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    About Face.

    By Sean Moran, Created on: 14/10/2008, Last updated on: 13/04/2014

    » One olde axiom that comes to mind is, '[i:3b539sim]If you can't say something nice, then keep your mouth s.h.u.t.[/i:3b539sim]' Just a thread that pertains to one of the cultural differences one might notice in venturing from a typical 'westernised' society of the assertive kind to the shores of...

    • HybridEm commented : theory, but Lord bless their souls for trying. On a lighter note, it makes me happy to hear delightful stories from you (it drags me down when people have bad experiences and lash out, but to each his/ her own) As devils advocate, sometimes I think if Thais weren't so concerned with the instant gratification of 'saving face', they might consider long-term goals where one must rise from the ashes before making a positive impact (especially for one's country). Or maybe corruption simply makes the world go round? The grass is greener on the other side? haha, what a mad, mad world.

    • 61 replies, 76,687 views

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    Am I being careful or unfair ?

    By Anonymous, Created on: 12/01/2008, Last updated on: 29/01/2008

    » Hi to all, Over the past few years I have read many of the posts offering excellent and sensible advice. This was without realising one day I may appreciate advice myself. I will be entirely honest in the details that follow. I agree with a previous respected poster who talked of 'moulding'...

    • Anonymous commented : to me like you are doing some soul searching , but believe me right is on your side , the dowery is a joke and you should say so , i would just give her a simple ultimatum , NO DOWERY, them or you , i,ve seen it so many times when threats are issued that they are going to leave , were too ,? back to the bar? get a grip!!, i suppose you have read my views on this subject , cos i,ve written plenty, once you cave in to there demands , you might as well go for a walk blind folded on the freeway in bkk, , of course i,m well aware that thai ladys are in extremely short supply and you may take years to replace her, lololol , in closing remember you hold all the aces, so don,t throw away a winning hand , colin .

    • 44 replies, 18,755 views

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    advice for a naive women

    By Anonymous, Created on: 16/12/2007, Last updated on: 03/01/2008

    » Hi, Can anyone help me or give me some advice please. Just recently my mother–in-law has visited her brother-in-law in Pattaya, and met a Thai man. The thing is she has just lost her husband of 30 years 4 months ago. She told us that she really likes him as he made her feel really special,...

    • Anonymous commented : y, abortion has destroyed the souls of these girls and women. In Buddism, our birthdays starting at the moment of conceptions when the sperm met the ovum.

    • 30 replies, 13,553 views

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    Thai Marriage Laws

    By Anonymous, Created on: 18/05/2007, Last updated on: 11/08/2010

    » I am trying to understand why Westerners living and married to Thai nationals are denied permanent residency status once they are legally married in the kingdom. In the west a Thai national receives residency once they are officially married to a western citizen. Procedures are followed and intensive...

    • sundayjam commented : in the USA, Kamehameha. It's soul purpose is to provide the best education for all native Hawaiian children. Consequently, native Hawaiians are both economically and politically powerful.

    • 68 replies, 108,200 views

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    how do i live in thailand?

    By Anonymous, Created on: 03/06/2007, Last updated on: 17/12/2007

    » ok so i'm a 24 years old white british guy and i'm going to marry my thai girlfriend here in bangkok. I've now been living here in Thailand since January 2007 on a non-immigrant muti entry visa. However once we get married what will i have to do next to be able to live here? will...

    • Anonymous commented : scary as I am an unedurcated soul) and ready for AD to take the piss out of me. I use to be a cleaner too. Anyway, I too have a buetiful Thai wife. from a middle class family. Whos family has never asked anything from me. Gave the money back to me after we got married so we could by a house. Her extended family payed for her education buy selling noodles and pork before I met her and we are really happy together in her country. BUT!!! We were walking down the street the other day when a farang girl behind me said " Look at that guy and his prositute". This made my wife sad. We went to the beach. sat down on the mats to injoy or holiday together only to be steerd at and feel abit uncoftable by little wispers and steers. Of a white guy with a Thai girl. Thailand is a buetiful country full of buitiful poeple but you know what the world thinks of thai girls. Is sad yer. And why is this??? I know more thai, farrang marraiges that have worked than failed. but then I never suronded myself with old farrang and dirty sluts. lol. Bring it on. AD. Too funny. I'm not rich. just live my life best I can. I don't look down on bar girl but I do feel sorry for the thai poeple who work hard to live but have a country famous for old farts and dirty bargirls. WHo at the end of the day could look after there own kids and live a okay life selling noodles but really wont that new cell phone and von duch hand bag. Poor Thailand. I think you have lived in the country for to long AD.Open your eye's to the world. Lots of love. Old fart. Ps. I love Thai.

    • 42 replies, 18,870 views

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    Changes and Effects of Foreign Business Act

    By Anonymous, Created on: 10/02/2007, Last updated on: 27/01/2015

    » The purpose of this act since 1970s, is though no one clarify openly, to protect local industry against the foreign market invasion. Therefore FBA is in fact Domestic Industry Protection Act. Since 1990s of open door policy, Thailand had promoted vigorously FDI - foreign direct investment of almost...

    • Anonymous commented : ships and generally miserable souls that 95% of the population think are lucky. Im a 5% of 10% ers, and I reckon that if Im going to be an ageing miserable bugger, Im going to do it where the sun shines everyday, the beaches are beautiful, and the fishing is just divine. The fear of losing money isnt a reason to live a little. Money comes and it goes. Bit off track now, but thanks Harry for the enlighting tale about a sheep who lost his shepard. Thankyou kindly passerby, the info you have provided is invaluable. Im excited by the country and the opportunities that lie there.

    • 18 replies, 93,164 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.

    • Anonymous commented : ned VOA. How those poor soul farangs going to do ?

    • 119 replies, 367,763 views

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    getting engaged

    By Anonymous, Created on: 12/01/2006, Last updated on: 08/05/2006

    » Hi All I have been dating my Thai girlfriend for some time now and i return to thailand in feb 06, I have asked her to return to england with me and spend some time to see how see likes it. I would like to get engaged with her and then once she has spent some time with me in uk, i will ask her...

    • Anonymous commented : Hi All, I have spent many hours reading various post's on the forums, I need some advise prior to getting legal assistance. I met a 18 year old Thai-Chinese girl in Bkk in Aug 2005 and must say she is very mature for her age and above normal intelligence. Her family are or were middle class and have thier own business and live in Bang Na with most of the relatives in near by soi's (area). She was living at the time with what I found out later to be her sugar daddy from early 18 late 17 yrs old and her parents allowed it as they were told he was her friends dad from high school and was paying for her university fees, as a 'Good Citizen'!!! I am very street wise and travelled world wide and have lived part time in various countrys in Asia along with Thailand for over 5 yrs. Cut a long story short after many months of chat on internet and phone she confessed to all I had basically had worked out from day one and being upfront as I am 'I asked her many questions from day one as it did not seem normal to me and felt like something was not as she stated. She confessed to the fact that 'YES' he was her sugar daddy so to speak and that he had found her through her birth date when she was at high school due to him being involved in a spiritual sect in Bkk known as TANTRA. She asked me to help her escape!!! I asked what she was meaning by escape and from who and from where? She told me she only went to him after her step dad's business went down and her family financially were not able to pay for her university and all she wanted was to finish university for her family with out giving them any finacnial problems along with what they were experiencing. Too cut the story even shorter I stoped all I was doing in Australia and caught the next plane to Bkk the next day, this was after about 3 months (Oct 2005) of chat on internet and telephone. She said to me when I arrived if we can go some were in Thailand and wait till she is 20 yrs old to get a passport legally with out her parents knowing cuase she had not a good relationship with her mum. I said this is not a positive way for a future friendship to develop between us and will not create a strong foundation for our relationship if we have one in the future, so I asked to meet her parents. Her mum and one aunty and her auntys husband came to dinner they accepted me as her boyfriend, I said I will like to try and build a relationship with her and pay for her univeristy and living while she studies. Her mum asked her to be good to me and that was that!!! So I got her an apartment, etc, etc. and returned to Australia, every 3-4 weeks I went to Bkk, I have been returning since October 2005. We chat daily via sms, internet and telephone. She knows I have a business in Australia, but accepted the fact that I am NOT STUPID AND KNOW THE LAWS OF THE STREET. The apartment costs 5,500bht a mth in On Nut and she has a budget to live on that is better than the avaerage salary of 8,000bht a mth in Thailand, so basicaly I did not spiol her nore have I been a cheap charly, I said to her lets go step by step and 'WHAT DO U NEED? As oppossed to how much money do You want? I am very straight forward and honest and some say (her mum & other family members) I am over confident, basicaly I know who I am and express it as I do not believe in FEAR!!! I live the life I love and believe I recieve blessings from above.... I am polite but honest.... On 30 Dec 2005 she asked me if I would like to meet the rest of her family and stay at her grandmothers home in the country 2 hrs drive from Bkk for NYE (1 Jan 2006) and said she has never taken any boy to meet her family ever in the past. I said why not I have had enough party's in my life in many countrys on NYE. So I found myself being driven to her grandmothers house via her auntys and uncles mobile phone store different aunty and uncle from the ones I met months earlier and slept next to her and her grand mother for NYE on the floor!!! I felt touched what can I say....It was pleasant. Since that time I asked her if she wanted to come visit my country being Australia and meet my friends and family and see my lifestyle. She wanted to so much it caused big trouble in her family as her mum would Not get her a passport and in Thailand the law is 20 yrs to get passport legally with out parents permission. So, I asked what next, she replied (knowing that I have never been married or even engaged and that I never planned to marry in this life time) can we please get married just for my parents, she had stated when I first met her that she never wants to marry or have children, which suited me as I have felt the same all my life. I am 36 yrs old now and she is 19 yrs old now, I was 35 when I met her... I am a very young, fit and cool 35 yrs old, 'so I am told'... lol After meeting her mum again and step dad as she grew up with a step dad her real dad did the runner on her mum when she was pregnant to this gal I am writitng about. They accepted me to marry her and asked when? it was decided Sept 2006 and they said one of thier cousins married a english man and he paid 500,000bht and gold to parents as the 'Dowry' (Sin sod or Khan Maak). I said ok can she come to Australia 1st to meet my family and see my country to determine if she wants to live thier and if she likes it so we can plan our future together in a mature and logical way with out pressure and time frames. They said 'NO' marry 1st, and then said have a quik wedding and you can take her. I felt like I was being sold a human being and backed off and told her in front of her parents and one Thai-indian friend I asked to acompany me to this lunch meeting - that I DONT BUY PEOPLE, its Illegal in my country and immoral & degrading according to the way I was raised. We have had many problems since that meeting with her parents. Since that time this young gal has tried to commit suicide, run away from her famliy and myself, she cutt off all communications with me and told me not to marry her as her family are what we had talked about regaing many Thai's and started to treat her as a ATM due to the fact that she had a farang boyfriend, she cheated on me with a other man. I felt It would be best if I hired an interpreting service here in Australia and talk direct to her mum via a Thai interpreter provided by my Govt. services, after that 1 and half hour chat with her mum on the phone that costed over $200AUD I caught a plane to Bkk 3 weeks ago and found her, we spent Sokran festival together on 2 of the Islands after having dinner with her parents and brother and they gave permission...lol...Her step dad said he respects me for bringing her back home after she had left to go live with that Sugar daddy Cult...and that I am a good man he felt... We went away together and spoke in detail about all the events that took place over the past 8 months. I am now back in Australia, and I am a little confussed but feel like I know whats going on. Can anyone tell me what they think of the above even though its in brief and I have cut a long story very short.... I would also like to know if anyone can tell me how much a 'Dowry' is normaly paid to the family? (Amount & Gold) Do legal agreements legaly cover my assets in Thailand? She has said she will sign any legal document from my legal advisers regarding the protection of my assets in Australia... Does a legal registered marriage in Thailand protect the Farang? Or does it differ from a Thai to Thai marriage? She has stated she loves me, and will be loyal as its the Thai culture way and she has been a good person to me over all, so I am split 50/50. No she is Not a Glamour, and not the type of girlfriend I have even dated in my life in any country, she is average looking, tiny/thin and short. But I must say I was and am attracted to her thinking pattern and level of intellect and do see potential as a real life friend/partner or what ever you wish to call it when 2 people have a meeting of the minds 'Soul-Mate? Thanks in advance... Thong Lo (my Thai nick name) lol

    • 13 replies, 8,567 views

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    Pre-Marital Sex. - Part I.

    By Anonymous, Created on: 18/06/2003, Last updated on: 26/04/2007

    » Hello Mr. Rooster ; I moved this discussion to this more appropriate thread. Mr. Rooster wrote : "People are like animals, and their sexual drives will involve some types of pre-marital sex. So prostitution will be there to provide needed service. " The sexual urge is indeed extraordinarily powerful,...

    • Anonymous commented : prevented if the person had a soul mate? It is natural for parents to want to protect their children from emotional pain, and therefore try to prevent them from bonding. But these are the results. "A recent survey in Britian indicated that when children are subjected to severe bullying, they are nearly seven times as likely to attempt suicide. The emotional pain that that these children suffer is real. A 13 year old boy who hanged himself left behind a note naming five people who had tormented him and had even extorted money from him. "Please save other children," he wrote." - Awake! October 22, 2001. Wow. How tragically sad for the boy, his parents, his friends and relatives, and all of us too. Not minimizing the obvious question of why our society is spawning bulleys, we can never know if this poor boy would have committed suicide if he had a soul mate to share his problems. Then the other question begging to be asked is would this bullying even have taken place if the five named bulleys had THEIR soul mates to hopefully provide a little stabilizing influence? We think we have all the answers while our society silently crumbles around us undetected. Cheers!!

    • 20 replies, 16,987 views

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