philstone

To me, a Thai style wedding without a sinsod is like a farang-style wedding without a wedding ring.

I fully respect your point of view.

Sinsot is a Thai custom, practiced traditionally between Thais. It is only in recent years that there have been large numbers of thai/farang marriages. Sinsot is not a farang custom, so at best the Thais should meet us halfway. But since a farang usually can offer far more to the Thai wife than a Thai man ever can ( a decent home from day 1 as a starter), this should cancel out the required dowry. The girls family should be delighted that their daughter has scored a big lift-up in her life. That must give them a huge amount of "face"

Every Thai/Thai wedding in my locality in recent years has necessitated a massive loan being needed to pay the dowry, (with monthly interest of between 5% and 20%... Yes 20% a month!) which is a millstone around the newlyweds necks for many years. What chance do they have?

As I have previously -time to bin this tradition, and get real.

Would we give the 3 month salary engagement ring which is now traditional in the west (I am certain it used to be 1 month but De Beer's marketing campaign has changed since the 80's)?

Calculating this I reckon my sin sod would be a fraction of this

I could buy another decent watch with the difference - the IWC Da Vinci would be my engagement "Ring"

If you marry in West and give 3 times a months salary for ring it is probably at least 2 times the papa salary.

So you should give 3 times papa and mama salary. To me that works out to no more than 9,000 baht. Unless they are pimps.

i dont feel good telling this but it happens all to often. an inlaw has just sold her house to a thai girl that has two farang on the go. now the story is she has farang husband. for sure she has two boyfriends. why am i posting. well its just a heads up to you. if your australian or sweedish and youve just paid 700k bt for a house in song neuan. well you both probably paid for the same house with the same girl. i know no other info so if you think its you i,m sorry. shit happens man.

Watch ur own missus it can happen to anyone

How about yours? PM me I will tell you

bingobongo has been predicting the collapse of the Thai real estate market for YEARS. His posts point to various indices, graphs, charts, and out-of-context quotations. Thus far, his predictions have been unerringly incorrect.

My wife told me she hear from many that houses are still raising and she has brought with my money 28 houses for members of her family and still wants to buy 60 more.

She knowns everything has she has atotal of 3 years of school and can read very little. However she believes in Ghosts

So I guess I am stupid I got married 5 years ago to a thai women and we lived happy in Australia

since then I deceided to move to thailand because of her parents. But now I don't have a life any more.

We build a house ( next to the parent one) But every body just keeps walking in ( no knocking on doors)

My wife watches TV all night long till 1 am ( not with me of course ) but with the family and some times with our workers we have employed. So in the morning she is so tired and when I complain about her watching TV she says oh let me have my joy. Call me old fashioned but I always thought wife and husband schould be in bed together. Am I wrong ?

Stop complaining you are not needed either understand that and take the little she gives you or leave. She has enough for a couple of years she will not miss you Can not you figure this out that what we all have.

Once you given them a life salary they don't need you.

Excellent!

Is this place called Republic of America somewhere between Ivory Coast and Nigeria ?

I have to admit I was wrong America started all the mess in the world. For that the America passport should be denied for entry in all countries. Europe and Asia doesn't need Americans any more.

Americans take you credit cards and go home

I have to admit I was wrong America started all the mess in the world. For that the America passport should be denied for entry in all countries. Europe and Asia doesn't need Americans any more.

Americans take you credit cards and go home

The odds are this is a 3-way scam cooked up by your wife, her buddy and a local copper to relieve you of 200,000 Baht.

A fool and his money are soon parted.

I agree you are smart he is to close to see but his is different.

"good child rearing should start at 13 mon ths not 13 years of age "

Exactly. The hardest part of babysitting is trying to make it look like an accident.

This child is a product of the really mother and father. Sorry to say this child will probably be like most Thais. I dont think you can do anything but give money. That what the Thai child looks at a Farang.

Yes. I have an investment bond in Isle of Man that is 90% protected with no cap. So my money is much safer than in a bank.

Protection:

The Isle of Man is the only offshore finance centre providing compensation schemes in all three of the main areas of finance - namely deposits, funds and life policies.

Policyholder Protection in the Isle of Man is provided under the Life Assurance (Compensation of Policyholders) Regulations 1991, administered by the Isle of Man Government Insurance and Pensions Authority and offering protection broadly along the lines of the UK Policyholders Protection Act 1975. It can be summarised as follows:

Now the Isle of Man is trusted. This is worst than any America Bank that has FDIC insurance. Laugh now but just wait when people ask back for their deposits.

• all holders of policies issued after April 5th, 1988 by Isle of Man insurance companies are protected;
  
• up to 90% of benefits under a policy are covered with no ceiling;
  
• potential Policyholders where policy documents have not yet been issued are covered;
  
• the Insurance and Pensions Authority is required to seek out protected Policyholders in the event that a company becomes unable to meet its liabilities and find ways of securing continuance of Policyholders' benefits.
  

So the FED comes to the rescue They will produce mega billions of dollars in an apparant bail out However, this begs the question where does the FED get the money from? Answer: they simply print it - which in turn dilutes the value of the dollar in your pocket

I think it time for the people of Europe to send America money and food. Remember America saved them after First War and Second War. And Germany should send the most.

So the FED comes to the rescue They will produce mega billions of dollars in an apparant bail out However, this begs the question where does the FED get the money from? Answer: they simply print it - which in turn dilutes the value of the dollar in your pocket

I think it time for the people of Europe to send America money and food. Remember America saved them after First War and Second War. And Germany should send the most.

Excuse me quiksilva but I will believe this Patima person when I see it !

It is typical real estate agents hype..................where are potential

buyers going to borrow the money in this current investment climate

which is getting worse every day( today the Russian stock market stayed closed )

The people in the know Know that the rich Russians and coming to Thailand to buy up all the Prime Real Estate Buy now before the huge price increase.

BoT asserts Thailand insulated from Lehman collapse, AIG liquidity crunch

BANGKOK: -- Amid troubles facing equity and financial markets worldwide in the wake of the collapse of US investment bank Lehman Brothers and a liquidity crunch faced by the American Insurance Group (AIG) in the United States, Bank of Thailand (BoT) governor Tarisa Watanagase on Wednesday calmed the public, saying that the problems would not pose a direct impact on Thai financial institutions.

Forgive me for saying that sounds a little naive.

Does she really have clear picture of exactly how much money the Thai institutions

have invested in the US, and how they will be affected by Financial failures in the US?????

In a word yes she does.

No, she doesn't.

IF she would, she would be the SINGLE and ONLY Central Banker in the entire world, having a clear picture; now...that would be something, wouldn't it, especially in Thailand

If the CEO's of all the companies which went down the drain in the past few weeks alone didn't know about their own <deleted>, how come Mr. Tarisa would know how much money Thai Institutions have invested in the US ?

IF she knew...she has strict obligations and SHOULD have warned the country a long time ago.

She didn't and doesn't know.

But, she will know after the bankers invested the money and told her...a few months later.

AIA

I am much more worried about the assets AIA says they have.

5.8 MILLION Policy holders in Thailand alone....that's HUGE; if the average holder has a family of 3; and that's not too high I think, we're talking that it could affect more than 17 Million people....

In Singapore people were lining up yesterday to take their money back.

What about Thailand ? I didn't hear anything...?

LaoPo

This Thailand no need to worry unless you have money with them. How we for get up to you.

Could someone please explain me something.

If education is not a priority, why academics are so well regarded in Thailand? I can't figure out why, every time there is a problem, they found some obscure lecturer to give his opinion, how to fix the economy, the government ,.... And, as far as I'm concerned, none of them are Nobel prize material but that's just my opinion.

But the main question is, if they care so little about education, why academics are held in so high esteem ?

The Noble Prize is fixed and that's a small group dominate the prize winners. But none known anything except how to control the world.

Wow...sooo many questions

To sum: It wasn't all that crap to me - speaking from own experience

I agree Thailand Education is probably number one in Asia. The reason most of us think it is bad because we hang around with Jerks. In England and America you will not hang around with these types. All my circle of Thais are higher educated. Just get better friends or better wife.

I am very pleased to see that at least one person on this board believes enough in himself to trust his own instincts = JonnyB !! And he is not afraid !!!

I wonder why most of you feel that each and everyone Thai is fundamentally not trustworthy.

I agree with you I trust my wife and her children that's why I brought 15 houses in their name. And about 12 cars they all love me and I love them JonnyB just buy more you will be okay all long as you kept buying. When you stop who knowns. Just kept buying and they will love you no problem.

NEWS FLASH , you do not or cannot own land in thailand , over 50 and still have not got the message , Thailand is for Thais , you are only welcome for your money , no matter how much you love it driving around on your Harley(noise-bucket) . AS long as you keep spending YOUR money you will get some kind of respect , but it is more for the dollar than you , do not believe me , stop doling out the dollars and see how deep the respect goes . Yes , Thailand is a fabulous land for tourists to travel around and about , but do not hold your breath just yet about troubles being localised , which they are not , they have touched the length and breadth of the country in some way or another , just that the brunt of it has been in BKK . Come out from behind your smoked face shield and take a real look at reality , the reality that faces all foreigners in one way or another that seem to think this is their retirement home , wish you well in your disneyland of expectations .

Oh , incidentally , i do not drink beer , bad for the brain and the (huge) gut .

I can not own House in Thailand so what But my young beautiful Thai Wife 24 years younger than me never went to schools never had a regular job owns 4 houses her children that do not work but drink own 11 houses and I was allow to buy the houses for them. See you get around the law just buy in wife name.

Maybe you should drink and think like my wifes children. Farang should just buy but not own.

Strange...

Maybe I've missed something but I've never seen those financial advisors or their promotions nor received any PM's from strangers....?

LaoPo

They known you are smarter than them and you well known they are fakers. They also hang around Gyms in Pattaya and told about how this Guy makes me at least 20 per cent a year.

Financial Advisers well get your money faster they a Bar Girl. More fun to give Bar Girl your money.

Hi Tweezer,

You are the solution. You are with his mum, for a long time you said (long time means years a assume, months aint a long time), a child needs his mum, period. You and your girlfriend have made a huge error of judgement to think you could leave a young kid with his grandmother. I once liked a girl (loved her lots), she had a young son. I don't like kids, so I had no choice and broke the relation off for the sake of her son, because a child needs his mother. Tweezer, you thought you could leave the kid out, you are wrong, you have a big responsibility when your with a woman that has kids already, take your responsibility and let the kid live with his mum. Ideas like you mentioned are the easy escapes (pay money for a school/institution and problem solved, thats what your hoping aint you), not a solution, be a responsible man Tweezer.

MBL

I agree you marry the mother and have boy and the rest of her children live with you so You can be a good role model for them.

I did the same and mined has had all her 14 Thai Children live it us They all have motorbike and cars that I brought them and they are perfect fools like me. 11 have homes that are brought them. But believe I do not give their mother my wife any money. And even through all her children use drugs and alcohol I have never brought any.

Keep up the good work and son will be a fool and crazy just like me Buy they sleep great.

Hmm,... Interesting.

Maybe veering off-topic slightly, but a lot of Thais have started changing their names recently also. A lot of the people I do business with have changed their first and last names...?

Is this after a trip to the fortune teller, or after a visit from the credit-cruncher, i do not know.

I've known four people who have changed their names... all four are absolute fruit cakes.

In England I known several con artist that keep changing their names can it be the same here? I have friends that brought house for the wives or GF and do not known thie real names. With the name thing Thai's are very smart.

Let me humour you, Loaded. My answer is more Thai than your question: mai kojai. I recall that after Cleopatra's needle was stolen, it was put in a park in London, right? What does the last descendant of one of Alexander's generals have to do with freemasonry?

If a Rothschild descendant works for Queen Elizabeth, does that imply she - not the queen - is the power behind the throne?

I could make up a conspiracy theory relating to Hoyt Axton and Mars Bonfire, but will not bother. Which one wrote the anti-drug songs, and which one coined the term "heavy metal"?

The next King of England shall be Rothschild he is the one that is married today to Kaska beautiful princess from Dubai. At the present time he is buying all the land secretly in Issan so he can produce the great wine in the world.

Well, this British Expat IS VERY interested since my money is in their Banks!!!

I am sorry to write you British's ex pats but I have heard from people in high places that the Rothschild's shall take over the Bank of England. And the Next King of England shall be A Rothschild I forgot his name but that the married to a Dubai Princess

Hi all,

I need to know if there is a quick answer to my question.

I need to send some money to Thiland in January 2009 to pay for my wedding and "show" the family etc the "sin sod" which will be about 1m baht, i need to transfer the money to Thailand and then try and send it back to the uk 3 days later.

I can only see problems and hassle with doing this, any advice please?

OH MY GOD, DONT DO IT, PLEASE I BEG YOU.

Anyone that gives that sum money should not worry about Pounds to Baht. I do not believe you If you are tell the truth what drugs do you take?

It does not look good the Pound. Here is why The English Government gives to much away. Ie free medical free housing free heating allowance and even more for illegals in there country. People come from all over the world for free money and free medical. Also England gives to much to there old citizens who have so much they are able to get young wives and even pay these wives in Thailand . A country can not give away money and expected to have any left. What does England make a car a plane grow food how do they get money to give.

Sounds like quicksand to me, but nevertheless, the 'rule' should be what you make it, else you're toast.

You have to pay for all Also if your wife's father married a BG who is even younger than your wife who has 3 children you will have to pay for those kids and even her mother and father. Soon after she will want you to pay for her father's wifes sisters and brothers as well as any children they have or are born or get married. You just pay what good deal for wives family and village.