angelparadise

Just an update on our weekend in Bangkok.....it went very well but maybe not as expected !

Our friends were quoted big money for Bengals (45k) and Maine Coons (50k) so they decided to look at Persians on Pantip online.

We made several appointments to view on Saturday and Sunday and our friends were quite keen on a Silver Chinchilla male.They had phoned the guy who advertised up and he said he was away on Saturday but you can view him on Sunday.

When Sunday came they phoned him and he said it was OK to view at 6pm in the evening ! Our friends said we were due to fly out of Bangkok at that time so would it be possible to view around lunchtime ?

The guy was pretty dismissive and said it was difficult to get the cat ready for then as he had to be showered and groomed (thats the cat,not the seller !).He also said he was planning to take the cat to a friends petshop on Sukhumvit in the late afternoon for show.

I think this is why he wasnt too bothered about viewing because he had already arranged this with his friend.So why bother advertising him for sale the previous week !

So our friends were left disappointed but they might go again in a few weeks time to see what is available.

However we had a couple of viewings on the Saturday.One place in Bang Na the Persian kittens were very cute and well cared for.Our friends werent too keen on the colours but there was a little tabby male kitten who sat on our small sons lap and purred.

Well,I think maybe you can guess the outcome ! "Dad,do you think we could......."

So we ended up buying him ! Also they offered us a female for free.Three months old,very unusual silver grey colour with white feet dark blue eyes and a black face ! I have to admit shes absolutely gorgeous and the boy cat is very cute as well.

So,our family,who went along for the ride ended up with two kittens and our friends,who set out to buy,came home empty handed.

Both kittens have settled in well and no infighting with our other cats.They have been named Ronaldo and Rihanna........sad,I know !

so cute!!!! any pictures now? wow...i digged out an old post...

ok, I'll bite

1. Your gender, age, relationship status

Male, 38, married, 2 kids

My personality: extremely unsensitive

2. Your analysis of these two persons' personality. If you can directly link your analysis with quoting their words, it would be better

Woman: very emotional, very self-centered, she doesn't make much sense at all in what she writes at the beginning. She seems to be under the influence of an emotional shock.

Man: normal - can't say much about him, I wonder what this DM training is and why it is so important, but I understand he's jobless and the training might be his way into a job.

3. Is the woman too demanding or the man is not sensitive enough?

Difficult to say.

I guess the woman failed the communication because it was a chat and not a phone conversation or a face to face conversation.

I think it would have taken a different turn if she had been able to cozy herself in the man's arms and show her tears (or on the phone he could have heard her sobbing and asked what was wrong).

In a computer chat, the man had no chance to see her body language, and what she wrote made no sense, even she fed him false or irrelevant information.

The man's requests for information were met with replies that implied he did something wrong.

4. Do you advice these two people to work out problems and try to date each other or they better off find other people?

I don't know. The relationship might work if they are physically together and if they know each other better.

If I was the man - and judging from his answers in the chat, I could be that man - I wouldn't want a relationship with a person who is unable to express herself in an understandable way if put a little bit under stress and begins to hysterically lash out at everybody.

And... that's not a person who should manage a big project either.

About finding other people: if such behavior is normal for the woman, then yes, they both better find other people. I know one woman who has a similar character, an over-the-top emotional manipulator, and I feel bad when I am anywhere near her.

5. Any other general comment that is helpful in find out how people should deal with gender caused issue in relationship?

I can't see that this is gender caused.

The woman was under shock and her cognitive functions were obviously too impaired to properly communicate over a written media in her state of shock/hysteria.

I would say the failure in communication is due to the choice of means of communication: computer chat.

If they had communicated face to face, the man would have noticed her distress and probably reacted differently.

On the other hand, when I look at the chat timestamps, I wonder how much time she needs to come to her senses?

thanks a lot. i had a better idea in setting my hypothesis in this test research.

Background:

We are a group of sociology students wanted to see how gender difference influence relationship. We used a real conversation in this test. We think somewhat it reflects some common issues people face in relationship. Some personal information has been desensitized. We want to put this post in male forum and female forum and generate response. Please kindly help us.

This is a conversation between a woman and a man. The woman is a busy working professional. The man was a busy working professional but now taking long holiday to travel and taking course. They met in a trip. They were kinda dating each other. The man said he really likes the woman. The woman was not sure whether the man is right for her, but they agree to give a bit try. They spend a whole month together and now live in two different cities. (she is in B CITY, he is in T city) They haven’t seen each other for a month.

The context of this conversation is, the woman was facing a huge challenge from work. Someone made up a trouble and made it big, so the big boss stop her project that she has been working on for 6 months, just 5 days before the deliver day. She had to end it, 1 day before the deliver day, because otherwise it will drag more people into trouble. She has been in pain for more than a day.

Please help out if you can carefully read through all details, we’ll appreciate your genuine advise or analysis.

Please do not judge and comment without objectively understand the conversation.

We want to know

1. Your gender, age, relationship status

2. Your analysis of these two persons’ personality. If you can directly link your analysis with quoting their words, it would be better

3. Is the woman too demanding or the man is not sensitive enough?

4. Do you advice these two people to work out problems and try to date each other or they better off find other people?

5. Any other general comment that is helpful in find out how people should deal with gender caused issue in relationship?

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Yesterday15:09:53: Woman: Reply me after u came out, can u pass B city to fly oversea?

Yesterday19:27:57: Man: Geez what an exhausting day, Feel totally burnt out.

Yesterday19:30:40: Man: I'm gonna check prices of total trip, then choose the best option. So not sure if I'll be through B city.

Yesterday19:31:16: Woman: I cancelled my trip. Come to B city

Yesterday19:32:15: Man: Why did you cancel your trip?

Yesterday19:54:15: Woman: I had to right

Yesterday20:00:30: Woman: I wanted to come directly to your place.

Yesterday20:36:26: Man: Huh?

Yesterday20:40:31: Woman: Wow you replied my previous message with an "huh" not "come to me baby"

Yesterday20:43:50: Man: Ya cause your two sentences together don't make sense

Yesterday20:43:58: Man: So I said huh

Yesterday20:44:32: Man: Since I asked a question of why did you cancel your trip and got that as a response

Yesterday20:46:37: Woman: You can say come to me and figure out later

Yesterday20:49:00: Man: If you want to come, you're welcome of course. Just be aware that I'm pushing my DM training much harder and intensely now

Yesterday20:49:14: Man: I'm doing a new level starting in February

Yesterday21:17:49: Man: ?

Yesterday21:23:24: Woman: Well let's see about that! So u almost ready for new level?

Yesterday21:23:34: Woman: ?

Yesterday21:58:43: Woman: Sigh, I think I was imagining a guy that could comfort me give me the safety I need and then help me out of desperateness. Who can't wait to see me.

Yesterday21:58:51: Woman: I don't know

Yesterday21:59:12: Woman: Maybe that's not you, it's someone I imagined?

Yesterday22:06:15: Man: Maybe

Yesterday22:06:39: Man: Or maybe its me telling you that I'm doing a program

Yesterday22:07:01: Man: And my time would be limited

Yesterday22:09:20: Man: I'm really tired. I was up late chatting with you lastnight, then up early and today was exhausting

Yesterday22:09:37: Man: So I'm going to sleep. Can barely keep my eyes open

Yesterday22:09:52: Man: Goodnight

Yesterday22:10:02: Man: Sweet dreams

Yesterday22:10:18: Woman: I m not good

Yesterday22:10:21: Woman: But

Yesterday22:10:26: Woman: Go sleep

Yesterday22:11:06: Man: You're not in danger and your parents are at home

Yesterday22:11:24: Man: So you don't need protection and safety

Yesterday22:11:26: Woman: Right that's exactly why I m out in a bar

Yesterday22:11:44: Man: Well that's your choice

Yesterday22:11:45: Woman: Bcos I can't be sad at home

Yesterday22:12:09: Man: It's your home

Yesterday22:12:28: Woman: Not that I don't wanna be thoughtful for you

Yesterday22:12:53: Woman: But I killed my baby I had for more than 6 months

Yesterday22:13:04: Woman: I did everything for it

Yesterday22:13:08: Man: Huh?

Yesterday22:13:14: Woman: I killed it myself today

Yesterday22:13:36: Woman: Bcos they want me to surrender

Yesterday22:13:45: Woman: It's not easy

Yesterday22:13:56: Man: What are you talking about?

Yesterday22:16:10: Woman: And a guy who likes me who claim that he likes me will not say " you are out in a bar, it's your choice" " oh you wanna come and see me ?( bcos I wanna spent this time I m finally free and also seek for a peace of mind from someone that I can rely on who I needed when I m weak) you are welcome but I don't have much time for you"

Yesterday22:26:54: Man: I understand you're upset with losing out on your trip, but the world doesn't revolve around you. Ya you're at a bar and it is your choice. No one is forcing you to be there. There isn't a gun to your head that says you must be in a bar. Yes, I'm busy, doing a program that I've paid a lot of money to do. So, no, I don't have a ton of free time.

Yesterday22:27:01: Man: You may be generous with your time and money when it comes to the project and kids, but you're fairly shallow and selfish when it comes to me

Yesterday22:27:07: Man: As they appear to be better people than I could ever be

Yesterday22:27:09: Man: I think you need to find your guy friends you keep comparing me to, and get them to comfort you

Yesterday22:27:20: Man: I'm sleeping now. Night.

Yesterday22:31:18: Woman: I think it'll be childish for me to demand u to skip ur course etc for a weekend with me, (actually, really? I think it's legitimate to ask), if I only have one 2days weekend and I wanna spend with you, with all this travel etc, I think it's pretty significant. As thoughtful I am, I wasn't going to demand you, I was just hoping you would say, ok I can't cancel my course, but I can try to finish early and spend time with you.

Today14:20:10: Woman: It doesn't matter anymore. It doesn't change the fact that you no longer has feeling for me. If we had this fight in person and we have to sleep together later. It might be glued back.

Today14:21:34: Woman: Just quite a misfortune when we finally had some smooth time together at the end when we were together. Now it turned back to things like this.

Today19:26:20: Man: My feelings are still there. It's your expectations that are too high for me to reach

Today19:26:31: Man: I still like you a lot

Today19:27:21: Man: But I can't live up to your expectations while doing my stuff

Today19:27:34: Man: A weekend is different than two weeks

Today19:28:00: Man: And you know I've signed up for an internship with a schedule

Today19:28:19: Man: And my oversea trip is a set date as well

Today19:28:29: Man: Can't change that

Today19:40:46: Woman: Remember what did I do when you want a week of my time while I obviously do not have much free time? I moved with you, to maximize the time you can spend with me. I wanted sleep but Everytime I went along with you, tried to make you happy.

Today19:45:40: Woman: I wanted to come to see you, let it be 2 days or 2 weeks. Thinking that I'll be protected and loved. I will no longer come to bother you, you paid so much for the course and you are so tired diving everyday already. Your limited time, I should let you sleep, eat well. Not to ask you to hug me tight so i'll feel better.

Today19:50:54: Woman: Good luck, pick the cheapest way to Country S, have fun with your friends. There are so much pain in my heart, so much suffer that I do not deserve, to the point I only want to sleep get drunk sleep, I slept for a whole day, cos every other moment awake feels pain. It's ok, you will not understand. So it's not helping even if I talk to you right? I wonder why you are the first person I called when I got back to the country. I wonder why I wanted to see you after canceling the trip?

Today19:53:05: Woman: Right, I am selfish and shallow to you. I was still arranging you a job in B City and running around when I was oversea looking for Reese candy.

Today19:55:01: Woman: I don't mind a more expensive round trip ticket to T city just that I get more time out of two days with you. You told me you need to choose a cheaper way to Country S.

Today19:55:56: Woman: Do what's best for you. I thank you for your help.

Today20:10:56: Woman: Oh did I mention jan 22-23 is an important day in my culture, I wanted you to come to B City also for that? It's ok I knew you won't understand it. Really? Is it that significant? Maybe not. So cheaper way to Country S worth probably more.

Today20:35:35: Man: I don't have a job, and you know that I blew a months budget in the first week I was in B City.

Today20:36:17: Man: I have no way to make that back, except to reduce spending money

Today20:36:38: Man: I didn't know you ran around in your oversea trip looking for candy

Today20:37:54: Man: I don't get why you need to get drunk

Today20:38:03: Man: You choose that

Today20:43:18: Woman: Ironically, now. What I remembered was the nice time we had together.

Today20:43:58: Woman: You are probably a guy that I've seen with the lowest possible EQ ever.

Today20:44:18: Woman: I happen to be a delicate woman.

Today20:45:34: Man: Give me a break. You're an adult woman, not a child

Today20:45:50: Man: Do you really need to be babied

Today20:46:52: Woman: You will surely have your break.

Today20:47:11: Woman: I'll try to think of you

Today20:47:47: Woman: Try to memorize you as a guy that really liked me

Today20:50:15: Man: Its not past tense

Today20:51:19: Man: I already told you, you're welcome to come to T city.

Today20:53:51: Man: Okay, guess you're gone. Well take care. Xoxo.

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Please leave us your analysis. Appreciated a lot.

We want to know

1. Your gender, age, relationship status

2. Your analysis of these two persons’ personality. If you can directly link your analysis with quoting their words, it would be better

3. Is the woman too demanding or the man is not sensitive enough?

4. Do you advice these two people to work out problems and try to date each other or they better off find other people?

5. Any other general comment that is helpful in find out how people should deal with gender caused issue in relationship?

no one knows any 3rd country US visa experience?

Dear all

This is a non-Thai friend’s situation in preparing for a US B1/B2 visa in bangkok. See if any of you would be able to provide some useful information. He is very worried, as his case looks very solid but if the visa officer wanted to be harsh, it can be difficult too.

1. he is not a Thai citizen, but stayed in Thailand for 6 year now. finished 1st bachelor degree, now on the 2nd degree, currently on the student visa staying in thailand, there are 2 more years to finish the 2nd degree.

2. He is a public speaking coach for a thai high school while studying. He was awarded the national champion by the former US ambassador ( will the photograph with the former US ambassador help the visa in anyway?)

But due to the excellent training results, the high school is offering him a full time contract now, they will also offer work permit and etc from May 2011.

3. Now he is selected to be the coach for the national team to a US championship. Take a group of high school students. So he need to applied a US B1/B2 visa. The school will pay for all the expenses for him. (since school is going to fully funded, is his bank balance still important? )

4. He is currently struggling and paranoid in getting a visa because of the short notice and a bad experience with US embassy 5 years ago. He applied a J1 work and travel program as a foreign student in Thailand, at that time he only stayed in Thailand less than 1 year. So they rejected the visa on “no strong ties”, despite his scholarship and straight A grade. He has never tried to go to US ever since. However he has been to Canada, NZ, Australia, Ireland, Japan, Korea, Singapore and etc about 15 countries in the past 6 years of stay in Thailand.

5. He bought an apartment in Bangkok, but due to certain legal procedures and the contract, the apartment is not under his name yet. However, he can show the contract that he signed with the Seller and the past 6 months of Housing Loan receipts and the payment receipt to the seller. Is that enough to prove his purchase of the apartment? (given the housing payment haven’t complete, does that become a tie to return to Thailand?)

6. His questions include “My current appointment is on March 14, and we are supposed to fly on March 21 or 22.Do I have enough time for the visa to process just in case there are additional documents needed for my case? How long does it take to get the passport back given the visa is granted”

7. The most important question, how should him, as a foreign nationals, establish the ties with Thailand? For him it make no sense to return to his home country to do this visa as in the past 6 years he is in Thailand primarily, logistically it’s impossible too. After attending the tournament in the US, he will come back to Thailand to sign the contract with the school.

8. what are the specific document in this case that you would recommend to have to take to the interview?

9. Do you guys know any story that a foreign nationals has obtained a US visa from Bangkok? What’s the story? Thanks for sharing the information!!

***currently we know one of our friend, who hold a indian passport, has similar travel experiences, currently a 4th year student in a well known university, got her 10 year B1/B2. it was very easy for her.

hey everyone

can anyone tell me

whether now go to cambodia by bus is still possible?

i planned to go to cambodia over land this week

but i heard the boarder were closed?

so only option is to fly???

Boarder is open. Go

Thank you so much,

so i can take a normal route to boarder, cross the boarder, then hire a taxi to siam riep?

what about the safety issue?

is it safe to travel now?

is there still tourists or visa run people around?

assuming there must still be troops there?

just came back to thailand from oversea, so don't know the situation much

hey everyone

can anyone tell me

whether now go to cambodia by bus is still possible?

i planned to go to cambodia over land this week

but i heard the boarder were closed?

so only option is to fly???

hey hey!!

i went to airport to send off friends

and i found out they opened the re-entry corner again

and the airport stuff told me it opens from 6-12midnight?

is there any formal policy to confirm this?

thanks

i was a bit tempted by the latest kindle...

but i don't know whether i should stop wasting money and settling with reading from ibook from iphone.

hehe..

would you really recommend to buy a kindle?

hehe, sorry about my vague description

several years ago i used to go to the downtown immigration, i think near wireless road, near those embassies.

but i just checked from the map samut prakhan is near chaopaya right?

ok i think my friends will be staying around Ramkamhaeng Rd.Near Rama9

so where is the best choice?

thank you so much though~!

ahh, ok, not sure about the cambodia boarder whether they can issue VOA to thailand...

so yea, sounds better for a re-entry.

but where else can they do this re-entry?

only that really far away grand immigration place?

or does the downtown one still works on Saturday>?

hey Dear all

i have two friends who hold chinese passport with a Thai TR visa and plan to stay in thailand for a month

fly in and out from bangkok

but in the middle, they want to go visit Cambodia

but usually the TR visa are single entry

so i wonder,

should they go to cambodia and come back and get a VOA at the cambodia boarder

or should they get an re-entry on that Thai Tourist visa

or should they just try to apply a multiple entry TR visa in China?

Thanks for your advice.

Did you make a lost/stolen report to the Police?

if the police was ever going to work that hard,

i think we'll have a much better society, don't u think so?

sigh

Thanks for your reply

this is what i actually did today

i went to pantip and distribute posters and flyers about it

i m also distributing flyers to taxi drivers...

i was going to say 50000baht for the returning of the suitcase...

do you think this is a good figure?

If 50,000 baht won't get your suitcase back, nothing will (along with some very tedious work on your part). Since you are still determined to try (against the odds), just get the word out every way you can. I'd go back to the exact location, same time, same everything and talk to any drivers or baggage helpers or whatever, distributing your flyers.

I hope you have a very lucky day soon Angel!

Thank you so much

I mean,

This means so much for me

I uploaded the files of the flyers

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/Lost-Suitcas...le-t360442.html

if you can, can u print out some and distribute them at your convenience?

I really really appreciated...

I posted the first post about the lost suitcase in this post

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/Help-Lost-Ca...-L-t358426.html

then i have tried a lot of ways in trying the last bit to find it

though i know the hope is slim

but i really want the person who has the laptop to know

i m willing to pay twice as much as he could sold to anyone to buy it back

and my other stuff in the suitcase

It's just too painful to take this.

I woke up in deep sorrow everyday in the morning..

I need my working files,

I need my 10,000pictures...

I need all my efforts in past years...

God...

I need a Miracle

So i need to accumulate everyone's effort to help me to do that

It's farely simple at this stage

It's just to distribute the poster and flyers to every corner of Bangkok

Let them know i will pay any price to take the things back

I attached two files

one is for computer shops, blackmarket, secondhand market etc

the 2nd one is for taxi companies, taxi drivers, people who know that industry well

All my dear friends, please just help me to print them out, photocopy them and distribute them to each pink taxi that you took

if you need to go to computer plaza, like fortune, pantip, or anywhere like a 2nd hand shop or any black market

please give them the poster about the computer

I Thank You!!!

My strength to distribute all these are too small

but with all of you,

I m sure the offer would tempt the person who took my stuff for profit..

PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD AND HELP MEAttention_to_Taxi_Driver__Thai_.docAttention_to_Taxi_Driver__Thai_.doc

Attention_to_computer_shops_thai_.doc

Have you ever considered that it is not the driver who has the bag? Perhaps the next fare he picked up took it.

it's not very possible,

cos the entire carry on was on the front seat...

no passenger can sit on the front seat nor can anyone took it without the driver's notice

What do you mean 'no passenger can sit on the front seat'?

Why was the bag in the front seat with you in the back seat?

That's where i was confused. If it was my bag it would have been sitting next to me, attached to me etc. and I would have felt a bit lost without it if I had got out of the taxi without it.

Anyway, each to their own.

Good luck with your search.

i know, usually the carry on suitcase is in the back trunk with the big luggage

but this time i have too many pieces of luggage, the back trunk is full, and i have two bags with me in the back seat

then the driver put the carry on suitcase on the front seat

sigh....i know..

i know i should have put it next to me

even though it will be pile up..

but....sigh...

The taxi driver likely sold your laptop the same night to a pawnshop or computer shop the next morning. After that the shop owner would remove your pink sticker and erase all personal data (still possible to retrieve lost data) to make it next to impossible to recognize in case it was stolen. The reason for that is under Thai law whoever gets caught with the stolen goods is liable unless you can find the perpetrator and prove it. There is no such thing as buying in good faith here.

So your best bet after hiring a private investigator would be to find whoever removed your pink sticker and resold your notebook. For that you can post a reward for the computer or information leading to its retrieval on all major online thai second hand markets.

You should include serial number and as much information in Thai as you possibly can gather about the computer.

In addition to that you could go down to pantip plaza and ask around in the second hand notebook shops.

You would also have to make it very clear you are willing to pay a nice reward in addition to buying the notebook back at market price or higher.

The chances of actually finding the notebook are still extremely slim but that's how I would go about things if I found myself in your shoes.

Best of luck!

EDIT: The key for this to work is a good reward that makes shop owners ask around because few people lifts a finger here without being paid.

Thanks for your reply

this is what i actually did today

i went to pantip and distribute posters and flyers about it

i m also distributing flyers to taxi drivers...

i was going to say 50000baht for the returning of the suitcase...

do you think this is a good figure?

Have you ever considered that it is not the driver who has the bag? Perhaps the next fare he picked up took it.

it's not very possible,

cos the entire carry on was on the front seat...

no passenger can sit on the front seat nor can anyone took it without the driver's notice

does anyone think,

pay the policeman will work?

i m just thinking with their capacity

can they actually think of something better to help me?

or are they able to screen the taxi out for me?

There is some small chance, that a good professional private eye co. would be able to digitally enhance the cctv vid clip enough to get the reg. number. Assuming AOT would co-operate. (bearing in mind you were intentionally cutting them out of their 50bht taxi fee!)

Assume you reported it to the local Police station to get a police report number for your travel or house insurance claim?

I know that doesn't replace the lost content, but it would help replace the clothes & computer.

i checked the video myself...with some friends...

it's really far and dark

since it's at night

we felt frustrated then we didn't ask AOT to keep the record

I am afraid it erased the files already...

i want the professional detective to grass out the driver and the car for me though

i m sure within that limited cars

i can find out the car i sit in

but i need someone to screen them out and contact the taxi companies

Small chance but did work for me - report the serial number of the laptop with Acer Thailand if you have it handy. If anybody sends the laptop in for maintenance Acer will (or should) call you to let you know they've found it.

I had a HTC phone stolen two years ago, but the phone was registered with HTC when I first bought it. Six months later my missus got a phone call from HTC saying somebody had handed it in to get it serviced. The guy who handed it in purchased it from somebody online and was looking to get it refurbished. The phone memory was still intact also!

Long shot, but still worth a try.

wow....this is good, i m going to call Acer center tomorrow.

I thought about there must be a way to track the lost computer through serial number....

You have my full sympathy!I am absentminded like hel_l,once I left my laptop in bus - After chasing the bus route for halh an hour - I found it on my seat;

yesterday - I left it in street restaurant having breakfast,waiter chased me 200 mtrs. down the street to hand it back.

You have a chance to get it back:post ads in Thai newspapers,community FM stations,what else?You can hire private eye(they can be very usefull).Promise very high reward,

may be somebody grass the taxidriver.

i want the private eye i want them....

where can i hire a private detective????

god....

i want it back i want it back....

Geez there must be very important files on that computer!

7 years of data and you never backed up?!

Losing a notebook usually is nothing more than a minor inconvenience.

Are you worried some files might make their way to the internet

Yeah that's what I was thinking. Maybe someone has a "colorful" history they don't want revealed. Then again if she's unattractive I don't see any of the contents ever making their way to the internet.

Thanks for making me laugh at midnight,

well,

you know what

i sincerely wish i have the scandalous pics for them to blackmail me

at least they will contact me

i do have a lot of hot pictures there, that's why i wanted it back

but nothing scandalous enough to be on internet i assume...

you gave it a good try. Now think back to all those closets and chests you have rumaged through during you life time. You would find items that remind you of your childhood, first date, when you started school, etc. You say to yourself i can not get rid of that item it because it means so much to you. Before going through the box or closet how many times did you ever pull these items out to look at them to remember these events??? never only when cleaning out or moving. SO as nice as they are for memories be thankfull you have your mind to keep all things wonderfull to you. I understand papers you scanned, documents or whatever. But the originals exist some place probably. Just have to work in finding them.

Sorry you lost the laptop.

great if you get it back but with each day less hope looms around the corner.

thank you for this psychological therapy...

i know...

eventually...

but i still, really need it back

i have so many things that i don't have an extra copy...

i need a way to grass the driver out

You have my full sympathy!I am absentminded like hel_l,once I left my laptop in bus - After chasing the bus route for halh an hour - I found it on my seat;

yesterday - I left it in street restaurant having breakfast,waiter chased me 200 mtrs. down the street to hand it back.

You have a chance to get it back:post ads in Thai newspapers,community FM stations,what else?You can hire private eye(they can be very usefull).Promise very high reward,

may be somebody grass the taxidriver.

i want the private eye i want them....

where can i hire a private detective????

god....

i want it back i want it back....

curious, when did you finally realized you lost your case?

and when did you make any actions?

15 days later and its wayy beyond any hope I'm afraid...

sorry for you loss, I know how I'd feel in your shoes.... if not worse...

i realized that 1min after i get off, and the taxi just drove away.

but i was waiting for it to come back to return to me

then my friend called the radio station and the call center for me

but the problem is i am on a transit flight, i need to fly out to indonesia after 10 hours...

so i have to leave

then i leave this to my friends

they were keep calling the airport and radio

but no response...

now i finally come back...

i want a systematic way to screen out the taxi companies and drivers

anyone has any idea how to do that?