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Ang San Suu Kyi who fully supports this genocide of the Rohingya should give back her Nobel Peace Prize.

Does immigration ask you for any copies of pages in the old passport when making the transfer?

Yes they do. I did this last week. They have a form to fill out and you will need a copy of the picture page on your new passport. The process involved both the visa section and the exit stamp section. There was no charge.

I went to Major Hollywood today, for my 90 day report. I arrived about 10:40 and was out of there at 10:50. It was very fast.

PAD is brewing up.

Next time it won't be just taking the Airports, but something more that important and meaningful to Thai people.

Their skin whitener?

I saw some at Central Chitlom department store. That was about three months ago.

I enjoyed "Chua Faa Din Salai" (Eternity), now available in DVD. Also "Agrarian Utopia". a documentary about rice farmers; it had a limited run in Bangkok a few months back. When I saw it the theater was full, which I didn't expect with a documentary. About five years ago i saw a comedy that had me laughing all the way through. I can't remember the name but it was about a bus being hijacked during Songkrahn. It doesn't sound like material for a comedy but it worked.

The mistake is actually caring what a Thai thinks about the looks of a woman I'm with.

The food court at Queen Sirikit Convention center has this dish. Also, Cafe de Tuc in the lower floor of Siam Paragon has this dish..

I have bought Hershey's Cocoa at Villa and have seen it at Big C.

I would be truly frightened of a hospital that fails to keep good records of their patients. Mistakes like that can cost a life.

Just curious, what kind of house do you get for 1.7 million? I live in a 3 million bht house and find it to be very small with very little land. Is this the kind of house you would get in the UK for the 12,000,000 baht you described? For the equivalent of 3 million baht in the uSA I would get a much larger house and better designed house with a large garden. What I generally understand from the posts so far on this topic is if you want to live like a Thai that makes 10,000 baht a month and eat pork balls at food stalls life is cheap. However, If I want a Denon receiver that is made in Japan I should import it from the USA for a cheaper price. Apparently Thailand is not about middle class existence. You have to be rich using Thai standards to afford what our home countries offered for a basic middle class lifestyle .

Western style 3 bedroom bungalow with 1 en suite, 1 separate shower room, western interior kitchen, Thai outside kitchen, open plan living room, included 2 air con units and most furniture. Garden 2x floor area of house, outside covered dining area, car port and tiled drive for 2 cars, nice moobaan outside ChiangMai.

I didn't buy for the offered price of 1.7 million, but rented for 7,000bht a month. Pretty much what I had in the UK for 12million bht, but closer to a big city.

But take a look at some of the ads on Thai Visa

1.9 million

3 million 4 bed house with moat

1.2 million 2 houses 4 beds + 2 beds

Again, this all depends on where you live. I had a friend over here visiting from Rochester, NY. He was astounded at the housing prices. Where he is at, 3 million baht gets you well over 1 rai of land and a 2500 sq. ft. house. Here, 3 million baht hardly gets you a shack on a postage stamp size of land, even when you head well out past Rangsit and commute an hour and a half to work each day. Of course, you can always find cheap houses on farm land, as the post above shows. But then again, good farmland is alot cheaper in the US than it is here too. 50,000 baht for a rai of kaolin laden clay in the middle of Buriram with no road access? Some people here are nuts.

Depending on what you want to compare I suppose you could find some housing cheaper in Thailand. But when rating Bangkok against most other cities in the states you find the housing purchase prices in the suburbs of BKK substantially higher. Renting is still a little less, but that gap is closing fast as the USD falls and the THB rises.

Housing is definitely NOT cheap in Bangkok. Not by a long shot.

Food you buy at the market, service industry items like haircuts, and some types (not all types) of clothing are about the only cheap things left in Thailand. Just try buying a good pair of socks here in Thailand at a reasonable price. Walmart has them for 1/3 the price. I always ask people coming from the states to bring socks.

In Seattle you cannot find any place in any part of the city or it's suburbs for 3 million baht period, end of story.

My heart goes out to the family of the deceased. Also for all those injured I hope you have a full recovery. As for me I will continue going to all my usual places and will not let cowardly acts such as this stop me from enjoying Bangkok.

Chunky, you have seen "thousands" of farang with prostitutes in shopping mall. Is that 3,000 or maybe 10,000? Please clarify. If you have never seen a Thai man with a prostitute then you haven't been looking. I also have to wonder what neighborhood you live in with thousands of prostitute loving farangs. As for proper dress, I have seen many Thai women dressed in very short dresses and very high heels in Bangkok's malls. They are hanging out with their friends, shopping and going to restaurants. Maybe you should show a picture of your girlfriend and yourself so we can all see what the correct dress and appearance should be.

That is pricey, but Dr. Pepper is one of my favorites so I sprung for four cans. I agree that the variety of pop sold here is abysmal. I do miss all the variety available in the states. But I imagine there is just not a large enough market here.

Dr. Pepper has a completely different taste than root beer.

I am happy for the store employees. That is a long time out of work.

I live in the Ekkamai area and that station operating as usual.

A couple of weeks ago I saw a couple of Thais wearing t-shirts with large swasticas on the front. I can't believe they had any idea of what that symbolizes.

Spongebob squarehead is everywhere, just waiting for the right moment to return.

Are any Americans planning to attend the U.S. embassy's town hall meeting at the Marriot Hotel on monday? It is scheduled for 2:00 PM and details are on the embassy web site.

If it gets really severe I wonder how the red shirts will be. Though they do have all those empty hotels to take shelter in.

Remember, the government cannot use any force. They have to let people shoot at them and kill civilians till their heart's content. But no force can be used against the perpetrators. So soldiers and citizens, just stand there and let people shoot you.

There is no Thailand if the government can't disperse a mob of 6000 armed rebels occupying an important district of the capital. No, it is not a game. It is about the very existence of Thailand as a nation. This is civilization vs. anarchy. Would the red thugs be tolerated for weeks in your country? You say yes? I don't believe you.

Good Point Jingthing, how would this be handled in let's say Holland?

It would never be necessary in Holland- people are enfranchised, well-educated, they have removed the priviledges of title and inheritance, they receive sufficient pay for their work, have more than adequate health care and welfare provision and have plenty of Heineken.

I can say in the US they would simply have labeled the insurrection as terrorism and opened fire at the airport, the inner city and wherever. Anyone doubting this should not forget what happened on American campuses at an earlier time.

The Americans opened fire on one campus. That was Kent State in 1970. The National Guard killed four students. It is still remembered today and those students are still mourned. I knew a couple of career military people who left the service after that. One should know a country's history a little better before bashing it. I believe there are very few countries that don't have some conduct that they are not proud of.

I am there on a daily basis. During the day businesses are open as usual and the streets are still filled workers. The street vendors are still out and the restaurants and shops are open. One has to dodge some barb wire in spots and there are plenty of soldiers and lot of Thai flags. One thing stands out for me: the amount of gifts the Thais are giving the soldiers. Things like snacks, soft drinks, water and so on. I have noticed a couple of spots set up with coolers to handle all these donations. I didn't notice anyone crossing Rama IV to hand over gifts to the red shirts. I have not been there at night. The pedestrian overhead walk from Rama IV to the Sala Daeng station is closed to the public.

My R&R was spent in Bangkok. That was 1968. I didn't even know Pattaya existed. I always get a kick out of people who set themselves up as experts who where never there.