Queen Club celebrated its official opening on June 2nd with a big party for all its friends from Walking Street's Iron Club and for all the new customers at the new club. Inofficially the new club opened on May 26th 2012. Queen Club is located on Soi LK Metro just across from Pattaya's Lolitas.

The new club will open soon on the 2nd floor of the Bali Hai Entertainment Plaza.

In our News Flash from January 2012 NightWalker recommended to fill up the rooms of the ailing Avenue Shopping Center on Pattaya's Second Road with Bars, Discos, A Go-Go Clubs and a Beer Garden - or with motorcycle shops and maintenance centers. The owners of The Avenue decided to transfer the shopping plaza into a giant entertainment complex. The same cure brought the failed Bali Hai Plaza back to life - as Bali Hai Entertainment Plaza. As our pictures show, work is already on the way.

Tony's are preparing a one floor shopping center at Pattaya's 3rd Road/South Road intersection. Let's hope it will be managed more professional than Tony's now defunct 24hour market in the neighbourhood a few years ago.

The 9th is the name of a new Apartment House on Soi Arunotai. The apartments are fully furnished and each room has a small balcony. A nice place for longterm stay. The 9th is on the way to open its own website. Its phones: 038 373 987, 038 373 988, 038 373 989

Timeout Gelato reopened its popular IceCream outlet on Walking Street under the new name Frozzen - and without its funny and photogenic mascot.
PS: Timeout closed its outlets at Tukcom and BigC.

Nobody cares, not the drivers of the parked vehicles and not Pattaya's lazy Police, but the signs are still on Pattaya's South Road...

June 6th 2012: One hour of heavy rain only and Pattaya is under water...

On June 21st 2012 pupils from Pattaya School No. 8 started an unofficial parade to promote Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever prevention and monkhood.

City Hall's approach to prevent a flooding of Pattaya. The cleaning cars block whole the street, without announcement and without traffic controls... It seems our Officials will never learn to do a job the professional way...

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All pictures published on this page are as accurate as possible - but this one is a joke, inspired by Pattaya's reality.

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All pictures published on this page are as accurate as possible - this one too!

2012 is the Year of English Speaking, the Thai Ministry of Education announced. The program will let teachers and students have opportunities to speak English and build their confidence in using it without excessive concern about grammatical errors.

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NightWalker and his Team take the same approach - since many years. Google as well as the designer of the advertisement shown above too - or TMB's (Thai Military Bank) warning below:

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Free Ewtry to Continoos Show at XZONE A Go-Go on Soi 16, off Walking Street...

Bangkok Hospital Pattaya is employing a nutrition expert. She tells you everything about the correct (?) nutrition: Avoid salt, avoid the yellow part in the eggs, avoid fat, sugar, transfats and cholesterol, don't drink (to much) coffee and reduce the daily intake of calories. I checked the (excellent) food the hospital is serving to its patients: The daily amount of calories is around 2'500 kcal/patient. That's about 20-25% too much for a man or 35-40% too much for a woman lying in a hospital. Start your obesity at Bangkok Hospital Pattaya...?

Bangkok Hospital Rayong runs a MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imagine) scanner from Philips. The doctors at Bangkok Hospital Pattaya have to deal with a MRI from a well known American company. More often than not, the hospital in Pattaya has to transport its patients to Rayong. The American MRI scanner 'strikes'. When I learned the story, I just remembered my own experience: In 1970 I started to import goods from a well known American company to my homeland. The company designed and manufactured its 'high-end' goods in California. Their 'low-end' products were designed and manufactured in Japan. When the products arrived in our distribution center we could despatch the goods from Japan directly to our customers. The Japanese manufacturer did an excellent job. We never had to re-check their products. All the goods from America we had to despatch to our service department. They checked them and mostly had to finish the work of their counterparts in California and/or improve the goods to satisfy our customers. 1980 we ended our relationship with the Californian company. They showed no sign to improve their design and manufacturing departments. It seems that in all that years nothing ever changed. If you want to have real quality goods you have to buy products designed and manufactured in Germany, Japan or Switzerland. It's simply not possible to produce high quality products with people that are not addicted to their works.

Friendship Supermarket on Pattaya South Road removed all newspaper dispensers, and in fact, its entry presents a lot cleaner than before.

Family Resort Pattaya (Soi Arunotai/Sukhumvit Road): Children's playground...?

Waste disposal site on Soi Arunotai, allegedly cleaned up by City Hall's workers.

As predicted on our inlet from Saturday, June 16th 2012, Microsoft CEO Steve Balmer announced Microsoft's very own Tablet PC on Monday, June 18th 2012 at a previously unnamed event in Los Angeles. Microsoft had scheduled the event secretively for Monday at 15:30 (local time) June 18 in Los Angeles, where it would make a "major" announcement whose nature had not been disclosed. "This will be a major Microsoft announcement," the enigmatic invitation read. "You will not want to miss it." The new tablet presented at Hollywood's Milk Studios will be known as Surface and will come in two versions, but both featuring the same case built around a 10.6-inch Gorilla Glas display. The cheaper version will run on ARM based CPUs and supporting 32GB or 64GB memory-chips. The more advanced (?) Surface is built around Intel based CPUs with 64GB or 128GB of memory. All Surface tablets will run on Microsoft's Windows 8 Operating System. Analysts say that if Microsoft's Windows operating system is to stay relevant in an increasingly integrated, mobile world, the company needs to offer its own hardware. Some critical specifications Microsoft not mentioned - including price, screen resolution, battery life or the specific release date. The Surface isn't the first hardware Microsoft is distributing. It already produces mice, keyboards, Webcams and some other gadgets as well as the Microsoft Xbox gaming console. Game console producers all over the world are losing customers. The gamers are increasingly using mobile phones or tablets to play their games. This seems to be the main reason for Microsoft to launch its own tablet. Rumors say that Microsoft probably will integrate Microsoft's popular Kinect camera, used on Xbox, as well as its Skype Internet phone software into its tablet. It could give the Surface an unusual twist - voice and motion controls. We estimate that the Surface will replace the Xbox - sooner or later. But according to Acer founder Stan Shih Microsoft has no real intention to sell own-brand tablet PCs and the offering is a simple ploy to boost adoption of Windows 8. Selling hardware bring much less profit than licensing software products, he said. My source tells me that Microsoft's 10.6-inch Surface tablet PCs will be manufactured by Qunta Computer. The end-market price of the Windows 8 Pro-based Surface tablet PC with Intel's Ivy Bridge processor will be above US$799, the Windows RT-based model, featuring Nvidia's Tegra 3, an ARM based CPU, will be priced above US$599. PS.: Please do not forget, Microsoft was the inventor of the Tablet Computers - years before Apple launched its iPad. It was named Microsoft Surface too!