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Bangkok Runroaders, are you ready for the worst flood come next week ?

and normally, Khon Sin Ka Por also associated with generosity. Alternative description, good carrot head (Cai Tao).

Seriously speaking, currently, the african countries scored the lowest in terms of reputations, far below PRC, Indians and Arabs. Too many drug mule and scam cases.
However, there will still be suckers falling for these Nigerian scams.
 
You rank higher not because you're Khon Singapore; more likely you're Khon Loop Lor.

Come on, the word Farang came from Farangset or Francaise. The French were the first whites to arrive in Thailand. Therefore only whites are called Farangs in Thailand. Non-white foreigners including blacks are simply foreigners. But yes, your status doesn't depend on your color. It depends on your substance.
 
Come on, the word Farang came from Farangset or Francaise. The French were the first whites to arrive in Thailand. Therefore only whites are called Farangs in Thailand. Non-white foreigners including blacks are simply foreigners. But yes, your status doesn't depend on your color. It depends on your substance.

what's khon loop? My thai not so good. What's farangset? The way you write it's as if the whites are a higher class of foreigners.
 
what's khon loop? My thai not so good. What's farangset? The way you write it's as if the whites are a higher class of foreigners.

It's a long story but don't worry, Singapore ranks equal or higher than farangs. ;)
 
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Residents of Thailand's capital Bangkok have been scrambling to leave the city, as officials warn that flood defences are likely to be breached in the next few days.

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The authorities have called a five-day public holiday to allow Bangkok dwellers to relocate during the time when the capital is most at risk.
 
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Workers rush to construct a sandbag wall to fight flooding at the main entrance of the Grand Palace near the Chao Phraya river in Bangkok

Tourist attractions such as the Grand Palace have already been affected, and some foreign governments are warning against all but essential travel to the city.

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A man pulls his family through the streets of Bangkok in a boat

To add to the problems caused by the swollen Chao Phraya river, the authorities have expressed deep concern over higher than normal tides expected at the weekend
 
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The city's second airport, Don Muang, remains closed after flood waters encroached earlier in the week, but the main international airport is as yet unaffected.Aircraft parked in flood waters at Don Muang airport, Bangkok

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Bangkok residents try to defend their neighbourhood using sandbags
Seven of Bangkok's 50 districts are now flooded and despite the scale of the challenge, efforts are continuing to try to stop the waters spreading
 
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Man walking through a flooded temple in Bangkok's Don Muang district

The floodwaters in the north of Bangkok have engulfed factories, offices, homes and cultural treasures


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Woman crosses sandbag barrier as she leaves shop in central Bangkok
 
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Buddhist monks unload sandbags to help protect their temple from the floods

The floods are the worst in Thailand for 50 years and the cost of the damage is estimated to be up to $6bn (£3.7bn)

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Thai residents use an ATM machine in a flooded street in Bangkok, Thailand, on Oct. 27.

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A Thai woman struggles to walk as floodwater gushes through a marketplace in a riverside neighborhood near the Grand Palace in Bangkok, Thailand, on Oct. 27. Residents living on the heavily inundated outskirts of Bangkok fled waterlogged homes as floodwaters inched closer to the heart of the threatened Thai capital and foreign governments urged their citizens to avoid all but essential travel.
 
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A Thai man wades along chest-deep floodwaters in the outskirts of Bangkok, Thailand, on Oct. 27. Residents poured out of the Thai capital by bus, plane, and train, heeding government warnings to use a special five-day holiday to evacuate parts of the flood-threatened metropolis before a weekend deluge rushes through the city.

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A man carries a surfboard through a flooded street in central Bangkok on Oct. 27. Thailand's prime minister said Bangkok was fighting the forces of nature as floodwaters threatened to break through dikes protecting the capital.
 
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Residents ride on a bulldozer to keep dry in the flooded Rangsit district

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People pass the time next to a motorbike hanging from the beams of a bus stop above a flooded road in Pathum Thani province
 
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Floodwaters have reached Thai Airways International's Technical Department at Don Mueang Airport. About 90 per cent of the airport's runways have been inundated and all domestic flights have been halted.

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Tourists at the Arun Amarin intersection use a boat service to travel in the direction of Siriraj Hospital. Prof Teerawat Kulthanan, dean of the hospital's faculty of medicine, met Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra to discuss flood prevention protocol to safeguard the complex.
 
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A resident of Thon Buri's Bang Phlat district evacuates her pet dog to a safer place with assistance from rescue staff. Water levels have reached one metre in some areas of Charan Sanitwong Road between Soi 70 and Soi 89.


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The water level at The Connect Village in Don Muang district has reached over 50cm. Police have closed eight roads in Bangkok to traffic because of the floods, including Vibhavadi-Rangsit, Phahon Yothin, Khamphaeng Phet 6 and Charan Sanitwong.
 
lianbeng says, "next time loikortong no need splash water liao just dive in lor.":D
 
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