Baby news (part 2!!!) Pictures… yeeaaahhh lol … her name is ‘Arisa’ and her nickname is ‘Blend’ (Don’t ask me why tho! lol)
Isn't she gorgeous?!
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Mr.b
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Mr.b
Baby news!!!!!! Nu (La-on’s younger brother, and the manager of the Lamai shop) and his wife Bua have just become proud parents of a beautiful baby girl – born 2 hours ago! Mum and baby are both fine, and Nu is floating around with a big grin on his face! lol Pictures will be posted later, and I make no apologies for the fact that I am a soppy git, and adore babies!!! he he Congratulations to Nu and Bua!
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Pyrofreak
Happy Birthday ! ! !
Welcome to the World, all the best for Nu, Bua and the newborn girl child !
Congratulation also to aunt La-on and happy Alan… -
Pyrofreak
Happy Birthday !
Welcome to earth, the best wishes to Nu and Bua and the newborn baby girl..
Congratulation also to aunt La-on and happy Alan
Greetings from Wuppertal
Melanie & Christian-
Mr.b
Thank you guys!!! She is soooooooo sweet! Ahhhhhhhhhhh
See photos… make me go all ‘gooey and soppy’ lol lol-
John Kaewsuksai
wow, i had no idea. nice one, please pass on my congratulations Mr.B
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Mr.b
Full Moon, Full Eclipse, Full on! :)
Strange day yesterday! We had two meetings with prospective clients in the shop, and both turned out to be absolute firework nuts, so – instead of taking 15/20 minutes, both turned out to be 2 hour long ‘chats’! It is great to meet fellow pyro-nuts… those that really do know what they are talking about… but it is a fairly rare occurrence, however, yesterday was ‘pyro-heaven’ for me… bloody great! lol. The first meeting was with a guy who is opening a new hotel/resort on the island, right on the beach, and he wanted fireworks as part of the opening ceremony later this month. He knew exactly what he wanted, and, for a change, this was a guy who’s expectations were not only realistic, but possible!
The shoot will include a beautiful Lancework set-piece (nobody else on Samui can offer Lancework, which made us the first choice), which will be followed by a choreographed 2.5 minute firework display, set to a piece of music which is just perfect for fireworks!
It is great to choreograph shows like this, and the fully programmable sequencers that we have make it possible to time individual cues down to a tenth of a second! We also came up with loads of other ideas that will go towards making the opening of this hotel/resort something really special! I will, of course, post the video and more details of the shoot after the event.
The second meeting was for an Aussie guy and his Thai girlfriend, who are getting married soon. I have never met a guy so enthusiastic about life in general, and his enthusiasm was infectious! After only 10 minutes or so we were chatting away like two old friends… as though we had known each other for years! He was not just a ‘character’, but a clever, adept, and intelligent guy who was ‘driven’.. but managed to balance his life with a morality that made him want to help others and share his good fortune. An amazing guy who I am sure will be cropping up in my posts again in the future (things in the pipeline and all that lol).
After an hour or so we both realised that we had chatted about everything EXCEPT his wedding! Great stuff!
In the end he simply told us that he ‘knew that we knew what we were talking about’ and so trusted us implicitly. Essentially we had as big a budget as we needed to put on a firework display that would last 5 minutes! Here was a guy who had visited every shop that sold fireworks, but decided that only The Firework Shop could deliver… and, coming from someone as knowledgeable as him, this is a complement indeed!Still buzzing after meeting ‘Mushrooman’ (his nickname) I came home to be welcomed by the three pooches and my various assortment of birds… all screaming for food (it was past their normal feeding time), and then my good friend Bom turned-up to tell me about the full eclipse of the moon later that night. So – after feeding the animals – Bom and I settled down with a few Gin and Tonics to wait for the eclipse to start. Boy was it worth the wait!
As the moon was around half-eclipsed (is that a word?) there were firecrackers (and a few guns) going off all around us… people ‘shooting at the moon’ for good luck! Truly amazing Thailand! lol -
Mr.b
The video showing me ‘knocking together’ a nailboard-type firework remote control is (finally) up.
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robert
i guess a hand made shitty unit like that is good enough for you allan,but compared to the gear i have its amateurish,i have 22 electronic firing units .
got your sandbags ready in lamai?
MR RNOTE: with reference to the post above by ‘Mr. R’… To see examples of some of the professional wireless remote systems we (The Firework Shop) use, look around on this page… 22 ‘electronic firing units’ indeed… HAH! lol lol
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Mr.b
Hello Robert Taylor… ‘Robert’ comments regularly like this on our sites… he has a shop on Samui that sells nick-nacks and ‘antiques’, and likes to think of himself as ‘God’s gift’ to the world of fireworks. He is plainly very jealous of our successes and reputation on Koh Samui. His comment about the ‘shitty remote’ refers to the home-made remote video I posted a while back. Of course, being slightly slow in the brain department, Robert/Ralph has completely missed the point of the video, which was made so that fellow hobbyist pyro-nuts out there in ‘web-land’ could see that they could make their own remote fairly easily and cheaply for themselves, without having to buy the expensive professional wireless remote firing systems similar to the ones we use on our shoots.
At the risk of getting into a ‘My willy is bigger than yours’ type discussion, his 22 electronic firing units pale into insignificance compared to our 1,200 channel wireless remote firing systems – - notice the plural there Robert (‘Plural’ means ‘more than one’ by the way).By the way, I think that it is very sad that Robert (a ‘keyboard warrior’, finds it a joke to refer to the recent devastating floods on Samui, in which many people lost everything they had. We were very lucky, our Lamai shop simply ended-up with wet floors, unlike many other unfortunate people, who’s livelihoods were wrecked). His comments, I feel, show him to be the crass, uneducated and mentally-challenged person that he is.
Have a nice day RalphRobert – or whatever your name is – and try not to let your bile give you too much indigestion!
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Mr.b
Well… New Year is finally ‘put to bed’, and it is back to business as usual! We have all been replacing the rather worn-out concrete path leading up to the front of the Maenam shop… it seemed to take a heck of a lot of sand, stone, and cement! Our backs have been aching for 4 days solid! Still… it was worth it… looks very good. Unfortunately, while we were digging around, I realised that the sign out the front of the shop was starting to look a bit ‘weary’, so our current project involves us ripping out the old… and putting up a new – rather dapper – sign. Photos will make their way up here in due course!
My welding is definitely improving! Well… in the sense that I can now stick bits of metal together quite well, giving a strong joint… but ‘looks’?… that’s a different thing altogether! I reckon the best description for my welding is ‘strong but ugly’! lol As my mate Roger says… ‘It would take a bloody nuclear bomb to blow that apart!’ … said as I was throwing a recently finished 4 inch rack around the back garden (on concrete) to show just how strong it was!
What I didn’t know was that welding gives you sunburn! Put it this way… I now don’t use welding goggles (opting for the full face mask now), and I wear long sleeved T-shirts when welding! You live and learn eh? -
Mr.b
Just got a new ‘A’ board sign for the shop in Lamai, and I think it looks great! It certainly makes the shop a lot easier to spot – being a full 2 metres high and 1 metre wide! I will be putting up a photo of it soon.
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Laarn
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robert are discussing. 
John Kaewsuksai 2:38 am on May 31, 2012 Permalink |
looks more like mummy than daddy… lucky!