billd766

AIS, DTAC and True should take out an injunction against TOT for using frequencies that cannot yet be allocated.

Brewstards

I never thought joint bank accounts were a good idea in any country.

My money is in an account with only my name on it.

Sadly I think this money is gone for good, the temptation was too great for the lady in question.

Legal means of recovery will take a lot of time and money, and generate bitterness on your part over a long period of time.

I wouldn't chase her, I would learn from my mistake and move on, but then that's me, forgive and forget (if you can).

Strangely enough I am just the opposite.

I always had a joint account with my first wife from the UK and saw no reason to be different with my (2nd) Thai wife.

She was on most of my credit cards when I had them and up here in the village she has her own account, we have a joint account and I have my own account mainly for visa extension purposes.

I figured that if I can't trust my wife then who can I trust?

Me?

Not really, got it, spend it was my way for years but she slowly re-educated me.

we manufacture faggots in gravy at sausage king company www.sausageking1.com

we are in chiang mai. think this picture is what you want ? Rob.

It depends if the peas are marrowfat peas or those horrible tasteless garden peas.

Next stop Paris.... I'm envious. Have a good time - A change is always refreshing.

I am not.

I lived and worked just below the ring road of Paris for 7 months and I thoroughly disliked the place.

The RTR and the Metro were good but the rental I paid was high, the food I bought at the supermarket and cooked at home was good and the bread and butter fantastic but outside in the evenings I had to go a long way to the centre of Paris if I wanted to drink as the bars locally closed around 8 pm though in most of the cafe/bars you could start drinking around 4 am.

Outside of Paris France is a real country and it is like saying Bangkok is Thailand.

It isn't and never will be.

Outside of Paris France is a real country??? So what is Paris some sort of illusion.

By the way Bangkok is the capital of Thailand so definately is Thailand.

Yes outside of Paris which as many posters have pointed out is a dirty overcrowded expensive city is the better part of France where not everyone looks down their nose at you and if you speak no French at all they will do their best to help you unlike Paris.

I actually did know that Bangkok is the capital of Thailand so I must assume that you believe all of Thailand is the same as Bangkok.

Where I live out in the countryside not so Many Thais that I talk to in my mangled Thai actually like Bangkok.

They may go there to work but they certainly wouldn't want to live there.

Neither would I having lived in Bangkok for 6 of my 17 years coming to Thailand.

If it's just for off road use and doesn't need to be registered for road use then no worries.

At least until it gets to Customs and somebody takes a fancy to.

Have you also thought about spares and servicing for the bike in Thailand?

onnut started me thinking and I found that my profile has had over 3,300 views, 5 greens (thank you 5 people) and I am neutral.

Also I usually end up on somebodies profile by the same way that BKKcitylimits and 473geo did, by accident.

Next stop Paris.... I'm envious. Have a good time - A change is always refreshing.

I am not.

I lived and worked just below the ring road of Paris for 7 months and I thoroughly disliked the place.

The RTR and the Metro were good but the rental I paid was high, the food I bought at the supermarket and cooked at home was good and the bread and butter fantastic but outside in the evenings I had to go a long way to the centre of Paris if I wanted to drink as the bars locally closed around 8 pm though in most of the cafe/bars you could start drinking around 4 am.

Outside of Paris France is a real country and it is like saying Bangkok is Thailand.

It isn't and never will be.

At 200,000 baht that is 1,000 days or about 3 years at 7 days a week labour for one man to cut the grass.

I use a kruang tatya and do it my self for an hour or so a day 4 days a week unless I take a day off and that is for more that 2 rai.

Not to mention that I get some exercise in as well.

I have known my wife for 17 years and we have been married for the last 10 of them.

Our son is now 6 and the apple of my eye.

We have our ups and downs but mostly life goes on much as it does in other marriages in other countries.

I never tried to hide much and we had to wait until I got divorced before we could marry.

We have joint bank accounts and back in the days when I had them she had credit cards on my accounts as well.

Will the marriage last until one of us dies?

I don't know but I hope so as I want to see my son graduate from college or university.

I am 66 and she is 45 which oddly enough is only 6 years less difference than my Mum and Dad while they were married and they married in 1924.

DMAX,

I take your request for ideas very seriously as I have walked down this road for several years and as others suggest it is not easy.

Firstly understand yourself and your needs. How much money do you need to enjoy a meaningful lifestyle each month? Whats important to you, the person you have always been and the person you may wish to become? What are you looking for in your future life? Can you find that in rural Isaan?

That may well seem pretty airey-fairy but I have met people such as us who are attracted to Isaan but dont understand themselves or the environment they have placed themselves in. There is a huge gulf between the consumer based societies we come from and the basic need to have rice to eat which is all many locals here strive for.

I suggest that your question should be, How much money can I make in Isaan? Or indeed, Can I make enough money here in Isaan? The important word is "I", you will have to make it happen.

Those that surround me, have always been content to work very hard at planting and harvesting times, or about two months, but do little else throughout the year to improve their circumstances. With a tame farang around their lives become easier, fertiliser can be paid for with someone elses cash, friends can be employed to help do their work and they can relax with a monthly income for doing little and enjoy enormous face. Why wouldn't they smile at you? Beware of the crocodiles.

Whatever you decide to do, understand the nature of incomes here. They are small, nothing here makes a fortune easily or quickly. People here are risk takers and will jump into anything new, yet those same people resist change and will walk away from the smallest of obstacles. What may have the enthusiastic support of everyone to start with may well just simply run out of steam when the hard work starts. Stay clear of anything that relies on others that cannot be replaced easily. You do not want any uneducated "keymen" becoming critical to your business.

Equipment and improvements should be considered balanced against doing things the traditional manual way. Yes good tools make life easier and improve results, but reality is that many of those using them don't own them so will not treat your things with any care.

So base your decision on where to look to generate an income solely on what level of effort you are personally prepared to put in. Treat any assistance you get, for as long as it lasts, as a plus and be prepared to have an alternative to fill the gaps as they occur.

For those that read this and think I'm a hard nosed SOB, your not thinking Thai style. I have been personally disappointed many times by others and have learnt that if I fail, its my own fault, not the fault of people I try to impose my standards and work ethic onto. Nothing is for nothing here, why should we think differently.

DMAX, I hope you can find the answer to you next question, "What can I do ..... For me the answer is to earn as much as possible from as many things as possible. I grow rice and raise pigs, and I work hard producing compost from their manure and the rice straw both for sale and to reduce fertiliser costs. There are fish in our pond and a worm farm in the pig sty. We eat our own mushrooms and vegetables. We have made bacon and sausages. I am attempting to establish a fully integrated farm with a minimum external expenditure and sufficient income to enjoy a happy and contented lifestyle.

Whatever your choice is, be sure of one thing, to be successful you will have to work hard.

Isaan Aussie

Issan Aussie

This is the best advice I have yet seen on farming in Thailand.

Sure you can make money IF you have enough land, IF you know what you are doing, IF you have good reliable people working for you.

On the other hand IF it all goes wrong what of you and your families future?

You could also win the lottery or not.

We have 20 rai of land over in central Thailand near Khampaeng Phet and we used to grow cassava and sometimes corn.

About 3 years ago I was seriously looking at another 80 rai and I could then become a "gentleman farmer".

Before we bought it my wife finally admitted that she was not and never could be a farmer so we didn't buy the land.

It seems as though that was the best decision we made.

I have looked into pig farming, tree farming etc and with the limited amount of land we have the only difference would be the time it took to lose money.

Now we rent the land out and are guaranteed a small but safe return, we have leased a small part to AIS for a cell site and we are not working from dawn to dusk 7 days a week wondering what lies around the corner waiting to bite us.

English breakfast

Guinness book of records via BBC news website

And the record for the Largest Commercially Available English Breakfast went to Mario's Cafe Bar in Bolton, Greater Manchester, UK.

For £10.95 customers can tuck into six rashers of bacon, six sausages, four eggs, six slices of bread, five black puddings, mushrooms, a can of beans and tomatoes.

But if they manage the meal in under 20 minutes - it is free.

About 520 baht or so

I have already discussed this with my wife and a couple of friends.

I told my wife that I do not want to stay alive plugged into machines and spending her and our sons inheritance.

She has said that she will look after me but my thoughts are when I feel it is time to go I will say goodbye to them, take some pills to help me sleep for ever and wash them down with some good rum and coke then go to sleep.

I am building a folder on my computer of who to cantact and what to do when I am gone.

A couple of farang friends will help her out and I will never be that far away from my wife and son.

I went down to the village this morning on my motorbike about 6.30 to see my son off to school and though the sun was up it was cool and a super 6 km drive.

I stopped in the village and got 10 mini doughnuts for 10 baht and 4 Thais spoke to me to say hallo and I knew them all.

Sat at my Thai friends place drinking coffee and eating the doughnuts I could save from the kids. My son went off to school and I went back home for breakfast waving at the school kids and the policeman on the way

Ate that, washed up then cut up some pork to make a Panang curry, went upstairs to do a couple of small jobs and found I needed some bits from the village.

Sliced up 2kg of pork that I hopefully have turned into bacon and froze that then went to the village to get my bits and picked some stuff that was out of stock yesterday and was promised for this morning. It was there.

Came home and had lunch and now on Thai Visa.

Most days are like this in the village.

I have a good wife and a lovely son, good friends both Thai and farang, a nice house and land in my wife's name, pick up truck, motorbike and scooter.

Food in my belly, drink in the house and I am retired.

What is not to like in Thailand.

That blasted scrub that I have to keep cutting down every week on 2 rai.

Thanks for that one Ian.

I needed a good laugh today. :lol: :lol:

Mine is pretty much close to the truth

Yesterday's news:

Pheu Thai exposes new power’s coup bid

BANGKOK (NNT) -- The opposition Pheu Thai Party has disclosed that a group of military leaders and politicians are trying to intervene in the Thai politics by inciting terror in order to orchestrate another coup d’état.

Pheu Thai Party Spokesperson Prompong Nopparit revealed that a group of military leaders and politicians known as “the new power”, is engineering a coup attempt. He said the group is trying to incite unrest incidents and chaos in a bid to seize the power and rule the country.

Mr Prompong then called for their patriotism and asked them to stop instigating violence to harm the country for its own political gains.

The spokesperson believed that if there was another coup, people would come out in opposition. He said Pheu Thai Party was of the opinion that anyone longing for power must obtain it through the democratic rules only.

Upon the fourth anniversary of the 19 Sep coup d’état and four months after the military cordoning operation, Mr Prompong demanded that Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva should investigate all related incidents and prevent repetition of such tragedies in Thailand.

I wonder if the ever read Pogo - "I have met the enemy and he is us!"

It seems to me that every time something like this happens the PTP always blame somebody in the government or the police or the military and now "the new power group".

What I seem to miss is that if they "know" who is behind the incidents why don't they name some names in all the Thai newspapers?

I get treated much the same as anybody else does around here be they Thai, English, Danish, Australian, Dutch, Belgian, Austrian, German or Swiss...

So why did all the Americans leave?

The only one I knew about lived in the amphur village and I haven't seen him in 2 or 3 years.

My son goes to a private school at Klong Mee Lai 4 km from Khampaeg Phet and he is off from from 09 to 26th October.

The 25th being Chulalongkorn Memorial day though the actual day is the Saturday before and it is also a public holiday.

I got the dates from the school 2 months ago by going to the office and asking the staff there.

Easy peasy.

Could your brother not contact The Royal Association for Deaf People in the UK.

They would probably have more up to date information than most people here on Thai Visa.

http://www.royaldeaf.org.uk/

or here

http://www.wfdeaf.org/members-tz.html

I hope that this helps you and your brother.

I am sure that was my ex wife in her younger days when she was good looking.

So your not considering a reconciliation then?

Err no not really as my current wife would not be tooooo happy and I certainly wouldn't.

That's odd as my Ford Ranger 4x4 double cab is 9 years old with 230,000 on the clock from new.

granted the gear change is a bit sloppy but I figure new linkage bushes will fix that.

Quote Katabeachbum

you can not drive more than 80 kmh in 4x4, and only on slippery surface

this old tech diesels needs turbodiesel engine oil replaced every 5k km and filter every 10k km. If there isnt documentation of such maintance carried out, expect engine and turbo to be on the edge of its lifetime at 250 k km. If maintained, 4-500k km is normal

Biodiesel damages injection, exepct 4-10k baht for gaskets/orings/valves

Why would you want to drive at more than 80 kmh in 4x4 drive especially on slippery surfaces? I certainly don't.

Yes mine has been maintained at the dealer and I do have most of the documentation somewhere at home.

It has the odd rattle here and there and a few scratches as well but it goes very well and is likely to do so for a few years more yet.

I am getting an overall 9.5 km/l in local and long distance running.

It is not perfect but good enough for the jobs we use it for.

I am sure that was my ex wife in her younger days when she was good looking.

ah ah ahhh i think you are confusing a few things, just a bit....nice story and remember, if you see something wrong, whinge whinge and whinge again or things will never change and perhaps even get worse, long life to the whingers :jap:

I also thought it was a nice story.

However if you whinge all the time people will eventually ignore you, nothing will get done the way you want it, the world won't change just for you and you will get overstressed and eventually have a heart attack and perhaps die a bitter lonely old man, and for what?

Thank you for the story Robbie.

Remember a few smiles and nice words a day will get you much more than 100 scowls, whines and whinges.