Living in Thailand

[RCA Knight]

Any hair salon in Siam Square, MBK , Emporium ect can cut very good. There are some very very expensive Japanese owned salons around Phrom Phom, and Asok areas that will cut your hair strand by strand for hours. Expect to pay over 1000 for a cut and shampoo here.

[Sponsor74]

You can recharge the SIM for up to twelve months. If you can't make it back in time then you simply buy another SIM card- no big loss.

AIS is the best service provider, but DTAC is best value for money.

Thanks for your reply. However, if I change the SIM card then I will get a new phone number and I prefer to keep my old mumber. But if you are sure that now I can recharge for 12 months then no problem any more but are you sure of this? last year was not possibble longer than 6 months. Any further ideas?

[Coma Boy]

You can recharge the SIM for up to twelve months. If you can't make it back in time then you simply buy another SIM card- no big loss.

AIS is the best service provider, but DTAC is best value for money.

[Hamilton W]

Moving to Thailand soon for several months for a work/study program. Is there a westernized hair stylist or place to go for decent hair cut?

Preferably a stylist that knows what "tapered on the sides" means.

If there's any guys here living in Thailand that know of a good place to get a hair cut, please let me know.

[Sponsor74]

Re: MBK

Get up to the 4th floor, on the north side I think. This will save you alot of time going to the stores selling new Nokias.

Haggle hard, and make them show you that the phone works. I would negotiate price with SIM card, or else they add it on at the end as unnegotiated profit.

At some point you will have a girl with an extra cell phone for you to use each time you come to LOS. Better yet, I wish I just kept the phone I bought one the first trip.

SB Lumens

Hi SB Lumens,

It seems you are an expert in this topic and hope you can help me too. I use to go 2 times per year to Thailand and my goal is to have the same Thai phone number. My provider is DTAC. Therefore my questions:

• Can I recharge the SIM card with Baths for a period longer than 6 months?
• If I don’t use my mobile more than 6 months, may I lose the rest balance of Baths in my SIM card? And lose my SIM phone number too?
• Can I recharge my SIM with Baths only when I am there in Thailand or is now possible to do this in my original country via Internet?
• Is DTAC a good provider in area BKK or which one could you recommend me? Important for me is the quality, service and the best value for my money.

Thanks in advance for your help

[SB Lumens]

Re: MBK

Get up to the 4th floor, on the north side I think. This will save you alot of time going to the stores selling new Nokias.

Haggle hard, and make them show you that the phone works. I would negotiate price with SIM card, or else they add it on at the end as unnegotiated profit.

At some point you will have a girl with an extra cell phone for you to use each time you come to LOS. Better yet, I wish I just kept the phone I bought one the first trip.

SB Lumens

[Coma Boy]

Mosey on down to Ma Boon Krong (MBK) for a wide selection.

Nearest BTS is National Stadium.

But you can pretty much find cell phones anywhere in Bangkok. You're probably never more than a few minutes from a store that sells them.

[Thulolado]

Know my way around BKK pretty well and have all my favorite places for stocking up on different goodies - but does anyone have a recommendation for a helpful places for buying cell phones? Thought I'd never buy one - hell, even only used one a couple of times and pretty much don't like having people call me - but my life is taking a turn and it looks like its the time. I usually stay in the Siam Center area, do my mongering around Suk, and my computer stuff at Pantip so if there's any particular store in these areas that could be recommended please let me know.

Re: doing the 'thrid-world squat' after living in Nepal for close to 5 years on and off, I've got the moves down pretty well. Hell, I've even got the pants adjustment down to second nature so if anyone needs advice on that let me know. Here in Kathmandu, installed a hose on the tap (like the little shower-like thing on some kitchen sinks) so I can avoid the ass-glass method. Now it's like living in luxury compared to the village scene and I can even read while squatting - though I miss the throne method where I can eat a sandwitch while doing my business. Cheers.

[Coma Boy]

I forgive you Uncle Philo.

[Philo]

In that case I apologize: I lack a sense of humor - and accordingly did not understand the joke.

[Coma Boy]

Or perhaps all five.

If you saw these comics Philo you would realise this was a joke.

[Philo]

Poster, don't knock the comics, they're actually very interesting.

"Kai Huaroh" is my favourite, you should check it out, I expect she has a few.

Makes Hermann Hesse look illiterate.

A person who is able to state the last sentence in the quote is either uneducated, non educated, lacks education or is plain dumb.

My guess is that he is mentally retarded ...

Ph

[Coma Boy]

Poster, don't knock the comics, they're actually very interesting.

"Kai Huaroh" is my favourite, you should check it out, I expect she has a few.

Makes Hermann Hesse look illiterate.

[PosterLion]

There is a movie where a guy goes to VN to get his wartime daughter and brings her to the States. Wifey doesn't like this at all and is particularly upset when she finds the girl squatting on the toilet like you describe.

How did you handle Thaistyle toilets when you 'oops' saw one for the first time?

Jeez Freeler!

I guess ya thought I needed some embarrassment huh? Well sir, I am blushin' like a rose or as red as a beet. I was expectin' my first encounter because I'd read about them contraptions in my guidebook and on WSG, but I didn't know how badly I'd do on my first attempts.

Let's just say this: try and picture me first a takin' my shoes off and then a takin' my britches off and then a puttin' my shoes back on and then a lookin' for a place to hang them there britches so as to keep 'em and my powder dry and then a trying to hunker down over that low ass ceramic hole in the ground and then after all a that not being able to do the business and then cussing and moanin' and doing the whole shootin' match in reverse.

I am sure I looked very stupid to the average Isaan dude wondering how western folk could be so damn strange!

poster...

[PosterLion]

now she knows how to use a western style toilet and she even reads the books i bought her now when she is trying to take a dump. i'm a proud boyfriend. lol...

hey meatman,

ya missed da paragraph that follows.

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hey duni,

dude, my apologies. i forgot about your country upbringin'. back in oklahoma we [CodeWord134]'d off the porch quite a lot try'n to see who could squirt the farthest. if we couldn't settle matters by a [CodeWord134]'n we always had the spit'n contest for back-up.

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