Wonderboy

Looking for a place in Asoke area, or with easy access to MRT/BTS. Can accept one year contract, but shorter is better. Broadband Internet, decent gym and parking space required. Budget 10,000 to 25,000 a month. Will be in Thailand from 26 September and need the place shortly after.

WB

I have had UOB bank for many years, even from when it was still called Bank of Asia. I have to say their service is really below of what I think is reasonable to expect. Would be interesting to hear about experiences with other banks as I want to change. Here is my complaints:
- I never get any balance statements neither by e-mail or regular mail. All I can do is update my bankbook manually
- If you loose atm card, getting a new one takes minimum 14(!!!) days and you get no notice when it is available
- Atm service is often down, especially at night. It happens so often that I think they take it down on purpose, maybe maintenance
- Atm are far between, so quite often I have to pay the penalty of using another bank's atm
- Once I transferred about 500K and because of a technicality (name misspelled) they just sat on the money, and they probably would have done it forever if I had not contacted them.
    
I have accepted this for a long time, but I have had it now. For at least since Monday (now six days), maybe longer for all I know, their internet bank has not been operational (https://uobcyberbanking.com).
There is no info that they are aware of the problem and working to fix it. It is just a page requesting you to inform UOB that the service is down.
Would not be surprised if these clowns are not even aware of the problems. My e-mail has at least received no answer. E-banking down for days is an absolute disgrace.

WB

After several years in Thailand, I have never had any serious incidents. Sure I have been victim to a couple of scams, highly elevated prices etc, but nothing I could not protect myself against with more care. As such I was quite surprised, but most of all extremely upset about what happened a couple of days ago. Probably due to Songkran, police had set up checkpoints, and due credit for that. Good to see measures being taken to elevate road safety. Anyway, I was following traffic flow down South Pattaya road, when I was called over. Much to the surprise, and probably disappointment of the police, I had Thai driving license, insurance, green book etc. with me. A senior officer were called over from across the street who recited a story probably made up for such occasions; I had modified the bike. It was so silly I just could not believe it. It is just a stock bike, 100% original that you can buy in any Kawasaki shop. I refused to accept, but after a while police threatened me with "monkey house". After a heated debate I gave up, accepted the 1000B ticket and went to the police station in the belief that this "mistake" would be sorted out there.

How utter wrong that assumption was... At the police station, I spoke to 5 different officers, including a captain. None of them would even look at the bike parked outside. I repeat, not even look at it. The response varied from "you must pay" to "illegal in Thailand" to threats of elevating the case!!! I also spoke to a tourist police volunteer that was present that could do nothing (not even speak Thai). He recommended me to pay, which probably was a fair advice. Great. TIT.

Any others been victim of the boys in brown? Would be interesting to hear, as I am surely not the only one.

WB

I am tired of receiving other people's underwear, missing garments, bleached colors and not at least all the wasted money I spend at my laundry. I want a washing machine, but the ingenious designers of my bathroom made the space for it to low (for a standard one). I have looked many places, but found nothing that I can use. Must be a front loader and not more than 72 cm tall. If anyone knows a place to get one, I would really appreciate to hear about it.

WB