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In Topic: Thai Hospital Seeks Donations To Send Comatose German Tourist Home
2010-09-03 05:30:08
tombkk, on 2010-09-02 23:29:04, said:
geriatrickid, on 2010-09-02 19:49:44, said:
Some of the comments do illustrate my earlier point about taxpayers not wishing to pay the costs of situations like this. If people are concerned or wish to help, just contact the hospital and the German Embassy and ask what you can do. No point in posting how much one is touched or "feeling" that they will help if one doesn't dig into the wallet.
Last year there were a number of incidents involving UK and Australian nationals suffering serious injury on Phuket. The local UK and Australians had fundraisers. It is up to the local, large, german community in Thailand to take the lead on this. Until someone does, there really is no point in tut tutting or pointing fingers of blame at the government. Nothing is stopping Mr. & Mrs. Schmidt from reaching out.
Last year there were a number of incidents involving UK and Australian nationals suffering serious injury on Phuket. The local UK and Australians had fundraisers. It is up to the local, large, german community in Thailand to take the lead on this. Until someone does, there really is no point in tut tutting or pointing fingers of blame at the government. Nothing is stopping Mr. & Mrs. Schmidt from reaching out.
I found the name of the organisation: "Deutscher Hilfsverein". Founded by a former German ambassador to Thailand, the purpose of this organisation is to help Germans who got in trouble through no fault of their own and can't get themselves out. Examples in their brochure show medical cases, like this one. They get their funding from the German expat community that you mention. It appears that even Germans are human, who would have thought.
If this organisation doesn't help, there is more to the story than we've learned from this thread.
Well searched. I bet there is no organisation for British expats like this German organisation. My hat to former German ambassador, you really do have heart unlike many of the heartless contributors of this thread.
In Topic: Work In Bangkok But Live In Samut Prakarn?
2010-09-03 05:14:33
Gigabyte, on 2010-09-03 00:47:00, said:
Hi,
I live in Samut Prakarn and work in Bangkok. Samut Prakarn compared to Bangkok is not even another town, it's another province... Really.
I live on Theparak Road, near the ring road. My office is on Sathorn, near Surasak. I would never even consider Sukhumvit to go back and forth; every morning the g/f and I take the ring road to the Bangna-Trad expressway, then we go all the way to Bangna and pass Bitec we jump on the other expressway, exit to follow Dao Khanong (after the port, before Rama 4 exits), follow for Rama 9 then exit at Sathorn. It takes 30 minutes on a very quiet morning, more than an hour - an hour and a half on a rainy Monday morning (30+ Km). Toll boots cost 65 baht one way. The same ride by taxi (including expressway tolls) costs about 300 baht. Evening ride is the same, opposite direction.
Not really my ideal location, far from that, however that's where the g/f insisted we move because her parents live nearby.
Happy commuting!
I live in Samut Prakarn and work in Bangkok. Samut Prakarn compared to Bangkok is not even another town, it's another province... Really.
I live on Theparak Road, near the ring road. My office is on Sathorn, near Surasak. I would never even consider Sukhumvit to go back and forth; every morning the g/f and I take the ring road to the Bangna-Trad expressway, then we go all the way to Bangna and pass Bitec we jump on the other expressway, exit to follow Dao Khanong (after the port, before Rama 4 exits), follow for Rama 9 then exit at Sathorn. It takes 30 minutes on a very quiet morning, more than an hour - an hour and a half on a rainy Monday morning (30+ Km). Toll boots cost 65 baht one way. The same ride by taxi (including expressway tolls) costs about 300 baht. Evening ride is the same, opposite direction.
Not really my ideal location, far from that, however that's where the g/f insisted we move because her parents live nearby.
Happy commuting!
I live near to km 8 Bangna-Trad (Smuthprakarn) and work near to Queen's Convention Centre. Going up on Cholburi-Bangna expressway linking with Bangna expressway, it takes me 15 to 30 minutes. The secret is being near to the entry to the expressway. On the way back, I have to take Bangna exit and cruise along the Bangna-Trad road, it could take 30 minutes.
I used to live in Sathorn and it took slightly more time than when in Smuthprakarn. The beauty now is the break from town and yet take less time travelling when living in town though having to pay toll fees.
