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well..no..response really..why..i don't know...maybe because my and my lady are fairly close in age and looks??????

well..me too..unless in more than a semi-serious relationship..weekends are spent drinking with friends..

Dung che sai duk

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Some it salary stats from ZDNet Asia

Country average: THB 994,203 (US$27,044).

Years of experience matter, too. Thai IT professionals with more experience command salary premiums. The average annual salary of respondents with more than 10 years' experience is THB 1,571,384 (US$19,879), 58 percent higher than the overall country average.

The average annual salary for respondents with less than five years' work experience is THB 351,186 (US$9,553) compared with the average of THB 797,811 (US$21,702) for those with between five and 10 years' experience.

- ONI

- Drakan

- Unreal

- Max Payne

And from way back in the days, Shadow of the Beast

The availabilety of CD titles in Phuket is not an issue at all, since any CD can easily be purchased online and shipped right to your front door.

I understand it is a Thai Tradition, so the man pays for the Sin Sot , what about the cost of the wedding, food , party , and all associated expenses , does the women family throw some money in ,?? or does the man pay for everything , and is Sin Sot also very popular for the rich thais or is it more a local Village thing , just curious as have heard a lot about it ,but mainly about poor village girls

compared to say rich thais who marry at the Oriental Hotel, same rules?

Yes, rich thais does it and often with ridicilously high amounts being presented too.

Hire in 2 or 3 off-duty police officers to act as security for your party.

You can always also checkout True, CS Loxinfo, KSC, Ji-NET and see if any of those are able to provide service in your aria.

lol a2396 ... bitter much?

Not bitter, just realistic. Some of ideas discussed here, regarding this topic, do not equate to fairness or logic, such as paying sin sod to previously married women with children. This is bordering on the ridicoulous. I wonder what marriage brokers they are working for?

Well lets face it, many of the thai girls who does get married to a falang does not do it for love only (if love at all) but for the chance at a better life for themselves and for their families.

And usually its not as the man does not get his piece of the cake , ending up with a wife quite a bit younger and usually much more good looking than what he would have been able to snatch back home.

Strange but many Thai girls think nothing of sleeping with Thai men for free, without benefit of marriage and/or sin sod & having babies out of wedlock. Then, along comes the Farang who is asked to pick up the tab for the family debts & whatever other financial burdens that he should clear for them.

Actually many thai girls live with their falang boyfriends without getting married too, and yes even have babies out of wedlock.

But when the time comes to get married, falang or thai, the question of sinsot will come up for most couples.

If I'm a cheapskate for not going for this, so be it. In the real world, where I am from, it usually takes both man & woman pooling financial resources to make a successful life. In LOS it is a one-way street. Farang pays everything, start to finish.

Part of the attraction for many men is the fact that the wife does not have a job and spends her time taking care of him, their family and home instead.

So as most of the girls usually come from lower income families and are expected to be homemakers, how could they then be able to contribute in pooling the financial resources.

I have just bought a new laptop from Bangkok. I went with Thaivisa recommendations and bought an Acer. I now need further advice from this community. I bought it with the view of browsing the net in the garden. I am now uncertain as to what I need. I relalise that a normal wireless router will work fine indoors, but what do I need to get the signal to the garden. The spot I will be using most is about 20m or less from the router but will have to go through the wall of course. What do you recommend? I would have thought the normal router would do, as it gives a distance of 60m. Am I right? The guy in the shop that I bought the PC from was uncertain.

Thanks.

If you buy a wireless router class N Mimo or N1 Mimo and a wireless card of the same class for your laptop then i think it should work ok.

I had the idea that a sinsot was only in the case of virgins?

Since virginity is pretty scarce these days, and teenage pregnancies is on the rampage...its no longer a deal breaker....

If she is virgin or not is more related to the amount of sinsot asked/given.

Along with other factors like, if she have a child or not, if she has an education or not, how old she is, her families standing etc.

So, now it's OK to ask for sin sod, if she was married before, but never had a wedding party? I guess she could also have kids and not have been married to the Father & is still eligible for sin sod & are we talking legal marriage or so-called "traditional" marriage. If only legal marriage counts, then many are still eligible, since many Thai to Thai unions are not legally registered.

Yes

If she is divorced and have had the wedding party with sin-sod given once already, then a new party should not be necessary and an Ampur wedding, no sin-sod and a celebration dinner with only the closest familly should suffice.

If she has been "married" before but never had a wedding party, then a wedding party with sin-sod is a resonable request.

How much should be payed, how much should be keep and how much should be given back to you is on the other hand open for discussion.

Many of the girls i have talked to so far seems to want the amount given to match or be slightly higher than the amount and number of bath gold that their closest friends/family were presented with at their wedding. (Keeping up with the Joneses...LOL)

Did see a portable air condition unit for around 23.000 THB in BIG-C some moths ago.

PM me if you need a wireless adsl router, I have a Belkin N-Class 2 less than 2 month old available for sale in BKK.

(Also have some other adsl modems, multifunction printer/scanners etc. for sale)

There is a government run hair/beauty school close to Lumpinee Park in around the Bon Gai/Suan Lum Nightplaza aria.

I have seen countless thai vs thai marriages where sin sod has been an issue..in some cases i have even given some cash to help the male part to scrape up the cash.... (For us falangs its small amounts but for locals on regular thai saleries it might seem very much...)

But inmost cases its a mater of "face" , and if thats it an arrangement regarding how much is shown and how much is actually given will suffice....

Jerks are a dime a dozen in Thailand...don't worry be happy..

Great book..but more in tune with shaking up "long time" stayers and maybe not so much for 1'th timers...

Its not just about the parents its also about your future wife and her expectations of her wedding day.

Like it or not a large wedding party where the showing and counting of the sin sod is a prominent part is for many girls an important event which many have been looking forward to/dreamed about since being a little girl.

So if its her wish to have such a wedding and you do not consider her and her wishes important enough to do your best to ensure her happiness on such an important then you should not get married after all.

There is nothing wrong in negotiating on how much should be returned back to you though, the important part in regards to the ceremony is just how much is show not how much is actually given to the parents.

And as someone have mentioned an important factor is also who should pay for the party , you or the parents.

Our wedding party for 200 + guests came close to 150.000 THB.

It does not matter if you believe marijuana is a harmless drug which should be legalized.

Its illegal to sell and use it in Thailand (as in most countries).

So if you take the risk doing something illegal then you should also know that you stand in risk of being caught and punished according to the laws in the country where you are caught.

And this is something to especially take into consideration when visiting countries like Thailand, Malaysia and Singapore where drug offenses are treated severely.

There are usually a reason behind the asked for publicly shown amount, so depending on the reasoning behind the request it can be difficult to get the amount down.

On the other hand the part to be returned back to you after the wedding should be possible to discuss more easily since its a "private/behind closed doors" affair.

7 days will be max unless you qualify for some reason (wife/child visit).

Well, i am married and am visiting my wife...does that mean that i can/will get 14 days?