Positive Thailand

[anon7867763]

WE ALL KNOW AND OFTEN HEAR ABOUT THE PITFALLS AND MORE NEGATIVE POINTS ABOUT LIVING AND WORKING IN THAILAND - CORRUPTION, VISA,RESIDENCY,WORK PERMITS,LAND OWNERSHIP ETC BUT AS 99% OF US KNOW THERE ARE MANY POSITIVE POINTS,AFTER ALL THESE ARE WHY WE LIVE HERE AND SOME PEOPLE TEND TO FORGET THEM.THE OBVIOUS ARE FOOD,SUN,SUKHUMVIT ROAD ETC BUT THERE ARE MANY OTHERS.I MEAN WHERE ELSE CAN YOU REAP SO MANY BENIFITS FROM GIVING A BIT NAM JAI AS ONE CAN IN THAILAND ? WHERE ELSE CAN YOU LAUGH WITH A COMPLETE STRANGER ?

PLEASE POST TO THIS THREAD SOME POSITIVE EXPERIENCES THAT ANYONE HAS LIVED IN LOS.IT WOULD BE NICE TO HEAR INSTEAD OF THREADS FULL OF THE USUAL CYNICAL (ALLTHOUGH SOMETIMES FUNNY) BLERB.

THANKS

[mahtin]

The key just above the shift key will free it up.

[Tywais]

The key just above the shift key will free it up.

As alluded to, all CAPS is considered shouting and bad netiquette. From the pinned topic.

1. Please do not post in all capital letters, bold, unusual fonts, sizes or colors. It can be difficult to read.

[Dakhar]

Ok.....

First of all, I will not make any bones about it.... I think Thailand sucks big hairy balls...

That said, I did forget my wallet behind at a KFC once in a BigC department store. Next thing you know there is an army of good semaratins (sp) trying to track down "whitey." A guy found me, and spoke to me in horrid English, trying to tell me my wallet was with KFC employees.

I went back to KFC and they handed me my wallet, which contained about 1000 USD. I was leaving for the US the next morning....

That experience gave me a feeling that Thailand, the arm pit of Asia, just may have some good points.

And for those that say "go home" etc, I would if I could but the wife refuses to go to the US, and I refuse to give someone my net worth and my kids because they do not want to live in America....

So I try to make the best of it.

[kurnell]

I earn twice as much in Thailand as I could in Australia, that's pretty positive.

[MJP]

dam_n FANTASTIC garden centres up here in Issan. Brutally cheap. What else is there in life?

[isanb]

i won 4000 bht with the lottery last month

[mahtin]

dam_n FANTASTIC garden centres up here in Issan. Brutally cheap. What else is there in life?

The point of living and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come.

-- Peter Ustinov

[cognos]

Good work! I am slow..I was just going to make a SIMILAR post..I like the jai dee mak, gentle,( over,haha) sensitive, conservative, sanook,hard working, my bpen rai nature,sensual, "I no take plane Phuket to BKK..I take bus..I need you save your money teeraaaak" nature of the MAJORITY of Thai women (plus the lithe "exotic" beauty of so many of them) did I mention their latent explosive temper?

[Hssl]

Last week I forgot to take with me my 52 Bahts worth of Cat food from Tesco's, went back a couple of days later the cashier remembered me and presented me with said Cat food...............oh what a warm feeling of human love I had for about 5 minutes until driving home some <deleted> on a motorbike clipped my drivers side wing mirror whilsts I was stopped in traffice - broken mirror 500 Baht.

Win some lose some

[henryalleman]

Its not difficult to mention positive experiences in Thailand, they are numerous, here a few.

1-

we where looking for a fully furnished 2bed/bathroom condo. After seeing a few of them we always find some shortcomings. we asked the landlady if she didn't have an unfurnished one. and yes she had, she was just planning to redecorate one. when we visited the condo she told us to tell her what we like to change she will fixed it. The result was that she stripped of the complete condo, build new walls installed new European style kitchen, new laundry machine and refrigerator 3 new airco who we could choose by our self in Home Pro. Putting new floors parquet and new beautiful tiles on the balcony, Tiling the walls in bathrooms and kitchen, new curtains. And she told if we didn't like something in the rental contract we could change it. The rental price for all this 13495 baht including water, 24/7 security, maintaining and garbage. She even went with me to the Amphur to arrange my Tabian ban and invited us to dinner afterwords. The landlady is Chinese Cheochiew as my wife, maybe thats why.

2 -

I bought a used MU7 activo in a tent with 2995 K on the meter for 865000 baht. previous owner was Tri petch, not yet went to his first 5000 K service. I transferred the money to her account; even the bank warned me that I took a huge risk to do so. On the spoken date the car was ready and they transferred my name in the blue book. When I went to Tripetch fir his first 5000 Check up its was okidoki everything was correct I still had full factory warranty. A few day's later some signal lamp kept on blinking I went to Tripetch again and they welcomed me as an respected costumer they even give me a tour in the workshop. I was waiting in the waiting room when they send me an text message that my car was OK and the bill was zero because its was warranty, when I thanked them for their excellent service the answer was "You are paying our salary Sir its normal that we do our best;

3- On Whipiwadi road I took a wrong lane to exit, the police stopped me and he friendly give me some playful friendly pinch in my arm and warned me that Papa should be more careful next time and waved me off, the same happened on Chean Wattana

4-the excellent helpline of true Internet who guide me during the installation of my modem, the same go's for K-Bank cyber account service line.

5- The excellent service by the delivery service of Winner and index, they put together a complete bedroom in not yet 1 hour and even polished it before they left and even cleaned up the floor.

Of course I have some negative experiences also; but they are far more less and unimportant than the positive ones. I never experienced any animosity against foreigners its the contrary. Or is it that some people just don't have the correct attitude to live in this country.

[MJP]

dam_n FANTASTIC garden centres up here in Issan. Brutally cheap. What else is there in life?

The point of living and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come.

-- Peter Ustinov

Yep. It's come on a bit since I took these pics.

TBH, I love living up here. I think if I lived near Pattaya or destination areas I'd not be happy at all. But this for me is perfect. Slow, well organised, routine, cheap as chips, not aggressive, simple happiness.

Exciting aren't I?

Front_garden.pdf

Back_garden.pdf

[spysee]

I can drive pissed if I wanted too

[mahtin]

Exciting aren't I?

You're doing just fine, congrats

[mahtin]

I can drive pissed if I wanted too

Don't.

[MJP]

Exciting aren't I?

You're doing just fine, congrats

Cheers!

Got work in the morning so beddie-byes soon.

[spysee]

I can drive pissed if I wanted too

Don't.

I don't, I'm just saying I could if I wanted too.

Whats the legal limit here anyways?

[justcruisin]

After having a fairly big night with friends a couple of nights ago,I inadvertantly left a bike jacket at one of the venues I had been.

This evening after retracing my steps and making inquiries as to the missing jacket at a couple of bars I had been with no result.

I stopped at the last place I was,and Lo and behold,as I pulled up on my bike much arm waving and calling out to me to inform me my jacket was there.

Thats what it makes living in Thai so special,the complete honesty and integrity of the thai people.

[MJP]

I can drive pissed if I wanted too

Don't.

I don't, I'm just saying I could if I wanted too.

Whats the legal limit here anyways?

I did try and ride the moped thing drunk a few weeks back. Made it about 20 feet and woke up in a ditch.

Moral of . . . don't ride pi$$ed without your stabilisers on.

[Datsun240Z]

Nice pics MJP. What's with the Berlin Wall?

[MJP]

Nice pics MJP. What's with the Berlin Wall?

Walled garden.

Issan is the other side of it.

[AleG]

A couple months ago I joined my GF and some of her friends on a three day trip to Chumphorn, we stayed in a small fishing village not far from Sawi, called Thong Tom Yai.

It was a homestay, the village isn't a tourist place at all. The guy running the home surprised me so much in the care he took his guests, his village and the environment around. For example, one day, after lunch we saw some fishermen laying a net right in front of the house, when they took the net out of the water they found a sea turtle in it. They brought it over, the guy called a wildlife preservation number, they came over, measured and weighted the turtle, implanted a RFID chip on it for tracking and then we took the turtle to a beach, far from the village to release it. Hopefully far enough that it won't wander into the village inlet again and risk getting caught in a net.

After seen how little heed most Thai people pay to environmental conservation that was marvelous.

When we went snorkelling the next day he actually spent 40 minutes explaining the Thai guests how to properly put the safety vest on, what kind of fish they would see, what not to do in the water and with the environment, etc, etc.

With tourism so bad now and all the horror stories circulating we should also point at the good actions and practices of some operators.

Here's me picking up the turtle from the fisherman's boat.

[MJP]

A couple months ago I joined my GF and some of her friends on a three day trip to Chumphorn, we stayed in a small fishing village not far from Sawi, called Thong Tom Yai.

It was a homestay, the village isn't a tourist place at all. The guy running the home surprised me so much in the care he took his guests, his village and the environment around. For example, one day, after lunch we saw some fishermen laying a net right in front of the house, when they took the net out of the water they found a sea turtle in it. They brought it over, the guy called a wildlife preservation number, they came over, measured and weighted the turtle, implanted a RFID chip on it for tracking and then we took the turtle to a beach, far from the village to release it. Hopefully far enough that it won't wander into the village inlet again and risk getting caught in a net.

After seen how little heed most Thai people pay to environmental conservation that was marvelous.

When we went snorkelling the next day he actually spent 40 minutes explaining the Thai guests how to properly put the safety vest on, what kind of fish they would see, what not to do in the water and with the environment, etc, etc.

With tourism so bad now and all the horror stories circulating we should also point at the good actions and practices of some operators.

Here's me picking up the turtle from the fisherman's boat.

What a fine handsome fellow you are.

[Datsun240Z]

A couple months ago I joined my GF and some of her friends on a three day trip to Chumphorn, we stayed in a small fishing village not far from Sawi, called Thong Tom Yai.

It was a homestay, the village isn't a tourist place at all. The guy running the home surprised me so much in the care he took his guests, his village and the environment around. For example, one day, after lunch we saw some fishermen laying a net right in front of the house, when they took the net out of the water they found a sea turtle in it. They brought it over, the guy called a wildlife preservation number, they came over, measured and weighted the turtle, implanted a RFID chip on it for tracking and then we took the turtle to a beach, far from the village to release it. Hopefully far enough that it won't wander into the village inlet again and risk getting caught in a net.

After seen how little heed most Thai people pay to environmental conservation that was marvelous.

When we went snorkelling the next day he actually spent 40 minutes explaining the Thai guests how to properly put the safety vest on, what kind of fish they would see, what not to do in the water and with the environment, etc, etc.

With tourism so bad now and all the horror stories circulating we should also point at the good actions and practices of some operators.

Here's me picking up the turtle from the fisherman's boat.

What a fine handsome fellow you are.

/ Mike, just kidding about the wall! Looks nice.

[MJP]

A couple months ago I joined my GF and some of her friends on a three day trip to Chumphorn, we stayed in a small fishing village not far from Sawi, called Thong Tom Yai.

It was a homestay, the village isn't a tourist place at all. The guy running the home surprised me so much in the care he took his guests, his village and the environment around. For example, one day, after lunch we saw some fishermen laying a net right in front of the house, when they took the net out of the water they found a sea turtle in it. They brought it over, the guy called a wildlife preservation number, they came over, measured and weighted the turtle, implanted a RFID chip on it for tracking and then we took the turtle to a beach, far from the village to release it. Hopefully far enough that it won't wander into the village inlet again and risk getting caught in a net.

After seen how little heed most Thai people pay to environmental conservation that was marvelous.

When we went snorkelling the next day he actually spent 40 minutes explaining the Thai guests how to properly put the safety vest on, what kind of fish they would see, what not to do in the water and with the environment, etc, etc.

With tourism so bad now and all the horror stories circulating we should also point at the good actions and practices of some operators.

Here's me picking up the turtle from the fisherman's boat.

What a fine handsome fellow you are.

/ Mike, just kidding about the wall! Looks nice.

You're Dutch, Bart so sometimes you won't understand the dry Brit humour.

It was quite funny.

No need to a apologise.

Roll another one.

[Dakhar]

I believe it is considered good luck to help out a turtle. They probably all went out and bought loto tickets after doing thier good deeds.

[mysterybkk]

i bribed a cop with 20 baht for speeding.

can it get better than that?

[mahtin]

i bribed a cop with 20 baht for speeding.

can it get better than that?

Please tell me you are Thai so I can have a rant about the dual pricing.

Or are you still learning to type?

[Dakhar]

i bribed a cop with 20 baht for speeding.

can it get better than that?

I paid a cops daughter 500 baht

[jackdanielsesq]

Great post - I too have had many more positive experiences here - way more than negatives - their total lack of guile is amazing, from the moment one hits customs, their world-class smile is stunning, their welcome mat forever fresh & clean.

One has to go to Farangworld occasionally to see how badly we do certain things that we used to do well.

For the most part I have found Thais to be the most hospitable of all - bar none.

BR>Jack

LOL :D

Got work in the morning so beddie-byes soon.