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hey guys interesting points.. wasnt sure if the bank / in bkk would be a difference..i know theres some great chinese money changers that offer better rates but i forget where it is and i am not bring that much.. also i am coming from canada and bring CAD..ill just exchange at the airport.. i live in bkk and usually hit the atm once a month to pull out my money from canada land.. my bank charges me but the overseas charge is pretty cheap.. about 90 baht per transaction, but the exchange rate is fine.

Hey i know this has been discussed a lot but i havent found any recent threads.. anyone know if the money changing rates at the airport are better then the ones at the banks in the city?

bkk is where its at. there is an amazing world here but you will never find it with hookers or in farang oriented areas. Oh well its good that these type of people can take care of eachother and real people can prosper. very nice

well if you hang out with street who.res all the time of course they gonna be building you up. Try not going to pattaya or something..

informative and helpful. thank you

I think Thai is hard but it is rewarding when you can start to make progress. Exposing yourself to the language constantly is important i think. I am amazed when i see some people who are fluent in 2 or 3 years. Studying seriously full time can do that easily though, shit if you go to Thai school for a year you should be able to speak very well and be good at reading and writing (this is thinking of UTL / AAA/ etc syllabus) Also i think it does take time to get a thai accent going. A lot of people may have difficulty understanding what is said because of alien sounding accents.

I offered him money for his sports hat and he went crazy

Threaten me and raising his arms..............my laughing upset him more

shit thats great!!

Lots of people have a ton of funny/interesting stories about working on this movie.. most of the funny shit is about cage. I remember during the coup when he took off from The Oriental and fled.

thief just took a finders fee and returned your shit.. common throughout the world, your lucky you got your cards and passport back.

I guess it depends how much hard currency you had but i think most people would give up a few thousand baht or whatever if they are back home in return for their cards, id and passport

spinning music is working illegally? god dam_n

Wow the original poster really came off as a sack of shit in his post.

You sound as though you need a lesson or two in manners.I bet her very bad English is better than your best Thai i sugest you go back to the good old place you came from UK.A few anger management lessons also required.

Also i think everyone needs to remember this is not a first world country.. this is not a euro in america or a similar situation.. this is a person in thailand who is not thai, this is not your country and you will not get treated like a thai person.. you should not be surprised and if you are shaken up over something as small as this then you should really reconsider how long you stay in a place before you marry a citizen of that country and/or choose to live there..( or maybe you have been here for awhile but you are just really ignorant).

saw the old man on some bullshit news shit about 3 weeks ago and he threw the bitches for a loop when he started speaking english while sprinkling it wih some thai.. the girl were visibly shaken, was so cool, i am sure it doesnt exist now, but the old gf took hr

where to buy amyls ?

Ive never had a bad experience there, but its just a let down..

Get off a 10 hour flight or something and the bathroom has 1 urinal.. just craziness.

I think its nice and its modern.. but it could have been so much more... there was so much potential. I love Incheon or HK.. just seems like they had a great chance and they dropped the ball..

the thing for me is i can be patient, polite, and courteous, but the staff at the seattle airport went out of their way to be rude it was quite shocking. It was all the way down the line too.. immigration, customs, people at metal detectors, people who just mop the floor etc. I remember after i got searched for 5 hours i was going through some more metal detectors and the baggage handlers were seeing how far back they could throw peoples bags and get them to land on the conveyor belt. I was with a flock of Koreans coming in from Seoul and they were so rattled about being screamed at and interrogated, some were really close to tears when they saw the americans smashing their nice luggage and screaming in MTV-american popculture gangsta rap talk ( OH YO G u see that shit land ? wow homie that shit is tight). Really no professionalism at all, i understand they want to save money to run their airport but i think they should interview who they hire.

Ive tried a few different approaches, and last time it wasnt bad, well i mean i did miss my flight and had to wait 8 hours extra in seattle, which well actually was probably the most upsetting thing that happened to me maybe since the tsunami, but ive tried to be really passive and have tried really aggressive as well.. i think one of the things is that they ask so many questions about how i can live in thailand for years at a time and only be 19 or 20 or 21 (i am 22 now) and i explain it to them and i think it makes them kind of upset about their own life or something.. anyways this is degenerating into just rambling now, but i think that even in this age of paranoid security, that airport staff should be able to treat people with at least a basic level of human respect. For example when i've traveled through Seoul-Incheon or Taipei, people have never been overly friendly or flowery, but they have all been professional and NOT rude.

Traveled through seattle a few times to go home to canada. those fascists ripped me apart hardcore, and i was surprised that people could be that stupid and uneducated ( Looked at my 12 Burma stamps and asked me why i went to Laos so many times). Oh well, this was a few years ago.. maybe cause i am young or something.. oh well that last time i went through there i missed my flight due to getting power searched again.. so now i just dont travel through america anymore.. It just kinda sucks when i see the sex tourists breezing through with ease, and i am just a great person getting <deleted>.cked 8==D ~ oh well..

ive got an old nokia for sale.. its the type that retail for 900b brand new.. it has a magic price right now because its about 6 months old and ive dropped it a lot... going for 400 baht and a bottle of rum.

I am serious about this.

If you do decided to look at new phones check out the Nokia 2630, its fairly new and is nice, small, sleek, with a camera and stuff, pretty cool i think its about 3500 baht.

Hey got a new phone.. the usb cable for it wasnt available at mbk ( its nokia 2630) and the phone has blue tooth. I downloaded the nokia software used for data transfer and all that stuff but i cant seem to figure out if my Laptop has bluetooth or not.. Its about a year and a half old now, HP, dont have the model number offhand or anything.. from what i read i should be able to enable blue tooth from Wireless connections or WLan buttons in systray but i cant find anything, anywhere.. which kinda leads me to believe my comp doesnt support bluetooth.. anyways i guess my question is how do i find bluetooth or find out if i dont have it ? I am actually legit on computers but just really have no clue regarding bluetooth.. thanks for anyhelp !

>>I wish!!!!!!!!! Pum pood passa Thai ---Pum reuy mahg----- If only <<

lolz

yea good luck passing this bill..

funny funny, i bought 10 bottles of sang som from a taxi mocyi yesterday..

Thais, just like every people of every nationality i have ever come across in my life, do enjoy drinking. I know quite a few Thai people do not drink and who are not impressed by some peoples drinking addictions. Out of people i know, most of my foreign and mixed ( 1/2 + 1/2 Thai) drink more then average Thai people. Usually a 26 can go fairly far for an average group of drinkers. I have witnessed a lot more foreign people hammered then i have Thais, and i have had a lot of drinking experience here, throughout various parts of this country. In tourist areas you will obviously see people on vacation power drinking, especially those brits and their pints ( never understood how someone could get drunk off beer..) and so on.. people who are on vacation usually love to party hard. Foreigners i know that live here usually tend to drink more then most Thai people as well in my opinion, but really it is all relative to age, money, profession, among other things.

Drinking is so fun but liquor is obviously the most abused drug in the world and it really is shocking to see people talk about other drugs in such a way and then turn around and get smashed..

She says the vowel in จำ is exactly the same vowel sound as when using mai han aagaat.

i am confused by what you mean..

But also notice this thing with mai han aagaat.. maybe again its just me but i hear distinct a and u sounds between certain words like.. สัตว์ sounds like a, and มัน sounds like u.. ah i had a few really good examples that i wanted to show but i cant remember what they were now.. anyways yea i think the vocal quality thing places a big role noted in the previous posts.

this jaam / jum.. this sara confuses me sometimes cause of the different sounds.. for example say the sound of จำ compared with the sound น้ำ..

จำ in my opinion really sounds like a um sound while water definitely has the aam sound going.. i can think of lots of words that sound ummy compared to words that sound.. anyone shed light on this ? or is it just craziness on my part or something

why would anyone pay for double priced food ?

It is actually classed as more harmful/ addictive than cocaine, and in exactly the same league as crack and heroin. If you need to delude yourself to give you a sense of virtuosity then you probably have a bigger problem than you think.

ouch that quote smacks of ignorance.

Also anyone hear of the raid on RCA about a week ago ? the DEA was also involved in that one..

yea for sure, must be the first time culture shock. It really depends on the person/people though, but if your new to the region / traveling then yea, and i also have experienced this.. kind of awkwardness and weirdness