hazman

I got a free bottle of water from the shell servo in ubon a couple of weeks ago[emoji3]

Never mind the strawberries where can I find sally

YuMmmmmmmmmm

I was looking at that aquarium a couple of days ago noticed that two or three smaller sharks that were in it last time I looked a few months back are no longer there

Has anyone used Westpac on line banking to transfer Australian dollars to the Bangkok bank in the past couple of months? The reason I ask is because the last two times I have done this the transfer has ended up at another bank, Citi bank, then you are charged a transfer fee by Bangkok bank between 700 and 730 baht to get it in to your account.

The first time this happened I was in Thailand and I fronted the bank as to why this was happening and they told me that Westpac had sent it to the wrong bank. When I got back to Oz I also fronted the Westpac bank about this after getting a letter from Bangkok bank saying it was nothing to do with them but everything to do with Westpac, their answer was that they don't have a transfer deal going with Bangkok bank and the money could go to another bank because of this.That was like waving a red flag in front of a bull and I told them that I wanted the 720 baht that I had to pay refunded by them because it clearly stated on the transfer that it was to go into a Bangkok bank account after threating to close my account with them they paid up but then came out saying if I had done the transfer at the bank counter instead of online this would not have happened. what a croc of <deleted>.

Thursday, I transferred Australian dollars to the same account and it looks like its happened again after 48 hours the money has not gone into the account, I will be off to see Westpac first thing on Monday morning. Not Happy.

So where the hell are you?

Thanks for the info will go to Ubon when it stops raining and have a look at them.

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Anyone know where in Ubon I can buy a high pressure cleaner,the sort of thing you use to clean the grime off cars?don't want one of those big industrial types just one you bang a water hose and power into?

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Looks like you had big rain this morning. If you did then check out this website. If you didn't don't bother as you'll just dis me for posting a bum-rap

http://www.accuweather.com/en/th/amphoe-kantharalak/444944/satellite/444944

(you can reset it to centre on Ubon of course)

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The wundermap is what I was looking for thank you.

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Just had a look at those links and none of them showed any weather radar for the Ubon area thanks for your reply anyway

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Thanks I will give the links a go

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Does anyone know of any online weather radars that cover Ubon and surrounding areas that actually work the ones I have seen don't show any rain even when it's pissing down?

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Drinking Archa now, it's as good as any of the other muck they serve up as beer here. How about walking past members of the family and completely ignoring them? I finally trained them to say SDK and now find myself ignoring them. Don't get me into driving the car, I think I drive like a Thai, but I use the mirrors.

Drive like a Thai!! The frightening observation regarding so many who, when on a motorbike, come to a T junction at a main road and turn left without any sort of glance to the right, to see what traffic is incoming. Frightening...

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Yes, but you EXPECT them to do that. What I didn't expect the other day was a Farang driving pretty fast without helmet who cut off my path as I was turning right . 'This is the way you're supposed to do it, stupid Thais'. He won't last long, A Thai probably would have had him off his bike as he wasn't driving like a Thai.

I agree absolutely about expecting drivers to make certain manoeuvres. While it doesn't make it right, it still makes me wince every time I see it.

A bit like following a groups of cars, you need to be looking towards the front of the group to see what's going on there, to try and anticipate what might happen, whereas most of the others just follow the brake lights of the vehicle in front, often causing those multi-vehicle shunts - especially at traffic lights.

I'm not claiming to be a clever/perfect driver, but here, you need to have eyes in every single direction!

Don't get me wrong, it's not meant as a whinge, but more of an observation - honest!

Your not wrong about needing eyes in every direction.

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What i got used to during my latest visit was the all night gambling and drinking and eating raw buffalo meat.

This occurs occasionally in my village when someone returns from working abroad. The returnees celebrate their homecoming for two or three days in a row.

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A few months ago my wife drew 80000 bht out of her account and when the teller handed it over she counted it in front of him and it was 10000 bht short I am pretty sure he did this on purpose thinking she wouldn't check before leaving the counter.

Not sure about education or skin color, but i personally resent the behavior, which sadly seems to be from Isaan,

Example, in my village (street with houses) new family has moved in from Isaan.

First month, the road was turned into a rubbish tip, yes right in the middle of the road, they started to pile up all their rubbish.

To a point that cars can not get through, asking them was useless, eventually one of the neighbors(Thai) called the rubbish company and had it removed at his own costs.

Next day they started new pile up.

Few doors down, another family moved in from Isaan. Screaming at each other at 6-7 am is a regular occurrence.

Parking their bike or shitbox of a car on other peoples drive way is a must. They simply can not go 1 day without parking or blocking someone else's drive way.

My village is really friendly, we all know each other and look out for each other, but since Isaan has arrived, its been turned into a screaming rubbish tip.

I have 15 dogs, all friendly but are dogs, all kept inside and never let out without leash, All neighbors know my dogs and like them and respect that i look after all so well.

Neighbors also know NOT to approach the gates if i am not home because dogs do protect their home.

Of course the lovely Isaan arrivals could not care less, their kids run up to the gates to irritate dogs, Neighbors have told them and parents NOT to do that, but of course, they could not care less.

I could go on, but it would be pointless.

No, not all people from Isaan are bad, but having experienced what i have, hard to stay positive if another family decides to move in

Sounds like the indigenous people I had living next door to me a few years ago in Australia absolutely trashed the government house that they were given to live in not to mention knocking over my front fence and breaking into my car.

I also spend a month or two a year living in an Isaan village and never seen anything happen like you describe.

Tops in central plaza Ubon has beer Lao dark or it did six weeks ago when I was there

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Posted 2014-04-24 15:42:50

Tops in Ubon and Surin, No Have

No harm in asking them Again,like I said It was six weeks ago.

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Tops in central plaza Ubon has beer Lao dark or it did six weeks ago when I was there

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It's been bloody hot around Ubon Sisaket the past week or so,all I can say is bring on the storms as long as it cools the place down

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My wife has announced she plans on returning to her family home in Roi Et to look after her parents.

I have lived most of my life in big cities and down sized to Chiang Mai a few years ago where I have friends and am happily ensconced. Her parents live on a farm about 24 km outside the city in a fairly basic house which in some respects is not farang user friendly. Her parents speak no English and not all that much Thai while my Thai is limited. Added to this my wife works for the Government and will be in the city all week during the day. So that leaves me out on farm with parents and brother who has a brain injury and cannot work (motorcycle accident - no helmet). The plan is to build a small house on the property where we will live. There are also 2 teenagers in this equation, my wife's son and her niece.

My questions are: I am nearly 70 and will I be able to survive this transition to rural Issan life? Are there many expats about and do they meet up for a drink or lunch a couples of times a week? Are there shops where I can buy western food? What is the standard of medical care?

Any information will be gratefully

The short answer is patience as it will be tested

received.

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Yep - can just imagine all the local villages either cancelling their planned Bunfai (read gambling) events this year or submitting detailed timings of the rocket launches as requested.........................dream on Khun Sombat!

Water and Ducks back come to mind.

jb1

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This wouldn't have anything to do with a missing aircraft would it?✈️

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I live in Ubon and need some documents translated from Thai to English.Any one know of a credited and reliable service available here?

Thanks in advance.

Cheers

There was thread about this about a week ago just check the posts made on this forum in the past week and you will see it,I don't know how to link it here.

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