A Singaporean's guide to living in Thailand

[Jah_rastafar_I]

mae klong railway market

 

[yinyang]

Floods cause traffic snarls in Bangkok

The Nation August 25, 2016 8:55 am

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Many Bangkok roads were hit with traffic snarls Thursday morning after torrential rains caused floodings in several parts of the capital and the nearby Samut Prakan province.

The floods also caused three schools in Samut Prakan to cancel classes for a day Thursday.

The three schools are Saint Joseph Thiphawan School, Rajvinit Bangkae and Assumption Samut Prakan schools. They announced the class cancellation on the schools’ Facebook pages.

The areas hit by shallow floods of between 20 to 30cm water included the Sukhapibal 1 inrersection, the road in front of The Mall Bang Kapi, the Rama IV road next to the Bangkok-Chon Buri motorway, the Pattanakarn Intersection, and the Ratchadapisek Road in front of the Criminal Court.

At 2 am, the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration announced that 25 areas were hit by shallow floods and the city administration has drained 14 spots.


The BMA reported that the areas still under water were a part of Pattanakarn Road near the intersection, Prachasuk Road, the Ratchadapisek Road in front of Bangkok Bank, Dindaeng Road in front of Soi Sutthiporn, Ngam Wong Wan Road in front of Pongphet market, Saphan Kwai Intersectin, Bangkhen Roundabout, Soi Chinnaket on Ngam Wong Wan Road, the Kaset Intersection, Prachasongkroah Road in front of Huay Kwang Market, Kaset-Sena Intersection, Ratchada-Lard Prao Intersection, Phaholyothin Road in front of Amornphan Market, Lard Prao Road in front of Soi 113, Krung Thep Kritha Road, Mitr Samphan Intersection, the front of Soi Baring, and Pattanakarn Road in front of True Corp office.

 

[yinyang]

Criminals find ATM hacking easy via the net

http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/general/1070148/criminals-find-atm-hacking-easy-via-the-net.

How to make an ATM spew out all its money was first demonstrated at the 2010 Black Hat cyber-security conference in Las Vegas by the legendary New Zealand 'white hat' hacker, the late Barnaby Jack.

 

[Jah_rastafar_I]

Sanctuary of Truth at pattaya

 

[Narong Wongwan]

Nice pics nigger, you took the photos yourself?
The temple looks like the one John Rambo helped to build in Rambo 3

 

[yinyang]

Guitarist picks sad way to save mother
Classical virtuoso Irin Prechanvinit is putting her most cherished instrument up for sale
to help fund expensive cancer treatment

http://www.bangkokpost.com/print/1072640/

Classical virtuoso Irin Prechanvinit is putting her most cherished instrument up for sale to help fund expensive cancer treatment.
(Photo by Chumporn Sangvilert)

Heartstrings: Irin Prechanvinit is selling her 'best buddy' Kazuo Sato Prestige 2011 guitar to fund her mother's treatment.

 

[Jah_rastafar_I]

Nice pics nigger, you took the photos yourself?
The temple looks like the one John Rambo helped to build in Rambo 3

Thanks nigger yup took them myself. Temple still under construction. Need to wear hard helmet when inside. About i think 1-2 km from the main entrance with a set of steep stairs to climb down to reach.

Don't think I watched rambo3 need to see it

 

[yinyang]

Big fiasco of fire engines, out from cold storage after 12 years?:p

Firefighters move 176 never-used fire engines out of warehouses in Nonthaburi for repairs. In 2004,
the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration bought the fire trucks from an Austrian supplier in a 6.7-billion-baht deal.
It was later discovered the deal was graft-ridden and the price inflated. They have sat in storage ever since.PHOTO BY CHANAT KATANYU

 

[yinyang]

Arrest warrant for H Hin bomb suspect

Captured on CCTV the afternoon of the Mother's Day bombs in Hua Hin, this man now is Thailand's Most Wanted after police linked him to last year's Koh Samui mall bomb as well. (Courtesy Royal Thai Police,...

 

[Jah_rastafar_I]

Visited rong lao san jang

https://www.facebook.com/RongHelaSaengcanthrXekmayRamxinthra/

http://www.sangjan.net/

 

[Jah_rastafar_I]

2 more vids

 

[Jah_rastafar_I]

en route to pattaya

Reached bayview

4 shit skins fitting into a pool yucks

Walking street

crappy food at the beach area with the trinket sellers

At leng kee restaurant

mathilda restaurant

inside walking street club.



There was an irritating shit skin bothering this girl and ang moh at my table. Nope didn't know both of them just sharing tables with us.

 

[Jah_rastafar_I]

Back to bkk.

Rained many nights in bkk. Couldn't really go out at night.

hotel lobby

Street a new shopping mall in ratchada. This lvl 5 totally occupied by bounce which is a nice bouncey place where they have trampolines everywhere

Some psuedo up scale place with mango yogurt and a small espresso cup

typical bkk mall food

thailand kfc rice bucket version

Finally took the new mrt purple line which opened just in august the 6th which is above ground since in bkk the mrt is below ground and the train above ground is called BTS. Told the taxi driver to take me to tao poon mrt station and he insisted the new mrt purple line is called BTS cos i suppose when it's above line it's a BTS thai logic but go read the news and you will see that the purple line is an MRT line. Btw i took the mrt train to the last station at the blue line at bang sue and there is a free bus service to fetch passengers to the new purple line but it take a long time to arrive so i just took a taxi which cost 40bht from bang sue to tao poon station is the beginning of the purple line.

Visited westgate mall in nonthaburi 2nd last stop 14 stops away called talat bang yai. Yup it's quite a long line.

Love an empty train

 

[Charlie99]

This loos very similar to the new subway trains in Toronto.

 

[Jah_rastafar_I]

Forgot about a few photos and a vid.

At the airport. Surprisingly long queue during arrival after the bombs at hua hin etc.

Some normal thai food after getting caught in a heavy rain

Flight back overlooking some rice fields i think.

 

[yinyang]

 

[yinyang]

Baht remains competitive, says BoT

http://www.bangkokpost.com/business/finance/1075416/baht-remains-competitive-says-bot.

There are jitters over the very strong baht, but the Bank of Thailand chief had charts proving insists the currency is in line with others in the region.

 

[yinyang]

Junta and new purple line?

 

[yinyang]

Wild ride

http://www.bangkokpost.com/business/finance/1079284/wild-ride-for-stock-investors

 

[Jah_rastafar_I]

[h=2]45-meter fall, sexually assaulted backpacker Hannah Gavios shares story from hospital bed[/h] By Coconuts Bangkok September 7, 2016 / 16:15 ICT
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Hannah Gavios, 23, from New York, remains in the hospital with a fractured spine but has broken her silence on what happened after she fell 45 meters down a dark mountainside fleeing a Thai man that was trying to sexually assault her in Krabi on Thursday.
It’s not pretty. And isn’t likely to do much for Thailand’s tourism industry.
The volunteer “guide” who offered to walk her back to her hotel at 11pm on Thursday turned out to be anything but a good Samaritan.
After leading her into the dark, Apai Ruengvorn, 28, brutally attacked her, pinned her to the ground and tried to rip her clothes off. In the struggle, the young woman bit off part of his ear before running off into the night, reported The Mirror.
Unfortunately, she ran off the edge of an unseen cliff, falling 45 meters, fracturing her spine and smashing her head when she landed.
About the fall, she said, "It was pitch-black and, before I knew it, I was in mid-air falling off a cliff. I was honestly thinking I wouldn't survive. I hit my head a few times and landed with a big bump. I was screaming in pain. It was the most painful thing ever. I felt like a total vegetable. I felt completely vulnerable. I couldn't move anything."
As she lay there, shocked and unable to feel her legs at all, she began screaming for help.
Unfortunately, the only person who hear her was Apai. He scrambled down the cliff after her but, instead of helping, he sexually molested her as she lay on the ground, unable to move.
He spent a few hours there, sexually assaulting the helpless girl. She said, “'He didn't rape me but he did everything else. I really thought I was going to die. I just had to remain calm. Whenever I screamed, he was choking me so I had to try to keep cool and stay friendly with him.”
Eventually, he left her there, where she remained, terrified. She reported that there were snakes crawling on her and she believed she would die there.
In the morning, Apai returned with his co-workers, who called rescue workers that rushed her to the hospital where she remains with a broken back and other injuries.

Photo: The Phuket News
According to one of the girl’s family members, she is partially paralyzed from the waist down and it’s not clear if the damage is permanent, reported New York Post.
Gavios was traveling alone. She was on a vacation from Vietnam, where she teaches English. Her parents immediately flew over to be by her side and she says she wants to return to her teaching job after she heals.
Apai admitted the assault and confirmed Gavios’ story. He has been charged with obscene behavior toward another person and causing serious injury. He will serve a 5-10 year sentence.