Hua Hin Forum

Yeah I've got GCompris on my linux box as I have a passing interest in educational matters and it's not bad. Might I recommend installing ubuntu onto a memory stick maybe if you don't want to go the full linux hog, that way your child has a computing environment where he/she can wreak as much havoc ...

For non-techies, if you find that major news sources get blocked, give me a PM and I'll help you get access again. Techies will already know of the onion and its mystical powers.

GCompris is excellent. I've got a whole bunch of things so I'll try to put something on Rapidshare some time in the next week or two if I get 3 minutes to myself (yeah right!).

You might want to have a look at http://somtawin.ac.th as that seems to be the new site with contact details etc if you still need to talk to anyone at the school.

Good to hear you've got it sorted out, but at least you've got someone to consider if your forum contact is run over by a tuk-tuk!

This isn't really on topic, but since the theme has been broadened to language more generally, I'll give it a try. I'm looking for someone living here who can translate documents written in French (varying subject matter and sometimes quite complex) into very good English. Preferably a native Engli...

Far as I know Thai schools tend to be 40+ kids per class, while more farang-oriented ones aren't. I'm pretty sure Somtawin (English side) has no classes 25+ and the same is probably true at Yamsaard.

Just wondering if there's any truth in this. I've heard from a friend that there is to be a new international school on Soi 94 or 96.. truth or random rumour?

Probably still better than a typical NHS hospital though with filthy wards, MRSA spreading like nobody's business etc.

Where is it?

So is there another decent dentist in HH?

Anyone care to recommend anyone better? They seem to have gone downhill since last year, as they now regard me as a walking ATM, something I'm not so happy about.

Does anyone out there have any tips that really work that you've done first hand? Besides the OTC things such as gum and patches? I'm looking for a miracle, as I think that is what it is going to take, or an induced coma for about 6 months, or death. Thanks. Pete Try my method.. don't start smoking...

I have to say that the King does provide Thailand with a uniquely stabilising influence, and frankly without his existence, and the tendency of the Thai people to listen to him, the country could have really gone to crap with a coup. As it is, it looks good, though communique 4 worries me as it star...

Any chance we can have a coup here in Britain?