
prakhonchai nick
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Are we referring to the freelancers on Pattaya Beach Road?
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Why don't Monks just stick to chanting?
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Youre in Thailand, pay the sinsod.
Give her 100k, which is the going rate.
It's not the going rate where I live.
Normal village price for a Thai man marrying a Thai girl, (16-22) is 40,000bt
Why should dual pricing apply with regards to weddings?
Sin sot is strictly a Thai thing.
Don't pay!
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Sin sod is a Thai custom - not a farang one.
Why should the farang do things the Thai way.? If the daughter wants to marry a farang, and enjoy all the financial benefits that usually go with it, then she must do it the farang way. Now if he were to be the beneficiary of the marriage then things might be different.
NO SIN SOD!
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What do you mean by IF you do not know your contraception is missed? Do you mean you don't know IF you used condom or not? You don't know if you forgot to take your daily pill?
- Woman can occasionly skip (forget) to take her pill, her chances of getting pregnant won't change much, unless she forget to take them fort a week or longer...
Most contraceptive pills cost upwards of 70bt for a monthly course, and if taken correctly should prevent pregnancy.
In the villages those that take the pill rely on those provided by the local health care worker at 10bt a months course. These frequently let women down if they miss even one.
Sadly the young girls who experiment with sex whilst still at school and often as young as 13/14 know nothing of contraception or Aids. Parents don't tell them, the school doesn't tell them. That's why so many end up pregnant and are making their way to the bars and gogos of Bangkok, Pattaya and Phuket at an early age to support their unwanted kids.
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So, Thai women do not sctually pay to give birth in a hospital? I was expecting pregnancy and birth to be expensive here.
It was, before Thaksin introduced the 30bt hospital scheme.
However, if the woman gives birth away from her registered hospital she is expected to pay. Then can be expensive.
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Then it's very much a case of Caveat Emptor!
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By his own admission he is old and only friends with the unfortunate woman.
I imagine he would not wish to become directly involved.
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She can't get a VISA to the UK without a UK sponsor, property in Thailand and quite a lot of cash in the bank, so not an option.
Thai courts only attach earnings from Thai jobs, and then only from married men who are errant (100-150 bht per day per child), Thai law, not married, child belongs to woman only.
SO your only two options are actually no options at all.
They are also so far removed from the real world as to make them impractical.
I repeat, there is no REALISTIC legal recourse. But, if the girl is inclined to make an effort to pursue the child's father, then direct communication should be made.
Even direct communication (if she has an address) is costly, and I imagine the few baht she has are needed for the birth.
UK father would probably ignore any letter he received; she would not know whether he received it or not, and any follow up using professionals would be beyond her, unless someone was prepared to do so for a percentage of what they obtained from the father!
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Whilst I fully accept and appreciate Santisuk's comments, I have only reported what I have found. I have no ulterior motive other than to warn. It is not my intention to field negativity, but unfortunately that is the way it is.
Isaan is a huge area with some 18 million inhabitants. What I have described is very normal for my part of Isaan which encompasses Buriram and Surin. perhaps it is different in Udon, Khon Kean etc
Takeaway bags are the norm for any event here where food is provided other than by outside caterers. This includes weddings, deaths, lucky homes, get well soon parties conducted by the monks, and in one case in my village a good luck party for our newly concreted road!!! In the villages outside catering is a rarity except when it is a farang/thai wedding, and even then the morning do (including the wedding ceremony) is accompanied by DIY food and doggy bags!
As you will see from scrolling back, many posters have agreed with my comments. It must be just pot luck!
Until the next event, I have nothing more to report!
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Many people do not register their relationships. I can think of 2 million such couples in the UK that cohabitate. The relationship also means that the participants give up their riights to claim various assets should the relationship breakup. Who are yuo or anyone else to dictate how a couple should structure their personal relationships? If the tax authorities are unhappy with such relationships, they can request a change to the tax codes. What's next? Are you going to Pattaya to lecture the thousands of foreign residents that cohabitate?
In England co-habitees do not call themselves Mr and Mrs.
Here in Thailand all newspaper reports refer to "his wife" or "her husband" yet when you read on they both have different surnames.
Only when a partnership is registered at an amphur does it become legal.
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Does it really matter how much it has gone up? If it is too expensive for you go elsewhere or cook your own breakfast at home.
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Convenience fee can be avoided by paying with an SCB debit card. Worth opening an account if you are a regular traveller.
As Cardholder said you don't have to finalise the booking if you don't like the terms and price
Carbon Offset Charge? ..why ask us - call Air Asia!
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The original post referred to infants. I would not expect to find infants in a nice restaurant in the evening.
Children are a different matter. They eat quickly then want to run round the restaurant. Some restaurants have an outside play area which is fine. For those that don't the parents/guardians have a duty to keep the kids in check so that they do not disturb other diners.
Equally annoying are tables full of drunks who are very noisy.
I believe it is for the restaurant owner/manager to deal with these problems when they occur. He has a business to run, and needs repeat custom. Noisy and unruly children and drunks will prevent repeat business from regular diners
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There was the third in a week of 3 wedding eve parties in my village yesterday. This was the biggest of all.
It was an all day event, with live music and dancing girls supposedly arriving at 10am. This was subsequently rescheduled to 4pm, but didn't commence until 5.30, because the girls refused to dance as it was too hot.
So I joined the invitees at 5.30 and must say the music was the best I have come across, and the girls were very pleasing in every way.
Unfortunately though, there was no food. Why? Because it had all been taken away in plastic bags by the local women, who had donated their 20 bahts and considered it their right to take food home. They consider it just like going to the market -have no interest in the wedding or whatever.
Lao khao and warm Leo was available, and for just a few "privileged" guests including myself, some blended whisky was available. Fortunately it made up for the lack of food (but as I lived next door I popped home to make a cheese sandwich!)
At 6.30 the inevitible fight started between the "groom" and a very drunk guest. Luckily for the guest who was on the receiving end of quite a pummelling, 2 police officers arrived in seconds.
So not really the best of events. The taking away of bags of food is ingrained in Thai village life, but to me is wrong. People are "invited" to a PARTY. To eat and drink they must participate -attend -join in. TAKE-AWAY BAGS SHOULD BE BANNED.
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The Op did ask about Village weddings
The negative comments made are simply because thats what happened. Why pretend otherwise. Sad isn't it
Town weddings are usually different completely, often involving hotels etc.
The riff raff and freeloaders etc are more generally found at village events.
The Buriram wedding you describe is in my opinion obscene. Yes people have money, but why flaunt it? Money, like sex should be private
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cardholder,
I have only been to one wedding in Issan and there was a pretty big fight. I was really surprised and I was also surprised and the number of security people there. Sort of a shocker to me.
TheWalkingMan
Security people are usually in attendance at all local weddings. Cannot speak for the rest of Thailand. At a joint wedding 2 farangs and 2 thai sisters, there were more than a dozen security (not sure what they were) but they had 3 AK47's between them!
However no security today.
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Most of the weddings I have attended have been close to my village and they have all been the same. This one was 15kms away near to Ban Kruat. I have no reason to believe anywhere else is any different.
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100 and 200bt fines! Does anyone really think the clowns will care?
5000 or 10,000bt fines and you might see some results!
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For the benefit of all, and the consideration of Farang Buddha and anyone considering a village wedding, I will update post number 53.
This morning at the specific request of my wife and daughter, I took them to the wedding ceremony. We joined a convoy of cars and trucks from our village to the Brides village some 15kms distant. On the way the convoy carrying some 100 people stopped 3 times to buy bottles of whisky, most of which had been consumed upon arrival.
At the Brides village vehicles were parked and then commenced the usual walk through the village with music and many drunk people "dancing". At 8.30 we reached the Brides home and everyone sat at the tables. However the groom had to come separately, and a group of people and the music makers went off to fetch him. He arrived almost 1 hour later.
During that hour, everyone had eaten and drunk what was provided. One old lady on our table surreptitiously took the bottle of lao cow and put it in her bag. I noticed that the lao cow had also disappeared from the other tables
The groom disappeared into the home of the bride for the marriage ceremony, which was a signal for most of the "guests" to depart. Nobody got to see the 15 year old Bride!
In the background a large fight took place between half a dozen drunk lads, which had to be broken up by some of the older women.
The Brides home was a corrugated iron shack with an earth floor. It would be nice to think that the dowry would be used to at least provide a concrete floor, but as she has 2 older sisters both married with dowries duly paid, it would seem not to be a priority!
This situation is far from unusual. Guests rarely wait to see the ceremony and bottles regularly are taken away and fights happen often. Sad but true.
If that is someones idea of fun and happiness - think again!
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Thats the point, the reciver shall not set the amount of sin sod if you follow the rules of sin sod, you shall do that. they can refuse your offer but I never heard that a sin sod have been refused.My brother in law come home realy upset after his GF parents asked for 100K in sin sod, my father in law refused him to marrie here, he said: somthing is wrong, thats not the way it shall be done.
So what you are saying is that you offer an amount to marry the daughter, the parents can refuse if they think it is not enough,
Rather like an auction with a reserve price.
NEXT BIDDER PLEASE!
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Village weddings for Thais come in 2 parts. Part 1 is individul parties for the bride and groom at their respective homes. This is an all day event on the wedding day eve. Envelopes are collected from those that give - and some do really give as little as 20bt and othere nothing! Part 2 is the following morning when the wedding actually takes place, the dowry is displayed to the oohs and ahs of those that can be bothered to come, more drinking and eating follows and it all comes to an end.
Just returned from a Part 1 party of the groom - my next door neighbour. he's 18. His wife whom he will marry this morning is 15 and still at school! <deleted>! Never saw the "husband to be" last night. He was off in the town drinking with his mates.
I am not a bitter farang, nor do I believe Cardholder is nor anyone else. We are realists. I have seen many marriages fail, only for the girl to go through the same again a few months later with more huge dowries. And no doubt planning further follow ups. They seem not to be shy about this!
Everyone is entitled to an opinion. I am totally against dowries. I have given my wife a nice home and everything she could never have expected had she married the local lad that MIL picked out for her 13 years ago, solely because he offered 40,000bt + gold. And the wife had never even met him! Fortunately I arrived on the scene at the same time, and she told her Mother she would not marry the local lad. That 13 years was a crime in rural Isaan. Girls are expected to do what Mothers want.
Waste your money if you want on dowries, parties for the villagers (none of whom will ever say thank-you). Perhaps you have enough! Otherwise plough it into the future. Your home, and perhaps future children.
Whatever - Good Luck to both of you. Just hope you never regret the expense.
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I'm wondering just how many of these 'hit-men' are in fact policemen.
I think maybe chopper Reid should come out of retirement
Wouldn't it be better to catch these criminals rather than waste time hunting down and taking to court the domino players!
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I would say ZERO was the correct amount to spend on a village wedding.
Feeding a load of people you don't know, just so the in-laws can have a big brag.
What do I know though!
You know a lot!
Most of the 300+ guests will be freeloaders. Many -very many -will just visit, not attend the ceremony; not even see the bride and groom, but will leave with bags of food and bottles to take home.
I would not have a party! I did not have a party!
Get married at the amphur...40bt!. Take the immediate (not extended) family for a nice meal and evening out.
Spend the money on yourself and wife and new home. Not on the villagers and dignatories invited along for show!
UK Passport Applications :
in Thai Visas, Residency, and Work Permits
Posted
Send the application to HK, and wait the suggested 6 weeks. if it still hasn't arrived, you have no idea whether they received the application unless you can see whether your credit card has been debited.
If you want to chase it up, you have to call the UK, pay 60bt a minute+ VAT and be in possession of a credit card to do so. Not every expat has a credit card!
Most unsatisfactory!!!