Anyone In Roi Et After Christmas?

[wontok]

Finally we are getting ready to move to Thailand. After years in Australia and PNG we (wife, five year old daughter and me) should be moving to Roi Et sometime next year. Seems like we've been getting ready for this for ever! But this time we'll be there only for two weeks just after Christmas, and it'd be good to meet any of you Roi Et folks who are around then. My wife's family are in town and we usually stay with them, but this year their place is full so we'll be in a hotel, probably the Roi Et City which always seems an OK place that could do with a few more customers. (The wife's always very keen to give our money to someone who's business is struggling!). The family have also have a small house in their yard which we'll use when we finally make the move, and eventually we'll be building our own place - we have a few rai ready and waiting. So, I hope there's a few of you there to have a beer with?

cheers for now

Wontok

[Bicko]

Finally we are getting ready to move to Thailand. After years in Australia and PNG we (wife, five year old daughter and me) should be moving to Roi Et sometime next year. Seems like we've been getting ready for this for ever! But this time we'll be there only for two weeks just after Christmas, and it'd be good to meet any of you Roi Et folks who are around then. My wife's family are in town and we usually stay with them, but this year their place is full so we'll be in a hotel, probably the Roi Et City which always seems an OK place that could do with a few more customers. (The wife's always very keen to give our money to someone who's business is struggling!). The family have also have a small house in their yard which we'll use when we finally make the move, and eventually we'll be building our own place - we have a few rai ready and waiting. So, I hope there's a few of you there to have a beer with?

cheers for now

Wontok

Hey wontok. Bai me lookim you behain taim.

We live in Buri ram province but have family in Roi-et.

My late wife and I and our daughters lived in PNG for 12 years pre-independence so i am lapoon too much but me got gutpela savvy!!!

2 pela picanniny belong me bai he camup long Mary belong me long haus sick Pt Moresby.

[wontok]

Mornin tru Bicko! Yu save tok pisin gut tumas!

Mi na meri na piccinini meri blong mi stap finis long New Britain and Niu Ailan long faipela yias, me wok finis wantaim Ausaid....

But that's just about the extent of my tok pisin....back to tok ples....

Thanks for your reply - it'd be good to meet you sometime. I've been following another forum where you mentioned building the Tindall airbase - and we are now living in Katherine! The wet arrived two days ago - you'll remember what a relief that is!

If you'd like to meet up around New Year sometime, PM me a phone number and I'll be in touch when we are in Thailand. Otherwise I'm sure we'll catch up when we move to Thailand for good.

Lukim yu!

Wontok

[Bicko]

Mornin tru Bicko! Yu save tok pisin gut tumas!

Mi na meri na piccinini meri blong mi stap finis long New Britain and Niu Ailan long faipela yias, me wok finis wantaim Ausaid....

But that's just about the extent of my tok pisin....back to tok ples....

Thanks for your reply - it'd be good to meet you sometime. I've been following another forum where you mentioned building the Tindall airbase - and we are now living in Katherine! The wet arrived two days ago - you'll remember what a relief that is!

If you'd like to meet up around New Year sometime, PM me a phone number and I'll be in touch when we are in Thailand. Otherwise I'm sure we'll catch up when we move to Thailand for good.

Lukim yu!

Wontok

Good to hear from you wontok. I am also in the humanitarian aid business. Have been in Aceh for 3 years on tsunami reconstruction. 2 years in Kandahar, Afghanistan before that (that was a tough one) and a year in Suai in east Timor before that. Worked a lot with Ausaid and Stuart brown and his team built a few houses for us here.

I have been with Catholic Relief Services (CRS-US) for several years and worked with CARE Australia in ET.

My contract is finally finished (until the next situation-you know what i mean) and I fly home to Bangkok and then drive to Buri Ram next Monday. My wife accompanies me on my postings. She went home 2 weeks ago to supervise the rice harvesting on our farms near Lam Plai mat.

Yes i loved Katherine and i know a lot of people there. A lot of the old timers are ex PNG. We were there 86 to 91 and I did a lot of Barramundi fishing. If you catch up with an old Aboriginal bloke named Billy Harney please give him my regards. He lives in Katherine and runs a refuge for orphaned Aboriginal kids. Great man.

Look out for the salt water crocs in Katherine. Years ago we had a huge flood which was a metre deep in the main street and we had a couple of salty's in the main street looking for lunch.

Will PM my phone number.

[JohnOFphon]

[. So, I hope there's a few of you there to have a beer with?

cheers for now

Wontok

Don't worry, there will be plenty of us around to have a beer or two with.

City hotel is always empty. about 90% vacant. There is a new hotel just across the canal. 1/3rd the price of city hotel and professionaly run. Really good Thai food too. The name is Rhomantenaon Park...or something like that.

Where a red rose in your hair so we will know who you are when you come in.

K?

[wontok]

Thanks for the reply JohnOFphon - will check out the new hotel you mention. Hope to catch you in Roi Et after Christmas - is the White Elephant still the watering hole of choice?

Wontok