Ricardo

I take it you mean neighbours.

Neighbors is the valid US spelling.

But only valid in the US.

Give it up man.

Trans. : Desist foul varlet !

This could be bad news for us Limeys.

Go Red Go! Let freedom ring...

Including perhaps the freedom to hold an Aids-awareness rally in Chiang Mai, or to be the father of a yellow-shirt, without getting murdered by red-shirts ? The freedom to travel to Chiang Mai, when you're a politician they don't like, without having eggs thrown at you, or having your hotel blockaded ?

And as I already commented previously, the freedom to travel to a peaceful-rally in Bangkok, without being stopped or turned-back by the police, regardless of what colour shirt you wear.

How about combining the best of both worlds, and starting a thread on fish-burgers, good idea or what ? !

Whether for times of growth, and new businesses starting-up, or decline, when they need people to close them down, there is always a demand for qualified experienced accountants. It can be well-paid and rewarding work.

Unfortunately a relevant degree is just the first step, and will get you credits towards a professional accountancy-qualification, but any of the serious institutes (recognised world-wide) will also require further study/examinations plus a lot of hands-on experience as well.

Where do you wish to work, in audit or tax-work, in public-finance or in industry or commerce, and what countries ? Are you being sponsored by a multinational or a major accountancy firm ? Will you work part/full-time while studying or just use the first-degree once-obtained as a springboard into employment and later qualification ?

Personally I'd say, a specific Business-Studies or Accountancy degree-course is a reasonable start, you might also consider adding languages or Marketing, as part of the mix, to improve your attractiveness to potential-employers, who will be looking for a proven ability to learn.

What colour shirts were this mob wearing??

Surely most TG staff wear purple uniforms ?

Certainly looks like some Democrats are in panic mode.

The earlier Nation news article said Suthep will remove governers and police who fail to stop demonstrators coming from the provinces.

So how he thinks he can stop the freedom of movement of innocent Thai people in their own country - whatever next...............

Perhaps he got the idea from the way first Thaksin, then later the PPP governments, tried to stop the yellow-shirts from getting to Bangkok for their peaceful protest-rallies ?

Whatever, I would agree, free (If not necessarily innocent) Thai people ought to be able to travel, without these attempts to restrict or control them. It doesn't work anyway.

The unexpectedly high number of abstentions among the opposition MPs was what irked the party's leadership the most. There were 12 each for the votes against four Democrat Cabinet members, including the prime minister. But in the case of Interior Minister Chaovarat Charnveerakul, the number of abstentions rose dramatically to 20, and for his Deputy Boonjong Wongtrairat it was 18.

The fact that Chaovarat is the leader of the Phum Jai Thai Party, and Boonjong of its deputies, underscores the emerging power of this third party that could pull the rug from under Thaksin's and Pheu Thai's feet.

What's worse, some of the cobras were ready to step out to explain why they had decided to ignore the party line. One told reporters: "For one thing, I used to work closely with Khun Chaovarat and Boonjong. It's hard for me to vote against them. For another, the opposition MPs' evidence against them was too weak to be convincing. So, I was following my conscience in casting the vote."

The rebels could, in fact, claim that they were doing more than just following their consciences. They could also claim they were exercising their constitutional right to a free vote. Unlike the 1997 constitution, the current charter doesn't bind MPs to their respective party lines in casting major votes.

It must be really irritating for PTP & its advisor, when votes have been bought-and-paid-for, that people insist on doing what they think is right, rather than doing as they're told !

Perhaps some recent convert to democracy might have to explain to these MPs, that democracy is not his aim, and all this stuff about 'fighting for democracy' is not meant to be taken seriously, or actually acted upon ?

Or does he just need to pay better ?

This would make a very funny story, except that the Bangkok Post article doesn't say anything, about the supporters donating their money to the Red-Shirts. Do you have a source ?

It's in this article that SJ posted http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/local/1404...without-thaksin

Thanks !

Just found the statement of the year in a todays Bangkok Post article

The protesters left Sanam Luang about 1.30pm, after a brief delay, and began marching to Government House, demanding the resignation of the government of Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva.

Protest leaders earlier delayed the start, explaining they needed to wait for supporters who went to collect their 2,000-baht gift cheques from the government in the morning.

Bangkok Post 26 March Full Story

Love it - they got the cheques then donated the money to the UDD.

Ha Ha Ha.

Looks like money cannot buy votes or support - even though they are trying hard to buy it.

This would make a very funny story, except that the Bangkok Post article doesn't say anything, about the supporters donating their money to the Red-Shirts. Do you have a source ?

The Thai version of fish-and-chips can sometimes be quite novel, I recall ordering the dish in Pattaya when I first visited, and having the fish sliced into 1cm batons, dipped in batter & cooked. OK it was finger-food, not a traditional piece of fish, but it was also tasty !

Pissed down here

I should have been more specific. At Maejo it poured.

Passed us by in our moobaan in the Mae Jo Sansai area. Not a single drop. Just a lot of dust and leaves blowing around.

Really strange. My moobaan is 3 km past Ring Rd. 2 off 1001 heading toward Maejo. It literally poured.

Ditto a couple of km NE of Maejo University, we also had a small tree snapped in half, 1m above the ground, that was a pretty strong wind for a while !

It's underneath the battered Mars-Bar !

Have they yet identified a volunteer, to become Thailand's first person in space, does anybody know ? Given a choice between that, and teaching English, it would indeed be a tough decision.

I guess that we must be regarded as the perfect 'captive audience', unable to run away, or slam the door in the face of the unwanted caller. Thank God the Immigration workers don't include Jehovas Witnesses !

Why is it only one land case is judged after almost 3 years?

Surely the reason that only one court case has reached a conclusion, is that Thaksin's lawyers have done their best to delay every case, and the continuing deliberate absence in self-imposed exile of Thaksin himself, which delays these cases ?

You know this, we all know this, so why does it come as such a surprise ?

In the meeting today in Chiangmai, around 20:00 hours, we expect Khun Thaksin to address and tell who the real Prime Minister now, not Abhisit, and that is the one who is controlling all those games. But I don't know if he will tell or not or signals will be cut.

Signals were cut many times when Khun Thaksin talked on the phone when we watched via MVtv and DStation online. Freedom of speech?

His call wasn't cut, but sadly Thaksin failed to tell the faithful gathered there who the real Prime Minister now is, as promised. Perhaps he's still trying to decide who it is ? He also forgot to mention his promise that, as soon as he got his pardon, the rallies would end. Why not ?

Those stands look pretty empty, in the photo, perhaps they all got lost, on the way to the rally ?

The 'Love Chiang Mai 51' red-shirt group gathered at Chaing Mai Airport to protest Deputy Prime Minister Suthep Thaugsuban’s arrival

Trying to say the reds will do or have done what the yellows did doesn't make it happen.

But surely in this case Koo, the reds did gather at our local airport, just as the yellows used to ? So it has happened, with the red-shirts, as it used to with the yellows ?

A better law, I think, would require all Farangs to report to bars, and consume a minimum of 100 baht of whatever, for three hours per day at hours when the traffic to and fro said bars did not interfere with school-traffic hours or work-related hours : say 11AM - 2 PM. That way bar employees can have dependable incomes, spend more time with their families. But, that would be a problem for me since 100 baht will buy six liters or more of soy milk on the street

Idea !

Limitless Visa-free stays for all foreigners, who spend at least 200B/day, in bars owned/recommended by the helpful Immigration police ?

In such extreme conditions, I hope you will understand and excuse the poor syntax.

I thought sintax was the government-tax on the beer ?

Here is a photo showing what Abhisit government used to block the red from going near the Government House in Feb. Police and military were sent there.

If they had sent that many Police and Army, PAD might not have occupying the Government House for months.

So basically Koo, you would agree that the new Democrat government is in proper control of the country, while the old PPP ones were simply not that competent ?

Or was it that they only had one item on their agenda ?

Alos don't carryany bottles in your hand luggage. A passenger en route to Thailand bought 2 very expensive bottles of champagne duty free at Heathrow. Despite the bottles being clearly customs sealed and untampered with the Indian officials would not let him take them on the plane. Blatent theft, so be warned.

This is surely standard procedure, in many other countries also, which is why I can't buy whisky at LGW when flying home to BKK via Doha ? The Duty-Free shop asks you, are you connecting to an onward flight, and refuses to sell liquids to you !

I've seen so many subjects about Khun Thaksin that he was wrong for this and that but still nothing has been announced further. Am I right that so far he has only the land case? Nothing more?

Do you think this might be, because he has run away, and is in self-imposed exile, having been found guilty in the one case, even though his nominee-government was in power at the time ?

I'm sure we'd all like these other cases to be completed, and Thaksin proven innocent (as you believe) or guilty (as most of us expect), but your hero is too busy 'fighting for justice' from overseas to actually come and experience it at first hand.

People can't complain about the lack of progress in these cases IMHO, when it is Thaksin who is delaying them, nor is it fair to complain that the cases against PAD-leaders go slowly, when these other cases have been running for years. Justice runs slowly here, as in many other countries, including my own country-of-birth. We farangs just observe, and draw our own conclusions, about why he might not wish these cases to reach a conclusion.

Mr McNamara said some of the best ideas receive so far include charging for toilet paper with O-Leary’s face on it,

I suspect that this one would be very popular !

I have been dating her for a week and we've had tremendous fun...

We had lots of nice days together...

You are trying too hard, coming across as desperate, and she has gone off you.

I would agree that the OP seems to be taking things very quickly, why the great hurry, jai yen yen. Things like this may well take years, not days or weeks, here.

Been with her for only 1 week and already invaded her workplace?

NOT-A-SMART-THING-TO-DO

Agreed that to have a farang invade her workplace, when she probably hasn't even mentioned him to her colleagues yet, may well have embarrassed her, leading to her reaction so far. What might they have thought her relationship was, with this large smelly strange farang, who suddenly appears in their midst bearing fruit ?

A letter by post, perhaps to her home rather than office (!), might apologise for any embarrasment caused, and explain that this was due to cultural-ignorance, not intentional. That might get a second-chance, but if not then after a few weeks, move on.