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Ramphai (รำไพ) used in your example is a name. The word has nothing to do with the word Ram (รำ) at all - see the meanings below:

รำไพ

1. รำไพ [ADJ] ; beautiful; pretty

Syn. งาม

Def. งามผุดผ่อง

2. รำไพ [N] ; the sun

Syn. พระอาทิตย์, รพิ, รพี, รวิ, รวี

thanks for the response! i think the meaning "beautiful; pretty" is the one i want in my book, not a name. the synonym "ngaam" also appears in the book a lot...

Naughty Nightlife topic

Is that it? Sorry again, I've never read the guidelines. I'm waaaaay too lazy to read that stuff.

hi-- posted tonight with title "Ladyboys" in the Gay forum, and it was quickly closed. My apologies if I violated one of the rules. That was a genuine question that I posted, I wasn't trying to trick anyone. Just wondering why it was closed? Thanks

(not 100% sure that this belongs in this forum )

After a couple hours spent at a Nana Plaza beer bar with excellent view of the zoo-like atmosphere (it's better than tv!), can't help noticing that ladyboys/katoeys are quite popular with the gentry , judging by the number being escorted out of NEP by various farang men, of various nationalites (esp. Japanese)!

Since I don't see hardly any farang/ladyboy couples around in BKK (i've only seen two: one in Pattaya and one at Panthip Plaza), it seems that it's just a barfine-and-back-to-the-room scenario? Oh the squalor, oh the shame! (JOKING)

The beauty/appeal of many of them is undeniable. I suppose I'm wondering about the mechanics of what actually goes down back in the room. A "straight" man with his hermaphrodite beauty, how does all this get written down in the record books? (Yes, this is an off-color, perhaps even irritating post, blame it on the beer and down-time!) I'd like to hear comment from the men who enjoy them, but then this post might have to be in the Gen. Topics forum...

Just finished my Thai pocket romance book (B12 at Central).... now going back through it again to get more vocabulary out of it. (By the way, looking up words in Thai dictionary was pretty laborious at first, but you pick up speed quickly, it's not the problem i thought it might be.)

I see the term "ramphai" or perhaps "ram-phai" a lot. "ram" alone gets "traditional dance"...

example, sorry no thai fonts:

"Khun Ying ramphai reuh kha?" (the "ph" is the phoo phaan "ph")

Thanks much!

Please take a look at this sentence

งั้นไปกันเถอะ

In that case let's go together.

If you literally translated this it would say. "In that case go together Let's." Why is เถอะ last? I know Thai is Subject Verb Object (though I often can't tell what is the subject and what is the object), and also that adjectives follow nouns and or the subject, but what is the grammatical rule at work here?

บริษัทนี่

This company

Why does นี่ come after บริษัท?

I'll try to get more examples later.

As one of my instructors (an elderly, obese Russian woman with a moustache) at Defense Language Institute, Monterey, California, USA, would say (with an appropriately curled lip): "Is Russian way!!!"

Well, that is pretty much exactly what i did (quit a job i hated and started traveling and living on money saved) so i can relate to that exquisite combination of excitement and fear that you must be going through! It is finding a balance between the old "Enjoy your life while you're young..." and the terrifying prospect of being broke (in any country

I posted to a previous thread, maybe four months ago, on how i've been managing things on the money side, if you want to search on my old posts. It's critical how you store that money, don't neglect that part. If you handle the money well, you can make it last a LOT longer than you think.

I have total respect for you that you have the cajones to do that. Trust your instincts, you sound like a very balanced guy to me. There have been a lot of excellent posts here offering advice and comments, this is one of those threads that really brought it out of the members of this forum. PM me if you want to get together for a beer after you're on the ground...

Have a great time!!!

' small budgets' ? how do they afford to dry clean their suits and provide an alluring presentation every day

I was on a flight with mormon missionaries from Santa Cruz, Bolivia to Miami and swear to god, the dudes were in nicely pressed suits and the girls in nice clean twin sets...sort of like a well dressed camper excursion with a 'leader'. I was amused at the time (1984) but maybe now a cause for concern?

More Mormon (sorry!). My friend was part of a two-man team, as usual. They wore the requisite white shirts/tie every day, but other than that they lived like locals: local food, local transp., i think he said they were only allowed 2 phone contacts with family per year. Rcvd decent language training before they were deployed, too. This was the Philippines, might be different other places..... (imagine Mormom emoticon here)

do these people live of thier own money or donations from thier respective house of worship.

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my understanding is that young mormons are expected to do 'missionary/protelysizing service' that is subsidised by the church. The mormon church's funds are considerable...I have seen morman 'hitler youth' types (they all appear to be blond, blue-eyed and very clean) going door to door in run down towns in the middle of andean Bolivia.

an amusing or frightening scene depending on yer point of view...

Yes, you're right. A good friend of mine is a "fallen mormom", as they call anyone who begins doing their own thinking. He was a missionary in the provinces of the Philippines. They usually do a two-year stint, with very little support from the Church, actually. Very small budget and they spend loooong days converting the savages.... These churches that send missionaries off are massively funded, since of course it's all about power and money, not spirituality.

Somebody ripped you off. Laundries are dirt cheap, I would not even include them in cost calculations.

You must be kidding. Laundry in BKK is about Tokyo-prices, which is NOT dirt cheap. I consider it one of my major expenses. Is it that much cheaper in Pattaya?

I notice that a lot of farangs like to openly stare at women on the train.

Not just look at, but stare non-stop like they were watching a movie. And if they're with a friend, they'll often wink at them, as if no one else in the train knew what they were thinking.

Not all of course, but mostly scruffy-looking types. I don't see the professional and older farangs doing this however - maybe it has to do with maturity levels.

Yes, they stare like wild animals. This is genetically pre-determined to insure the continuation of the species. Used to do it myself until I realized how psychotic it looks.

Please help me in finding some nice, good Salon,

I want to get my Full Body Below NECK waxed....

Regards

Awful, awful pain, running-screaming-down-Silom, swallow-your-tongue kind of pain... can I watch? PM me.

Do these guys not realise that they are one of the greatest adverts against the religions that they purport to support? It reminds me of a guy I used to see regulary on Oxford Street in London mouthing off in a Scouse accent how all the shoppers should "be a winner, not a sinner" - obviously many people were converted on the spot in the face of such convincing rhetoric as I am sure many of the denizens of Soi Arabia are.

Preaching religious fanatics/missionaries and "professional wrestling" are the two most offensive things in the world.

Asahi and Heine are not really Asahi and Heine; the use of Thai water and breweries here completely changes the product. This is not your home country's heine or asahi. Frankly, I dont know what in the world it is. I know this much though, it is rancid. You see, Budweiser would never license to brew here due to quality control issues. Obviously Heine hdqtrs has little concern for this nor does asahi's. Variety is the spice of life and the thai beer situation is the opposite of that. It's like being in a country with only hamburgers to eat or toyotas to drive. Why even put a label on beer here? just to charge different prices I guess. It's all rank.

Witness the passion of a man denied a hearty beer! I feel your pain, I do...

Asahi and San Miguel. All the rest is swill, offal I say! Chang?? Chang this!

A few people angry and a few bent water pistols

I think we should all offer a hearty Thank You to all those bargirls in Pattaya for helping to keep the testosterone count way down. Otherwise, the fists, they be a-flying!

been in pattaya for the last 2 songkran and will not this year i can take 1 day but 7 was just too many.

had a bad experience at seaside cafe just off soi7 having breakfast at 9ish in the morning sitting outside with a girl there was a few other couples, and a stupid falang in the bar next door very mao,started firing one of those cannons at a guy walking in the the restaraunt tottally soaking everyone outside and a ruining a few peoples meals.

is there an offical time it is supposed to start at i heard it was middday?

The more i hear about this the less i'm looking forward to my first Songkhran. Wondering: is there any violence, i.e. people angry about being soaked, the fists fly... etc.?

You've got to laugh....the bible thumpers have made it to Sukhumvit Soi 3! I was in hysterics when I heard that. Can you imagine it, there they were, screaming at the top of their lungs to all and sundry on Soi Middle East, praising the good Lord, all the while being passed by folks who are obviously rather fond of a different lord. Word has got back to them that they have been talked about in this column and the said missionaries have contacted me and offered me an interview....coming soon!

Stickman Weekly

9 April 2006

Wonder if that's the same crew that would stand in front on Nana Plaza last Aug/Sep, white american "fundamentalists"... funny for a couple minutes, then depressing.

"bible thumpers": love that expression! (thump, thump...)

How likely is it that your apartment landlord will try to rip your security deposit in Bangkok? Claiming that pre-existing scratches, etc., were made by you, etc.?

Will many landlords accept 3 months advance rent in lieu of a security deposit?

I posted about this previously in the Real Estate section, because I didn't know this forum existed.

I was worried about this but had no problem at all, moving out of Omni Tower after a long-term stay. Totally positive experience with the Indian (Sikh) mgmt there.

I'll be moving into another long-term next week (after I find one). How does that go if you use deposit monies for your last several months' rent? No problem with the mgmt/landlord? Sounds like a good solution to me, but that doesn't sound acceptable to the landlord...

Hey guys

I am coming back to Pattaya after a 2 year absense, and was wandering if anyone could help me out - i usually stay at the AA hotel (at bottom of soi 13) as i like the pool overlooking beach road but was wandering if anyone would have a contact number for them? ive looked on the internet and just cant seem to find anything, would be much appreciated.

Last time i was there the price was 650 baht a night is it still around the same? also heard rumours of a nice hotel next to Lek hotel on 2nd road any ideas of a price on that one.

Thanks in advance for the help (cant wait to get back)

Chris

i'm trying to picture Lek Hotel on 2nd Rd... there are a lot of hotels there, but you might be thinking of Dynasty Inn (bkk branch is 02 252 4522), at the corner of 2nd Rd/Soi 13 and a little way in on the Soi. That's a nice place--they have a free shuttle from Bangkok whenyou book the hotel room for 2 days so i did that.

Also, across the street from Lek Hotel is the Diana Inn (038 429 675), that's nice, too. Both those hotels are something like B1,200/nite always negotiable...

Hey guys

I am coming back to Pattaya after a 2 year absense, and was wandering if anyone could help me out - i usually stay at the AA hotel (at bottom of soi 13) as i like the pool overlooking beach road but was wandering if anyone would have a contact number for them? ive looked on the internet and just cant seem to find anything, would be much appreciated.

Last time i was there the price was 650 baht a night is it still around the same? also heard rumours of a nice hotel next to Lek hotel on 2nd road any ideas of a price on that one.

Thanks in advance for the help (cant wait to get back)

Chris

hi chris-- that's where i stayed for a couple days, too. They're at 038 428 656, B4900/week, not sure what the daily rate is but i think it'll be more than 650/night. You'll be shocked at how much more expensive Pattaya is now...

i liked that hotel, but those dark mirrors covering one end of the room gave me the creeps, kept imagining a camera whirring away behind that mirror!

What you're seeing is probably รู้สึก, which means "feel". They two parts to it always appear together because it's a single word. It likely has some historical connection to the verb รู้, but the สึก part doesn't have anything to do with disrobing that I know of.

Fits perfectly, thanks much for the help!

(Now i'm inspired to get those Thai fonts installed.... here goes.......!)

Back when the "war on drugs" was going on we where at the local market and a car pulled up and shot two people allegedly involved in drugs, apparently this was carried out by the police.

Anyway, my friend turns to me and says " shuak gai hi ling do" basicly

"Cut the chickens throat and let the monkeys watch"

ie They were being made an examlpe of.

Anyone esle know any thai sayings and their meanings?

Cheers

Heard one a while back: something like Play the Ears, Play the Eyes (Len huu, len dtaa). don't remember what it means but it sounds like a good one!

hi-- i learned to read a couple months ago and am starting to pick up some speed... i'm working my way through a short Thai "romance novel" type pocketbook, B12 at Big C. Using the small Becker dictionary.

One word that appears a lot is "reuh seuk" (sorry, not sure about the transliteration and i don't have Thai fonts). "reuh", high tone, as in "know, familiar with", and "seuk/syk/?", low tone, by itself is listed in Becker as "disrobe". The two bits always appear together.

Thanks in advance for any help, peops!

May I offer a toast: Here's to Tall Poppies and living in opulence befitting a Czar!

White or red? (the wine that is of course)

You know, I just "got" that today! The ol' brain ain't what it used to be (and, frankly, never was !).

Next to my apartment are two Temples, each supporting a many many stray dogs.

They bark constantly, fighting, yelping, it sounds like a kennel, especially at night. It's rediculous.

How do the Thais tolorate this?

I cannot bring myself to poison 30 or 40 dogs.

I like dogs, and most of these would probably make great pets with a bit of care and training.

Is there a dog-catcher or humane society that I could call?

I'm willing to pay to have them removed.

YELP! er.. I mean HELP!

I feel your pain! I've long since realized that I've have some kind of barking dog curse. Every place i've lived for roughly 20 years has had at least one barking dog, loud, at night, irritating, i'm fixated on it and can't ignore it. I've been driven to throwing a poison meatball (but haven't gone that far, yet). The moron owners oblivious to the idiotic noise... If you move there'll be another one, rest assured. Sorry to hear about that!