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On 8/26/2020 at 10:42 AM, Stickman said:

Just to be clear, I did not take those photos. They were taken by probably the best Western glamour photographer in Thailand (he does work for Playboy, calendars etc.)

For sure, too many tattoos for me too....but hey, that's pretty much how things are in the bars these days, right?

Any tatoo turns a girl into an electricity supply pole.

Was it you or me who said that 9 years of mandatory education (2003)  in Thai (before it was 6 years) have changed the supply of uneducated farm girls for the bar industry?

What you are picturing now, are the girls that not even tuk-tuk drivers would piss on them.

Hello die hards still on this board. My daughter (16) Thai mother, we live in Japan. Her own Fender Jazz Bass.

She is educated in music, piano, has it at home. Plays anything by notes.

Look at this clip. She is not even nodding to the sound she is producing. The bass sound was eliminated from the track. She just goes by the notes, the 3 stands in front of her.

Luk Kreung. A beauty when the mask is removed.

Let alone karate black belt and 120 meals she can cook. And a champion in maths and science at her international school.

(I am a local hire, nobody sent me to Japan, we pay it all).

On 12/8/2019 at 2:03 AM, BelgianBoy said:

wow memory lane......

now 2 years + in HH and still love it

Not a wonder to love Hua Hin. A fantastic place.

Have they finished that road from BKK  to Hua Hin? It was hours of traffic jams. For years like that.

Maintenance fees: 20,000THB a year for a great swimming pool, tropical garden, jogging track. Lifts, cleaning of common property (I think 20 cleaners a day), security 3 x 8 officers in uniforms, video surveliance.

Many condos, that is why it is not expensive per individual condo.

On 9/26/2019 at 1:49 PM, bust said:

I haven't really been following the property scene in LOS for some time. What I want to confirm is a couple of things.

1. Can farang still purchase condo solely in their name?

Yes, I did exactly that in 2008.

2. Can a condo be purchased outright and if so what if any are the advantages apart from the obvious of zero mortgage.

Yes, outright, from the developer. They do all the paperwork.

Advantages:

Your own home, decorated as you wish and always there. My house papers have my daughter in it, so the condo is hers when I go away.

Cons:
If the place turns into a slum, you have no way out. Mine is as good as on day 1 and even getting better.

3. Are then any conditions on buying and not occupying?

There is an agency that caters solely for sales and rentals within the complex (1,320 condos) so I guess it is not a problem.

4. Can acquisition funds come from offshore or is a Thai Financial institution required?

Must come from outside. The vendor gives you a proof and opening of the account just for that transaction. The funds must come from overseas in a convertible currency. To the vendor, it is always cash, whether your own or via a bank loan, even if it is a Thai bank, say, in Singapore.

If your question is whether you can send the funds without a middle man (a bank or other financial institution), not sure. Someone would have to handle that kind of money, not like sending privately to some account.

5. Best way to avoid paying an inflated farang price.

Buy where Thais buy. Bang Na for example. There you have everything, all the stores and restaurants and shopping malls. Many good places like that.

Parking:

The complex has introduced stickers, gives only 1 sticker per purchasing contracts. Everyone have parking space, although not on title but where you find the space. Without that sticker, cars towed away 500THB fine.

Thaksin, himself, was sent out with "Here is some money, run". After confiscating the great deal of his wealth (2.6 bil USD), they let him out with 800 million USD.

Why would the junta risk yet another scandal, they simply want all of them out. Hence such a convenient and quick acceptance of guilt by their own ranks.

Nobody goes to jail and everything to the tune.The government can display a disgraced high rank commissioner but what they wanted was - as many of Thaksin family members out of the country. And no country in the world today expels their own citizens.

Good move BB, hope that deserved retirement years will feel nicer in the tropes.

We go to Hua Hin every year, we were there 1st week of August 2017.

We are all in Japan, permanent residents, can get Japan passports if we wished to. Our daughter (now 13) might do that when out of age.

Amazing, what humiliations you are going through.

My family, wife and daughter, Thai nationals and myself (Australian passport) got permanent residency in Japan without anything other than submitting tax pay,

I don't know what you think, could be a no-no to talk, but Stick's parting shot was at Thaivisa.

Well said, I think he could have said more, he knows more.

You think I should? Not with us, go away.

Which is similar to what the islamists have in their repertoire.

It is hard to say anything worthwhile as others bring junk from the net, the very sources that have made this fiasco possible.

The morons, who know nothing to do, spread sensations. That is probably why they work in media.

They get cited here, as some authorithy. Idiots.

But, who is listening to anyone? Makes me feel ashamed for working for an US company.

Too hard?

What is looming is an economic equivalent of America self-detonating it's entire nuclear potential and wrecking the planet.

And for what? For not passing the budget not because of a disagreement about it's contents but for re-fighting entirely different battle - the law on health insurance.

Stock price rises 1400% in one day.

 

How stupid (or smart) are some of these investors?

 

It's a generic, a primal stupidity from cave ages that has always lived under the veener of civilisation.

That's what Twitter, Facebook and Google thrive on while making nothing, no products. Like mob in Roman arena.

For example, take an expensive movie, like Titanic, which was a commercial success. Imagine it caught in Twitter/Facebook/Google storm where initial opinion by some anonymous and unqualified moron got viral. It could easily crash it.

Let's wait for October 17th. Seems like America is teaching the World the last lesson she knows. How to bankrupt as a state. And annule their savings.

2001: They crashed the world. A caricature would be that Warner Brothers bought AOL for stunning 164 billion dollars.

2008: Lehman Brothers and all the collapse that followed.

2013: another crash, of the world's savings.

Every 4-5 years US causes a world class problem instead of providing a stability.

How could anyone say that Putin was wrong when he said "America is a parasite".

The privilege to hold and control world's reserves is being abused, by America. Now, we are facing yet another chrisis, by the same bully.

The catastrophy US is preparing to themselves and to the rest of the World can be summarized like this:

You have your life savings in an US banks (as China, Japan, Russia, all countries hold US Fed bonds).

Then, US declares you have no your savings any more. Zero.

Big stake holders are not saying much for now, just "Please, fix it".

If it is not fixed, that would turn the Planet upside down. And would mark the demise of the US for ever. Would enter textbooks in half of the human race, those at Tianmen Square in 1989. would be scorned as fools. "That's what they wanted, our country to be as debilitating as the US is now?".

Since 2000. in Thailand I have never ever exchanged any cash at banks or exchange booths. Not in any other country, same.

I wonder who carries cash (other than Japanese)?

ATM cards work, credit cards too.

Just imagine this US impasse situation in Thailand. For how long would the generals be the fence seaters?

Flasher, you would remember the pictures and videos of Bill Clinton being a "friend" with Boris Yeltsin? Bear hugs, smiles, handshakes.

That guy (Yeltsin) would not have earned a minute of Clinton's time had he not held a masssive nuclear potential that could go elsewhere.

Same now: China and Russia are mild, knowing that US bankrupcy would wipe out all their reserves in US bonds.

Like going around a child who has acquired some dangerous toy, how to take it off him? The child does not know how serious it is.

Even if this is resolved, the credibility in economical, political and life-style image of the US has been eroded, perhaps, never to recover.

It's an Asian century. You and me won't see the end of it. To see it through, my daugthter would be almost a 100 years old woman in 2100. If we could only get her posts while down there.

It took time for someone who grew up upcountry in a house with no glass in windows and cement floor to understand windows need cleaning and floor vacuuming.

Now it's all wife's business, I touch nothing (although versatile, had lived alone for 6 years). It takes her 1-3 hours a day + cooking an dishes.

Could not believe my eyes what I have been reading here.

Intentionally bypassed this thread, just not to complain about America.

All my professional life has been and still is with American companies.

I am shocked, speechless, after what I saw here.

The song was written by Graham Gouldman who later went on to semi fame with 10CC

 

A slight claim to fame, Peter Noone the Lead Singer is my Mums brother, always just Uncle Pete to me.

No joking, that is great!

Too late for today (my daughter is asleep (10pm here), first day of school tomorrow) but she will be pleased to know that someone real knows the people involved in the song.

I'll surprise her in the morning. (I am already pleasantly surprised)

Thanks! What an unusual constellation.

My daughter's favourite one. 1967. Herman Hermits "No Milk Today"

(Sorry if the ads appear, not my shot)

Most of those massive apartments in Singapore have no kitchen. No way you can make food better or cheaper than food wendors at the ground floor.

House upcountry has no kitchen - they cook outside, in a shed, spending most of their day and socializing under the roof.

No closets: humidity I guess. Clothes hangers on a metal frame or metal bar.

I always wished to travel to North Korea as a tourist.

I have always wanted to travel to Cuba as a tourist.

I did travel to East Germany before the wall came down.

I have been to North Vietnam before the influx of tourism and US recognition.

 

I just like to view how Communism screws things up so badly.

 

It's bigger than that. A government propping up failed enterprises.

Think General Motors. Think all the Wall Street criminals and their banks that tax payers had to pay to keep them alive.

That is the Communism, unseen in self declared communist countries.

... But then the government relaxed and officials became just as corrupt as in the rest of SE Asia.

Singapore is SE Asia, does it fall into that "as in the rest of SE Asia"?