Above you can see exactly what was presented to A and I this evening to eat. Tik prepared us a plate of foods yet saw nothing strange in the fact that raw potatoes were served as part of our fruit platter.

“Yes, but they are sweet potatoes” she tells me, assuming this will explain the rationalte. A begins to eat the platter without any concern for how weird it is.

Thais seem to believe that when we label a vegetable as a ’sweet’ something it is perfectly acceptable to serve it as a dessert. This explains why sweetcorn can also be found in jelly, ice-creams and cakes here. It doesn’t yet explain why we can also find pork inside cakes or why Thais think ice-cream and white bread complement each other well as a sandwich but who’s to say they are wrong.

In Taiwan Tik and I were amused to see that tomatos there are treated as a dessert food too and they are available on top of ice creams and shaved ice products.

I’m REALLY looking forward to returning to Europe tomorrow where my taste-buds and culinary logic are better aligned.

I found this website today and was so impressed with the style it was written in that I decided to mention it here.

This very humorous website detailing all the hideous foods Steve (the blogger) is about to eat.

Click here to view it.

Not only that but the writer has many more articles which I’m really excited to tell you about ..

Visit the main website here to see similar articles this great man has written.

We’ve added all of our engagement pictures online now.

I’ve jiggled a lot of the photos around now so that they are labelled and they have been moved to a different part of the photo album.

You can see all the pictures here

We all know how clever Tik is but as her fiance I’m allowed to brag about it.

Tik took a mock IELTS test about a month ago. IELTS is an internationally recognized English qualification which Tik will need when we apply to emigrate to Australia.  This was a free test to give her an idea what she should expect. She got her results yesterday and came top out of every student in her listening exam and came second in her reading exam.

Her real test is tomorrow where she will also be assessed on her speaking skills (no problem there) and her writing skills.  Tik completed a 1-month writing class in June so I’m certain she’ll do great.  Results will be back early in August.

Tik and I will be back in Southport this coming Monday.

Things have gone extremely fast since last week and plans are very flaky right now.  What’s certain is that we will arrive monday 24th July and we will be staying between Southport with my dogs, and family, and in London with Grandma.

We leave the UK on August 11th to fly to Milan where we will be enjoying a family re-union (12 people!) for a week.  Tik and I will have a few days to peek about in Italy and we will fly out from Milan back to Bangkok about the 25th August.  Tik begins a new job on the 1st September.

Most likely we won’t be doing too much except for walking the dogs so it’ll be great to catch up with everybody.  We aren’t going to try to fit everybody in to a tiny window of time like we did last year but if we can It’d be great to see everybody again.

Hope to see you soon,

Martin & Tik

The domain itself is the host to many thousands of pages but to most people the 1-page truepot.com site is all that anybody can see.

As all my payment processor accounts are in the name of “The True Potential Group” I decided to give that one shitty page a small facelift last week.

There’s still very little of value here but you will see a lot of new websites that I own the domain for. Each domain on it’s own holds great opportunities. I’ve got a habit of doing way too many projects at once so I’m not going to allow myself to get distracted right now but as I get more experience building these small sites I may get them up and running quite quickly.

Take a look anyway to see what a vast empire I control.

We just had a very brief visit to Khon Kaen this week to leave Tik’s car with the family whilst we are in Europe.

Although we did little more than go out for dinner with the family I am enjoying my time with Tik’s sisters and parents more and more.  I think that in being more relaxed my Thai skills come out easier and it was fun spending time with everybody again.

My good friend Dave Cannard has opened his new autosurf website 12by12Daily.

For those of you who don’t know much about autosurfing or the autosurf industry it’s basically a high-risk investment opportunity where you deposit money, visit the autosurf’s website each day to view a few adverts and get paid back a huge % every day until the investment expires.

Dave Cannard is proudly copying the industry phenomenon of 2005 “12DailyPro” which lasted 8 months before it got into big problems with their online payment processor and eventually closed.

I ouldn’t consider this a typical ponzi company. The risks of investing at the end of it’s run would be high, yet the site only opened a week ago and similar business models last up to 8 months without problems - certainly enough time to quadruple your investment.

12by12Daily pays 12% a day, for 12 days and you receive your money 7 days later.

Your return for a 19 day investment is therefore 144% Read the rest of this entry »

Do a search for ‘Martin Pavion’ online and currently there are 66,600 results. To my knowledge there are no other people sharing my name, so nearly all of these results are connected to me.

I’ve begun to distribute ‘ezine’ articles all over the place. These are short articles aimed to provide information to the general public. The hidden motive behind this is that the writer is always trying to sell something, whether its a product, a service or something less direct such as their brand image.

Being the opportunist I am, I’m trying to build up some credibility for anything I can write about as long as there’s an affiliate product or website I can profit from.

Do some searches and you’re sure to find my opinion and advice about any topic you can imagine.

Next on the list of business opportunities are power saving devices which reduce power consumption for homes and for businesses. They use various means to cut power consumption by 20-40%.

We’ve got a salesletter website online now at PlugandSave.com and have just begun to get orders in. It seems like there is a big demand for this device in the Philippines although as of now we don’t have a fulfillment center there, or a way of processing payments without using PayPal.

We have a few of these devices in stock right now but when Tik and I return from Europe I’ll most likely re-write the website, or put a more conservatively marketed site online. We’ve had enquiries from businesses already who are interested in becoming a distributor for us so can see a lot of potential here.

Please do give me some feedback on the site, it’s very difficult to be objective when I’ve written it myself so any suggestions are highly appreciated.