Nordlys Posted June 1, 2005 Share Posted June 1, 2005 Been in and out of the country so a bit difficult to count but must be around 25 years in total. Born and raised in Bangkok till 18, except one year in Japan. High - perhaps my own wedding Low - seen "black October" (or is it red October??), crackdown on Thammasat Univ. student uprising in 1976. One Sunday I was at Mission Hospital (where I was born) with my mother not too far from Sanam Luang and saw people shot by police/military brought in one after another, their clothes soaked in blood. A few days later, my father took me to Sanam Luang and seen where they burned people on street and trees where they hanged students and banged their head with folding chair (as seen in the famous Pulitzer award winning photograph). I saw shoes left under the tree. What a dad, I was only 11 then Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rigger Posted June 1, 2005 Share Posted June 1, 2005 About 5 years in Thailand LOW point : Getting caught one morning by TGF/now wive in a hotel room in Kata beach with two lezos ( I no longer keep swords in my house) HI point : The night before and keeping all body parts Just kidding HI point would be the birth of my daughter and will also be the birth of my son on the 27th of this month Rigger Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tornado Posted June 2, 2005 Author Share Posted June 2, 2005 gaining momentum now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jai Dee Posted June 2, 2005 Share Posted June 2, 2005 gaining momentum now Helped along by a bit of Tornado prodding... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tornado Posted June 2, 2005 Author Share Posted June 2, 2005 gaining momentum now <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Helped along by a bit of Tornado prodding... <{POST_SNAPBACK}> how long have you been here JD? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buadhai Posted June 2, 2005 Share Posted June 2, 2005 Two months (after 26 years as an expat working on Saipan). High: Finally being retired and enjoying lazy-but-busy stress-free days. Low: Down for a week with Dengue Fever. Disappointment: Having to drive everywhere. Was looking forward to a vehicle-free retirement -- walk to coffee in the morning; walk to happy hour in the evening. Haven't achieved those lofty goals yet. Looking Forward To: Getting out and about and visiting some of the places I never got a chance to see in nearly 30 years of visiting as a tourist. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Gentleman Scamp Posted June 2, 2005 Share Posted June 2, 2005 How Long Have You Been In Thailand, and your ups and downs. How long have you got? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jayenram Posted June 2, 2005 Share Posted June 2, 2005 Arrived in September 1999. Since then it's been a bit blurred. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thymode91 Posted June 2, 2005 Share Posted June 2, 2005 5 years here in samutprakan. Up : enjoying quite pretty good life down here Down : In five years, only five months I stay with my son I missed him. (he is 5 yrs old boy now) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jai Dee Posted June 2, 2005 Share Posted June 2, 2005 gaining momentum now Helped along by a bit of Tornado prodding... how long have you been here JD? Alright... I'll contribute... 3.5 years full time now... I don't really consider that all my past holidays here really contributed to my Thai experience... very sheltered and insulated from real Thai people and culture... so I discount them from my summary. Had too many highs to really pinpoint any one outstanding significant event, and the only thing that came close to a low for me was when I was temporarily unemployed in BKK for 2 months, and thought I might have to leave Thailand to find work elsewhere. Actually, when I did get the phone call offer of a new job in LOS, that made me feel pretty high. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flybynight Posted June 2, 2005 Share Posted June 2, 2005 it looks like this thread will be a doozy <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Especially with snappy little comments from yourself! <{POST_SNAPBACK}> back to the pit with ya! you dont even live here part timer, so you shouldnt even be viewing this thread <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I wish Georgie wasn't on sabbatical on Samui right now or he could join us for some fun! <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I want to move there. Can you tell me what the average one bedroom apt. goes for? I am aflight attendant so the closer to the airport the better. Thanks!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neeranam Posted June 2, 2005 Share Posted June 2, 2005 Arrived in January 1993. Highs and lows have been to the extreme, and so many of them. Being locked up in a drug detox was a low. The birth of my daughter was the high point by a long way. I can't really remember the first few years as they were an alcohol/drug haze, every single day. Today is a high, and tomorrow never comes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chownah Posted June 2, 2005 Share Posted June 2, 2005 it looks like this thread will be a doozy <{POST_SNAPBACK}> So...Tornado, you started this thread and it appears that you are hoping that many people will view and post to it. Will you feel good about yourself and feel that you have accomplished something really great if its popular and feel a bit lonely and disheartened if not many people respond. Is this post a poll on your popularity here at TV? Just wondering. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tornado Posted June 2, 2005 Author Share Posted June 2, 2005 it looks like this thread will be a doozy <{POST_SNAPBACK}> So...Tornado, you started this thread and it appears that you are hoping that many people will view and post to it. Will you feel good about yourself and feel that you have accomplished something really great if its popular and feel a bit lonely and disheartened if not many people respond. Is this post a poll on your popularity here at TV? Just wondering. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> yeah something like that................. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meadish_sweetball Posted June 2, 2005 Share Posted June 2, 2005 it looks like this thread will be a doozy Especially with snappy little comments from yourself! back to the pit with ya! you dont even live here part timer, so you shouldnt even be viewing this thread I wish Georgie wasn't on sabbatical on Samui right now or he could join us for some fun! hotel name and room number? Hotel De Lusion. Room number 666. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Totster Posted June 2, 2005 Share Posted June 2, 2005 it looks like this thread will be a doozy <{POST_SNAPBACK}> So...Tornado, you started this thread and it appears that you are hoping that many people will view and post to it. Will you feel good about yourself and feel that you have accomplished something really great if its popular and feel a bit lonely and disheartened if not many people respond. Is this post a poll on your popularity here at TV? Just wondering. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> yeah something like that................. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> totster Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moebius Posted June 2, 2005 Share Posted June 2, 2005 it looks like this thread will be a doozy <{POST_SNAPBACK}> So...Tornado, you started this thread and it appears that you are hoping that many people will view and post to it. Will you feel good about yourself and feel that you have accomplished something really great if its popular and feel a bit lonely and disheartened if not many people respond. Is this post a poll on your popularity here at TV? Just wondering. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I've been too close to too many tornados to ever acqure a like for them! But I keep ending up near them for some reason... Ten months here. High: falling in love Low: condensed milk in my coffee Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amal2029 Posted June 2, 2005 Share Posted June 2, 2005 Feel as if I'm watching a couple having sex when I'm viewing this thread. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> it's not a joke, right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amal2029 Posted June 2, 2005 Share Posted June 2, 2005 8 years..... been through - sars, bird flu, tsunami, motor bike accidents, crippled for 6 months, 9 wives (not really it was more like 10 )... It has been great! <{POST_SNAPBACK}> 9 years 11 months 2 days same experience as yours but no accidents. Women: close to your number. lots of fun with little disappointments (Unavoidable) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bdenner Posted June 2, 2005 Share Posted June 2, 2005 4 years and 6 months --- average 10 months a year in Isaan. 2 in AUS. High Point: Walking into my accountants office in Perth with TW and her newly acquired “Australian Tax File Number”. Income splitting -- Heavy duty reduction in tax obligations with regards to my retirement investment portfolio. Higher Point: Meeting TW. Low Point: The ongoing battle with the Thai beurocracy over this, that and the other --- nothing is simple and easy eg. Bank Certificate for proof of funds WHAT bullshit. Lower Point: There isn’t any. ---- Really like the country and its people. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tornado Posted June 2, 2005 Author Share Posted June 2, 2005 it looks like this thread will be a doozy <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Especially with snappy little comments from yourself! <{POST_SNAPBACK}> back to the pit with ya! you dont even live here part timer, so you shouldnt even be viewing this thread <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I wish Georgie wasn't on sabbatical on Samui right now or he could join us for some fun! <{POST_SNAPBACK}> hotel name and room number? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Hotel De Lusion. Room number 666. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Insight Posted June 2, 2005 Share Posted June 2, 2005 Long enough to reply to more than four different threads like these, so past six months then Seriously, four years this month. Highs: People, most of my lifestyle here, TV meetups Lows: Being away from family and mates in the UK, job at times - but it's the reason I'm here, so enough complaining. Forwards... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meadish_sweetball Posted June 2, 2005 Share Posted June 2, 2005 Four years on 7/11. Isn't it ironic? Highs: The Yam Wun Sen thaleh I ate in Koh Lanta 2003. Lows: 1. Waking up soaked in sweat in a private tour bus from Hat Yai to Bangkok at 3 AM somewhere between Prachuab Khirikhan and Chumphon due to a broken air conditioning system, realizing that the brakes of said bus had gone kaputt, and a bit later seeing the driver flee the scene leaving 150 passengers stranded alongside the road. 2. The sound of the 7 Eleven doorbell. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
allexx Posted June 2, 2005 Share Posted June 2, 2005 23 years in October.Always stayed in Pattaya. Been through when Second Rd looked like PLOs training camp,soi Buakow was called soi Sokoprokk cos dirty and no asphalt,Pty klang was dead and hardly no buildings,Walking Street was called The Golden Mile and from soi 15 to police box was dark and no activity, it was even scary to walk there.Only one disco,“Marine” and it closed 6 am,well there was “Grace” too but it was quite slow.October 1983 was very rainy and heavy downpours for 3 days,total 480mm and Beach Rd was washed away in 4 places.You did the shopping at Spinneys in soi Post Office.The going rate for the ladies was 300 Baht long time and the bar fee was 60 Baht.The rate was 25 Baht to the US $$.We drank Mehkong/coke and my first one was in the bar beside the Big Tree and cost me 15 Baht.Lam Morrison played at the Saloon bar and Rod Steward advertising Kloster Beer.Been through coup in Bangkok,1993 I think, and Bangkok Post was censored with partly blank pages.PM Khun Suchinda was kicked out of office and ended up near the Cambodia border in a fancy villa.July 1997 started the economic meltdown,if my memory serves me right,and Jan,Feb-98 was a good time to send money toThailand when you got about 70 Baht to the greenback and the interest rate was 12-15%.The land price in Pattaya Tai was 2.300Baht/Tarrangwha,I bought my piece of land -87,now they ask for 20k…Jeeze,was it better before?? …It was, belive me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boon Mee Posted June 2, 2005 Share Posted June 2, 2005 gaining momentum now What? The next time until your next banning? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dr_strangelove Posted June 2, 2005 Share Posted June 2, 2005 30 glorious days 0 injuries 0 ladies 0 friends 0 health issues 12 movies 20 beers 2 nights in lucifer 2 nights in RCA ok... I am thinking of changing some zero's from this weekend... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bkkmadness Posted June 2, 2005 Share Posted June 2, 2005 (edited) 30 glorious days0 injuries 0 ladies 0 friends 0 health issues 12 movies 20 beers 2 nights in lucifer 2 nights in RCA ok... I am thinking of changing some zero's from this weekend... <{POST_SNAPBACK}> 30 days, no ladies, just 4 nights out and only 20 beers, are you a practicing monk? I'm Jealous by the way as I expect many here are, that first time in Thailand is treasured memories for most. Ok, 5 yrs here now, many highs and lows, friend died early this year so that was a definate low, but got a new business starting soon so hope that'll be a high, gotta look forward in life. First trip to Thailand count for the lows? coz it ended with an medical operation on the one place where men definately don't need one. Edited June 2, 2005 by bkkmadness Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kayo Posted June 2, 2005 Share Posted June 2, 2005 3 years, 1 1/2 on Koh Chang, 1/2 BKK 1 Kanchanburi. Hi Points: Running A Beach Resort, Discovering my copious tolerance for alcohol, falling in Love with a TG. Low Points: Losing the Beach Resort, Discovering my copious tolerance has limits, Falling in Love with a TG: Beautiful Country... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tornado Posted June 3, 2005 Author Share Posted June 3, 2005 3 years, 1 1/2 on Koh Chang, 1/2 BKK 1 Kanchanburi. Hi Points: Running A Beach Resort, Discovering my copious tolerance for alcohol, falling in Love with a TG. Low Points: Losing the Beach Resort, Discovering my copious tolerance has limits, Falling in Love with a TG: Beautiful Country... <{POST_SNAPBACK}> you have won a tshirt, please pm the doc to claim your prize. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markuk Posted June 3, 2005 Share Posted June 3, 2005 Not long enough Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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