Wine tasting at BJ Wine Cellar

For everyone who is interested in good wines, B.J. Wine Cellar is having a wine tasting on Saturday, July 26th from 6:00 p.m. until 9:00 p.m.
Wines from Austria, Portugal and Spain will be specially promoted. Wine lovers wishing to buy bottles of these delicious wines will get a special promotional discount of 10% on this day.
If you don’t know much about wine but would still like to try it, attend this tasting and get introduced to the world of grapes.
B.J. Wine Cellar is the sole agent & distributor for the Eastern Seaboard region for Berli Jucker Public Co. Ltd., and is located at 571/16 Moo 5, Naklua Road.

Duilo’s Top Class is moving

Duilo’s Top Class Italian Hostaria & Pizzeria is delighted to announce that they have found new, centrally located premises in a large villa with a magnificent garden, facing Foodland Supermarket’s second parking lot
(formally the “OZ Thai Connection” premises).
Whilst Duilo’s will soon be able to offer an enchanting environment for dining pleasure, Duilo’s will, unfortunately, have to close the present premises from Monday, July 14, to prepare for the Totally Italian atmosphere to serve the famous and totally Italian food in the new restaurant, starting on Friday, August 22.
Ladies will find it very convenient to combine a shopping trip with a snack or light lunch at the new Hostaria and dine there in the romantic atmosphere with their husbands at night.
Laszlo remains at the Magic Piano each Friday and Saturday, and there will be a number of new activities.

Song contest for road safety

Are you a frustrated John Philip Sousa? If you are, and if you can write a catchy tune, you can receive 15,000 baht and get it all out of your system at the same time.
Mr. Rapin Jarudul, the Assistant Director of Land Traffic, told the Chonburi public relations office that traffic was affecting the economy and the environment, along with destroying Thai citizen’s charming torpor resulting in road rage. This is causing the public to neglect adherence to traffic regulations.
The Land Traffic Department has therefore officially opened a song-writing competition in which the words must pertain to upholding traffic rules. This should be a rousing song which will stimulate the public to return to their observance of the rules of the road.
The song is to be written in a ‘Thai-International’ style. It should be approximately 2 minutes long.
Entrants are to be divided into 3 categories: Students in grades 1-6; College and University students; and the general public.
Entrants may send as many songs as they wish but only one song is allowed on each cassette submitted. Students may submit the song through their educational institution or send it directly to the Public Relations office of the Land Transport Department, Bangkok 10300 by the 31st of August, 1997.
Further details may be obtained by calling (02) 280-5297, 280-5299, ext. 1303 during working hours.
Winners will be chosen in the second week of September and the song will be played throughout the land.

Happenings at Le Mekong

Le Mekong goes seafood
Attention all seafood lovers, Le Mekong is offering a special treat not to be missed. Fresh seafood and meat market, plus lobster that will make you rock and come back for more.
Queen’s Birthday, Mother’s Day
August 12, Le Mekong Restaurant will offer for every table of 4 or more a 25% discount on food. Come along with Mum and try Le Mekong’s special seafood basket, the roses are free.
Wave’s Poolside weekend BBQ
After a splash in the pool, try the family BBQ for only 250 baht ++ per person (children half price) from 12 noon to 14:30 every Saturday and Sunday.
Swiss food festival
August 1 to August 12 at Chaba Coffee Shop, daily Swiss set menu and chocolate delights promotion to celebrate the Swiss National Day, with delicacies from the Valais, Schweitzer Deutsch and Graubünden.
Noodle shop promotion, through August
Every night from 20:00 p.m. until 2:00 a.m. at the Fun Pub lobby for only 60 baht ++. After a night out, the best Chinese remedy for a big hunger.
Fun Pub
August 9 to 23, Broadway theme. All on stage with a month of Karaoke contest and great prizes to be won.

Oh, those snails...

by Ariyada
A wife and her husband, newly arrived in Pattaya, were having a dinner party for all the major status figures of their company. The wife was very exited about this and wanted everything to be perfect. At the very last minute, she realized that she didn’t have any snails for this dinner party. Being from France, snails are very important for her on an occasion like this. She asked her husband to run down to the nearby field where she’d seen snails before, handed him a bucket and told him to gather some snails.
Very grudgingly he agreed. He took the bucket, walked out the door, down the steps, and out to the field. As he was collecting the snails, he noticed a beautiful girl strolling alongside just a little further down. He couldn’t take his eyes off her and kept thinking to himself: ‘Wouldn’t it be nice if she’d just walk over to me and talked to me.’ After a while he went back to gathering the snails. All of a sudden he saw a shadow falling over the snails; he looked up to see the beautiful girl standing right over him.
They got to talk, and she invited him back to her place, very close to the field. He followed her, still curious, but as soon as they reached her apartment they immediately started messing around. Hot, exhausted and tired as he was afterwards, he just passed out there. He slept through the night and when he woke up early the next morning, he was struck by the thought of his wife’s dinner party. He put on his clothes in a hurry, picked up the bucket with the snails and ran back home.
He ran so fast, when he got to the top of the stairs at his house, he dropped the bucket of snails. They were all over the stairs. At this moment, the door opened with his very angry wife standing there. He looked at his wife, looked at the snails, crawling on the stairs and said: ‘Come on guys, we’re almost there!’

What’s all this about mysterious women?

Seven sure ways to become one, part one

discovered by Ariyada.
It’s a fact: Men love mysterious women. The intense rush a man feels in the presence of a topless but untouchable sex object quickly subsides. While a bare-it-all style has immediate allure, an easy quickly becomes boring for them. Why? There’s nothing more to learn. The unknowable, not the over-exposed, is what really turns them on.
How, you will ask, do you keep mystery alive when your man knows everything about you - from the way you floss your teeth to the cute little birthmark on your buttocks?
Here are seven strategies guaranteed to bring out the alluring, enigmatic qualities in every woman.
1. Surprise! Although men are easily seduced by the new and fresh, they often try to stifle mystery in their mates: “What did you do to your hair?” “But you never wear red!” You might find that your initial attempts to surprise him are met with intense resistance, but be persistent. You have to convince him repeatedly that there’s a world of you left to explore.
Maybe you go ahead and paint your nails mocha or purple. Make him think he doesn’t know what you’ll do next. That includes letting him see you without make-up if you always wear it, suggesting a snorkeling expedition if you’re more a lie-on-the-beach sort.
Introducing simple novelties to your man will energize him. Use a totally different perfume as usual or invite him for a picnic at a moonlit beach, with chilled wine and lobster rolls to spoil him. Other tactics can be as effective. A trail of candles lighting a path to bed, love notes in his briefcase, a rose on his steering wheel in the morning. Use your imagination! A woman of mystery constantly surprises her man with unpredictability. She will show up at his office party wearing a sexy new dress, offer new thoughts on an old subject. Any woman who grows and changes is, by definition, mysterious. Her metamorphosing will always keep him in awe.
2. Keep some secrets to yourself! Don’t always tell your lover everything - be conservative in revealing information. As soon as a woman tells all, the relationship tends to end very quickly. Less is more. That doesn’t mean you are closing off the possibility of true intimacy with your man - his struggle to get to know the real you will actually bring you closer together. A key to maintaining mystery involves hinting regularly at the richness of your private life - fantasies, desires, past experiences - but not embellishing with too much detail. A sprinkling of clues always leaves a man with things to question about. A previous generation was thought to be secretive as a way to catch a man, but as more women has become assertive, some have lost their aura of mystery. Veiling yourself in a little secrecy can simply be very romantic.
3. Preserve your independence! Independent friendships and interests and a strong sense of autonomy are essential components of the mystery that is you. Having a life of your own is important. Too often, women abandon their own lives and leap into a partner’s, when in fact, a woman with a separate life is far more attractive to a man.
How many times does it happen, that your man asks you to quit your job and move in with him. Be there only for him. Most of the women believe in it and toss away their own life to build one with ‘him’. But in no time, many men feel ‘crowded’, start going out with the boys again and maybe end up having an affair with an independent woman. Surely, when found out, they’ll blame it on the women for having become so ‘boring’.
Many men are threatened by women who smother them with closeness. No man really wants a woman who spends all day waiting for him to call. Most men prefer women who can add on to their life, taking them to new heights.
You like to know about the other four ways to become mysterious? Read Pattaya Mail next week.