TPI

This bit the OP neglected to add

Vana Nava today issued a statement that it fired the responsible employee. It claimed the staff member neglected to follow its rules, which require monitoring a CCTV camera inside the funnel and communicating with lifeguards under the slide before letting a new raft float.

“The incident happened because of the carelessness of the staff who control the traffic of the water rafts,” read the statement.

The attraction, called “Abyss,” is purported to be the largest water slide in Thailand and reaches speeds of up to 45kph in a huge water tube.

The company claimed their design and operation is up to international standards.

http://www.khaosodenglish.com/detail.php?newsid=1448454070&typecate=06&section=

My God! Clarification that can be believed!!!

Move along there, nothing to see here!!

In 1967 I met some 'mericans who advised me, in the most friendlyest of words "Never, ever do business with a Thai"! since that time I have stuck religiously to that advice, except one time, it only cost me 3 million baht, I thought I was lucky at the time!!

The best 50 will train the next group, inspiring stuff but woefully lacking. Having been very much involved in teaching Thai teachers English as part of a government push to use English in the maths and science classes it's doomed to the same end. Who can blame an old teacher who is on cruse control to a pension or a teacher who has no interest in learning a foreign language. Yes they will attend and give every indication that they are trying but at the end of the program they will have gained little to nothing even the ones who try and do want to speak English will simply not use it in class out of fear that they will get it wrong or a student might speak it better.

There is only one way to break the circle and that is to employ good first language English speaking teachers to teach English, Maths, and science in schools until the first generation students start to enter the job market. Then offer these students a bonus to go into teaching using English. Only then will the circle be broken. But this would need a real commitment not just words.

I taught a 30 hour "Teach the Teachers" course to Pratom teachers in Isaan. I had one major success. Probably half the students in Nakhon Ratchasima province now know how to do The Chicken Dance. They are probably all still pronouncing Rs as Ls, and Ls and Ns, but da*m, they can do The Chicken Dance.

If you don't know The Chicken Dance, crawl out from under your rock and check this link:

https://youtu.be/4xmV5uHWNag

And the Hokey Pokey was more popular that attempting to aspirate Ts, Ks, Ps, and Gs at the end of words, no less understand when to use an S or Z sound for plural nouns and third-person plurals.

If you don't know The Hokey Pokey, crawl out from under your rock again and check this link:

https://youtu.be/4EnaAFyrcQM

Now like Thai Pratom teachers, you can ignore the English lessons and do naught but play. TIT My take on Thai teaching philosophy is that children shouldn't be burdened with learning, but allowed to do nothing but play.

Having done the same sort of course here in Phrae, only with Mathiyom, I'm a little confused about the part that singing and dance play in teaching English? While children like to sing and dance where does it fit for teachers to do it in a "train the trainer" course? Money for jam eh!!

Another project destined for failure: The Blind Leading The Blind. Propagating broken English ad-infinitum for generations to come. As always, the 50 'best' teachers will be selected based on status, family-standing, and money.

Here's a better idea. Require native Thai teachers with their Masters Degree in English or Education to take two full years of English language training from qualified Native English Speakers, or require them to attend 'immersion' English language courses in English speaking countries. No exceptions. Hell, that makes way too much sense, now doesn't it.

The ministry's idea may get off the ground, but will have a Hindenburg ending.

hith-hindenburg--E.jpeg

I know this sounds crazy but, why not have an English speaking radio station and an English speaking TV station, you know, like they had a couple of years ago! Listening to the BBC is no help at all, the presenters speak way too fast! Believe it or not CNN has a much better set of presenters!

Maaate! Time to go, you're dealing with the guys reputed to be the worlds greatest and most efficient "copy disc" operators! Cut your losses.....defend from Oz!

Sounds real strange, but then again someone being crucified and coming back from the dead is just as strange. Only atheism makes any sense because it relies on facts not unproven beliefs.

Typical cynical (closed minded) statement from the atheist religion/cult with its arrogant cult leader Richard Dawkins!

Trolling?

What a turn up, being famous for being a failure at life and a failure at study, how are they going to continue their protest.......stay unemployed for the rest of their lives!! What's different about that? Idiots!!

It seems that the Manila scam has a couple of enthusiastic supporters in BKK?

"She said the clinical doctor was uncertified and didn’t show any responsibility for his work."

Well Duh!!! Instead of researching the "doctor", she takes the advice of a friend with no medical training. One has to be an utter fool to not check up on the qualifications of a practitioner before undergoing any medical procedure. Especially when she probably chose this individual because he was the cheapest one she could afford..

That's why they have certification for many professions. To ensure professional and safety standards. Of course a medical procedure that introduces a foreign substance into the body can be dangerous, and even with the proper training and attention to professional standards, things can go wrong. With someone who is unqualified to perform this procedure (assuming that this is a legitimate procedure), there is a much greater chance of something going wrong.

Someone who has not gone through the process of proper training and certification is already exhibiting his lack of responsibility.

I feel bad for her, but undergoing a potentially dangerous elective medical procedure by an unqualified practitioner in order to meet the sexist standards of a shallow universal male ideal, shows a total lack of responsibility to oneself.

Wow! Very bitter!! Have you not considered the young woman's position? In good faith she goes to someone (who probably, had a certificate of some sort on the wall) explains what she wants done, "doctor" says I've got the proper material and I have the proper skill!!! In any western country she could sue the "doctor" and his/her clinic, to be followed up by criminal charges on both the "doctor" and the clinic! There is no such protection or education for "caveat emptor" (let the buyer beware) so give the girl a break, at least she was trying to make herself employable!!

God! Some people on this site are bitter and twisted!!!

The difference is Education, Training and awareness. That's what the "nanny" states drum into you..

Thailand, sadly, not so much.

Perhaps but I think it's much deeper than that here.

Thailand still retains a lot of the feudal culture mentality.

Peasant lives don't really matter much here, do they?

Look at the way pedestrians are treated here. They are seen as expendable peasants.

If you actually kill one assuming you don't flee the scene (so common here and almost seen as normal and acceptable) ... what does it cost you, 5000 baht, if that?

The man changing the bulb was an expendable peasant and for him to stand up and say I want the tools to do this safely, even if he had that spark of intelligence / self worth valuing of his how own life in him which is very doubtful, he'd be out of his rice bowl right quick.

Sorry, yes I live here and nobody is making me live here, but I'm never going to admire that part of this culture which is like that.

Cheers.

It's the real truth, life is not worth a cracker in Asia in general! Singapore, four and a half million people......850 dead a year in construction accidents and this is with some of the most stringent safety rules in Asia!

Don't do it! Look at the damage that international banks have done to the world economy!! Australia, the US, the UK and europe in general. Iceland is the only coluntry to have come to the "correct" solution, ban international banks and jail the bank executives.....really!!! Hooray for Iceland!

Even the bunch of muppets running the country and their backers are smart enough to see the dangers with a well educated population.

Every govt here does.

surely you jest!

Humnnnnn interesting process. I wonder if he was ????? oh I don't know ????? let's say - Thai - would he be out on bail?

Gosh! What a thing to suggest!!!

How about just make it easier to hire them legally?

Clearly the fashion business (which i assume is why the model are here) being a global business requires models from around the globe for marketing and advertising purposes.

So rather than get all flustered stop with the patriotic filibustering and listen to what your companies need, in this instance - a flexible pool of foreign models, and make it easy for them to be employed quickly, efficiently and legally. So your companies can be more successful globally.

And ensure they are employed through the same processes (WP and correct visa) as any other people. Why should they be treated differently?

Because models only work for a very very short time, a day or two at the most! Do you have a method of getting the "correct" visa or a WP for use over less than a week? Remember, they called for you to work this weekand, lets not forget, if you stayed longer then you might have 4 or 5 employers in that time even if you only had one agency.......?

How about just make it easier to hire them legally?

Clearly the fashion business (which i assume is why the model are here) being a global business requires models from around the globe for marketing and advertising purposes.

So rather than get all flustered stop with the patriotic filibustering and listen to what your companies need, in this instance - a flexible pool of foreign models, and make it easy for them to be employed quickly, efficiently and legally. So your companies can be more successful globally.

Steady on!! That's almost logical! A Thai government branch operating logically? Perish the thought!

Being homeless is not easy anywhere but the climate in Hawaii certainly mitigates the cold in many other parts of the US. In one of the most recent 'sweeps' of the homeless camp in Kakaako. The police and authorities confiscated personal belongings with little recourse for the people who lost their personal property. The ACLU is currently challenging this in court.

As for 'free housing' for Hawaiians, the statement made in an earlier post is totally off base. To qualify for 'leased' land (99 years) on Hawaiian Homelands, a person of Hawaiian descent must show a blood quantum of 50% which applies to very few native Hawaiians these days. There is also the problem of lost or destroyed court records that would allow Hawaiians to show the necessary blood quantum. There was also the native Hawaiian practice of informally adopting children (hanai) and leaves such people in ethnic limbo because there are no records of their birth parents. Hawaiian Homeland is providing housing for Hawaiians who can qualify at 'below' market rates. However, when the median price for a house on O'ahu just hit US$700,000.00 this has little meaning. The rental market is equally cost prohibitive.

Homelessness in an edemic problem in the US, not only in Hawaii. The right to adequate shelter is a human right embodied in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Some places in the US have dealt with this issue better than others. Hawaii has chosed a path to make 'homelessness' illegal. A path that shows little compassion or addressing the root causes of homelessness.

As for the native Hawaiians on the Nanakuli and Wai'ane coast, there are many who have been disenfranchised from necessary government services to address their poverty.

Lastly, the illegal overthrow of the Hawaiian monarchy with the direct involvement of US military forces has yet to be adequately addressed and resolved. There are many issues that contribute to homelessness in Hawaii. For those who think that being homeless anywhere is just a lark, try it yourself.

Dear Pookiki, thank you for that informative blog, in Australia we had a premierm of Queensland who said he could remove unemployment from his state in a minute! His idea was to make it illegal, so that they would all be criminals.........bingo! Problem solved! It appears that mentality is alive and well in Hawaii!!

Look back further folks! It's not all that it seems, he didn't talk of his time working as an agent of the CIA nor did he talk about his involvement in the "Bay of Pigs" fiasco! And, lets not get into a deep discussion about November 1963!

Rumsfeld was his man who he passed on to his son and he was very close to cheney! In his 90th decade and he still can't stop lying!

It really doesn't matter as the "money" still runs the country, just like every other country in ASEAN! One day the people will get a voice, that will be a day to celebrate!!

We men go around making sexist remarks and it's all considered good male fun you all, we all know the comments made so no need to list them.

Now a group of girls goes around making remarks in a similar vein and all these indignant fellow me lads are up in arms and decry the girls.

I wonder if any of you have been involved in or caught up in a ''girls night out'' in your home countries.

Braver men than me have run from the girls when they are on the rampage and on heat !!!

Good luck, and good on yer Thai women fir having the craic.

Just because SOME men act in an atrocious manner towards women does not justify this BS behaviour by these idiots. It's the behaviour that is wrong, the gender is irrelevant.

God! Some of the wowsers on this site are embarrassing, mother grundies isn't in it!! Life, it's a bit like driving on the freeway...if it's going too fast for you either speed up or pull over and let the rest of us go past!! With a jaundiced view of the world like that have you not consided leaving it?

We should do that... Oops forgot, those clowns in Westminster, the ones that claim to be the ones you can trust with the nations security canned our carrier fleet.

Didn't they mothball Arc Royal and commission QEII (Which at 63,000 tons is twice as big)? JUst saying!

Clearly this expense is not necessary.

With all the un-earned, purely decorative "Tin" most Thai Military display on their uniforms they must be de-facto bulletproof already.

Patrick

Why not have a general or two ride as bullet shields? The govt. could give them a medal for it!!

My misses is a 'fresher' at CM Uni, over 200 on her course, mostly 19 year old girls.

They are always doing homework together.

Then there is the 17 year old girl that lives with us, and all her pals that come for sleepovers.

Teen Thai girl overload at my place!

I just hide.

Awwww! You poor poor bugger! Although the teenage girls I know are typical teens.....they don't know what they want and if they do they don't know how to get it? Only very few have part time jobs and some having been living alone for 10 or more years (broken homes, both parents done the runner!) Of course they are in love with their girlfriends, boys definately cannot be trusted, especially when younger sisters fall foul of 30 year old letharios (who also do a runner when the lass is pregnant!). No hope and not much hope of a successful future!

Anyone who has 26 spoonfuls a day is being consumed by sugar rather than consuming it.

If you put each one in a glass of beer you hardly notice it.

Beer has no sugar = no GI!

So are there any drinks sold at 7/11 that are 'healthy' and do not contain sugar, carbohydrates etc.

All I see are sweetened drinks.

Any specific drinks/brands to look out for?

I can't think of any food or beverage sold in 7/11 that would be regarded as healthy ( except water, maybe almonds).

One of the drinks sold at Starbucks has more than the daily calorie intake for average Thai. The iiced coffee/condensed milk abomination sold be street vendors is probably almost as bad.

It's the palm oil that they put into condensed milk that is killing people! Palm oil is one of the highest sources of colesterol in the diet and when it's burnt, as in deep frying, it is also very very carsonogenic!

What's worse is the way they put sugar and palm oil in "so called " fresh milk, sell off the butterfat from the milk and with the skim milk that remains they add sugar for taste and palm oil to give the "fatty" taste!

Next time you buy a can of condensed milk read what's on the side of the can!!!