Disinto

Hi guys,

Experiencing a weird issue here: I keep on receiving calls from unknown people, who claim they called me on another number.

When I call that number, it rings my phone, which means that the owner of the number has activated call forwarding towards my mobile number.

I have no clue why that person would do that, and it really starts getting on my nerves.

I went to TrueMove to ask them to resolve the situation (that guy and I are both on TrueMove) and they said they wouldn't do anything without a police report.

I am understandably quite lazy to go to the police station just for this... Any other workaround to deactivate this call forwarding? I have already activated call filtering on my iPhone but this isn't a long-term solution.

Thanks!

Hi guys, just wanted to drop a line and thank you for the great info I found on this thread. I just got AIS fiber (well, FTTB + VDSL2 to my home) in my condo today, replacing an old TrueMove DOCSIS connection, and didn't realize I'd run into such troubles for port forwarding to access my Synology NAS from outside...  Anyway, long story short: converting my FiberHome ONT into bridge mode + subscribing to the THDDNS service + adapting my port forwarding rules did the trick!

How about allowing expats paying their taxes here to also use the bloody machines? Since there doesn't seem to be any specific technical shortcoming to allow doing so. So sick of being stuck with bunches of Chinese or Russian twice a week. All other Asian countries I've worked in (Singapore, Taiwan) allowed expats to use e-gates. 

Did you succeed? Just received mine too and I don't find any option to activate bridging. I'd hate being stuck with that crap router...

Cannot escape the idea I have seen this before in Asia

Indonesia after the Sukarno period?

Would be interesting if the PTP knew what happened as a result to a certain ethnic group.

The orang cina in Indonesia cannot be compared to the Thai Chinese for various reasons (their relative number vs the general population notably). What are you trying to imply?

Gotta love this never-failing blazing yellow propaganda on this forum. Never fails to amuse me, especially coming from clueless foreigners. Abhisit, Prem and the military brass appreciate your help.

Anti-red or anti-idiot doesn't automatically make one a yellow supporter or clueless. In fact, I would hazard a guess that most foreigners here are more clued in to the real politics that happen here than the majority of the Thai's are.

Besides all that, it makes a nice counterpoint to the blazing red propaganda so many spout out here

Do you have any sort of explanations to backup your claim? I find it disrespectful to 'hazard' such things.

And I don't know where you've been, but what you call red propaganda is quite scarce these days. Or maybe I'm just trying to recognize trolls on TV threads reporting articles of the ersatz of a newspaper that is The Nation

Right. So reverting back to an illegitimate government stemming from a military junta responsible for endless coups is what you call democracy? I now understand your definition of democracy. You're the one being naïve (note how I avoid insulting others, unlike what you've done) if you don't realize the courts' political bias (have you seen the recent ruling of the Constitutional Court regarding article 112? If not here's a link: www.constitutionalcourt.or.th/office/index.php?option=com_docman&task=doc_download&gid=105&Itemid=4〈=th )

@Disinto - have you changed your name again or started a new profile?

My joining date may give you the answer.

As long as they keep the airport link up and running!

And, continue (and accelerate, if possible) the plans to extend it to Don Muang airport.

The Rail Link has been showing signs of strain and poor management. Elevators in several stations, Rhamkhamheng especially have been out of service for months meaning anybody with bags must haul them down more than 120 stairs.

120 stairs? Wow, that IS a lot! Assuming an average of 12 stairs per story, that means 10 stories high.

ARL stations are super tall in general:

The Rail Link has been showing signs of strain and poor management. Elevators in several stations, Rhamkhamheng especially have been out of service for months meaning anybody with bags must haul them down more than 120 stairs.

There are still no signs at Mahkassan directing passengers to the connecting MRT. The MRT also has not made anything but small handmade signs directing passengers to the Rail Link. Probably just inexcusable pettiness on both their parts.

From my experience, the Rail-Link trains are usually quite full, never less than SRO when i get on at Rhamkhamheng, a mid-point station.

Absolutely not true in Makkasan. Get your facts right.

There are multiple signs in the concourse and outside showing the way to the MRT and there's even now a golf cart to bring you next to the nearest MRT entrance.

Not trying to hijack this thread but I have a different view here.

I've been in Thailand for a year and half, which not exactly a very long duration by the standards on this forum, but sufficient to have an early feedback compared to my experience living in other Asian countries (Singapore, Malaysia).

As much as I love Thailand, Bangkok, its food, the people's smile and other perks that make my expat life such a joy, I must admit that there's one fringe of the population I started to dislike: the so-called Thai-Chinese hi-sos. I truly despise their behaviour. They often ignore farangs (and other people?), are so persuaded to rule the city with their money and think farangs are all the same. I mentioned this point to other expats and most noticed that too. So why are they acting like that?

Mind you, I still have excellent contact with most of the Thais and I truly love mingling, chit chatting despite my limited Thai skills, soaking into typical districts with my camera and taking beautiful shots. I also love my Thai colleagues and we have the best laughs ever. My life is much better here compared to Malaysia. There's just this hiatus that prevents me to fully enjoy my situation here. Farangs in Malaysia and Singapore are treated differently. Remnants of the colonization maybe? Note that I don't endorse double standards.

I got to Thailand in 1968. If you were me you would know how silly that sounds. But it would make a good racist party game. Pick out the Thai Chinese. Bet it would sell in Bangkok.

Then I guess I should abide by your absolute superiority - you've been there for SO long.

There's no racism involved. It's a mere observation. I've been quite involved in ethnic and anthropological studies to just be picking out racism. That's ridiculous.

I'll bet you are a big hit in Africa picking out what percent of white Africans have in them. Tell us what anthropological studies identify the percent of Chinese in a Thai person and how you can spot them. The last studies I remember that taught people how to identify people by racial appearance were conducted in Germany in the late 1940's. I assume you are referring to those.

I'll forgive your lack of education on this topic given that you visibly don't know what anthropological studies actually are and that you only see racism. Crawl any serious university library (not in Thailand, mind you) to find interesting literature.

Not trying to hijack this thread but I have a different view here.

I've been in Thailand for a year and half, which not exactly a very long duration by the standards on this forum, but sufficient to have an early feedback compared to my experience living in other Asian countries (Singapore, Malaysia).

As much as I love Thailand, Bangkok, its food, the people's smile and other perks that make my expat life such a joy, I must admit that there's one fringe of the population I started to dislike: the so-called Thai-Chinese hi-sos. I truly despise their behaviour. They often ignore farangs (and other people?), are so persuaded to rule the city with their money and think farangs are all the same. I mentioned this point to other expats and most noticed that too. So why are they acting like that?

Mind you, I still have excellent contact with most of the Thais and I truly love mingling, chit chatting despite my limited Thai skills, soaking into typical districts with my camera and taking beautiful shots. I also love my Thai colleagues and we have the best laughs ever. My life is much better here compared to Malaysia. There's just this hiatus that prevents me to fully enjoy my situation here. Farangs in Malaysia and Singapore are treated differently. Remnants of the colonization maybe? Note that I don't endorse double standards.

I want to make sure I am right in case I ever meet one. How do you tell they are Thai-Chinese? Do you have a trick question or something?

I'll pass on the unwanted sarcasm. There are obvious cues - facial features, skin complexion, hair type, etc. Mostly the same physical criteria used in Malaysia to distinguish Malays from Malaysian Chinese or Malaysian Indians for example.

I got to Thailand in 1968. If you were me you would know how silly that sounds. But it would make a good racist party game. Pick out the Thai Chinese. Bet it would sell in Bangkok.

Then I guess I should abide by your absolute superiority - you've been there for SO long.

There's no racism involved. It's a mere observation. I've been quite involved in ethnic and anthropological studies to just be picking out racism. That's ridiculous.

Not trying to hijack this thread but I have a different view here.

I've been in Thailand for a year and half, which not exactly a very long duration by the standards on this forum, but sufficient to have an early feedback compared to my experience living in other Asian countries (Singapore, Malaysia).

As much as I love Thailand, Bangkok, its food, the people's smile and other perks that make my expat life such a joy, I must admit that there's one fringe of the population I started to dislike: the so-called Thai-Chinese hi-sos. I truly despise their behaviour. They often ignore farangs (and other people?), are so persuaded to rule the city with their money and think farangs are all the same. I mentioned this point to other expats and most noticed that too. So why are they acting like that?

Mind you, I still have excellent contact with most of the Thais and I truly love mingling, chit chatting despite my limited Thai skills, soaking into typical districts with my camera and taking beautiful shots. I also love my Thai colleagues and we have the best laughs ever. My life is much better here compared to Malaysia. There's just this hiatus that prevents me to fully enjoy my situation here. Farangs in Malaysia and Singapore are treated differently. Remnants of the colonization maybe? Note that I don't endorse double standards.

I want to make sure I am right in case I ever meet one. How do you tell they are Thai-Chinese? Do you have a trick question or something?

I'll pass on the unwanted sarcasm. There are obvious cues - facial features, skin complexion, hair type, etc. Mostly the same physical criteria used in Malaysia to distinguish Malays from Malaysian Chinese or Malaysian Indians for example.

Not trying to hijack this thread but I have a different view here.

I've been in Thailand for a year and half, which not exactly a very long duration by the standards on this forum, but sufficient to have an early feedback compared to my experience living in other Asian countries (Singapore, Malaysia).

As much as I love Thailand, Bangkok, its food, the people's smile and other perks that make my expat life such a joy, I must admit that there's one fringe of the population I started to dislike: the so-called Thai-Chinese hi-sos. I truly despise their behaviour. They often ignore farangs (and other people?), are so persuaded to rule the city with their money and think farangs are all the same. I mentioned this point to other expats and most noticed that too. So why are they acting like that?

Mind you, I still have excellent contact with most of the Thais and I truly love mingling, chit chatting despite my limited Thai skills, soaking into typical districts with my camera and taking beautiful shots. I also love my Thai colleagues and we have the best laughs ever. My life is much better here compared to Malaysia. There's just this hiatus that prevents me to fully enjoy my situation here. Farangs in Malaysia and Singapore are treated differently. Remnants of the colonization maybe? Note that I don't endorse double standards.

Deal with sex tourists? There are an estimated 2 millions prostitutes in Thailand, 95 percent of them catering to thai people.So sextourism is not an issue, statistically.It's like saying eradicate eating spaghetti among tourists visiting Italy!!!!...Furthermore what's wrong with sex tourism?Without it tourism arrival would plunge - I estimate- around 80 percent.

why dont they just make gambling legal? Like any normal country?

They should first deal with the sex tourists. That's insane

I fully agree that prostitutes cater for the local market first. But you can't deny the prevalence of sex venues for farangs in Bangkok.

And by the way, if you say that 5% of the prostitutes cater for farang (i.e. 100,000 prostitutes based on your calculation), I hardly see how it can concern 80% of the tourists coming to Thailand.

why dont they just make gambling legal? Like any normal country?

Seriously? Where are we living here?!? It sounds exactly the same than saying "US vows to cut its obese population by 25%". Wishful thinking yet completely unrealistic.

Being a retired airline professional with 32 years in the industry,it is hilarious to read some of the comments here.

It's like being back at work at the airport and listening to the moronic comments of passengers again.Morons.

Agreed. It's usually priceless

Please, no farang comments about "suicide" or other cr*p

Why bothering about booze when water is still a scarce supply?

I'd like to say "thanks Captain Obvious" to the director...

The most useful move that the education system could make would be to Romanise the Thai alphabet, this is the biggest obstacle to learning English, and conversely for foreigners learning Thai. Just look at how Turkey emerged from the Middle Ages when it converted from Arabic to Roman.

As to unqualified but native speakers, these can do an adequate job if the department also contains enough qualified and experienced teachers to provide guidance. At the moment it is often the one eyed leading the blind.

I'm not a fan of the romanization at all. Even though it occurred for several south-east asian languages (Vietnamese and Malay come to mind), I believe it permanently alters and distort the language. It also smells vaguely colonial...

At least, Thais are fortunate enough to have an alphabet, unlike Chinese.

Great, we'll therefore see yet another bunch of cheap "English teachers" with no real teaching accreditation and who will not care about teaching properly (just have fun, fun, fun). Yeay.

Sorry but i do not agree that all non qualified teachers do not care, i am not qualified and would love to teach english to primary school kids, but how do i apply if i do not have formal qualifications?

Then you can't teach. Why the average English-speaking Joe, despite his best will, would be allowed to teach English without a certification? Teaching is no small feat and is a job like any other.

Why does it take a company over a month to sort out distribution problems?

The 4 supermarkets near me are not flooded. Why don't they have water?

Let me guess.. roads are impassable. (roads between your store and where water is stored or made).

Oh. OK. I didn't realise that Singha's distribution facilities were completely surrounded by flood waters, because the stores in my area have got no access problems.

Oh right. So there's a magical road between Singha's factory and your unflooded favorite supermarket?