A Singaporean's guide to living in Thailand

[Alamaking]

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I swear the gal I'm with at nataree during my last trip BKK look like this

 

[moolightaffairs]

Well koreans should have a good command of mandarin since they were a vassal state of china for a long period of time.

older generation still write Chinese words very well that put many of us local Chinese in shame although they don't speak Mandarin. you can communicate with them in writing Chinese words but not through conversations.

during WWII japanese occupation sg got korean in japanese army, they will ask to trade for fresh food using army ration like canned food. my grand father will communicate with them in writing, some will even work in my grand father plantation for food after the japanese surrender while waiting for the British troops to be back.

 

[rotikosong]

Younger one still quite immature. spend money like money drop from sky. Elder one take care of family biz. so which one will you take leh?

You got big one, small one - this one what? Middle one?

Let's all gather in Pattaya end of year, see in person, then test-drive and help decide for you. Who on? I'll be there for sure. Same place across the clearing from your room. Maciam neighbour

 

[Jah_rastafar_I]

older generation still write Chinese words very well that put many of us local Chinese in shame although they don't speak Mandarin. you can communicate with them in writing Chinese words but not through conversations.

during WWII japanese occupation sg got korean in japanese army, they will ask to trade for fresh food using army ration like canned food. my grand father will communicate with them in writing, some will even work in my grand father plantation for food after the japanese surrender while waiting for the British troops to be back.

Actually as you know most sinkie ancestors were coolies aka peasants so they should be illiterate and it's not easy learning how to read and write chinese words so i'm just curious how far could they actually go during that period of time to have locals that could read chinese words.


There's one mediakok actress that is korean and she has been acting for many yrs already and now mostly plays grandma roles and she's also on the 9pm drama. Her mandarin is quite good definitely not one bit inferior to any of the other actors/actresses.

 

[Froggy]

You got big one, small one - this one what? Middle one?

Let's all gather in Pattaya end of year, see in person, then test-drive and help decide for you. Who on? I'll be there for sure. Same place across the clearing from your room. Maciam neighbour

Dec/29 - Jan/5 Khun Joe in Hong Kong New Year la, before Dec/28 is ok.

 

[Froggy]

Actually as you know most sinkie ancestors were coolies aka peasants so they should be illiterate and it's not easy learning how to read and write chinese words so i'm just curious how far could they actually go during that period of time to have locals that could read chinese words.

1. Saw somewhere here that Koreans invented aircraft, did not read details, but it seems that this civilization is pretty advance, heard Confucius is Korean too.

2. Most sinkies are southern chinese I read somewhere southern chinese not Han more malayish so I bet level of intelligence may not be in the same league as the Hans or Mongols stocks but also read that pure Han is a thing of the past no more liao cos kenna mixed with invading mongols. So ig talking about pure race southern chinese should be more pure that northern cos not so mixed with mongols. Don't know all these shit I read true or not.

 

[rotikosong]

Dec/29 - Jan/5 Khun Joe in Hong Kong New Year la, before Dec/28 is ok.

I'll be there Dec 27. Get into BKK in the afternoon and will be taking the bus from airport.

 

[chonburifc]

Real Carrot Head Water!

From this,
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to this,

and finally this!

No ice, no sugar and nothing else except pure refrigerated carrot. Surprisingly, taste quite nice.

 

[chonburifc]

Pics of Nakluea in the late night or early morning.

This is the place to get all the fresh food stuff. There are 2 wet markets here. The older wet market sells mainly seafood and opens from morning till evening. New wet market opens almost 24 hours.

 

[chonburifc]

I'll be there Dec 27. Get into BKK in the afternoon and will be taking the bus from airport.

Dec/29 - Jan/5 Khun Joe in Hong Kong New Year la, before Dec/28 is ok.

Hehehe. My availability is 8 December 2012 till 31 December 2013 and so on.

 

[chonburifc]

Re: A Singaporean's guide to living in Thailand ? Feasible?

Can your pictures dun be so blur or not? take properly leh, especially the chiobus

Have fun!!

Have. Let me mosaic pic first. :p

Here it is.

Location: secret.

 

[chonburifc]

Re: A Singaporean's guide to living in Thailand ? Feasible?

OK, one final one specially for AK. If stay here, then got chance lah and have to help her with the apartment, coffee shop and bike rental biz hor. Me do it for free.

 

[rotikosong]

Re: A Singaporean's guide to living in Thailand ? Feasible?

I vote for one on the left.

 

[chonburifc]

Re: A Singaporean's guide to living in Thailand ? Feasible?

Hehehe. First attempt to try Cappucino. Regular expresso with frothed milk. Used pasturised milk for today. Results not too bad just that added too much milk.

 

[chonburifc]

Re: A Singaporean's guide to living in Thailand ? Feasible?

I vote for one on the left.

Hehehe. Then there will not be any conflict of interest.

 

[Jah_rastafar_I]

1. Saw somewhere here that Koreans invented aircraft, did not read details, but it seems that this civilization is pretty advance, heard Confucius is Korean too.

2. Most sinkies are southern chinese I read somewhere southern chinese not Han more malayish so I bet level of intelligence may not be in the same league as the Hans or Mongols stocks but also read that pure Han is a thing of the past no more liao cos kenna mixed with invading mongols. So ig talking about pure race southern chinese should be more pure that northern cos not so mixed with mongols. Don't know all these shit I read true or not.

Number 1 is false.

Number 2 nope southern chinese aren't more malay-like. Although some southern chinese do look more malay like. The fact of the matter is some southern chinese might be mixed with south east asians and many southern chinese look more like thais cos the original thais come from china anyway.

The thing about which type of chinese being more pure is open to discussion and needs a genetic test but it's been established for example that cantonese ppl have quite a large mixture of non han blood in them. Conqueror has also posted in the past that his dialect group the foochownese are the purest han. Not sure about that though. These types of discussions can be found on forums and ppl do talk about the DNA of the various dialect groups but first you need to learn more about DNA and phenotypes to understand some of those discussions. A bit cheem i would say.

 

[Froggy]

Number 1 is false.

Number 2 nope southern chinese aren't more malay-like. Although some southern chinese do look more malay like. The fact of the matter is some southern chinese might be mixed with south east asians and many southern chinese look more like thais cos the original thais come from china anyway.

The thing about which type of chinese being more pure is open to discussion and needs a genetic test but it's been established for example that cantonese ppl have quite a large mixture of non han blood in them. Conqueror has also posted in the past that his dialect group the foochownese are the purest han. Not sure about that though. These types of discussions can be found on forums and ppl do talk about the DNA of the various dialect groups but first you need to learn more about DNA and phenotypes to understand some of those discussions. A bit cheem i would say.

Appreciate your reply. Upz you.

 

[chonburifc]

lunch at mk but did not order steam boat. green noodle and char siew/duck.

friend order soup version and dim sum but havent serve.

 

[chonburifc]

here comes the soup version.

and dim sum

 

[yinyang]

For lunch, beef slices shabu2 in downtown Seoul. Kns, freeze balls temp -10c

PS: Ja, you are into demographics