Jogden

Only sixteen months in jail in Cambodia? That thing should be rotting in a small cell in the country he was caught in.

Changing the filters is a good safe start. Checking or changing the glow plugs is the next bit to do. Diesel fuel injectors will not pass water through them. The tips will break off as the water will not break down as far as the diesel does. So if you have water in the fuel tank and it gets past the filters, it will get expensive. Hope this helps some.

Bangkok will never be Singapore.

Love it! I was in Mumbai last year renewing my employment visa and my driver/fixer was yapping about how they wanted to make Mumbai like Singapore, nearly threw up, i was laughing so hard. And then i asked him are they going to blow the place up first and start over?

Is that like a fire hydrant?

Hello flying. Sorry for the slow reply. I don't visit Thaivisa when i'm away at work. But to answer your question, yes it is a fire hydrant. Not even sure if it works, i've never seen anyone come and play with it.

No worries mate.

G'day,

We had a simular problem when we bought an apartment in Bangna. It was the water bill though and the people (condo management??) got a bit nasty over us not paying the water bill from the person that sold us the place. We just stood our ground and watched them pull faces about the out standing bill. After they some how accepted their loss they were ok, in saying that we have never lived in the place. We've got it rented and i think three generations are living in it now.

You can do it via the mail system and not have to leave the country. Ask the immigration people for the bit of paper and just post it of to them. (Works for me when i couldn't be bothered going back to work).

55555. The police are paid plenty already, filling in time in gold shops and banks is the cream on top.

My father inlaw had the same thing with a bit of his land. Locals using it as a short cut. He got one of his backhoes and dug a trench across the short cut and told everyone that he was digging a pond for fish. He's done nothing about the pond since digging the trench and the locals still take the long way around now.

You must have lots of friends.................That never find the the time to call you.

Well done. I got that in an email today and was going to post it, ya beat me to it.

Wow! I didn't know that. All the Thai's i know say that they are part Chinese. I wouldn't want to ruffle their feathers to much by calling them mongols.

Bye bye ya clown!

Our little humpy, Sara Buri.

another f8kcing expert....!!!.....the Gulf of Mexico has some of the biggest cowboys in the industry operating there, not just BP.

In comparison with the Gulf of Thailand, the Gulf of mexico is like operating in the stone age.....so before you start slagging off what you THINK is happening here, go write to your congressman in the US and get them to clean up their act in the gulf of Mexico first.

Operations in the GOT are so far ahead of Gulf of Mexico, when it comes to safety etc etc....in fact in comparison with most other places I have worked, O&G in the Gulf of Thailand comes out just about on top in almost all catagories.

Could there be a disaster in the GOT ?...yes of course....its a high risk industry we are in......if all the tree huggers want to stop O&G exploration, they can..... its easy....go and convince people to stop using oil and gas..!!!....Oil Companies, like drug dealers are giving consumers what they want, thats all...

The US wants cheap oil, to get cheap oil, corners are cut to reduce costs..this is exactly what happening in the Gulf of Mexico

Procedures and regulation are all in placed at the most sites around the world.

Human error is the main problem here, lack of management skills, as many offshore supervisors are came from roustabout within a few year to AD and on to Tool P and OIM without any communication and people skills.

There been no training in places by any drilling company for supervisors to learn how to communicate, interact and get the best out of your crew.

NOT IMPORTANT in this business.

And then with all paperwork in placed, accidents happening 95% human errors. And after a incident or accident, just look if all the papers been in placed and signed, just to cover their asses.

NFS

I agree with this one. Many times i've asked people like OIM's, performance tool pushers and the 'company men' what they did before. Most of them were like burger flippers that have been taught how to type the way the 'company' wants the typing done. Also meters drilled the fasted with no s***f ups!

"The current government was not voted in, and I want to have a vote," he said.

Better start hitting the books for the Thai citizenship test then mate.

555. Not looking forward to that! But then again we can always go back home back home to pies and coldies.

I really don't think that these people are grown up enough to be in control of this sort of power generation.

Surely the bacon 'bits' are fake, probably soy bits. The bread is what we call "Texas toast" back in Texas. I always get either the mushroom or tuna soup, and one round of the salad bar (usually the corn and peanuts mix, maybe a slice of tang mo) while we wait for the main course. Even though I'm stuffed after that, I get one or two little servings of chocolate pudding. My partner is Thai and gives me the extra toast, but I sometimes don't eat a second piece. Compared to the toast in Texas, it has a bit too much butter and isn't as toasted.

The salad bar in Chiang Mai and Hua Hin has a good selection, almost equalling what I'd find back home.

My annual membership expires in a few weeks; I hope I can get another. As a member, if you buy one main entree and your guest gets one, the less expensive entree is free. Typically we get out of there paying only 350 baht for two people stuffed to the gills and full of Pepsi refills. If you're alone, the membership card gives you a discount of 10% for cash, 5% for credit card purchase.

Ive never,,, seen a thai eat the bread !

Mate, Every time we go there and it's not that often now, my wife orders her own 'fried' bread and eats the stuff that is delivered with my steak. She loves the stuff!

Mate, It's not that hard to get them, wife/child into Aus. And it will be a better long term option for your child.

The embassy people in BKK are very helpfull as long as all the paperwork is done properly.

John.