Hello!
New to this forum - want to introduce myself and besides "hi! nice to meet you!" want to say "thank you!" for very interesting and informative content you created here.
First I want to travel to Phuket for few months in September/October-February to appraise if it is possible to me to settle there ("here" for many of you) - right now I live in Moscow (few years ago moved to here from hot southern city Sochi just to find out I don't like 6 months long snowy winters).
My hobbies are fresh-water aquarium (20 years), snowboard (then possible) and snorkeling (there available) and massive multiplayer online games (Ultima Online, Asheron's Call, Everquest, World of Warcraft, and now it is Lord of the Rings Online - 10 years total). I work as business analyst (SAP ERP / CRM) and practice internet marketing/programming as hobby (and rarely as freelance job).
I am single (well, divorced - those games took too much of my time and attention
) and as you can guess English isn't my native language but still it's good enough to be able to read these forums and all those interesting messages you've created ("where to buy Wii?", "how to appraise is it a real girl or LB?", "is it safe to crawl to home at night being drunk?", etc.)
Hope to meet you (or at least some of these forums' visitors) in Phuket any soon.
=)