Thaiberius

You can be 99.9% certain that if you are sending money then she will be supplementing her income one way or another.

The short answer to your question is whatever you are sending won't be enough.

My advice, send nothing.

I had a similar problem the first time I spent a long period in Thailand. Joined a gym and disciplined myself so I went every day I did an online vocational qualification not one of the Mickey Mouse ones you see on the net. Read some books I'd never got round to reading and most importantly tried to stay away from the bars, that was the most difficult. I'd do that for the rest of my life if I could.

At the Ekamai BTS station is a shopping centre called the Gateway. There is a restaurant called Oishi Shabushi in the shopping centre. The concept is you hand over around 300 baht and you eat as much as you like in an hour. The selection is endless, there are static food displays dotted around the restaurant along with uncooked food circulating among the diners on a conveyor belt system very similar to the Japanese food displays you see worldwide. You get a cooking pot in the middle of the table. The food is Japanese/Thai. The food is fresh, the selection is out of this world and an hour is more than enough time to fill up on your calories. There are also plenty of cooked food items like curries etc. Just help yourself. Well worth a visit.

Shabushi is also at MBK, on the 2nd floor I think. The price is actually 349 baht and the time limit is not 1 hour, it's 1 hour 20 minutes. I have also been to Shabushi in Chiang Mai (on the street about 100 m down from the Night Market, on the opposite side of the street) and in Phuket (in Jungceylon) and the price was cheaper in Chiang Mai (279 baht, I believe) but in both places the time limit is 1 hour 20, not 1 hour as you said.

After all this time I've been missing out on 20 minutes.

The OP got his information and acted on it (post 170). 80% of the posts here are just plain being disrespectful to the OPs original post and the OP personally.

Mods: How about closing this. It's just troll bait now.

Or maybe people are expressing an opinion opposite to yours and you don't like it.

At the Ekamai BTS station is a shopping centre called the Gateway. There is a restaurant called Oishi Shabushi in the shopping centre. The concept is you hand over around 300 baht and you eat as much as you like in an hour. The selection is endless, there are static food displays dotted around the restaurant along with uncooked food circulating among the diners on a conveyor belt system very similar to the Japanese food displays you see worldwide. You get a cooking pot in the middle of the table. The food is Japanese/Thai. The food is fresh, the selection is out of this world and an hour is more than enough time to fill up on your calories. There are also plenty of cooked food items like curries etc. Just help yourself. Well worth a visit.

Like many I never ask Thai's about politics, the king etc. Taboo and just asking for trouble. However watching farangs wearing red shirts or yellow shirts or whatever political cult is on the go are just nuggets. On the rare times a Thai has mentioned the army to me - completely unprompted - they have been in favour.

There are some if not many places in the UK where there would be a riot if an Afghan, Hungarian, Palestinian, Iraqi, Palestinian, Polish etc etc flag appeared overnight.

The one common denominator I've found with Thai girls is they are fun to be with, good in bed and all round a nice person. However scratch the surface and you will find that their lives are chaotic, loans, gambling, lying, husband/noyfriend etc. Even worse when they are drunk. I'm quite happy to keep things on a very superficial level for a short time and then that's that. They never change even when you take them out of Thailand. Seen plenty where I have a home in the UK, pushing prams, separated/divorced, no skills to speak of so doing tricks just as they did at home. One may say they are all lo-so but I think there's a fair smattering of hotel receptionists, nurses etc whose skills cannot be utilised in the UK.

I wondered if men feel threaten taking their younger women to their country. I wondered if the relationship would still be the same in the men country, I mean how successful the relationship will be?
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In the men country, some women cannot find skills work so they ended up working at the restaurant or factory or being a housekeeping, although they are highly educated in Thailand, their education cannot translate.

I think you'll find that most if no all Thai women who are "highly educated" are not highly educated compared with a degree in the UK or Germany for example. A degree teaches students to have an enquiring mind, challenge ideas and concepts, learn history from a variety of sources, have tutors/lecturers who encourage independent though and have to be of a certain standard.

Does the above apply to a Thai university? The answer is no. Therefore that is why they fail to find jobs that aren't mundane. One of the very first thing a Thai child learns is not to question what they are told due to the face thing. How then, after attending infant and junior schools are they prepared for university life? The answer is they aren't.

The one common denominator I've found with Thai girls is they are fun to be with, good in bed and all round a nice person. However scratch the surface and you will find that their lives are chaotic, loans, gambling, lying, husband/noyfriend etc. Even worse when they are drunk. I'm quite happy to keep things on a very superficial level for a short time and then that's that. They never change even when you take them out of Thailand. Seen plenty where I have a home in the UK, pushing prams, separated/divorced, no skills to speak of so doing tricks just as they did at home. One may say they are all lo-so but I think there's a fair smattering of hotel receptionists, nurses etc whose skills cannot be utilised in the UK.

Would I be better off heading Aberdeen to try my luck at getting on the rigs in the north sea to start me off?

 
Well yes, thats the normal progession, work in your own country for X number of years and then venture into the international game

I don't know if you have your BOSIET/MIST but try inundating the companies on oilcareers.com with a quality cover letter and a good CV. Don't apply for specific jobs, get your name out there. If anything is easy then try for a roustabout job on a driller, a steward is another option. Companies are looking for offshore experience. Maybe a little padding of your CV but I don't recommend it. As an example a guy I know was in the same situation as you, a Dutch accommodation unit company were desperate to get somebody straight away and after they'd exhausted all possibilities, they called him and he went at short notice. Admittedly they were a s**te company but he got his foot in the door. There are opportunities very very rarely though. There are a couple of things that confuse me;

1. There are very few young men coming into the industry.
2. There are some real nuggets who would never get a job anywhere else and it beats me why they are still offshore.

Just keep plugging away, you never know.

Wind farms are another option but there again it's difficult. Have a look into it.

I work freelance so never work directly for operators, suits me. I see the occasional new guy start and generally they do well because nothing really, especially in drilling and workovers, you don't need to be Einstein.

Remember what Franky said on here though, it sounds good but it needs somebody who can handle all the other stuff that goes with it. I think you're ex-forces so that shouldn't other you too much but anybody expecting it to be a bed of roses will have a hard time. I don't man bullying (I've never seen it in 35 years) but the mindset has to be right.

Good luck.

"But he said he took money from traders to pay the owners of the copyrighted goods," according to Burin, who added the general is now under both criminal and military investigation.

Sounds aboùt right.

I remember years ago they p tested everybody in Lucifers on Walking Street took hours. If the test includes benzo's whicn many take on flights to sleep then I'd be p'd off if they took me away. How about SSRI' s or tricyclic's which many take for depression. Codeiene is an opiate and can be bought in many UK pharmacies.

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Any kind of reasoning, analytical research or argument is not going to happen in Thai schools. My Thai mate in the UK has a restaurant and bases all of his decision for the restaurant based on the conversation he has with a wooden doll every morning. A bit like a Thai Keith Allen.

You wrote, "Any kind of reasoning, analytical research or argument is not going to happen in Thai schools"

Thailand has 197 institutions of higher learning. Of these, 76 are public (excluding universities for the religious training of monks). These 76 institutes can be categorized as 16 well established public universities, 2 open universities, 41 rajabhat universities, 9 universities of technology, 8 antonomous universities, 58 university extension campuses, 32 private universities, and 31 private colleges that offer bachelor programs.

The Education Council estimated that the number of new students enrolled in bachelors programs in Thailand between 2007 and 2016 will be approximately 500,000 each year.

But I'll bet you never graduated from college did you?

Thank for your comment.

The average Thai degree is about the same as A levels in the UK. They carry no weight at all. Without breaking any rules I'm sure you'll understand that questioning. analytical thought along with research is pretty basic because of the cultural restraints placed upon students. Without being too specific I'm sure you'll understand.

As for myself I have two UK degrees. One in mechanical engineering and the second in computing.

In Hong Kong they have cute little nurses scanning all incoming passengers with some sort of temperature reading camera.

A good soapie with a couple of beauties may help and you'll kill an hour or two in the process.

They've been there years. I think it's 2000 baht for a cigarette end, same same for anything that might drop out of your pocket. If you are prepared to barter they will take you round the corner for a 200 baht pay-off. They pay special attention to those coming out of coffee shops who drop the stirring spatula. They have nice uniforms but what authority they have I don't know.

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But they can be imitated (in some cases)

My lunch today in the Phichai hospital foodhall.Pad Kapow Moo (sounds like that to me) and two marinated and barbequed pork skewers

Khao neow?

Why eat quality fresh food when you can have delicious 711 plastic microwave food

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Dont knock 7/11 tosated sandwiches....ham and cheese and sausage and cheese are outstanding.

Only after enough Leo to drown a buffalo.

Is this the best looking back end of a harvester youv ever seen or what ?

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Farang, he go clazy hab kwai with petron.

I see some girls with a space hoppa guy in his twenties and wonder how on earth the coital connection is made. Just an observation.

I'm in agreement with the poster who says beating women is as bad as child abuse. Disgusts me.

The daytime street stall next to the entrance to Nana Plaza does a roaring trade, always full. Ticks all the boxes as for food turnover etc but I wouldn't go there if I was paid. There are two or three ratruns right where the stall is. I've sat in Zen Bar a few times watching the rats scuttling around.

No.  I have lived in Pattaya and 4 other towns in Thailand but I did not meet my wife in Pattaya.  I would guess that most Farang met wives in Bangkok.  5 million women is a lot of women. 
 
Where did you meet all the bad smelly alcoholic men?  Surly not in Thailand.  Everyone I know showers at least twice a day here.  It is not like Europe no one here smells bad.   I walked up and down Beach road after dinner last weekend and must have passed a thousand fellows and none smelled bad.  Where are you writing from?
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Just go to he mall to experience a real BO Pattaya Farang. Dipping oneself on the beach after a few beers does not constitute a shower.
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I was at Central Mall Pattaya for 6 hours.  Never ran into  a foul smelling person.  What mall are you talking about?
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I saw a farang wearing beige shorts in a shopping mall who had clearly followed through at some point during the day. Either he didn't know or didn't care. On that particular day everybody I met was fragrant. In fact very rarely do I encounter a less than fragrant person.
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What shopping mall?
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Terminal 21, very close to the information desks where the very pretty ladies in Terminal 21 uniform do their nails or Facebook their friends. Occasionally they will answer a question but not very often. Maybe that's where beige shorts had been to ask where a toilet was and couldn't get an answer in time. Only guessing though.