Andre0720

From what I saw when I stayed in a hotel in the first years that I came here as a tourist, all the work and cleaning that the hotel does everyday in every room, is the same whether the same guest stays in the room, or a new one will arrive. So....

RTP, always focusing on the least dangerous infraction to themselves...

My understanding is that he bank would know where the money is coming from. So it might explains why the 'Agent' that I use, a lawyer by profession, asks to go to the bank, and ask for a yearly statement of transfers, showing on that list of transfers, that they were in fact 'International'. The bank book is used as supporting documentation only. And very easy to become paranoid, thinking that everything is done to prevent an individual to obtain an extension of stay 'by himself', without the use of an agent. It is possible of course, I have seen it. But patience is of the essence. With the use of an 'Agent', those transfers not clearly indicated as 'International', at least on a bank book, will be accepted as 'International', through he use of an Agent, and a certified bank statement. But nevertheless, going to the bank and requesting a 'certified statement' showing that all transfers were international, should, in principle, satisfy the scrutiny of most IO.

My claim is that the 'cook' is the one who makes the sauce. The 'cook' in Thailand is Tesco or Super Cheap, where all sauces come from. The sauces are laced with sugar, which ultimately is a bad ingredient, detrimental to a person's health. I have stopped eating Thai food entirely. I cook at home, and I am the one making the sauce. No sugar in my home, and no bottled sauces. But if one thinks that Thailand has some of the worst food on this planet, this person has yet to see, smell or eat food from Cameroun. The stench will prevent anybody from sleeping.

I will never understand why so many rules here are based on the clock, when all I can see is that the clock is such a foreign concept for Thai people. In 5 minutes. In 10 minutes. Oh well, appears it meant in an hour or so. I never rely on a time given by a Thai person. And then here comes all these rules.... Between 11 am and 2 pm. Why? How is that helping in making a better society, or how is this making Thailand safer, or how is this making Thai people more sober? or how?....... Words fail me now...

I would think that Anthony Robbins was quite right when he realized that some people understand a situation by what is similar in their mind, and that other people understand a situation by what is different in their mind. He gives an example: you throw a bunch of coins on a table, and ask, 'what do you see. Some people will answer, 'all coins', and others will answer 'all different coins'. So when one describes a situation, and get a response suggesting that what is written was incorrect, (by some 1 or 2% perhaps'). While others will simply see that what was written was correct to a level of some 98% or so. The reaction of a poster in such situations will be quite different. From annoying to satisfying. Ans so many posters here are experts at finding the damn 1% that is incorrect in their mind about so many posts. And it seems like it is all they have to do. Annoying yes. No longer social discussions here. The anonymity allows for responses that are less than cordial... Like forgetting that people have feelings too....

he had to continually run down gay people in profanities ...over & over ....I So this fellow is expressing his opinion on whatever he thinks fit, but in a way reserved for uneducated people. "Live and let live.", well this is exactly what the uneducated individual is doing, not letting people live the way they want, and uses profanities to describe their ways of life. And you accept that as "expressing an opinion". We will have to agree to disagree here, hehe

Ok got it. If you see someone raping a girl, you would not go and start harassing rapists, not your job.

Well, in Canada, people contribute to try to make life safe, for themselves, and their children. In Thailand there is no such thing, as they are afraid of the consequences that could be inflicted upon them by one of these uncivilized people. I suppose that if it was left to you, people would still be allowed to smoke on planes. Here i am not sure if people are cowards, or that they recognize the culture that they live in.

Well, you may be right. I am from Canada though. I never saw road rages, but there must be some. Here I see some, and hear ambulances all day from my apartment. NOBODY complains here. And when there is a complaint that people drive too fast on their street, a police patrol with radar will spend hours checking speed. Here people say :'Why call the police, nothing will happen'. Words I remember hearing. I did see in my town in Canada a fellow telling a lady driver to shut off her phone, waiting side by side at a traffic light. She replied 'I know what I am doing'. But some pressure from society, like signs one meter wide 'Drive slowly, kids are playing'. And some people calling police while driving and looking at someone is a deep phone conversation. So there are some. It does create at least a culture of caring for others...

At the market yesterday, I was chatting with a lady selling jeans, when a lady just drove up to park inside the market, on the phone. I pointed out that this type of dangerous foolishness is made legitimate and legal, due to the inaction of police on the roads. I told her that in my country, people would tell her straight that what she is doing is illegal, dangerous and reckless, and endangers people, and particularly kids playing close by. I was telling her that it was strange that there is no pressure from society to stop this behavior. And, priceless, she replied that if anyone dared to condemn this behavior, they would be the ones considered as bad people... Looks like if it is not someone shooting people on the sidewalk while driving, then it must be ok...

The word 'love' is used often here. So in Thai culture, it certainly has a definition of some kind, but not 'romantic love'. In Thailand, 3 driving forces at play all the time: -Generate money -Taking care and being taken care of. -Saving face. Perhaps taking care of someone while getting money for it, is how love is felt here. If you did not provide a salary, as they call it, the 'taking care' was not fulfilled, so their kind of love can fade away quickly.

A case of a murderer being annoyed by the reaction of other people...