mafaso

just my opinion as you are aware to many people want to dive in and critasise posts. alot of new shoppping places like Home Pro Lotus Makro etc here now where they require high level of education for many of the positions. best way if you see a girl you like and get the right eye contact just go and talk. alot of the girls in night clubs etc have day jobs but freelance in night clubs at night, so really same as bar girls even though they work in shops etc. i would guess the only way to meet a well educated non bar girl is through working with them. Alot of high class Thai girls would not consider a reationship with us farangs. quite a few of the bar girls have a ood education but got through university or part through got pregnant then got dumped so ended up in bar. more educated ones tend to get long time farang boyfriends prity quick. what your looking for is not easy to find but like you there is no way i could live with a partner who was not educated to a reasonable level. been with my missus 6 years she could read write and speak english when i met her, she had private education through to high school..............but i met her in bar in bkk.

either way you can have some fun looking for what you want

I bet your "missus" speaks and writes better english than you? Geeezzz....

I just started dating a university graduated, beautiful, tall, long legged, firecracker of a woman. We worked together at first and I would not date someone I worked with but the day she quit was the day I asked her out. There are plenty of girls of all types on this island. It is the same anywhere, you have to make the effort and do not be too shy about speaking with them. It is a natural thing, if they are attracted to you then you will know it and go from there. That is the whole point of dating, to see if you are interested in that person. If not, then just slowly but graciously back away and keep looking. Always be yourself and do not lie to girl because if it turns out you do like her then she will find out about the lie sooner or later.

All girls of all types want to be treated with respect. If you can do that well it will place you leaps and bounds ahead of most guys.

It is a great game and I love playing.

I love lakeview bungalows, it is safe and secure, close to everything that interest me and it has a great garden with swimming pool for my children and me to play in. It is my oasis.

I hate to break this to you but my friend who lives in Lavkeview Bungalows had his house broke into. They stole his laptop, camera and phone. They removed the air conditioner to get in. He thinks it was some of the guys that work out at the Muy Thai training gym close by. This was about 6 weeks ago.

Seascape is great. I stayed there last year for my girlfriends birthday. You wont be spending much time in the room anyway. Their pool is great and so is their included breakfast.

The girls.

That is one profound statement.How did I miss this? Maybe the sun,the sand,the marine national park,the mountain hideaways,the beautiful islands.......I must be one silly person to have missed that major fundemental attraction

Samui has a beach!? Where?

The girls.

i'm very shocked and saddened about this incident. my heart goes out to the injured mother and the family behind.

as i live in near vicinity to where it happened, i would really be interested in a follow-up on police investigations. latest gossip in the neighbourhood is still the same version from the beginning that the thai-ex did the crime as he was no more receiving money from the woman. i said gossip, so don't know how much is true.

horror to think there are such mad perverts out there who kill even infants for robbery. even in this more quiet part of samui robbery and crime increase as building increases... i know it happens anywhere in the world but is still so bitter

Indeed gossip and speculation, so far, as we don't know the truth yet.

SBK wrote in her previous post that is was "...most likely everything to do with greed, considering the amount of valuables the woman has reported missing.".

I fear that this is just part of the crime and not just greed.

Let me explain, please:

A few days ago a man (who was in a bitter divorce dispute with his wife about the children) in my country went to the house of his mother in law, who was babysitting his 2 young boys; she refused to 'hand them' over to him...he killed her with a knife, took his two boys in his car and he drove to the nearest railroad-crossing.

He dragged them out of the car (whilst they were screaming and crying... ) but he was too strong. He dragged them onto the rails when the train came....all three died. An elderly man with his bycicle watched everything from across the railroad....

The whole country was in utter shock.

Specialists in these kind of tragic cases think it must have been a kind of revenge (towards his wife)....Meaning: if I can't see/have the kids, YOU can't have them either....

I'm not saying that the murder of the child on Samui was out of revenge also, but a simple robbery (stolen items) just doesn't make sense to commit such a horrible, execution-style murder on a 5-year old, and attempt to the mother as well. He could have beaten them, knocking them unconscious, but killing?

We can only hope they catch him/them.

edit: Just re-checked the tragedy; the father was 32; the boys 4 and 6 years old; the mother in law, 58...

LaoPo

In the States last week a man rented an airplane with his 8 y.o daughter flew to his mother-in-laws house and crashed the plane into it killing him and girl but not hurting anyone on the ground.

He and the wife were in a bitter divorce as well. More revenge. Interesting way to do it though.

Oh well, just need to wait and see what happens........luckily I have a plan B.

Wrong. Be proactive. It might be too late to "wait and see what happens". It has cost me a lot of money in the past with that approach.

If you have to change the HD, you dont have to send to Toshiba.

Call my PC-Doctor "Udo from Lamai": 0870251916 and say "Hello" from Claude from Nathon.

He knows his businees, he is relieable and fast. You will have to pay 500 B/h.

A knew HD is about 4-5000 Baths.

By the way, I dont get any commision and it is very easy to change the harddisk but it takes longtime to get it running! Do you have an image-file of your HD?

Cheers from Nathon,

Claude

That's a lot of baths, you must have been dirty. Maybe you mean baht?

I see this word misspelled everywhere.

well I've said it before and i'll say it again.

There need to be international controls on tourism

Give me some examples of what these international controls on tourism would exactly be and who would enforce them?

I have a Toshiba Satellite laptop, and recently I have been having a few problems..... I think the hard-drive has packed up, so I dont think its a software issue....

Can anyone recommend a reliable shop on Samui that could fix it or get it sent to be fixed? I have tried a few places but I would like to use somewhere that I know is reliable and isn't going to rip me off...

Any info appreciated

Cheers

I have the laptop as you. I had problems last year and sent it to the Toshiba place in BKK to be fixed. However, it was still under warranty and did not cost me anything. If it hadn't been under warranty I still might have done it as I do not think I would trust it to just some guy who has a computer shop. However, if it is only swapping out a hard drive that is very simple and should not take long or cost much to do. Mine was a more complicated issue. Mine has been overheating very rapidly and shutting down all the time. I'm thinking of sending it to the BKK place again although this time I will have to pay as the warranty has expired. I would be lost without my laptop so I want to take extra special care of it.

Thanks for the info.....The only problem I can see is that if it is the Hard-drive, I will inevitably lose all my information, but if that's the only way then its better than not having one at all.

I have just been on the Toshiba Thailand website and got their contact details so I will see what they say, mine is no longer under warranty so will probably not be quite as smooth process in getting it repaired.

I had the same problem as you will my laptop overheating all the time, it is because of the amount of construction going on, all the dust gets sucked into the fan over a period of time which causes it to overheat. I took mine to a computer shop (cant remember the name) and they cleaned the fan out for me, there was a huge amount of dirt in there. Its hasn't been overheating since.

I don't know if I would trust the same shop to take it all apart though....

Where did you take it to and how much did it cost? That sounds like what I need to do to mine, clean out the fan.

I drove past the place today on my to Evason Sila. It looks to me they own A LOT of property on that hill. I saw a lot of fenced off areas with their name on it but no construction yet. If they turn all the land that they own into the same type of communities they have already built it will be an ugly sight. If they own the property out right then they are sitting on a gold mine of land for sure. I bet they could sell it and get a good premium compared to what they paid, depending on when they bought of course. The views from some of the land I saw were fantastic.

I have a Toshiba Satellite laptop, and recently I have been having a few problems..... I think the hard-drive has packed up, so I dont think its a software issue....

Can anyone recommend a reliable shop on Samui that could fix it or get it sent to be fixed? I have tried a few places but I would like to use somewhere that I know is reliable and isn't going to rip me off...

Any info appreciated

Cheers

I have the laptop as you. I had problems last year and sent it to the Toshiba place in BKK to be fixed. However, it was still under warranty and did not cost me anything. If it hadn't been under warranty I still might have done it as I do not think I would trust it to just some guy who has a computer shop. However, if it is only swapping out a hard drive that is very simple and should not take long or cost much to do. Mine was a more complicated issue. Mine has been overheating very rapidly and shutting down all the time. I'm thinking of sending it to the BKK place again although this time I will have to pay as the warranty has expired. I would be lost without my laptop so I want to take extra special care of it.

Buy one

Already done. The reason I had asked for a used one because one Thai guy quoted me one for 1200 baht! I was thinking "No way". I went to a steel shop and they did it for 550.

Always taking the farang for a ride. Well, I assume that anyway, I wonder if he would have offered 1200 to a Thai, maybe I'm jumping the gun. That's the problem too, you never know! Confusion + Zenophobia = Not sure if you got screwed or not.

Hello,

I am looking for a steel frame that holds a vinyl sign. They are everywhere on the island so I figure someone has to have one they no longer need rather than make a new one. The width of the sign is 55cm and the length is 170cm. Ideally the bottom bar can be adjusted up and down. Like the one in the below pictures.

Thanks in advance.

Mafaso

Maybe there are many many happy customers with Coco but we're just not hearing about them. It's been proved that negative reviews of a business travel 10 times farther than a good review. When you get the service and product you expect you don't feel the need to tell everyone like you do when you feel cheated.

This is not a happy customer

http://www.cocosamui-villa-ripoff.com/

Interesting web site. Seems like the customer has many valid complaints. I think I would have gone crazy if I had had to deal with all the things he did. He only wanted to give his family a nice Christmas vacation in paradise but instead ended up in hel_l on earth.

Of course this is secondhand knowledge but was told that CoCo's is very much out of money. They tried to get financing from a Hong Kong investor but when they looked at CoCo's books they pulled out. I am a pilot and know that to maintain an aircraft, even if it is just sitting on the ground it is expensive and I'm sure they are still paying insurance premiums as well even though it is not flying. I also heard the big sticking point (if it isn't the money) is the licensing agreements with the government but what is weird is that last year they were already advertising the visa runs, cargo runs, etc. for the plane. I guess they got ahead of themselves. I would think they would have unloaded the plane if they felt something good wasn't going to come out of this eventually.

Like I said, secondhand information so do with it what you want.

I've been to be both 1 and 2 and really enjoyed them and am anxiously awaiting number 3 although it wont be here till December.

I recommend these movies to everyone. Plus you get to sit an nice A/C for 3 hours!!

I just wish Charletts Web was in English! :-(

Living with a Thai will get you far more advanced than taking classes hands down.

I took the Mind Your Language classes at it was too much. You go every day for two hours a day and it is just too much to try and learn. You will forget most everything you learn as you try to squeeze in the new days lesson. I had just finished college so my brain was already used to absorbing vast amounts of data but the everyday classes was overkill. I wish I had my 8000 baht back.

Living with a Thai is the best way to go because you will be hearing Thai all the time and start to learn the words and how to pronounce the words which is of utmost importance. Learning the language is about practice practice practice. Get a cheap dictionary and when you want to say something in Thai look it up first and then try it on your roommate. They will help you say it correctly and you will have a better chance of remembering the word.

Just my 2 bahts worth.

You can see a knife on the table, probably the one he used against the cop.

I spend about 5,000 baht a day and live a rather simple life. You could live on less, like the 500,000 baht a year mentioned earlier, but you could shave your head and become a monk too.

A simple life on 5.000 a day? Mark you will have us all in tears.

1,000 a day , more than enough if you stay away from the Pooyings in the bars.

Ahhhh...the Pooyings! So that is where all my money is going!

I would cut food out of my budget before I cut out Pooyings.

Thanks! How good is the "Pro" version compared with what i get now?

Why you'll get a clouded pix of Samui, must be because of the military base here, since you can check out Koh Pangan and see clear close zooming, try it Rigel.

I think even with the Pro version you will still get the same picture. It was partly cloudy that day that the sat took the pic. Besides, there is no date on it so it's impossible to tell when it was taken.

David, hope you're up to try to win some bread, next year, or whenever. :D

Im always up for a bit of a party Jens .. put my name down

Already have, dude. Just fire along 1K for admission.

.....just kidding.

Got to keep rubbing it in huh? Will this thread ever go away!!! Ahhhhhhh!!!!

...for best value..hop a ferry to chumpon,get a train or bus to cha am,try the fishing park!for between 800 and 1200 baht you can fish 2 rods for 24hrs,have bungalow ,food and drink,bait..tip the guide a few baht and he will help ya bigtime....arm acheing stuff..mekong catfish and thai carp allday!

This sounds really good meatgrowler, tell us more about it. Sounds like a great place to go for a couple of days and inexpensive.