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You can buy rice bags for 5 baht each. Then buy SCG red structural cement by the bag and a cube of sharp sand and a cube of blue metal. Hire two blokes for a day to dry mix the ingredients and put them in the bags and then stack the wall. Make sure you have a big tarp incase it rains before the bags are stacked into place.

I used to live near an elephant park. I used their poo to fertilize the vegetable garden. Had bumper crops but bloody jumbos gave me scabies. The mites started with my hands and then traveled up my arms and to my body. I had never seen, let alone had scabies so it was quite the ordeal. But I just took oral invermectin for a few days and applied Benzyl benzoate emulsion to my skin with cotton balls. Cleared up entirely in a matter of a few days. The Benzyl concoction is apparently a nasty substance but it is cheap and the drug of choice in poor African nations. It is also readily available here, so are the invermectin tablets but they are very hard to find.

There will always be war there. Always has been. Always will be. You can waste your time ruminating over it. I will not. There can be no peace until they renounce their Rabbit God and accept our Duck God.

Who cares?

@still kicking is just another fake account. There is so many on this forum they are forgetting their own backstories. If you read this guys thread history he was apparently broke after losing his house in Thailand to a Thai, then had to go back to Oz to get the pension, then suddenly he has a Thai wife living in OZ with him (But still getting the pension??). And now apparently has two houses and a Thai wife (But still getting the pension??). Oh....and let us not forget his chestnut....he rents a two bedroom apartment in Australia for under $250 per week. This forum has become a basket case of fantasy and misinformation because of fake accounts. Sad really.

Thanks for the update

Very few domestic investors in the SET. The index moves almost solely on the ebb and flow of foreign investment. Thailand Is a basket case and foreign investors are shot of it. Much better opportunities in the Indian or Viet markets. Thai stock analysists are well aware that the SET is dead in the water and will be for another decade. I read a article a few years back stating just that, but cannot be bothered trying to find the link.

Stick a fork in Thailand. It's done.

google the Thaiwatsadu website. They have a big store at Thalang. Lots of different brands of the blocks. SCG are the most expensive then there are cheaper brands like Diamond. If you are only looking for 70mm wide blocks then they are very cheap....circa 32 baht a block last I checked. Most decent builders are all now familiar with working with "block It Bow".

Why does he dress like a Hobo. Does he think he is cool?

Not nearly enough. I spend about 200K per week. I also own my own house and car and budget my expenses with the ladies getting a lady off the esplanade every other day. You might be able to scrap by on 180K per month. But it will take a lot of discipline and you wil find yourself with ladies from the bottom of the barrel.

A million years ago I wrote an inexpensive but very successful guide for playing blackjack. I had a good deal of success selling it online. It is practical, straight to the point, and tightly summarised. There is also a one page flash card with all the correct decisions to make that you can print and take into the casino in your pocket if you want. It became redundant after most casinos introduced auto shufflers. But the Andaman casino does not have auto shufflers and still uses a 6 deck shoe. It is still a venue that if you play carefully, and use perfect strategy, you can win at the BJ tables. Make sure however, that you watch the staff put the decks in the shoe. I was upstairs in the BJ room very early (only staff there) one morning and I caught one dealer with all the cards from each deck fanned out on the table so he could pick out the some aces and picture cards. PM me if you want to buy a copy of my guide.

I have done the casino run dozens of times. I would suggest you make it a two or three day trip if you have the time. You can get a nice hotel room in Ranong for under 500 baht, and there are many good Thai restaurants in the town. The hotsprings are also worth a visit (although I heard the local government have screwed them up a bit with terrible concrete development). The other thing that is worth doing is heading out to Koh Phayam for the day. Lovely island, and especially now there are not millions of Chinese around. If you head out to Phayam, don't take the speedboat, but rather the old timber two tier ferry. Get yourself a plastic chair and sit on the roof of the ferry. Cracker views of the mountaints (and waterfalls) along the coast as you putt out to the island. You used to still be able to see wild hornbills in the forest on Phayam. But the forest may well all be cut down by now. I have some good photos somewhere of them....but not going to waste time trying to find them.

30 year old with access to 14 million baht. Poor little rich kid with the mental capacity of a bag of hammers.

I remember my violent alcoholic father telling everyone he would quite drinking when a beer cost 1 dollar. After the cost of a schooner reached that price...he started drinking middies.

I left Australia because I was just sick of listening to people talk about property. Anytime I was with one of more people, in any setting, work, social etc. The conversation would always get channeled into a discussion of realestate.

Enjoying my break from creating free content to support Aseannow's ad revenue. I was hoping this forum was finished. I am really only hanging around now to see how BM2 is going with his recovery.

Cleft lip surgery is covered. So I do not see why your daughter would not also qualify: https://home.kku.ac.th/cleft/research/JMAT_FINAL/JMAT Final 2014/JMAT 2014 Vol 97, No 10-8.pdf

Yes I don't think that will be a sticking point. Easy to argue it is medical and not cosmetic. However, as I wrote above, I am not sure there are any resident plastic surgeons at Vachira. I must say your OP caught my eye. For many years now I have seen those huge woks full of boiling oil at various markets, teetering on the (not nearly wide enough) gas burner stands. I often thought how dangerous they were for kids...and for adults for that matter. I am very sorry for what happened to you daughter. I wish her all the very best. It must of been horrific for you at the time. Were you there when it happened.

Interesting question. I am not sure that Vachira even has plastic surgeons. I recently visited a doctor in the dermatology department on 3 or 4 (cant remember). It was a complete circus and a waste of time. Perhaps the new Vachira upmarket franchise has plastic surgeons but not sure that would be covered by the 30 baht. The dermatology department in the main hospital does have a laser...is it something that could be treated with a laser? Anyway please report back on how you go. My GF as a scar also on her forearm it would be good to know if she could also have that treated under the 30 baht scheme.

BM2...good to hear you are on the mend. I would sue the guy and after the case is settled have him clipped.

Not my ploplem.

Scam Bankrun Fraud. His parents are both law professors did you know?

I eat probiotic yogurt that I make myself and whatever fruits I pick up at the fresh market. I eat way too many mangoes, but if it is death by mango, there are much worse ways to go.