mattias33

PS. I know loads of Thai women that cheat on their Farang boyfriend "when the cat's away". Where have you been if you did not know this!

Cheers.

Ok, that off topic discussion came out wrong from me. Thai gf should be Thai wife for instans. My off topic point where that i actually don´t know any Thai women that are cheating on their farang husbands. However i know very many Thai "gf" who cry at the airport when there 3 week /year visiting western bf tourist go home, but 3 hours later have a new one. .

For the op i think every poster so far agreed on one thing: Dont give her money.

Heavy rain until 12.00

Thats why you where waiting for it to stop 16:05?

My friend just asked me to find out what time the match starts. Apperently it´s gonna be shown at premier in banrak either tonight or tomorrow. Anybody have information about this?

Thx.

Mattias, is that "all thai men have mia nois & are with older farang women for money" the same way that "all thai women with farang have a thai bf on the side? " You need to keep your prejudices (all of them) off this forum please

Ok, call it prejudices if you want, but i think mia noi is a bit more common than "poa noi". I never met any thaigirl that is cheating on her farang bf, but all thaimen i know with farang gf are cheating on them. I didnt mean it in any bad or provocing way at all, it is just the impression i got during my years in Thailand.

I can be completely wrong offcourse. But it is still my impression.

We don't know if this older lady is Thai, or non-Thai.!!

You´re right. I just took an assumption out of the wild when op says "an older not attractive woman fell in love with a Thai boy".

If you are old an unattractive these sexy, low bodyfat Thaiboys is off course tempting. If it was my friend i would try to explain that first of all, every thai man has a mistress, theres even a word for it, its a mia noi, the second wife. In the case were Thai men marry older western women (maybe not all of the cases but all i´ve seen) its because of money. They take the money from the old women and have fun with the mia noi.

However, it will solve itself since the thaiboy soon will leave now when the money is finished.

Buy your friend a ticket to her homecountry as already said. Thats the best help.

my friend an older woman, not too attrative, who leans towards being a free spirit hippie and has spent most of her life on the dole went to kpg and met a thai boy whom she has now fallen in love with. He's bled her for all her money spending it on who knows what besides women and booze until she is now broke. She came to me for a loan to pay her rent. When I suggest that she change her situation all she could say is, i love the freedom of kpg and i know he loves me. I did not give her the money, am I wrong?

No your not wrong. Tell her to leave the island and him. Get a job and get back to the real world. Kpg is a party island for tourists. Its not a life to live in the longrun. Smoking weed and being free spirit is ok for holiday, not life. And living on borrowing money from friends? You give her the loan and the thaiman will spend it on women and booze.

If you want to help her, force her to leave.

Just waiting for the rain to stop.

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Has not rained since yesterday in banrak. Is t raining in chaweng today?

November, the month with the strongest rainfalls per year, is almost over. And this year, it was harmless.

Streets were flooded, but with pumps at the major problematic streets the Thessaban did a real good job, combared to the years before.

Agreed. Surprisingly good job. The maenam flood where bigger than previous years but it didnt take the more than a few days to get the big pump there and fix it. Same in bophut crossing. Samui seem to hve a community that works better than ever.

-Yep, agree with Mattias33 on Herberts Visa run. His drivers drive like mad, and I don´t mean "european-mad", I mean THAI-mad.

Heared that they had an accident (if there hasn´t been more since then), a while ago and both people inside and outside the bus got hurt.

-Joy, is another lady who has Visa runs. Her company is known for missing the ferry (both ways) , about every other time or so.

-Julies Visa run is another. No problem for us with them, so far. Her husband Soong is driving more safe now than he used to and I think that is very much appreciated.

I am not sure if any of these companies go to Koha Bahru but they do go to Malaysia and/or Burma.

take care

comehome

He had several accidents i beleive. One of them is covered here : http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/Visa-Run-Bad...ed-t173520.html

There´s been a few threads about Herberts insane and rude behavior on this forum, you´ll find them if you have the time or interest. My only comment is, don´t use him, you will regret it. BUT you will for sure get your visa in your passport, he knows his stuff and have good connections so if it is your only option, go for it. He wil look at your case, tell you what papers to bring, passports, do the copies all in good time before the run, and if he says you will get a certain visa you WILL. You jst have to put up with alot of other things with that man but if you can take it, you go. I don´t!

I heard about the penang problems. I don´t know what kind of visa you are on or what papers you have, but you can always give julie a call, she handles also some other services when it comes to visas except for border-runs.

Otherwise your kathu baru idea seems ok, but i´m not sure if you get your stuff there either. You might wanna check it up before you go. For instans Thaivisas "visa"-forum. Post a question there and you will get good answers already today on were to go in your particular case.

Good luck!

Herbert is sadly the only one who do a consulate. The others do only borders.

Yep, do firefly instead. And in maly youll get an agent to do the consulate for you. You stay in the hotel drinking beer while the agent do the work!

I would have never thought they sell child seats on Samui. Since only farang would ever buy one, I can see why they would be so expensive.

My (Thai) mother in law bought ours before i even thought about it myself. And most of our thai neighbours with children have one. You´d be surpriced howmany even of the really cheap thai restaurants that have one aswell. For customers. I got the oppinion there just as common for thais as they are for us. Is that wrong?

I don't usually give such a definitive answer but here I will... YES, you are wrong. Thais have no problem riding around on motorbikes holding onto the their infant or small child with one hand and the bike with the other, but when they get in their car or truck, they are all of a sudden concerned enough about their child's safety to go out and buy an expensive child seat? No, they don't. A small minority might but not in the numbers westerners do. I have seen plenty of Thai children riding in the front seat of cars & trucks while being held in momma's lap. Some even the child of poster's of this forum. In my home country, it is illegal if a child under 5 isn't in a seat. What are the laws (yeah, I know, ROTFLMAO) around here?

Ohh, child seat for cars. Missunderstood, sorry.

I bought mne in tesco a year ago. 6000 baht.

I think crazy Herbert is the only one who do kathu baru. He do it in 40 hours. "fastest visarun in Samui". His office is in Nathon, on the right side little bit before the pier.

Note: I definately did not recommend this trip, i only answered the question. If you end up being treated badly, or in a hospital even there´s no leagal claims to be made on me. I´just the messagecarrier!

I would have never thought they sell child seats on Samui. Since only farang would ever buy one, I can see why they would be so expensive.

My (Thai) mother in law bought ours before i even thought about it myself. And most of our thai neighbours with children have one. You´d be surpriced howmany even of the really cheap thai restaurants that have one aswell. For customers. I got the oppinion there just as common for thais as they are for us. Is that wrong?

Thanks for the laught of the day beachedwhale!!! .

Have to say this idea with "stressfree loss of money" is something that the realestate investors should catch up on. Much easier than the other bs.

Now, i´m here to tell you that if you get too many investors, and simply can´t keep up, i´m looking for a job. And i´m a pretty ok beerdrinker.

Lets spice up the question by saying, no bankloans.

A rich guy comes over and buy 10 shops on chaweng beachroad, pay cash and then leave samui to never come back. Sooner or later they´ll have to start using those shops.....

Once again i have to bring up the only example i know, for now, coco. Lets assume the restaurant is paid for. When will that ever be used again? In case those owners don´t come back ever.

And the question on property, infact many of them without bankloans, investers paid for houses that never got built, developers ran out of money, but managed to pay the land before. And maybe build one or two houses. Bank is not involved and the land has a leagal owner allthough he will never come back or develop it further.

Interesting thought on the topic "future of Samui" isn´t it?

Here´s a question for you guys.

Let´s say i borrow money from investors and maybe even Thai banks. Buy prime property on the island, open restaurants in prime location where nothing stays empty for long, and then split the country. Maybe never come back. I´m using coco story as a example to show what i mean, nothing else. I beg everybody to please leave further comments on coco, Alan or Bruce out of this thread as it will get the thread closed quickly. Please.

I´m just curious what will happen with for instans a good location restaurantbuilding, i perfect condition, if owners never come back. Will it stay empty forever or is there something in the thailaw that eventually gives the rights to use it to somebody else? Or will it simply be squatted? Question goes for property aswell. What happens with the unfinished developments that "owners" fled before its halfdone? How long will unfinished projects stand around and wait until somebody else step in and take over?

Where is the Thailaw on this matter? There´s another thread about samuis future, and i didnt want to highjack that one so i opened this, but point being i kind of see a chans where Samui 10 years from now is an island filled with these unfinished projects that nobody can tuch. Prime location, downtown chaweng restaurants, areas where everybody want to rent, nice buildings standing empty because the owners gave up or ran out of finance. Surerly there must be some limits were the Thai´s just say "screw this, take the land back and use it"? Or is there not?

I know (take sloaneys as ex.) if you have a lease or rental contract and split town, the minuite your rent is up the owner just move on. But if i buy a few buildings that everybody wants, and let them be empty, and skip town. How many years would they legaly have to wait around for me? And how long would they do it in real life?

Just curious.

are u sure the american toilet was not stolen from the english. the americans normally steel from the english. like for eample the english language

If you count taking something with war as stealing they actually stole their whole country from England on the 4th of july 1776. .

As they say, owning something means being able to defend it from others to take it away. .

Sorry to trash up the thread (as ususal ) but i have to say, you just recently came to Samui but you already need marmite?

You English guys, why do you even bother to leave your country?

Now heres a crasy idea, why not try tom yam soop, or kao pat gai, pad thai, or some other delesios meal from over here. Or perhaps...i don´t know...go back? .

Kidding, there´s many enough of you here already for you to find your marmite.

Dont worry! .

A segment of expats here have no interest in Thailand, the people, culture,food, etc. They just want a cheap, warm place to live without giving up much of what they had back home that they do like. They want to eat the same food, watch the same TV/sport, hang out with the same people (of their own culture). There's nothing wrong with that, it just seems odd to those who ARE interested in other cultures.

These people are on the opposite end of the spectrum from the expats who "go native". You know those people - they think they are Thai, wear "pajamas" all the time except yellow shirts on Monday, speaking Thai isn't enough, they must learn to read and write as well and pity those expats who can't. Some go so far as to renounce their own citizenship to become a Thai citizen. Nothing wrong with that, just seems odd to those who like Thailand but know they'll never be Thai.

He only wants some Marmite. That's not too much of a request is it!!!!!! Bloody expats, some of you have a right old chip on your shoulder.

He got his mermatie, we all already agreed on his reasons, wich i missunderstood as a recently arrived Englishman that need marmite on his arrival, (beleive me i meet these guys), and i was wrong. He is a long term expat that sometimes covits something from home and he got it already throught this thread.

So chill.

I still need my chunky peanut butter fix every now and then. And I know some Scandanavians around here that need that salty, black, liquorice Finnish candy. It seems all cultures have a comfort food that is an acquired taste and most others find nasty the first time they taste it. Peanut butter, vegemite, maramite, salty liquorice - any other examples out there? What about Thais? What do they try to find when they are living outside their country/region?

Well the story changed when op let us know he been 10 years in thailand. From "recently" arrived wich to me make a huge difference. Off course after being abroad sometime you miss somethings from back home.

Thai abroad, hahaha.

First time my wife came to Sweden a few years ago, she was there 5 weeks and didnt try ANY Swedish food at all. She bought everything in the thaishops and cooked herself. Good for me at that time, i was working and came home to my apartment with thai dinner served. Pad ka pao, kao tom kung and so on. Thing is, she didnt even trust Swedish shops for minced meet or mushrooms or any other things that we could have bought cheap and fresh. In the begining it all had to be imported frozen from Thailand. She then learned how to use local groceries. And this summer she learned how to eat and cook some Swedish food. My mom and my wife had great experiences teaching eashother the different cooking. For me thats all good since my wife now can do some of the stuff i occasionally miss from back home. But i´ve been back here only 2 months so yet i don´t miss anything. But i suppose a nice "janssons frestelse" (ansjovispotato-dish), and some good meatballs will be nice around christmas time.

I tried substituting tom yam soop for branston but it made the bread soggy in my cheese sarnies.

I been trying for years with my limited Thai (i´m not a citizen, i only half-decent speak their language) to get them to tell all English people that tom yam is not for putting in sandwiches, it´s not a substitute for branston, but i don´t seem to get them to understand. I´m so sorry for that.

Perhaps if i knew how to write in Thai it would be easier to explain but (pity me if you want) i don´t.

Anyway, for the op i can only second what others say. Jp market in banrak have marmite and other western delicacies. Only shame about them now is they don´t sell ANY bread because they opened a bakery across the street. So you do all your shopping in jp and have to go across the street for bread!

Crazy, but do pay them a visit. They got alot of the stuff others don´t.

Sorry to trash up the thread (as ususal ) but i have to say, you just recently came to Samui but you already need marmite?

You English guys, why do you even bother to leave your country?

Now heres a crasy idea, why not try tom yam soop, or kao pat gai, pad thai, or some other delesios meal from over here. Or perhaps...i don´t know...go back? .

Kidding, there´s many enough of you here already for you to find your marmite.

Dont worry! .

Personally, I think the developer is greedy and no intention to finish Tropical hill.

If that´s the case i think you should like you say all go together and push them to finalize. Of course there´s maybe the small possibility that they perhaps ran out of money and actually can´t finish?

Kind of seen that one before on this island.... .

Good luck to you whatever the case is.

No one but completely unseasoned travelers take a taxi from the airport. Take the minibus; maximum fare anywhere is 150/person.

Samui is a lower class version of Phuket. Think of it as a sort of hayseed version. There are many places here that are not yet developed, and there are many places here that are.

Most of Lamai is girlie bars, and if anyone disagrees, just look at tonight when all of them were closed for the funeral. 60 to 70 percent of the village was darkened. Without prostitution, Lamai would be little more than a very small strip of restaurants, non-ladybar pubs, massage parlors and a smattering of souvenir shops.

Wow. Strong statement Mark.

I guess you living there this post say alot about yourself?

First of all it´s nice to see a good post from highdiver for a change and i especially enjoyed the opening line! .

Roo says:

You have contacts,maybe you should delve a bit deeper ,you might realise why there is a construction frenzy.As I mentioned in my previous post, there is some decisions being made, that would affect all future new construction on the island.

Are there 100 000 more people moving to samui within the next year? That would be the money bringing factor these developments need. With all the empty houses and from what i know most of us living here have a place to stay already i can´t see any other secret to this than an extreme boom in samui population.

For the hotels that are already empty and the hotels being built, still the factor would be an extreme increase in tourists but from what most people in that industri say they are expecting the absolute opposite for the next years. Experienced hotel/restaurant owners and other tourist-dependig buisness-men all agree that it is looking dark. Samui (and thailand in general for that matter) tourism is going down, not up. At least thats what i hear.

Roo, you might have contacts and side information that the rest of us don´t have about whats going to happen in Samui. However it´s the simple facts that rule this buisness. Hotels depends on tourists. House developments depends on amount of people wanting a house. Everything else is just bs.

Sorry.

I agree with everything in the op.

This is a kind of thread that will get all kind of different answers. Theres the guys that buy into this stuff and beleive in it, and there is the other side. I´m not gonna join the debate between the two sides, my only comment is that when half of the stuff is empty, in my school that means over-development.

Have to say these developers are very fun to speak to in real life. My god the beleive they have in Samui future and buisness in general! They are something else. Fact being that some of them probably do make alot of money. Fact also being that the major part of them are in it only for high hopes and dreams? .

Samui real estate, a big fantasy or reality? Well, i have my oppinion but i guess its not always valid.

Good luck to the boys involved.