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PaulDee

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In Topic: A Id Card For Retirees

2012-02-05 15:09:04

JulietLima, on 2012-02-05 10:44:21, said:

@Gone: What is the "Mini laminated passports" ?
Where can you get it ?

One of the two expat clubs was offering it. Not sure if Pattaya City Expats Club or Pattaya Expats Club.
You might call and ask or show up for one of their Sunday meetings. Or scan your passport picture page
and 1-year-visa page, then shrink them and make a photo copy.

In Topic: Honda Phantom Ta 200

2012-01-26 16:03:52

Thank you, BillD,

I've got the '05 Phantom as well and tossed the owner's manual
at the dealership when I noticed it was ALL in Thai. Been looking
for an English language version for more than 6 year.

You did a good turn for your fellow Phantom owners. (I'm still thrilled
with the bike, BTW.)

Cheers

PaulD

In Topic: Thais Take Lead On Education In Asean Economic Community (AEC)

2012-01-23 15:34:27

SabaiBKK, on 2012-01-23 14:25:39, said:

well the level of education in thailand is so low that I decided that in 2013 i will pack my bags and go back to europe to offer real education to my daughters (and most important learning to question and reason by themselves) ... my niece was in her 3rd year of journalism at bangkok university and one day i just tested her and her friends knowledge and it was just incredibly low. simple questions like what is the capital of brazil or some basic 10th grade historical facts found no answer, even simple questions about thai history found no answers ... a few years ago the BP questionned 2nd year students of political science from Chula and they could not even tell who was Jimmy Carter and could not place sweden on a map. when i look at the work that my 9 years old who is in a (private international school) i'm appaled as her program is not even on par whith what i was taught when I was 7 in europe. She will maybe lose 1 year in europe but I prefer this to letting her having a mediocre education and think that cheating is normal, abusing foreigners is normal, that money is the most important thing in life, that people with money and power are always right, that corruption is normal etc...etc...

Well said and worth expanding upon and repeating for wider dissemination -- including in the Thai media. Most won't care about a farang's point of view on the topic, but some will. Maybe you will touch a chord in the right hearts.

In Topic: Thailand At Risk As Bird Flu Breaks Out In Vietnam

2012-01-07 19:09:20

cigar7, on 2012-01-07 08:59:39, said:

Also H5N1 in Shenzhen China and Hong Kong since Dec. 20, 2011. Shenzhen bus driver died in late December from H5N1. Watch out for those Chinese tourists, sneezing and coughing.

Happy to see you're on top of outbreaks here in Asia (REALLY; I wish more people were),
BUT as far as transmission is concerned, there are very few known cases of H5N1 being
passed from one human to another. Little need to fear running into visitors from China.

In Topic: Songkran Road Accidents Killed 299 People Nationwide

2011-04-18 09:15:16

bristolgeoff, on 2011-04-18 08:36:30, said:

what was the figure last year to this year

In 2010, there were officially 361 deaths and 3,802 injured during Songkran.

But the actual numbers may be a lot higher given the pressure on each province
to reduce deaths and accidents each successive year.

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