Pantip

I strongly support Oneman, Fiscalist,UG and Wadsy’s views

1. Leaving money lying around is an unjust temptation in anybodies language.

2. As soon as you were sure in your own mind who the culprits were you were justified in dismissing them – but remain on good terms.

3. There is not a person on this earth that at some stage in their life has not taken something that did not belong to them.

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'SwaziBird'

It's good to know that there are at least a few "Yarpies" (??) on this forum. Brings back many memories.

Pantip

After that long and drawn out pallarver of "falang pretend police" I thought I'd just let it be known that i don't really care what peole do in thier free time. May find it odd like ballroom dancing or ladyboys, or ballroom dancing ladyboy, but each to thier own, hense the title. Hope i didn't cause too much offence, just a bit of bordum banter.

I like to mix music, ride motor bikes and play poker. What do you do?

SEX

I agree with jdnasia – you should seriously think of moving on as it will take forever to change tradition and you are obviously badly effected by the smoke. I personally like the smell of burning leaves, it also has the effect of keeping mosquitoes at bay!!

Just walk in - explain as you have in your post and they will refer you to the duty officer if you feel comfortable with him OK, but if you would like to go the next rung up give him the same spiel and ask to speak to the CO. They are a reasonable mob in there and I am sure that you will get a satisfactory response providing your request is genuine, reasonable and courteous.

I think this thread can now be closed until Margaret’s memoirs are published, only then will us mere mortals find out the sordid but fascinating details of this case.

Well, sofar nothing compares to last year. Here's a couple of graphs, handpicked from a couple of the threads running through marts 2007. For those who wonder why the old timers just can't take the new complainers seriously, have a look at threads with related titles on what currently is page 66-70 on this forum.

Thanks for that, interesting how the biggest increase is almost to the same day 3,4 March, but only half as bad this time. It varies a lot between the years. One can only guess why, but I know in our village the leaf burner has been banned this year after 2007, but notably not removed for the future!

I wouldn't generalise about old/new complaining/avoiding/bored though, I've been here for seven years but not many Marchs. This is still the best place I know, most of the year. I certainly wouldn't waste my time complaining!

Perhaps we should do a survey to see who is in what camp, those who are:- Winging about the wingers or those who are Winging about the pollution.

Australians used to call new British expats ‘Winging Poms’. I wonder how many of the ‘Winging CM Expats’ are from Pommy land.

I typed it into google, and it only returned hits from Thailand. So it must be local sexpat slang, is it not?

Hub of Cheap Charlies !

Personally I don't 'get off' on wasting money, possibly due to my Scottish ancestry, but still manage to spend a small fortune on home/wife/kids every year, does that dis-qualify me ?

It’s really nothing to do with being a Cheap Charlie – it’s more a question of being able to recognize value for money spent. You don’t have to be rich or poor to have this skill. Those that don’t have this ability often presume that if it’s expensive “it must be good”, of course that is not necessarily true.

My words of wisdom for the month!!

Sorry, but I couldn't locate the deaths in Chiang Mai thread.

Jon Gluck was around Chiang Mai for about 20 years and we always called him "Jon the Watch Smuggler". He had a wild life as a junky on the streets of New York as a young lad, later he went back to school at a prestigious University and even later he worked on shrimp boats in Alaska and then he came here and sold watches and Buddhas in Thailand.

I remember that he fell in love with his wife straight-away when he first got here and it took him a few years to convince her to trust him, but he finally won her and he was good to her and loved her to the end.

RIP Jon.

By the way, Jon was around 60 years old and he smoked like a chimney!

I met Jon a few years ago - a good man. may he rest in peace.

I still enjoy Chiang Mai and love living here. I have some good friends and while some things are difficult this is still a very liveable city with a good infrastructure and amenities.

Go back to Oz to live - not if I can help it. Burn me and leave the ashes in CM - I am here to stay

CB

My sentiments exactly – even after 26 years living here

I would strongly suggest that your wife keep her Thai ID & Passport in her Thai maiden name – Keep her options open, you never know if and when the law may be changed back to what it was, there is a lot of opposition against the new law.

I understand that the Australian Embassy has instructed it’s honorary Consuls not to issue statuary declarations, letters of reference, witness signatures etc. You now have to go to Bangkok and pay through the nose, not very nice for an 84 year old on a small pension . As far as I can see most other Consuls in CM still provide the service.

I support Ulysses’ 2006 posting on this subject. I’ve been here for many years and my business is as good as it’s ever been, I have a lovely home and family life in a beautiful city – in fact I’m as happy as a pig in shit.

What I can’t understand is if people are really so unhappy living here – why don’t they up stumps and move to greener pastures, maybe winging about things is their form of happiness!!??

Your quite right - at least 6 months is requited to plan and organize such an event for it to be successful. I suppose one of us Australians could dress up as an Aborigine and play the didgeridoo but the trouble is a lot of us are in Oz with our grand kids and won’t be back in CM till mid Jan. I have a feeling that the organizers meant February 2009??

That is a tragedy for me, and probably many othr farang. I wish Dominic – a real gentleman - all the best for the future.

You know we are slowly running out of choices of civilized, relaxing places to unwind with good food and without being harassed by ear splitting music and the ladies of the night. I suppose its an unrealistic expectation but very sad.

Pantip

Congratulations Ta22.

Thai traditional marriage ceremonies can take many deferent forms, I would suggest that you let your fiancée’s family arrange things – but make sure you put a cap on the expenses.

Under Thai law a marriage must be registered with the Thai authorities to be legally recognised.

The marriage must be registered at the Amphur (or Town Hall), in the district where the marriage took place. In addition to the normal requirements (about which you should seek advice from the celebrant), each party must provide their passport/ID, and the following:

1. If you wish the marriage to be recognized by your home country you will probably have to provide a statutory declaration witnessed by your embassy.

2. If you were previously married, you will need to provide an original divorce or death certificate to demonstrate you are no longer married. The original documents to be certified by your Embassy.

3. You must also arrange for the statutory declaration and any applicable divorce/death certificates to be translated into Thai. There are many private translation agencies in Chiangmai & Bangkok who can provide this service (for a fee) within one working day.

4. After documents have been translated they must be authenticated (for a fee) by the Department of Consular Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Thailand. For information on this you should contact: Department of Consular Affairs 123 Moo 3, Changwattana Road, Kwang Toong Son Hong, Khet Laksi, Bangkok Tel. (+66-2) 5751061, (+66-2)-5751057; Office hours: 08:30 – 15:30

When you have completed the above requirements, which can only be completed in Bangkok over at least 2-3 working days, you should go to the Amphur to register the marriage.

I wish you all the best

I also live there - for 11 years. I agree with all that Dustoff says. Unfortunately I have to move to Lao for a few months so the house is available for rent. 4 Bed, Office, 3 bath, separate maid accommodation. great landlord etc

Lets just make sure some of the girls are left eh.

That's OK - not many of our ladies drink anyway. But getting back on topic, I agree with you - all the whinging in the world by non Thai’s is not going to affect things, in fact it often has negative results. It’s like Russians living in UK telling the Brits how to run their country, “Get Stuffed”!!

Yup, Thailand's a death trap. Let's all leave.

How about planting more trees, concrete posts etc. at the side of all roads so that more bad drivers are able to kill themselves. This way we can kill them all without going to jail

Yes - Congratulations to TV and the ‘behind the scenes’ mob who helped make it such a successful night . A very pleasant evening with very pleasant people.

Yes – I think it's all part of the fun in living here, no-one is ever quite sure what is going to happen next. A big change from the boring predictability of our home countries.

Please count me in together with my wife - looking forward to a great evening meeting fellow TV members.

Pantip

The widening and dredging of the river – especially up-stream has been going on for two years. Expect more serious flash floods further down-stream.

The contractors are dredging the river so deep that in some places the banks are falling in complete with houses/shacks belonging to guess who – the poor of course. Plus the contractors are making a killing selling the sand. The river is going to flow so fast now from the upper reaches that flash flooding is even more inevitable in the city area.