dddave

20 years using Thai Post, never a missing item, ever.

Oh no!! The headline explicitly says it's the highway's fault and he is just another poor foreigner victim. It's only when the driver is Thai that drivers recklessness is at fault. Sometimes the farang press is more biased then even the worst of the thai rags.

I was getting un-ordered CODs for a while. The first one was for small change so I paid it out of curiosity. That was a mistake as it was exactly what the shippers wanted. I was soon receiving packages of ever increasing value. These I refused and eventually they stopped.

Several years ago, a friend set himself up to make high quality courier bags. He gave it a go but getting exactly the same quality materials you seek daunted him. From time to time he'd find small amounts scouring Facebook but could never get consistent suppliers of specific materials or colors, genuine Codura especially. He finally gave it up.

One way would create it's own mess, overloading Pratumnak 5 intersection with Pratumnak Rd which is bad enough already. Cars would have no other way to get back no matter which direction the "One-Way" ran. The only good solution would be strict no parking enforcement along the non-beach side of Dongtan Beach Rd. but that will never happen.

Just don't buy the Phillips combo unit. Terrible design. The small cup turns to open in the same direction one has to turn it to remove it from the blender. The blender collar is so high, one can not grab the base, one has to twist the cup instead and if you are not super careful, it can open and spill it's contents into the blender base...which for some inexplicable reason has an opening that allows anything spilled to go right into the motor compartment...duh.

I hope this is allowed but I can understand if news of another forum is forbidden. Old timers who were on the old "NanaPlaza.com" forum which then became Thai360 may have noticed Thai360 has been offline the past two weeks. Marcel (Khun Sanuk) who has been the administrator of both those forums has had a sudden and severe medical episode and is currently hospitalized. His condition has stabilized and he is off the critical list. I'm not at liberty to make any other information public at this time. Those who know Marcel know him to be a really good person who has raised his family here in Thailand. I know he will appreciate your thoughts and good wishes.

Ohh, and you think Western Hospitals are perfect and don't make similar errors? What a joke.

My US GF of 20 years was increasingly bipolar, slipping into alcoholism and refusing to get any treatment. She herself was a licensed therapist. As far as she was concerned, I was at the root of all her problems. She gave me an ultimatum: I make changes or else. She was on a downhill slide and I didn't want to go along for the ride. At the same time, I received from a competitor an unexpected and generous offer for my business. For many years I had been eyeballing a small ad it the newspaper travel section: "Around the World: $999" I gave them a call. Two months later, I had taken my competitors offer and was sitting in a 747, on take-off roll from JFK, bound for Taiwan, Hong Kong, Bangkok, Mumbai/Dehli, Athens, Paris/London. I had up to a year to complete the journey, as long as I didn't backtrack and I could change scheduled legs at no charge. (The good old days of air travel) Three weeks in Thailand really opened my eyes to what I had been missing the previous 58 years. I hated India, turned around at my own expense and spent another 2 weeks in Thailand. At journeys end, the GF asked if I'd decided to make the changes she demanded. I said "Nope" and spent a very uncomfortable month co-existing, listening to "How could you??" as I packed up my life. Two months later, I was settling in Thailand. It wasn't mistake free, built a house for the first girl I met, tried life in Isarn, just escaped being murdered by what turned out to be her EX, had another GF, realized I was far happier on my own and now sit, 22 years later, 200 meters from Jomtien Beach, unencumbered by a "partner" and totally content.

My family had a cabin in the woods of Maine when I was growing up. Access was by a 1/4 mile dirt path like yours. Spring thaw always made it a nearly impassable mud hole. My dad and granddad dumped countless loads of crushed shells, gravel, planks, everything they could think of but all eventually got swallowed by the mud. He finally found a fellow with a proper grader and access to sand and gravel. The man dug a roadbed almost 2' deep, installed drainage pipe, then laid a base of rock, then gravel and sand on top, all properly graded We finally had useable access but I remember it cost a bundle, even using a local guy who dug his own material. Mud swallows everything. Unless OP can afford to construct a well drained roadbed, the mud will eventually win.

Yes. Maybe 3 years ago. Another dismemberment as well. Stuffed the victim into a freezer.

Not to be pedantic but a "serial killer" is a person who kills multiple victims, usually three or more. This dude appears to have a way to go to reach that status.

Late last year, when tourists started returning to Jomtien, especially weekends, so many vendors crowded into the southern end of Jomtien beach Road that it became nearly impassable. City officials finally cracked down and restricted vendors tying up public parking spaces and instead, facilitated development of a large new night market near Soi 16 where the vendors could set-up. It worked for a while and the traffic congestion eased but the vendor carts started creeping back in and cops had other things to do. Now they are back to the same level as last year and again, on weekends that end of Jomtien beach Road is a nightmare, especially the section from Soi 18 on south that narrows down. Thais like to party on the new enlarged beach in that area and the carts provide the cheap food they want.

"I wonder who owns Nirun some Chinese company or Thai?" Huge Thai company, Several similar but larger Nirun developments around. A Thai friend lives in one in Prawat, near Mega BangNa outside of Bangkok. In this case, 10 buildings with units that are exactly the same as the Pattaya location. She pays B2200/Mo. for rent. Definetly working class. Dingy, poorly lit hallways, a lot of vacant units. Some 29 sm units for sale for less than B250,000.

A friend recently tried to sell his 2017 Honda Click 125 with less than 8000 km a few months ago for 32,000 and didn't get many responses on Marketplace. He later decided to keep it. People are suspicious of very low mileage because many here disconnect the speedometer. Having Yamaha documentation will help. Between 25 & 30,000. Where is the bike located?

Exactly; going on for many years. These Kuwaiti youth gangs seem pretty entrenched to be the kids of tourists. Is there a large Kuwaiti expat community in Pattaya? Perhaps traders who ship Thai goods to Kuwait? There seem to be a lot of them and they seem to be well "protected" as the kids have been getting away with this for a long time.

Had it happen to me in my Bangkok apartment building. My then GF unwittingly gave our wifi password to a woman who we did not know well who lived down the hallway from us. There is an unused lobby in front of my entryway and I began to notice her and her friends always hanging there, engaged in long phone calls. One day they were there when I arrived home so as soon as I got inside, I powered-down the router. "Hello? Hello? Hello-hello"...immediately clear they had lost their connections. I changed the PW to a much more complex one and admonished my GF to never give it out. Later the woman showed up at the door asking for the new PW...got to hand it to her for outright chutzpah. She got really angry when we refused to give it to her..."You're rich man and we are poor..blah-blah" She made a big mistake when she threatened my GF. She had a lot of friends including the building manager and within a month, the lady was gone.

I've noticed Lazada seems to have upped it's security policies in the last few months. I get far more requests for two-step verification these days than I used to, especially when shipping to a 3rd party address.

I had a friend who lived there for 3 or four years, probably around 10 years ago and he liked it. I visited often and there was never a problem. It was often noisy but he never had any negative issues with other residents, Thai or otherwise. The condo's are very small, 29 s/m IIRC. The hallways are dark and dingy, cleaned maybe twice a month. The pool was useable at that time. He usually had it to himself on weekdays, weekends there would sometimes be kids playing in it. It was a bit of a hike to get to the baht bus on Pattaya Klang but he had a motorbike so not an issue for him. His motorbike was never messed with but a few others were stolen from there from time to time. Somebody who had bought and renovated one of the condo units at Narin posted on this forum last year. He had tried to make it look like a luxury unit and was expecting to get silly money for it, like B700K. I never saw a follow-up.

That must be a big problem as more "National Carriers" go belly-up. I have no idea how they decide which to use as an alternate. As far as I know, United was the last US carrier to have regular flights to Thailand and that ended about 8 years ago.

When I lived in Bangkok, the Big-C on Rama-4 had an Australian running the meat department and his advice on steaks was always spot on. My price range was not over B1500kg but he'd always point me to the best within that range. I'd get 3 or 4 250-300g steaks and they'd always be tender and tasty. One day I went in and he was gone and the whole department was turned around. That was the end of it. Now I get most of my steaks from online sellers, nice cuts, reasonable prices.

After the collapse of the Soviet Union and the ensuing ten years of economic turmoil, the US was flooded with Russian "Dot.com brides" The internet was full of websites advertising young women eager to get out of Russia any way they could and a lot of guys bought brides "off the rack". Unsurprisingly, most of the marriages were short lived. Some went back to Russia, most found other "sponsors".

Perhaps someone skilled at searching old ThaiVisa archives can find an approximately 10 year old topic wherein a young man was tossed into IDC-Bangkok for some strange reason. He was able to retain his phone and was posting on TV looking for advice and help. It went on for quite a few days and he described the conditions at IDC clearly.

Depending on the charges, flights home for deportees are supposed to be only on the deportee's home country national carrier.

Some exit the bus at the Sukhumvit stop, just before the bus station and take a baht bus or motorbike from there. Less waiting and more realistic fares. There is also a bus that runs from Suvarnabhumi airport to Jomtien Bus Station at the Foodmart supermarket. Baht bus from there is B10 in either direction.