Electric

[concerned]

I have wondered for some time now, what dizzying depths of moronic stupidity and blinding incompetence you have to reach before you lose your job as the head of the electricity department in Samui!

The enormous loss in revenue to the government alone, would surely be more than enough to justify sending a team on a course somewhere that would teach them that rainfall/claps of thunder/flashes of lightning does not mean all the lights have to go out!

It doesn't in other places in the World, and they get enough practice at it here for goodness sake!

The cost to people of damaged electrical goods, food in fridges, accidents etc etc. would be enormous if it could be quantified.

For God's sake educate yourselves!

[Boater]

cheap transformers !

[screamingeagle]

All hardware is substandard as there is so much corruption. TIT, I'm afraid.

[smokie36]

Snap Crackle Pop on Samui. OP buy some candles and dig out the guitar.....welcome to the good old days!

[PoorSucker]

Put in new transformers and sell the totally functional ones to Burma.

Big money in that.

[H2oDunc]

The mind boggles !

Try having a drive around the island sometime and take a good look at the infrastructure. No amount of education nor any amount of courses are going to rectify it. You sound like some diversity and community cohesion advisor back in the UK who thinks sending people on a course will solve everything. IT DOESN"T

As for the other bits in all the time I have been here I have never lost anything in the fridge or freezer due to the lack of power nor had any accidents due to the strategic placing of several rechargeable torches around the house for just this emergency. This is something you need to get used to if you are going to live here in Thailand, especially Samui. It is just the price you pay to live in a beautiful, tropical island. The same goes for the internet as well. Sometimes its good other times it is lousy. Mai Pen Rai as they say.

[concerned]

The mind boggles !

Try having a drive around the island sometime and take a good look at the infrastructure. No amount of education nor any amount of courses are going to rectify it. You sound like some diversity and community cohesion advisor back in the UK who thinks sending people on a course will solve everything. IT DOESN"T

As for the other bits in all the time I have been here I have never lost anything in the fridge or freezer due to the lack of power nor had any accidents due to the strategic placing of several rechargeable torches around the house for just this emergency. This is something you need to get used to if you are going to live here in Thailand, especially Samui. It is just the price you pay to live in a beautiful, tropical island. The same goes for the internet as well. Sometimes its good other times it is lousy. Mai Pen Rai as they say.

Thanks for the lecture Mr H20 Dunc.

It would indeed seem that your mind is indeed boggled.

You should try understanding a post as well as reading it.

You may be interested to learn that education can indeed do a great deal to help people deal with problems they are faced with.

I would have thought as a Dive Master you educate your students about the equipment you send them out with and because it's your job you know it well yourself.

In the same way someone in the electricity dept. needs to learn more about the equipment they have to deal with. The electricity does not need to go out every time it rains.

Huge revenue is lost to the govt. every time the lights go out. This money would be much better spent on better equipment that does not play up all the time. It's not rocket science.

By the way, (not that I want to get into the normal expat p------ing contest about whose been here longest) when after 26 years, I need a lecture from you about the price to pay "to live in a beautiful tropical island" I'll ask for it. Thanks.

Not once in all the time I have lived here have I failed to pay or been late in paying an electricity bill but by the same token neither have I ever ceased to get irritated trying to sleep in a sweltering room because the aircon or fans gone off because someone in that department is'nt doing their job properly.

Again, thanks for your lecture Dunc. No doubt you will be just as grateful for mine.

[H2oDunc]

No lecture from me though I'm not the one whinging and whining . having the best education in the world isn't going to fix the totally fcuked infrastructure. If you have been here for so long and you still haven't got it yet then you never will .

Oh and its years since I was a Divemaster though what that has to do with your whining on about the electric here beats me. try getting out more

[BigC]

No lecture from me though I'm not the one whinging and whining . having the best education in the world isn't going to fix the totally fcuked infrastructure. If you have been here for so long and you still haven't got it yet then you never will .

Oh and its years since I was a Divemaster though what that has to do with your whining on about the electric here beats me. try getting out more

yep u r right. either live with it or live without it. The infastructer is not going to change and all the whinning in the world will not fix it. so it is either put up or shut up. sorry if that affends u but samui is what it is.

Sounds like u r venting through fustration. i can understand. The electric round Thailand is better in some places but u have to remember that samui just was not ready for this rapid grouth that happened over the past 10 years.

Other islands have learnt from samui and on the mainland like in Khanom they have a really nice electric station.

Here there is just too much to fix and with so many people here it would be hard to fix it without hindering every person on this island for months.

Bascially all the electric would have to be torn down and re-done.

i get proper pssed also but there is nothing i can do but learn to adapt. also they seem to have built a new electric station in Manam that hasn't been open yet. this might be interesting if i am right. what would be even more interesting is if it is a new electric station then will it help.

Anyway i have seen what happens if they turn the power on when there is a storm and well. basically a transformer sstarted to leak oil. then the electric went out.

Then for some reason the electric turn back on. the electric egnighted the oil. then the transformer blow up. they had to close the whole road and noone had electric for about 50 units till the gov. replaced the transformer.

[concerned]

No lecture from me though I'm not the one whinging and whining . having the best education in the world isn't going to fix the totally fcuked infrastructure. If you have been here for so long and you still haven't got it yet then you never will .

Oh and its years since I was a Divemaster though what that has to do with your whining on about the electric here beats me. try getting out more

Absolutely delighted to see you enjoyed my lecture as much as I enjoyed yours.

As it's you that does'nt seem to be "getting it" rather than me I think I'll leave this one alone until I can find something else to whine about.

Mmmmm ! Maybe about people who don't get it. I really must get out more as you say.

Oh! Sorry I've been so long in replying, I've been out!

Good evening.

[BigC]

No lecture from me though I'm not the one whinging and whining . having the best education in the world isn't going to fix the totally fcuked infrastructure. If you have been here for so long and you still haven't got it yet then you never will .

Oh and its years since I was a Divemaster though what that has to do with your whining on about the electric here beats me. try getting out more

Absolutely delighted to see you enjoyed my lecture as much as I enjoyed yours.

As it's you that does'nt seem to be "getting it" rather than me I think I'll leave this one alone until I can find something else to whine about.

Mmmmm ! Maybe about people who don't get it. I really must get out more as you say.

Oh! Sorry I've been so long in replying, I've been out!

Good evening.

good evening. anyway i reckon that it is other dark forces that are uncomprehendable. This is not human errors.

u think we are alone in the world. u must be ni-eve.

This planet is full of illegal aliens up to illegal activity.

So good night and let the force be with you.

I am going to chaweng to a bar to get ubducted.

.........BEAM.............. :jap:

[concerned]

No lecture from me though I'm not the one whinging and whining . having the best education in the world isn't going to fix the totally fcuked infrastructure. If you have been here for so long and you still haven't got it yet then you never will .

Oh and its years since I was a Divemaster though what that has to do with your whining on about the electric here beats me. try getting out more

Absolutely delighted to see you enjoyed my lecture as much as I enjoyed yours.

As it's you that does'nt seem to be "getting it" rather than me I think I'll leave this one alone until I can find something else to whine about.

Mmmmm ! Maybe about people who don't get it. I really must get out more as you say.

Oh! Sorry I've been so long in replying, I've been out!

Good evening.

good evening. anyway i reckon that it is other dark forces that are uncomprehendable. This is not human errors.

u think we are alone in the world. u must be ni-eve.

This planet is full of illegal aliens up to illegal activity.

So good night and let the force be with you.

I am going to chaweng to a bar to get ubducted.

.........BEAM.............. :jap:

No! Big C! Don't get abducted we love you too much to see you disappear mate. Have a good night but tell them they can't take you.

[gerazsolt]

If you have a look in the Samui Gazette they have the top article about this why delaying the Maenam Electric Station which costs around 200m Baht now waiting for the cables which somehow years ago not approved...

The system probably will improves after then...

The question is why they dont make the cables together with the electric station, its same like u have an electric car but you dont have electricity to fill up the batteries....

[MSingh]

If you have a look in the Samui Gazette they have the top article about this why delaying the Maenam Electric Station which costs around 200m Baht now waiting for the cables which somehow years ago not approved...

The system probably will improves after then...

The question is why they dont make the cables together with the electric station, its same like u have an electric car but you dont have electricity to fill up the batteries....

Because,......

1 ) They are not smart enough to do that..

Or...

2 ) Someone didn't get the " golden handshake " for doing it.

There are no other answers possible in this place.

[bahji]

The mind boggles !

Try having a drive around the island sometime and take a good look at the infrastructure. No amount of education nor any amount of courses are going to rectify it. You sound like some diversity and community cohesion advisor back in the UK who thinks sending people on a course will solve everything. IT DOESN"T

As for the other bits in all the time I have been here I have never lost anything in the fridge or freezer due to the lack of power nor had any accidents due to the strategic placing of several rechargeable torches around the house for just this emergency. This is something you need to get used to if you are going to live here in Thailand, especially Samui. It is just the price you pay to live in a beautiful, tropical island. The same goes for the internet as well. Sometimes its good other times it is lousy. Mai Pen Rai as they say.

wow good for you. you are so lucky.

[gerazsolt]

I dont want to use rude words but i wish the worst nightmare for the person or group responsible for the electric outages in Bophut......

Its now getting very embarrassing last night again for many hours no electric, i really wanna call someone and send them to the hel_l.....

[gerazsolt]

I dont want to use rude words but i wish the worst nightmare for the person or group responsible for the electric outages in Bophut......

Its now getting very embarrassing last night again for many hours no electric, i really wanna call someone and send them to the hel_l.....

PS: Probably they sleep very well in Nathong and when they go working in the morning they have no idea the whole night no electric in Bophut.... Useless morons!

PS2: Still no cable TV as WELLLL!!!

[gerazsolt]

Ok, i called now 1129 which is their number of course u cant call them nighttime because nobody picks up the phone but when i tell the operator whats going on here at the end of the world she told me will report to the technician.

Which means nothing will happened again, at least if we write a petition and with the backing of local medias try to cover the story.

I really dont understand how on earth good for them if they loose many million everytime when this outage occurs beause thousands of households are affected and not talking about the hotels, resorts, supercenters have to spend money on gasoline to power their generators.

Im a patient and easy going person and wouldnt be angry if this thing happened rarely but now its happening by a weekly basis everytime when have some wind or rain the electricity shutting down for several hours.

PS: Of course if u late 3 day with ur bill they come and cut off ur electric, but if they 4y ago every week dont give u electric for hours thats fine. Really not fair........ Right now we have a big thounderstorm again and just fingers crossing i can working today or not.... And we are in the monsoon season, welcome to samui, the best of the best...

[BigC]

yep power cut season is coming. with rain season. time to get some mostequto mesh and let the wind blow me to sleep That and my bird.

Power cuts. I just life with them

If at night i need to buy misquito mesh so i can open windows.

if during the day. then i i go shopping. or go out and eat or something