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HashBrownHarry

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  1. 8 minutes ago, Cherrytreeview said:

    Speak to Harry, he seems to have bought lots of Thai property.

    Possibly in the top ten worst investments ever but Harry seems like putty in the hands of those pretty Thai real estate agents.

    No fool like an old fool and all that.

    I only have 2 properties ( in Thailand ), no agent was required to hold me hand.

     

    Both my properties are worth more than i paid.

     

    How much was your 18sqm show box? or are you one of the renters? - lol.

  2. 13 minutes ago, Cherrytreeview said:

    Think most people on this forum worked out long ago you couldn't care less about anyone but yourself.

    Correct.

     

    13 minutes ago, Cherrytreeview said:

    I know it takes a few attempts to explain things to you but here's a clue.

    "Test-Wait-Maybe-Go-Hospital"

    Do you understand?

    Seems everybody else does.

    Trust me, i understand more than most how it works and am very familiar with it, unlike you who apparently has no idea what you're on about.

  3. 1 hour ago, Cherrytreeview said:

    The Test-Wait-Maybe-Go-Hospital cheerleader is still at it.

    Good for you Harry.

    25,000 "tourists" projected to arrive in February to "no quarantine" Thailand.

    A drop in the ocean.

    Looks like people are not seeing things through your rose tinted delusional glasses.

    With the CCSA discussing increasing, yes increasing, restrictions for Valentines Day and Songkran, most normal people will be giving Thailand a wide berth.

    Meanwhile, the UK and the developed world are accepting covid as an endemic disease.

    No one's buying the "welcoming foreign tourist" scam anymore.

    With the changes in asymptomatic insurance definition looks like your Lord Haw-Haw proganda routine just got even harder.

     

    If it's not for your liking don't come.

     

    All i'm saying is the new T and G is 1000 times better than 2 weeks quarantine, or are you suggesting it's not?

     

    The process is easy, i applied 14 minutes and got TP in 40 hours, what's so difficult?

     

    I hope Songkran is cancelled and hope thailand remains quiet, could n't care less if tourists come or not.

     

    Is it too difficult for you and that's why you're not coming or have you been here the whole time so have no idea how the re-entry process works?

  4. 6 hours ago, Mingomania said:

    That's all well, but from where? Your home country? That's the problem with me. I will not be in my home country but a foreign one with a different Embassy, which I can only imagine will complicate matters.

    My last 2 CoE's and my last 2 Thai Pass applications were not from my home country.

     

    With Thai Pass you can apply from anywhere, does n't matter, it will not complicate anything.

     

    The embassy has no part in TP process.

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  5. 7 hours ago, SAFETY FIRST said:

    Been working as a Supervisor, offshore, rig work.

     

    I'm the luckiest guy on the planet, I've been everywhere, done it all

    Traveled the world, not just for rig work, my company would send me to Singapore, Houston, Aberdeen, Philippines and other destinations for training. Singapore, South Korea for shipyard work/rig commissioning, I would also go to different rigs around the world for work. At times my company would send me back to Australia for a few days to get visas for different countries the rig was working in. It was great back in the day, I used to fly in and out of Thailand on a tourist visa (6 or 7 times a year, can't do it these days), so, only having a Thailand tourist visa (non resident) would not allow me to get a working visa for other countries that I had to work, so I would have to go back to Australia. 

     

    What a great job, meeting different people, different cultures, different foods, way of life, many, many great experiences. 

     

    It's not for everyone, being away from your family for weeks at a time, horrendous/dangerous helicopter flights (Angola 3 hours, making a few stops different rigs/FPSO'S etc). At times the helicopter would not come due to bad weather, you'd have to stay on the rig and work until the weather cleared and your relief would arrive. Worked with a few nice guys and a few Dodgy (westerners) guys from around the world, the local guys I worked with I enjoyed the most, most of the local guys were hardworking and very knowledgeable, characters with a good sense of humor. 

     

    The best part was being an Australian, living in Thailand my travel time was reduced. I was paid every month (on salary) but you had to travel on your time off, so I'm ahead 8 hours living in Thailand. It's a good way to save money, when you're on the rig you don't spend any money, clothes, food, accommodation all free. 

     

    My employer sent me to SE Asia for work, I loved Thailand, I was in my 30's, I bought a house 2001, I'm still in the same place, me and most of my family. 

     

    Airports..... now we have Survarnabhumi, it's only 1 hour 15 minutes to the airport from Pattaya, before I'd travel to Don Mueang, that was a long trip.

     

    I've always worked rotation mainly 28/28 so I would get the 4 weeks on the rig for my liver to recover, my liver is not doing so well these days, Covid has kept me here since late 2019, hoping to get back to work next month or so, been spending too much time on these forums 555.

     

    Over the years I've backpacked around the world and worked many countries, 40 total. One place I miss very much is Vung Tau, Vietnam, it was so nice working there, easy flights, BKK to SGN (ho chi minh city) 1 hour. Getting off the plane I then traveled on the Hydrofoil, for an hour and a half, the hydrofoil had a bar on board so a few beers before arriving Vung Tau to get ready to go out with the rig manager that evening, for a steak dinner and a few more beers, in a few of the naughty bars around town, then I'd head back to my hotel room, leave the bar around midnight (early to catch the 6am chopper) waving goodbye to my rig manager (hugging a couple of pretties) standing by the pool table only wearing his underpants. Great days.

     

    BTW, the most hated country I've worked was Saudi, <deleted> hole. 

    Depending on the rigs location we'd spend the night before crew change in the Mercure Hotel, had a plaque out the front, it said '5 Star hotel', not sure if true, I read a hotel without a wine menu could not be a 5 star. 

    Also no pretty females to look at, checkin, reception, room cleaning all men, I was working in Hell. 

    Unfortunately the 'good days' have gone in the oilfield and everything is a hassle now, most of the enjoyment has gone.

     

    As i approach 50 i'm putting up with it for a few more years till i pull the pin.

     

    Also enjoyed VT, had 3 good years there.

     

    The west african countries, well yeah.......hmm.

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  6. 42 minutes ago, Leaver said:

    How many millions of cups of coffee, and croissants, would you have to sell before you saw a return on investment?

    I've also never understood the money put into some coffee shops.

     

    Some have appeared to have spent millions on them and as you say it's not realistic they'll ever see a profit long term.

     

    I guess it's something to do if you own the land and building but still bit of a fruitless exercise if you ask me.

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