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30,000 Baht Lost Due to Incomplete ATM Deposit in Bangkok
safarimike11 replied to webfact's topic in Bangkok News
Reminds me of the guy who walked into a pub, ordered a pint, paid for it and ran out without drinking it. -
30,000 Baht Lost Due to Incomplete ATM Deposit in Bangkok
safarimike11 replied to webfact's topic in Bangkok News
Whenever I am depositing a "large" amount in an ATM Deposit machine, I will do it at a main branch where there are members of staff available - usually in the vicinity of the cash machine, and they always gladly assist or witness my transaction: usually handing me the receipt. (Yes, I am careful as well as a bit thick). -
Tops (Says Tops Online, but I will also check at the Superstore): Chuk De Fenugreek Seeds 100g. online in Bangkok, Pattaya, Phuket and across Thailand from Tops Online Supermarket @ ฿25 only.
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Any "This is Thailand" Stories?
safarimike11 replied to NoshowJones's topic in ASEAN NOW Community Pub
Oh well, never mind. -
Any "This is Thailand" Stories?
safarimike11 replied to NoshowJones's topic in ASEAN NOW Community Pub
Write something of value on here - go on, you know it makes sense. -
Any "This is Thailand" Stories?
safarimike11 replied to NoshowJones's topic in ASEAN NOW Community Pub
I personally recommend Decongestyl suppositories. -
Gud1
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Any "This is Thailand" Stories?
safarimike11 replied to NoshowJones's topic in ASEAN NOW Community Pub
Your posts are just hollow and condescending. -
Any "This is Thailand" Stories?
safarimike11 replied to NoshowJones's topic in ASEAN NOW Community Pub
You are one funny guy; ever considered actually writing something of value on here? -
Any "This is Thailand" Stories?
safarimike11 replied to NoshowJones's topic in ASEAN NOW Community Pub
This is what my wife has always said: If you have the money/time/knowledge, buy a plot of land and have your house built. I live on a muban that was built in 2010, when we bought the house. The workers were Cambodian, so what did they care? The muban was - as is often the case - built on a rice paddy. I had the grass - on 3 sides - dug up and had my own Thai builder lay tiles on the 3 sides - one at a time, with a sand base, rebar wired into a grid, 8 cm of concrete (concrete mixer truck) and the tiles laid when the concrete had set. However, we still had/have cracks and gaps all around the base of the house, which I have filled in periodically. The owners who didn't do what I did - and just left the grass - have it much more serious. I won't bother including pictures, but in some cases, the house looks like an island surrounded by sunken grass. Also, around a year after moving, all 4 external walls of the house developed hairline cracks all over. My wife - who used to work in the office of a large national house-builder, said that they used "80% cement, meaning that the other 20% (of the cement) was sand. These cracks were potched up by the same Cambodian workers who built the houses, hence the repair lasted around 2 years before all the same cracks returned. I got my wife's nephew, who was then aged 17, to do the job again under my supervision. It took him about a month and as payment I gave him my Ninja 300 motorbike. As for the plumbing, I have dealt with all the burst underground pipes myself. (All the weak joints eventually failed due to my installing a pump). As for and electrical, my wife's brother - who is a real electrician - rewired where necessary and replaced most of the circuit breakers, that were underrated and kept tripping. The guy next door, who bought the house with a mortgage from his bank, had to have the top of his roof replaced; we got those builders to do the same repairs to my roof for a few thousand baht. -
Stores selling old stamps in PATTAYA THAILAND
safarimike11 replied to michelleayala's topic in Pattaya
Sorry, old man, section 26, paragraph 5. Need-to-know. -
Stores selling old stamps in PATTAYA THAILAND
safarimike11 replied to michelleayala's topic in Pattaya
Can't help you. -
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Stores selling old stamps in PATTAYA THAILAND
safarimike11 replied to michelleayala's topic in Pattaya
What stamps are you interested in? -
Any "This is Thailand" Stories?
safarimike11 replied to NoshowJones's topic in ASEAN NOW Community Pub
That's just given me an idea... -
Any "This is Thailand" Stories?
safarimike11 replied to NoshowJones's topic in ASEAN NOW Community Pub
I have always bought my office supplies: A4 paper, pens, envelopes etc. at a Big C superstore. (Or Office Depot if there are still going). -
Where did you have this done: a clinic or in a hospital dental department?
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Any "This is Thailand" Stories?
safarimike11 replied to NoshowJones's topic in ASEAN NOW Community Pub
I used to work at a Private "EP" (English Programme) school. They ran KG and Pratheom classes. I myself taught Pratheom 5 and 6. I had a friend who was a teacher from South Africa (who was actually a qualified teacher) who was assigned to KG3. Each class had a Thai Homeroom teacher; these were all women and the Farang "teachers" (TIC) just happened to all be males. They recruited various Farang women teachers, but they never seemed to last more than a couple of months. Anyway - to digress, there was a KG English "activity" coming up and the Thai Homeroom teachers each had to put up a sign outside their respective classrooms that stated what their class activity was. I can't remember the exact details, but there was either a spelling or Grammar mistake in the sign the Thai teacher - aligned to my South African mate - placed above her door, so he informed her of this. At the end of the semester, he was shocked to learn that he had been fired; we briefly discussed this and he figured out the reason was for making his Thai associate "lose face", which really is a big deal - kow jai? -
Any "This is Thailand" Stories?
safarimike11 replied to NoshowJones's topic in ASEAN NOW Community Pub
So, I take it that "and then" is totally out of the question? -
Any "This is Thailand" Stories?
safarimike11 replied to NoshowJones's topic in ASEAN NOW Community Pub
(Only read this if you don't have a life)... I live on an estate (Thai = muban) - not in Pattaya - where there are approx. 200 houses (always 15 or so vacant/up for sale/repossessed) and I happen to be one of only 2 Farangs living here. Over my back wall is another - older - muban. There is a street running up (90 degrees) to my back wall. The house on the right (looking from my house) used to be empty but a few years ago a family moved in. The husband was the type of bloke that is always fixing things, hence I named him the "forever handyman". He was constantly making improvements to the outside of the house, which usually involved hammer-drilling into concrete. He had an early/mid 90s Volvo saloon that never started first time - but did so the second time. It sounded like he used to get frustrated with this because the second time he would rev the nuts off it for about 1/2 a minute to vent his anger. Further to this, he was constantly "fixing" it. One day, I actually observed him taking off both back doors and then putting them back on (twice); the front doors escaped intact. He installed a second-hand air conditioner for the upstairs bedroom, with the compressor (obviously) located on an outside wall. The problem with this was that it dripped down onto the concrete below, which would keep me awake at night, so I bought a length of (1/3" I guess) plastic pipe and handed it to him over the wall: problem solved. Last year he installed a water pump for the house, located downstairs on the concrete on an outside wall. This unfortunately didn't come with a pressure vessel, hence it start/stopped constantly and mad an awful noise to boot. This must have been something he got from a junk yard because it crapped out after a couple of months - not to be replaced. He also installed a water fountain that runs 24/7 and has 25 wind chimes hanging from various spots around his house. On a Sunday afternoon, he once started blasting out what I call SSS of the seventies (sad, slow, sh*t). I therefore moved my wife's CD played with massive speakers upstairs and placed it on a table by a window facing his house and blasted out my "best of Hawkwind" (70 - 72) selection at full volume; strangely enough, he doesn't do this anymore. There is more, but I will get back to my life. -
Any "This is Thailand" Stories?
safarimike11 replied to NoshowJones's topic in ASEAN NOW Community Pub
Wot, are you saying that the assistant couldn't even say: "Just moment"?