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You would have thought problems like this would have been resolved long before construction of the airport started....
Considering the new airport has been in-process since 1960, it's not like the powers-that-be haven't had plenty of time to think about this!
TIT
Bill
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Hi Camerata
I have tried to upload my new avatar about 5 times now including deleting the old one, end every time it comes back with the old one.
I don't know what I am doing wrong or perhaps it is "The System" which doesn't like me.
Is this
your new av Bill?Hi Jai Dee
Yes it is.
Thanks for your help.
I didn't know it had changed until I answered a post.
Cheers
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Hi
I appreciate I'm probably being too vague here but if anyone has any idea, I'd appreciate it.
OK, a friend has been quoted about 8000THB to provide a water pipe to a property in kampaengpetch so it has running water. I have no idea if this is a direct supply from the water mains or not. I think the property may be on farmland (rice).
Am I being too vague .... what questions do I need to ask to know if this is a fair price or not?
Thanks
Taz...
Hi Taz
I suppose it all depends on where your friend lives. I live in Changwat Khampaeng Phet but out in the boonies at Klong Lan Pattana and I have water supplied to the meter by the local water authotities. From the meter to where you want it depends mainly on the distance and size of the pipe.
I had the guy who works for us to run 3/4 inch pipe to 2 houses and did the other one myself. It is not difficult as the pipe comes in 3 or 4 metre lengths, is plastic, the connecors are easy and you can change pipe sizes with an adapter.
I think it was about 40 baht a piece of pipe and the connectors are about 20 baht. You also need pipe cement which turns you on a bit but can literally become addictive (glue sniffing).
My land was dirt and so easy to bury the pipe but if your friend has concrete it is more difficult.
A reasonable plumber up here would be 300 or so Baht a day.
I generally do my own plumbing.
Hope this helps.
Cheers.
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Hi Camerata
I have tried to upload my new avatar about 5 times now including deleting the old one, end every time it comes back with the old one.
I don't know what I am doing wrong or perhaps it is "The System" which doesn't like me.
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I am working in Pakistan at the moment and my wife said that she would get a spirit house if I got a job.
I did and she has got a spirit house but I have no idea what it looks like until I come home at the end of the month.
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As has been mentioned earlier the system is trying to handle too many calls for the capacity of the trunk lines.
The problem is that it costs money and time to expand the network and while the operators have money they network planners are at the mercy of the sales teams who are expected to sell more mobiles and air time to increase revenue.
This overloads the system and the engineers are playing catch up all of the time and it never works.
I have been in the mobile phone industry for 18 years and if you plan for 50% expansion over a couple of years the bean counters scream that you are spending what you havent got and if you dont expand you die as the customers go elsewhere and the beanies then complain of falling revenue.
For mobile systems such as Thailand you are lucky as there is a large choice of providers at a low price so you can hop around.
When you are stuck with one or two you have no choice.
I am in Pakistan and I call my wife on DTAC out in the sticks and I generally get through first or second time.
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I also wear amulets mostly given to me by my wife but one was given to me by a forest monk. They are on a nylon cord (no gold) and my favourite I showed to the stewards on a Thai flight one day and they explained that it was a fairly powerful one and gave me good protection.
They are with me and I wear them daily here in Pakistan and also at home in Thailand but if I am just around the house they stay up by the house Buddha.
They have no real value but are pricelees to me because of where they came from.
Most of the local people where I live have no negative opinion and some seem to appreciate my wearing the amulets.
If I may steal part of a quote from Totster
I don't think I will look ridiculous when wearing this amulet, however I will keep it inside my clothing, not because of how it looks, just simply for security. Luckily I don't care if some jumped up <deleted> thinks I look ridiculous anyway..
There is no general rule but on the whole farangs wearing amulets -openly on display - look completely absurd although Thais are usually too polite to point this out.Often relative newcomers in a Thailand "honeymoon phase" , which sometimes can last for years, wear them but put them aside when they are a bit more clued up.Having said that, there are a few long term resident farang I know who wear them for sentimental reasons but never on display.Without wishing to be unkind the type of farang who solicits opinions from Thai Inter stewards is probably the type who would wear amulets, ie without any idea of context,significance or meaning.
No real need to comment on the above. Know people and try not to generalise.
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I also wear amulets mostly given to me by my wife but one was given to me by a forest monk. They are on a nylon cord (no gold) and my favourite I showed to the stewards on a Thai flight one day and they explained that it was a fairly powerful one and gave me good protection.
They are with me and I wear them daily here in Pakistan and also at home in Thailand but if I am just around the house they stay up by the house Buddha.
They have no real value but are pricelees to me because of where they came from.
Most of the local people where I live have no negative opinion and some seem to appreciate my wearing the amulets.
If I may steal part of a quote from Totster
I don't think I will look ridiculous when wearing this amulet, however I will keep it inside my clothing, not because of how it looks, just simply for security. Luckily I don't care if some jumped up <deleted> thinks I look ridiculous anyway..
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Every time I try to update my avatar I delete the current one and try to load the flag it always comes back to this one again.
Helllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllp please.
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Hi Thetyim
I have been on the waiting list in Klong Lan for 2 years.
Maybe they will skip copper wires and go straight into FTTC or FTTH.
I am allowed to dream now and again.
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chownah, Its about 50/50 male/female, most of the bull calfs we sell just after birth as they are'nt really worth us keeping for beef, although it is possible to make money on them if you do it right. I just have'nt got the time or facilities here for looking after that many more cows, although sometime in the future I may.
The problem with Friesion calfs is that you sell the mothers milk, so you have to buy powdered for the calfs. That drops you profit by about 2500 bhat a head to start with. If I was going to do beef, I'd either do the local thai brahaman crosses or try and get into charolise.
Bill if you get a bucket on the front try and pay the extra for 4WD, it makes working with the bucket a LOT easier.
Dont know if you have this site:-
Hi RC
The L3408 is a 4wd but I am going to have to either bring my wife with me or go on my own and get the brochures in Thai.
There is a big Kubota dealer just south of Nakhon Sawan so I will have a look on my way home.
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Thank you, Thetyim... makes a dandy little avatar.... as long as you're the first from that province to use it.
Hi John
How did you save and paste it?
billd766
download it from the site to the computer.
enter TV control panel and edit avatar
click browse and insert the file name from your saved file and it's location.
I tried a few times and although I seemed to copy it I couldn't paste it. Perhaps it doesn't like me.
I will try again later.
Dont copy and paste.......right click the image...save as.....then save it to where you want, my documents for instance......go to Thai Visa and into your profile....find edit avatar.....take it from there.
50% sucess as I have downloaded it. The other 50% comes tonight when I try to change the avatar.
Thanks a lot
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Thank you, Thetyim... makes a dandy little avatar.... as long as you're the first from that province to use it.
Hi John
How did you save and paste it?
billd766
download it from the site to the computer.
enter TV control panel and edit avatar
click browse and insert the file name from your saved file and it's location.
I tried a few times and although I seemed to copy it I couldn't paste it. Perhaps it doesn't like me.
I will try again later.
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Thank you, Thetyim... makes a dandy little avatar.... as long as you're the first from that province to use it.
Hi John
How did you save and paste it?
billd766
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I live up country and I am semi retired. If he came to my door at that time and woke me up I would offer him a cool drink and some food and thank him.
Why?
1) Because it is polite
2) because I can always find something to do (even if it is logging onto tv)
3) if he is knocking on my door at that time he must have got up early to do so and it would not have been his idea.
4) at least it would save my wife a trip to the village or wherever it has to be paid
5) I know him and he is a nice guy anyway and so is the man who comes with the water bill and also the trash man.
I don't have to work or beat on peoples door to get 2 or 3 hundred baht but somebody has to, and if it makes his day a little better, why not, and it is only once a month anyway.
I could wake the wife but she is not really a morning person and she gets a bit crabby before her first coffee.
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For me this is one of the most useful and helpful threads I have seen for a long time. I live about 150 km north of RC and we have about 15 rai of our own land, my wife has just rented another 11 rai and she has the chance of buying another 30 rai wihich is currently used as an orange farm.
We are into crop farming in a small way but no animals other than the dogs which seem to grow like weeds. Not a problem but they all meet and sing to the pork man in his pick up truck, at 6 in the morning. I have run out of shoes to throw so when I am home again I will take some rocks upstairs at night.
The biggest problem we have is getting water as the government supply runs out regularly. We have been talking about a borehole and my wife has talked to the Amphur and they told her to go and find a hole driller.
The land we own and the land we rent is on the frontage road but I don't know about the orange farm yet.
We are also talking about buying a tractor and I think we will go for a Kubota L3408 and get a blade and bucket for the front with a rake and harrow for the back.
I have bookmarked this thread and will download it every so often.
I am in Pakistan working but I will be back at the end of June for 10 days then back out for a couple of months.
Here in Pakistan they are still into donkeys, horses and bullock carts rather than the Kubota 2 wheel engines but are far better off as there is a lot of irrigation canals and water access compared to Thailand. However in general the poor people are poorer than Thailand.
Cheers Bill
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When Thai people friends or strangers tell me I am pom pui (spelling?) i agree with them and smile while I do.
I know I am fat (130kg) but at 61 I am actually fat and happy, my wife loves me this size and she is now about 49 kg having put on a a kilo every year or 2.
I wouldn't change her but I would really love to lose 15 kg but I tell my wife that it her fault as she is a really good cook.
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Speaking in response to government concern that SIM cards issued in neighbouring countries could be used in Thai militant attacks, Mr. Kanawat Vasinsangvorn, Vice Minister for ICT, said that he had been assured by the Customs Department that foreign SIM cards did not pose a problem.
Unless foreign mobile telephone users apply for international roaming services, they can only use their SIM cards in a narrow band of land along Thailand's borders, most of which is uninhabited jungle.
Users who apply for international roaming services must subject their SIM cards to thorough checks in their own countries before they can be used abroad.
Every time I came to Thailand from 1999 until 2002 I used to bring my UK mobile with me and I could both make and receive calls in most places I went to.
NOBODY ever asked me about my mobile at all.
Most business people who come into Thailand from overseas carry their mobile which is set up for roaming and usually the only "thorough" checks made are to see if you can pay the bill.
I suspect that the gentleman has been given incorrect information.
Stuff like this makes me really
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....Eventually when I die to live in the spirit house and watch over my family....
Nice one!
I am not sure if my wife is too happy about that but when I am gone there ain't much she can do about it.
Other that that, white man speak with true tongue.
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I have been coming to Thailand since May 1993, lived here from 94 to 97, out of country working 98 to 2001. Lived here since but now working away but I come back every couple of months. Second high point was marrying my Thai wife, real high was our son born 10 months ago. Low point was when I lost my job and didn't work for a year and I went a bit stupid for a while. Another low was when I went to the UK for a court date and forgot to get a re entry permit. Now that was a real pain in the a***. Life plans are to work for a while longer, quit working and watch and help my son grow up, try to learn Thai properly. Eventually when I die to live in the spirit house and watch over my family.
Thailand. Love it and wouldn't live anywhere else.
Sign me as fat and very happy at home at last.
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Does this mean that the 90 day reporting in room 401 is now downstairs as well?
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taxexile
unbelievable !!!!
Unfortunately it is only too believable in the UK nowadays where PC is one of the few growth industries and funded mostly by the people who suffer from it. You have no choice as to pay or not and as your story says innocent people cannot afford to fight it.
Another reason to live in this wonderful LOS as if I needed another one.
UK makes me
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I recently purchased for 299baht from the newsagent in a carrefour complex a road map of thailand 2005-2006.
it has a paper map and also a CD map. Bi-lingual. ou can print maps from your computer - it claims it is GPS surveyed , and the co-orinated appear when you use the comp program.
made by thinknet www.thinknet.co.th
This is a program called Mapmagic and yes it is very good though the version I have does not show GPS co-ordinates and it does go down to 1/250,000 scale which is very good. The drawback that I found is that while you can look for places in English they are
not so good with their spelling so you may find that a Thai person could find what you are looking for in Thai, you then mark it and change the language back and it works. I have printed a lot of maps out and I would recommend it to anyone with a PC and printer.
billd766
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I have been cruising thru some of the older ‘Polls’ on country of origin, it was quite interesting. There was a lot of disquiet because of the system limitations and countries not listed.
Are the ‘Moderators’ of this forum interested in this statistic and aquiring the country of origin of existing members thru the “My Controls” menu and making a “Pinned” display of the results updated automatically with info from new subscribers. I guess it is too late now to make it a compulsory question to existing members but ‘Newbe’ additions could work.
Why the desire to know where I came from?
I know, my family know and very few other people need to know.
It is called an invasion of my personal privacy.
If I feel people need to know where I came from I will tell them.
I don't have that feeling.
your new av Bill?
Baby Starves To Death After Mother Kills Hersself
in Thailand News
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I feel sad for the mother that she felt that she could not live with her baby and my belief is that she wanted the baby to live.
The unfortunate thing is that if she had managed to leave the baby with a releative then he would be alive and she would have been happy with that.
If she was a believer in Buddhism she would know that comitting suicide is one of the worst thing she could do to herself.
I have a good friend who has similar problems with her husband and has left him and taken her daughter and is moving around Thailand staying with friends as she feels safer than staying at her home.
I don't think that she would try to kill herself but she is very frightened of her husband.