Archive for the 'Rants' Category

Thais And Their Plug Sockets

Thursday, November 8th, 2007

Why do Thai builders fail to understand that apartments cannot work with just one plug socket in each room?
This week we added at least 10 additional sockets to our new place and I've realized now that Thais and farangs don't see eye to eye when it comes to living efficiently.  
Every Thai person I've spoken [...]

UOB Bank Do Not Keep Their Word!

Tuesday, October 16th, 2007

Despite the best of plan and precautions we found ourselves at the mercy of UOB bank today after deciding to work with them for our mortgage.
Their credit scoring is based on income minus expenses each month and we were told that to get a 4 million baht mortgage we would need to pay 330,000 baht [...]