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    Learning about Thai ladies in marriage and culture

    By Anonymous, Created on: 23/08/2003, Last updated on: 21/10/2007

    » I would like to learn about the Thai lady in marriage and the Thai culture. The reason for this, is that after literally travelling the world for many years, during work commitments, and meeting along the way many ladies for serious relationships. I met along the way a lady from Thailand. We met many...

    • Anonymous commented : Jeff. It is appeared that you are involving with a poor and or rural family. I still owed my aunt a watch I promised her from last year. You see, my aunt is supporting five grandchildren and one also has AIDS. In the rural area, a good watch is the last few luxury items that you do not very need since it is like a jewelry. The rural Thai people learn how to tell time by using the sun and the moon. Most of them will go to sleep and wake-up like chickens depending on the sunlight. Well, Jeff. I am sure that he did not ask you to get him a Rolex. You can get a good battery operated watch for $10.00 at the drug store in USA. He did not test you, but traditional Thais are very generous and giving. As future son-in-law, you will need to learn what are their needs. It is often the simplest things in life that you as foreigner or urbanites are often over looked. If I were you, I would get him the old fashion geer operated watch since it is very expensive to get battery replacement in the rural area. My recommendation is that you should not get them anything expensive or un-reuseable gifts. When you visiting your-in-law, I would recommend to you to shop in the city before travelling to the rural area for household items and foods or buying them at the local market if there are available. I usually buy my cousins and others in rural area things like towels, underwears, condiments, dry foods, and etc.. If I visiting them for one week, I would buy enough foods and drinks for 2 weeks supply for everyone beside me. Please do not buy them cigarette or alcohol, social problems later. My uncle loved the solar, dynamo, and battery operated radio plus flashlight. They could take the radio out to the field with them and left it on all day. There are plenty of things that you can buy from Bangkok. Western style supermarkets and shopping center like Wal-Mart are everywhere as in other small cities. Remember, indigenous Thais are not greedy people, and sharing is very important thing in life. Oh, you should make sure to give B100.00 baht to each children in the family before you leave; it would be their saving money or candy money. The amount of money giving to older adults is often unnecessary, but it would depending on your generosity.

    • 27 replies, 16,641 views

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    Buying property in Thailand

    By Anonymous, Created on: 17/02/2006, Last updated on: 11/11/2011

    » Nothing much to say here is there, i think that IAN has told us all there is to know and believe me.......... .he's right.

    • villager commented : [quote="AmazedByThailand":1mgnk6od]I hate to digress from the topic of buying property but I like to point out to [i:1mgnk6od]Rooster [/i:1mgnk6od]that it is next to impossible to get a citizenship in Thailand. There is a process, but there are also a million other unwritten rules; I'm a cynic & I think it boils down to which powerful politician you know, or how many zeros you have in the bank account. [i:1mgnk6od]Rooster[/i:1mgnk6od], What are the annual statistics for just getting the Thai permanent residence - don't even start with citizenship.[/quote:1mgnk6od] Hey "Amazed", its always been by contention that there is only a cigarette paper thickness between a cynic and a realist as far as Thailand is concerned,you are obviously the latter.

    • 119 replies, 367,763 views

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    Meetin the parents

    By Anonymous, Created on: 19/05/2007, Last updated on: 13/10/2007

    » I meet a nice woman in Pateya 6 months ago and we have gotten very close, We were practacly inseperable the whole month I was there. I have been coresponding with her since. At first her English was very poor, but She been studying and improving. she is back home in a small town in Buriram province...

    • Anonymous commented : fes brothers in free beer and cigarettes , lend money to friends and family without a hope of getting it back , lend his pickup full and fuel and have it return 3 days later bone dry with the front end damaged ,of course expecting to be paid is pure dreamsville on the farangs behalf, finance her ex husband { sorry i meant her brother} keep his 2 kids and give them a good life and education and give your wifes parents a million baht dowry for the honor of doing so , i can assure you this is an everyday thing and not a one off , you are entitled to do what you want with your money same as i , but in my case i married my wife not an entourage of hangers on and parasites disguised as human beings , by the way my parents passed away when they was 83 and did NOT get shipped off the an old folks home , regards ,colin .

    • 38 replies, 15,547 views

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    Meeting a suitable girl

    By Anonymous, Created on: 15/09/2007, Last updated on: 27/12/2007

    » Anybody got any tips on the best way to meet a suitable Thai girl for marriage? I live in the Middle East.

    • Anonymous commented : husbands. If the girls abused cigarettes, drugs and alcohol, you can be sure that these girls will never be good wives or good mothers. These are tell-trail signs of bad dharma.

    • 19 replies, 9,259 views

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    The Value of a Tourist.

    By Sean Moran, Created on: 18/01/2009, Last updated on: 15/12/2010

    » What are some of the most common positive and negative results of foreign tourists from overseas visiting Thailand? Thai opinions welcome, kap.

    • brighteyes commented : People are being somewhat naive if they think Thailand would crumble overnight in the hypothetical situation of zero-tourism. Sure lots of people would lose their jobs, and the consequnces of such would take a bit of healing, but the country doesn't rely on tourism per se. The values of a tourist? I for one feel that it is a positive thing to interact with people from different cultures (for all their quirks and unseemly behaviour) and this is an innate curiosity which is clearly evident in Thailand, especially among younger citizens. Tourism allows for this, and allows for a feeling that one may not be completely isolated in an internationalised, or globalised, larger world, especially if one can't afford to travel abroad. This may be called educational. A tourist brings, however stingy or liberal - money. Money is a good thing apparently. I'm sure that tourists bring (or don't bring) other values too - louder bermuda shirts than thai politicians and no shoulder pads; no shell suits. a young whippersnapper of sixty-five donning the heart attack look while drinking a heiny and puffing on a cigarette (both bought from a pharmacy) at 9 a.m. before Sunday Mass (consumption), and all the nice people who just smile and enjoy themselves while causing nobody any harm, which is most tourists. It'd be good if there was less bullshit in Thai politics than there is, would be good if people (especially Thais) could chill out about the Messiah, and it would be good if foreigners (the minority) made less of an ass of themselves in Thailand and got shot of their condescending and bigoted views. Then maybe the opinion of both tourist and host may improve.

    • 85 replies, 111,416 views

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    An interesting journey and revealing facts.

    By Ian, Created on: 05/06/2009, Last updated on: 05/06/2009

    » Yesterday I flew back to England, it gave me an interesting insight into the changes affecting Thailand and the world in general. I had been booked to fly back by Gulf Air but two day before my flight I received an urgent email from my booking agent, "contact the Gulf Bangkok office there has...

    • Sean Moran commented : It's actually really good to see that you made the flight so transparently, and so tell me about the swine-flu detectors at Heathrow at 00:00 GMT tomorrow morning. I'm too drunk to remember all that daylight stupid timing right now but it seems that your weekend has just begun, at 09:35 am on a Friday. . ---o0o--- [quote="Ian":3q1qw1ep] Regarding smoking rooms, you don't really need to light up in order to get your nicotine ration.[/quote:3q1qw1ep] No Ian. Not quite, but I know you understand what I mean. It is not about nicotine at all. It is about Humphrey frigging Bogart! Thailand is a very special place to me, just like this land of Australia when I get out of the city. Whenever I have the bad fortune to have to leave Thai soil to return to the place what brung me there I deserve the right to enjoy one last bia Chang and one last cigarette because Thailand is my Kathryn Hepburn even though I don't have a gf. Just gimmie one last friggin CIGARETTE in peace before I have to risk my life and get on that plane. This is not Garuda Airlines!

    • 4 replies, 9,247 views

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    How To Approach Immigration to Highlight Problems?

    By marshbags, Created on: 05/06/2009, Last updated on: 15/07/2010

    » Taking the fact that there is supposed to be a new friendlier approach in place for visitors and visa applicants. Many of us have and are still getting unfriendly officers who in some cases are blatantly hostile towards applicants. With no apparent come back, even after repetative reporting via...

    • johnsmith commented : some money for food and some cigarettes. I learned from John Player that shortly after I left the IDC unit the Swiss man was badly beaten up in his cell by ten members of The Royal Thai Police. This would have been about end of January/early February 2010. The Siwss man may still be imprisoned in the IDC unit Suan Plu Bangkok. Further a pregant lady who was brought into the IDC while I was there, heavily pregnant at the time, was forced to give birth to a child in a crowded cell of the IDC unit because the Royal Thai Police would not transfer her to a hosiptal and did not provide a qualified mid-wife. This was around end of January 2010/early February 2010.

    • 5 replies, 13,984 views

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    Brunch, Andrew Biggs, Published on 23/05/2010

    » Back in 1989 I was a journalist working for a daily newspaper in Australia, and one of the very last assignments I had before embarking on my trip to Thailand was one of the toughest. Through a few contacts, and my reputation for being a fair journalist (this was a long time ago, remember), I interviewed a group of paedophiles who met once a week in an anonymous suburban house.

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    Pay as they grow

    Database, Published on 16/06/2010

    » The US yuppiephone network AT&T used to have a plan that provided all the data you could eat at one price; on the day that Steve "President For Life" Jobs unveiled the incredibly wonderful version four of the Apple iPhone, AT&T did away with the unlimited wireless data plan, and put subscribers on pay-as-you-go - cheaper to join, but of course more expensive if you want to stay connected.

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    Weekly ‘Sanook’ column

    By modsquad, Created on: 08/11/2010, Last updated on: 08/11/2010

    » Andrew Biggs writes the weekly ‘Sanook’( roughly translated sanook means fun ) column which appears in the Sunday Brunch section. A fluent Thai speaker and long time resident, his columns explore the sometimes humorous and subtle traits of the Thai people. Forum readers might enjoy re-visiting...

    • 0 replies, 103,096 views

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