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  1. On 12/25/2021 at 2:43 PM, brommers said:

    If I am not mistaken it was built well over a decade ago as a condo, but exceeded its approved height because it is under the flight path to the airport. So it was never completed. I drove past it weekly for years when it was up for sale & eventually it was bought and renovations began, only to stop suddenly. It is likely that it will eventually be torn down as it must have deteriorated a lot over the decades.

    A friend purchased an apartment in it in the early 1997 and it was barely completed, that was just before the Asian crash. Still struggling to get rid of it...

  2. 12 hours ago, simon43 said:

    Why does Thailand Post postal rates have an entry for McDonald's? !!  ????

     

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    As surprising as it gets, it does exist and I just discovered it. On this very same Thai postal page it is writen as "Heard Island and McDonald Islands" on my screen. It's an Australian territory in the very south of the Atlantic Ocean: https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Heard_Island_and_McDonald_Islands.

    What is most surprising is that your mail has absolutely no reason to go there; it is uninhabited !!

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  3. 8 hours ago, balo said:

    So why can't you use Paypal? I opened another Paypal account from Thailand and connected it to my Kasikorn account, No problems with transfers. 

    I do use PayPal, it's (unfortunately) a universal system of payment. But it is that some customers are reluctant to use it, therefore skip their purchase, as I can't safely set up a direct card payment system; and also that I found their rate of exchange outrageous!

  4. I wonder if someone on this forum could suggest an alternative to PayPal payments for my automated website, that will allow me to get international payments to my Thai bank account.

    Of course I know of Western Union, Ria or such, or bank transfer, but this is not what I am asking. 

    I have watched this tutorial but it seems directed to US merchants, with an account in the US. None of its suggestions fit to my Thai based website and bank account.

     

     

  5. I had the very surprising and emotional ride last June from the same airport to downtown Paris. 

    It was a taxi ride (that cost me around 55 euros) in a brand new Benz driven by an old (like me) Khmer guy. As he noticed by the almond eyes of my daughter that we were coming from Asia, he asked if this was Thailand, and as we said yes, he mentioned that he knew Thailand... from a refugees camp. He then proceeded to narrate his Khmer rouge years in Phnom Penh as a kid, the forced labor to the countryside, then his escape to Thailand, with incredible vivid (and horrible) details; and then his recent reunion with his lost and found remaining family the year before, back to Cambodia. 

    Just to say that not all drivers in Paris are crooks and you may most of the time have an uneventful, or even great one-hour ride as in this case. 

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  6. 7 hours ago, bluesofa said:

    Wasn't there another explosion a few months later, near one of the docks. I don't remember if that was a gas tanker or not? That was around mid-morning and the apartment I was in near Klong Toei shook, everyone thought it was an earthquake at first.

    Chemical explosion, a few months later resulting in 60 deaths http://articles.latimes.com/1991-04-02/news/wr-1884_1_chemical-waste

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  7. 36 minutes ago, arby said:

    fast and easy. no sanding, etc. wet the furniture down with water. mix a solution of TSP (trisodium phosphate) in a 19 liter bucket of water. take a scotchbrite pad, dip it in the tsp and wipe down/scrub the entire piece of furniture. rinse with fresh water. let dry one day and then re coat with clean motor oil and diesel mix. 3 parts motor oil, one part diesel. put this on in the morning and check the furniture after a couple of hours. if there are some noticeably dry spots, recoat with the oil mixture. check it again in the late afternoon. if there are any wet spots , wipe them off with a clean cloth. let dry and you're good for another year. Sorry i don't have any photos . no reason to have any. i have been doing this to all types of wood furniture, door, lamps , etc. for over 30 years. if you don't know where to buy tsp, pin me and i will give you the address where i get mine in Chiang Mai. I live in Phuket so they mail it to me.

    Instead of TSP (you will get a blank stare when asked for it in your local hardware shop - Arby, a Thai name would be more useful) just use a brass brush that is widely and cheaply available. You will then only need your own elbow oil, just as with the scotch brute. 

    Then after the Arby mixed oil work has dried, apply one or 2 or more coats of shellac, that will seal the oil work. Better not to have your furniture set in direct sunlight, otherwise you will have to redo this process in less than 6 month.

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