Diggerbasher

The last time a did a visa extention they wanted copies of all the previous stamps in the passport,including old ones from previous years.

With all this talk on bird watching, I am surprised that so far, nobody has mentioned the most famous bird watching point in Thailand. This small strip of land with several watering holes, is the year round home to one of Thailand most beautiful birds. Every year, thousands of bird watchers visit Thailand and stake out this veritable plethora of native bird display. Situated in the province of Chonburi, this wild life sanctuary is home to one of the most beautiful birds in South East Asia – the Siam Brown Tit.

On every forum there is always someone who loves to come along and hammer the average IQ of contributors to a thread,coming as they do at the bottom end of the IQ continuum,way,way from the peak of the Bell curve. Most people cluster around the average (IQ 100) but some like to inhabit the lower quartile,often it seems living in a place such as Pattaya.

Is there a bird that makes a sound like a howler monkey as something in the local brush makes a right racket.

Certainly looks a better bet to go nearer to Nong Khai town in an area where a farang has not rodgered the market.I will certainly have patience and not chase a plot.

I hear Chok Chai gets a shed load of visitors.Is that because of the size of the place?

A guesthouse in Isaan would have to be near a transit point like Nong Khai town to get the flow of farang.Otherwise farang stay with the in laws for a few days or more.Out in the wilds you have no chance of making money,who is going to stay and why would they travel to your area unless it has a big cultural attraction.

There's a New Zealand guy in Nong Khai who has decided to give up and his Bigsnake guesthouse in the middle of nowhere is up for sale.Just never got any visitors except for two days of the year.

A friend just bought 6 Ria at 125 K

Is that 125000 per rai or for the whole plot?

The reason i ask is because the market seems to have been really *ucked up by a farang who came up from Pattaya and paid five times the going rate.Cannot believe he did not check the market first.The fact that he stuck a huge model of a chicken on his gate post speaks volumes.Now every Tom,Dick and Harry wants a MILLION Baht a rai when previously lots of land traded hands at 200,000 per rai.(near Bundidnoi school).The price for the 10 rai that is filled and has a house on it went up form 2 to 10 million overnight.

I'm now talking about a little further out.

Think we're talking multiple identities.

How much are we talking for a plot of land,on the river side of the road,fairly close to Phon Phisai?

They will probably put the scaring job out for a multi billion baht tender.

O good,maybe we can get some nice free landfill.

Short tails and a large crescent like wing.Must be swifts.

Have you thought about putting your money in Thai government bonds?

I certainly would not touch any of the corporate paper.

I think i may have swallows nesting in the sugar palms in my garden.

It depends on whether you have joined the approved group of investors.The legislation came in in 2003 to counter money laundering under false identities.It's a real pain,certified copies of passport etc.

What part of the yield curve are you looking to reinvest into and what are your views on the future curve gradient?Rates topping out or more to go?

I do not think you will get good interest at any Thai bank,unless they set up the account with you marked as a resident.

Saw what must have been a father and son walking down the road today,the father carrying a small bird in a cage and the son long bamboo poles and black netting.Set the gear up in a small copyse,i guess to catch song birds.

Plenty of storks around Bangkok over Songkran.

Got to feel sorry for bulldogs in this weather.

Guy down the road keeps his Shih Zhu in an air conditioned room.

You can small plots in Sisaket right out in the wilds for 5000 baht a rai.

Anyone know what the weather is Nong Khai is like.

I know it's hot but are there breezes off the river?

Compared to my times in India,Thai men are very well groomed.

No parties when my children were born,just stuck some cash in an account.

Living in the moment is a core of buddhism so Thais tend not to worry about the future and rack up the biggest dept possible through spending all they have.Thats why they have so little and all the Chinese and Vietnamese own all the businesses.

Big fan of Isaan girls.