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    Hard Times A Coming ?

    in General Topics

    Posted · Edited by billd766

    The good news for these people is that when they can find a farang customer, they can rip him off badly. I would take the oil price chart and flush it down the toilet. charts are useless

    Most of the times I use a motorcycle taxi around the Sukhumvit area and I pay the same price as last year and I don't think I get ripped off at all. It saves me time and money though I generally use a taxi when I go off the route. The BTS is good but first I have to get there and usually where I want to go ends up in between stations.

    I must be lucky as well as good looking.

    On the other hand I hear some terrible reports of taxi drivers ripping off foreigners from the UK airports.

    How Much For Thai Lady To Give Birth

    in Health and Medicine

    Posted

    My wife had our son in an Army hospital in Nakhon Sawan 11 months ago. She was in the main ward for a couple of days and then she went into a private room at 700 Baht a day as the baby needed constant checking. She was in for 12 days and the total bill was less than 20,000 baht.

    There were other mothers in the hospital in the main ward staying for 50 baht a night and as I understand it if you have no money then it is free. It was a good hospital though unfortunately 125 km away from where we live.

    Tiw will be 1 on August 1st.

    Useful Thai For Yr Car Mechanic

    in Thai Language

    Posted

    I use a Eng Thai  engineering dictionary.

    It is very useful for all sorts of things

    If you have it closeby, could you please post the ISBN and/or the names of the authors as well as the publishing comany for the benefit of other members? Dictionaries are a bit of a jungle, and lots of junk gets published although it should not.

    Cheers in advance.

    /Meadish

    I copied this from Thetyim from the last time he wrote in and it came out looking like this,

    Missing Member

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    Well on the outside hardback cover it is called

    "Engineering's Dictionary English-Thai"

    and inside it is called "Electric Science and Mechanical Dictionary"

    Anyway look out for a green 650 pages hardback book,

    150 Baht from DK Books. No ISBN number.

    FYI Saipan mai tong sai julabi. Hai dai.

    Don't put grease on the fanbelts or I'll kill you

    Thai Spouse(visa,wp,child,etc)

    in Thai Visas, Residency, and Work Permits

    Posted · Edited by billd766

    Tytus

    The main reason for marrying my Thai wife is that I love her very much and now our son is nearly 11 months old I love her more if that is possible.

    I did not marry her just to live in Thailand nor is there any special treatment by the Thai government for marrying her and having a baby.

    I did not come to Thailand to find a wife, have kids, get a work permit etc.

    I originally came here in 1993 because the company I worked for had a contract and sent me here which is where I met my Thai wife. I was married with a son in the UK but it wasn't working so well and I eventually divorced my english wife (at considerable expense as many can probably testify to).

    At no time did my Thai wife ever ask me to marry her nor does she want a UK passport or to live in the UK. She is Thai through and through and I am more than happy to give up my life in the West and live in Thailand at a better standard of living and in more safety than I could ever get in the UK.

    There are a few things that I miss that I cannot get here but there is nothing that I cannot do without.

    A word of caution.

    Do not come to Thailand, marry the first available lady and have kids as that would probably lead to an expensive disaster.

    I knew my Thai wife for 5 years before I divorced my english wife and I waited another 2 years before I married her and another 4 years before the baby came along.

    It is worth every moment and every penny/baht that it cost and I would do the same thing over again to be with her if I had to.

    Sign me off as a very happy man.

    :o:D

    I wish I had a computer that could spell at least as well as I can.

    Warning About Fujitsu

    in IT and Computers

    Posted

    About 4 years ago I bought a Fujitsu Siemens laptop from a company called Global Solutuions in Panthip Plaza with a 3 year international warranty. It lasted a couple of years before I had problems with it so I took it back to Global and they fixed it in a couple of days as they did right up to replacing the screen 3 weeks before the warranty expired.

    3 months later I had to scrap it as the warranty had expired an unfortunately the laptop was flooded during a heavy storm which came in through a door which I forgot to shut (stupid boy). It was a good laptop as well but for around 50,000 you can buy a good laptop nowadays.

    Thaksin To Buy 300 Personal Airplanes?

    in General Topics

    Posted

    I truly feel that Thailand will survive Thaksin but I dread the cost to the real people of Thailand. As usual, the rich and cronied will get richer, the poor won't lose much as they don't have much to lose and as for the middle class, they will adapt to survive if they can or they will just fade away.

    It is so sad.

    Villagers Raze Chiang Mai Litter-dumping Truck

    in Chiang Mai

    Posted

    While I feel sorry for the driver (and possibly the owner) of the vehicle I think that ALL illegal trash dumpers should have the trash dumped at their own house and be buried in it.

    I am working in Pakistan and nobody cares about the trash they generate and they just dump it anywhere.

    Thailand is a bit better but there are too many plastic bags and styrofoam containers which if you were to come back in 100 years would still be there.

    Signed recycler :o

    Where To Buy Latest Thai Stamps?

    in General Topics

    Posted

    There is a stamp collectors shop in the MBK building on the ground floor left hand side as you face the BTS.

    He is very helpful and can point you in the right directions to the main post office.

    QUOTE(anna234cn @ 2005-06-20 21:31:15)

    so where are those main post offices in Bangkok if u know. Thanks. smile.gif

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    New Road (Charoen Krung), between Si Praya and Surawong Rd. Large light brown building on the west side of the road (between Charoen Krung soi 32 and 34).

    If this is the place close to the river it is a very good place and holds a large stock of stamps.

    I hope this helps you.

    Avitars

    in General Topics

    Posted

    Actually I scan the threads for the posts that interest me and when I read a thread I usually look at the posters name before the avatar.

    I have only had 3 or 4 avatars because I am basically too lazy to change them.

    My latest avatar is the flag of Khampaeng Phat which is the province where I live. If the post which pointed me to it was not there I would probably still be using Dan Dare.

    Data Base Errors

    in Forum Support Desk

    Posted

    I ahve been trying all day to log in from Pakistan and I can only read one about logging in.

    I can reply to this thread but I have no idea what it is about as I cannot read the thread.

    All I can see is add reply etc but nothing in any other thread at all.

    What is the problem? :D:o

    How Do You Scrape The Monkey Fuzz?

    in ASEAN NOW Community Pub

    Posted

    I used to have a beard from 1995 until December last year when my 4 month old baby (speaking in English through his Thai Mum) asked me to shave off my beard as he didn't like it. His Mum did say I could keep the moustache but that went as well.

    Now I use a Gilette Mach 3 with hot water and foam.

    As for the baby I am thinking of writing to the Guiness Book of Records naming him as the youngest bi-lingual child in the world. Unless of course my wife was telling porkies. Nah she would never go hok me, would she?

    :o

    Royal Thai Police

    in General Topics

    Posted · Edited by billd766

    I have been coming to Thailand and working/living here since 1993 and in all that time the majority of dealings with the police were traffic offences purely my own fault. I smiled a lot and paid the lower rate of fine.

    One time I was coming back to Bangkok from Khampaeng Phet with my wife (girlfriend then) in a borrowed car and had a puncture. I pulled into the petrol station a few metres away and tried to change the wheel. The wheelbrace was the wrong one and nobody could help so my wife told me to call the tourist police which I did. A local traffic police pick up arrived after about 20 minutes and they couldn't help either so they called the heavy rescue guys out who fixed the problem in a couple of minutes. I offered the first police guys some cash but they refused and told me to give it to the heavy team which I did and my wife gave the first team some fresh fruit from the farm and they were more than happy with that.

    I wrote to the Tourist police and told them the story but I heard no more.

    Outside of Bangkok and the tourist places mostly the local police are nice and friendly and touch wood I have had no problems with them at all.

    Mind you that is just me and other posters may be not so lucky.

    Thai Police :o:D

    To go off the subject a little does anybody know where I can buy a computer that can spell properly they way I want it to spell?

    Can I Put External Aerial On Mobile Phone

    in IT and Computers

    Posted

    What you really need is a GSM repeater in either 900 Mhz for Ais or 1800 Mhz for DTAC.

    I searched the Internet and found just what you need, I need it also, from the UK.

    Two bits of bad news. 1 it costs about £500 and 2, you need both if you have both AIS and DTAC.

    I am trying to find a supplier in Thailand but I am working in Pakistan until the end of the month. If I can find one or if anyone knows of a supplier can they please post the information.

    Cheers

    House Designs

    in Chiang Mai

    Posted

    I live up near Khampaeng Phet with my wife in our (her) house. She knew roughly what she wanted and got a good friend to design it for her.

    She got a local builder to do the work and bought the materials. It took around a year to build and the design was modified as the building went along. She had an old house and used the teak from that with a brick lower half and a wooden upper half.

    If I could work out how to post a picture I would do so, perhaps tomorrow.

    3 bedroom with 1 downstairs so that when I get too old to climb the stairs I wont need to and no aircondition as we would only use it a few times a year.

    :o:D

    Is There A Loophole In The Land Laws. . .

    in Real Estate, Housing, House and Land Ownership

    Posted

    ... everything's in my wife's name.

    I just don't give a monkey's bum. :D

    :o

    That makes 2 of us mate - the car (which is in my name) and coffee-maker, that's all I need :D

    And one more is 3. The pick up is in my name though, throw a few shirts in the back and away I go again......Great stuff.

    No worries about what will happen if it all goes tits up, no worries about what will happen if The Thai government has a crack down on Bogus companies, no sleepless nights for me, I like to KNOW just where I stand. :D

    And another one is me. I even sold my pickup to my wife and she still owes me the 2 baht that I asked for. If there is no trust then there is no life or love. I have both. :D

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