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We're all back in business - it seems ..........

The envelope size is not finally defined yet - me thinks!

Prior Covid = TAT was blowing its own trumpets over 40 million tourists (as if they would have anything to do with this) Post Covid = overcrowded Did, by percentage, more Thais than tourists die? Or is it, that the level of tourist went down even further and now becomes unmanageable as the slice of the zero-tourists (China) and the cheaper segment (Russians in Pattaya) increased compared to Phuket with the richer Russians? Quality is one thing, quantity is another - fact is that Thailand actually cannot handle either due to its own people not being able to welcome, accomodate or handle the business ....

Ensure uninterrupted popcorn supplies 😉

Thai must have retired dozens of B747 all over Thailand; from Nong Khai via Korat, Bangkok etc. They also dumped the 6 Airbus 380; their fleet planning boggles the mind ..........

Tip of the iceberg, if you ask me; visit any casino (King Royals, Savan or Poipet) for clarification of what "serious" money can mean .........

They seem to know the culture of the envelopes as well ..... Or did the Thais learn it from Khun Amelica?

Organs clean themselves, unless you've massively intervened in unnatural build-up. What you might have is an ear infection hence don't fiddle around with questionable therapies but see and ENT specialist.

It is like Bollywood - the poorer are happy to escape reality for a mental break. Some go to the cinema (like in Mumbai), others get completely drunk (half Isan) and some smoke weed. Latter is also smoked - quite apparently - most likely in various government offices which spring to mind with fantastic statistics, forecasts and assumptions.

I do not want to be cheeky but how many of us have seen many, many Thais washing their pick-ups at the rim of a river or a lake. A pristine example is the Mabpachan and the Chaknok lake outside Pattaya. Apart from dirt and oil residue the entire garbage of the car gets offloaded in the hope, that the mess will disappear mysteriously overnight. Fine the guy driving along the beach but use the very same measures once a semi-divine Khon Thai is doing worse than that - me thinks 😉

Google is your friend 😉

The fight of the titans ..... I would put my money on the police officer but then, this is Thailand .......

Don't get blended by all that confusing stuff on property and zero rights for non-Thais. It is a fact and still some smarties think they can beat the system. Eventually the non-Thais will lose ...... always. What you can secure is the financial interest in property with complicated legal paperwork on financing a loan for the property. But it will take time to force the land title owner to sell the property and pay you back. As a 60+ years old geezer you should seriously consider renting only; an idiot of a neighbour, too close to a temple or a 7/11 or a motorbike repair shop, smells from the fermented-fish-factory or any other inconvenience = pack your stuff and move elsewhere without a financial impact ........ Irrespective what the beauty of night might try to tell you which is - in most cases - only in HER interest. As blood is thicker than water - specially in Thailand - you will get her entire family breathing down your neck on the subject. Avoid that by saying "no have money" and you're sorted.

You want to see the development of tourism in a fast forward mode? Go to Luang Prabang, within less than five years they turned this jewel of an Indochinese Shangri-la into a steamroller of zero-dollar tourists shouting, screaming and misbehaving in such a way you would slap your own child. But Thailand is toasted already so just go ahead and destroy the little you have left of what was once "amazing Thailand". How sad and what a pity ..........

a) he will eventually get arrested for ............ not holding a work permit b) what he is doing, is ...... wrong, yet if the authorities would focus more on copyrights, trademarks etc. and less on digital wallets, special tourism zones and 300 Baht landing taxation for tourists ....... There is not a day in the calendar where I am not offered fake watches, fake viagra, illegal copies of movies on CDs and the usual offerings of fake hand bags and purses in Bangkok on the way to/from work Lock him up and start educating your own people that ........ if a deal seems to be too good to be true then ........ the rest is history 😉