zappalot

At 1635 Sunday 18th it took less than 25 minutes from arrival at airport to sitting in Burger King! It was good to see that they have introduced the new queuing system that stops people standing three and four abreast and switching lines. Simple but effective!

Have not seen the new queue system.

It should be one queue only and the one at the front goes to the next available counter.

Nobody is caught in a slow queue, and stops queue jumping

They had this "one queue only" system already for a while one year ago. In my experience the most fair "queue management system".

Why did they change again?

And one here has seen this system being used these days, the another one not, do they change daily? I mean in this country one has to expect everything, as TIT...

i still dont understand why the government supports the private traffic that much in Bangkok whilst in every other country in the world the government try to limit private traffic.

You mean like the new car subsidies that was introduced into pretty much every western country - and definitely the US, UK and most of Europe - to encourage people to buy cars at the time the GFC started?

Nothing like a bit of hyperbole to stop one thinking, is there?

1.: New? At least in Europe theses subsidies are history and they were imposed to manage the 2008 crisis and didn't increase the number of cars as

2.: the deal for all the subsidies was: give ur old car and scrap it first, then the government support you to buy a new car

How could that increase traffic?

i still dont understand why the government supports the private traffic that much in Bangkok whilst in every other country in the world the government try to limit private traffic.

At least in Bangkok absolutely no one need a private car. The public traffic is one of the best in the world. But so many people use their private care causing a lot of traffic jam. They should wake up and install a city entrance fee for private cars.

Instead they lower prices for fuel like benzine and diesel which is used mostly by private cars and rise prices for gas which is used by taxis and many buses.

This dumb thai-government does just the opposite of what they should do if they wanted to act logically.

But as the people so the government...

And if they rise the rates many will think if not better to take the bus instead of the Taxi...

Sad story, i hope other hotel owners are reading this, and taking appropriate action !

TIT, so even if they read this there is no reason for them to take action. The flow of tourists will continue, why invest a single satang?

wow, thank you misterwhisper for that very helpful answer. as 20.000 is a little bit much i will try one of the small photo shops. why didnt i have the idea by myself?

i want to do a shooting (fashion) in a professional equipped photostudio in bangkok?

the search didnt bring up something.

does anyone has an idea where i can find such a location?

do u have any "securities", lets say a camera, a smartphone, notebook?

Even if they give it away to starving people, think of the karma!

How much of ur wealth do u give away (for free) to the poor?

Here are the numbers for the value of exported rice from Thailand in Baht (i dont see why it should raise to 21000 within the next time. That would be about an 20% up then...)

14/12/54 18899.322 0.000 21/12/54 17963.330 -935.992 28/12/54 17812.872 -150.458 04/01/55 17839.521 26.649 11/01/55 16900.364 -939.157 18/01/55 16817.439 -82.925 25/01/55 16670.377 -147.062 01/02/55 16880.864 210.487

last chance if someone want to join:

tomorrow morning, 22nd of january, i will go at 7 am from BTS Udomsuk by Taxi to the Cambodian Border at Aranjaprathet/Poi Pet...

If u want to join drop me a line please but from now please only seriously interested people not just phuuut maak...

i will pay a reward if someone give me a hint where i have to go for that...

anyone?

yeah, great, so then with tekinsel and dzocor55s girlfriend we are 3 then, thats fine!

whitebobo didnt answer after a private mail exchange...

is a start at 7 am ok for everyone? i am flexible with this but the start should not be to late...

where to start? for me BTS Udomsuk would be great!

But, Whitebobo, if ur visa expires on the 21st it would be absolutely fine to go on the 21st instead of the 20th. in the meantime i found out that i am free on the 21st as well, so that would be great if it works out. You can ask here, everyone can ensure you that its 100% with the law if ur visa expires on the 21st that its ok to do the border run on the 21st.

You might want to mention where you live in Thailand so people can decide if it is feasible for them? Bangkok, Pattaya ?

sure, u r right, thank u

i live in bangkok and we can meet for example at any BTS station (for me the best would be Udomsuk)

the visa process itself just needs about 30-maximum 60 minutes, depending on how many people will do it at the same time.

of course u need a valid visa like a tourist visa or business visa. Or you just want to get another 15 days by crossing the landborder. anyway u r welcome to join.

start will be around 7 in the morning (from my side a start even more early is possible) so we can be back easily in the early afternoon.

anyone want to share a taxi for a visa run to Aranjaprathet/Cambodian Border for Visa Run on Sunday 22nd of January (alternatively Monday 23rd of January?

i did this several times now and am very familiar with everything now. So i also can tell you what to do exactly if u r not familiar with the procedure.

If we are 4 people altogether the cost excluding visa fee for Cambodia will be not more than 750 Baht per person and.

For the Visa fee for cambodia bring a 20 US-$ Bill. I can bring for you if u don't have. In exchange i just need 630 Baht.

So we will be back very quickly for about 1400 Baht including all fees and costs/and Visa fees!

The taxi driver i prefer is not to slowly but very carefully, always keeping distances to the next vehicles which i appreciate a lot.

I we are just three people the cost per person just rises a little bit from about 1400 baht to about 1600 baht, so if i find just 2 people that would be great as well.

This is not commercially as all costs are divided fair between all participants.

Hope to hear from you

yes, they charge u, but it depends on the method as i remember.

the first withdrawal within a month to my european bank account is 20 Euro (i also have my accounts with oanda in euro)

so i always wait until i really need money...

as i remember u can also withdraw money with paypal, but i dont know the fees for this...

1. u can scale out the charts largely and

2. the execution speed of the demo trades are the same as with the real ones. There is no delay or time to wait for a fill. You will get the same, in fast markets the next available price. That mean u can get a better, sometimes a worse price, in average u get what u c... i just went long NZD/USD and fill came in the same instant i clicked "Submit" on the mouse button

i dont use any so called "technical indicators". when i did i never earned money with them.

this is my setup with the oanda software and thats all i use (3840x1080)

From EUR/AUS/NZD i always try to identify the strongest one and most of the time invest only in the strongest trending currency i identified.

the others i just monitor for long term investment...

best time for trading is from 1 or 2 pm (bkk-time) to about 11:30 pm. the remaining time is often to slow for a nice trading/not worth to waste the time.

i think no one can give u an answer on this topic.

if then this one must be a very rich one. the one who know the direction for sure can be rich quickly with just a little money to invest...

btw: i dont know what to do with my stupid euros as well...

i dont have any problems with the execution here, as i wrote before its fast and reliable.

But: indeed it sometimes freezes from the time a news was released about 5-15 minutes. But: u should see this as an advantage. News bring unpredictable moves - i never have seen someone making money with news, people trading news usually quickly disappear from the market - because of emptied accounts.

i personally use US-news times for a break - from 15 min. before the news release about 45 minutes onwards.

I am trading the majors EUR/USD, AUS/USD, NZD/USD, GBP/USD for skalping and all the about another 50 pairs that oanda provides as a long-term investment (2 days up to half a year!)

Since more than 5 years i am trading the Forexmarket with Oanda.com.

This has several reasons:

Even here from Thailand execution is really fast - there are no delays.

for a buy/sell at a limit order i often get better rates than i ordered

Most currency pair rates are provided with 5 digits behind the comma, e.g. the EUR/USD is 1.33157

The spread is not to high, for the EUR/USD most of the day between 1,2 and 1,4 pips,

I love there charting software as it provides unlimited windows and that is what i need (i use up to 30 chart windows (3840x1080))

Can also be used with MT4

They pay an interest for your money

You can trade any amount, that mean u can sell and buy even only one unit of a currency, so u can adjust ur risk to ur skills and needs, even no minimum needed to open an account

First thing was to get the tax back and now this.

Everything as expected. Nevertheless speechless.

I think the poor didn't know what they did when they elected this Mafia-clan... Else they deserve what they get...

I live in Chalermprakiat 28 (Soi Thungsetthi next to Ram2 University 13:40:13:55 N 100:41:20:79 E) and so far nothing on the street.

I just noticed that again the water in the sewer came up to just about 20 cm below street level. This was the case 3 days ago, but then it went down again for more than one meter.