bangsue

can search for your requirements on here

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/

could get a suite at http://www.bossotelinn.com/ : downstream a bit.

http://www.agoda.com/WebForms/HotelRoomTyp...?hotel_ID=44855

oriental would be nicer though.

this whole plate of money thing is very Chav-ish isn't it?

You could try and contact the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and ask them what to do.

cheers.

there is one called "Love me Long Time" on google video, about half an hour long and is some English guys being interviewed.

Anyway, according to many posters on this forum, Thailand is the bee's knees and the UK is a H_llhole, so it's a blessing in disguise, surely?

also, surely he has been going to France every 90 days to get his visa re-stamped? and how come he is working in a job a british citizen could do? he may even be wanting to buy a house. whatever next?

great shockwave versions of Defender and Defender II on the midway site here midway defender

there's an english page with the details here :- megadeth gig

there's a facility to pick your tickets up at the venue , (says u need a signed copy of your passport or the c/card you used to buy the tickets) ticket pick-up

easy to get to from lower sukhumvit , it's near the Suan Lum Night Bazaar, next to Lumphini Park, it's a fairly big hall, with a capacity of around 5000 i think.

so what if they had asked for 400,000B and 10B gold also?

would that have been OK.

I dont get where the 'face' is from taking money from your own daughter's boyfriend, when they are just getting married.

Map

the map is in thai, but the horizontal road along the top is Lad Prao road, and you need soi (street) 122 off of that.

apartment details

the age of the graph doesn't really matter too much, the resets in 07, 08 are for mortgages handed out in 05, 06. Mortgages handed out in 07 would just make the 09 columns higher.

A lot of sub-prime loans are taken out on short term fixed rates or 'teaser' rates, usually for only the first couple of years of the loan.

A large number of these loans are due to reset to ARM over the next year or two, reaching a peak in March '08 (as said above, could be approaching a trillion USD worth). With the interest rate rises recently, a lot of people are going to see their monthly repayments double or worse.

Credit has been tightened and it will be very difficult for a lot of these loans to be re-financed on to better rates. Nobody will want to take these borrowers on and therefore foreclosure looks inevitable for many.

us ARM resets

I just plug my thai plugs into the back of one of those uk shaver plugs that have two holes in the back. so can use them in either country.

As for your Issan wife (as you call her) being smarter than me -- who knows? If your idea of intelligence is choosing you as a husband, clearly we're unlikely to agree.

Ouch!

I've refrained from joining in on this post out of fear. Not sure I can match wits with yourself, Kat, Bendix, and others. I haven't got the sense that the ladies are bitter like some posters feel. Quite a few generalizations, but the womens' posts ring true.

Age disparities don't determine happiness, but a 58 year man marrying an 18 year old Thai is a little sick. I admit, I find 18 year olds attractive, but couldn't imagine falling in love, or for that matter, her loving me.

could you a 28 year-old or a 38 year-old or a 48-year old?

I'm 40 and my wife is 35. Probably could have fallen in love with someone 10 to 15 years younger. Never dated someone that much younger and assume their would be issues, but it could've happened. As for someone 10 years my senior, probably not.

yeah, 58 and 18 or 28 would look odd. can imagine 58 and 38 or 48 looking ok.

As for your Issan wife (as you call her) being smarter than me -- who knows? If your idea of intelligence is choosing you as a husband, clearly we're unlikely to agree.

Ouch!

I've refrained from joining in on this post out of fear. Not sure I can match wits with yourself, Kat, Bendix, and others. I haven't got the sense that the ladies are bitter like some posters feel. Quite a few generalizations, but the womens' posts ring true.

Age disparities don't determine happiness, but a 58 year man marrying an 18 year old Thai is a little sick. I admit, I find 18 year olds attractive, but couldn't imagine falling in love, or for that matter, her loving me.

could you a 28 year-old or a 38 year-old or a 48-year old?

yes, can touch type. went to college to study computing and during the summer before it started, they recommended that you take their typing course. they stuck tape over all the keys and got you to RSA1 standard in about 4 weeks.

the basics are not hard really you just have your 'home' keys, ie. left hand over 'asdf' and right over 'jkl;'. your fingers cover three each, the home key and then 1 up and 1 down, your index fingers each cover 3 of the extra 6 in the middle. you hit the space bar with your thumbs. bit more to learn about shift keys and numbers/punc marks etc.

I was recommended a place called Mali Namphu Guesthouse in Namphu area. The rooms surround a courtyard garden. Clean, bright rooms with ac, tv, bath/hot shower. Nice. I paid 16US dollars which is probably about half a billion kip or something.

I used the word 'singer'.

i'd say the 'si' and then freeze everything for a few seconds. then continuing with the 'nger' by itself helped me to get it. u can then use different endings, eg. si-ngoo etc.

i've got to chirp in here.

how many people are going to invest 3 years getting a degree and then a few thousand quid to do a TEFL course, to work for 25,000baht or so a month? which is around what this guy was probably earning.

if you can find enough of these well qualified teachers to fill the demand then i would be very surprised.

try thaiapartment.com

maybe you could book into a guesthouse for your first few days. then call some places and go check them out if they have anything vacant.

a taxi will be about 350 max on the meter with the 50surcharge and tolls.

an easy way is to get the Airport Express bus (AE2) for 150baht which will drop you at the end of Khao San Road and Soi Rambuttri is 2 minutes walk from there.

I posted a couple of boxes back to the UK two weeks ago.

If I enter the code on the tracking link that someone posted above, the boxes show as ACCEPTED and the post office details etc. They appeared straight away on the system also, (checked same evening they were sent).

Not sure what that tells us.

it sounds like the villagers sneering at him are not people he should be too concerned about.

you see a lot of people in the uk sneering at people from other cultures, but they are usually fairly thick and most people from other cultures are encouraged to not be too concerned about them either.

Ok, but if - for instance - a white Brit started to mix within a 100% asian community in the UK, and started to dress and act accordingly, wouldnt that be a little odd?

same scenario in reverse? might seem a little odd, but i wouldn;t sneer at them.

would you?

It's not at all the same scenario in reverse, the Brit's in his home country.

yes. sorry thats what i meant. a reverse scenario where someone in their home country took on elements of an arrival from another country.

Asian communitys in the UK are british also. But they have their own culture - it is definatley odd, from a western perspective, for a white brit to adopt asian culture (odd as in not normal - unusual - strange - bit of an oddity, the odd one out - etc etc.)

yes i agree that would seem odd, but that wouldn't be someone trying to fit in with a new culture, that would be someone trying to unfit themselves from their own culture. so maybe slightly different things in play there.

well yes, i meet a thai guy from my gf's work and he always takes the trouble come over and shake my hand.

i could take the piss out of him, but i see it as a friendly gesture and it helps me to feel welcome here.

it sounds like the villagers sneering at him are not people he should be too concerned about.

you see a lot of people in the uk sneering at people from other cultures, but they are usually fairly thick and most people from other cultures are encouraged to not be too concerned about them either.

Ok, but if - for instance - a white Brit started to mix within a 100% asian community in the UK, and started to dress and act accordingly, wouldnt that be a little odd?

same scenario in reverse? might seem a little odd, but i wouldn;t sneer at them.

would you?

It's not at all the same scenario in reverse, the Brit's in his home country.

yes. sorry thats what i meant. a reverse scenario where someone in their home country took on elements of an arrival from another country.