PCA

@ PCA

Yet another who has been nowhere else in Thailand and/or South East Asia.

hehehe, think what you want but don't forget to rest when you sleep.

so where are you lacking. Money, power, balls...? Do you need to look at society and corruption to enjoy a place? If all foul will you run off to the better?

I simply wish to live together with good people around me. In an place where showing money, power and balls are not part of everyday living.

well you are at the right place but attracted to the wrong things. Every day's life here has changed but so did and does it anywhere else. Still a good place though.

"Still a good place though." - I wonder if you will be saying that in 2 years time.

your time is not mine and I will what I will - always.

Anyway get lost boys if you miss mommy.

well you are at the right place but attracted to the wrong things. Every day's life here has changed but so did and does it anywhere else. Still a good place though.

Well, I'll hope that you'll not invite me to join prayers to jesus, santa claus or the little green man with funny aluminium hats.

Of course I do make the most of my life by living with the people around here. Of course I have good interactions with others here. Of course I go around and explore the life here. Why do I even have to mention this?

There are real problems here, which does not vanish by looking to other directions and hoping those would not be around when looking back again.

funny boy you seem to be. I might invite you for a beer one day so that you can see something new. Your first sentence just shows where your mind has travelled so far after running against countless walls.

Then later you can look back to a fun beer or night if you like.

There are problems and that's true but if you don't have the balls to surmount them you make them bigger.

Yeah and I am not a priest or solicitor so you make me feeling bored by talking non sense.

so where are you lacking. Money, power, balls...? Do you need to look at society and corruption to enjoy a place? If all foul will you run off to the better?

I simply wish to live together with good people around me. In an place where showing money, power and balls are not part of everyday living.

well you are at the right place but attracted to the wrong things. Every day's life here has changed but so did and does it anywhere else. Still a good place though.

you are making just one mistake. Getting infected from selfishness and disregarding the self center as an essential. It is not about getting integrated into anything (society in a fishing village and the headspin after suddenly instead of a fish there was an i-phone on the rod) but seeing something new every day, something what confirms why you are here and not there. This is a beautyful place, naturally clean and healthy. If you want to really improve something than live in samples rather than excusing yourself poorly.

For me life equals being together and finding solutions to the problems. The key to good life is working together. When this does not happen, then it's time to let go and see how people who are so keen to have power, can handle the situation by then selves.

That's the reason, why I do not like to see any efforts where the western world is the giving party and Thailand is the collecting one. An example what happened with the tsunami warning system.

Power always should come with responsibility. This does not happen here. Until this equation is fixed, well nothing essential will not change.

Changes will happen when the easy money will run out. Hungry people demand more than the ones with full stomach.

Anyway, that is not my problem. That is the problem who have and who could have the power if they would have the balls to take it back from the thugs.

so where are you lacking. Money, power, balls...? Do you need to look at society and corruption to enjoy a place? If all foul will you run off to the better?

I think many of us came to Phuket, thinking it would be a nice place to call home. After years of living realizing that Phuket can not ever be a home, just a place to be an visitor. That sucks.

As for home I mean a place where a person can really be part of the society, not just spend time there as an outsider.

The next step is not to care what will happen to this island. I went through that phase few years ago after finally figuring out that I can not really do anything to improve the situation. The change have to come from the local people who live here... and it never comes. So why should we even try to change things?

I still relapse every now and then thinking that I could improve things here. It still does not happen.

After all, just live a life here while it's still good and when it's not, hit the road and move somewhere else.

I live in area which is still good compared to the touristic beaches, way better actually. People here are generally good, but there is more an more indications of creed which is radiating from south west of the island.

you are making just one mistake. Getting infected from selfishness and disregarding the self center as an essential. It is not about getting integrated into anything (society in a fishing village and the headspin after suddenly instead of a fish there was an i-phone on the rod) but seeing something new every day, something what confirms why you are here and not there. This is a beautyful place, naturally clean and healthy. If you want to really improve something than live in samples rather than excusing yourself poorly.

Everybody should be buying gold now while its lower; if you don't, in 20 to 50 years you'll be sorry.

and dead.

Yeah but your grandkids will be happier than hell. For what that's worth.. bwah ha ha ha ..

I agree...and as the price of gold reaches $2000 an ounce numerous times over the next 20 to 50 years a person can get rich trading gold...all they have to do is buy low and sell at $2000...it's so easy.

hang on, was there not the idea that gold gonna become the ultimate trouble shooter. 2000 what against it? Rotten teeth maybe

If you don't eat hamburgers then you are missing one of best foods in life. People who refer to burgers as junk food are probably trying to break the habit because they are too fat. I love them. Mrs. Don made Richard Hare and myself a super Cheeseburger today. Richard, a Canadian is an escapee from Phuket. He has found peace in Chiang Rai.You can take the boy out of the country but you can't take the country out of the boy. My new book, Lost In Bangkok For 30 Years, tells it all.

can hardly get more silly than that statement. Minding already what to do with this book in case I stolper above it

already solved. Can be closed.

Hello,

I'd like to buy 140 MYR (Ringit) and pay 1.500 baht. Anyone can help please PM me.

Thank you

time for a TV party, beer in coffee cups

BTW - Real roller coaster of a ride on the SET today with some wild swings

hehehe, you have a ticket so enjoy the ride,

It's easier to eat soup with a fork than to make money in foreign exchange.

depending on the size of the noodles. Canada can stay quiet as long as it likes, regardless it is leading but rather unspoken. Currency up or down doesn't matter. Go for a horse ride into it's mountains and you'll sense preservation.

can help with the mobile of a crodile dentist. He says they better should live as their rotten teeth after their natural death grinded into powder and mixed into tequila makes you and your partner rolling in agony until the bed crashes unless their legs stay stiff. But then the #@% tequila

yeah future is a rolling thing, especially this week. Just saying

There is an online process with kasikorn.. something like "download dispute form" from their banking website.

It's got nothing to do with VISA, they will be uninterested, you just gotta take it up with the merchant and/or credit card issuer.

well, there is a difference whether it is a credit or a debit card. Regardless it has more than less directly to do with VISA.

Having personally made a mistake by stupidly using the card doesn't change the fact. Then there is the personal importance of the ammount we are talking about.... Headache or swallow.

Unfortunately Kasikorn doesn't do brunches either in Pattaya

I doubt you can deal with visa directly anyway, normally you deal with the issuer.

Do you really have a credit card or is it a debitcard (also marked with visa btw.)?

Sent from my GT-I9001 using Thaivisa Connect Thailand mobile app

you definitely can directly deal with visa as well and they clarify all. If you don't like the result (usually while firstly you get a reminder to terms and conditions which you signed beforehand receiving the card). Not happy with their services in case you know that you were screwed one way or another - let them sort this out in your favor or cancel the card. Good customer service or no customers ...

Yesterday I read , Australia for Europeans is still one of the most expensive country to make holiday comparing to other country's!

I read that food price in austrialia go down, very nice but I don't know reason why?

because Spiderman resides there

Thailand make up whatever numbers they feel like saying.. look at the rice pledging scheme.. over 250 billion loss and more this year after the harvest and moody threat to downgrade them its all going pear shaped over here..

yeah possibly but where is the difference to the west and US? The answer is - why not.

not to mention that the wife doesn't even know what a CFD is just as clear as that she actually doesn't want to trade it.

Anyway in case I am only 10% wrong here then CFD should be the last thing you want to touch CMK - for the better.

She knows what a CFD is. Have you ever traded CFDs?

yes more than 10 years ago and only sim. What's a comptroller?

not to mention that the wife doesn't even know what a CFD is just as clear as that she actually doesn't want to trade it.

Anyway in case I am only 10% wrong here then CFD should be the last thing you want to touch CMK - for the better.

One caution - you say, in part that you "can tolerate high risk for better returns." In a previous life I was a financial planner and found that virtually everyone feels the same way in the abstract. The real measurement occurs when that same person goes through a real life, gut wrenching market downturn where they loose a significant portion of their investment.

That is the real test on how one actually feels about risk.

so you failed in your last life, did you get enough punishment in this one?

I can't wait until I become a TV Senior Member and can generate amazingly clever, caustic responses that have absolutely nothing to do with the original question.

hehehe, yeah wait for seniorship.

One caution - you say, in part that you "can tolerate high risk for better returns." In a previous life I was a financial planner and found that virtually everyone feels the same way in the abstract. The real measurement occurs when that same person goes through a real life, gut wrenching market downturn where they loose a significant portion of their investment.

That is the real test on how one actually feels about risk.

so you failed in your last life, did you get enough punishment in this one?

Its things like this that make me think the UK if not other northern nations are going to say enough is enough and tell the EU to butt out permanently :

The European Union is set to take Britain to court over benefits for migrants - setting the Government on course for a battle with Brussels.

The European Commission has accused Britain of discriminating against EU nationals who have been living and working in the UK.

The Commission says tests applied to check if claimants are eligible for benefits are unfair - and has referred Britain to the EU's Court of Justice over the matter.

In a statement on its website today, the EC said: "UK nationals have a 'right to reside' in the UK solely on the basis of their UK citizenship, whereas other EU nationals have to meet additional conditions in order to pass this 'right to reside' test.

"This means that the UK discriminates unfairly against nationals from other member states. This contravenes EU rules on the coordination of social security systems which outlaw direct and indirect discrimination in the field of access to social security benefits."

Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith has vowed to fight the Commission "every step of the way".

He said: "People in this country expect me to protect the benefits system from abuse and protect the money of hardworking taxpayers. So I will not stand by while the European Commission tries to water down the valuable protections we've put in place.

-sky news

You'd this when a major contributing nations about to have a referendum the EU might temper its fiddling but obviously they have no tact or even sense. I think they can not agree to any major changes in relationship and UK will vote to leave. Maybe good for the EU in the long run, they'll have to print more and devalue without those pounds coming in to prop up their mess. Good for UK to be free

I'm am very, very glad that Britain didn't adopt the Euro. Not only aren't they stuck with the Euro, but it makes it a lot easier to manage their own economy and if desired, pull away from the Euro mess.

The only thing I wish Britain would do differently is to stop allowing immigration. But, that's really not any of my business. It's just that I deeply care about Britain, having been probably our best ally over time. I wish Britain didn't have this PC approach to ME immigrants, even after they immigrate. I think it's dangerous and expensive.

But the US has enough problems that it can hardly criticize anyone else. It's just two different cultures.

I will celebrate in the street if Britain tells the Euro countries to kiss its ass.

I agree with your sentiments and basically most of it's content.

But how for example allies UK with the States at cultural principles while one has preserved and maintained it where the other one never had a solid root for it until today.

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Actually, people in the US love the Brits. As I've said before, just watch the US stop in its tracks when Kate and William visit, or when Princess Diana did. Rock stars. The US stopped cold to watch the Royal wedding. It WAS the news.

People in the US are shocked any time they discover the things some Brits can say about them, especially when the US continually shows such loyalty to Britain.

We wish only the best for Britain. We cried for your soldier killed in London. We care when you have problems. We would be there to help if you were in danger. We have plenty of our own problems and nothing to boast about, but we certainly think of Brits as friends.

As I said earlier, It was also Britain who decided to attack Iraq, and provided 1/3 of the troops for the invasion. This was a decision of Tony Blair and the Parliament. We don't understand the angry criticism of the US for doing that when Britain was in lockstep, equally involved. It's always Bush's fault. I didn't vote for him and didn't support his policies, but I don't understand the British hatred when they were up to their eyeballs in it, and at the time I thought they were friends and allies. The British intelligence declared there were WMDs and they decided to go to war.

It is for a fact a little disheartening. But I still love the British people.

oops I think that you just have opened a can of worms so I rather go out for a steak.

Still good mood though hehehe but away from the screen.

Its things like this that make me think the UK if not other northern nations are going to say enough is enough and tell the EU to butt out permanently :

The European Union is set to take Britain to court over benefits for migrants - setting the Government on course for a battle with Brussels.

The European Commission has accused Britain of discriminating against EU nationals who have been living and working in the UK.

The Commission says tests applied to check if claimants are eligible for benefits are unfair - and has referred Britain to the EU's Court of Justice over the matter.

In a statement on its website today, the EC said: "UK nationals have a 'right to reside' in the UK solely on the basis of their UK citizenship, whereas other EU nationals have to meet additional conditions in order to pass this 'right to reside' test.

"This means that the UK discriminates unfairly against nationals from other member states. This contravenes EU rules on the coordination of social security systems which outlaw direct and indirect discrimination in the field of access to social security benefits."

Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith has vowed to fight the Commission "every step of the way".

He said: "People in this country expect me to protect the benefits system from abuse and protect the money of hardworking taxpayers. So I will not stand by while the European Commission tries to water down the valuable protections we've put in place.

-sky news

You'd this when a major contributing nations about to have a referendum the EU might temper its fiddling but obviously they have no tact or even sense. I think they can not agree to any major changes in relationship and UK will vote to leave. Maybe good for the EU in the long run, they'll have to print more and devalue without those pounds coming in to prop up their mess. Good for UK to be free

I'm am very, very glad that Britain didn't adopt the Euro. Not only aren't they stuck with the Euro, but it makes it a lot easier to manage their own economy and if desired, pull away from the Euro mess.

The only thing I wish Britain would do differently is to stop allowing immigration. But, that's really not any of my business. It's just that I deeply care about Britain, having been probably our best ally over time. I wish Britain didn't have this PC approach to ME immigrants, even after they immigrate. I think it's dangerous and expensive.

But the US has enough problems that it can hardly criticize anyone else. It's just two different cultures.

I will celebrate in the street if Britain tells the Euro countries to kiss its ass.

I agree with your sentiments and basically most of it's content.

But how for example allies UK with the States at cultural principles while one has preserved and maintained it where the other one never had a solid root for it until today.

Saturday joke