GreenSnapper

I understand, almost instant gratification..so what would you do if you fell head over heels in love with a very comely Thai lass, and your willy was still dry after 3 dates?? ..ditch her???..

When dating a girl, you have to quickly get rid of the psychos, the holy virgins or low drive girls. Otherwise you will be wasting your time.

The 3-date rule works well: I give her a chance to get to know me and start a relationship. She has a few days to consider that, to see if our chemistry fits. But I'm also a man with certain desires, and I do not let girls play with me.

So she can decide, or I move on. Don't waste time with girls who from the beginning neglect your sexuality.

The road in Bangkok where I lived, had four 7/11 and three short time hotels. And this was a normal neighbourhood, far from the tourist spots.

Go figure...

In my personal experience, I follow the same standards I have with women in the West: never date more than 3 times without being laid. It works in 90% of all dates. Women are not different in the West or in Thailand. Some just pretend to....

I have a DTAC card. you have to enable roaming while in Thailand, then you can use it in many countries. tested in Europe.

Go to Singapore, Standard Chartered Bank. 30 minutes to open an account with debit card. 2$ minimum deposit. They also offer FX accounts.

Very efficient and no crap like in Thailand. I'd never bring a large sum here.

One of the most useful things in Thailand - besides earplugs - is a Swiss Army Knife.

PH: crap food, crap infrastructure, nicer beaches and nature, people more friendly, the educated speak good english and are far more intelligent than their Thai counterparts.

TH: much better food and infrastructure, girls are more sexy and slimmer. Culture more diverse too.

There is a nice new library east of Victory Monument on Ratchawithi, opposite of the park. Cool, quiet, 3 floors, coffee shop. Lots of space to work, you are not alone with your laptop.

True wifi can be had for free, just sign up for 'bkk green wifi'.

Otherwise, DTAC edge for about 3B/h is another good solution.

Will it be definitely over on 17th April in BKK, or must I still fear being attacked?

I don't understand why the OP doesn't simply barfine bar girls saving himself all the crap he wrote about.

Some people enjoy climbing mountains, some take the cable car.

Leave her alone for 3 or 4 days, then call.. If she misses you and nothing else has been going on she'll be happy that u called .

No. It will just demonstrate that you miss her and are weak.

Wait a few more days until she will call (or SMS). She will do 95% for sure.

Whatever you do show no weakness, women hate that. If she is being weird, give er some space and go out to play.

Life is too short to take crap.

Exactly.

And forget the crap with flowers etc. This is only for the inexperienced. Women do come back here, faster than you would believe. Just don't show them too much interest.

And remember: there is no need to cry after a lost love. There are heaps of proper girls here, just go and look for them. Make yourself the price - not the other way round.

There is a big chance you are in an area where there is a high amount of phone users.

GSM systems give priority to voice calls, so when a lot of calls are being made, time slots are taken away from data connections to accomodate those calls.

You get up to 4 time slots, each allowing a maximum of 60 kbps, so when it's busy and you get just 1 slot, the theoretical max speed would be 60 kbps (but in real life will be more like 30-50 kbps)

Technically speaking, you are right.

But practically, today the speed is fine during the whole day, but was terrible last night at 2am. No technical logic applies here - I think AIS is just plain crap. Will switch soon to DTAC and report my experiences here.

Thanks again.

We stayed in Bangkok City Suite some years ago. Everything is what we expect, but too fare away.

PR Place could be an option. Thanks.

Check it out yourself before making a booking. The area is very ugly, polluted and trashy and not easy to walk. There is also no BTS/MRT nearby, you will depend on taxis.

If you are so much into shopping, it is more advisable to stay in the Siam Sq. area, near BTS/MBK and major shopping centers. Soi Kasemsan 1 has decent hotels and GH in the 500-1500 range, much more pleasant than Pratunam.

Relax, we're not in politically correct little old England anymore.

Exactly.

PR Place on Ratchaprarop Rd. rents some rooms nightly and they are decent.

But a terrible location, very noisy and dusty due to construction works nearby.

I line in the On Nut area and my AIS Edge connection is great. Streaming radio without much interruption. Websites load quickly.

I envy you.

This morning it was better here, there seems to be no logic when it works or when not. As the speed is sometimes even below simple GPRS, I believe it is not just the connection to the base station, but the internet inside AIS servers. Pages don't load fully, connection interrupted and such.

Often my free True Wifi (green Bangkok wifi) with only 64kb is way faster.

I use GPRS/EDGE as my internet connection. Used to work ok with DL speeds of 250 kb/sec at good times.

Now it is just unbearable slow since a few days, a single page sometimes needs minutes to load. Reminds me of the internet connection in Myanmar......

I have a strong signal, live in an upper floor in Bangkok, so this is not the problem. Even after midnight, the connection is dead slow.

What are your experiences? Shall I switch to DTAC? I need internet here, cannot stand this crap anymore.

Equally disgusting are fat western men who insist on going shirtless or even worse shirtless and in a speedo with no concept of local (or anyone else for that matter) sensibilities.

Sometimes the men are in better shape than their other halves...

Not sometimes, but quite common for couples over 40, that the man is in far better shape.

Only in "politically correct circles", like ThaiVisa, older men are regarded as fat, smelly, disgusting.

While older women, well, just have female curves.....

What is up with all those farang women showing all that skin? Have they no shame or modesty?

Indeed.

In fact in most Western countries, whenever a little sunshine appears, they take off most or all their clothes.

I regard this as a serious case of sexual harassment: I just don't want to see asses and tits when not asked for.

Therefore I appreciate the modesty in Thailand and Asia.

Means 30 years of age gap. SHAME. I'm saying this from my point of view. If I was his daughter, I wouldn't dare to look at him straight in the eyes anymore. Do you think she is in love with the old sick guy? awww... I think Im gonna cry.

Shame on you!

For your insults on a sick man. He deserves happiness as everbody else. The age gap is irrelevant - men always go for younger women.

I wish the OP good luck on this difficult path.

...My story: I was stupid and drunk ...

Next time I'll stop reading at this point.

Seems the guy knows his game.

Respect!

I finally got my exit stamp at about 15 minutes past midnight.

No overstay fine but an overstay stamp in my passport which was a shame!

So do I understand correctly, that your actual overstay was 1 day, 15 minutes? Or just 15 minutes only? I certainly want to avoid and overstay stamp, just got a new passport

A short question:

my visa ends on Jan 14th, but flight out is just after midnight on Jan 15th.

If I pass the passport control on 14th before midnight, will I have to pay overstay fees, or would that be ok? Will the airline mind?

Thanks for your answers!

Wifi in hotels is a mess, almost everywhere. Thais don't know how to configure routers and there are often power downloaders which block almost all traffic.

I'm now with Edge/AIS, it is not that fast, but allows a proper browsing speed.