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I want to grow Kaffir lime trees from cuttings in the southern hemisphere. I already have several small trees and I know that it can be done here but not sure how and when.
Any help???
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Divorce her. Hang on! Scratch that!I paid a bride price, had a ceremony Thai style, and all that. But I am unable to get her family out of my pocket for some reason.Grow a pair and then divorce her.
I've no sympathy for farangs who marry into low-class Thai families thinking it's love.
That quite a severe thing to say. By low class do you mean poor?
I married an up country lady from a rice farming family with no money and she hasn`t asked me for a cent. Her son is at university and she works her ass off to fund it.
In my country I have met men that have paid through the nose ( a lot ) both in Thailand and at home for weddings and families, some of them have spent tens of thousands of dollars on a single day in Thailand plus flights ect. just to have a high class Thai lady and they continue to pay every day after that.
I wouldnt change my " low-class " lady for anything.
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Was a great escape from Bangkok. Have seen better beaches but great people and very user friendly. Would be back there tomorrow if I could.
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Unfortunately, most Thais I know, do like Thaksin, and know nothing about his family's assets, or don't care, just as the Brits didn't care about Mr. Thatcher accumulating wealth trailing behind his wife.
No difference here at all...
Sadly, most Thais I know don't like him, and don't do that much about it....
Same as most of my NZ friends who dont like Helen Clark...but then again they all live overseas now so I guess that at least did something!
(my friends live overseas, not Helen Clark, there is only one of her thank goodness). (and she is not anywhere near here). (I hope).Isn't Thatcher's son involved in summat in the Africa?
You are SO right about NZ and not getting any better. as I write this the government and reserve bank are trying to manufacture a recession. High Kiwi dollar about to fall some say 20% down. If you have any Kiwi bucks now might be a good time to buy USD or even BHT.
Sorry a bit off topic but but I think another Kiwi member and may be interested.
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I wouldn't want to be in these people's shoes if the sh*t hits the fan....
Do you think it will hit the fan?
Can't get much info apart from the wife via web sites and not many of them.
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I was talking to a local French expat today and he told me that indigo was a much better cash crop than rice. I told him that I thought indigo had been replaced by artificial dyes long ago. He says no, there is a big demand and a very small supply. He also said that black rice was good but his favorite was honey. He exports honey to the EU and the US.
That is fascinating. Is the honey up there good? In the country that I come from the honey is very good and one type is said to have medicinal qualities and exported around the world. A number of years ago a parasite arrived on our shores called the veroa mite ( not sure about spelling ) and has been devistating the honey industry ever since. This has raised the price of good honey substantially. Do you know if there are any of these problems in Thailand?
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Drawing back into a protected fortress is not a recipe for advancement and progress. It's a recipe for slow deterioration and eventual starvation.
New realities in world economics have to be faced. Old-style isolation simply can never work again. The longer integration is avoided, the deeper the pain of that inevitable integration will be.
I know of no country where foreigners own most of the land or business. The same lament and concerns are heard in every country which is forced by economics to open up. The fact that as foreigners and capital moves in, the locals learn, adapt and thrive (after all, who knows the local market best?) is lost on those that have no vision or guts. So they opt for protection and slow decay. Sad.
Remember what happened in Fiji? Indians owned almost everything and had several generations born there. The Fijians kicked them out in a big way. A lot of them came to New Zealand and I am starting to have sympathy for the cause of Fiji back then.
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In NZ it used to be called the six o'clock swill.It didn't work....all it did was make people drink up more quickly.They then changed the law to 10PM closing...same thing happened,except over more hours
. Now you can stay open as much as you want, providing you have a permit etc.some pubs down by the wharf area used to open at 6AM to cater for the shift workers knocking off in the morning.You are on to it. After the swill it was a crate or two ( 1 dozen or 2, big bottles ) and back to some poor suckers house.Drunk drivers everywhere but not all leaving the same places.
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Taking the "Self Centered form of analysis" to this new law, I can say it his has little to no direct impact on my life........ I am early to retire and early to rise type of person, so the midnight curfew is no issue. Now, banning the sales of beer at my local mini-mart will force me to go to a Big-C or Carrefore earlier in the day to stock my fridge, rather than jump on the Honda and grab a few bottles of beer for my after dinner relaxation.
Now as for the tourist, well if you haven't scored by mid-night the government just probably did you a favor! This lessens the chance of waking to the "Coyote Ugly" girl of your nightmares.......
Please remember that young peolple on thier first overseas experience may be a little uncouth and a little hard to handle for a mature person that has " allready been there and done that".But many of these kids will grow into the wealthy middle aged and the memories of the countries that they first visited will be a deciding factor in future trips abroad.
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WOW
Now I am A kiwi and just got back from a weekend in akld.
Never saw anything I would take a risk with.....
Join the club
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This is a subject close to my heart as I have been brewing for many years and there is a chance ( if the wife has her way ) that I will retire in Thailand. I brew beer only from " kits " wich are cans that contain hop and malt extract with a packet of dried yeast under the lid. These are produced by many breweries from many countries and easy to obtain, even from the supermarket, where I live. I have tried a lot of different brands over the years but have found a couple that are reliable and that are good for me. I have to heat my brew in the winter but there is allways a way to overcome the hurdles of temperature if you put your mind to it. I know that it is easier to heat a brew than to cool it. I dont know if it is the right thing to say here, but there surely cant be to much of a problem importing small volumes of malt extract into Thailand, in the can so to speak. The legal side of it is something else. If it is just a 200 bht fine and nothing else no problem but I dont really want to break the law in a big way and get my bum kicked out of there. But a bit of home brew beer cant be any worse than some of the other stuff they brew on the quiet over there.
All the best.
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Saw a bloke drink a couple of bottles out of a gumboot ( those rubber boot things ) one time. He didnt seem to worry about any of his orifices. The flow rate seemed to be quite good though probably because of the large diameter of the receptacle and the accomodating nature of the rubber. Hope this is some help.
All the best.
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One problem with this - it reminds me of leaving New Years parties.
The drunks may leave the bars earlier.
My home country used to have early closing at 6 P.M.. The pubs were so full before 6 that you could hardly move. They called it the six o-clock swill. Trouble was everyone stocked up with take aways before they left and went some place else to get loaded. Now 24 hours. A whole different world.
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How does a farang make money in LOS? -- Just a simple question from a lowly carpenter with a small pot of gold and without a rich father.
LOS makes money on farangs -- that's the way it is! If you don't understand that, then you neither live nor win!
Your question is therefore ass backwards!
But if you still want to continue, humble carpenter with a small pot of gold and no rich daddy? ....
carve out a small portion of that pot of gold, get a sex change, tan yourself to a velvety chocolate brown, cultivate & grow the bushiest, mellifluous cave you can muster, get some raggedy clothes with tacky ornaments, start speaking some funky, exotic version of prepositionless, articleless English and set yourself up with several farangs, perhaps 6, one or two from England, one from America (this one ought to quadruple that pot of gold within 3 years), and the rest from various parts of the world.
Avoid Italians and Spaniards!
I estimate an annual income of 1 million Baht cash in the first year, automobiles & real estate (houses, not condos and don't fall for the leaseback deals!) notwithstanding (of which you should get 6 of each respectively)! Get the American to include you in his stateside will (pension & all)and register it with the embassy in BKK!
You will find yourself in the top 100 financially well off farangs in LOS -- in just a few short years.
No work permit required!
Report back here in 2010.
Thankyou for your input but I would appreciate it if you refrained from any futher comments as you obviously have some issues that need dealing with.
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How good of a carpenter are you is my question.
Very good. New Zealand trained. From the ground up and have done draughting.
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Hello and I am sorry that I havent responded to this thread thus far. I originally posted the topic in the issarn forum and for reasons unknown to me it has been transferred here. Topic title was " How does a farang make money - Issarn ".
I have a Thai wife that comes from up-country who is the best thing in my life and to any sceptics out there, not all Thai ladies work in bars and we definately didnt meet in one. All I originally wanted to ask was not so much how to make a fortune ( although that would be nice ) but really just how to make a living in Thailand.
Now that I have found and read this thread I will keep track of it but I have to say that when I have looked at this forum in the past, I thought the posts were coming from people who knew what they were talking about. But to my dismay, there is allways a small percentage of people who hate life and want to spread the bad word ( harmonica ). Is there not a special web site for these people?
By the way. A small pot of gold.
Doesnt it depend on what YOU think is small or big.
Never read a book by its cover ( or post ).
All the best.
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You can't legally produce any form of alcohol in the Kingdom without a license.
Can a thai get a license easy for home brew? is it cheep? how do you get it?
Anyone?
Sounds like a great idea, get the wife to make red wine.
Red wine is better than beer for me . love it.
Have a nice day
WELL--------- Does anybody know????????
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Hello Ray,
good to hear that you are O.K.. I got squashed when I was 20 years old and almost lost my leg because I was riding a motorbike. If it happened now, I would lose my leg for sure. Long time in hospital- bed pans and terrible food.
We never seem to learn though because I had quite a few bikes after that. Still have one now, old british thing in prime condition that I only ride when the weather is good and just for fun. A toy.
The nice things that you say about the Thais are for me very good to hear as the missus has plans for us to retire in the Issan in the not to distant future and if I lived in Thailand I would have a motorsai for sure.
All the best and I hope the purple bits dont last to long.
Nick.
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Only been searched once in 25 years so the chances are remote and 'dried brewers yeast' would probably not get picked up at customs but there is only one reason for having brewers yeast in your suitcase.
Bread yeast will give you the required effect and is available in country. Maybe not up to a perfectionists standard but it still converts the sugar to alcohol and still leaves a nice 'fruity' taste.
Thanks for that but you havent told me why you can brew wine and not beer. I am not really a perfectionist, I only brew beer using extract and dried yeast from a can that is available almost everywhere here. I can get " brew kits " from many breweries around the world at the local home brew shop,and most of them are very good. When I was young my friends father used to brew using bread yeast because that was all that was available ( I suppose the same as Thailand now ) but it allways tasted like home brew if you know what I mean.
What are the laws on this? Why wine and not beer?
All the best.
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Beautiful Bang-Na!!!!!!!
But why do you live there? I have been there and cant see the attraction.
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Beautiful Bang-Na!!!!!!!
" Beautiful Bang-Na " ......................WHY??
I have been there and really would love to know honestly.
Where did you come from originally?
Fascinating.
Please reply.
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Hello to all whom live in Hua hin,
I have never had the honour of seeing the place, I have passed through a long time ago on my drive from phuket to bangkok but only stayed 20 mins to refresh, could you chaps/ladys please give me a bit of insight into the place, is it like phuket or pattaya? is there night life? What about during the day? It seems more people are going there to avoid the hustle and bustle these days but I dont know as I have never really seen it. Nice beaches there? is it pricey or same as every where else,
Thanks in advance
Hi there,
I dont live at Hua Hin but have been there and stayed for a while. I loved the place and would be back there again at the drop of a hat ( soon I think )
I found it friendly and easy on the brain, easy to get decent farang food as well.
The beach is long and the water is warm but there are jellyfish at certain times of the year, nasty ones to, I saw some of the scars.
There is info in this forum if you flip back a page or two. Try Cha Am by Davey and many more for sure.Also you can do a google search for Hua Hin nighhtlife or something along those lines.
All the best.
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Its been picking up since it wasopened. The last few months have shown alot more growth so hopefully if those of you out there in Hua-Hin and Cha-am spread the word we can grow it even more.
Thanks to all those who have been participating here!
cv
But why was it closed?
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I really liked the Mandarin Hotel. good views,not bad rooms and very friendly staff.
Resturant and bar very good and no tipping.
It was like a refreshing breeze after the Classic Place. An unfriendly classic package tour dump.
Kaffir Lime
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New Zealand. I have a small hot house and grow all the Thai basils, lemon grass, many chillies and galangal ( my pride and joy ).
The lime trees survive well here outside but dont often bear fruit but in saying that I have had some fruit and I have the dried seeds from them.
The " Boss " and I know a couple of Thais that grow all of the above and more. They supply to resturants and sell at the markets.
Generally I start everything off in the hot house and by the time the weather has given us some mercy we have enough good plants to give to the " Bosses "Thai friends.
I just enjoy growing the things.