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Israeli Embassy, Bangkok

The Israeli Embassy is located to the north of Sukhumvit Road, close to Asoke Road. The closest BTS Sky Train Station is at Asoke, which is connected to the MRT Station atSukhumvit. Alternatively the MRT Station at Petchaburi is about as close to the north.

5th Floor, Ocean Tower II

75 Sukhumvit Soi 19 (Asok)

Bangkok, 10110

Just an idea, but yesterday a bomb went off attached to an Israeli embassy van in New Dehli, and another bomb was found attached to an embassy car in Tblisi, Georgia. Israel has already blamed Iran for these attacks.

Mossad has been responsible for bombing their own embassies in the past. I would assume the ones in Dehli & Tblisi is to give them reason to bomb iran. Which I would imagine would be coming this year at some point

Mossad = many instances of false flag terror attacks

And now it's a good time to false-flag Iran

An Iranian terrorist, on orders from Teheran no doubt, throwing bombs in Sukhumvit 71 !!!

LOL LOL LOL

Where else do you hear of people falling from a condo to end it all.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2097225/Whats-point-shes-dead-What-man-watched-girlfriend-fall-death-told-police-leaping-her.html

There are a couple nursing homes in PTY :

http://nursingresort....wordpress.com/

http://www.retiremen...e-thailand.com/

Me, I'm 73 and going strong. No health problems whatsoever.

Just had to cut down on food (avoid getting fat), and Chang (8/night seems to be my comfortable max).

Libido has slowed down too but I still very much enjoy beerbar girls' company <snip>. I just spent a few months with a live-in sexy 25-yo.

I've seen many documentaries (on TV5) on old people's homes in Switzerland. Not for me.

I think I'll pull the plug at 85 or so.

But so far so good. I'm enjoying my way of life and I plan to keep on living it in Pattaya and BKK until I decide it's time to go to the great GoGo bar in the sky.

BTW, for those farangs in LOS who want to go but shy off suicide what they can do is tell their teerak that they have subscribed a big life insurance policy naming her as beneficiary ...

There is a common set of characteristics of posters like the OP who constantly complain about racism against farangs and thai culture in general- they are white men, normally 50 +++, retired, grumpy, often rude to everyone around them (without realising it), often look abit run down/ unhealthy and have a huge chip on their shoulders about being mistreated by Thais. Result= they are obnoxious to any thai they meet and the thai's are in turn rude to them which fuels a downward cycle.

I know because i can easily see myself becoming one of these grumpy, sad old men myself (but am trying to fight it).

What a silly post !!

You take the opportunity of a thread about what is simply a bad neighbor instance and common farang-in-LOS frustrations to vent your hatred for the 50 +++, retired, alegedly grumpy, rude to everyone, run down, unhealthy (do you mean SMELLY ?), sad white men ?

SAD !! &lt;deleted&gt; ?

These sad seniors exist only in your bigoted imagination !!

You're the one with a boulder on your shoulder !!

Congratulattion that you're such an upstanding human being that you'll not become a despicable senior farang like I must be according to you since you negatively generalize so freely about the 50 +++

LOL

I think she is a clever girl and returned the passport to let this guy out of LOS ASAP so that he'd not cause further police problems for her.

I tip 20 to 60b in beerbars depending on number of beers.

I tip 20b in gogo bars (where I rarely have more than a couple beers per bar).

In Bamboo my beer is 110b and I give 100+20, easy. (OK not much of a tip but I'll have a few and maybe a drink for a lady)

If I've had a pleasant lengthy chat ( i speak Thai) with a girl in a beerbar, on top of the LD I've bought her, I'll tip her personally100 up to sometimes 500b if I don't barfine her.

If I go to a restaurant (other than a hotel buffet) it's always accompanied by a TG and I let her sort out the bill and tip.

Is this the first case of someone committing suicide by putting a plastic bag over their head?

An ex-colleague of mine sent back home in the UK because of his "strange" behavior (he was going mad) committed suicide by tying a plastic bag over his head and sticking a butane pipe in it. Discovered by his wife when she came back from shopping. She called for help when she opened the door and smelled the lethal gas.

The only way to enjoy life in the Wild East....er....Thailand is to never have a business, stay single and stay out of bars.....

I enjoy life in this Wild East LOS.

I don't have a business here, I am single but stay out the bars ... never !!!

I never use hotel room safes. There is a scam used world-wide that lets hotel workers open your safe if it has numbered buttons.

They first clean all the buttons, touch their finger to the side of their nose and then rub all the buttons with this light "grease".

When the safe is used, they can see which four numbers have been used. With only four numbers, it doesn't take long for them to find the combination using trial and error.

Yes. It must be an old scam. Long time ago I remember reading in the Pattaya Mail about the nose snot (it was not not light "grease"!) on the buttons played on a Pattaya hotel guest's safe.

They even had a picture of the young robber who looked pretty smug about his brilliant idea. He was an employee of that hotel.

A week ago I talked to a 41-yo new BG (her 5th day in Pat!) at a Made-in-Thailand beerbar complex.

She claimed to have been laid off from her job as a seamstress from the small clothing factory in BKK where she worked.

First she went home to Udon and then, short of money, came down to Pattaya at the instance of a friend already in the game (same bar).

She is quite nice, more looking late 20s than 41!

She has two kids, one 20+yo girl at the UT Uni and one 15-yo girl still at school.

I sympathize with the UK settlement visa problem faced by the OP.

Many years ago I was refused a simple tourist visa to Belgium for a short holiday for my then TGF. I was then working in Indonesia on a 2/1 schedule.

I had put down on the form that she was my fiancée and they said that I should have applied for another type of visa (marriage ?).

But just about everyday I read in the MailOnline about non-EU illegal immigrants and criminals who have committed serious crimes in the UK who cannot be deported after claiming protection under Article 8 of the Human Rights Act of 1998 because they have some family ties in that country.

Couldn't the OP get his wife under a tourist visa in the UK and than use the HRA to get permanent settlement authorisation later ?

My Pattaya TOT Internet was nearly unusable all day yesterday. I could barely check my mail. Couldn't listen to Internet radio.

The PC Connect to Internet was ON at all times, the modem Internet light was green and blinking but at times I definitely had nothing coming in on that Internet connexion.

It was like that for half a day a couple days ago and again this morning though it improved somewhat later on and after lunch I'm now back to normal speed.

After the first slowdown I read that some Internet cable had been damaged somewhere (in the US, I think).

Anyway, it's quite possible that the flooding is affecting the Thailand Internet system somewhat ... Maybe rats gnawing at fiber optic cables ...

My wife made computers, for a Japanese company, selling them for mega bucks, she worked 60 to 70 hours a week for 6300 baht. a month , sat along side her where Burmese on half her wage.doing the same job.

My ex-LT TGF went from job to menial job in BKK in the hope of bettering her standard 4k/mo with OT.

Once she worked for a Japanese company making computer parts. The pay could have been very good with OT, she thought.

But the work rhythm was so intense that she quit after less than 2 weeks.

She told me some girls wouldn't even last a day there!

I also was a US Passport-holder renewal of a Retirement visa as of yesterday.

I have two bank accounts (one dollar, one baht), and my letter from SCB combined the balance of both, which met the B 800K criterion.

Preference was given to the bank balance, though I was reprimanded for not having my bank balance "up to date", even though I had obtained my balance letter from SCB the previous afternoon. The "problem" was that there were no very recent transactions against the dollar account. A written note was made in my file that next year I have to provide an "updated" book balance, i.e., one that shows a transaction from within the last few days. I witnessed another person being sent out to do a 100 baht ATM transaction for the same reason.

Lesson learned: next year, do some kind of simple transaction JUST BEFORE renewal, and base the copies of the bank book and the bank letter on that amount.

Incidentally, the reason they went ahead and honored my request was because I had the original bank books with me - good idea to bring this along.

S.

For their own reasons, which I don't understand, there must be an account transaction just preceding (same date, I believe!) the bank account balance certification letter's date.

Last year they sent me to my bank's local branch in Chaeng Wattana (basement) to either deposit or withdraw 100 baht bacause there had been no such transaction immediately preceding the letter.

Lesson learned, this year I did a withdrawal just before requesting the letter be made.

And, yes, you must bring your bank books along. Including the old one if you got a new one recently. And their photocopies!

I went to immigration at ChaengWattana this morning.

MoChit to CW by the DonMuang highway and return to MoChit by the CW expressway.

No sign of flooding.

The CW government building is on slightly higher ground and hundreds of cars have been safe-parked everywhere possible in that area.

The CW expressway is a long safe-parking too. Sometimes cars are double parked thus slowing traffic.

You wonder how all those drivers are coping without their cars!

I had a long slow day at immigration.

They open at 8.30, i was there at 8.45 and got queue nr 26. Not bad but it took two hours before I finally got my retirement visa renewed.

Then some 30 minutes to have it photocopied downstairs because of a very long queue. The usual photocopy shop was closed. Had to do it at a small picture taking/photocopy place.

The local Kasikorn Bank manager saw an opportunity to make a quick Baht for his bank and came to the queue to propose that we photocopy our documents at his bank not far from there.

5 baht/page but he saved a lot of us some time.

When I got back to the immigration for my re-entry visa I got queue nr 292!

Finally I was out shortly after 2PM.

A long day.

As usual the immigration officers were friendly and courteous.

I'm wondering if anyone reading the comments on this knows if the immigration office at Chang Wattana is open. I could assume it's going to be closed due to it's location near Don Muang, or at least not possible for me to find transportation to since I live in the southeast part of town, but logic doesn't seem to get me very far around here lol. I'm changing from tourist to student visa and get paperwork from my school, assuming (again) that I can manage to get to campus in Bang Na tomorrow (Wed Oct 26th. Bangna Trad rd km 26) I know it's unlikely all things will work in my favor, the roads between me and campus were all but impassable last week. Thanks for any info that can be provided. If you don't know it's not a big deal, I'll call Assumptions office in the morning and immigration to get their advice. I could easily wait a week to get this processed anyway (but having lived here almost 10 yrs, I doubt flooding will subside by then anyway.)

My retirement visa must be renewed by 11NOV latest.

I'm planning to go to Chaeng Wattana Immigration tomorrow morning to get it done.

I can reach MoChit with the BTS from Sukhumvit but once there I can only hope that I can make it farther to CW.

Anyway I'll post here what I find at MoChit.

A couple months ago my HP deskop was completely dead as I tried to boot in the morning.

had worked fine the day before..

No monitor, no HD light, no noise, no fan. No nothing.

I took it to HP BKK where it was fixed for free in no time.

Problem was oxydised RAM modules contacts.

The tech used a school pencil eraser to clean those contacts and that was it.

No problems since.

not sure, why to buy water, as tap water is good enough and rain water can be drunk as well.

Telling people to drink tap water in Thailand at any time is pretty irresponsible but during a time of a national flood and in a city with an open sewerage system is just stupid.

You go do that and let me know what happens.

Bangkok water has been safe to drink for years. (not at a time of flooding though)

Tap water is safe but due to low pipe pressure in the grid it has to be pumped up in roof reservoirs to give distribution in higher buildings.

Like in my 5-story high apt building.

Contamination can occur in those tanks. That's why I have installed a water purifying unit so I can still drink "tap" water.

Lets see 1 Mil and I could buy a small flat in Sydney and get a job stacking shelves in the supermarket. No don't think so. Now if it were 10 or 20 mil, a beach front villa in the Med, with a 40 foot yacht moored out front might be on the cards. Jim

Or you could buy a large villa with land in Cuenca Ecuador for 200K (or a large modern highrise condo for 80K), get residency in a few years, and never work again if you didn't want to. Nobody's making you live in Sydney.

Never mind the $1M, which I have.

A few years ago I read a glowing report about life as an expat in Ecuador. I think it was in the UK Daily Mail (which I read online everyday).

I remember that the very affordable housing there (for us, expats) was a main attraction point.

Did a quick Google research that confirmed me to think that it'd be a good thing for me to pull stakes from LOS (I have a place in BKK and one in Pattaya).

I even speak fairly good Spanish.

But I didn't make the move. Too deep in my LOS routine life.

Too late now. I'm getting on years.

Still, I think that retiring in Ecuador would have been very good for me.

and it would, in my view, appear that there was a disconnect between the Honorary Consul and Bangkok.

The guy was chained up, starving and abandoned. I bet there wouldn't be any "disconnect" if embassy staff were organizing a party!

To be clear, my point in the full post was that according to Mr. Drummond's earlier articles, there was attempted contact, by his landlord, with both the Honorary Consul and the Embassy. Did an accurate description, or briefing get through to the Embassy, we, including I, don't know. This is an extremely disturbing case, credit must go to Tracy Cosgrove for pushing for his release and transfer to hospital.

I would be happier to hear that there would be an investigation as to how a British Citizen was so dramatically failed by the Consular system.

Regards

Richard Hewitt was not failed by the British Consular system.

I've just talked, a few minutes ago, with his ex-landlord (who is mine) who says that he (the landlord) contacted the Honorary Consul in Jomtien for help after RH started to show signs of mental problems and caused serious damages (like flooding) to his room but that RH, in his half lucid moments, refused to be helped. The landlord has no complaints about this Hon Consul who told him that the only way then to deal with this problem-causing tenant was to call the Pattaya Police. That's what he did and I was there when they came to fetch him. RH was calm then but obviously in a world of his own. I'd venture that he went for the worse in police 'custody" and that the cops didn't know what to make of him, got concerned he'd go violent and cause problems at the station and so they chained him.

RH is a very nice and friendly fellow. Not violent one bit. Before his drug-related accident he lived on my floor two rooms away. He was a very quiet and good neighbor.

We had many conversations (hard for me because of his heavily accented brogue) and I can say that he didn't seem at the time to have mental problems.

Unfortunately he got on with the wrong crowd (LB) and into some bad sruff that screwed his mind badly.

He liked Thailand and had enough income to have lived here many years so he certainly doen't like to have been deported. I hope for him that he can come back one day.

As an older "user" of Facebook who joined on advice of a friend, to find friends and nothing else, what do people actually get out of Facebook ??

My own eldest kids announce they are going to the Gym for example, and I have to think so fuc_king what !!

To possibly find old Girlfriends/Boyfriends its excellent but the end product is Nill !! Is it me or am I getting too old at 51 ??

A lot of young and old people have no understanding of what facebook is and can bring to the user.

It can be a fantastic tool for exchanging information about all subjects for example. For me it's mainly about my interest in US politics.

If people like Obama have a facebook page it's not to tell trivial stuff.

I take the BKK-Pattaya bus once or twice a month for many years now..

Never had any complaints.

The newer busses have indeed seat belts for passengers.

I've never used them and have never seen anybody using them.

Black Cocaine? That is certainly not politically correct. Cocaine of color, maybe. For a restaurant? Thought he could pass it of as Swiss chocolate i guess. Feel sorry for the guy. (Although an idiot) Swiss prisons i'm sure are lovely, Thai not so much.

Cocaine of color... man you gotta be fricking kidding me!!!

Black cocaine is perfectly correct because it's a substance we're talking about and not people or a race.

And even if we were talking about people to use the term black to address people of dark color is perfectly acceptable! Ever heard someone saying black community for example?

Going back to the blow, it is called black cocaine (coca negro in the latin languages) because it's usually black in color due to being mixed with charcoal or other black substances. There's an article on wikipedia about it.

yes my attempt at humour so sorry

I got your joke right away. Some obviously didn't get it.

Have to be careful with humor on these threads !