Bkk_Bound

It sound more like a business transaction than a marriage, do neither of you have any concept of "our money" or "working together" its sounds very like you and them.  Mabye I'm naive but  for me a marriage is about sharing and working together and not about one party taking advantage of the other.

Cheers RC

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Not sure how many times you are married RC, but after my first three, on a 'our money' 50/50 basis, with me being the main or only breadwinner... it cost me three houses in the UK. Now worth about 500,000 Quid. So I made sure the 4th one was HIS and HER money and lost nothing other than the usual heartache. My 5th is also His and Her money.

Unfortunately the male is almost always the higher earner... or only earner. Nice for the lady and nice for the man (if all goes well) but when it goes tits-up... the man gets burried and the lady laughs all the way to the Bank.

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Ravisher reminds me of Ever So Clever Trevor.When will e ever learn?

After all this time I still don't know what to do about my girl.

I will go out tonight and get absolutely bladdered... there's my answer.

I think I've gone quite insane... wibble... wibble... someone help me.

Is all this mental self torture worth it? I don't think so.

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She is a bar girl manager and cashier of the bar i know she sees customers when im in England i do not sponsor her if every think worksout in april we will move into our new home start a business and she will not have to work job in bar no more if it goe's wrong you lose your money.All relationships are a gamble i hope mine works out to many people seem to think all Thai girls just want to rip you off that could be said for women all over the world just maybe this one is telling the truth i trust my girlfriend if she rips me off you can all have a good laugh and say i told you so.if it works out i will have a happy life in Thailand and it wiil have cost 600000 baht about £8000 a risk i am happy to take.

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Put the 8 grand on a horse called 'Som nam na' in the 2:30 at newmarket... a safer bet by far buddy.

The fact that your happy for your girl to see customers in your absence repulses me.

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my burget is less  than 1500baht for 14 inch

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http://www2.thaisecondhand.com/world2/boar...Name=Electronic

Time to go home then.

Still Current at: 31 December 2004

Updated: 30 December 2004

Thailand

This advice has been reviewed and reissued with an amendment to the Summary, Crime and Natural Disasters sections. We are now advising against all but essential travel to resorts and towns along Thailand’s west coast, in particular Phuket, Krabi and Khao Lak, affected by the tsunami on 26 December.

SUMMARY

We recommend against all but essential travel to the far southern provinces of Pattani, Yala, Narathiwat and Songkhla. On 25 October 2004, in Tak Bai, Narathiwat Province, over 80 people are reported to have died following clashes between protestors and members of the Thai security forces. There have also been a number of explosions in both Narathiwat and Yala, in the latest incident on 9 December 2004, a series of three explosions occurred on rail tracks, no injuries were reported.

There is a high threat from terrorism in Thailand, particularly in the far southern provinces of Pattani, Yala, Narathiwat and Songkhla. Attacks could be indiscriminate and against civilian targets, including places frequented by foreigners. Following the increased violence in the far south, the Thai authorities have taken additional security measures in other parts of the country, including tourist centres and Bangkok.

Following the recent tsunami, until local conditions improve we recommend against all but essential travel to affected resorts and towns along Thailand’s west coast, in particular Phuket, Krabi and Khao Lak. Some coastal areas of Thailand were hit by a large tsunami on 26 December, resulting in widespread flooding and damage. Large numbers of casualties have been reported. The infrastructure and public services are severely disrupted. For the latest information please refer to the Natural Disasters section of this Travel Advice.

http://www.britishembassy.gov.uk/servlet/F...d=1013618386505

OK, I know this is deja vu all over again to many members of this forum, but I have to ask. I am a "participant" in a Thai traditional marriage since September of 2004. The subject of money and how much keeps raising its ugly head every month or feew weeks. I currently give "Mama" 7000 bht for "room and board", since my lovely and I stay in the a residance where she (Mama) is located. My "lovely" started out with 4000 bht as OK, then raised it to 5000, then to 7000, where I drew the line. That is roughly 25% of my monthly income ($500 US). The lovely says she makes 9500 bht as a dept store employee (working 10-12 hr days). She says she has no option (ability) to cut back her hours. Lovely and I had a money talk recently and she got quite irate that I was not willing to turn over more, like maybe 50%, and very disappointed that my total income was not higher. My comment was that she maybe needs to find a man who has more money. We are living in NE Thailand, in case anyone is wondering, and it is not expensive to live here. Sounds like she would not quit the job without guarentees of 17,000, which would equal her salary loss + my "contributions". She is not bar girl. Any comments??

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Get rid of her.

Tsunami toll soars at Thailand's Khao Lak beach

By Darren Schuettler

KHAO LAK, Thailand, Dec 29 (Reuters) - The tsunami which ripped apart tourist-packed Khao Lak beach in southern Thailand may have killed 3,000 people there, district police chief Col Aroon Klaewvatee said on Wednesday.

Aroon told Reuters 1,200 bodies had already been recovered from the beach and its luxury hotels popular with western and Asian tourists, especially Scandinavians and Germans escaping the long, dark winter back home.

"The final death toll may rise to 2,500 or 3,000," he said of Khao Lak, by far the worst-hit beach in Thailand's Andaman Sea playground where tourists dive and snorkel among coral reefs.

That matched estimates by local hotel owners, who said most of the 5,000 rooms on the 10-km (six-mile) strip -- where a luxury room could cost $200 a night -- were full when the monster wave crashed ashore on Sunday.

Counting Thais working in the tourist industry, there could have been as many as 10,000 people at Khao Lak, they said.

Sweden said around 1,500 of its citizens were still missing after the tsunami carried death and destruction around the Indian Ocean, and hundreds of them may have died.

At least 54 Swedes were known to be dead, according to a Thai government list which said at least 473 foreigners were killed.

Norway said it was missing 800 people. Eighteen Norwegians were on the list.

Chantima Saengli, owner of the Blue Village Pagarang hotel, told a Bangkok radio station she knew about 60 of her Scandinavian guests were safe.

She feared the other 340 were dead, their bodies swept into the lush rain forest covering the hills behind the beach.

IDENTIFICATION PROBLEMS

For search and rescue teams in Khao Lak -- where a two-year-old fisherman's son survived for more than two days after being swept into a tree top -- the problem is not finding bodies. The smell of rotting corpses is too strong to miss.

But identifying them may take a long time and one top government forensic scientist said some of them may never be.

Pornthip Rojanasunant told Reuters at a Khao Lak Buddhist temple acting as a temporary morgue for 300 bodies -- about 20 percent of them foreigners -- she was collecting DNA samples of all the corpses by swabbing mouths or taking hair.

The samples could be matched to relatives later, she said.

But Pornthip said she suspected such meticulous procedures were not being followed at three other temples in the area, each housing 100-200 bodies.

"I don't think they understand the forensic way of managing these cases, how to deal with the dead" and the government was not helping much, she said.

There was no coordination between the four Khao Lak temples, the only equipment available was what she had borrowed and what little the government was supplying was the wrong stuff.

"The government has sent us cloth bags instead of plastic bags" for wrapping the bodies in, she said. "Cloth is useless in preventing disease.

"I would like to tell the Prime Minister we have to set up a coordination centre here, not in Phuket," the island just to the south which is one of Asia's premier resorts and where 230 people are known to have been killed.

"This is where most of the people are coming from."

EQUIPMENT PROBLEMS

Another problem is getting the mechanical equipment to replace the spades, hoes and saws rescue workers have been using to uncover bodies, then get it to the right place.

"We need more machines, excavators, tools," said local official Surasit Khantipantakul. "We need boats to pick up bodies floating around the beach."

"The problem is the structures are not stable and we need to get backhoes in there, but it is very difficult," said volunteer Chumpon Bunpakdee. "We have to carry the bodies out by hand. There are many people trapped inside."

Koh Phi Phi, the island southeast of Phuket made famous by "The Beach" movie with Leonardo DiCaprio, was also devastated.

By the end of Tuesday's search, more than 300 bodies had been recovered from Phi Phi, where most buildings were flattened by the wall of water generated by the 9.0-magnitude quake, the world's biggest in 40 years.

Bloated and decaying bodies continued to wash ashore on the island as hopes of finding survivors amid the rubble of hotels and shops faded slowly.

"It's hard to tell which bodies are foreign because they are just unrecognisable," said 43-year-old French rescue volunteer, Serge Barros. (Additional reporting by Vithoon Amorn and Karishma Vyas)

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