NoSpeakIt

well obviously if you are the guy sticking your tongue down the mouth of a dark skinned Thai girl wearing a see through blouse and low cut jeans in the middle of central world yuo dont care what other people think about you...

i agree that worrying what others think about you is not good, however i still think people should not make complete idiots out of themselves in public. it just gets old after awhile.

i think you are 100% wrong that its impossible for Thais to respect farang. there are many that ARE respected but as long as the majority act like <deleted> on a regular basis, you are by default a <deleted> until proven otherwise.

im confused how all of this works.

you need connections to sell drugs on a small island right? drugs in america are controlled by gang territory. you cant just set up shop on any corner. so for him to operate 10 years

1. how does he get started in the first place?

2. how does he make the connections needed?

3. once he has those connections why go latin america->bkk why not just get local stuff?

1. farang are not respected in thailand

2. they are not respected because of the way the majority behave

thus i am complaining about the way they behave.

these guys are young even, and you would think they would have some self respect, but they do not.

thais seem to dig the SUV. they look cute sitting in bkk traffic.

thedon is too broke to stay in thailand so he just posts on TV all day remembering back to the girl younger than his daughter who said she luvs him.

so this is new building is very close to an area of farang bars... won't it be kind of weird?

The Fico Group owns the Grand Millenium Hotel and Fenix Tower on the other side of Soi Cowboy. I think its more weird that Soi Cowboy can compete with income generated on that side as well as the Interchange at Asoke and Sukhumvit also owned by the Fico Group which was founded by the Srichawala family.

How long before Soi Cowboy is more profitable as a Hotel than a bar area in a prime Sukhumvit CBD area?

www.sunbeltasiagroup.com

The problem is that all these hotels are not close to the main CBD business area (Silom, Sathorn) and the only thing left to offer tourists on Sukhumvit is foot massages, copy t-shirts, crappy tailors. Asoke is hardly a tourist area. Building another office building or hotel on Soi Cowboy won't make the place anymore attractive.

While people form the ME may like to stumble down suk between dvd's stalls and t-shirts, it's hardly becoming a place for families or for business travellers looking to go experience the city after a day of meetings.

If I was a tourist, I would not want to stay at any of these hotels because of their location. Walk out of the Westin at 7 pm to go experience Suk traffic, and the most frustrating walk to nowhere along the odd numbered side of Suk towards Nana. Great experience, no wonder tourists to Thailand only stay 2-3 days in Bangkok before heading north or south.

Besides buying copy items at MBK, do tourists really spend alot of money visiting Siam Paragon? - they have big malls in Tokyo, Hong Kong, Singapore, Sydney and London all selling the same crap. The prices are not cheaper in Thailand when it comes to brand names.

I don't think Cowboy is going anywhere soon unless the owner of that land thinks he can sell more suits and make more money in the process than the fees he gets for renting out the area currently.

don't be silly. asoke is only a couple stations away from siam/chitlom and it connects to the MRT line. if soi cowboy goes, there will still be plenty of demand for hotels in this area. do you really think everyone staying at millenium is there for soi cowboy? what about all the business travelers? get real, kid. your stuck in a fantasy that the bangkok economy must rely on farang tourism and its just flat wrong. if anything, getting rid of thailand's image as a place for sex tourism for the dregs of Western society will only attract more tourists.

most tourists are not interested in buying sex, plus you can buy sex everywhere in asia but everyone in the west only associates sex tourism with thailand and the philipines.

i wish thailand would clean up its image and send all these farang out the door to cambodia.

no i havent noticed.

lots of younger folks, 20's and 30's working in professional capacitys other than teaching though mate.

did you spell capacities wrong on purpose to convince me that you're not an English teacher? most of these guys look rough and I don't think professional is the word Id use, atleast in regards to how they handle themselves and who they choose as company.

its amazing how many japanese universities make the list despite the small size of japan.

Japan's not that small. 130 million people, tenth most populous country in the world. The only rich country that has more people than Japan is the USA, so I'd expect lots of Japanese universities to be ranked high.

sorry, i did not realize japan had that many citizens.

when i came to thailand about 5 years ago it was very unusual to meet young guys living here. now when i go out, i swear there are more guys in their early 30's than there are in their 50's. have they stolen all the english teaching jobs from the older farang?

"As for Mandalay, never had the problem the one time I went. But just say "Farang yuu nai? Mai hin farang" or Where is the farang, I don't see one."

its so painful when you over hear stuff like this being spoken - if your thai language skills are that basic than just keep your mouth shut. "mai hin farang"? seriously? why not just say "me same same you. i pay same you pay. ok? no good me pay more you... you will look just as stupid saying that as you do saying "mai hin farang".

Being a relative newcomer to Thailand (2001) I was curious as to what life was like here back in the 60's, 70's, 80's, 90's and how it has changed. I'm sure there are aspects which have improved and others which haven't.

What was the redlight district on Sukhumvit like? Have processes such as visas, WPs and starting a business improved? Has the Thai attitude towards farang changed at all? How was it different before computers and mobile phones? Was it easier or more difficult to find work or stay in country? What was it like in the sticks? Were there as many farang here? What were prices for Chang, massage, general living? Did western money still stretch as far?

Were the women more beautiful?

Since quite a few TV members stretch back a few years, or eons, I thought there would be some very interesting stories to be told and heard.

it seems like half your questions involve

massage

what the girls were like

red light district

lol, so what do you really want to know?

i think cambodia, laos, and vietnam really dont come close to offering what thailand offers, but i guess in the given example wed assume that they also evolved somewhat.

i picture them sitting in your living room listening to you fight with your teenage kids and then sneaking their bf in through the window for some loving who then notices you have a really nice tv/portrait/whatever

america charges you tax when you are abroad. that is the obvious reason why people would consider giving it up. personally, i think there are easy ways around hiding money that make it silly to give up your us passport.

Many farang living in Thailand could not afford to live in a first world Asian country like Singapore or Japan... so if by any chance all the corruption stops and Thailand evolves into a first world country and the women of Thailand have economic opportunities, where will you go? Cambodia? Myanmar? Back home?

I would have to be very very to go with a girl 20 years older than me even for one night.

So if your GF of BF is 20 years younger than you, imgine how they feel.

hahahahahahahhahaa

i bet that stung!

i don't get how people can stand having someone living in their house. it just seems very weird to me.

what are the boundaries exactly?

how much time do they spend around your family?

how much freedom do they have in your home?

what is their average day like?

its amazing how many japanese universities make the list despite the small size of japan.

looking at the website, i was surprised at how cheap tuition is there for thais and farang students.

thanks.

i don't think thailand is anywhere close to where the soviet bloc was in terms of free capitalist anarachy.

man you guys are dense

the title of the thread alone should clearly show i am not the writer

heng i still have no idea why the rules are changing

how does this ruling effect every day people in society?

why is there an 'anything goes' type feel?

its not mine

its someone elses article i just posted it

link at end

I'll be gobsmacked if any of the Shin's do a day in jail.

Though it'd be great to see them all in there. Mum, dad, the two ugly daughters and the cheating son.

Ideally we would all wish them to serve their sentences in full and deservedly so.

Should they in some way be facilitated a means to do a runner, despite lack of documentation and being officially banned from leaving the country...

Ahem but ........................

The important thing is the precedent that has now been set, the signal it sends out and the future court cases that are coming up.

Had they got off these charges, then achieving any justice in the ongoing cases, would have been very difficult indeed.

In the time it took to read out the verdict, along with the live filming of it for all to see, it has in my humble opinion, raised the bar massively in relation to the standards it sets from now on.

Brilliant result, Outstanding , Excellent ect. ect. ect. justiceeeeeeeee and accountability at long last.

marshbags

you guys are jumping the gun here. thaskin couldn't rally enough power and ended up on the losing side of the coin that doesnt mean that anything is changing or that there is a new precedent for justice, it just means there is a change of power. i promise there are a hundred new men waiting to follow his lead in robbing the country blind. its hardly different elsewhere on this planet. in the usa, they call this process an "election".

do international students really have to pay 10 times as much for tuition? that sounds like a lie.

OK first of all let me just say that I do have a fair share of Chula-graduated friends and most of them are a pretty sane bunch (right, Namizon? Korbua?).

But then there's another group of people that breathe and live the pink pride. It pains me. And what I hate more is their tendency to try to convert people around them to have the same ideas and opinions.

It's like almost like cult.

What sparked me to write about this post? I just went to Chamchuri Square to check it out for BK and it wasn't a kind of experience I would like to relive again (http://www.bkmagazine.com/blog/alisara-chi...heery-chamchuri). It was a pure example of the kind of people representing the Chula stereotype. Traditional and uptight.

But anyway as I got off the Sam Yan MRT, I realized that I have landed in the Chula turf, thanks to the pink tiles, symbols and colors that are decorating the walls of the station. I didn't have to wait for long for a gigantic sign saying "This property is built upon the Chulalongkorn land" to appear. Yes, we know.

Don't you think Chula is such a vain institution?

As I grew up in a pretty traditional Thai environment where every family member was educated in the Chula umbrella in one way or another, I was surrounded by the Chula mentality all my life. The mentality that requires you to NOT think outside the box, to not defy the powers of the adults and to always know my place and be aware of the fact that since the days you opened your eyes your future was already set in stones not by just your parents but aunts and uncles, grand and great grandparents.

I have always been the odd one in my family. I was never in the family's systematic series of education. Everyone else did. You have to start your education at Chitlada and continue your university in Chula. Peroid.

What did I do? I went to a Catholic school, then into a Brit system and ended up in a private university. Boy were they pissed when they saw that my university did not require me to wear ridiculous white shoes and skirts covering my ankles.

When I was in my second year in ABAC I was called in by my great grandmother to discuss "my future". She sat me down, while I was wearing my university uniform, and she went, "So when are you going to get into Chula?" I got so pissed. If she wasn't tiny, old, and my own great grand mother, I would have punched her in the face.

The rumor had it that the reason why I was in ABAC was because I wasn't smart enough to get into Chula. Right. Like the Rote-learning style of exam would improve my braincell count. I CHOSE ABAC, solely because I did not want to be sucked into the system that I loathe. The system where uniforms for university students were not enough, you still have to follow a strict dresscode that makes you look like you just stepped out of a 1950s poster. The same system that the way you tie your hair or the way you dress OUTSIDE the university perimeter can also decide whether or not you will get your degree. It's the same system where teachers should be revered and feared like gods and where your involvement in abusive freshman hazing has a say whether or not you will go through your four years of college as an invisible person of no importance.

Funniest thing is, I heard about all these rules and "customs" from real life Chula graduates and yet they spoke of these with such utmost love and respect.

My cousin posed in a swimsuit for a magazine once and she almost got suspended. A friend did not wear proper white shoes as stated by the university and she had to write an essay about it. And all this happened in the 21st century.

OK, Chula is the first university in Thailand, named after a king, has bred nation's finest and has the best educational facilities and resources the country could ask for.

But there's a difference between being traditional and outdated and they should start acknowledging it.

But then again if people are still raising their children under this mentality, like the "traditional side" of family, it will never be out of the cycle.

Oh well, at least I never got in.

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