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So, who's up for an unagi-don style feast tonight?

That's eel isn't dude?

Sure is. Who says you can't do the same with snake?

Wasnt all that long ago that most Angrits only took a bath ONCE a year.

omg, you are so racist. I am going to have to report you.

So, who's up for an unagi-don style feast tonight?

The OP is female, and an Americanised (Americanized?) Thai

Okay. Campbell Street is "Thaitown". C Bar is where you will find a lot of Thais having a tipple in the evenings. Spice I Am (past the bridge) used to be a very popular restaurant with Thais, but there are fewer Thais eating there now because prices rose and became way too popular with farang. Thainatown and Guay Tiaw as a result are much more popular. If you like Thai/English/Japanese/Korean karaoke, head to Echo Point on Pitt Street. There are plenty of Thais there. There are also heaps of well-off Thais in Randwick. Check out Thai-Oz, Thai Media, and Fresh Thai to see Thai-oriented events taking place. Hope you have a very happy Australian Thai experience

Just before anyone starts on the Russians (or some other race) I'd better remind everybody that racism is not tolerated on the Forum (please see the rules)... so in order to keep this thread alive and kicking, let's just keep it to farangs in general...

OK?

I am English, and I know that many members of my own nationality smell. Washing in England is not really a priority for most people. All I am saying is that other nationalities should not be allowed to get away unscathed. Americans and Germans really do have a bad BO rep amongst Thais; I'm not making it up!

Why are people solely blaming the English? The problem also lies with Americans, and of course... Germans. Germans. Germans. Germans.

Find a new job as soon as you can, and don't hang around. It's not worth it, irrespective if the problem is with the OP or with the company. Or both!

Somehow I don't think people will be turning up in droves in Singapore.

Don't you mean Dek Hor/Dorm?

the amusement arcades on george st?

Nope.

But this is the funny thing. I didn't and still don't realise how Aussie I am. I have assimilated into Australian culture. I know all the Aussie TV personalities, have enthusiasm for Australian current affairs and events and so on. But for some funny reason, old country or not, I am still English. It's still important to me.

When I lived in Thailand, I thought I was dead set English, but looking back now I realise that I preferred flip flops to closed toe shoes in the 90s, wore what Thai teens wore, celebrated Thai holidays enthusiastically and went through Thai fads and so on outside of school.

My sister told me last night that on her first day of school in Australia, someone told her 'seeya', but she didn't know what it meant as she didn't understand the accent at all... I laughed until I cried... she was also really upset that day because she was given a map of Australia and was instructed to draw in the state boundaries and state/national capitals. She got 1/10 for putting Melbourne on the map. The upside is that she tells me she is a very happy Aussie, uses seeya all the time and knows all the capitals, where to put them and how many states and territories there are. It's the little things that count

He did suggest though, once we moved back to the UK, of changing both our names to my maiden name as people in the UK do have a problem with pronouncing his even though it is very short & quite simple (English mentalitiy I suppose, it isn't an English name so lets make it as complicated as possible to say, instead of reading the letters & forming the word!!!)

That is such a good idea. I don't think I could go back to England or to Vietnam with my Vietnamese partner's name once we get married. English people won't be able to pronounce it, and Vietnamese people would get the impression that I am overseas Vietnamese and Australians would think I'm Asian Australian. Food for thought.

Im from the Uk but i've been living in sydney for the last year.. my girlfriends in thailand now but was living with me and we went to the pavillion all the time.. Small world. How old is your mrs? maybe she's friends with my mrs

I'm sure I used to drink in there when I was in Sydney - is it near star bar on George St? cheap drinks iirc.....$2.50 schooners?

Cant remember seeing any Thai girls when I was in there (trust me I woulve spotted them ).................but, then again I usually couldnt see anything .

Anybody in Thai society in Sydney would know where to find the Thai girls (and guys) all congregated in one place. I'll leave y'all to find out for yourselves. If you don't already know, then they've been going there without you

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and here it comes.......................

You can take the girl out of the bar but not the bar out of the girl. (This is true....but only if your name is Thaipro or if you are a loser like him.)

Ah, come on... leave the old fart and his last century ideas alone. It's entertainment.

Regarding my comment on political science, I will clarify that New Zealand has minimal requirement in the work place or the civil service for people with arts degree knowledge specifically; the reality is most of the arts students do just fine getting jobs in either teaching at school (usually another subject) or sales or some other area which is not specifically related to whatever they studied. I am sure that if many people studied the arts, the country would probably be a bit better off in some way, and a major property developer Robert Jones used to only hire BAs for this reason (his company is since going bust, I don't think the two are related ).

As with many of those sorts of subjects, the demand for people who know a little about that subject is basically very low other than the Asian language specific courses (e.g. Mandarin), while there is some demand for people who know a lot about a subject (e.g. a PhD can lecture it, or move overseas to work for people like the UN). By comparison law, finance, accounting, food technology, engineering and architecture are all inherently practical practioner type subjects at undergrad level and therefore the small amount of knowledge acquired in an undergrad degree is quite applicable to what someone would need to know to do a job in that discipline in NZ. Plus language is usually an elective these days for biz grads....

If you still are not believing this.... go into a New Zealand jobs website, and I doubt all the bachelor of arts related jobs would even match just the accounting jobs. In other countries it is probably very different, and this is not my joke, it was the standard joke. And it isn't helped by the issue that when I graduated, there were 2000 biz students and about 20,000 arts students, and I don't knw of a single arts one personally that went into a career using their major.

Incidentally, the joke that the arts students used to tell in retaliation was to write BCOM (bachelor of commerce) on each sheet of a roll of toilet paper (i.e. that the degree was that easy to get, which for the most part it was). Well, hard to believe that this university is supposedly in the top 300 in the world, but there you have it.

I think you're missing the point. You don't go to a decent university simply to learn content and spew forth on exam papers. That's what high school is for. It's also meant to be about learning how to learn without being spoonfed, how to meet deadlines, how to be proactive, how to write with precision, clarity, good grammar and syntax etc., teamwork, and working under pressure and time constraints. Any decent university should enforce and instil these things in their students. I never went through with my accounting major because the knowledge I obtained through the minor is enough for me.

You can do an accounting minor in an Arts degree. hel_l, you can do an accounting major in an Arts degree here, providing the other major is an Arts major. At one time I thought doing accounting would be great as I could always find a job, but the reality is the reason why so many jobs in accounting are out there is because it is as boring as hel_l. Most people leave it within a year because they don't want to be stuck in auditing or doing tax returns for people with infinitely more interesting jobs than theirs. I worked in tax in my first year of uni. I asked my manager in my first week what he did when all the tax returns were done. To my naive suprise, his answer was to do them all over again. He had already done this for 25 years. Yawn!

I'm seriously doubting the value of a NZ degree here after seeing you write volumes of theoretical diarrhoea. Don't forget, 69.96% of statistics are all made up.

Maybe you would also like to know that most 'news' in the States (especially!), the UK, NZ and Australia you see is simply media release content that was penned by some PR company with very good connections.

I have never pretended to be a political scientist, I haven't ever studied it, and in fact the standing joke at the university I attended was

Q 'What did the BA graduate (i.e. political science, philosophy, sociology) say to the business grad?'

A 'Would you like fries with that order?'

This is in part because New Zealand has almost no need to these disciplines due to its size so people study these subjects for fun, for various family reasons there was never an option for me to study things at university 'for fun'

That is ridiculous and single-minded. Just because someone does arts at uni doesn't mean the only thing they are fit for is fast food service. There is a romantic Western notion that places importance on happiness and self-fulfilment that I rarely see in Asian culture unless it is among the elite. I'm not saying all Westerners subscribe to this notion - I myself did a Commerce degree for utalitarian reasons but if I do a Masters, it will purely be for my own enjoyment and not just 'useful' at face value.

Plus there's many people who do BAs in conjunction with degrees such as Law and Medicine precisely because majors like philosophy, sociology, political science, Latin and Greek add value to those degrees. And as for those who do it for the pleasure - good on them. They are the lucky ones.

It's you who makes the qualification, not the other way around. A close relative of mine was a chartered accountant and was a CFO, owner of an Indian restuarant in South America, a real estate business owner and various other things.

And my qualifications work for me, too. Who says that you have to be what your qualifications (or lack thereof) dictate? We all have opportunities to some extent and the onus is on us to find and utilise them.

That's it - go for the jugular.

There's two sides to every story. It's especially tough being a human being trying to provide for and emotionally support a family while simultaneously being in a position of responsibility to a government and its people.

there's www.siampet.com as well with a forum on it. Nai pasa thai taw nun...

The only sign I saw at Arrivals at Don Muang was "All beef allowed except British beef". Gave me something to chuckles about since they're so lax most other things.

The site's great. I'd rather spend my money on singers other than Parn, though. Personal choice, nothing to do with her

'Seven', a group of already famous pop singers including Nat Myria, Nicole, Marsha etc have a few nice ones out too... and Palmy has karaeokeable songs; most of them are really upbeat and funky.

But you should seriously consider Joey Boy, even though he's not a female... he did some great rap for Bakery Music in the 90s.

Just do as I'm doing now: I'm learning with a Thai student who is learning french, so we can have french-thai conversation. I've been to some school before, and this student is even better than any "official" (this is Thailand...) teacher I had before!

It depends on what you want to get out of it... if you want to learn conversational Thai, then that is fine... but not all Thai you learn is the same, just as not all English you learn is the same or all French is the same. For example, academic written English is different to what you would use if you were holding a conversation with a close friend, a colleague at work, writing a letter to your mother or an email to a client. English is spoken and written differently in the States, the UK, Australia, New Zealand etc.

Here's the University's website: http://www.ru.ac.th/english/index.html

Learning in a group really sounds stupid to me (when will you have time to speak?). Kind of thai habit...

I'm now learning how to write with my language partner and it's just perfext.

But people can go and waste their money at Chula if they want!

With a response like that, it is clear you did not read a word of what I wrote. The OP wants to further his language skills, and is not a beginner like yourself. You know nothing of the content nor delivery of the suggested courses. Furthermore, since the OP is already in Thailand, and has Thai friends he has plenty of opportunity for conversational practice. Oh, wait... forgot that you don't read Thai sufficiently enough to read what the OP wrote. Or English for that matter, since the OP mentions he has 2 Thai friends in the second sentence.

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