ozsamurai

Another candidate for the Darwin Awards perhaps, those individuals that would be better removed from the gene pool!! Idiocracy.....rofl!!

OK, lets see if any MYTHBUSTERS are reading here. A few months back I was having a beer in a pub in Manila, I got chatting to the guy on the next table. The conversation turned to foreigner land ownership in the Philippines, which is similar to that in LOS, wifes name etc.... Anyway, he says he found a work around, being that he secured a mortage loan for his land from the Royal Bank of Scotland, who also trade in the Philippines. They of course for their fee, secure the title for the land in the purchasers (farang) name as any bank would, and hold the title in escrow until the loan is payed off which it never is. His story goes, he subsequently paid of all but 1 peso of his loan, deposited that peso in the RBS in the Isle of Mann, under his name of course. In the event of his death, the loan gets paid out, the will kicks in and off we go. If all goes haywire, he sells, money comes back to him not potentially goldigging wife. So now, could this fly in LOS? A foreign bank trading here etc.... any Mythbusters here??? We hadn't had that many beers and he actually had done this in the Phils......hmmmm food for thought.

Being from Melbourne, and having enjoyed some of the best pizza there is to have in this world has left me spoit I'm sure. But recently I got a craving for pizza, dug up an old thread here, determined through all opinon that Bangkok Pizza was the way to go. Jumped a cab in the pouring rain to Soi 24/1, getting some definative directions from some motorcycle taxi guys.......its GONE!!!??? website dead, phone not in use??? Did it move?

So I am begging the forum, as one pizza lover to others, where can I get a decent pizza?? Please, no American Pizza Company, Pizza Hut, mass produced pancakes.....thin crust, mountains of cheese, mushrooms and ham, enough salami that you don't have to count the slices.... You Aussies know what I mean..... c'mon guys I'm dying here...

Post Office Experience.

Having now had 2 items sent EMS 1 from Australia and 1 from the US, I can say that posting items of value to Thailand is a no no.

Item 1 USPS, dissappeared without a trace, until insistant mails to USPS finally gave me a telephone number to contact in LOS, a page full of 'its not our problem' phone numbers later, and a threatening wife, we found it in he backblocks of the parcel room, gathering dust.

Item 2 EMS, A box of personal effects, which included our wedding rings. They made me go down, open the thing up in front of them, then they determine (with the same fair and just system the men in brown use) what your things are worth, then slug you with MAJOR import tax. I could have bought our rings again for the amount they took from me in 'tax'

Oh and I forgot this one

My HDD broke, Western Digital, Made in Thailand. For repair/replacement it had to be sent to Singapore!! When it was returned, you guessed it 'VAT tax' had to be paid or they would not deliver it. So I payed double VAT on the drive as well as the postage costs... nice service WD. duh! FedEx.....

Everyone is so busy dipping their hands in your pockets nothing gets done in an efficient manner.... gotta love it!!

Wait until you come here, send money, but dont trust posting stuff, FedEx, UPS, EMS all the same!!

Yeah sorry about that, my newbie status is showing huh? I'm in Khlong Toey, Tesco/Carrefour in Rama 4.. just in case there was any info on that area.

Cheers

Oz

Thank you both for those invaluable pieces of info... hope I can return the favor one day when I have my feet planted a bit firmer in LOS.

Oz

An old one

God Bless Australia

In Vietnam things not OK

Think to self must get away

So jump on boat and come to Aussie

"Ah so" I say "what a lovely possie"

Go quick smart to welfare fella

he hand me money - I give bank tella

Welfare say "come here no more"

"We send you cheque right to your door"

Six months on dole no longer poor

Drive around in Commodore

Write to friends in Vietnam

Tell em "Come here quick as can"

Still on welfare (but work on job)

So get loan from finance mob

Get pretty smart - know what is good

Buy big house in Collingwood

Friends write and tell me 'on their way'

Can I find them place to stay

When they arrive with beds I fix

In just four rooms I get 26!!

Soon I am banking plenty rent

Five in backyard live in tent

All are drawing social money

Must think Hawke a 'Bloody Bunny'

With all my friends now living there

Next door neighbours start to swear

Tell me he must move away

I buy his house, with cash I pay

Now everything is going good

Soon I own whole neighbourhood

Open fish shop next to Coles

make big profit from spring rolls

get real fat from eating nice

Sure as hel_l beats bloody rice

Still on welfare - still gets rents

Think I buy Mercedes Benz

Very Happy - real good life

Bring out girl to make her wife

Take up hobby call it breeding

Baby bonus pay for feeding

Kids need dentist, wife need pills

we get for free, we pay no bills

White man good, he pay all year

To keeping welfare running here

We thank Australia, dam_n good place

Too dam_n good for Aussie race

So if you don't like yellow man

Plenty room in Vietnam

I would like to find a reputable secondhand car dealer in the Khlong Toey area, if one of these exists in the world?! Or similarly if there is a site anyone can direct me to, along a similar vein to eBay Auctions etc in Thailand. Any help please?

Oz

Check craigslist at:

http://bangkok.craigslist.co.th/

Second hand at Khlong Thom Market also if that interests you

Oz

Just wondering if anyone had come across any schools around that area, I a interested in having a look at them.

Cheers

Oz

a life is often spent