joekicker

Ah yes, the Pattaya Millionaires' Club, the offshoot of the Patpong Millionaires' Club. They meet quite often, don't they?

Heh. These German restaurants you eat at - they were built to feed the fishermen when they returned to the little Pattaya fishing village? I'm pretty sure they are tourist restaurants. However good, however budget-friendly, no tourists, no restaurants.

Most people who get dengue, including the ones who die, in Southeast Asia are natives. You don't get resistant to dengue, ever. Very, very few tourists get dengue, almost all victims have been living all their lives where they get it. There is no vaccination against dengue, or cure either. Your malaria tablets won't work in Thailand. I don't think they work anywhere, any more, but they don't work here.

This is not helpful. She is Filipina. Pattaya is in Thailand. She doesn't seem to have a work permit or a visa according to the tiny bit of information so far provided. Employing an illegal immigrant in a restricted occupation is not going to do much for the future of those Pattaya premises that want English speakers.

I'm reading this that you have a Thai visa stamped in your passport. If so, you want a multiple-entry one. I don't know if the consulate will exchange it or what? If you mean you do NOT have a visa and expect 30 days on arrival, that's OK. You'll get another 30 days when you come back to Thailand. Again, be aware of the unconfirmed-but-reasonably-reliable warning that you will not be allowed back to Thailand at Aranyaprathet or, perhaps, at other land crossings. On a plane, for sure no boblam.

Thai nationals do not need a visa to visit Malaysia. There are many kinds of farang. If you are an American or Canadian or British (say) kind of farang you do not need a visa for a visit. But ask the airline or call the Malaysia embassy: 02-679-2190

Just repeating what I heard the other day, still unconfirmed but pretty reliable: The Cambodia border crossing at Aranyaprathet (Poipet) will NOT allow you into Thailand if you do not have a visa for Thailand. That is: If you are extending those one-month stamps into living here without a visa, it won't work at that border. If you have a visa (or if the above is wrong), Aran may be your most convenient from Cha-Am. Another possibility is through Trat in the far southeast of Thailand, up and around past Pattaya and Chanthaburi.

You mean a legit job? As in "not for P4" or singing at the Royal Garden? It's pretty much illegal on her part. She'd need a work permit, which she wouldn't get for any of the jobs you mention. In fact, on the tiny amount of info presented so far, she wouldn't even get a visa extension past a month or two. Just curious, but why does she live in Pattaya?

To go most places in Thailand you'll have to go north. But you can go "anywhere else." Phuket is an international airport. Bangkok Airways flies to Pattaya (U Tapao actually) and Samui from Phuket.

Hope this isn't a repeat. I can't remember where I got this. My apologies if I stole it here. But it is a wonderful oldie and goldie: A blind man makes his way to a bar stool and orders a drink. After sitting there for awhile, he yells to the bartender, "Hey, you wanna hear a blonde joke?" The bar immediately falls absolutely quiet. In a very deep, husky voice, the woman next to him says, "Before you tell that joke, sir, I think it is only fair, given that you are blind, that you should know five things: 1. The bartender is a blonde girl with a baseball bat. 2. The bouncer is a blonde "biker girl." 3. I'm a 6-foot tall, 175-pound blonde woman with a black belt in karate. 4. The woman sitting next to me is a blonde and a professional weightlifter. 5. The lady to your right is blonde and a professional wrestler. Now. Think about it seriously, Mister. Do you still wanna tell that blonde joke?" The blind man thinks for a second, shakes his head and mutters, "Nah, not if I'm gonna have to explain it five times."

Just speaking as a consumer who bought a new compressor today... I really think you need at least some prices on your home page there. If you've really got specials, splash them up there. If you're offering some service, put it up. It's way too general at the moment, "trust us but you have to call first."

This is known as code-sharing. Two airlines share the proceeds, but just one of them flies. I flew this a couple of years ago, Delta to Japan from the US as it happened. They had in-seat TV on that flight. Technically no, probably yes. By law you have to have an onward ticket, but the law also provides that if you have the means for a ticket they can let you go - a credit card should suffice. In practice, people are very, very seldom asked for that onward ticket anyhow. As always, if you pixx off the individual immigration guy, all bets are off.

Good price. And good until June 31 too! Hope their onboard navigation system is better than their calendar.

Man, tough job running a bar. Just kidding, couldn't resist. Sounds like you really care about the girls, the boys and the whole experience. Good on you.

Web TV! Wow. I presume you like your girls with beehive hairdos? Fins on your cars? I really didn't know they still had Web TV. I'm so old I can remember it, though. Do you have a mouse? If you can right click on a picture you can't see (heh) and choose refresh, that will probably load that particular picture.

Haven't made my point, obviously. No one ever has gone to the border. 17 coups, a (brief) Vietnamese invasion, four serious street revolutions and some others, hundreds dead -- It only happens at the very, very pointed end of the stick and in four days everything back's to normal. But I'm adamant I'm not trying to sell you anything, or ON anything either. Just making *a* point and there's lots to consider before you start dumping bucks into Bangkok.

Up to you of course, but the point is as you say that the *governments* have been unstable, not the country. The reason to have real estate is to save rent and have an asset, not that I'm giving you any news. Naturally each person acts in his own interest, and I'm not trying to convince you of anything. My minor (maybe) point was just saying that Thailand is as solid as anything gets, whatever the shakiness of any individual regime.

And you've got the Norton "security" I bet. Well. Try this first: http://inetexplorer.mvps.org/answers/51.html (Scroll down to red-x. There are a LOT of steps, many of which are generic. Try them all, one by one. This is excellent advide, at this page.) Frankly the red-x problem is sometimes not solvabe unless you change browsers. Firefox is a wonderful browser, free, well supported and the geeks love it.

BigD, TU is a recurring feature of Thailand, not a threat - 1973, 1976, 1992 just being the big ones. There's a lot of fighting in downtown Bangkok for a week, investors are scared for two months. The people who take over are exactly like the people they overthrew. There is currently no one/group on Earth that will cause Thai policy to change so that you'd notice. It's not like the commies are going to take over any more.

His computers ALSO go down? What a naughty place.

One of three things I said on Sept 19 is that the junta commander Sonthi should start immediately figuring out how many Thais he will kill in the riots before he steps down. Because he will. The other two were that no advance would be made in democracy because everyone in the "government" and the junta would be fixated on trying to PREVENT the return of Thaksin - and no one would be punished even though the primary reason for the coup was to punish them. I have zero sympathy for these violent, stupid, abusive military people. I just feel sorry for the ones they will kill before they are put down yet again - to retire into a life of luxury of course like the last lot (Suchinda). And now the other general Chavalit who laughed at the fall of the baht and a 5 year depression he caused, probably is coming back! Full honours!

That's easy. Take it off her L/T.

I'm going to get a lot of money around the end of the year when the jail population increase stands at zero. I made a lot of bets on that, and I was/am very confident. Actually, in Thakin's personal case I don't think he did anything they can pin on him anyhow. This land deal stinks, but fact is they paid four times the asking price - and he wasn't even in the government when it happened back in the last century. He hasn't avoided a baht of taxes. In court, I'm convinced he'd walk out a free man. I doubt it will come to that, but if it does get ready for riot city. But all his cronies and hangers-on and criminal associates might as well be sitting in a church, they are so safe. In fairness to the thugs currently "running" the country, they just can't afford to put anyone away, because if they do, THEY will be put away not too far down the line. This is the really ugly part of Thailand, where the billionaires fight the multi-millionaires for control. Everyone gets to do it for a while, though - that's the point of it. The rest of us hunker down because "when elephants fight the grass gets trampled". Thailand has come so close to just throwing out the scum and getting down to the business of running the country in the past 44 years, it just makes me cry. Speaking of quality analysis: http://www.upiasiaonline.com/human_rights/...is_insincerity/

One thing that Thaksin policies did was keep a HUGE percentage of people in the village instead of running off to Bangkok for seasonal (and xhitty) jobs. I'm no fan of populism, but some of the Thaksin programmes were very sustainable and very successful, Otop being one of them. "One tambon (village) one project" employed people, made money and helped the LOCAL economy of many villages. Of course, since it was Thaksin, it was a Bad Thing and gets no more funding or promotion. Still, a lot of the Otop villages are doing very well.

Need more detail. What type of computer (Windows XP? Apple?). When CAN you see pictures, when can't you? Can you see all the snaps you took, but not on the Internet? Or what?