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I love the Ultimate Fighter. It is one of my favorite shows and my BF in Thailand watches this with me when I am there. There is not one person on the show I would turn away from my bed. This season is the lightweights. They are hot and sexy. My favorite is Alex Caceres. Hot and sexy. I can't seem to find any good photos of him online. So, please feel free to add to this post for my enjoyment.

As most of you know, I am very loyal to the Intercontinental Hotels chain. I try to stay Royal Platinum with them each year which requires you stay at least 50 nights with them in all their hotels but also in at least 4 Intercontinental branded hotels. In return, they give you a double upgraded suite, free minibar, free Internet, and lots of other perks. I haven't seen another chain compete with them. This year I also have Platinum with Marriott, Hilton and Starwoods. IMHO the Marriott isn't worth the money it costs for them to make the card. I do like the Hilton and they have upgraded me to nice rooms when I stay with them. What are your impressions of the different hotel programs? Which one do you consider the best? Easiest to work with? Best for upgrades? Best for other rewards?

He is adorable. He is also in lots of other movies and shows. He was in the recent Dance movie in 3D. Always a joy to watch.

Ah, now I see. You can't get it from clicking on the Main Category link. If you click the link before that (MaleEscortReview) it will take you to the right url and thus you will be able to see the listing.

I think it only works in Itunes. I know the company offers other software but I have not tested any of them.

Very sad. I always feel less safe with events in other countries than I do in the USA. An example is bungee jumping. I know there can be lawsuits in USA and this deters the owners from operating in an unsafe environment. When I went once to Thailand, I was shocked at the conditions of the place and refused to participate. When you are at an event like the race in the video, you assume that all things have been checked out and done by a reputable company. I am sure someone will have to pay for the problem but I am glad no one died. Watching the video, this surprised me.

He has been at the top of my list for quite some time as well.

When you are on the home page of the forums: http://www.maleescortreview.com/forum/ Look down at the bottom. Do you see the below in the image? That should be the information you are looking for but it is only on the home page of the forum and not in any particular sub forum.

His profile is not removed. I see it there when I do a name search. I also see it attached to his review. I don't see it when I do a search via location and TY has asked the programmers to check on this. I don't see a photo for him that shows his Verified Image. Can you attache that photo here so I can see it?

Is the Holiday Inn not on your safe list?

The management of Casa Pascal and the committee of Pattaya Pride cordially invites you for a Pattaya Pride Charity Dinner at Restaurant Poseidon, Jomtien Complex on Thursday, October 07, 2010 7:00 p.m. onward You will enjoy Pascal

Of course I still have the boa. I only bring out on special occasions.

The more trips I take from Thailand to USA, the harder it is for me to adjust. I do find it a bit easier to adjust when going USA to Bangkok than I do in the reverse. I have been in the USA a few days now and am in Las Vegas. It is the perfect city for a sleepless night as there is always something to do. But, even if I don't sleep in the daytime, I find my nights are pretty restless. It also seems that the more of these trips I take, the harder it becomes. Any secrets to adjusting faster?

The longest journey by a Tuk Tuk was 37,410 km (23,245 miles) and was completed by Susi Bemsel and Daniel Snaider (both Germany) from Bangkok, Thailand to Eichstätt, Germany, between 8 February and 17 December 2005. What an amazing accomplishment! They even made it into the Guinness Book of World Records for this. I doubt that anyone in their right mind would ever attempt to break such a record. I am sure some nut will attempt it to break it one day and I wish them great luck!

Well, I do the same thing. I also get a lot of attention at the beach. I'm not sure what the crowd is whispering but I am sure it is good stuff.

Many of us who watch shows on Itunes love this program. I had a few friends download and test this and they all loved it. They were amazed at the quality of of the sound that the program enhanced.

I am going to work on getting a list of all of my favorite programs for the Mac computer. I'll start with my favorite and work my way down. My absolute favorite is MailPlane. It is the most productive way to use Gmail on your Mac. It is on the top of your mac and you can have an unlimited number of GMail accounts it checks. I have over 30 Gmail Accounts and this keeps up with them all. It lets me know when I have new messages and it is easy to install, easy to update new versions and I have used it since it was on the market and never had to pay for an additional upgrade fee. The customer support for this company is great. I love the drop and drag attachments. I like the way it uses the WebKit to access Google and not pop or IMAC. It is without a doubt the most used program I use on my computer. One a scale of 1-5 it is a definitive 5. http://mailplaneapp.com/

Traveling from Bangkok to LA last trip, I met a really nice guy and we started talking about software and Evernote came up. Like me, he loves it. He also said it was great for his company as he had an account that he allowed access to several and they all just uploaded all the info he needed to the account and it was synced with his computer almost instantly.

Thank you so much for that article. It gives me several ideas for my next trip!

Somewhere in the world there may be a city with a more seedy reputation, a place more devoted to the sex industry and more notorious as a haven for criminals on the lam. But probably not. When dusk comes to this beach resort, a sea of pink neon bulbs casts a pale glow onto the thickly made-up faces of thousands of women (and some men) who sit on bar stools waiting for their patrons. If Las Vegas is Sin City, Pattaya is a bear hug from Lucifer himself. And yet, amid the back alleys jammed with girlie bars and a beachfront peopled with what the Thais euphemistically call "service women," there are signs of change. Indian couples, Chinese tour groups and vacationing Russian families stroll around the city. A dozen luxury hotels cater to the weekend crowd of wealthy Thais from Bangkok who mingle with tourists at a huge shopping mall. Pattaya has a growing number of fancy restaurants, an annual music festival and, perhaps most improbably, regular polo tournaments. Long derided as a city of sleaze, the city is reaching for respectability. A two-hour drive from Bangkok, Pattaya was little more than a fishing village four decades ago when U.S. soldiers fighting in the Vietnam War discovered a pristine, coral-filled bay. Tens of thousands of lonely soldiers armed with dollars sought respite from the war in a country of relative poverty, lax law enforcement and historically tolerant attitudes toward prostitution. The result was predictable. Pattaya survived the departure of the G.I.'s by expanding into sex tourism. Visitors to Thailand in the 1970s were offered brochures at the Bangkok airport showing pictures of available companions. The booth at the airport no longer exists, but the business lives on: for at least the past decade, men have outnumbered women as tourists in Thailand. They make up about 60 percent of foreign visitors in Thailand compared with 52 percent in nearby, law-abiding Singapore. In recent years the Pattaya tourist industry has sought to diversify its client base. Hotel managers learned that, despite jokes about recession-proof industries, relying heavily on a Western male clientele was unwise at a time when the United States and Europe were buffeted by recession. Tourism agencies now actively seek out visitors from the rising economies of China and India. "There's definitely been a change," said Shyam Anugonda, a 39-year-old lawyer from Bangalore, India, whose first trip to Pattaya was eight years ago, when he was single. "It was more sex oriented before," Mr. Anugonda said as he shopped for Thai fabrics with his wife, Kavitha. This time, Mr. Anugonda's five-day vacation included an elephant show and parasailing. The government is encouraging the rebranding of Pattaya by developing a master plan for the city, including a monorail to help relieve traffic-clogged streets, a redrawn waterfront and a high-speed rail line from Bangkok. The plan is awaiting approval from the Thai cabinet. The police, too, say they are trying to clean up the city's image. "There are people who say Pattaya is the paradise of criminals," said Col. Atiwit Kamolrat, the head of the immigration police. "It's now going to be impossible for them to hide here." His office's Transnational Crime Data Center combs through lists of wanted criminals from foreign governments and cross-references them with hotel registration logs and visa renewal applications. Since the beginning of the year, the office has arrested 12 foreign criminals hiding out in Pattaya, Colonel Atiwit said. Somchet Thinaphong, a board member charged with the city's redevelopment plan at the Designated Areas for Sustainable Tourism Administration, a government agency, said Pattaya's face-lift would cost 32 billion baht, or about $1 billion. He spoke in generalities about "sustainable development" and making the city more ecologically friendly. But here in Pattaya, officials chuckle derisively at the notion that the city can be totally sanitized. Stamping out Pattaya's sex industry is fantasy, said Niti Kongrut, the director of the Pattaya branch of the Thai government's tourism office. "You talk about sustainable development, how about prostitutes? They have been around for a very long time," Mr. Niti said. "We can't close down the go-go bars. It's a free country. Besides, it makes money." For decades, officials have wrestled with the question of what to do about the seedy side of the city, Mr. Niti said. "Now we just ignore them and try to promote other activities." For visitors who have no intention of partaking in it, the sex industry has become a sort of spectacle, a red-light district that makes its counterparts in other cities seem almost Victorian. Olga Bidenko, 28, a tourist from Ukraine who came to Pattaya with a colleague from the marketing company she works for, said she was entertained by Walking Street, a thoroughfare stretching a kilometer and a half, or about a mile, blocked to motor traffic and packed with bars. Typical of the bars is Sexy Airline, where women dressed in old-fashioned air hostess outfits call out to prospective patrons passing by. "We thought Amsterdam was the sex capital of the world," said Ms. Bidenko, 28. "But now that I've been here, I think Amsterdam is a perfectly respectable city." http://www.nytimes.c...tnt&tntemail1=y

Somewhere in the world there may be a city with a more seedy reputation, a place more devoted to the sex industry and more notorious as a haven for criminals on the lam. But probably not. When dusk comes to this beach resort, a sea of pink neon bulbs casts a pale glow onto the thickly made-up faces of thousands of women (and some men) who sit on bar stools waiting for their patrons. If Las Vegas is Sin City, Pattaya is a bear hug from Lucifer himself. And yet, amid the back alleys jammed with girlie bars and a beachfront peopled with what the Thais euphemistically call

My recent Bangkok to LA trip was fine. But, arriving in LA was a mess. The long wait time to get through Immigration took over 45 minutes. Once I had my bags, the wait time was another 35 minutes. Every time I fly into LA, this is the case. When I go through Detroit the wait time is never this long and if I enter through SF or NY, the wait times are also much less. Do other experience these long wait times for Immigration when returning to the USA? What about other countries? Is it the same time frame to get into the airport?

On my recent trip from Bangkok to USA, I had a First Class or Business Class seat. I used a Gold Certificate for the upgrade so it did not cost me any money other than the economy ticket. The regular cost of the seat is around 4500 US. That is almost 50 percent cheaper than any of the other airlines I have used for Business Class seats. Thai Air seats are comfortable but not flat bed seats. They are not as comfortable as Delta/NWA, Singapore or Cathay Pacific. The Delta Seats are comfortable for me and I have taken them for the majority of the trips I have used. I have also used Singapore and Cathay. I prefer Singapore Business to any of the above but the cost is very high compared to the other airlines. Cathay Pacific would be my next choice. Food on Thai Air Business is good. We were served a great meal with friendly attendants. For the main course on this flight, I had Lobster and the taste was very good. They had tons of liquor and booze for every course and the guy that was sitting next to me took advantage of all of them. The Fast Track for Thai Air is separate from the other Fast Track area. It is a dedicated area for Thai Air only and I have never had to wait in line. It is almost instant access to the airport. The Thai Air nonstop to LA is great and easy to use and the Business Class service makes the flight a breeze. I am interested in trying Qatar for a Business Class service on a future trip as I have heard good things about it.

Perhaps they have had these plastic wraps for ages but this was the first time I noticed them at the airport. The wraps cost 120 baht for any size bag and it basically puts an entire wrap of plastic around your bags. I have had this done in Brazil on every trip and I love the extra security for the bags. It keeps your bags clean but also keeps anyone from opening them. Of course, if you are going to the USA and have an extra connection, TSA may open the plastic and go through everything but if you have a direct flight, they will come out exactly as planned. I have a large case that I carry a 27 inch desktop computer in. I always plastic wrap this at my home before I board any plane to protect it. It was nice that the airport is now doing this as it will save me some time and I will have all my bags wrapped in the plastic. I am sure many think this is a stupid idea but I normally travel over 250,000 miles a year and I can't tell you the number of times I have had a suitcase open half way or things spill out. For me, I love it but I am sure others think it is nuts to spend any money on this. It is worth the 120 baht for me for extra piece of mind. I do wish that the USA airports offered the same thing but after the TSA check. I'll pay the extra fee for a service like that.