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It's called credit. Pretty much the same as anywhere else. Remember, Mercedes-Benz's largest market before the Economic Crisis was none other than Thailand.
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Going to Thailand? That's crazy.
Thaiwan, you mean? Thailand... where's that? What language do them crazy folks speak, anyway? Ah yeah, Bankok. Heard of that place.
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or how about the ~25 year-olds that you think are still teenagers who are actually ~25?
My partner and I always find ourselves in this situation. We are both nearly 25, yet both look young and both young and older people always tell us we look 16/17/18... I guess it's not as bad because we do look similar in age and have similar stature... and then these same people tell us we don't *act* the age we look... well I jolly well hope we don't! Maybe it's why they question us in the first place, because our looks and behaviour aren't consistent with their expectations.
I'll be laughing in 20 years' time
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Erin, thanks to you and your husband for showing compassion. Put up a poster in Villa Supermarket... heaps of people read the noticeboard in the Suk 33 Road store. Leisurely raises a good point - because it was going to cost around $6,000 back in 1997 to take our cat from Bangkok to Melbourne, plus not being able to see her for 6 months due to quarantine laws, my family decided to give her to the landlord. She adores his family, and they love her too. She's an old dame - about 14 years old now - and she started life as an unspayed soi cat.
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I can't speak for anyplace other than Southern California, where I technically come from.......
To make a long story VERY short, I was born in Indonesia, then returned to the USA at the age of 6 months, just to leave again to Saudi Arabia then Indonesia then Thailand then Philippines then Thailand, etc, etc, etc.
Those that have had this experience are called TCKs or Third Culture Kids by the professional head shrinking community. We are not like the rest of our peers.......
Mt extended family in California and Rhode Island don't know how to explain my sister and myself to other family members. My sister and I don't really care about keeping up the family airs either......
This TCK phenomenon is not a USA invention, it is actually European. They were attempting to understand why children brought up out of country were so different from the locals.
They found that despite the local social customs, TCK's were non racial, were able to marry outside their culture etc...... in other words were better International Citizens.
Face it...... your home country doesn't have a clue as to what your adopted country is all about.
Face it...... your friends from your home country are probably envious of your ability to adapt and have a productive life away from them...........
Be proud that you have adapted, that you feel all right in a foreign country, and understand that with education even some of your critics in your home country will be here in Thailand, given the opportunity.
From one TCK to another - thanks for your post. It's much appreciated. The TCK community is frequently described by non-TCK members of this forum as 'spoilt' (whatever this description is meant to imply), whereas the wider benefits of being a TCK is underappreciated due to a lack of exposure and misunderstanding.
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Getting to the waterfall cheap is a bit of a challenge ...
Heh, when I read that sentence, I thought you were talking about entry prices.
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That would be one hel_l of a long day... you really need at least three to four hours at the waterfall to make the trip there worthwhile as there's a lot of nothing in between getting there and going to the town, as well as there being a long walk between tier of the waterfall... but it's worth it, and don't be afraid of the lil fishies that come to suck your skin as you get into the water
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I thought that thongs are the plastic v things, while flip flops have the band across the foot. Jandals are NZ indeed... and y fronts are a particularly unfashionable style of underwear for men, usually an off white colour. I didn't know English people referred to g strings as thongs...
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I once saw a girl throw a tantrum in a shopping centre (on her back, crying and screaming), and her parents bought her an ice cream to shut her up!! I was really suprised.
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I left in mid 2003 but still return frequently to work for short periods (less than 2 months at at streactch) as I perform consultancy for my employers on Asian Projects out of our BKK office.
I have constant contact with expatriate families in our Thailand office and have recently let my UK home to an expat family who are returning from Thailand this summer to put their children back into the UK education system this autum.
I am speaking as a Parent with experience raising non Thai children in Thailand with the benefit of a full expatriate package. I speak read and write Thai and have a degree in Thai langauge and culture from a Thai university. My posts on this board testify to my understanding of living, working and raising a family in Thailand.
And I am speaking as a non-Thai child who spent adolescent years in Thailand. I speak Thai, I read Thai and write it too. Most of my friends were children of expat families and Thai families in my neighbourhood. I honestly think it is an excuse from these people you say you know who deliberately remove themselves and their children from Thailand for 'social, educational and personal development reasons' because they can't make the country work for them.
These parents you speak of who genuinely remove their children from international schools the calibre of ISB, Patana, Ruamrudee or NIST for these reasons sound quite insecure in their own ability to turn out their children properly. My cousins went to Charterhouse and Shiplake in England and they were worse than I was at school. Boarding does that to you
And I would rather sit for the IB than A levels... A levels used to be the golden standard but are pretty passé as they're a piece of cake these days. -
I don't know how long it has been since you have left Thailand, GuestHouse, but a lot of parents in the mid-90s didn't tend to return to their country of origin, but moved their children to boarding schools in the UK, Australia, NZ and US prior to GCSE/IB/A level/AP/SAT/HSC/etc courses beginning. These children were those who were homesick. I only know of one girl who moved back to England so that she could do A levels instead of the IB programme. Parents sent their children back to their home countries in the early 90s did so because of a lack of international schools offering all levels of high school education, not because the choice was there and Thailand wasn't a good enough place to bring their children up in.
Of course, since then a couple of schools have opened up in Bangkok that offer A levels. My year level at my school in Bangkok was only the third to do IGCSEs and the IB programme. Many parents took their children out of the school I went to in the two years higher than mine because their students were being guinea pigs while going through the courses, and more than a few parents didn't want that uncertainty of putting their child in a school where the results were unproven. The students in my year level stayed because the results that the previous students obtained at IGCSE and IB level were as good as and even above even those of top schools in their home countries. Moreover, international school society is very different to Thai school society. It's a mishmash of about 30 different cultures every year, and there's always something new to learn about something or someone.
Meanwhile, making a big change in the wake of a sudden emotional event is not a rational to do. If Gary is going to leave his kids to the forces of society without looking after them properly and being there for them as much as a parent is meant to be while he cruises around Phuket or Samui, then in Thailand or whichever country he chooses to do this in he can expect disaster.
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Well, I like all of those pics except the one of your dog taking a dump... I have a picture of my ma cleaning her dog's bum, but I think I will keep that one to myself
Interesting that when I clicked on the thread this time, I saw an ad for birds' nests at the top of the page! Ew. They look like prawn crackers:
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At least three of four hours. Maybe it's 'baked dinner'? As much as I hate that expression, Aussies like baked dinners more than once a week. I don't; I mainly eat pasta because that's what my mother made me when I was a young English nipper. Roasts were for Sundays only and yes, even then every Sunday we had together for the 5 years we spent in Thailand. You can't have a roast by yourself.
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'Indian food' is a British thing, derived from traditional Indian dishes.
Last time I checked, only Indian people in England made Indian food to sell. Indians from different regions of India will make different types of food, and since there's 28 states and 7 territories that make up India, there's quite a bit of room for variety. A lot of restaurants and take away places will adjust their offerings to appeal to local markets - and there are those that won't. Not everyone is good at cooking, so their food will suck anyway!
Anyway, Tandoori on Sukhumvit Soi 49 was authentic, last time I went there... and I love Rang Mahal too.
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Well covered in the Health and Body Forum, done a few times before...
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I went to sleep in a nightclub before midnight. I had 12 vodka oranges.
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Today's news? Try last month's, at least here in Sydney anyway... anyway, this is not Thailand related.
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good selection of clubs,different kind of music and also lots of cute selections lol
Guys or girls?
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It's only hot because we don't put ice cubes in it to disguise the fact it's too strong and have to water it down. Although saying that Ozzies produce pre-watered down beer anyway................it's called Fosters.
that's a low uncalled for blow.As you well know, Aussies don't touch the stuff.Pommies drink it by the barrow load though..
Yes, Aussies export that shit overseas. Americans also love Fosters. Do you think Bovril will be hitting the shelves in Thailand anytime soon?
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And you're teaching the richest, most spoiled kids of them all- white expat kids plus the richest Asians in Thailand.
Had a bad experience with us spoilt kids then? Or do you simply feel inadequate that a younger generation of people have the opportunity to receive a better secondary school education than yourself? And where are expat children supposed to go to school if not in the international system - to a Thai school? Would that make them less 'spoilt'?
And as I said, top tier schools do recruit locally as well as overseas. Goodheart is incorrect. the top tier international schools in Thailand are all 'for profit' entities. They are businesses, not charities and not part of a government funded education system and do not receive government funds.
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If in Pattaya forget it!....most girls there are not interest in learning, they are there because their bf/husband forces them to be there. That is quite a small target audience you are talking about. Why jump to such conclusions as to the types of students the OP is targeting and making a broad generalisation about them in the first place?
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One should use one's talents and ambition to sell goods and services which provide real, proven benefit and meet real needs and are not being sold simply for the sake of selling something.
Then all salespeople would be out of a job!
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You wouldn't say that if you could read silpa lae wattanatham - Art & Culture Magazine. The amount of explanation that this periodical has given me for things that I previously took for granted is amazing. You know how in the English language there's certain knowledge pertaining to each era we've gone through... the 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s... we may not have been there and we may not know someone who has, but we've read about it and somewhat understand it even though we weren't in on the action... so if someone refers to it, you still know what they are talking about... that to me is really being part of a culture.
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Point and grunt works quite well in most places.
But Just How Poor Is Thailand?
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Hum, I'd forgotten about the loan sharks. They are endemic in Sydney among the Viet community and these people get gangsters to bash up family members of the borrower when they fail to pay up. Because the Viet community is tight lipped about their business, it just goes on and on. Very dangerous.