Gazza

Here we go again, another chance for gov interference in peoples' private lives. Any excuse it seems, don't they know that sex is natural!?

Not only natural but a cheap form of enjoyment.

The gov are going to lose before their battle even begins.

"I will raise the issue during a party meeting tomorrow [Tuesday].

First, they should get things out in the open. Then, and only then, raise the issue.

Take things in hand with a mass debate with everyone behind the motion and then see what comes out of it.

I always shower afterwards. Sadly these days, the showering seems to take longer than doing 'it'.

I also avoid further showering by making sure the damp patch is on my partner's side of the bed.

My ol' man sat me down one time and told me that reading porn would make me go blind.

I said "Dad, I'm sitting over here."

An oldie but a goodie.

Not a humourous account of the way some Thais say somethings but rather a quick solution to a problem in speech.

I often went to companys and obviously the first person that I'd come into contact with would be the receptionist, whose first words would be "May I hel you?" (note the lack of a 'P' on what should be the word 'help').

If I was early for an appointment I would give the receptionist a two minute English pronunciation lesson.

After briefly explaining her problem with pronunciation I would write down on a piece of paper 'May I hel Pyou?'.

I would then get her to say 'Pyou'(rhymes with pew, a church seat) a few times.

Then get her to say the phrase slowly several times, which sounded like she was saying 'May I hel.....pew?'.

But when spoken quickly came out sounding like she was saying 'May I helP you?'.

It was a little trick I picked up from a book somewhere and came in useful too for chatting up the receptionist.

I have been asked many times what my user name "Narachon" means.

It's originally a made-up compound Japanese word, using the prefix of "Chonga" but I have been told on more than once occasion by Thais that "Narachon" is actually a real Thai name.... 

The word "Chonga" is a Japanese word originally an expression from Korea.

"Chong gag" which means a traditional  knotted hairstyle worn by Korean boys and unmarried men.

In the early 20th century, Korean guys began to cut their hair western style, so the word "chong gag" became the accepted term for bachelor. Before and during World War Two, millions of Koreans where brought to Japan as forced laborers, military draftees, etc. so millions of Korean words gradually found their way into colloquial Japanese language, especially the slang of the Japanese underworld.

So now "Chonga" is the most popular word for Bachelor in Japan.

Chonga seikatsu 'tte, naka ii yo na!

( "Bachelor life is great!" ) 

A recent linguistic trend coming from the Kansai dialect has the decription of an out of town "chonga" in a snappy, funny way by adding the first syllable or two of his hometown to the prefix, now suffix of "chon"...

Fukuchon.  A bachelor from Fukuoka.

Sachon.  A bachelor from Sapporo.

Sakachon. A bachelor from (O)saka.

Nara and Himeji are two of my most favorite towns in Japan....

"Himechon" just did not sound right ( And it would  mean "Princess Bachelor" in Japanese..... )

So I went with "Narachon"...... A Bachelor from Nara 

( Technically I should be called "Newchon", or "Jamaichon" , being from the town of Jamaica, in New York City, but Narachon sound so much cooler...    )

"Narachon Aitsu Torendii...Guu na yatsu da!"...

Wow! I like your creativeness.

And I thought I was being creative naming my daughter Hana. As you know it means Flower in Japanese but sounds the same as the western names of Hanna or Hannah. Plus, my wife's name was Dokmai which is Thai for Flower, so I figured why not? Seeing that a beautiful flower was created from another beautiful flower.

(<deleted> is Burdock anyway?)

Burdock

totster

A big thanks for that link Tozza/Tozzie/Toz

I did kinda figure it was plant though. The only time I recall having ever seen the name was on a pop bottle when I was a kid. ....Or so I thought. When I saw the photo of it in the link I realised that it was the same plant that we used to call a 'Doc Leaf'.

Whenever we got stung by nettles we'd look for a doc leaf and then rub it on the rash caused by the nettles.

Of course!......Doc = Dock. Dock is short for Burdock.

Crikey! It's only taken me 40+years to figure that out.

My ID name is the same as my real-life nickname given to me by me mates; Bazza, Lazza, Hazza, Yozzer, Davva, Clemmo, Tommo and Jonathon.

he he he .... you could've made the effort and called him "Jonno"..

totster

No. He was one of those awkward buggers that HAD to be called 'Jonathon'. Not Jonno, Jonny, Jonnsy or Jon...but Jonathon.

Can you imagine going out for a night out on the town nicking car stezzies and calling at his house. "Can Jonathon come out to play?". Nah, a puffy name like that was the reason why no-one called for him. He really wasn't part of our gang anyway and we only allowed him to tag along with us because he was always plush enough to buy a big bottle of Dandelion & Burdock. (<deleted> is Burdock anyway?)

My ID name is the same as my real-life nickname given to me by me mates; Bazza, Lazza, Hazza, Yozzer, Davva, Clemmo, Tommo and Jonathon.

I've just arrived back from Carrefour and while I was at the checkout I could swear that the girl in front of me was normal. I'm not a 100% sure though but bells started ringing in my head and I had to avert my eyes in case she caught me looking at her.

Then.....just before logging on to TV just now, I saw another normal looking girl walking passed my house.

And not onl.....Whoa!! yet another normal looking girl just rode passed on a step-thru!!!!

Jeez, where are they all coming from? I've never noticed them before.

This is starting to get real scary, man. They're taking over the bloody country.

I think I'm gonna have to go back to the bar scene where real authentic Thai girls with tons of culture hang out.

Well, my GF is too good to be true (but she is). She teaches in an international school and we spend sometimes together especially weekends. I am kind of lazy person but I try to share the work, most of the time she doesnt let me do the stuff, until and unless, of course, it requires muscles.

Sometimes, she is doing something and needs a lot of help, in this situation I prefer to do the work by myself coz what is the use if I have to be busy with her.

Following are the few things which she does for me:

1. Washing clothes

2. Ironing clothes

3. Mopping

4. Cleaning house as much as possible

5. Cooking, she cooks very well

6. Sharing money for the stuff

The above list is just an example, she does a lot more things too. Although, being a working girl, she helps a lot too. She earns maybe more than me, anyway, I must say that I am lucky enough to get her. I must say that she is the best woman in my life.

She is so kind and loving and caring that I really want to marry her ASAP.

P.S. She is and never been the BG, she belongs to a respectable bangkok family.

Not to be nit-picking, but if you are an "ajarn", why is your grammar so bad? It's not just this post, but all your others as well. I take it you are a not native speaker, which is fine if you are not. Given that, I'm curious as to what subject you do teach. Is it possible for your gf to help you with your language skills?

Ajarn is just a nick name. BTW can u point out the so called BAD part of my grammar, so I could know whats wrong where?

Well, when you speak English like that which what I does, you'd understand why I've never teached. Isn't it?

But, even me myself, don't never, use as much commas, as you had gone and done and did.

Suega, I borrowed the Thai Linguaphone Course Books from Birkenhead library years ago. While not ideal when compared to studying with a Thai teacher, the Linguaphone course would make for very good supplementary material in my opinion.

people will always say somewhere was better some previous time.  People have said Thailand was better when.....

---pre-1997

---when there was no AIDS

---when 100 baht was the biggest bill

---when Nana Plaza had exotic shows

---when the bars were open all night

---when I was younger and more naive

Aye, back in good ol' days of the early 90's we didn't have none of these internet contraptions either. When you wanted instant info on Thailand you had reach for the Lonely Planet guide book. If you wanted to send a letter to a loved one back home you couldn't do it with a push of a button but instead had to use a writing implement called a pen. With a pen you then had to compose a rough draft of a letter before writing it on some fancy bog-type paper used specially for sending overseas. If that wasn't enough, you then had to take the letter all the way to town to a post office, get it weighed, adhere stamps to it and then pop it into a post box. And the whole process seemed to take like a whole <deleted>' week.

Visa runs. With Laos, Myanmar and Cambodia closed for tourism it used to take me 3 days to go from Nakhon Phanom to the Malaysian border and back. Whereas going to Laos would've taken me a total of about 2 hours. But my visa run horror stories would surely pale in comparison to the horrors of having to wait in a queue at Poipet which is only 3 hours away. I don't know how newbie visa runners put up with such atrocities.

Farang food was in plentiful supply outside of BKK and Pattaya. Providing you only basically ate Kraft cheese slices on bread that is. If luck was on your side potatoes were available from the local town market to go with the baked beans that you lugged all the way from Penang. Of course now that supermarkets are springing up in most provincial towns even tiddles the cat has tinned catfood options of fois gras or smoked arctic ground squirrel.

Nor was there IBC or UTV (now merged as UBC) outside of the cities back then. I only had the good fortune to look forward to 'Big Cinema' every saturday night on Thai tv. A farang movie would be shown with a dual language soundtrack that was watched on a monolingual Thai tv. I liked the action movies the best. 'French Lieutenant's Woman' was therefor considered a good cure for insomnia.

Yes, it was possible to buy VCRs at that time but the video tape rental offerings weren't to Ma and Pa In Laws tastes. They would quickly lose the plot while watching 'The Sperminator' or 'Let's Get Nasty Spanky'.

Now, it's not only confusing what movie to watch but you've got the added headache of which format in which to veiw it, at the cinema, on HBO, Video, VCD, DVD, MPEG, AVI etc.,etc, or just sod em' all and watch it on your mobile.

Oh, that reminds me. There was no mobiles either back then. If you wanted to meet someone the next day you had to phone to them at home to make an appointment.

At the appointed time and rendevous point you'd be waiting there wondering why they're 15 mins late. Maybe they'd got stuck in traffic somewhere. So you'd wait another 15 mins in case they were late getting away from somewhere and THEN perhaps got stuck in traffic as well. So another 15 mins of waiting would go by. Usually the laws of sod would be on your mind round about now. If you left now you know quite well that you'd be told later that you must've just missed them.

So you'd wait for a further 15 mins after a total waiting time of 1 hour, only to be told the next day that they had completely forgot about the appointment in the first place.

Now of course you can't even miss seeing something on tv thanks to the mobile. Just set the alarm on your mobile or better still, press a few buttons and get the cable company to SMS you. Sadly, I still can't figure out how to get the mobile to switch on the tv. I'm still resorting to using the antiquated tv remote device.

Shouldn't forget the good ol' bar prices too. A measily 30 baht for a Singha beer. I remember saying that if it ever went to 40 baht I would give up drinking. Also if it went up from 50 to 60 baht. And then if it went up from 60 to 70.

I can't honestly remember there being a S/T price for bargirls. Heck, 500 baht for an all nighter was considered value for money in those days. Do the BGs accept credit cards now?

The next generation of Thai newbies will no doubt be complaining about visa runs taking a lengthy 10 minutes to complete because their outdated teleporters takes a full 5 minutes to boot-up. Or receiving incorrect GPS co-ordinates on their mobiles was the cause of them being 2 minutes late for an appointment.

Ay, we had it tough back in them days. Try telling the newbies of today about the problems of yesteryear and they won't believe you.

That's right. Mine allows me multiple-entries so I can do it as often as I wish.

Does that mean you have to enter a different Country (Edited, misspelling just too rude!) every 90 days?

No. I can enter the same Country (or Count for short) as I like.

I'm pondering over the benefits/implications of obtaining a Double Entry Visa.

you wife sounds alot like my wife I go shopping with my wife but after 2 hrs I start to get shopping rage.

I used to get shopping rage almost instantly. The wife would ponder several minutes deciding on something trivial like which brand of toothpaste to buy. I'd angrily and quickly grab the first one that I saw and throw it into the trolley. But then I'll notice the price of it and replace it with a cheaper brand. Then, I'd notice that if I chose another brand I could get a free toothbrush. But then paying an extra few baht for a lousy free toothbrush wasn't really worth it. But then if I were to select the one with an extra 10%, with 'Bubble Fruit Flavour for Kids' and a cute little picture of Pokeman on the tube then...........

Now, I understand why women suffer from headaches so much.

But I really love my wife. She's even made herself fatter so there's more of her for me to love.

Thanks Highway Man,

Bussing it is an option I've thought about too. Also going by train from the airport would be more scenic but perhaps slower.

At the moment time for me is not an issue so I make my visa runs into a little two day get-aways.

Only done the run a couple of times.

For a Thai I think it was 30 baht plus one photo for a one day pass.

Hiring a boat was 300 baht. Burmese immigration wanted 10 US dollars that must be in immaculate condition. Mine were but they reckoned something was phoney about the serial numbers and wanted 400 baht instead.

The trip in and out takes about one and a half hours.

Take headwear as the sun may burn you up on the crossing (even when it's partly cloudy).

Also tell your wife/gf not to wear high heels or dress shoes as it makes it very awkward getting in and out of the boat.

>>>So what does she do about Nookie  ?

I told her thats covered by my non imm o

and she believed me!

That's right. Mine allows me multiple-entries so I can do it as often as I wish.

Been here nearly 16 years now and have been through most of the phases.

Year and a half living in a small village in Nakhon Phanom missing the city life. Year and a half living in the centre of BKK missing the country life.

So I compromised and I'm now living in a mubaan partially surrounded by fields with BKK on my doorstep.

I've got 3 kids and I didn't want them growing up either in the NKP village or the centre of BKK where they can't play outside anywhere. So here it's ideal for them.

I'm not wealthy enough to send them to intl schools so they go to private schools.

I have thought about taking them to England for the education, but how many kids leave school there only to end up on job creation schemes or working on a Tesco checkout? I'm sure their parents wanted the best for them too.

When I get bored or too complacent about things in Thailand then I look to see how I can change things. For instance, with visa runs. They get me out of the house for a couple of days and breaks up a quotidian routine. If going to one border starts to get boring then I'll go elsewhere. If I've already been there before then I'll take a different route and stop overnight somewhere different than previously etc.

Ideally, I would like to be able to spend some time every year in England even if it was just so that I could re-appreciate what Thailand has to offer upon returning. Sadly, finances don't allow me that option so I make do with what I got.

I thought you were a PNR fan.

I am. But I doubt that visa services using PNR would go via Rangsit. Hence my enquiry about Aran/Poipet services going via Rangsit or not.

If the Poipet guys went via Rangsit then I would've considered it should I ever need to use them in the future.

The OP is obviously a complete freak...!

Totster, how dare you! How dare you!

The OP is not a freak, he is a 37 yr old good looking chap, no doubt with bundles of cash, personality a good heart and no doubt, huge penis.

And the reason he cant find all the good normal college educated women (coz everyone knows college educated means good right? ) is because we the keepers of the good normal college educated women have all their secret hang outs hidden away in threads on this forum.

To find a good normal college educated women, he must do as many have done before him, join Thaivisa, and ask the holiest of holy question

"Where are all the good thai girls?"

Are you saying, if a girls hasn't been to college, she is no good?

Maybe she is no good if she hasn't been to college?!

College education is not good.

Educated girls asking too many questions = Nagging

Nagging = Head ache

Head ache = Arguments

Arguments = Pi55ing off out to the bar for peace and quiet.

Bar = Fun, Pleasure, Beer. Hmmm...maybe education isn't too bad after all.

Out of curiosity, what route to Aran/Poipet does JG take?

Bkk - Rangsit - Nakhon Nayok - Aran?

Bkk-Rama9-Motoway-Chaosengsao-Kabinburi-Sakaew-Aran!

Thanks Iain.

Seems like I would have to venture into BKK should I need to use a visa service.

I'm close to Rangsit.

I am a 37 year old good looking guy who happens to be only attracted to Asia women. I have lived in Bangkok now for a few years and cannot seem to meet any college educated, nice girls. I have been burned many times (sick water buffalo story, $$$). Any ideas????

Dr.Tim

For normal girls I normally go to normal places where there's normally normal guys hanging around. Normally I'll slip them some normal baht and they'll normally take me to another normal place where there's normally tons of normal girls just waiting for normal guys like me.

That's about the norm for me anyway.

ps. had to do some normal editing as per normal.

Or even aeroplanes........(air hostesses) mmm worked for me...

I've got a few air hostesses as my neighbours. When they're not in uniform and make-up I don't look twice at them.

Since this is not Thailand related, I just wanted to add Richard Whitely from Countdown died the other day.  What a shame.

I thought he died months ago. Or does he suffer from Lazarus Syndrome?

Crocodile Boneless Tail Fillet Steak 

Serious??????????? Where in the world do they eat/serve that??!!!

About 40kms north of Lopburi.