abroad for education. After his death, King Chulalongkorn was named Piya Maharaj, “the beloved great king” and he is commemorated every Oct. 23, the date of his death. In Chonburi Gov. Pakarathorn Thienchai led military and police officers, civil servants and residents in offering flower garlands to King Chulalongkorn in front of Chonburi City Hall. Later he led the public in
Chonburi Gov. Pakarathorn Thienchai leads military and police officers, civil servants and residents in offering flower garlands to King Chulalongkorn in front of Chonburi City Hall.
Banglamung District Chief Naris Niramaiwong presided over the candlelight ceremony to commemorate King Chulalongkorn.
an alms-giving ceremony with Pra Rachsittiwimol, abbot of Yai Intaram Temple, at the provincial hall. Here, too, rice and food were given to 57 monks, one for each year of the king’s life. In Sattahip, District Chief
Anucha Intasorn did the honors, leading the public and representatives from 30 organizations in laying wreaths in front of a portrait of King Rama V before giving alms to 57 monks at the district office.
Banglamung District Chief Naris Niramaiwong, police officers, civil servants and residents pay homage to King Rama V.
VOL. XXVI No. 44
PATTAYA MAIL
FRIDAY NOVEMBER 2, 2018 19
Buddhist Lent ends with merit-making in Pattaya
Many people presented alms of rice, dried foods, and Khao Tom Hang at Wat Suttawas.
Jetsada Homklin Pattaya marked the end of three months of Buddhist lent with merit making and good deeds. Auk Phansa, the end of Buddhist Lent, and the Tak Bat Devo ceremony the following
day are the two-day observance of the end of the “rains retreat,” where, in olden times, monks remained within temple walls to avoid trampling rice crops and studied dharma by candlelight. Things have progressed since the tradition began, but its roots remain
pure in spirit. Buddhists welcome the monks back to society with presentations of meats and desserts. Buddhists on Oct. 24 eagerly prepared food, sweets, bananas with sticky rice, flowers, incense, candles and more to temples from
Nongprue to Jomtien Beach. Families came together, most dressed nicely, to pray for prosperity and pay homage to their ancestors. They made merit and listened to dharma sermons before doing good deeds, such as cleaning temples, decorating houses with the national flag and repairing religious places. The following day observances continued with Tak Bat Devo, which usually is centered around a temple on a hillside, but stairs make do on flat land. Monks who’ve been in their rains retreat for three months emerge in a procession of golden gowns down the hill depicting the path Buddha took down a celestial stairway made of silver, gold and crystal. Believers made merit by giving alms and performing good deeds which they dedicated to the memory of HM King Rama IX. People present alms at Wat Samakkee Pracharam (Wat Tungkom).
Tan Jao Khun Panya Rattanaporn, Abbot of Wat Chaimongkol Royal Temple sprinkles holy water on disciples.
Pattaya Mail Sales and Marketing Manager Nutsara Duangsri makes a contribution to the donation box for prosperity at Wat KhaoSaoThongThong.
The elders start children young in the ways to make merit.
People make merit by presenting alms at Wat Suttawas.
Students from Pattaya City Schools perform Thai dance at Wat Chaimongkol Royal Temple.
Students of Ban Nongprue School participate in morning activities during Auk Pansaa at Wat Nongprue.
20 FRIDAY NOVEMBER 2, 2018
PATTAYA MAIL
Irish Ambassador visits Father Ray children’s home
VOL. XXVI No. 44
Marie Cotter, Ambassador Cotter and Father Peter.
The Ambassador and his wife meet the students with special needs.
Derek Franklin
Making friends.
The newly installed Ambassador at the Embassy of Ireland in Bangkok, His Excellency Tony Cotter, together with his wife, Marie Cotter, recently paid a visit to the Father Ray Foundation on their first official visit to Pattaya. H.E Cotter is only the second resident Ambassador at the Embassy, and he follows in the footsteps of Ambassador Brendan Rogers who visited Pattaya several times and on two occasions led the annual Pattaya St. Patrick’s Day Parade, which, as you all know, takes place on the 17th March. On arriving at the Father Ray Foundation the honoured guests were first welcomed by toddlers from the Father Ray Day Care Center, all dressed up and enthusiastically waving the flag of Ireland. His Excellency and Mrs. Cotter were then welcomed by Father Peter Pattarapong, President of the Foundation, and before meeting more children the guests were informed about the work taking place here in Pattaya. The Embassy of Ireland has supported several projects at the Foundation over recent years. In 2015 they supported the much needed renovation and enlargement of bathrooms at the Redemptorist Technological College for People with Disabilities. A year later they allowed the College to purchase fitness equipment, specially adapted for the severely disabled students. The Ambassador was impressed with the skills of the drummers.
In 2017 the young blind and autistic students at the School for the Blind were given a brand new play room, with padded walls and floors to prevent accident and injuries. 2018 and the Art Therapy class at the Father Ray School for Children with Special Needs received a brand new kiln for the pottery classes and the toddlers at the Day Care Center received a new playground. During the visit the Ambassador watched a special drum performance by the students with special needs, before being almost mobbed by the toddlers when he arrived at the Day Care Center. It is always an honour to welcome such distinguished guests, and the Foundation is honoured that His Excellency and Mrs. Cotter took time out from their very busy schedule to visit the children here in Pattaya. Marie Cotter and one of the Foundation’s youngest children.
Father Peter presents Ambassador Cotter with a biography of Father Ray Brennan.
VOL. XXVI No. 44
Articles For Sale/Rent As611/01-52/ Pattaya Mail Cartoonist Michael Baird (M.J.B.) has 3 brand new cartoon E-Books out. These and his other 10 cartoon EBooks can be bought from www.amazon.co.uk or www.booksmango.com. You will now be able to see all of Mike’s cartoons in FULL COLOUR. His 3 new Kindle
FRIDAY NOVEMBER 2, 2018 21
PATTAYA MAIL
E-Books are “Pattaya Cartoon Memories”, “Ladyboy Book 3” and “Pattaya Unforgettable Memories”. These cartoons are for grown-ups and would be unique gifts. You never know - You might see yourself in them!
Articles/Services Wanted Aw01/01-52/ Missionary in Rayong sponsoring Little Duck Nursery needs help. Please - Any unwanted items you have would be appreciated. (Eng) Rev Stephen 086 600 5682, (Thai) 0875 381 586
Businesses for Sale or Rent Bop03/31-52/ Spacious Double Shophouse, Thepprasit Road, Soi 5; very good business location;
garden; family owned since 30 years; 11,950,000 THB o.n.o.; Go Property Thailand; 093 161 5995, info@ gopropertythailand.com, www.gopropertythailand.com land 240sqm; business space 150sqm; 6 rooms, 2 bathrooms, 2 kitchenettes; 2-4 locked parking spaces; partly furnished; 4,900,000 THB or near offer; Joe: 092753 9309, info@gopropertythailand.com, www.gopropertythailand.com
Bop02/31-52/ Guesthouse in the heart of Pattaya, Thappraya Road; Land: 210Twah (840sqm) and approx. 800sqm business space on 2 floors; 14 rooms; tropical
Bop01/31-52/ Big Shophouse; located close Sukhumvit Road / Central Road; commercial space 200sqm; 19,950,000 THB o.n.o.; Go Property Thailand; 093 161 5995, info @gopropertythailand .com, www.gopropertythailand.com
Notices No01/30-52/ Looking for a game of snooker with a retired ex-professional UK snooker player? Tel. Mike on 089 152 3202
Read more news at pattayamail.com
Pattaya Emergency Numbers Pattaya Call Center ................................ 1337 Police Station .......................................... 191 - Pattaya ................................................... 038 424 186 - Banglamung ......................................... 038 221 800-1 Highway Police ....................................... 038 392 001 Fire Brigade ............................................. 199 Pat. Int. Hopsital ..................................... 038 428 374-5 Bkk-Pat Hospital ..................................... 038 259 911 TAT Central Office: Region 3 Pattaya . 038 428 750 Tourist Police ......................................... 038 429 371, 1155 . .................................................................. 038 410 044 (FAX)
22 FRIDAY NOVEMBER 2, 2018
PATTAYA MAIL
VOL. XXVI No. 44
ROAD- very quite; 3,950,000 THB; 092- 753 9309, info@ gopropertythailand.com, www.gopropertythailand.com
Pets Pets03/01-52/ Homeless puppies available for adoption to warm and caring homes! All puppies are healthy, vaccinated and acclimated to people. If you are looking for a friend for life, just call 088 402 6772 or e-mail to karin@carefordogs.org. Pets02/01-52/ **Free Cats and Kittens** We are still trying to find loving homes for over 40 cats and kittens. Please check the pictures on our website or ring Sandra. Call 085 287 5004 http:/ cats4youinpattaya.webs.com
Property for Rent Houses, Villas Prb03/42-46/ For Rent: Bt.10,900 Per Month, 2 bedrooms, 2 baths, 3 A/C, Furnished, Pool, Clean, Beautiful, Soi 53 Nern Plabwan at Soi 45. Tel: 084-351-8254 Prb01/41-44/ CORNER TOWNHOUSE, Off Soi Khaotalo, Like new, quiet, safe, two bedrooms, one bathroom, patio, carport, Thai kitchen, air-conditioned, FULLY FURNISHED, Guarded Subdivision, Communal Pool, One Year Lease
Minimum, Bt.10,000 Monthly, Bt.20,000 Security Deposit. English, 087-805-5276
Condos, Apartments Prc216/42-09/ Royal Park Luxury Service Apartments and penthouse suite, Jomtien: starting at 15,000 baht/month. 56-70sqm, one bedroom, large living area with balcony and European kitchen, Free internet. Enjoy our rooftop swimming pool. Short walk to the beach. Monthly and daily rentals, Contact 086 111 7414 or check on our website www. royalparkjomtien.com to see why we are number 1 in Jomtien Prc211/44-45/ Markland Condo for rent (3 Months) November 17 to February 17, Beach Road, Soi 1, Furniture, True + Sophon cable, Great view on 23rd floor: 18,000 per month. Tel. 086 677 8446 Prc215/43-47/ Markland studios, 48sqm, beachfront, sea-view balcony, furnished, internet, refurbished: 15,000 Baht/month, minimum 12 months. Contact owner: ian.thailand@hotmail.com, 087 137 1529 Prc214/43-47/ Pattaya Beach Rd. Soi 13, 1-bedroom/corner, poolside balcony, kitchen, safe-box, 12,000.- / 14,500.- Tel. 091-504-1806 Prc213/42-46/ Condo WongAmat Beach: Rent 50sqm, floor-27 corner room, most beautiful sea view in Pattaya, 360 degree panorama, magnificent design: 19500/ month. Tel. 081-3358102, pitipity@hotmail.com Prc210/40-44/ Pattaya Beach Rd. Soi 13, 1 bedroom, poolside balcony, kitchen, safe-box, 13,000.- Tel. 091504-1806
Property for Sale Houses, Villas Psb29/13-52/ 1-storey single house, living area 130sqm, land size 300sqm, 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, fully furnished, European Kitchen, close to Satit School: 3.75 million baht. Tel. Heiner 0818611907
Psb28/31-52/ 5-storey Townhouse in Pratumnak; lobby, 9 rooms and 8 bathrooms; total area 320sqm; big garage; the property was completely restored in 2015; new bathrooms, new rooms, new air-conditioners; new electric wiring; must see! Great Opportunity! Only 6,200,000 THB; 092- 753 9309, info@gopropertythailand .com, www.gopropertythailand .com
Psb27/31-52/ City Villa in the heart of Pattaya; completely renovated; close to 3rd Road / LK Hotel; in walking distance to Soi Buakhao; 120sqm living space; land approx. 150sqm; 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, living room, kitchenette; fully furnished; 2 new Flat TVs; 3 air-cons; big storeroom; garden, carport & parking; NO THROUGH
Psb26/31-52/ 3-storey Townhouse located in Pratumnak Hills close to “Royal Cliff Hotel�; living space 200sqm; fully furnished with high quality furniture; living room with dining area, 2 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, guest toilet; 1 European kitchen; terrace; 2 balconies; Jacuzzi bath; 3 aircons; ceiling fan; WiFi access; storage room; carport; very nice and clean place to live; 4,950,000 THB; Go Property Thailand; 093 161 5995, info@gopropertythailand .com, www.goproperty thailand.com
Psb25/31-52/ Villa located on Pattaya East Side, only 5 min. from Sukhumvit/Thepprasit Road; Land size 760sqm, living space 350sqm; partly furnished; living room, dining room, 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, guest toilet; Jacuzzi; European kitchen, security 24/7; private pool; tropical garden; garage; parking; 15,500,000 THB; 092- 753 9309, info@goproperty thailand.com, www. gopropertythailand.com
Psb24/31-52/ Big Villa with 5,200sqm park similar land; located close to Huay Yai Road; living space 650sqm; fully furnished; 1 living/dining room;5bedrooms,5bathrooms,
VOL. XXVI No. 44
full European kitchen; terraces; WiFi; private pool 10m x 5m; outdoor shower and toilet; small lake with sala; air-con in all rooms; fitness gym; many storerooms; 85sqm office in separate building; alarm; own well; pantry & laundry room; double garage; automatic gate; 3 BBQ’s; the property is completely walled in: 24,950,000 THB; Go Property Thailand; 093 161 5995, info @gopropertythailand.com, www.gopropertythailand.com
Psb23/31-52/ 3-storey modern “BAUHAUS-Style Villa” and a wooden “Traditional Thai Style house” on 1 Rai of land located in Pratumnak, Pattaya; 360sqm living space on 3 floors with gallery; Thai house has 100sqm living space; short distance to the beach; both properties are partly furnished; open living room over 2 floors; dining room; 3 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 1 kitchen; terraces; WiFi; storage rooms; private parking; 75,000,000 THB; Go Property Thailand; 093 161 5995, info@gopropertythailand.com, www.gopropertythailand.com
PATTAYA MAIL
Psb22/31-52/ Big Villa located in a clean & well maintained Resort in East Pattaya, 12 min drive to Sukhumvit Road; quite & peaceful; 1,632sqm land; living space approx. 500sqm; fully furnished with custom made quality furniture; 1 living room; 1 dining room; 3 bedrooms, 3 ensuite bathrooms, guest toilet, 1 kitchen, maid’s house; pool 10m x 5m (salt water); many terraces; security 7/24h; double garage; fully air-conditioned; laundry, pantry, many storerooms; office; SOLAR hot water; double wall and roof insulation; emergency power generator; double glazed insulation windows; 25.000 liter water storage; 35,000,000 THB or best offer; 092- 753 9309, info@gopropertythailand .com, www.goproperty thailand.com
Condominiums Psc/40-44/ For Sale: Center Condo 74sqm, European kitchen, Fully Furnished. Ceramic tiled throughout. Farang owned. 2.25M. Tel: 089 248 4422
Psc/40-44/ Beachfront Condo at Bangsaray Condominium: 150sqm, 2-bedrooms, 2-bathrooms, 300m from beach, only 137units in 20 rai of green landscaped surroundings in an exclusive residence. Excellent decoration, fully furnished, TV-LCD 50". Hot Sale 7.9 mil. 4x,xxx baht/ sqm. 081-3358102 (owner), for photos: pitipity@hotmail. com, Line: piti.t Psc87/44/ Markland Studios, Soi 1, Pattaya beachfront road near new Terminal 21 shopping center: 48sqm, beach front balcony, furnished, refurbished, pool, fitness, foreign ownership, 3mio Baht, also finance options available by owner, details ian.thailand@hotmail.com, Tel. 087 137 1529
Psc80/31-52/ City-Studio Jomtien VIEW TALAY 1; 6th floor; living space 32sqm; 500m to the beach; fully furnished; 1 living-bedroom; 1 bathroom; kitchen; balcony; WiFi; security 7/24h; community pool; parking; restaurants, bars, supermarket 24h, laundry in the building; directly located at the 10-BahtTaxi route and Shuttle Bus to Airport BKK; 1,250,000 THB; (or rent 7,900 THB) 092753 9309,. info@goproperty thailand.com, www.goproperty thailand.com
Psc79/31-52/ Studio on the beach in Pratumnak, 50sqm, totally quite & peaceful, fully furnished; private access to the beach; big sea view terrace; 1 living-bedroom, 1 bathroom, full kitchen; washing machine; security 7/24h; community pool on beachfront; restaurant on pool side, parking; supermarket and laundry; 2,450,000 THB; (or rent 12,500 THB) 092 7539309, info@ gopropertythailand.com, www.gopropertythailand.com
Psc76/31-52/ Seaview Apartment in Pattaya, Pratumnak Hills with 2 bedrooms, 11th floor; 3 balconies; living space 101sqm; fully furnished; living room; 2 bathrooms, 1 European kitchen; 2 new air-conditioners, ceiling fans; double security door, security 7/24h; fitness gym; sauna; steam room; community pool; parking;
FRIDAY NOVEMBER 2, 2018 23
restaurants, bars, supermarket, laundry; 7,495,000 THB; Go Property Thailand; 093 161 5995, info@goproperty thailand.com, www.goproperty thailand.com THB or best offer; 092753 9309, info@goproperty thailand.com, www. gopropertythailand.com Psc74/33-52/ Studio located close to Pattaya Beach and “Rhompo Night Market”, Jomtien 2nd road, living space 47sqm, fully furnished, 1 living/bedroom, 1 bathroom, kitchenette, terrace, WiFi, Security 7/24h, fitness gym, community pool, garage, “10 Baht Taxi Route”, supermarket, laundry close by: 1,600,000 THB; GO PROPERTY THAILAND 093 -161 5995, info @gopropertythailand.com, www.gopropertythailand.com
Land for Sale P02/31-52/ Land is located close to Chaiyaprueck Road 2, 629sqm (17m x 37m); completely walled inn with a 3m high wall; 13,000 liter water deposit; own well; 2,950,000
Services Provided Sp/44/PLANS DRAWN Engineer designed 085-0834221
Vehicles for Sale & Rent Vc02/44/ Jay’s Rent A Car: Toyota’s & Honda’s. All top of the range, for your safety all serviced by Toyota/Honda, all have A.B.S./airbags + 1st class rental Insurance. Rent the best. Please ring for details: (Thai) 084-865-5102 or (Eng) 085-283-4915 Vc01/44-45/ Honda CB750 1992 F2, Fully Restored in 2016, Mint Condition, 8 Month Tax + Insurance, Bt.140,000. Tel: 062 384 3864
Read more news at pattayamail.com
24 FRIDAY NOVEMBER 2, 2018
PATTAYA MAIL
VOL. XXVI No. 44
Pang spearheads Malaysian invasion PSC Golf from the Pattaya Links Golf Society Monday, Oct. 22, Pattavia - Stableford A Flight 1st Masa Takano (9) 39pts 2nd Marco Beer (18) 39pts 3rd Chris Barker (13) 36pts B Flight 1st Mike Firkin (24) 40pts 2nd Tony Browne (19) 37pts 3rd Dave Arataki (27) 35pts This course has gained an admirable reputation of almost always presenting in excellent condition, and that’s the way we found it today. Recent rains have enabled the fairways to be well grassed and with some run. We played ‘lift, clean and place’, but there were few muddy spots to worry about. Good news, the marshall gave us a two-tee start. The greens, having now been through the low season maintenance, have come back to their quick and tricky best. A week ago Mike Firkin had a round to forget, but since then he has come back strongly and today he outdid himself with an excellent winning score of 40 points to top the “B” flight and claim the Green Jacket. Tony Browne has made it a point of never again wearing the “wig’ and put in another impressive round to
John Anderson (left) presents the Green Jacket to Pete Pang.
take second place with 37 points, while Dave Arataki has been in good form and took third with 35 points. The “A” flight saw a race in two which needed a countback to separate them. Masa Takano had the better back nine to edge out a much improved effort from Marco Beer and go top. Both had scorecards of 39 points. Masa thought he had the Green Jacket for sure. Maybe next game! Chris Barker was, once again, in the placings, and held third spot with 36 points. Near pins went to Kevin McEntee (2), George Mueller and Tony Browne.
Read more news at pattayamail.com Monday, Oct. 22, Khao Kheow – Stableford 1 st Richard Talbot (16) 38pts 2nd Lee Leong (17) 37pts 3rd Paul Hansberry (9) 36pts Khao Kheow is always a tough track, but after a deluge of rain the night before resulting in zero run on the ball, it’s even tougher. But as the saying goes, “When the going gets tough the tough get going”. Well our resident tough man R.C. Talbot lives and breathes these words and he fought on relentlessly and powered his way to the top of the leaderboard with a fine score of 38 points.
Tuesday, Oct. 23, The Emerald – Stableford 1 Derek Thorogood (18) 39pts 2nd Bill Reid (11) 35pts 3rd Mark Bell (11) 34pts st
Wednesday, Oct. 24, Khao Kheow Stableford A Flight 1st Pete Pang (17) 47pts 2nd Marco Beer (18) 44pts 3rd Masa Takano (9) 40pts 4th Bill McGarvie (14) 37pts B Flight 1st Herbert Leong (19) 42pts 2nd Mike Firkin ( 24) 40pts 3rd Darren Beavers (20) 36pts 4th Tony Browne (19) 34pts Henry Loh had such a good time when he was last in Pattaya to play golf, he was full of enthusiasm back at his home golf club and tried to encourage some friends to come and try. He ended up leading a group of nine to play at a couple of Societies
as well as on their own. Today they came to Pattaya Links Golf and swept up some of the prizes. Khao Kheow once again came up to expectations and even though the course had received a drenching the night before, still played well, albeit with not a lot of run on the fairways. The greens are in really good condition considering the rain, and ran true. We played ‘lift, clean and place’ on the fairways as carts were restricted to the path only. A Flight was won by one of the visiting Malaysians, Pete Pang who scored a jaw dropping 47 points. That sort of score is almost unheard of at Khao Kheow. Another amazing score came from Marco Beer, a regular here, with 44 points. Masa Takano, still waiting for his Green Jacket had 40 points and then Bill McGarvie scored 37 points for fourth place. B Flight was no less amazing as another of the visiting group, Herbert Leong, made a big 42 points to beat Mike Firkin, who really has it going at the moment. He scored (only) 41 points. Darren Beavers is back after a slump and amassed 36 points for third and Tony Browne, who continues practicing, took fourth with 36.
Marco Beer.
Near pins were claimed by Kevin Rogers, Tim Dale, George Mueller and Kim Foong.
Friday, Oct. 26, Treasure Hill Stableford A Flight 1st Marco Beer (18) 38pts 2nd Chris Barker (13) 34pts 3rd Masa Takano (9) 33pts 4th Ed Wykoff (15) 32pts B Flight 1st Ray Cody (19) 32pts 2nd Howard Bland (19) 30pts 3rd Len Jones (29) 29pts 4th Dave Arataki (27) 27pts The society ended the week with a dose of pain at Treasure Hill. In extremely sultry conditions with the course
‘Guy the Gorilla’ goes ape Traveller’s Rest Golf Group Emerald is not a course Derek Thorogood normally scores well on, but coming off another shank free round of on Monday he was quietly confident that his shanking nightmare was over. After scoring twenty-two points on the front nine he only had to keep it together for nine more holes, which to his surprise, he did and finished the day with 39 points.
Wednesday, Oct. 24, Pattana – Stableford 1st Guy Annand (21) 43pts 2nd Paul Hansberry (22) 36pts 3rd Greg Bates (21) 36pts Today we were witness to a real life “King Kong”, an Aussie who goes by the
Richard Talbot.
Derek Thorogood.
name of Guy Annand, is built like the proverbial “Outback Dunnie” and hits the ball a country mile. Pattana really suits his game and he powered the ball down the middle, hit heaps of greens in regulation, almost eagled the par six and finished the day with the best score of
the week 43 points, which was seven points clear of his nearest rival.
Thursday, Oct. 25, Phoenix – Stableford 1st Kim Hyeung-Rok (19) 36pts 2nd Mike Rushant (12) 35pts 3rd Bill Reid (12) 35pts
We had a large contingent of players from Korea lately and they are absolute gentlemen to play with and fine supporters of the club. Our newest member, Kim Hyeung-Rok, was awarded his first ever official handicap and celebrated this milestone achievement with his first ever win in a competition. Kim continued his celebrations when we introduced him to the concept of “buying a round”, which he caught on to very quickly.
Friday, Oct. 26, Burapha – Stableford 1st Al Marumoto (11) 39pts 2nd Greg Bates (14) 38pts 3rd Colin Smith (12) 38pts Lawrence Lee, the Burapha Blitz, was nowhere to be seen
offering little run and with greens still recovering from maintenance, therefore running at a slow pace, seven playing groups took to the yellow tees immediately on arrival. With two flights, cut at eighteen and under, there was everything to play for and in the second flight Dave Arataki again found some form with a fourth place finish, albeit with 27 points. In third with 29 points was Len Jones, stewarding the day in place of the absent Maurice and Phil. Second place went to Howard Bland with 30 points and the winner was Aussie Ray Cody with 32 hard earned points. The top flight, as usual, scored better with Ed Wyckoff making his presence felt in fourth place with 32 points, one behind the consistent Japanese golfer Masa Takano. Chris Barker managed second with 34 points and an uncharacteristic “blob” on the final hole spoilt a fine card. The winner with the best points total for the day was Swiss golfer Marco Beer who followed a splendid round two days previously with 38 points to take the green jacket. Near pin awards went to Andrew Purdie, Ron Matthews, Ed Wyckoff and Ray Cody. this week, he was on the course alright, but after previous rounds of 43 and 45 he hit the wall and today he only managed a dismal 29 points. It was Al Marumoto who took up the baton and ran to the finish line with 39 points, just holding off second and third places by a mere point.
Saturday, Oct. 27, Mt. Shadow – Stableford 1st Mike Rushant (18) 34pts 2nd Norm Cheetham (14) 31pts 3rd Ron Hulen (36) 30pts We closed the week out at Mountain Shadow, strangely the course was pretty dry and for the first time this week there was a bit of run on the fairways. Mike “The Machine” Rushant took full advantage of the conditions and easily won the day with a strong back nine to finish with 34 points.
VOL. XXVI No. 44
FRIDAY NOVEMBER 2, 2018 25
PATTAYA MAIL
Thomas turns up the heat The Tara Court Golf Society
Sunday, Oct. 21, Green Valley Stableford On a day that looked to be very wet we had our largest group for a fair while with 22 brave (crazy) players hitting off in 6 groups. The course was very wet and no run at all. We had 3 or 4 heavy showers though out the day and4 groups finished before a heavy downpour saw the last 2 groups washed out with 1 or 2 holes still to play. As expected the scoring was not great with one exception. We had 2 divisions with the cut at 15 & 16+. In top flight the best score the day and first place went to Paul Semple (3) with a great 37 points (74 gross). Taking second was Kevin O’Sullivan (14) on 35 points (24 pts on the back 9), third went to Jerry Sweetnam(10) with 33 and Greg Thomas(10) completed the podium with 30.
Dan Hobbs (26) took Division 2 honours with 33 points, one ahead of Gerry Hughes (21) in second on 32, Paul Butler (18) was third with 31 and Peter Henshaw (28) fourth on 30. Kevin O’Sullivan had the only ‘2’ for the day.
McArdle (18) in second on 34, Ted Morris (19) third with 32 and Dan Hobbs (26) fourth on 31.
Thursday, Oct. 25, Burapha - Stableford
Tuesday, Oct. 23, Eastern Star – Stableford On arrival 30 minutes before our tee time, there were vans full of golfers everywhere. Check-in was busy, but very fast. About 20 minutes late we were underway and the course was surprisingly dry considering the rain we have had the past week. Twenty-one players today and the A Division was a tight affair although no one came near to playing to handicap. Phil Brown (10) came first on countback over Greg Thomas (10), both with 32 points. In third was Peter
Greg Thomas.
Martin (16) on 31 pointts and Paul Semple (3) took fourth on a countback over Pers Forsberg & Jerry Sweetnam, all with 30 points.
Norman makes winning return PSC Golf from The Bunker Bar Siam, took first place with thirty-three points. Three golfers scored thirty-two points and had to be separated on count back with Michael Brett second, Chris Middleton third, and Geoff Parker fourth. Another winter visitor, Gez Williams, got a near pin along with Chris Middleton, David Day, and John Hoddy.
Monday, Oct. 22, Pleasant Valley – Stableford 1st Neil Carter (11) 38pts 2nd Geoff Parker (15) 36pts 3rd Michael Brett (13) 34pts October is one of the longest months for golf with fourteen rounds played. Today’s round was at the always improving Pleasant Valley course. As expected with recent heavy rain the course was damp so the ‘pick, clean, and place’ rule was applied. Shortly after we started the back nine we got a serious drenching for a few holes, fortunately it passed quickly and we could resume play, one group however did get caught out in it with nowhere to shelter and just had to suck it up. As the front nine was crowded we set off on the back nine and this change for some unknown reason seems to disconcert some people who took time to adjust. This course is very difficult for those who are short off the tee, with at least three holes proving almost impossible to make the carry to the fairway. Neil Carter continues to enjoy good form and took first place with thirty-eight points. Two back, Geoff Parker took second whilst Michael Brett brought up the rear with thirty-four. Near pins went to Neil and Geoff with Michael taking two.
Wednesday, Oct. 24, King Naga – Stableford 1st Keith Norman (15) 33pts 2nd Michael Brett (13) 32pts
Friday, Oct. 26, Burapha A & B – 2Ball Multiplier Keith Norman.
3 Chris Middleton (24) 32pts 4th Geoff Parker (15) 32pts Today’s round was played at the lush green King Naga course, possibly the greenest we have ever seen it. Understandably, due to lots of recent rain the course was a little wet so the ‘pick, clean and place’ rule was adopted once again, although in retrospect it was hardly necessary. The weather was hot and humid before the rain came on the back nine, not enough to stop play but just a refreshing shower. Luckily after we had finished the rain came down in bucket loads. Once again the greens were a real challenge, most of the time it felt like putting on velcro, really slow and bumpy. To be fair the weather prevented much of the necessary mowing, as a result scores were very negatively affected. Keith Norman, in the first game of his winter sojurn to rd
The Bunker Boys entered a team in the second round of the Travellers Rest inter club competition held on the last Friday of each month at the Burapha course. The course was in excellent condition despite lots of recent heavy rain. The pick, clean, and place rule was applied although in retrospect it was not necessary. The greens were so different from King Naga it took some time to get a grip on the speed. Luckily once again we avoided the rain which was all around us. The team format for the game was two-ball multiplier which is a bit of a vicious game in which friendships can be tested if one partner fails to perform. The team of Geoff Parker and Neil Carter easily won their match over the Players Lounge while the team of Keith Norman and Michael Brett had a ding dong battle with Traveller’s Rest before going down on the seventeenth hole. There was no near pin competition.
B Division saw better scoring and first place went to Glenn Armitstead (17) with 37 points ahead of Joe
Now that the Sport Days are at an end we had what will be our last game here in Burapha for 2018. We played the A and B nines and as the course is still very wet we played off the white tees and had pick and place in operation. We certainly went out in style for our last game with some excellent scores on a course which was playing very long. As our usual organizer wasn’t there we just played one flight with six places, which as it turned out was just as well as all the winners came in what would have been the A flight as the
higher handicappers didn’t play as well. Our winner today was Greg Thomas (h/cap 10) with an excellent 40 points. Pete Seil (7) probably thought he had it won but his 38 points was only good enough for second today, but he had the consolation of also having two ‘2’s to make up for it. Stephen Richardson (14) also had 38 but he lost out on the countback to Pete and had to settle for third. Glen Eldershaw (15) came fourth with 37 and Per Forsburg (15) fifth with 36. Kevyn Wright (10) was the only one to get a prize without playing to his handicap and he came sixth with 35 points. We had three ‘2’s today, with Fergus Brennan poaching the other one.
Read more news at pattayamail.com
Plant a surprised winner PSC Golf from Lewinskis Wednesday, Oct 24, Chee Chan G.C. Stableford As some of Kull’s golfers headed off to Khao Kheow to take advantage of the discount vouchers before the month end, the two Steves, Messrs Plant and Farquar joined up with our six players at the beautiful Chee Chan course. Even though the rate here remains discounted, there were few players to be seen and we were away on time. Although there was rain about, the golfers all persevered and were able to finish the round. A surprised Steve Plant was once again the winner with an unbelievably ordinary 29 points, beating a dead heat for second place, both with 28 points, by Victor Nesbitt and Steve Farquar. Even on countback they could not be separated, with 13, 8 & 5; back 9, 6 & 3. Our new schedule starts on 5th Nov at Green Valley with a 10.30 start.
Steve Plant with his lovely lady.
Friday, Oct. 26, Siam Old Course Stableford No rain at the well presented Old Course today, although a number of soft patches showed evidence of the recent damp weather. It was a very good turnout and despite numerous attempts to increase our number of tee times to four, we had to accept playing as three fiveballs, which is never ideal and regrettably having to turn one or two players away.
John Emmerson (from left), Bob Fagan, Greg Robinson and Charlie.
Nevertheless, the rounds were completed in around four and a half hours, which was very acceptable. John Emmerson, who has been off the leaderboards for some time with all kinds of injuries, is at last showing
some signs of regaining his game. John shared 3rd with Charlie, both with 29 points (17, 12 and 7 on countback). Bob Fagan was second with 30 points, losing on countback to today’s winner, Greg Robinson, playing off 12.
26 FRIDAY NOVEMBER 2, 2018
PATTAYA MAIL
VOL. XXVI No. 44
Rattray rules in the North The Jomtien Golf Society Monday, Oct. 22, Mae Jo G.C. Stableford Our annual Giant Panda Tour to Chiang Mai with just over 30 golfers and a few partners but the forecast here until Thursday was very doubtful. There was no rain as we teed off at Mae Jo but the caddies said it had rained all night so ‘pick clean and place’ was implemented from the first tee. It was a very soggy course out there today and very surprisingly two 39 points win both divisions. Dave Boran topped division 1 standings, with Mark Cooper in second place, Dennis Scougall was third on 32, Paul Hubbard took fourth with 31 and Kevin Blake beat Peter Skinner on countback to take fifth place after they both scored 27 points. John Rattray won division 2 ahead of the Irish boy Gerry Cooke in second on33. We
Wednesday, Oct. 24, Highlands - Stableford
John Rattray.
then had four 27-pointers fighting for three places and on a 16/14/13/12 countback, Russell Gilroy was third, Bill Kana fourth, John Carlin fifth and Paul Young lost out. Near pins went to (Div 1) Dave Boran, Darryl Burkett, Shaun McGrady and Dennis Scougall, and (Div 2) Gerry Cooke, Andy Oz, Gil Phillips and John Rattray. In the ‘2’s, Dennis Scougall birdied the 14th in division 1 and in division two John Rattray the 7th.
The course here was even wetter and soggier than of Monday but all eight groups got round with no threatening weather conditions. Thirty-seven points was the highest score, with Al Griffiths beating Neil Gamble on a 14/12 back six countback to win division 1. They were followed by three players on 35 points and here Bob Poole took third, Peter Skinner was fourth and Kevin Blake fifth after a countback calculation. John Rattray won division 2 with 35 points despite being cut two shots from Monday. John Carlin beat Bill Kana on a 19/16 back-six countback for second after they both scored 34 pounts and two points further back Paul Young won another countback to take fourth ahead of Tim Knight in fifth
Smedley streets the field PSC Golf from The Golf Club Monday, Oct. 22, Green Valley (white tees) – Stableford
Wednesday, Oct. 24, Pattaya C.C. (white tees) – Stableford
We had never played this course before and with the white tees set at 5890 yards we opted to play from the black tees at 6240 yards. A quick check on the course condition before we teed off and there was no ‘pick clean and place’ for our final round. Peter Lofstrand, Greig Robinson and Phil Smedley.
golf course. In fact, if there were golf awards for the most improved track in the last year, this would be it. The front nine is better than the back nine, but it is getting better and there are some very pretty and challenging holes from 10-18. Everyone commented on how good this course was today, lush and green, so well done to Pattaya Country Club! Capt. Phil was a terrible host and thrashed the field by 4 strokes, what the heck got into him? Peter Lofstrand did well for second before heading back to his native Sweden and we see Butch and Greig at a tie for third. Greig, from Edinburgh, also nicked the near pin.
Friday, Oct. 26, Burapha A & B 1st Phil Smedley (18) 37pts 2nd Peter Lofstrand (27) 33pts (white tees) – T3rd Butch Furneaux (11) 32pts Stableford T3rd Greig Robinson (11) 32pts This is a very much improved
and Keith Woolley just losing out. Near pins were claimed by (Div 1) Darryl Burkett, Al Griffiths, Paul Hubbard and Dennis Scougall, and (Div 2) Gerry Cooke, John Rattray (2) and Chris Ross. Al Griffiths birdied the 7th and Martin Grimoldby the 2nd and in division 2 Colin James the 2nd as well.
Friday, Oct. 26, North Hill Stableford
Steve Ellison
1st Peter Thomas (22) 37pts 2nd Gary Emmett (16) 37pts 3rd J.P. Thomas (21) 28pts Skies were grey and overcast as we arrived at the clubhouse of Green Valley. Some of our regulars who are members arrived early and started in dry conditions, but by the 7th the rains came down, and heavy. The 2 vans pulled up and got checked in, deciding to wait it out as per norm. Usually after 30-45 minutes things clear up and off we go, but they waited, and waited and finally Capt. Phil asked for a show of hands whether to abandon play and the votes were unanimous. Thank you Green Valley for giving everyone’s money back without dispute. For the two soaked groups that stayed out, the Thomas family did quite well as did Gary Emmett, also getting a slippery gripped near pin. Apparently they all wished they had returned back to the clubhouse for a hot toddy.
Bill Kana, Bob Poole, Wichai and Al Griffiths in Chiang Mai.
T1st Dusty Miller (15) 37pts T1st Steve Sweeney (19) 37pts
T3rd Peter Lofstrand (27) 34pts T3rd Butch Furneaux (11) 34pts T3 rd Phil Smedley (18) 34pts It’s close, it’s easy and it’s beautiful and that is what makes Burapha such an attractive course. They hold many Asian Tour events here and it is always kept in super condition. There was nothing rusty about Dusty today, in spite of a rough night before. The blood-alcohol level must have been just right as the putts kept rolling in for our visiting mate. Same goes for Steve Sweeney with an equal 37 points to share the demonstrable win. A trio of 34’s filled the rest of the podium and we left it to Alan Young to claim the Caddy Smile near pin. Alan swept a 7-wood on the 17th to just 8 feet to beat the field… at least on one hole!
Thirty-five points was the highest score of the day with Martin Grimoldby taking the top podium position in division 1. Nik Evans was second on 32 points, Pete Skinner third with 31 and Dennis Scougall fourth on 30. There were three contenders fighting for fifth place and an 18/16/14 countback saw Shaun McGrady take it ahead of Darryl Burkett and Neil Gamble. Bill Kana won division 2 with 34 points, Keith Woolley was second one point behind, Pat Carty took third with 28, Gerry Cooke fourth with a measly 26 and Tim Knight finished fifth, beating John Rattray 13/8 after they both came in with 25 points. Near pins went to (Div 1) Nik Evans, Shaun McGrady
and Bob Poole, and (Div 2) Larry Ang and John Carlin. Al Griffiths and Shaun McGrady birdied the 14th in division 1 for the only ‘2’s of the day. Despite only 25 points in his last round, John Rattray still won the overall Giant Panda Tour with 99 points. Dennis Scougall was second on 96, Bill Kana is third with 95 Dave Boran fourth on 93 and Peter Skinner fifth with 93. It was a brilliant week had by all, many thanks to Lyn for her planning and organizational skills. With no reports in last week’s Pattaya Mail, Jomtien Golf would like to congratulate Paul Butler on his hole in one on the 6th at Treasure Hill the week before last.
Rees on top at Eastern Star PSC Golf from Siam Country Resort Pattaya Tuesday, Oct. 23, Plutaluang – Match-play It had rained heavily the night before so some of the course was quite wet, but otherwise in good shape. There was only 4 of us today so we played match-play between Jon & Sam against Paddy and Dan. Jon and Sam were one up going into the final hole and Jon holed a long putt to seal the win. The rain then came hammering down as we got to the clubhouse.
Thursday, Oct. 25, Eastern Star – Stableford There were seven of us today and the course we played was in good condition, although the one Stan Rees played was rather muddy!
Neil Harvey (left) and Stan Rees.
There was a tight spread of scores today with only 5 shots separating the players, but it was Stan who came out on top with 34 points and
Neil Harvey beat out Jonathan on countback with 32. Near pins went to Dave Smith, Jonathan Pratt and Paul Davies.
VOL. XXVI No. 44
FRIDAY NOVEMBER 2, 2018 27
PATTAYA MAIL
JD back to winning ways PSC Golf from the Tropical Golf Group drives tended to stop near where they landed, denying the players the benefit of much roll. However, ‘lift clean and place’ through the green gave the golfers a little advantage. The greens were slow, and uphill putts required a pretty good rap. No player was able to play
John Davis (right) receives congrats from Micki.
Wednesday, Oct. 24, Bangpra – Stableford A return to Bangpra, the Monkey Course, too soon for some, way too long for others. The last time we visited was in July completing a 3 round eclectic event at the course. Generally always in good condition and with the recent daily showers, a well-presented course was expected and found. No lift, clean and place this day but making this decision from only the fact that carts are/are not
DATE:
allowed on fairways sometimes catches you. The greens were found in very good condition, not lightening fast but a reasonable speed and running true. On top of that, catching one of the few remaining “Sports Day” rates before high season was a bonus. With the small group finishing in good order, even with a brief and light rain shower, cards collected and it was back to BJ’s for a bit of late lunch and the always refreshing thirst quenchers
FRI 02
Apple’s Irish
Treasure Hill
Bunker Boys
Pattavia
SAT 03
Mashi Kaneta (left) with Dave Cooper.
while awaiting the day’s results, which took quite a tiebreaker to sort out the top 3. With 32 points and coming out on top was John Davies (c/h 11) over Derek Brook (29) in second and Don Carmody (29) in third. John Pierrel (12) carding 30 points completed the podium as the rest applauded and cheered.
Friday, Oct. 26, Treasure Hill – Stableford Another fine Friday morning in Pattaya, and the
SUN 04
Le Katai
TUE 06
WED 07
Crystal Bay
Green Valley
THU 08
FRI 09
Pattana Khao Kheow
Crystal Bay
Greenwood Mt.Shadow
Treasure Hill
Royal Lakeside
Eastern Star
Mt. Shadow Pattaya C.C.
Burapha
Phoenix
Pleasant Valley
Greenwood
Mt. Shadow
Pattavia
Pleasant Valley
Crystal Bay
Green Valley
Bangpra
Chee Chan
Burapha
Siam
Lewiinski’s The Links
MON 05 Mt. Shadow
Growling Swan Billabong Golf
Tropical golfers gathered at BJ’s Holiday Lodge hoping to play well at the always challenging Treasure Hill. This course offers a great green fee, caddie fee, and cart rate that enticed almost everyone to make the trip today. The caddies must love this all-in rate as they rarely need to drag a pull cart around the course. I’m sure they would be as disappointed as the golfers if this promotion is discontinued. The recent rains left the course a little soggy, so
Eastern Star
Cafe Kronborg Colin’s Golf
to their handicap today. The first place winner was Mashi Kaneta with 34 points, playing off a course handicap of 16. Second place went to Dave Cooper (27) with 33 points. Daryl Evans (25) and Don Carmody (29), claimed third and fourth place, both finishing with 32 points.
Green Valley
Burapha
Pleasant Valley
Bangpakong
Treasure Hill
Eastern Star
Pattavia
Pleasant Valley
Crystal Bay
Treasure Hill
I Rovers Retox Game On Siam Country
Plutaluang
Sugar Shack Harry’s Golf The Golf Club
Pattavia
Valley View Hackers
Pattavia
Crystal Bay
Bangpra
King’s Naga
Green Valley
Pattaya C.C.
Green Valley
Silky Oak
Khao Kheow
The Emerald
Green Valley
The Players Lounge Tropical Golf
Crystal Bay
Crystal Bay Green Valley
Pattana Green Valley
Treasure Hill Green Valley
Green Valley
The Bunker Boys meet at the M-Club off Pattaya 3rd Road for golf outings every Monday, Wednesday and Friday (www.bunkersociety.com). Transportation leaves from Cafe Kronborg on Soi Diana Inn at 8:15 a.m. on Mondays and Thursdays, (contact Dave on tel. 038 602 2117). Colin’s Bar plays golf Sun/Mon/Wed & Fri (www.colinsbar.com). The Growling Swan plays golf on Monday & Thursday (www.thegrowlingswan.com). Lewiinski’s departs from Soi Pattayaland One (Soi Pattaya 13/3) at 9:00 a.m. on its scheduled days. of Sunday, Monday, Tuesday/Wednesday and Friday. The Pattaya Links Hotel Golf Society departs from Soi Buakhao on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Call Phil on 0625 933 380 or visit www.thelinkshotelpattaya.com. The Golf Club is located on Soij LK Metro. Call Phil on 090 769 3778. Tropical Golf meets at BJ’s Holiday Lodge at 8am on Tuesday’ & Friday. Call Derek on 089 034 0629
28 FRIDAY NOVEMBER 2, 2018
PATTAYA MAIL
VOL. XXVI No. 44
Hamilton wins F1 title, Verstappen wins Mexican Grand Prix Jim Vertuno Mexico City (AP) — Lewis Hamilton keeps climbing his way up the list of Formula One’s greatest drivers. The top now looks very much in sight. The British driver won his fifth career F1 championship with a fourth-place finish last Sunday at the Mexican Grand Prix. It was a race dominated by Red Bull’s Max Verstappen, but one that will be remembered for Hamilton tying the late Juan Manuel Fangio of Argentina for the second-most championships in F1 history. At age 33, he can now make a run at something once previously unthinkable: The seven titles won by Germany’s Michael Schumacher. “Michael’s still the (greatest),” Hamilton said. “Fangio is the godfather and always will be. I feel honored to have my name alongside his. If I stop today, I’ll always have my name up there.” He’s not stopping. Hamilton has won four of his five titles with Mercedes and this year extended his contract through 2020. His 2008 championship was with McLaren.
“I feel like I still drive with that fire that I had when I was 8-years-old,” Hamilton said. “I’m here for a few more years, so hopefully I’ll get close. I’ll always be a fan of (Schumacher).” Hamilton’s fifth championship arguably ranks among his best. He had to fight off a strong challenge from Ferrari, which even Hamilton admitted often had the stronger car. Ferrari beat him Sunday with title rival Sebastian Vettel taking second and Kimi Raikkonen third. “I always believed we could win this championship, but it was one of the toughest,” Hamilton said. Ferrrari also won the previous week at the U.S. Grand Prix. But it was a run of wins over the second half of the season that sent Hamilton to Mexico City all but assured of the championship. All he had to do was finish no lower than seventh, and even that would have required a Vettel win. Yet he didn’t get the leisurely Sunday drive he would have liked over the 71 laps in the high altitude at the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez.
Red Bull driver Max Verstappen, of Netherlands, leads Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton, of Britain, during the Formula One Mexico Grand Prix auto race at the Hermanos Rodriguez racetrack in Mexico City, Sunday, Oct. 28. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)
After a brief bid for the lead Sunday, Hamilton had a scary run off the track late. In between, he complained of car and tire problems, and had to fight to hold on for one of his worst finishes of the season. “It was a horrible race,” Hamilton said. “I was just trying to bring the car home.” It was a near perfect day for Verstappen, who earned his fifth career victory and defended his 2017 race win. Red Bull had dominated qualifying to earn its first 12 start of the hybrid engine era. But pole-sitter Daniel Ricciardo was beaten off the
line by Verstappen and Hamilton. Ricciardo’s race ended with late engine failure, the eighth time this season his car didn’t make it to the finish. Hamilton could have let the Red Bulls ride off from the start, but he took a shot at the lead by slipping into a gap between them. The straight line power of his Mercedes nosed his car in
Jacobs edges Derevyanchenko to win IBF middleweight title
Phillip Island, Australia (AP) — Maverick Vinales ended his and Yamaha’s lengthy droughts when he won the Australian MotoGP last Sunday as newlycrowned world champion Marc Marquez failed to finish after starting from pole for the fifth straight year. Vinales started in second place on the grid after finishing 0.3 second behind Marquez in qualifying and was able to control the race after Marquez came into contact with Johann Zarco on the 22nd lap. He overcame a poor start to lead by more than four seconds before easing down to win by 1.54 seconds from Suzuki’s Andrea Iannone and Andrea Dovizioso, who helped Ducati narrow Honda’s lead in the constructor’s championship. Yamaha had gone without a win in 25 races since Valentino Rossi won the Dutch GP last June, the longest winless streak in its history. Vinales, who has now reached the podium in Australia in three-straight years, had not won in 29 races since Le Mans last year. Marquez retains an unassailable 86 point lead over Dovizioso on world championship standings while Valentino Rossi is 15 points back in third place and Vinales a further 15 points behind in fourth.
Brian Mahoney New York (AP) — Danny Jacobs needed the big challenge, wanted to fight a guy who even some of boxing’s best wouldn’t. Now Jacobs knows what else he wants. “I want Canelo next,” he said. Even a fight with Canelo Alvarez couldn’t be much tougher than the one Jacobs had last Saturday. Jacobs won the IBF middleweight title, pulling out a thrilling split decision over Sergiy Derevyanchenko. Jacobs scored a first-round knockdown and that helped him build just enough of a lead to hold on in a tight finish in which both fighters were swinging wildly across the late rounds. He won 115-112 on Tom Schreck and Steve Weisfeld’s cards, while judge Julie Lederman scored it 114-113 for Derevyanchenko. “Hats off to Sergiy. I knew he was a true competitor,” Jacobs said. “I knew he was going to be hard so I had to dig deep.” Jacobs (35-2, 29 KOs) took the belt that was vacated when Gennady Golovkin chose not
Daniel Jacobs (right) and Ukraine’s Sergiy Derevyanchenko exchange punches during their IBF middleweight championship bout, Saturday, Oct. 27, in New York. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)
to fight Derevyanchenko, his mandatory challenger, this spring while awaiting his rematch with Alvarez. Alvarez won that bout and is moving up to super middleweight for his next one. He’s expected to return to 160 pounds afterward and Jacobs, who narrowly lost to Golovkin last year, wants to be the opponent. “The fans want it,” Jacobs said. “Now I have the strap, let’s do it. I’d rematch Triple G but he’s not a champion. I want the champs.” Derevyanchenko (12-1),
who had more than 400 fights as an amateur but has had trouble finding work as a pro, fell just short in his longawaited first shot at a title. “It was a very close fight,” Derevyanchenko said. “I knew that the knockdown could come back to bite me.” Jacobs’ win capped what’s been a flurry of activity in the 160-pound division over the last seven weeks. Alvarez has two of the major belts after edging Golovkin last month, and Demetrius Andrade won the other last week.
front until Verstappen cut under him at the first corner. Verstappen wasn’t giving any ground. He was angry Saturday when he was denied the chance to be the youngest pole winner in F1 history “The start was the key,” Verstappen said. “I was determined to win today.” Hamilton could afford to back off and his primary goal was to avoid trouble. Last year, a bump from Vettel at the first turn punctured a tire which relegated him to ninth. A four-time champion himself, Vettel opened the season with a strong charge of two straight victories only to see Mercedes snatch wins while their own car faded for a long stretch. Hamilton wrapped up the season with two races left. Vettel will have the small consolation of b eating
Hamilton in the title-clinching race, passing him about midway through on a run down the long straight in a test of power between F1’s top two teams. The team constructor’s championship is still up for grabs between Mercedes and Ferrari. “He drove superb all year. He was the better one of us two,” Vettel said. “Five (championships) is something incredible. I asked him to keep pushing for next year to be at his best, to fight him again.” Ferrari hasn’t won the driver’s championship since 2007 and Hamilton gave a nod of respect to the season title fight with Vettel. “He fought so hard this year,” Hamilton said. “The pressure that he would be under ... that’s a lot to ride on one’s shoulders.”
Read Pattaya Mail Online Updated Daily www.pattayamail.com | Facebook/pattayamail Email: ptymail@pattayamail.com
Maverick Vinales wins Australian MotoGP
Movistar Yamaha rider Maverick Vinales of Spain celebrates after winning the MotoGP Australian Motorcycle Grand Prix at Phillip Island, Sunday, Oct. 28. (AP Photo/Andy Brownbill)
The Spanish world champ was involved in a frightening incident with Zarco on lap 22 when the Frenchman clipped his rear wheel and crashed heavily. Marquez kept control but his Honda suffered heavy damage to its rear suspension and he couldn’t continue. Vinales had been in 10th place when the incident occurred and managed to stay
out of trouble, seizing the lead in the second half of the race. “It feels amazing,” Vinales said. “Honestly, it’s been so difficult here for me. “I couldn’t realize that I won but the bike was perfect today and I just pushed my best. The team provided me a bike to win. That’s the target and for sure when I crossed the line there were only tears on my face.”
VOL. XXVI No. 44
PATTAYA MAIL
Poussier pouches his third monthly mug PSC Golf from The Growling Swan Monday, Oct. 22, Crystal Bay – Stableford A-Flight (0-16) 1st Jayson Moylan (10) 38pts 2nd Keith Buchanan (14) 35pts 3rd Bill McGarvie (15) 33pts B-Flight (17+) 1st Alex Field (17) 38pts 2nd Francis Tan (18) 38pts 3rd Brendan Moylan (17) 37pts Near Pins: Keith Buchanan, Bill McGarvie, KM Foong, Bill McGarvie Long Putts: Bill McGarvie, Heny Low Three buses and a couple of cars ferried today’s golfers, well it’s been a while since we have had these numbers thus the transport. Crystal Bay was our destination and we played from the white tees and the rain that we had had the night before was evident, but the course was in good shape (considering the rains). With today’s numbers we were able to play two flights with three places in each. Also had all novelties in play! A-Flight saw the big guns battle it out with Jayson Moylan beating the rest of the field home by a good 3 points. Following was the ever-reliable Keith Buchanan, being hotly pursued by Bill “Shooter” McGarvie on his return game at The Swan. Our resident co-organiser took first place in B-Flight after taking care of Francis Tan (another Canadian new
Colin Stielow (from left), Patrick Poussier and Alex Field.
comer) via the countback system; both golfers returned 38 points, with Alex’s back nine better than Francis’s. Finishing third and still in the money was Brendan Moylan
Thursday, Oct. 25, Mt. Shadow – Monthly Mug 1st Patrick Poussier (30) net 69 2nd Alex Field (17) net 70 3rd Glenn Henriksen (12) net 70 4th Colin Stielow (26) net 71 Near Pins: Bill McGarvie, Bill Steinmann, Keith Buchanan, Masa. Long Putts: Bill Steinmann, Patrick Poussier. With a bigger contingent than last month we headed to the mountain, Mountain Shadow, and all were eager to have a crack at the October Monthly Mug. With all the rain that we had had this course was still in tiptop condition, bus chatter
was all about carts on course and would they be allowed. Well they were allowed to the delight of all and sundry. We did play ‘lift, clean & place’ as some areas were a little wet. Mt. Shadow was in great nick with plush fairways, greens were true and clean bunkers. There were no hold-ups as yet again the course was empty. We had seventeen golfers, thus playing the one flight only, all novelties would be in play also. Patrick Poussier is our stroke play champion and it was net 69 that gave Patrick his third Mug, a great effort and I am sure that he has not finished at three. Second went to the countback with Alex Field (net 70) tipping Glenn Henriksen (also net 70) back to third spot. Finishing off the podium positions was Colin Stielow who finished with net 71.
Team Geralton take the plaudits PSC Golf from The Billabong Bar Monday, Oct. 22, Phoenix Gold – Stableford With skies that looked a bit black we set off from the bar to go to Phoenix, it didn’t rain on us but after we finished it certainly did. The course even after all the rain it has received is still in great condition, although the greens were a little slow. With 6 groups playing we got away a little late but it was still a 4-hour round with no holdups. Taking 4th place was Dave Bramley with 33 points, there was a 3-way count back for the other placings with NipperTruscott taking 3rd, Thiery Petrement 2nd and Gerard Lambert got 1st prize, all on 34 points. The only ‘2’ of the day went to Rick Culley.
Friday, Oct. 26, Plutaluang – 4-Man Scramble A change of venue today for the monthly scramble, we
Team Geralton – Friday’s scramble winners.
were back to the navy course, playing North and West loops for a change and was it a tough day at the office! The course played long and as there were no carts allowed off the concrete it made for a long day out, almost 5 hours to finish the round, but we did not get wet. On arriving back at the bar the storm came but by then we high and dry. With 11 teams playing we
got away a little early in good conditions, and the scoring was very good with 3 of the teams scoring in the high 50’s The Valley hackers took 3rd spot with a score of 59.7, taking 2nd prize was Beckies Bollocks with a net 59, and Team Geralton, consisting of Jason Moylan, Wes Rado, Mike Quill and Scott Baumgarten were the winners with a fine score of 58.6.
FRIDAY NOVEMBER 2, 2018 29
Schauffele wins HSBC for US sweep of World Championships Shanghai (AP) - Xander Schauffele gave the Americans a sweep of the World Golf Championships and quickly put a winless sophomore season behind him. Schauffele made birdie on his final three holes last Sunday, the last one a twoputt birdie from about 30 feet on the par-5 18th hole to beat Tony Finau in a suddendeath playoff and win the HSBC Champions. “When I was signing my card, I was like, ‘Oh, wow. I actually went birdie-birdie to get in the playoff,” Schauffele said. “I was just in my own world out there.” He began the tournament by celebrating his 25th birthday. He ended it with one clutch shot after another in the closing stretch at Sheshan International for a 4-under 68, the lowest score of the final round, and his first victory in 13 months. Schauffele won twice in his first year on the PGA Tour to win rookie of the year. Last season featured high finishes, but only one good chance at winning when he was a runner-up in the British Open at Carnoustie. Now he has three victories, the last two at the Tour Championship to end the 2017 season and now a World Golf Championship. Finau, who started the final round with a three-shot lead in his bid for a second PGA Tour-sanctioned victory, was ahead by one shot until Schauffele made an 18foot birdie putt on the par-3 17th, only the fourth player to make birdie on that hole Sunday.
Xander Schauffele of the United States lifts the trophy after winning the HSBC Champions golf tournament held at the Sheshan International Golf Club in Shanghai, Sunday, Oct. 28. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
Defending champion Justin Rose missed a 10-foot birdie chance on the 17th and went to the final hole two shots behind. Trying to make eagle, he went from the bunker to the rough to over the green and into the water, making a bogey for a 72 to finish four shots behind. That meant Brooks Koepka, who closed with a 69 and tied
for 16th, stayed at No. 1 in the world for at least another week. The United States becomes the first country to have four players win the four World Golf Championships. Phil Mickelson won the Mexico Championship, Bubba Watson won the Dell Match Play and Justin Thomas won the Bridgestone Invitational.
Federer wins Swiss Indoors for 99th career title Basel (AP) — Roger Federer won his 99th career ATP tour title last Sunday, beating qualifier Marius Copil 7-6 (5), 6-4 in the Swiss Indoors final. A ninth title at Federer’s hometown event in Basel, where he was once a ball boy, matched the nine he has won at the Halle grass-court event in Germany. He closed the gap on the all-time singles titles list to Jimmy Connors, who leads with 109. “It’s been a magical week. It was dream run for me,” Federer said in his on-court acceptance speech, before his fans’ ovation brought tears welling in his eyes. “To come through and win again here in my hometown, never knowing if this might be your last time ... it obviously means a lot to me and it becomes very emotional,” he said later.
Switzerland’s Roger Federer returns a ball to Romania’s Marius Copil during the final of the Swiss Indoors tennis tournament in Basel, Switzerland, Sunday, Oct. 28. (Georgios Kefalas/Keystone via AP)
The top-seeded Swiss rallied from trailing by a service break in each set against the 93rd-ranked Romanian, whose serve was measured at 243 kph (151 mph) in his opening service game. Federer clinched minutes
after saving a break point, taking his first match-point chance when Copil sent a backhand into the net. The title was the 37-year-old Federer’s first in more than four months since winning on grass at Stuttgart in June.
30 FRIDAY NOVEMBER 2, 2018
PATTAYA MAIL
Russia’s Aliia Mustafina performs on the uneven bars during qualifying sessions for the Gymnastics World Chamionships at the Aspire Dome in Doha, Qatar, Sunday, Oct. 28. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)
(Above) Movistar Yamaha rider Maverick Vinales, of Spain, races through a corner during the Australian Motorcycle Grand Prix race at Phillip Island, Sunday, Oct. 28. (AP Photo/Andy Brownbill)
VOL. XXVI No. 44
Barcelona forward Luis Suarez (left) duels for the ball with Madrid’s Casemiro (center) and Sergio Ramos during the Spanish La Liga soccer match between FC Barcelona and Real Madrid at the Camp Nou stadium in Barcelona, Spain, Sunday, Oct. 28. (AP Photo/Joan Monfort)
Ukraine’s Sergiy Derevyanchenko (right) punches Daniel Jacobs during the fourth round of their IBF middleweight championship match Saturday, Oct. 27, in New York. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)
France’s Tessa Worley celebrates winning an alpine ski, women’s World Cup giant slalom in Soelden, Austria, Saturday, Oct. 27. (AP Photo/Alessandro Trovati)
Switzerland’s Roger Federer hoists the trophy after winning the final against Romania’s Marius Copil at the Swiss Indoors tennis tournament in Basel, Switzerland, Sunday, Oct. 28. (Georgios Kefalas/ Keystone via AP)
Mercedes driver Valtteri Bottas, of Finland, sits in his car during the third practice session for the Formula One Mexico Grand Prix auto race at the Hermanos Rodriguez racetrack in Mexico City, Saturday, Oct. 27. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)
VOL. XXVI No. 44
FRIDAY NOVEMBER 2, 2018 31
PATTAYA MAIL
What is it like to race a really fast car?
Club racing at Bira this weekend
The Escort revived.
The Bira Circuit on Highway 36 will be hosting a club race meeting this weekend (4th and 5th November). We will be racing the Pattaya Mail / Casa Pascal sponsored Retro Escort Mk 1. This is the car which 12 months ago had a fearsome accident head first into the wall. The damage was so
bad that I was sure it would require a new shell. However, the skills of Thai panel shops are amazing. Mard body shop in Bangkok pulled the twisted wreck straight, reinforced weak points in the original chassis/body design and returned the car to me saying it was now better than it had been
when it left the factory in 1973. There is not one part of the body shell that does not look original. Other categories racing include Daihatsu Mira (generally about 30 of them), pick-ups, sedan cars of all types and sizes, and other run what you brung categories.
Tesla secures land in Shanghai for first factory outside US Joe Mc Donald, AP Business Writer Beijing (AP) - Electric auto brand Tesla Inc. said it signed an agreement to secure land in Shanghai for its first factory outside the United States, pushing ahead with development despite mounting U.S.-Chinese trade tensions. Tesla, based on Palo Alto, California, announced plans for the Shanghai factory in July after the Chinese government said it would end restrictions on full foreign ownership of electric vehicle makers to speed up industry development. Those plans have gone ahead despite tariff hikes by Washington and Beijing on billions of dollars of each other’s goods in a dispute over Chinese technology policy. U.S. imports targeted by Beijing’s penalties include electric cars. China is the biggest global electric vehicle market and Tesla’s second-largest after the United States. Tesla joins global automakers including General Motors Co., Volkswagen AG and Nissan Motor Corp. that are pouring billions of dollars into manufacturing electric vehicles in China. Local production would eliminate risks from tariffs and other import controls. It
would help Tesla develop parts suppliers to support after service and make its vehicles more appealing to mainstream Chinese buyers. Tesla said it signed a “land transfer agreement” on a 210-acre (84-hectare) site in the Lingang district in southeastern Shanghai. That is “an important milestone for what will be our next advanced, sustainably developed, manufacturing site,” Tesla’s vice president of worldwide sales, Robin Ren, said in a statement. Shanghai is a center of China’s auto industry and home to state-owned Shanghai Automotive Industries Corp., the main local manufacturer for GM and VW. Tesla said earlier that production in Shanghai would begin two to three years after construction of the factory begins and eventually increase to 500,000 vehicles annually. Tesla has yet to give a price tag but the Shanghai government said it would be the biggest foreign investment there to date. The company said in its second-quarter investor letter that construction is expected to begin within the next few quarters, with significant investment coming next year. Much of the cost will be funded with “local debt” the letter said.
Tesla’s $5 billion Nevada battery factory was financed with help from a $1.6 billion investment by battery maker Panasonic Corp. Analysts expect Tesla to report a loss of about $200 million for the three months ending September 30 following the previous quarter’s $742.7 million loss. Its CEO Elon Musk said in a Sept. 30 letter to U.S. securities regulators that the company is “very close to achieving profitability.” Tesla’s estimated sales in China of under 15,000 vehicles in 2017 gave it a market share of less than 3 percent. The company faces competition from Chinese brands including BYD Auto and BAIC Group that already sell tens of thousands of hybrid and pure-electric sedans and SUVs annually. Until now, foreign automakers that wanted to manufacture in China were required to work through state-owned partners. Foreign brands balked at bringing electric vehicle technology into China to avoid having to share it with potential future competitors. The first of the new electric models being developed by global automakers to hit the market, Nissan’s Sylphy Zero Emission, began rolling off a production line in southern China in August. Lower-priced electric models from GM, Volkswagen and other global brands are due to hit the market starting this year, well before Tesla is up and running in Shanghai. Auto Writer Tom Krisher contributed to this report from Mountain View, California. (Forget the big numbers, the significant figure is the three percent market share in China. Tesla has a long way to go yet.)
In a motor racing career which began in 1965, and is still going (just), I have had the opportunity to drive some of the fastest cars, both road and race. And some not so fast also! The slowest race car I ever had was a stock standard Isuzu Gemini (sold in Australia as a Holden Gemini, and in Thailand badged as an Opel or Isuzu, I believe). This car would get breathless at 160 kph, but when raced against a complete field of 30 other breathless Gemini’s was in its own way, quite a buzz. Imagine racing down the straight and knocking the rear vision mirrors out of alignment on the Gemini next to you, as you went through the kink at the end of the straight, at 160 kph. Or traveling so close to the tail of the car in front, while going down the straight that you could bang open his boot lid! And put a small dent on the front of the bonnet of your own car. I also raced many other cars, but the ones that stay most in the memory were those that always wanted to travel sideways, at a great rate of speed, and much faster than 160 kph. One of these memorable motor cars was a yellow Porsche Carrera. This car did not belong to me, but was owned by the president of the Porsche Club in Queensland, Australia. As I had raced his previous Carrera with some success, he asked me to drive this new one as well. For various reasons (and there’s always lots of reasons, or excuses, in motor sport) the car was not finished until Qualifying
Lola T 430.
was almost finished. I had no chance to try it previously. The first time it turned a wheel in anger was for a position on the grid, and there was less than 10 minutes left in which to qualify. On the first lap, it felt a little “nervous” and twitchy, but time was running out. On the first full bore run down the straight, on the second lap, it clocked over 210 kph as I entered the braking area. The first quick firm stab on the middle pedal brought about an instant sideways movement, followed by another sideways moment in the other direction. I was driving a pendulum! I was hauling on the steering wheel from lock to lock, trying to catch the swinging rear end of the Porsche, while still trying to get the speed down. Fortunately I had it under control before running out of road, and returned to the pits, muttering dire threats and suggesting the mechanic’s parents were not married! Wheel alignment measurement at the garage that evening revealed that the rear suspension was going into a “toe-out” situation as the nose dipped under braking, raising the rear. Possibly the most unstable situation you can ever produce in a
rear engined Porsche - and at 200 kph going sideways in a Porsche is certainly exciting! But if you think that is exciting, try 300 kph! One of the other race cars I have driven was a Team VDS Lola T 430. One of the fearsome Formula 5000, five liter rear engined V8 single seater race cars. These were the F1 cars of around 25 years ago, and 300 kph was easily attainable down the straight. The owner of this vehicle described driving it as trying to throw a 2 kg hammer - but handle first. All the weight was in the tail. This was another race car that wanted to see how quick your reactions were at 300 kph, as you could not let the tail move out of line too far, or otherwise it would change ends so fast you didn’t even have time to say “Oh sh*t!” With cars like those, there is no time to relax at any stage during the lap, as you are constantly aware of the fact that there is an inherent instability. If you don’t remember, you crash! Tyre compounds and suspension design have improved since those days, but are two of the reasons that F1 is not as exciting to watch as it used to be – or for that matter as exciting to drive as they used to be.
Hamilton confident young Schumacher will make it to F1 Jim Vertuno, AP Sports Writer Austin, Texas (AP) - Lewis Hamilton said he is confident Mick Schumacher, the son of former seven-time champion Michael Schumacher, will make it to Formula One. Mick Schumacher won the European Formula 3 championship last weekend, the first title for the 19-year-old. His father, Michael, is the most successful driver in F1 history who suffered a nearfatal brain injury while skiing in 2013 after retiring. Hamilton said he doesn’t think the Schumacher name will be a burden on the youngster’s rising career. “There will 100 percent be a Schumacher back in F1, partly because of the name but secondly because he’s doing a good job,” Hamilton said at the U.S. Grand Prix. Mick Schumacher won eight of the last 15 races in F3 this season and said this week he will announce his future race plans soon. “He obviously has a lot of talent like his dad had, just like Keke and Nico
Mick Schumacher.
(Rosberg),” Hamilton said. “I think he could be great for the sport.” Mick Schumacher has not yet been picked up by an F1 team’s junior program. A natural progression would be to race in Formula 2 next
season. Current Williams driver Lance Stroll made the jump from F3 to Formula One last season. Two-time F1 champion Fernando Alonso said fans should be careful not to burden the younger Schumacher with expectations. “I never met him, I only see the results from the outside,” Alonso said. “It would be good for the sport to have the Schumacher name on F1, but let’s see what the future brings and not put extra pressure on him that I’m sure he already has. Let time decide.”
Autotrivia quiz Last week I asked, which woman driver steered a Ford Escort Mk 1 at the famous Bathurst race sponsored by a women’s magazine, and how many times a month was the magazine published? The answer was Gloria Taylor or Carole Corness. Woman’s Day comes out weekly, while Women’s Weekly comes out monthly! So to this week. Ford in the UK gave what special cars to their reps on the road? Be the first correct answer to email automania@pattayamail .com or viacars@gmail.com. And in addition, if you are a Pattaya resident, the closest correct answer will win a free voucher for Casa Pascal’s Breakfast BBQ. One local resident wrote back to say he had enjoyed the Casa Pascal BBQ brunch and went so far as to say it is the best breakfast in Thailand. Good luck!
32 FRIDAY NOVEMBER 2, 2018
PATTAYA MAIL
VOL. XXVI No. 44
Leicester City owner Vichai succeeded in soccer and business
By Trevor Marshallsea and Kaweewit Kaewjinda, Associated Press Bangkok (AP) — Thai billionaire and Leicester City owner Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha, who died when his helicopter crashed in a parking lot next to the soccer club’s stadium, Saturday, Oct. 27 was known to fans as a smiling, benevolent man who gave away free beers and hot dogs on his birthday and brought the club its fairytale English Premier League title in 2016. He was 60. The business world remembers Vichai as the retail entrepreneur who started with one shop and grew Thailand’s massive King Power duty-free chain. The sight of his personal helicopter taking off from the middle of the field — to take Vichai to his English base near London in Berkshire — was a regular feature after Leicester’s home games. On Saturday evening, it turned into a horror scene when the chopper appeared to suddenly lose power, plummeting to the ground in a parking lot outside the empty stadium and bursting into flames. Two members of Vichai’s staff, Nursara Suknamai and Kaveporn Punpare, also died along with pilot Eric Swaffer and co-pilot Izabela Roza Lechowicz. The crash sparked emotional scenes in Leicester, the East Midlands city whose devoted soccer fans will forever be grateful to Vichai for bankrolling not only the club’s first title in the world’s foremost soccer league, but one of the most incredible stories in world sports history. “The outpouring of grief is a testament to how many people’s lives were touched by those on board,” Prime Minister Theresa May said. Leicester, only two years after being promoted from England’s second-tier league, was a 5,000-to-1 shot to win
In this May 7, 2016, file photo, Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha applauds beside the trophy as Leicester City celebrate becoming the English Premier League soccer champions at King Power stadium in Leicester, England. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham, File)
the Premier League at the start of the 2015-16 season. But after Vichai brought in veteran Italian manager Claudio Ranieri at the start of the campaign, the Foxes produced a stunning season. They lost only three of their 38 games, to win the title by a comfortable 10-point margin, ahead of far more illustrious rivals Arsenal, Tottenham, Manchester City and Manchester United. Though his public comments were limited, Leicester’s eversmiling chairman became a talisman of the campaign, watching on from his seat in the stadium at home games beside his son, Aiyawatt, the club’s vice chairman. While many foreign owners have been viewed with suspicion by their English club’s fans — for reasons such as a lack of respect for supporters or their club’s traditions — Vichai was held in the highest regard by the Leicester faithful. They showed it during one match late in that 2015-16 season, when their title was secured, with the 32,000-strong King Power Stadium crowd rising to give their chairman an emotional and spontaneous standing ovation.
turnaround, it is now valued at 371 million pounds ($476 million), according to Forbes. Such a transformation was in keeping with Vichai’s success in the business world, after starting his duty-free interests from modest beginnings. In 1989, he was granted a license to open Thailand’s first downtown duty-free store. Expansion into Thai airports followed, with King Power ultimately granted a monopoly for duty-free stores at all the country’s main airports. Today the King Power empire is worth 3.8 billion pounds ($4.88 billion), according to Forbes, with Vichai having been the fifthrichest person in Thailand.
Aiyawatt Srivaddhanaprabha, the son of Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha, right, his mother Aimon, second right, and family members lay a wreath outside Leicester City Football Club, Leicester, England, Monday Oct. 29, 2018. (AP Photo/Rui Vieira)
Vichai became known for his generosity around the club. When Leicester narrowly avoided the threat of relegation to the second tier at the end of 2014-15, he sent “bottle after bottle” of champagne to the dressing room, according to British media reports. He also treated fans in the stadium to a free Thai Singha beer at the end of successful campaigns. Vichai bought Leicester for 39 million pounds ($50 million) in 2010. After the club’s
Supporters pay tribute outside Leicester City Football Club after a helicopter crashed in flames the previous day, in Leicester, England, Sunday, Oct. 28, 2018. (Aaron Chown/PA via AP)
His family’s empire also included Accor’s Pullman hotels in Thailand, and a $226 million stake, bought in 2016, in the country’s biggest budget airline, Thai AirAsia. Last year, Vichai also enlarged his soccer interests, buying Belgian second-tier club Oud-Heverlee Leuven. Vichai’s rise in business did not happen without some drama. The granting of King Power’s monopoly status at Thailand’s airports — set in motion in 2004 by the government of
since-ousted Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra — caused some controversy. And this year, King Power has defended itself against a lawsuit lodged by a former anti-graft official alleging it had not paid the government its due share
“I was lucky to have known Vichai for several years,” said Prince William, the secondin-line to the British throne. “He was a businessman of strong values who was dedicated to his family and who supported a number of important charitable causes. He
UK Prime Minister Theresa May and Prince William pay tribute to the Leicester crash victims (Credit: PA images)
of revenue from its airport franchise. King Power has denied the allegation. While Thailand’s main corruption court threw the case out last month, an appeal is reportedly likely. Aside from business and soccer, Vichai quickly became a noted polo devotee in England, playing on occasion with Princes Charles and William. He spent millions establishing his polo team, the King Power Foxes, which began in 2014 and has enjoyed success at the top levels of competition in the U.K.
made such a big contribution to football, not least through Leicester City’s magical 2016 season that captured the imagination of the world.” A devout Buddhist who had monks bless the King Power Stadium regularly for good luck, Vichai and his wife, Aimon Srivaddhanaprabha, had four children. He was born Vichai Raksriaksorn, but in 2012, HM King Rama IX of Thailand recognized his achievements by bestowing on his family their new surname, which means “light of progressive glory.”
This image made from video shows a burning helicopter in a parking lot outside the King Power Stadium in Leicester, England shortly after a Premier League game on Saturday, Oct. 27, 2018. (Pool Photo via AP)
In this image made from video provided by Sky News, the site of a helicopter crash is seen near a carpark by the King Power stadium in Leicester, England, Sunday, Oct. 28, 2018. (Sky News via AP)
VOL. XXVI No. 44
PATTAYA MAIL
FRIDAY NOVEMBER 2, 2018 33
E-mail: comhaps@pattayamail.com
Events The next meeting of Pattaya City Expats Club (PCEC) will be on Sunday, November 4. Colin Whitlock will be giving a talk relevant to 11 November, Remembrance Day. The program starts at 10:30 am with a buffet breakfast available from 9:00 to 11:00 am on the 4th floor of the Holiday Inn’s Executive Tower located behind the Holiday Inn’s Bay Tower on Beach Road. A Joint Chambers Eastern Seaboard networking evening will be held at the MYATT Beach Hotel Pattaya on Friday, November 16 from 6.30 p.m. – 9 p.m. (last drinks at 8.30 p.m.). Entrance cost is THB 500 on the door for members and THB 1,000 for non-members. Admission includes free-flow drinks and finger food. The Eastern Seaboard Businessmen’s Dinner is a monthly event taking place at the Mantra Restaurant at the Amari Pattaya Resort on the last Thursday of the month. It brings together business leaders from various backgrounds including Automotive, Aerospace, Real Estate, Architecture, FMCG, Electronics, White Goods, Logistics, Recruitment, Legal, Consulting, and others in a relaxed atmosphere. The next event will be held on Thursday, Nov. 29. If you are interested in attending please contact Anuttra.Sukruen@tinfish.co.th. The Pattaya International Ladies Club (PILC) will host a Melbourne Cup Day event at the Pattaya Hotel G on Tuesday, November 6 from 9am to 12.30pm. A breakfast style buffet includes a glass of bubbly on arrival. Tickets cost 800 baht for PILC members and 1000 baht for nonmembers. Beverage packages are available for 850 baht. For more information and to reserve tickets, email to Jayne at specialeventspilc@gmail.com.
A Movers & Shakers social charity network-event will be held Saturday, November 24 at the Holiday Inn Hotel (Bay-Tower), 2nd floor Ballroom from 6:00pm – 8:30pm. Admission fee of THB 500 includes a free flow of wine/beer/soft-drinks and an array of delicious fingerfood as long as stocks last. Dress code is casual elegant (no shorts/flip flops). The Rotary Club Eastern Seaboard invites all Rotarians and friends to an annual Christmas Party on Thursday December 20 from 6.00 pm at the Parkview Ballroom Siam Bayshore Resort. Tickets are priced at THB 1500 and include a sumptuous Christmas buffet dinner plus soft drinks, red and white wine and beer served all evening. Order your tickets by sending an email to Jan Abbink: abbinkjan@gmail.com. A Farmers’ Market takes place every 2nd Saturday of the month at the Holiday Inn hotel on Pattaya Beach Road from 10.30 am - 3.30 p.m. Products range from wellness items, jewelry, freshly prepared food, organic vegetables and fruits. The next market will be held Nov. 10. A stamp market is held every Sunday from 10.00 a.m. till 3.00 p.m.at Rahnpintang Moe Kata Restaurant, Panji Place, on Soi Ponphraphanimit 7 (200m from the Bangkok Highway underpass). Here can you exchange stamps from the whole world. Call 089 091 3418 for more information and directions.
Dining The Bay Grill & Buffet at Dusit Thani Pattaya: Dine with a sea view and enjoy seafood and meat barbecue accompanied by Thai and international items from soup, appetizers and main courses to dessert for only THB 1200++ per person. Free flowing beverage for additional THB 599++ per
Fax: 038-427596
person. The Bay is open daily from 18:30 - 22:00. Call 038 425 611-7 ext. 2149 0r 2150 for more information and reservations. The Beach Club at Pullman Pattaya Hotel G has prepared a full package of entertainment for Mexican “Day of the Dead’ on Friday, November 2 from 7pm–9pm. Enjoy the exotic flavours of Mexico with mouth-watering bites and free-flow of mojitos and margaritas. Deep House sounds by DJ Dan Johnston will keep the good vibes going, and funky face painting will be available for those who like to have fun. Only THB 999 net per person. For more information or reservation, call 038 411 940-8 or email: beachclub@pull manpattayahotelg.com. After 14 years as the Landlord of an Irish Pub, the name Kim Fletcher has not disappeared. Kim may have gone from Jamesons, but his wife Goy has ensured that the name Fletcher has not died by opening Fletchers’ Folly, a boutique pub on the Dark Side. Kim is trying to get used to being retired, but the new ‘pensioner’ loves regaling the drinkers with stories from his lifetime in pubs, punctuated with his characteristic laugh. Fletchers’ Folly is on Siam Country Club Road, opposite Maxxis tyres and 300 meters before the “Chicken Crossroads”. Food and drinks at very reasonable prices. Saturday Night Buffet is back at AVANI Pattaya Resort & Spa. Experience regional favourites galore, street dishes an artisan desserts, as you relax with classical Thai dance and live music. Every Saturday night at Sala Rim Nam Restaurant from 6:00 pm - 10:00 pm. Priced at THB 599++ per person. Kids under 5 eat free. For more information and reservations, call 038 412 120 Great dining options this month at Centara Grand Mirage Beach Resort Pattaya: Round ‘em up and grab your stetson every Monday night for Cowboy Night at Flames restaurant with a grilled steak and seafood buffet that is fun for families, groups and couples. Priced at 1,199++ baht, and half price for children, the Cowboy Night buffet is served from 18.30 to 22.30 hrs. Live the Italian life every Tuesday night at Acqua restaurant with a buffet of authentic Italian dishes served from 18.30 to
22.30 hrs: Priced at only 950++ baht per person, and half price for children. A family menu of all-you-can-eat prawns in a great range of recipes is served every Wednesday evening at Coast Beach Club & Bistro, priced at only 950++ baht per head, and half price for children, the buffet serving is available between 18.30 and 22.30 hrs. Enjoy an Asian-inspired grilled seafood buffet every Friday evening at Flames beachside BBQ restaurant for just 1,199++ baht per person, and half price for children. For more information and reservations, call 038 714 981. From 1 November until 31 December 2018, Café Kantary across Thailand invites you to try the special drink, “Caramel Chocolate Brownie Frappé” for only 130 Baht. More details are available from the Cape & Kantary call centre on: 1627 or visit our website at www.cafekantary.com. Pizza and Pasta All You Can Eat at Mövenpick Siam Hotel Na Jomtien: Twist Restaurant features Italian classics like creamy Carbonara or meaty Bolognese with a choice of pasta, or the delicious Prosciutto Pizza with your choice of regular or whole wheat dough. The menu also includes original Thai-fusion pizzas and pasta such as the Tom Yam pizza with chili paste, prawn, squid and Thai herbs or the tasty Green Curry Pasta. Available all day from Sunday – Thursday at only THB 500 per person, with a glass of soft drink. For more information or reservation, call 033 078 888. Special culinary nights at Persimmon restaurant, Pattana Golf Club & Resort: Pizza Pasta Night on Tuesday at only 299 Baht or 399 Baht including sangria or wine, customers can choose ingredients for their pasta and pizza. Seafood Night on Wednesday at only 399 Baht, customers can choose varieties of fresh seafood cooked to order in the open kitchen. Carnivore Night on Friday at only 499 Baht offers a free flow chicken, lamb, beef or pork BBQ direct from the charcoal grill. In addition, for only 100 Baht customers can choose or combine lots of ingredients and level of spiciness to create your own Som Tam, all day, every day. Call for reservation at 038 318 999 ext. 11212/11230 or email restaurant@pattana.co.th. Big Fish restaurant at Siam@Siam Design Hotel
Pattaya enhances its seafood buffet with more premium catches and live music entertainment. The restaurant offers a nightly Seafood BBQ Buffet at only THB 777 net or THB 1,099 net with free-flow wine. Enjoy highquality, premium seafood cuisine as you listen to acoustic guitar and piano music from prominent local artists. Seafood BBQ Buffet at Big Fish is available every night from 6:00 p.m. to 10 p.m. For reservations call 038 930 600 or email fbsec@siamatpattaya.com. The Thai Garden Terrace Restaurant offers nightly dining presentations with different themed “all you can eat” buffets at the resort poolside: Monday – Italian buffet; Tuesday – BBQ buffet; Wednesday – multi-cuisine buffet; Thursday – German buffet with roasted pig; Friday – Thai buffet; Saturday – international buffet; Sunday – steak & skewers
The happy BBQ chef at Thai Garden.
buffet. The buffet starts from 6 p.m., runs until 9 p.m. All this for just 399 baht net per adult. What you see is what you pay, no additional service charges or VAT. For reservations call 038 370 614 or make your booking at www.thaigarden.com under “buffet reservation”. Thai Garden Resort is located on North Pattaya Road, 200 meters from the Dolphin roundabout and 200 meters before Tesco Lotus.
Fines De Claires Oysters at Yupins.
Yupin’s Restaurant in Jomtien Complex offers some fabulous culinary options including Fines De Claires Oysters arriving fresh ‘Par Avion’ from Normandy in France. Served on ice with lemon and on request a spicy Thai sauce for dipping. An amazing experience. Only 595 baht per six oysters. Yupins is also taking bookings for Christmas dinner at 995 baht per person. For more information or reservations, call 038 250394 or visit website: www.yupins.com. Continued on page 35
34 FRIDAY NOVEMBER 2, 2018
PATTAYA MAIL
VOL. XXVI No. 44
Holiday Inn joins the battle of the bottles
The chef getting the ribs ready for display.
Wine appreciation is always a very personal thing, but the Holiday Inn sailed into the fray last week with one of their monthly Wine Tastings, taking the Chilean and Australian wines and directly comparing, bottle to bottle, grape to grape. Held in the Havana Bar, and with the Respect Band in the background, it was a very relaxed ambience. The format of the tasting evening remains the same – laid
A huge roast carved on the spot.
back with new wines every 20 to 30 minutes and a very full buffet laid out both inside and outside the Havana Bar. The Holiday Inn buffets are very well known for their spread and this one was no exception to the rule. Two kinds of cheese (a blue and a brie), sliced Italian antipasto meats, beef/bacon/ mushroom kebabs, spicy pork ribs, lamb chops in red wine, pork in sherry, seabass parcels grilled eggplant and
cantaloupe. Plus many more in the desserts such as a wonderfully cloying jam tart. The tasting in earnest began promptly at 6.30 p.m. with the bell being run and the fun began. The first wine was a Jansz Brut Cuvee,
which was not sweet and I tried it out against the blue cheese. A great combination where the Brut Cuvee held its own. Try it someday. The next wine was the Cono Sur Tocornal Sauvignon Blanc. This was again a very enjoyable white, and I had more than one of the offered glasses. I tried the chicken pate with this wine, but the pate was not up to it. However, being a buffet I could try something else, in this case a couple of kebabs, which turned into two couples of kebabs! The next wine was a wellknown Australian label, Yalumba with their Y Series. To be honest, this wine did little for me (personal taste remember) but the jam tart did! Wonderfully sweet and cloying. Next up was the Oxford Landing Chardonnay, at the lower end of the scale, but still very enjoyable. For my palate, this is a fine example
Beautiful smooth Brie cheese.
of Australian picnic wines. Enter the red with a Los Vascos Cabernet Sauvignon, a full bodied and robust wine, able to handle another jam tart with ease. To contrast, the Vasse Felix Cabernet Sauvignon from Western Australia also mastered the jam tart. Head to head, this was a draw.
such as Hugo Casanova, related to the famous oyster eater, the result on the night was a win for Aussie, Aussie, Aussie, Oy Oy Oy, rather than Chile Ole Ole Ole. However, Dan’s battle of the bottles could not compare with the numbers from each of the two countries. Take these numbers to heart:
Anyone for a jam tart?
Finally, the wordy Errazuriz Max Reserva Carmenere. Robust and full bodied. I could have drunk this wine all night, but a cab for home was the sensible choice. Thank you GM Kate and F&B Dan. A great night. All the wines were able to be purchased between 1,500 and 2,600 a bottle, and all bargains at those prices… During the wine tasting, the guests were given evaluation sheets to facilitate scoring. Holiday Inn’s F&B guru Dan Boswell was responsible for the arithmetic, and he, being an expatriate Aussie, I am sure there was no fiddling behind the judge’s screen, but suffice to say, despite Chile having some interesting vineyards
Total wine consumption in Chile in 2017 was 308 million liters, at a per capita consumption of 15.7 liters/capita, while Australia’s production was 588 million liters, with per capita consumption of 24.2 liters/capita. If the Chileans themselves cannot drink their own wines (15.7 versus 24.2), the end result is a no-contest win for Australia. Holiday Inn is to be congratulated in providing a fun evening, with lots of wines to taste and the quiz and evaluation adding to the experience. These wine tasting evenings are held monthly with the next (I think) on November 21 but check with the Holiday Inn 038 725 555. Get a taxi, I will!
VOL. XXVI No. 44
PATTAYA MAIL
FRIDAY NOVEMBER 2, 2018 35
E-mail: comhaps@pattayamail.com From page 33 Linda’s Restaurant is large with seating for 200 people, with a covered al fresco verandah outside for those who wish to smoke. Inside, in air-conditioned comfort, there are comfortable chairs and decent sized tables, with white starched napery. Linda’s Restaurant, 315/177-180 Moo 12, opposite the Jomtien Complex. Thappraya Road, Jomtien. Open seven days from 7.30 a.m. until late. Tel: Reservations: 038 252 726, www.lindasrestaurant.com, street-side parking. Email linda@lindasrestaurant.com . GPS 12.901655 N 100.869.
BBQ Pork Spare Ribs & Jasmine Rice for only 195 baht
Yamato Restaurant located on Soi Yamato has been around for more than 39 years and the soi was named after its oldest tenant. This is a restaurant to take a few people with you. The prices are certainly not over the
top, and the quality is superb. Yamato Japanese restaurant, 219/51 Soi Yamato (13/1), close to Beach Road end, telephone 038 429 685 or 038 421 618. Open 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. for lunch and 5 p.m. to 10 p.m. for dinner.
Yamato’s mixed sashimi plate which had octopus, salmon, tuna, crab sticks, sea bass, squid and mackerel.
The legendary Somsakdi Restaurant has been in operation in Pattaya for more than 40 years. Proprietor and Chef Somsakdi is still cooking and running his amazing restaurant at 78 years of age. The menu is probably the largest in Pattaya, with 374 individual items. Each dish is in Thai with an English explanation underneath. Rather than be swamped by choices, let Somsakdi guide you. After all, who knows his dishes better than he? Somsakdi Restaurant, Pattaya Soi 1, tel. 038 428 987, 038 423 284, 038 429 869, limited parking plus on-street parking in the soi. Hours 11 a.m. until 11 p.m., seven days.
Tenderizing local steak A discussion at a dinner table the other evening centered on how do you tenderize cheaper cuts of steak. No professional chefs at the table, but experienced home cooks, and the consensus was that imported Wagyu was just too expensive for the family dinner, especially with non-professional weekend BBQ chefs. The local cheaper meat is often called Thai-French.
Ingredients Steaks as needed for the number of dinner guests Sea Salt 2 tspns
Cooking Method To properly tenderize the steak, lay the steak out on a plate and cover each side with approximately 1 teaspoon of sea salt before cooking. Use your fingers to gently work the salt granules into the surface, breaking down the fibers of the meat. (For even more flavor, add crushed garlic to the salt.) Let the steak sit with this covering of salt for 45 minutes to an hour. Longer for thicker cuts. After the waiting period, rinse the salt off your steaks under cool running water. Use some paper towels to pat your steaks until they are good and dry, so you can get the delicious, crispy sear you want. (If you don’t pat them dry, you’re basically steaming the meat, and steamed meat is bland and less flavorful.) Season as desired, then grill until desired doneness. Try to avoid ‘well done’ as steak done this way is always tougher.
Fax: 038-427596
Spa & Hotel Promotions
Sugar Hut restaurant on Thappraya Road, call 038 364 186 for details.
Welcome the winter season with a “Winter Enrichment Promotion” at AYATANA Spa, Pattana Golf Club & Resort with a 25% discount for body scrub & body mask, only 1,500 Baht from the normal price 2,000 Baht. This special is for the whole of this November. Also, from now until the end of this year, enjoy a 30% discount for traditional Thai massage from 09.00 am-12.00 pm. More information and reservations at 038 318 999 ext. 11143. AVANI Spa offers a spa buffet package: 90-minute AVANI signature touch massage and International Buffet Dinner at Garden Cafe for one at only THB 2,700 net. Advance reservations required, contact AVANI Spa at Tel. 038 412 120.
Community Services
Entertainment Royal Cliff Hotels Group is once again hosting the family-friendly “Vampire and Friends at the Cliff” Halloween party on Saturday, November 3 from 6:00 – 9: 00 p.m. at Panorama. Adults and kids alike will enjoy a fun Saturday night packed with spooky games and unique Halloween-themed treats. Dress to impress and win one of the fantastic prizes awarded to two kids and two adults with the best Halloween costumes. Admission is only THB 300 for all hotel guests and THB 400 for outside guests. For more information or to book a table, call 038-250-421 Ext. 2878 or email creative@royalcliff.com. Ben’s Theater in Jomtien will stage 2 performances of the comedy/drama “Sugar Baby” played by young British actor Mark Lloyd on Friday Nov. 2 and Saturday Nov. 3. Tickets cost THB 500 including a drink of choice. Ben’s will also host the Omiros Quartet for a night of classical music on Sunday, November 11 at 8pm. Tickets are priced at THB 950 per person including free drinks of choice. Reservations strictly by email: benstheaterjomtien@gmail.com. Pattaya Soul Club will hold its 7th anniversary ‘Souled Out’ music night at the Lion Pub (Soi 17, Suksabai) on Saturday, Nov. 10. Entrance of 500 baht (payable at the door) includes a free-flow of selected beer and wine from 8pm – 10pm (or while stocks last). ALL the proceeds will be donated to a very deserving Baan Jing Jai Children’s home and Orphanage in Pattaya. Enjoy great music from Thomas Reimer, one of the most famous European Jazz guitarists, playing live every evening (except Tuesday) from 6.00 p.m. - 10 p.m. at the
The North Star Library on Sukhumvit Road, north Pattaya holds regular Thai language classes Mon - Fri from 10.30 a.m. till 12 p.m. and 1 p.m. till 2.30 p.m. Cost of admission is 100 baht per session for library members and 200 baht for non-members. Private lessons are also available for 200 baht per hour. In addition, the library also holds Yoga training every Tuesday from 1 - 2 p.m. at the Father Ray Foundation. Cost is 1200 baht for 6 sessions (first session free). For more information, call 081 575 4854 or email wan_nujan@yahoo.com
Groups & Associations Rotary Club of JomtienPattaya (English) meets every 2nd and 4th Wednesday of the month at Royal Cliff Grand Hotel, Pattaya City. Fellowship begins at 18.30 hrs and Dinner meeting at 19.00 hrs. President Vutikorn Kamolchote Email: <vutikornk @hotmail.com> Rotary Club Eastern Seaboard (English) meets at the Siam Bayshore Hotel, 17.30 hrs for 18.00 hrs on the 1st and 3rd Thursday of every month, followed by dinner (Fellowship) President Brian Songhurst Email: <bjs2904@yahoo.com> Rotary Club Phönix Pattaya (German) meets every Tuesday at the Holiday Inn Pattaya at 19.00 hrs. President Peter Schlegel Email: info@rotary-phoenixpattaya.org. Le Rotary Pattaya Marina, seul Rotary Francophone d’Asie, vous accueille les premier et troisième vendredis de chaque mois, début des réunions 19h, à l’hôtel Pullman G Pattaya Wongamat 445/3 Moo 5 – Soi 16 – Pattaya Naklua Road. Venez agir avec le Rotary pour changer des vies. Pierre Yves Eraud Président 2018-2019 Email: < info@rotarypattayamarina.org. Rotary Club of Pattaya (Thai-English) meets at the First Pacific Hotel, Central Road on the 1st and 3rd Mondays of the month. Meetings begin at 19.00 hrs. President Stephen Devereux Email: < stevecarlow@gmail.com> The Thai Stamp Alliance is a new internet and social media group created to share information, including posts of events like Exhibitions and Auctions. If you live on the Eastern Seaboard of Thailand and have an interest, email thaistampalliance@gmail.com. or find us on Facebook. Remember to attend the upcoming World Stamp Expo coming to Bangkok in late November!
Read more news at pattayamail.com
Post 12146 of the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States of America (Ban Chang – U-Tapao, Thailand) meets the second Saturday of each month at 13:00 at Sinthavee Park Condo, 2/ 1 Moo 5, in Ban Chang. If you are interested, please contact Membership Chairman Dan Morgan at <ban changvfw12146membership@ gmail.com> or visit website: www.banchangvfwpost12146.org. The Royal British Legion Thailand meets the last Saturday of every month from 2 p.m. at the Tropical Bar on Soi Khao Noi (Watboonsampan near the Temple entrance) in East Pattaya. You do not need to have served in the Armed Forces to become a member and can join in the many social events arranged throughout the year. The Legion’s primary aim is the care and welfare of those who have served and/or their dependents. For general enquiries send email to <secretary@rblthailand.org, www.rblthailand.org>. Alcoholics Anonymous: The Pattaya Group meets Monday, Tuesday and Friday at 5 p.m., Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday at 7:30 p.m. All meetings are closed (alcoholics only) and are held at Soi Skaw Beach (off Pattaya 2nd Rd). Contact Carl 08-45631-671. The Good Morning Pattaya Group meets 9 a.m. every morning. All meetings are ‘open’: contact 084 564 8479. The Jomtien Group
meets every day at noon at Jomtien Long Stay Hotel: Contact, Andrew 086 107 6631. The Scandinavian Group meets on Tuesdays and Fridays 6 p.m. at the Norwegian Seaman’s Church, Thappraya Road Soi 7: contact Hans 085 135 7755 or Rune (Rayong) 089 754 9515. 10.30 a.m. meetings every day at Satree Pattana Centre on Soi Skaw Beach off Second Road. Call 084 564 8479. The Samaritans of Thailand English Help Line operates 24 hours a day, 7 days a week to provide support to the expatriate community. English-speaking staff, trained in crisis intervention will provide active, non-judgmental and empathetic listening services on the phone. All calls will be handled on an anonymous basis and are free of charge. (02) 713-6791. Overeaters Anonymous The ‘Up to You’ group meets Wednesdays 9:30-10:30 a.m. in the housing area just behind Pan Pan Restaurant in Jomtien on Thappraya Road. Call Steve at 038-364-207(h) or 089-250-1359 (cell) for directions or more information. Narcotics Anonymous Hotline: 082 811 2686. 3 English speaking meetings in Pattaya near Central Festival and 2 in Jomtien each week. Also regular Thai speaking meetings at 12 noon every Sunday, and Persian Farsi speaking meetings at 5.30 pm on Thursdays. Please call the Hotline for details.
36 FRIDAY NOVEMBER 2, 2018
PATTAYA MAIL
VOL. XXVI No. 44
Press bowlers strike out for charity Jetsada Homklin
All sections of the community joined together to help raise funds for charity at the Pattaya Press Association bowling night, Oct. 20 at Blu-O Rhythm & Bowl.
Svitolina beats Stephens to win season-ending WTA Finals Sandra Harwitt Singapore (AP) — Elina Svitolina secured the biggest title of her career last Sunday, becoming the first Ukrainian player to win the season-ending WTA Finals trophy. The No. 6-seeded Svitolina rebounded from a one-set deficit for a 3-6, 6-2, 6-2 win over fifth-seeded Sloane Stephens, the 2017 U.S. Open champion. Svitolina fell onto her back on the court in celebration, and then shared a hug with Stephens. The Ukrainian player raced to a 3-0 lead in the third set, but Stephens managed to secure a break in the fifth game. Svitolina broke back immediately to take a 4-2 lead. Stephens, making her debut at the WTA Finals, surrendered her serve again on a first match point for Svitolina in the eighth game by sending a backhand crosscourt wide. The victory means Svitolina became the eighth player to go undefeated in winning the season-ending title, which features a three-match round-robin format at the outset, and first since Serena Williams in 2013. She has now won 13 of 15 finals she’s played in her career, including the last nine with her last final loss coming in 2016 to Petra Kvitova at the Zhuhai tournament.
The Pattaya Press Association held a charity bowling night on Oct. 20 to help raise funds to support the yearround charitable activities of the association. The event took place at Blu-O Rhythm & Bowl at The Avenue shopping mall in Pattaya and was presided over by Naris Niramaiwong, Banglamung District Chief Officer, Banlue Kullavanijaya, Pattaya Deputy Mayor, and Samart Thongrod, President of the Pattaya Press Association. Some thirty teams took part, with players coming from many sections of the community, including the public and private sectors, hotel staff and tourists. The Lawyer Council teams dominated proceedings and took the top two places on the leaderboard with scores of 1,488 and 1,483. The Lions Club Naklua squad came in next in third place on 1,383 points.
Pui, Jantha and Tu had a great time knocking down pins.
The top individual male scores came from Kanot (466) and Naramith (456) while the top female players were Yodthorn, from the Sanctuary of Truth team (456), and Yo and Tu, both from the Lions Club Pratamnak with scores of 383 and 369 respectively. The booby prize for the lowest score went to Phothisamphan with a 135 total. The winners received honorable trophies supported
by Dr. Santsak (Jaroon) Ngampichet -former Deputy Minister of Public Health, Chanyuth Hengtakul – former Secretary in the Ministry of Education, Poramet Ngampichet – Pattaya Deputy Mayor, Niran Wattanasartsathorn – former Pattaya Mayor, Sopin Thappajug - MD of the Diana Group, senior government officers, local politicians and other honorable guests.
Brake issue ends TR-Motorsports championship challenge
Ukraine’s Elina Svitolina celebrates with her winning trophy after defeating Sloane Stephens of the United States during their women’s singles match at the WTA tennis finals in Singapore, Sunday, Oct. 28. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian)
The WTA Finals ends its five-year run in Singapore this season and moves to Shenzen, China for a 10-year run starting in 2019.
Hamilton wins F1 title, Verstappen wins Mexican Grand Prix Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton, of Britain, blows a kiss to supporters after he was crowned 2018 Formula One champion at the Mexico Grand Prix auto race at the Hermanos Rodriguez racetrack in Mexico City, Sunday, Oct. 28. Turn to page 28 for a full race report. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)
After a positive result in Race 1 at the Chang International Circuit in Buriram last weekend, The Pattaya based TR-Motorsports team were confident of mounting a serious challenge for the Thailand Super Series title in Sunday’s season finale. Lead driver Thomas Raldorf of Denmark took control of the Porsche 911 for stint one and got off to the perfect start, overtaking 4 cars on the opening lap of the one hour race. With championship leader Alif Hamdan going well further up the field, Raldorf maintained his charge and quickly closed down Will Bamber in the B-Quik Racing Porsche. Both drivers jostled for position for several laps until the flying Dane found an opening and swept past the young Kiwi and hastened his pursuit of another B-Quik Porsche a few seconds ahead. Shortly after the pit window opened the B-Quik Racing team brought four of their cars in for the driver changeover. Raldorf stayed out for the next few laps then pitted with the car in a great position for the second stint.
Thomas Raldorf of Denmark drives the TRMotorsports Porsche 911 at the Chang International Circuit in Buriram, Sunday, Oct. 28. (Photo/ Thailand Super Series)
The TR-Motorsport pit crew did an outstanding job with a smooth driver transition and tire change and as New Zealand’s Shaun Varney raced down the pit lane all seemed well, however, Varney radioed back to the pits that there was an issue with the gears. The Kiwi didn’t hesitate and drew on his experience and knowledge of the German sports car by pulling over on the back straight, shutting the car down and initiating a full restart that thankfully reset the gears, although
this now placed him at the back of the field with a mountain to climb. A safety car period helped the team’s cause as Varney quickly caught up but then with just 3 minutes to go the right front brake caliper failed at turn 12, sending the Porsche into the gravel trap and just like that the season was over. Even though the team failed to finish the race they did finish in 2nd place for the overall driver’s championship behind Alif Hamdan, who showed great consistency throughout the season.
PATTAYA MAIL is edited by Nopniwat Krailerg for Pattaya Mail Publishing Co., Ltd. Printer, publisher and owner Offices: 62/284-286 Moo 12, Thepprasit Road, Pattaya City 20150. Advertising and Administration Office: Tel: 038 411 240-1, 413 240-1, Fax: 038 427 596, E-mail: ptymail@pattayamail.com www.pattayamail.com