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"Sierra Leone man found and held" what sort of journalism is this?..they just racially profiled him...they other day i heard police were going about asking for the yellow fever card when they meet any black man.....all BS

I wonder when people come on TV and talk about overstayers ..60% of people who use this forum have overstayed their visas once or twice or are using education visas and we all know they do not attend school. invading a church like that as if Osama Bin laden was hiding inside is a big joke. invade a temple like that and they would fine what they were looking for just that they won't find illegal immigrants.

Migrant workers ???? alas !!

Just the fact that the OP is asking this question means he is trying to clarify something he already heard. Its a rule that has been there for long jut not implemented on regular basis , but on a bad day, they do ask for the money. and like someone rightly said it depends sometimes on your nationality and how you dress. Now, the 20k is even asked from individuals and not families

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http://www.phuket.net/visit-phuket/about/tips/passport-visa/

http://www.phuketgazette.net/phuket-news/Phuket-visa-runners-caught-cash-immigration-scare/30941#ad-image-0

http://www.mfa.go.th/main/en/services/123/15396-Tourist-Visa-Exemption.html

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/496776-20000-baht-needed-for-tourist-visa/

to be safe its better to have the Money Cash. it sounds stupid but experience has thought me and many others so. some guy showed his credit card and said he money in the card but they rejected it.

ohhh they do ask..people have been detained in the airport for hours because they could not produce the money. Countless people have been asked this "show money"

. In short I have cancelled the house build but I have said I will still marry my girlfriend but without any dowry and without the family involved in any way. She has agreed.

she agreed?? watch out !!

How the US funded Ebola trails on healthy black Africans despite warnings from Harvard and Yale Scientist that such virus risk triggering a worldwide pandemic !!!

Dear World Citizens:

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what a good Thai woman wants is everything a good woman in your country wants. what a bad Thai woman wants is everything a bad woman wants in your own country.

which man on earth has never had unprotected sex with a girlfriend? you might trust her, but do you really know her from what you hear?

They are angered that he talks openly about the crime?? he has no face to safe for SMILES sake.

what is this article about? does it mean after all nobody gives a damn that some people were murdered?

women are always at risk of being raped. women are raped even in Saudi Arabia where women dress like Ninjas. There is no excuse for any Crime and remember , injustice anywhere is injustice everywhere. RIP , what a sad end to people who wanted to enjoy the "beauty" of Thailand.

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Its a big problem i must say because the students will be at the receiving end. The funniest thing is that they give no apologies and sometimes act as if you are plain dumb. For example, a friend of mine works in a school, in his contract , it stated he will be working 17 hours per week, the school will pay for visa expenses , accommodation would be provided and BOOM , he signed

1. accommodation was a very old Village house inside the school, no air conditioner, no fan , no fridge no bed.

he was to buy everything by himself. of course he rejected it and he was told he can pay for a good place himself.

2. one month gone, 4 hours were added to his time and the HOD told him they have done so to all teachers.

haha on a bad day the HOD was to travel and begged him to teach his class and unconsciously handed over his timetable to him.

my friend immediately noticed he had just 13 hours per week.

3. He was later told to do Morning talks and teach a new word every morning.

4. He was told he was not allowed to organize extra lesson for students. (they initially told him he was free to do it )

Th problems are just too much and he has lost interest in the job...

but the truth is every institution has its problems

Ha, ha! Good on you, mate.

As for myself, i find peer pressure fun, ... fun to resist it & laugh at it,

fun to see how abuse & scorn are so unsparingly used by the throng

in an effort to quash down individual reasoning.

& i too chuckle at the difference.

You guys speak words & think thoughts that aren't yours at all, but

have been shaped up by endless hours of TV, mainstream media &

Hollywood film exposure.

Why do you think Oscar Wilde said, 'don't say that you agree with me.

When people agree with me i always feel that i must be wrong'.

I tried to give the OP my most sincere advice, that he too may become

more sincere in his words, in his deeds, & that he may avoid falling into

uncomfortable situations.

But he comes across as entirely superficial as well as false. & that has

nothing to do with age. Nor with race!

In today's sick world, well-meaning suggestions pass for insults; smile

at someone & he'll surely think you've got some secret evil agenda.

Listen only to that which encourages bliss. If something hurts or shakes

you up, it's got to be nothing but an insult.

But i tell you what: the most useful advice is that which hurts, because

the hurt will wake you up.

Anyway, this is totally off-topic.

I meant just a quick reply. I do not wish to upset the mods.

So let's leave it at that, shall we?

Tzar.

haha, thanks i did accept that i made a mistake partly because of my age and inexperience (which is no excuse) but trying to insinuate that i was only trying to improve my image in the community mainly because being black does not help is insulting. Of course i am black but i not write anywhere in the post that i am black but only said i am an "African" and if being an African to you means being black then "you have been shaped up by endless hours of TV, mainstream media &

Hollywood film exposure", Thanks for you piece

Hmm...u said from from the African continent...well why not do some charity there instead...millions are dying there in Africa and those that are not ...are committing online crimes or are into drug trafficking. Help educate them of their wrongdoings. Thais are basically ok and can handle themselves. I really think in this case...charity begins at home.....food for thought.

Thank you <deletehome

what is your definition of HOME??? food for thought

Hmm...u said from from the African continent...well why not do some charity there instead...millions are dying there in Africa and those that are not ...are committing online crimes or are into drug trafficking. Help educate them of their wrongdoings. Thais are basically ok and can handle themselves. I really think in this case...charity begins at home.....food for thought.

Thank you &lt;deleted&gt; !!!

Making communal gifts for total strangers who did not ask for them seems indeed

like a very odd thing to do.

I myself would have thought that you're either affection-starved or attention-starved.

Being black does not help.

All the same, you should have taken into account that there may be deep-rooted

differences between this country & yours, .... When the idea was still brewing in your head,

that was the time to talk it over with the Headmaster and at least with one of the physicians

in the hospital, prior to performing your 'charitable' deed, in order to assess its propriety

and avoid a faux pas.

Turning up with a bunch of toilet rolls in a hospital? What was your true motive?

To gain their affection? their sympathy? To make friends? To improve your reputation

in the community?

A sip of milk is not going to do anything to improve anyone's life.

And hospitals here certainly lack neither milk nor toilet rolls.

There are a million motives for a seemingly 'charitable' action, and most are of dubious

nature.

The main one is always the real thing. But the giver himself only knows it.

If genuine unadulterated love & compassion had prompted the deed, why

did you not send an anonymous closed envelop with a few thousand baht

via the Headmaster or another trusted person? And kept it a secret?

Instead you choose to shout your failed deed to the four winds (is it 4?).

If you had the cash to spare & the desire to help, you could have found out

who your most dispossessed pupils are, visited their homes accompanied

by their homeroom teachers, and offer their parents a donation towards

food or other household expenses.

Too much work?

Yup, certainly a great deal harder than dropping by the local grocer's for

a bit of milk.

It's so true what someone said: that 'the more something costs you, the more

the love that goes into it' ... & the more genuine the deed is, absolutely.

Your first duty, though, is towards the people next to you.

And gifts must be made within a context that makes sense socially and

culturally.

Had you taken the trouble to look into what the community most needs,

you would not doubt have discovered that a small donation of edibles

to the local temple would have been quite welcome, ... as a number of

posters here have already pointed out.

In truth, you acted rashly and selfishly, entirely overlooking people's

feelings.

Aimless giving achieves nothing, ... it may, as it did here, backfire, ... &

it is the result of a mere impulse that in nothing resembles authentic

self-sacrificing charity.

Not to worry, though.

It was a blunder, but not the end of the world.

There will be opportunity to atone, to display not impulsive blind generosity

but a deeper, authentic & more mature consideration of others.

Meanwhile, just smile, & laugh at yourself.

And if met with a smirk, say truthfully & humbly, "i am very ignorant. I've got

a lot to learn".

Tzar

What an insultive post,what the hell has the color of someone's skin got to do with it???

Maybe you would find a gift from a thai insultive because they have brown skin??

Puchai 299:

Reading comprehension, ... ought you not to practise a tad more of that art?

You see, blacks have an even harder time than whites in these latitudes, ...

oftentimes they're avoided or rejected solely on account of their race.

So i naturally thought that the OP might be feeling lonely & at times frustrated

on account of the discrimination he's likely to be facing, and to compensate for it,

he tried to 'prove' that he deserves more credit.

I could have been wrong. He may be a Christian trying to secure entrance to

Heaven. He alone knows.

But there are no insults at all, my dear Puchai.

I wrote feeling the empathy & sympathy that comes from having had very similar

experiences & having made even worse blunders than he has.

We're in the same boat, are we not?

Now it turns out that he's also quite young & inexperienced.

Please don't try to make out malice where none was intended.

I have not watched a single TV programme or TV ad for 10 years now. My usage

of the language may hence be quite unlike mainstream posters. Whatever little i

may know of political correctness i flat out reject.

As for receiving gifts from brown-skinned Thais, or Thais of any colour for that

matter, or any person of good will anywhere, it does make me very happy.

Tzar.

you are just a plain old stupid bastard...i am well treated where i am and i do not think about what some might think. you are the only person bringing in race here..and hey what is your definition of race?? skin color ?? you definitely need to see real life psychologist

Thanks for the replies , even to the totally insulting ones , i expected it . I guess yeah i would reconsider what i do next time and NO , there was no hidden motive and would not try to make someone who know nothing about me change their blurred opinion. Thanks i am only 22

We're not in Lagos now Tonto...

and what is that suppose to mean?? are you some low self esteemed fag, thinking you better some other people?

haha somehow funny comments here. i did not make a show of it, i only decided to tell the head of the place i work..whatever the case. You can never satisfy everybody. i have had a very rich uncle give me bible (i had about three already) and its the cheapest book where i come from. I took it, thanked him with a free mind and cherished the gift.

"One tried to console me instead and said its not Thai culture to buy Things like Tissue paper in cartons to give as a gift, that i should have either paid for one patients hospital bill or better still take those items to the temple for the monks".

It's not in anyone's culture to buy those as gifts :-)

I wouldn't feel bad about it though, just forget about it, and next time pay someone's bill...sorry for an additional post. I've probably made the OP feel really bad now and more confused....

Do you have a culture? please tell me about it