laosuwan

I think there is one being built (virtually finished) in the bypass road that runs from town to the airport on the opposite side of the river to Tesaban 6 and the flower show but on the same side of the road.... (ie coming back into town)

If I am wrong and it is not a storage rental place, I apologise, but it looks like one, and I am sure that either I saw a sign saying it was, or my wife told me that is what was being built.

No idea of name or contact, I am afraid.

Thanks for this great lead; I will chase it this weekend.

I am just a bit confused by your directions, however. Do you mean the facility is located along Wiang Bulapa Road (5023) between the airport and the river?

I am no expert but to leave you hanging seems unfriendly, so let me offer something that may or may not suit your needs. Nim See Seng might be an option. Get them to pack things up for moving and then pay them a fee to hold your packages until you are ready to have them delivered.

This kind of thing usually falls under the purview of family and friends in Thailand. The whole self-service business concept is more of a modern invention, brought on by the impersonal nature of modern life in western society.

Thanks for that.

In Thailand a no reply is a synonym for no / don’t know / don’t care so it’s not unusual to get no reply

Sorry if this topic was covered already (I could not find it in search) but

Is there a rental storage facility in Chiang Rai, like a self storage facility? I cant find one if there is.

Need to store furniture and stuff for about a month or two before moving to a new house.

Thanks for any help

Hi everybody:

I have to move from Chiang Rai to Bangkok. Can anyone recommend a moving company to box my things and move them to my new house in Bangkok? Thanks in advance for anyone's help.

Regards,

Lao

They are using it for the edges of the rice fields so they can burn off the grass quickly and prepare the rice fields. and also to clear the mountains quickly for rubber production. to clear grass in orchards too, The rice fields get some nasty stuff to kill snails anyway . Just about every conceivable place. never seen it used like this before. I guess its cheap and easy , but its effectively a blanket operation in our Valley

Wow, not good. Sounds like agrabusiness. Do you know about the big reservoirs, like Mae Suai? The water looks pure and people say there is no problem to go in for a swim, but now I am starting to wonder.

Nice Golden,

When you bathe your dog do you use a special shampoo for ticks and fleas or are you using an ointment such as Frontline

( Frontline Plus is called Frontline Combo in the U.K but contain the same active ingredients ) that you apply between the shoulder blades every month?

Ive had a lot of problems with ticks lost 1 dog to anaplasmosis which was disheartening now have a new dog and have had it vaccinated but the vaccination seems to be as deadly as the ticks so now im only using Advocate which treats most the nasties. Snakes are another problem 3 in the last 2 months one being a cobra

Frontline is good for ticks but not really for fleas. Advocate is great with fleas, will take them out of the entire house in four days, but does not affect ticks, you need to use both. We usually apply about four days apart, no bathing four days before or after. so dogs can get in a swim roughly anytime two weeks on, two weeks off.

I would never let your dogs off the lead in rural areas even when it looks perfectly safe to do so. Apparently the locals use all sorts of poisons on rice fields and in general use so nowhere is safe.

Recently had a a lab die on one of the most beatiful walks,which consisted of walking along side a river and then a klong surrounded by rice fields, not another dog or other dangers to be seen but somewhere she picked up some poison and was dead within 25 mins of me realizing something was wrong.

Wow, really sorry to hear about your dog. That is a tough one. There are no rice fields where our house is, just tea and bamboo forest. Supposedly that is all organic.

Well first they must learn phasa mah lanna then they will get on well with the local dog population which generally do not speak phasa ma pak thai

They are trained to respond only to commands in English. However, as a concession to local conditions they were not taught pronouns, plurals, tenses or prepositions.

just for fun I told my wife what I posted and she is sure I was right....she thinks the dogs be lonely as they will have trouble talking to the other dogs here as they will not be the same

Thank god your wife has you to talk to.

I suspect they could face exactly the same dangers here that they face in the south although I'm not exactly sure what dangers they face from Muslims , but we do have quite a few Muslims too. Is it some sort of Allergy ?

Northern Dogs do tend to sleep on the Highway and I would urge you not to allow your dogs to do so

Here the allergy problem, as you call it, is the poisoning of dogs with insecticide laced meat lobbed over your wall or fence; as you go further south the symptoms of this allergy become worse, with the dogs being shot and burned. According to police and locals this is done because dogs are “unclean” according to the koran. The sunni interpretation in Thailand is that the presence of a dog in a city or village is problematic because the community is deemed to be “keeping” it, which reduces the muslims merits for good behavior on judgement day (“two qiraats will be deducted from his reward each day”) and because acciodental contact with a dog obligates the muslim to undergo a cleaning ritual (“The purification of the vessel of one of you, if a dog licks it, is to wash it seven times, the first time with soil”). It’s much easier to kill the dog of a non believer, which incurs no demerit in sharia, than to tolerate the dog remaining in the village, which does. Of course, not all muslims are devote, but only one or two who are can take out a lot of dogs. This has been our experince in the south and also when we lived in Spain near a muslim community.

My dogs sleep inside and there is no highway near the new house but thanks for your advice, nontheless.

Most of the dogs in our village die from being hit by vehicles of various sizes and shapes. We have four dogs and a cat. Three Thai dogs and a cat who live free outdoors and only occasionally are allowed in and a Golden Retriever who lives with us indoors and is kept on a leash when walked. The leash is mainly to keep her clean as we only let her swim once a week. The resulting shampoo and blow-dry is too time consuming to do more often.

Our GR is 45kilos of hair and tongue and would never hurt anyone but most of the villagers are scared to death of her, just because she is big. We have more luck getting children to pet her on our evening walks with the adults being harder to win over.

You will need to learn the dynamics of the neighborhood packs but if your dogs are well socialized there really shouldn’t be any problem getting to know the other dogs. I would keep them on leash unless you are somewhere they cannot hurt anything or be hurt themselves. If you are a good neighbor no one will poison your dogs.

We are happy with the vet you mentioned and take our GR there exclusively.

Thanks very much for your recommendation and advice. I always keep my dogs leashed and thought I was the only one in Thailand who knew what a leash is, so good to make your acquaintance. I have the same problem of people who people that fear my dogs even though they are leashed and trained, even while they are surrounded by packs of dangerous unleashed biting local dogs. Go figure.

It does get a bit old for my dogs, being charged by aggressive unleashed local dogs but I know the rule here is “other guy is always wrong” so I usually try to take my dogs places where there are no other dogs around, places that are not always easy to find.

Your Golden looks like a real sweetie; my two Dobes would never lie down with their sworn enemy, the cat, like that (ha ha).

Thanks again.

In a more serious vein I do not think you will have any problems if you care for your dogs responsibly.

thank you

Well first they must learn phasa mah lanna then they will get on well with the local dog population which generally do not speak phasa ma pak thai

They are trained to respond only to commands in English. However, as a concession to local conditions they were not taught pronouns, plurals, tenses or prepositions.

Hi all:

I am moving to Chiang Rai (Mae Chan) next month and am bringing my two dogs. They are Dobermans, both purebred and although they look dangerous they are lacking in street smarts (soi smarts?). Here in the south dogs face dangers of muslims and poisoning by insecticide-laced meet lobbed over the wall, snake bite, and liver damage from blood parasites carried by ticks. Can anyone advise me, in general terms, what dangers dogs face in the north around Mae Chan, if any. Just a general feel for how dogs do and what to expect. The house we will live in is in a fairly rural area.

Also, I am told that Dr. Anon, vet at Sat leang Animal Hospital is the best in Chiang Rai. Any opinions on that?

Thanks in advance to all.

Regards to all,

Laosuwan

Best "restaurant" I have found so far is the little Thai restaurant at the Mae Suai dam. Every item including vegetables has fresh fish from the lake in it. Beautiful setting, too.

Worst restaurant is the Italian outlet at Le Meridien. No question.

Anybody know of a good yoga classes and a fitness center in Chiang Rai town area? Haven't seen or heard of any during my last visits. Appreciate any helpful suggestions.

Thanks in advance.

The price to downtown is nothing, a few hundred baht. And there are no scrum lines of aggressive taxi mafia to fight your way through. Chiang Rai airport is an oasis of civility compared to Phuket, Samui, etc.

dont know the details of this affair but I do know this

a. thai normally attacks farang from behind by surprise in large numbers, unless armed, in which case,

b. thai does not attack farang from in front unless armed and assumes farang is unarmed

Therefore, whatever you say I assume the circumstances lend themself to b.: thai attacked farang with a weapon thinking farang was unarmed, but farang defended himself to the surprise of the thai

For the majority of Thai people the term Farang is not meant as a rude or insulting word, just the term they use to describe foreigners, especially one of a different skin colour.

I always laugh when my 3 year old is called Farang Noi.

I would beg to differ. It is an insult but very, very subtle. You can know by the intonation as the word is said and by the ommission of kon (for people) before farang

i.e. kon thai...

farang

The subtlty revealed is that farang are considered objects rather than people. this is deeply ingrained by the chinese who carefully instill this thinking into the thai from early school days onwards because the chinese know that the westerners are the only ones here who can open the thai eyes to who really owns their country. have you never wondered how it is that thai have dissapeared almost completely from their news, movies and television to be replaced by chinese who are whiter than any westerner yet they dont even notice even while they spit out the word farang in their private conversation?

Sorry if this seems controversial but it is the product of my long observation.

From Wikipedia

Farang (Thai: ฝรั่ง [faràŋ]), also spelled falang, is the generic Thai word for a Westerner. A general term for foreigners is Thai: คนต่างประเทศ khon tang prathet ('people from other countries'). There is no expressly negative or positive implication in the word itself. However when it is used along with other words, it can bring a negative meaning depending on the context.

I'd say same as farang using less then "endearing" terms for a thai? I often use the term Farang when referring to "a farang friend" or a "thai friend" to the wife. I would have to guess that it depends on where you are standing, the tone and look of the person saying it. My church refers to other parishioners like myself as farang openly so I assume not a bad thing?

I am certainly not going to lose sleep over it. Them that like me, like me, them that don't, well suck it up Susie HaHaHa.

the context is this...the word Kon is omitted before farang. The inference is that the farang is an object, not a person. This is deeply ingrained and irreversible in the Thai mind.

I am moving from the South to Chiang Rai in January and my car, made in Thailand, has no heater - only aircon. Is it possible to get a heater installed in a car here in Thailand? You will laugh but when I asked the dealer they said they did not know what is a heater.

It is called misallocation of resources. The chinese have spent trillions on roads to nowhere, bridges to nowhere, entire cities empty of people, high speed trains that fly off the tracks, housing speculation, casino speculation, on and on. the chinese are about to go broke in a huge, huge way.

Wow, that article suxs. Fancy trying to give some credibility to a couple of terrorist thugs. They even credited them with how long they held off the security forces for.

This was only due to that fact that the security forces negotiated with them for so long and gave them every opportunity to end the situation peacefully.

These terrorist deserved their demise. Full credit to the forces that dispatched them.

Well said.

The line that caught my attention was

"To what extent has Islam played a part?"

They managed to make light of it with a large part of it.

Excuse me it is the whole not a part.

Thay have stated many times that they the Muslims want to take over the world. It is part of there religion. They can not take over Thail;and with its strong Budihst belief so seperate and impose there law where they can.

The idea of being a part of is not in there belief. They believe that they should be the all. Perhaps if the Government were to try to address the problem instead of just fighting the radical ones they might do a little better. How I don't know but what they are doing will not make the problem go away. Nor will dening it or covering it up.

We all know that far and away the majority of Muslims want nothing to do with the radicals and are content to live in peace. It is the case of the tail waging the dog.

the problem is that there is no such thing as moderate islam, there is just islam. this is why moderates can never rebut the radicals becasue the radicals have the texts on their side. if you look at so called christian nations like the us or italy you can see that most people dont really practice or even understand their own religous teachings. the same is true in thailand with muslims here; they really dont know much about their religion's teachings, and that is why they are moderate. as islam grows and becomes more pure, wherever that happens, you see the terror at non muslims and muslims who do not conform, increases proportionately. If you go through krabi or phuket, for example today you will see about maybe three percent of the muslim women wearing full black chadors with only the eye visible. ten years ago you would never have seen that at all.

its coming.

these guys at the nation never get it. they do not understand that this is a war by islam against polytheists, buddhists. the motivation is rooted in the koran and suriahs; it has nothing to do with land or ethnicity. they keep grasping at straws, unable to understand But the eveidence is all around them with 1400 years of history. thailand has already lost its south, but still has not realized. thailand cannot even name the enemy that is fighting them and they certainly do not have the stomach to do what would have to be done to bring peace to the south, expell the muslim population. The UN and usa will always side with the OIC oil barons (think pakistan, kosovo, serbia, etc.). its a hopeless cause at this point and the jihadists know it. for them it is a priviledge to die fighting for the cause of allah. The mistake thailand will also make in the future is to assume this war is limited to the south. within 50 years most of thailand will be an islamic state. sound crazy? take a look at what will happen to britain, france or norway in another ten or 15 years. take a look at the mosques along the highway from suvarnaphumi announcing their intent to conquor this land. it is inevitable.

history of jihad dot org slash thailand for more historical background on the thai south.

Wow, that article suxs. Fancy trying to give some credibility to a couple of terrorist thugs. They even credited them with how long they held off the security forces for.

This was only due to that fact that the security forces negotiated with them for so long and gave them every opportunity to end the situation peacefully.

These terrorist deserved their demise. Full credit to the forces that dispatched them.

The book is aimed at breaking down misconceptions among Muslims and non-Muslims

What misconceptions?

I guess ham sandwiches are off the lunch menu.................

I was at Bangkok Hospital today and in the cafeteria there are large signs saying PORK NOT ALLOWED HERE.

The muslims here are getting the confidence to start pushing sharia on the rest of us. They are untouchable and know it.