medicinebox

Ok, they say it was a ruptured cable. I was staying in Chaweng on Sunday 2nd and they slipped a memo under my door saying the power would be off from 8am until 11am on Monday 3rd for improvements. Are they saying it was an unforseen event? Could they have been working on it and dropped a spanner in the works literally and caused the damage themselves? I bet someones arse got well kicked can you imagine "Pass the monkey wrench Bert..........oh xxxxxxx!!"

Ayway at least its back on, Im back there on Sunday morning.

MB

I've just successfully resolved a problem with Mitsubishi Thailand about asking for a corruption payment on the delivery of a new car here, by first contacting the parent organisation in Tokyo, briefly telling them the story, and then getting them to make the first approach to Thailand instead of me doing that myself.

This worked very well. Their e-mail call center in Tokyo immediately understood my problem, replied in perfect English, and sent the necessary orders to Thailand to pull their finger out! Thailand then contacted my Thai wife very politely and the problem was immediately solved!

So I recommend you direct your questions to

Customer Relations Department

Mitsubishi Motors Corporation

33-8, Shiba 5-Chome Minato-ku Tokyo, Japan

e-mail crd.mmc [at] mitsubishi-motors.com

They were definitely very helpful in our case.

That's a fantastic idea. I have emailed the Thai office and will follow up with Japan,cheers for that!!

Here's the official support email:

customer.plus [at] th.mitsubishi-motors.com

Cheers emailed them already.

I wonder if anyone can help me. I have an unregistered Mitsubishi Triton sat here in the UK. I have to go through the UK body VOSA to get this on the road. I need to get intouch with Mitsubishi Motors in Thailand to get some information for VOSA. They need to know axle weights, top speed, etc and also the brakes and emissions directives to see that it's ok for the UK.

Can anyone advise on how to get to the right department to get this information. They don't reply to the standard enquiry form.

Any advise much appreciated, it's such a shame, it's just stood here.

MB

Medicineman, why don't you come back to Thailand then?

Lived here for 10 years, haven't been back in Denmark for 7 years and I am getting along just fine, thank you very much.

I have a relatively well paid job in the oil offshore industrie working worldwide 6 month pr year so I am only here 1/2 time.

Sorry, but you are not the typical case. You would have been out of Denmark 1/2 the time as well had you lived there.

I wonder how any man would not want to be in Denmark, a country with the happiest people on earth (that's what the surveys say) and that IMO has the lowest ugly people per capita than any other nation, but that's my bias, and only because I have a fondness for Denmark and people that are so pleasing to the eye.

Yea, yea, I know, taxes & cost of living are tough in Denmark. However, I think you have the ideal situation. The time you spend in Thailand is "off time" so there are other reasons for enjoying Thailand. If you had to work at an oil refinery in Thailand 6 days a week and under unsafe working conditions you might have a different perspective. Your set up works well for you, and that's good, but please understand you are part of a small minority.

Not trying to be rude here, but maybe you need your eyes examined. Naked Dansk vs naked locals? I know who wins in my book.

I'd much rather be anywhere in Denmark in the summer surrounded by people that ooze sexiness and desirability than stuck in hot, sticky Phuket with locals picking their noses and driving like madmen. At least I can drink the tap water in Denmark and when I flush the toilet the water in the toiler bowl is cleaner than what I dumped in it. And btw, no Danish cop or government official ever tried to shake me down or ask for a bribe. When I get in a Danish taxi, no one tries to rip me off. Jeez, I am so worked up I want to hop on a plane, fly to Denmark and get busy with the locals.........

Ok here's a little euro tip. dont tell anyone but..... Latvia!... shhhhh

Firstly your questions are not valid for all.

I first visited LOS in 1983 and fell in love with the place,

by 1985 I was back and stayed for 20 years

However as I got older the continual heat was wearing me down.

I now live in a pleasant mediterranean country, with a much more

amenable climate, four real season.

Liife here is no more expensive that LOS. The money I need in the

bank for my yearly residence permit earns me 6.5% at the bank which just about

covers my rent of a 2 bed apartment over looking the sea.

Go back to the UK, not bloody likely, I would be bored to death and have no friends there.

Hello Somchai. Fair play fella, you went out there in 1983. Wow you saw the real Thailand. I remember when I first went to Samui in late 2000. I was suprised when i saw an Addidas shop in Chaweng and a Boots. Within a couple of years there was a Pizza Hut, Mcdonalds, KFC etc. Whats it like now I wonder?

What was it like when you first went? Where did you go?

MB

12 Years Later. Do I Miss Thailand?

From 2000 -2004

I guess you miss your calculator medicinebox mate.

Haha... ok I rounded it up. Ok just for you mate.. "8 - 12 years later. Do I miss Thailand?" that ok fella..

I'm a bit like you medicinebox.

1. What made me go? My dad was teaching in Singapore and he'd fly over to Thailand once his teaching was finished. I decided to go on holiday. I had 25 days saved up and it was December. Use it or lose it I went to Phuket for 4 weeks. I wanted somewhere cheap and hot. Back then with 75 baht to the pound it was both. Well after a month in what seemed like paradise I didn't want to come back. The thought of 11 months of the UK for 1 month in paradise a year was depressing. I quickly started looking for jobs. I was young and working in the IT department of a big accounting firm in London. I found a job and went for an interview in May. Pennies saved up again for another 1 month stay. First Bangkok, then Phuket. I was clearly very naive. What I thought was a sales job with the promise of lots of money to be made was a BS role with one of those untrustworthy FAs you hear about. I quit after a few months and seeing the scum that worked in it. I have morals and ethics. 2008 was the year many lost but they took the p*ss. Laughing about their marks losses. I went to another job a few months later and it turned out to be a bigger joke than the first one. Next role I applied for I was also messed about. I learned Thailand was a country filled with cowboys. Enough was enough.

2. what did I like most. The weather, the lifestyle, the food and my now wife. I'm a massive fishing addict and Thailand has the best freshwater fishing in the world. I think it's mostly the weather though. I can't express enough how much I detest English weather. Half the year is cold, wet and dark. Why would a civilization put up with it if it didn't have too? It's depressing and it makes me angry.

3. Well clearly from part 1 it was for work. I needed a good job. I'm intelligent with a good degree. I had to start making good money. I found a good job back in England where people could be trusted. I brought my wife back. I've been back in the UK for 2 years. Clearly I miss the fishing and the weather but I have been going back every 12 or 6 months for a fix.

3b. Well I was forced by circumstances to come back. Like many people are. Long term I just want to live in a nicer climate than England. Probably not the US. I can't ignore there massive economic debts and the burdens they face. Canada is too cold for me. I think Australia would be nice. Similar to the UK in many ways. Safe roads, good schools and hospitals etc. A good legal system where people can be trusted. Great fishing! Massive economic resources. I will always like to visit Thailand when I can but unless I'm financially set or offered work by a reliable company I can't see myself living there.

Brill post Jack I like that Theres been a load of interesting replies, a lot of well thought out takes on it all and quite balanced. Every Country has its pros and cons yup. Lots of collective experience here keep it coming.

I've been here in Thailand 6 1/2 years now, and I really miss the United States a great deal. I'm going back for good next month. It seems that every year I miss home more than the previous year. The only reason I haven't returned to the US relates to family matters and my determination to remain a part of my daughter's daily life. My daughter is returning with me next month as well.

The food has actually become less appetizing, I miss actually UNDERSTANDING what is going on around me. I miss SPORTs tremendously, especially college and local sports (including high schools) which are quite big in my area of the States. I miss my family and friends back home. I miss great libraries, bookstores....great newspapers (yeah i know we live in a digital world, but it aint the same) . I miss weather that encourages outdoor exercise (just too hot and humid here most of the year). I miss 200 channel choices on the tube! That's about it.

Hey Freedon Dude, I subscribe to this. I too missed those things and for a while getting back was great. But after a while you get back into your old routine and the Thai episode becomes faded. When I was asked if i miss Thailand it set me thinking. The truth is I have never felt so alive and happy than in Thailand. My friends were sat in the same corner of the pub drinking the same brand of beer when I got back. Maybe you have to go back home to remember why you left in the first place?

Medicineman, why don't you come back to Thailand then?

Lived here for 10 years, haven't been back in Denmark for 7 years and I am getting along just fine, thank you very much.

I have a relatively well paid job in the oil offshore industrie working worldwide 6 month pr year so I am only here 1/2 time.

Hi Guzzi. I came home to help an ailing family business. My efforts were futile and I wish I had stayed in LOS. I have a plan my man, it's just going to take me a little while longer. I have a friend similar to you, he does 1 month on (oil rigs) and one month off. Perfect job to be in for locating anywhere. Anyway good for you mate, speak soon

Murgatroyd mate, nobody saw the Depression (which it now is) coming. My Brother put everything on the line to finance a business deal in 2008 here in the UK. Things were looking good at the time. now the bank are stripping his assets and auctioning everything off, its brutal!. He has two children and a wife to take care of too. You've got your head screwed on, that I can tell. You will figure it out fella, and hey never mind "if she still wants me", you're the prize mate...you have to be, because if she's the prize....wheres her prize??

You'll be just fine mate..

Hi all. I used to post here a long while ago. I spent 4 years in Thailand. From 2000 -2004. The best years of my life for sure. I came back to the UK and haven't been back since.

Somebody asked me the other day if I missed Thailand. I said no, but later that night I thought about it some more. When I'd gave it some thought I realised "yes" I do miss Thailand.

My questions are:

1) What made you go to LOS in the first place?

2) What did you most like about it?

3) What made you go back to your home Country?

3b) Do you ever think "why the <deleted> did I go back to my Country anyway?"

Hey I'd love to hear from anyone who aint been back to thier original country, and lived in LOS since they arrived 2 month or 20 years also...respect to all, I'd like to know how you're getting along.

Cheers

medicinebox.

P.S. The UK sucks right now.

Laughter is the shock absorber of life.

This thread appears to consist of farangs attempting to explain how polygamy is practiced behind closed doors in Thailand which cannot help but be gibberish for the most part.

Like relationships everywhere, singles or doubles or whatever, the situations are as different as the people involved in them.

My sister in law's husband has been living in Bangkok with his mia noi during the weekdays for many years and not only does sis know about her, she is voluntarily acting as the primary caretaker of 2nd wife's son along with her own pre-teen sons. The husband comes home most weekends and all seems fine - at least it has been working this way for the six+ years I have been in the family.

Polygamy in one form or another is practiced in most of the world and only the outside appearances and cultural attitudes vary slightly.

I agree.

Different strokes for different folks.

Some people think that dog is a mans best friend and and they give unconditional love and affection....

HELLO.....NOT TRUE

THEY JUST HANG AROUND BECAUSE THEY WANT FOOD FROM YOU!

Stop feeding them and see how long they stick around.

As for the soi dogs I heard really loud piercing whistling scares the shit out of them.

What do they send to find the candle?

I hurt my back when I was 25. Heavy squats in the gym. I couldn't sit for more than 5 minutes without chronic lower back pain.

I was refered to a neurosurgeon. I had X-Ray,MRI scan, then CT scan.

I left the hospital and waited for my consultant neurosurgeon to get back in touch with me. And waited, and waited. In the meantime I stopped training and started swimming.

4 months later I decided to call the surgeon. Don't ask why, I guess I was avoiding it.

He said he hadn't recieved the CT scans yet and would get back to me. Couple of days later he called me in. He said I had a "whacking great clump of disc pressing on my spinal cord", (prolapsed discs)and that it would have to come out.

Thing was, the pain had gone now because it was left so long. I told him this and he retorted. He said sometimes the disc can retract and the thick membrane around the spine would heal over.

Point of the story being, if those scans had turned up on his desk on time, I would have gone along with the operation. Altogether it took 7months and I was back into my training. IMHO gentle progressive swimming is what healed it. I think the support from the water stretches all the discs and vertabrea back into place.

That was 9 years ago and I still workout in the gym with weights, no problems.

Make an operation the LAST resort.

BUMP^^^Anyone?

Look out for the next documentry

"When Leeches turn nasty"

There will always be the wisearses cracking funnys about lives being lost, acting like hard men.

Think about this next time. What if it was your brother, son or best friend. Would you tolerate anyone mocking his memory???

My condolences to this guys family.

Fair play, at least he's direct and open about it. LOS can be a very lonely place for a single guy who dosen't go whoring.

Good luck I say.

I voted snogging only.... if you have a partner, that is the only person you should be that intimate with 

There are some who say if you snog someone you may as well go the whole way and have sex.... it's all the same in most womens eyes...   

I can see the logic.. 

totster 

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What about movie actors? If the guy gets a hard on, I bet missus wouldn't be pleased. Or if she starts looking around a bit too much?

Well I suppose you wouldn't appreciate the good threads, but for the not so good ones.

There are many different kinds of mushrooms available in the local fresh markets. Every time my girlfriend brings home any kind that I have not seen before it makes me nervous. Has anyone heard stories about any of these being poisonous? 

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Make her eat some first.

Has anyone used this company before? Any comments?

I sent parcels before that arrived in the Uk 4 days later.

Not EMS, just regular airmail. Cost about 70 bht per 100g.

For some reason parcels sent on a Saturday get to the Uk quicker than any other day.

That sounds way too expensive.