mysterybkk

i always saw articles about vans in thailand and i never paid much attention to it. a few months ago i was seriously injured as a passenger in a van on that same stretch of road. the driver didnt take it seriously at all. last i heard he's still driving for the same company. i commute back and forth daily there, so it's only a matter of time i guess....

A win for the poor.

This should be the way to fight double standard.

Why should bangkok be kept dry? Do bangkok people pay special tax for this privilege?

Don't any poor people live in Bangkok?

Some of the people in flooded areas still have jobs in Bangkok. Do you want them to lose their jobs too?

Also, given that very few Thai's pay tax, maybe the people in Bangkok DO pay a special tax for this privilege.

there are so many reasons why this is a bad idea.... i personally dont care if it floods, if it happens it happens. but these people only care about the social injustice they face because the city which provides most of them with jobs, and not to mention food and water, isnt flooded. we'll just see what happens when they start whining about starving or because their government compensation package shrinks because bkk needs to be bailed out too. honestly, if they act like that, they totally deserve it. it's the collectivist mentality, one monkey does it, and all the other monkeys see and follow....

Is it your deliberate attempt to incite division, or your simple lack of understanding of logoistics that anger me?

You state, "I personally don't care", and then write "if it happens it happens" - if you accept that then accept it without retribution.

But then you incite division with, (quote)"these people don't care about the injustice they face", be it social or not,"because the CITY which provides most of them with jobs..."

You believe that the 88million people of Thailand work in BKK Centre? Really?

Do you believe your following statements of "jobs, food and water come from BKK centre" for the 76million who live outside of it???

"If they act like that,they totally deserve it.".... who's they please? Those that don't live in BKK??? - INCITE FOR DIVISION!

"collective mentality like monkeys" outside of BKK is that?? - INCITE FOR DIVISION? {Have you memoirs of Lopburi when you wrote that???}

You 'assume' all food, water bla bla and taxes come from BKK. You are far from correct!

BKK is a little part of the infrastructure, as the likes of Honda and Toyota and their suppliers have demonstrated.

Stop making eager, incited, immature and vile discriminations between those who live in BKK and the rest of the country.

-m.

if you're gonna quote what i say, then at least dont change what i said to fit your mood for a rant. highlighted some for you to look over again and compare with my original post.

thanks!

From my personal experience I can recommend "Ramkhamhaeng Hospital" on Ramkhamhaeng Road, about at Soi 32.

It's a private hospital, well updated with modern equipment and reasonable prices. They recently added a new building with new clinics.

However, I have no personal experience in ORL.

The problem might be flooding coming closer to this area after the Klong Sam Wa sluices having been damaged. So might want to call first.

Here the link

Totally concur

Ramkamhaeng Hospital is where I go to get my Opthalmic (glasses) prescriptions.

Professional and English speaking, you would be hard pressed to find better.

yeah, have to agree here. it's a 5 min walk from my home and i always go there. it doesnt offer the luxuries the big hospitals have, but they have good doctors and wont cost you can arm and a leg.

A win for the poor.

This should be the way to fight double standard.

Why should bangkok be kept dry? Do bangkok people pay special tax for this privilege?

Don't any poor people live in Bangkok?

Some of the people in flooded areas still have jobs in Bangkok. Do you want them to lose their jobs too?

Also, given that very few Thai's pay tax, maybe the people in Bangkok DO pay a special tax for this privilege.

there are so many reasons why this is a bad idea.... i personally dont care if it floods, if it happens it happens. but these people only care about the social injustice they face because the city which provides most of them with jobs, and not to mention food and water, isnt flooded. we'll just see what happens when they start whining about starving or because their government compensation package shrinks because bkk needs to be bailed out too. honestly, if they act like that, they totally deserve it. it's the collectivist mentality, one monkey does it, and all the other monkeys see and follow....

i was involved in a crash in one of those death traps on my way to school in august. the van's brakes failed on bangna trat as we were approaching the toll booth and it plowed into another car which was paying going at least 120. no seat belts available. i was hospitalized with a broken spine..... yay for thai vans.

if you want good service with doctors who speak good english, try samitivej. i always go to the one at srinakarin. currently i'm going for check ups every 2 weeks (every time 2 xrays) and speaking with the specialist surgeon and i pay 2000 baht. i ask for a prescription for any medicine he thinks i should take.

i've experienced one guy in nana once. he did the lucky guy thing, and cuz i was waiting for someone and had nothing better to do i wanted to see his little "show". he basically told me that i had a masturbation addiction, but that i will find the girl of my dreams who will please me sexually. he then offered to tell me who she is and when i would find her if i paid him. for rich people it was 8000 baht, for middle class people it was 5000 baht, and for poor people it was 3000 baht. and then he said that he felt i was a rich person and that would be my rate. i said "thanks for the neat swapping paper trick, here's 20 baht" and left.

i'm a student at abac, which is right next door basically. i live in this area as well, paying 4500 a month for a furnished room. the rooms arent decorated to western standards, but with an investment of a few thousand baht you can get the place to look pretty nice. if you want more info about life here, being in a budget etc. just message me.

so apparently today there is a ferrari taxi cruising around

Is that right, or are you joking?

pictures are circulating. i'm sure there will be some videos soon. i'm guessing it's gonna escalate up to lamborghini. interesting way to promote a phone...

so apparently today there is a ferrari taxi cruising around

the campaign isnt over yet...... there's more to come, i suspect in the course of today.

the car was stickered because its easier to put on and take off than repainting it.

of course it was, i just said it was interesting to see how it was done

it's actually really common, if you ever see cars (especially expensive ones) with crazy colors they are usually stickered. its a trend apparently. i dont understand why they sticker it though because it costs the same and you still "should" change the registration for the car....

the campaign isnt over yet...... there's more to come, i suspect in the course of today.

the car was stickered because its easier to put on and take off than repainting it.

you know what, you should go live somewhere in the outskirts of bkk, like minburi or nonthaburi. its nice, safe and quiet, but you can go to the city for a weekend off, you are near medical facilities should anything happen, and you can get more or less decent internet. i actually live in bkk, and i live on a budget of 16k per month and i'm pretty much happy. i have a nice room, aircon, close to supermarkets and everything, and fast internet.

in my opinion, living in chiang mai is actually gonna be a distraction, there's so much stuff going on there and it's always in your face because it's so small.... i grew up there so i know...

i think a good idea would be have both operating flights.bangkok has the capacity to use both successfully

well, they tried that at the beginning and then they had the problem that people kept going to the wrong airport. i remember having to wait over an hour on the tarmac because they had to shuttle people who went to the wrong airport. the capacity and infrastructure, yes, the managerial skills, absolutely not.

look up abac, they have extensive connections with international universities and many students transfer here from abroad.

breaks my heart. it was always fun going really far out of town to get a flight. and the inadequate lighting and lack of decorations bring back warm fuzzy memories.

i think you and especially the owner of that bar shouldnt have made any assumptions. it's thailand, everything is selective and there's nothing to do about it. we all know it happens, and we all know that cops show up anywhere there's money to be made. those road side shops dont have money to pay, and the cops know that. it would just be unnecessary paperwork if they were to go and shut them down. only when the boss tells them to will actually anything happen.

dont take this the wrong way, but..... there's something fundamentally wrong with thailand. period.

Yes, on the moat. The owner of Somphet market even came down to enquire <deleted>; there were so many officials in the place.

This is really sick.

You pay pay taxes & run a legal business & the lovely officials come around & tell you not to serve your return customers of many years.

What did you do wrong? Nothing. There are scores of places on the footpath selling booze.

There's no doubt IMHO that the system in Los is now seriously sick & corrupt.

so he's above the law in that case? how can you say that he's running a legal business if he sells booze outside the allowed times? then it's not legal anymore.

or is this more about having special arrangements and then being sour when some official shuts it down?

you're calling the system corrupt when they are for once doing what they're supposed to be doing?

how stupid is this.... if they're only changing the price for imported booze, then somebody is lobbying to cut down the competition. not to mention that anything made locally, especially the cheap stuff, contains dangerous chemicals...

so the bottom line is that they are not trying to get people to drink less, they are trying to line their pockets some more and cut out the competition....

i know i'm setting myself up to get flamed now, but i kinda think this is a good thing. obviously the govt wants to prevent old men marrying young girls for the wrong reasons. while they may not be forced to marry them, what do you expect when you go from having nothing to everything in terms of relativity....

I don't see why you should be flamed even though I don't agree with you. I cant speak for Thai women as I am gay but my partner and I have been in civil partnership for 5 years now - there is a 40 year age gap but he would not have it any other way and does not find younger guys attractive - in much the same way as I don't find guys of 40 and 50 attractive. In asian culture there is I believe a different attitude towards age - sure some are money boys and girls and older guys make for less effort on their part. But after 5 years together the mutual attraction between us is as strong as it ever was. My partner is also attracted to overweight guys - everyone has preferences that should be respected. We were both adult when me met and I would hate to think of a government telling us whether we could marry or not.

Even where marriages are not quite as genuine there is still often mutual respect with the younger person happy to please their partner and the older partner happy to make provision for them after they die. In those situations it is a mutually beneficial relationship which hurts no one.

I believe that much of the trafficking is actually undertaken by much younger more attractive guys who are working for gangs anyway.

that's why i said for the wrong reasons. no doubt there are happily married couples with big age differences, but i'm also sure that for every 1 happy couple, there are 9 only about sex and money. i've met many couples where the husband is 60 or so and has a wife covered in back tattoos who's around 20, sometimes pushing around a baby stroller. and when i look at those women, i can tell they're not happy. i know this is not what you meant, but yes, there is mutual respect, guy gets laid, girl gets money.

They may or may not be happy man, who knows? You know a lot of people in our western countries have the luxury of saying things like, "money isn't everything" and "money can't buy you love." If you look at a lot of people in S.E. Asia how is a statement like that going to make any sense to them at all when all they've ever know is hardly having any money? It's simply not an easy situation to point at and pick apart. You might have seen a woman in a bad mood. Likely as not she grew up in a glorified pile of sticks in Isaan or something. Ask her if she wants to be able to afford a stroller or go back to her pile of sticks surrounded by farms. Likely as not she'll take the latter, whatever it entails. Or, maybe she's just on the journey of life, and is discovering that money and happiness aren't necessarily linked. I say let 'em live and learn, and some might truly find happiness.

and that's my point exactly, they get married not out of love, but to get away from the pile of sticks. and a large number of men come here because they know they can emotionally "blackmail" girls they like into staying with them because they have an asset, their money.

i know i'm setting myself up to get flamed now, but i kinda think this is a good thing. obviously the govt wants to prevent old men marrying young girls for the wrong reasons. while they may not be forced to marry them, what do you expect when you go from having nothing to everything in terms of relativity....

I don't see why you should be flamed even though I don't agree with you. I cant speak for Thai women as I am gay but my partner and I have been in civil partnership for 5 years now - there is a 40 year age gap but he would not have it any other way and does not find younger guys attractive - in much the same way as I don't find guys of 40 and 50 attractive. In asian culture there is I believe a different attitude towards age - sure some are money boys and girls and older guys make for less effort on their part. But after 5 years together the mutual attraction between us is as strong as it ever was. My partner is also attracted to overweight guys - everyone has preferences that should be respected. We were both adult when me met and I would hate to think of a government telling us whether we could marry or not.

Even where marriages are not quite as genuine there is still often mutual respect with the younger person happy to please their partner and the older partner happy to make provision for them after they die. In those situations it is a mutually beneficial relationship which hurts no one.

I believe that much of the trafficking is actually undertaken by much younger more attractive guys who are working for gangs anyway.

that's why i said for the wrong reasons. no doubt there are happily married couples with big age differences, but i'm also sure that for every 1 happy couple, there are 9 only about sex and money. i've met many couples where the husband is 60 or so and has a wife covered in back tattoos who's around 20, sometimes pushing around a baby stroller. and when i look at those women, i can tell they're not happy. i know this is not what you meant, but yes, there is mutual respect, guy gets laid, girl gets money.

i know i'm setting myself up to get flamed now, but i kinda think this is a good thing. obviously the govt wants to prevent old men marrying young girls for the wrong reasons. while they may not be forced to marry them, what do you expect when you go from having nothing to everything in terms of relativity....

ladyboys should have exactly the same rights as everybody else. including going to jail for harassing people. just think, if a man was harassing women walking by, he'd be in jail pretty quick. so it's only fair that ladyboys get exactly the same treatment, then they dont need to whine about prejudice.

of course that would need some support from the authorities, which is a whole different story....

i'm gonna agree with jdinasia here, if you think that it's the same everywhere then you havent seen enough of the world yet. i grew up all over the place, so i've experienced a lot of different cultures and i can tell you for sure that everything differs.

as for that comment about the internet, dont worry, i'm well aware of what it is, i highly doubt i am much older than you.

just go out and have fun, make friends wherever you go. if you stick to what you know, there's no adventure!

i dont get it, when you go on exchange to another country, shouldnt you try to experience the new culture rather than your own? but you can find germans anywhere you go, there's a lot at my university, some are exchange, some are full time students.

i'm not really sure about alternative clubs but i'm sure some are to be found on khaosarn road somewhere. i dont really head into that part of town though cuz it's too touristy.