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I booked the 1bedroom suite 76sqm in total! It was so large it had enough space for a full kitchen, living room a computer room, a table with four chairs, two couches(one turns into a pull out bed), two bathrooms, a separate bedroom(about the size of a normal hotel room) and two TV’s with english channels, plenty of locker room for my girlfriend to hide in, three AC units with all individual controls, washer and dryer, and a balcony. And free buffet breakfast!
Wow. This place was impressive! We even had our own wifi router inside the suite. It was basically a place you can stay for an extended amount of time for under 100 dollars, if you can find a good deal.
The suite was spotless though huge and they deserve cudo’s for even providing a telephone inside the toilet just incase I realize the toilet paper is running out and I need help asap! There was nothing I can complain about the room, and I was looking for flaws! The only thing may be the stove top took a while to heat up and when it does, it heats up too much. But its a minor complaint in the end.
They provide you with full kitchenware so you don’t need to bring anything. The view from the balcony was amazing! You can see the other towering skyscrapers, we were on the 17th floor overlooking terminal 21. Service was outstanding especially when it comes to transportation.
They have a free tuk tuk service every 5 min going back and forth from the main street of sukhumvit to the hotel, so you don’t have to walk back through the small soi to get to and from the hotel. If you want to directly go to terminal 21 or to BTS(asok) or MRT(sukhumvit), you can take a minivan which does rounds every 20-30 minutes I believe. And the concierge is a cheerful man who is more than willing to help you out if you need to tell the taxi or van driver something, and you need to translate it in Thai.
The people at the front counter were very nice, except for one man, who seemed to be a little annoyed with us just asking simple questions like how much is the taxi to Suvarunabhumi airport, when checking out. I guess that was the only thing we disliked. But I’ll let that one slide, because everybody else was cheerful and willing to help :) breakfast in my opinion was a little lacking as far as in variety and the taste was just ok.
But its more than enough to satisfy me and my girlfriend. They have everything a buffet needs, but doesn’t really shine on the unique characteristics, if you know what I mean? If you’re used to 5 star buffets, this may disappoint you, as a fair warning. But by no means are they cheapskates.
There’s plenty of good stuff to eat for less picky individuals. With that said, I gave it a 5 out of 5. Although the breakfast was lacking a bit, but the room alone just blew our expectations out of the water! Keep up the good work Centre Point Soi 10!
Stayed August 2014, traveled as a couple
Before use. Will it leak light? Nita is using it today in a project, to take "looking down" photos. Cross processing this evening in b&w chemicals - fingers crossed there is no light leak!
That's what the Penultimate (99 cents) app reminds me of. There are other apps for a lot more but I'm a cheapskate. As you can see, you use your stylus to write as you would with a pen or you can use your fingers. There is 3 line thicknesses to choose from, an eraser, different types of paper, you can email your notes and a whole lot more. It's fun to play around with and for all of its functions, I believe .99 cents is a great price for it.
The 50p Camera Project with Poundland Film
Olympus XA2 35mm film compact camera
AgfaPhoto Vista Plus C41 35mm film cross processed and stand processed in b/w chemistry (3mg Rodinal) for 125 minutes.
Scanned wih Epson V500
Some post scan touch up with Gimp 2.0 (levels, curves).
May look just a tad cluttered, but the key here is the laptop on the left standing on my recently built DIY Cheapskate Laptop Stand. By running email, Twitter and other distracting crap on the laptop I leave my two main screens free to do actual work.
And no, I'm not going on "Desk Hoarders" so don't even ask!
By Baron Bercott, 1962-65. Brutalist municipal buildings in three main blocks - town council offices in main block, council chamber and committee rooms in municipal suite and a public hall block with 1,200 seat capacity large hall, a small hall and other ancillary accommodation, approved December 1960. Also Westbank block with parking facilities for 300 cars, by Alexander John Macaskill Currell, 1959.
Council have recently moved out to the former Thomas Cook facility at Larbert deciding not to proceed with plans submitted by Ryder Architecture in 2015 which would’ve seen the Westbank building demolished and the new building erected on its site. A £20m cut in funding from the Scottish Government in 2017 has been blamed as the deciding factor in the embarrassingly cheapskate option.
Baron Bercott was also responsible for the (now demolished) Callendar Riggs Shopping Centre that occupied the east end of the High Street.
I think my favoritely invented cocktail so far: vodka-based with a cherry juice* ice cube, equal parts Cointreau, dolin blanc & bulleit rye, and a dash of orange bitters for a nice bright yet umami back mouthfeel.
*so I made a sour cherry pie with the trader joe's jarred morellos & couldn't bear to pitch the accompanying juice. verdict? freeze the juice in trays & keep the cubes in a bag in the freezer for (admittedly girly in appearance) cocktail maximization. My inner radical feminist is at least pacified by the hooch and, let's be honest, the swanky riedel martini glass.
I wouldn't dream of giving twenty dollars for S/P shakers ... says the cheapskate garage sale shopper.
Valentine's Day is coming up. Too cheap to pay $50 to buy a dozen roses? Paint your own! Here's my progress, I'd say 75% complete. I just need to flesh out the roses and add darker colors, and smudge some color into the background. I'm just waiting for the colors to dry.
All that's left is a few cab details (parts in the mail) and to test an idea with the smokestack (parts in the mail, different package than the first).
Shown in Photo
Akasha Matte White River Rocks (10788164)
Darice Googly Eyes
Mrs. Grossman's Alphabitsy (primary) stickers
Kunin Pirate Green Felt
References
Scrabble Letter Distributions (points per letter, number of letters - write on bottom of rock)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrabble_letter_distributions
Organza Pouches 4x6 inches (used to store rocks)
Highway 1's turnouts make great overnight camping spots for cheapskates! This was in the 1970s. I bet by now they caught onto that and banned overnight parking.
AS3000, US version. Ex-school, bought on ebay. Upgraded to System 3.
Old leather A4 document case that I had lying around.
Hey Prom Photographer: We will not pay for manufactured photo memories! We'll just, um, pose in front of your background when you're in the bathroom or something.
I have no idea which prom this is. It might be a junior prom, I don't know.
Brunch at Firefly, Hotel Madeira, Washington, DC USA
Published in Capital Cheapskate: Getting To The Bottom of Bottomless Brunch: DCist
Sunday March 26th 1995.
Class 50, 50031 ‘Hood’ standing where Kidderminster Diesel Depot now stands.
The previous Friday night, myself & two other Brechin Railway members drove down to Birmingham to attend an Association of Railway Preservation Societies (ARPS) seminar about safety & risk assessments.
Being cheapskates, we were granted free overnight accommodation on the Saturday at Bridgenorth Station in the converted Mk1 Compartment Seconds at the south end of the station. This meant we were able to have a bacon fry-up in the portacabin type cafe at the north end of the site.
I seem to recall that the deal was that we would do some ‘volunteering’, but no one was about to chase us, so we ended up having a good nose round the stations at Bridgenorth, Bewdley & Kidderminster, whilst stopping off at the Crewe Heritage Centre on the way home.
My fellow travellers are more interested in Class 27 D5410 rather than the two class 50’s.
this sugarbunnies keyring/locket was bought for me way back when the character first came out.
being the cheapskate that i am, i stared at it for a good 5 minutes, and the bf insisted that we leave the store so he bought it for me.
aah, the good ol' days (^-^)
My experiment using my 18-55mm kit lens as a macro lens, I've reversed mounted it on my camera. Usually this is done using a dedicated reverse ring but cheapskate like me just mount it backwards and hold it using my hand.
I therefore conclude:
- you have to move the camera itself to achive focus. Focusing distance in this photo is less than an inch
- the longer the focal length the less magnification you would achive
- you could only use upto 24mm as the widest focal length, wider than that the glass of the lens would be touching the subject
- absolutely no control of depth of field
Safe European Home
English Civil War
Tommy Gun
Julie's In The Drug Squad
Last Gang In Town
Guns On The Roof
Drug-Stabbing Time
Stay Free
Cheapskates
All The Young Punks (New Boots And Contracts)
This is the face, hand printed & hand numbered in silver ink – the silver pen looks more white in comparison, but still quite a nice look.
Get it, with a tea towel here.
In my continuing quest to find vintage French brakes (that aren't over priced Mafac Raids) for 650B conversions I found these $25.00 CLB's on ebay that seem quite promising. Unlike the steel LAM's I've already used for the purpose, these are lightweight alloy with an easy smooth action in spite of having a max reach of 85mm. Look good too.
Not a planned outfit, just what I was wearing when I went to pick up my jacket from Social Suicide.
Face: Inexplicable
Social Suicide "Beetle" jacket, wool
Topman "baseball" neck t-shirt, apparently. Flimsy as anything.
Topman jeans, formerly overdyed, now faded, I dunno.
Dunlop Green Flash! Dirty!
Social Suicide's been going for five years now (and they've been two of my best friends for - yowsa - nineteen years) so it's about time I had one of their jackets. They've always tried to squeeze me into a 40, which took both of them heaving and sweating until I went I can't feel my arms.
They finally capitulated and I wriggled into the last size 42 Beetle. The fit is incredible (see the other picture for a better impression). So - even after a monster discount, this is now the single most expensive item of clothing I've ever bought. Tig's verdict: "Bloody cheapskate."
headband: handmade
hand-dyed silk dress: Grandma's
shoes: uptown cheapskate
This is the exact outfit I wore to the ultra glam Alt opening social. I wore it in church today for my talk. Thought it'd be great to stand out like a sore thumb. I love this dress.
Ernie Borrowdale (MP) knew he'd have some explaining to do now.
Curse that cheap pulley system – you get what you pay for it would seem.
Inside the dog chewed camera, following exposure. In a disposable film, the 35mm film is usually wound out in the factory, and winds back into the 135 cassette as you use it. This film is 39 exposure, colour and ISO 800. I'm going to cross process it in b&w chemicals.
I demonstrated monotypes at FADA LA Art Show, 2010 in the LAPS booth, and these are some of the prints I made. I used waterbased block ink and tube watercolors, printing on various papers (mostly sample paper from SGC, which I am now out of so I need to stop being such a cheapskate.)
The big day has arrived. I’m going to see Radiohead again. Today. In Victoria Park in London. The sun is shining and I’m happy to be alive.
We’ll be setting off in a couple of hours so I’ve done my 365 early today. Always planned to make it Radiohead themed so I used the inner sleeve of my In Rainbows discbox, a very tasty double vinyl/double CD set including booklet of weird artwork.
If you’re not a Radiohead fan In Rainbows is their latest album, the one they released first on the net and let fans choose how much to pay for the album? I paid 10 pence for the download but shelled out £40 for the discbox to alleviate my guilt at being such a cheapskate. I’m looking at it as an investment in the vain hope that one day it’ll be collectable. I’m hoping they extend the honesty box approach of their album to their merchandise, but I’m not holding my breath that I’ll be able to pick up a t-shirt for less then £20!
Funny story actually - the last time we saw Radiohead (Earl's Court in 2003) we got to London, parked up and caught the tube to our destination. Halfway there my mate Jon asked me if I had the tickets I'd been put in charge of looking after . . . one tube ride back to the car later we picked the tickets up from the car, where I'd left them.
I'm not allowed to even see the tickets this time.
Today’s shot came out much better than I anticipated – I did say yesterday that today’s shot would be, and I quote, “a hasty, ill-prepared load of pap shot in the couple of spare hours I’ve got before we leave”. All that is true, but thanks to the brilliance of Lightroom it’s come out OK! Click – take shot. Click – apply preset. Done! Brilliant!
I’m off now to catch up on some commenting, I want to see all the other cool shots you guys have posted before I set off to the capital and witness The Gig Of The Year*.
* Subject to change – seeing The Wildhearts in September!
If you'e wondering what the hell the title of today's 365 means, it's the name of track 2 from the extra disc that comes with the Radiohead discbox. I'm a saddo for irrelevant trivia . . . I can remember things like this but don't ask me what 40 x 9 is!
It's 360, I've just punched it into the calculator.
The third and final of three trains this week running from Three Bridges to Bath and Bristol Temple Meads. This must have been the trip for the cheapskates as the coaches looked far less luxurious than those used yesterday and there was little sign of meals bing served.
people have gotten the wrong idea about my breakfasts (www.flickr.com/photos/19211803@N00/6772626939/in/photostream); i'm no health nut and would have gone with the sausage were i not also a cheapskate
this view is more or less from the exit of the Flying Dutchman. Notice how there is a top on the lighthouse. Years later, a storm distroyed the top and the cheapskates didn't replace it. Later, when the section was rethemed as Gotham City, the lighthouse becam a smokestack.
Been going to Disneyland a lot lately, and being the cheapskate I am, I park at Downtown Disney and walk through all the shops most of the times. This little sign is in front of the store D street and I like the modern twists they put on some of the classic Disney stuff.
249/365
Okay. On one of my photos, I happened to say I would do the tag thing on my next photo. This happens to be it. So...uh...I don't know. whatever. Anyway, Happy Birthday HRE and Taiwan!!! :3
NOTE: None of these songs are English. o v e;;
[1] Put your iPod/MP3 player on Shuffle.
[2] For each question, press the next button to get your answer. (what? *totally confused, but whatever*.)
[3] You must write that song name down, no matter how silly/stupid it sounds!
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IF SOMEONE SAYS, "ARE YOU OKAY?", YOU SAY?
Go Google It (that. that is perfect. I am actually going to say that next time someone asks me. XD)
HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE YOURSELF?
The Summer I can't see you (well, it is sorta right. I can't see you guys in the summer...)
WHAT DO YOU LIKE IN A GIRL/GUY?
Fake or Fate (holy maple. that's kinda what the song is about. o_0)
HOW DO YOU FEEL TODAY?
Antichlorobenzene
WHAT IS LIFE'S PURPOSE?
Poker Face- Spainloid cover (..what?)
WHAT'S YOUR MOTTO?
Akikoroid- Meat meets girl. (o.o)
WHAT DO YOUR PARENTS THINK OF YOU?
Meltdown (Hard rock remix)
WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT VERY OFTEN?
Declare war on all vocaloid (non! I don't wanna do that!! D:)
WHAT IS YOUR LIFE STORY?
Panda Hero
WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR BEST FRIEND?
PonPonPon- VY2 Yuma cover (...what?)
WHAT DO YOU WANT TO BE WHEN YOU GROW UP?
HetaOni OST- Call (ah yes, my dream is to be an original soundtrack file from a game)
WHAT DO YOU THINK WHEN YOU SEE THE PERSON YOU LIKE?
Game Of Life- Iciko cover (uh.. a person like... does Len count?? XD)
WHAT WILL YOU DANCE TO AT YOUR WEDDING?
Gods an energy cheapskate (... no comment.)
WHAT WILL THEY PLAY AT YOUR FUNERAL?
Soundless voice- music box version
WHAT ARE YOUR HOBBIES/INTERESTS?
Yanderenka- Kasane Ted cover (no...I don't think I am yandere.. I might be a little yangire though. XD)
WHAT IS YOUR BIGGEST SECRET?
Lilium- Kasane Teto cover
WHAT IS 2+2? (really?? .-.)
The many strange noises of Tamaki Souh (what?)
WHAT IS YOUR BIGGEST FEAR?
Rolling Girl
WHAT'S THE WORST THING THAT COULD HAPPEN?
Magnet- Violin ver.
HOW WILL YOU DIE?
Subarashiine Kurumi- Can't I even dream?
WHAT IS THE ONE THING YOU REGRET?
Armada Death
WHAT MAKES YOU LAUGH?
Two Faced Lovers
WHAT MAKES YOU CRY?
KAITO- Lord of Darkness (yes. It does make me cry- tears of laughter.)
IF YOU COULD GO BACK IN TIME, WHAT WOULD YOU CHANGE?
HetaOni Douga (no way!!! >:I)
...I didn't come up with these questions. If I did they would be so much better. .-. Well, the songs basically say everything about me- I don't really like English music. //shot