MisterTee

Some good news for a change.

Fly.

Beg, borrow, or steal to get the money, but don't go by bus or van. It's a long circuitious route, nice if you drive yourself and want to see the countryside, but slow and possibly dangerous by public transportation.

Arjan kob, you go there any time from 10am to 6pm, you will find some catalogs with his FARANG PRICE

you choose and he do or he said you coming tomorow

You have to come with flowers with 3 incense stick, and a yellow candel, and a white envelop with your "donation" inside

If arjan Kob is too busy you can choose his son, name is arjan Oh

same quality !!! they work together!

The best is to come with translator people for your personal request yhey dont speak english

I have allready 8 sak yant tattoos

1 in tattoo shop

3 by monks

4 by sak-yants

the best is arjan KOB in ayutthaya near the old floating market

And dont go to wat bang phra, the monks are tired to see farangs!!!

feel free to contact me by PM

Hi!

Can you tell me more about Arjan Kob. I would like to go to him for a sak yant tattoo.

Is he choosing the tattoo and how can i pay him respect? What is the best way to contact

him.

thank you

This doesn't sound like a mystical experience of numinous beauty - it sounds like a typical rip-off by mercenary Thais making fools out of gullible farangs.

Complete with "FARANG PRICE"

The whole thing is a farce.

I was not actually "at" Woodstock, but lived within 100 miles of it and several friends went. It rained most of the time and the spectators were ankle-deep in mud and there was a lot of Mexican weed around to make things seem better. So they told me. The mythmaking began almost immediately.

I dodged the draft with a sham medical condition to get a 1-Y deferment and I've always been proud that I did it. The Vietnam War was a disaster and a disgrace and I was nimble enough to avoid participating.

Do I qualify?

Are you a barefoot runner, Olympic diving prospect, a pilot, a welder........you get the picture. Can you compete??

No, I can't.

I was not actually "at" Woodstock, but lived within 100 miles of it and several friends went. It rained most of the time and the spectators were ankle-deep in mud and there was a lot of Mexican weed around to make things seem better. So they told me. The mythmaking began almost immediately.

I dodged the draft with a sham medical condition to get a 1-Y deferment and I've always been proud that I did it. The Vietnam War was a disaster and a disgrace and I was nimble enough to avoid participating.

Do I qualify?

Yes, it was in the Thai newspapers yesterday.The American is a property developer from San Francisco. They have known each other for 10 years, so it does seem like it is true love

Now we know... what a relief.

Thats strange, thai jails are full of drugs dealing Nigerians...

Nigerians make up the largest non Asian population in Thailand's prison system.

The goals are not full of Nigerians. There are prisoners but to say full is nonsense.

Oh ok, you don't understand what intelligent people mean by a figure of speech. Well, it's been explained elsewhere that Nigerians and other Africans are disproportionately represented in thai jails compared to other nationalities that visit Thailand. And if you don't believe that then visit some thai jails. Now, granted, thai jails aren't exactly full of Nigerians, that true, because to be full would mean they'd have to be packed in like sardines, with no space left to walk or for the guards to enter, packed as they would be from floor to ceiling and wall to wall. Yes, not that many, well done for picking up on that, a very clever little man you must be. But disproportionately represented all the same, meaning a higher propensity to commit criminal offenses compared to other nationalities. Make sense?

Yes, it makes perfect sense and it should silence Bluespunk, but I doubt if it will.

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Sick puppy if you like a police state...different tune with arms turned your direction, wouldn't it be? Surely this was overly dramatic given a noise complaint.

If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.

Good riddance to those flouting Thai law.

Well then would it also be good riddance to the military for abolishing the law?

If the news of the past few days is anything to go by, it seems that the military and the police are enforcing the laws with alacrity.

Just you I'm thinking.

He posted this in the wrong forum.

No, it's not just you.

A lot more of them are coming and conditions in their home countries aren't getting any better.

Look at the increase in Thai-bashers on this forum in the past few years.

Something similar happened to me recently, when I said I met a very well educated Phillipino guy, the person I was talking to said "but they don't have culture like us, for example they don't have Shakespeare...!"

I pointed out that actually EVERY country has its own culture, and their own revered writers.

The concept was lost on him.......

It could be a non-literary culture with aspects that might be worthwhile for us to learn.

You're a farang, aren't you crickets?

If so, just carry on acting that way.

You won't disabuse Thais of their ingrained notions and stereotypes.

Gotta love a load of expats complaining their country is full of foreigners.

Comedy gold.

At least the foreigners in Thailand are contributing to the economy, a large percentage of foreigners living in Britain are doing so on benefits at the taxpayers expense. I'm sure us Brits don't mind the foreigners who do work and contribute to the economy living in Britain.

Migrants from the EU have made a net contribution of 20 billion pounds to the UK economy since 2000, apparently.

I wonder what the equivalent figure is for farangs here?

Quite possibly a lot more than that.

Many of the poor lambs lose the whole nut within a few years of arriving here.

No, it's not just you.

A lot more of them are coming and conditions in their home countries aren't getting any better.

Look at the increase in Thai-bashers on this forum in the past few years.

Thai wives: 0

Non-Thai wives prior: 0

... although marriage is very popular in my family. Each of my siblings have done it at least twice.

I hear you. My siblings married at least twice, as did my parents, step-parents, grand-parents.

Strangely, I married once...

Don't give up! Get yourself a good Thai lady.

Good advice sipi... it's the only thing that makes sense here.

After you've had your fling, that is.

Mister tee.

If you develop your meditation practice you may eventually see and feel the energies at work in and flowing through existence.

Awareness of Energy is detailed as one of the conditions of enlightenment.

Ofcourse the words of others can not make you believe or open your awareness; so I suggest you endeavour with your practice until you know for yourself the facts rather than close your mind to such things when no experience. Calling out derogatory names and disrespect does one no favours either. It's a kin to disrespecting the heavens. The existence of such things you can know for yourself as reality; not just philosophise, intellectualise nor requiring "faith".

The difference between "real deal" Sak Yant as opposite to a normal tattoo shop is then that the energies are infused to the disciple through the tattoo, prayers and ceremony that make up the Sak Yant.

Not even every claimed master will really have a power to do it. But some do.

Calling a spade a spade and a charlatan a charlatan is not "...disrespecting the heavens."

I'm willing to listen to a reasoned argument if you would be so good as to put it forward.

Important to training your mind with meditation too. Keep the 5 sin.

You Must be control the power and not let it control you. Many people turn in to rowdy drunks because they can't handle it.

This is if you get the real deal Sak Yant.

Train to catch and observe all emotions , feelings, sensations and not be slave to them.

Focus your awareness through the breath cycle.

Chock dee

Meditation techniques to quiet our inner primate and try to find some point of contact with what may exist beyond our ken are certainly worth pursuing.

Letting some charlatan tattoo your body with meaningless graffiti is a textbook example of reversion to a state of savagery or idiocy.

If you sincerely believe in the efficacy of sak yant or ritual tattooing in general, I would ask you, with due respect, to explain the difference between a "...real deal Sak Yant" and a bogus one.

Getting married is for suckers.

It may seem so when you are younger, but when you start to get older having a good Thai wife, daughters, and extended family to take care of you is better than any of the fun you had in earlier days in Thailand.

Well well well - i guess most of us was wrong, looks like there are going to be some cleanup after all, good!

It will set a good example down the ranks. About time some of the big boys got named....

Let's hope the boys in green have the courage to clean up a bit in their own camp, as well

The jig is up for this greedy slime-bag... let's hope the new government will catch others, and that their reach will extend beyond Bangkok... perhaps even to Dubai.

The time scale before we are likely to see any positive or negative results will be a minimum of a year. Internally matters are pretty calm with a small number of anti government groups as was and is to be expected.

How this situation is handled will shape the future for all concerned i.e. the people of Thailand not just the current administration.

Current world economic situation plus the advent of ASEAN is going to be a catalyst regarding the future here as well as other countries in the region.

Time is needed to let matters develop, in my view the priorities should be getting Thailand back and up and running business wise and in a politically sound manner.

Then go after all of those irrespective of political hue or family connections etc who have conspired to steal as much as they could from Thailand and its peoples.

Change is always a difficult process loved and accepted by some, abhorred and unacceptable to others.

Insightful post.

Laissez faire is the key word... for the present at least.

I have allready 8 sak yant tattoos

1 in tattoo shop

3 by monks

4 by sak-yants

the best is arjan KOB in ayutthaya near the old floating market

And dont go to wat bang phra, the monks are tired to see farangs!!!

feel free to contact me by PM

Hi!

Can you tell me more about Arjan Kob. I would like to go to him for a sak yant tattoo.

Is he choosing the tattoo and how can i pay him respect? What is the best way to contact

him.

thank you

Follow DaddyWarbucks' advice and get a check-up from the neck up before getting any kind of a tattoo.

That is especially relevant before allowing yourself to be tattooed by some primitive practitioner whose standards of hygiene are as low as his grasp of what superstition means and what ridiculous follies it can lead people into.

Thai bashers? really? or just reality checks?

Everywhere in the world has its plus's and minus's ....Some more plus's than minus's for some! I, for one, think Thailand is great even given all its minus's.

as I have made a fantastic live with my family.

Isn't that what life is about? family?

Some couldn't make a go of it and now in their bitterness can only speak of the negative....hey that's life....positive people and negative people and those of us who can deal with negatives and make positives out of them...

Oh well....just saying

Family means everything here. Your position in the family defines who you are.

Without one you are nobody... farang tao-nahn eng.

That's the place. Thought it was an annual fair.

What's coming up is the Gift Fair and it is annual.

There are several others throughout the the year that specialize in food, clothing, industrial machinery, etc., but the Gift Fair is is the best for arts and crafts and it has a lot of clothing as well.

Definitely worth going.

You better be prepared to declare war on all of South East Asia as all the surrounding countries are the real culprits.

That's true, obviously.

Seasonal burning is part of the agricultural cycle in organic farming, and it has been going on since prehistoric times.

The only solution is to let agro-business destroy family farming and impose their chemical intensive methods.

Smoke haze is a regional problem, not just local. In places like Sumatra and Borneo it is also related to land clearing for plantations, but here in Northern Thailand it is mostly done by farmers working small plots of land.

The submarine procurement is going to happen. This is a military government and the only thing that is guaranteed is that the military is going to take care of itself and to be perfectly honest who is going to stop them ?

Everyone from the top on down has said that this project is irrational, even he who cannot be named, has stated that it is a folly. When they allowed them to fund and open a training "simulator" it was pretty obvious that they were eventually going to get what they wanted, the public be damned

What you say about the military is generally true, but this isn't a done deal... not yet.

Time will tell. Wait and see..

Good decision to put the project on hold.

It should be scrapped entirely as totally unnecessary.