Comments for Thailand Blogs http://www.thailand-blogs.com Exploring Thailand and the Thai Culture Tue, 13 Dec 2011 15:36:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Comment on My Love Affair with Thailand-Epilogue-Chapter 4 by Mike http://www.thailand-blogs.com/2011/11/28/my-love-affair-with-thailand-epilogue-chapter-4/#comment-2658 Mike Tue, 13 Dec 2011 15:36:00 +0000 http://www.thailand-blogs.com/?p=3028#comment-2658 Hi Ray, thanks for stopping by and your kind comment.  Had circumstances been different then I might well have stayed.  That said I have some family duties here.  Don't think I will ever go back now, despite the problems here(economic) there are too many pluses. Sure I miss some aspects of life in LOS but at least here I know things work and generally speaking no one is out to cheat me. Hi Ray, thanks for stopping by and your kind comment.  Had circumstances been different then I might well have stayed.  That said I have some family duties here.  Don’t think I will ever go back now, despite the problems here(economic) there are too many pluses. Sure I miss some aspects of life in LOS but at least here I know things work and generally speaking no one is out to cheat me.

]]> Comment on My Love Affair with Thailand-Epilogue-Chapter 4 by Mike http://www.thailand-blogs.com/2011/11/28/my-love-affair-with-thailand-epilogue-chapter-4/#comment-2657 Mike Tue, 13 Dec 2011 15:31:00 +0000 http://www.thailand-blogs.com/?p=3028#comment-2657 TLF, thanks, I totally agree with you. To be honest I personally lacked the motivation to learn Thai properly. TLF, thanks, I totally agree with you. To be honest I personally lacked the motivation to learn Thai properly.

]]> Comment on My Love Affair with Thailand-Epilogue-Chapter 4 by Mike http://www.thailand-blogs.com/2011/11/28/my-love-affair-with-thailand-epilogue-chapter-4/#comment-2656 Mike Tue, 13 Dec 2011 15:30:00 +0000 http://www.thailand-blogs.com/?p=3028#comment-2656 JP many thanks. JP many thanks.

]]> Comment on My Love Affair with Thailand-Epilogue-Chapter 4 by Ray Malcolm http://www.thailand-blogs.com/2011/11/28/my-love-affair-with-thailand-epilogue-chapter-4/#comment-2655 Ray Malcolm Sat, 10 Dec 2011 09:58:00 +0000 http://www.thailand-blogs.com/?p=3028#comment-2655 Really enjoying this. It reads well and I can relate to so much of what you're saying. There are times when I would like to just pack up everything and go home. But the truth is, I really don't have that much to go back to. Plus, I'm married and have a child now; that kind of anchors me down here a little. I'm looking forward to part 5 Really enjoying this. It reads well and I can relate to so much of what you’re saying. There are times when I would like to just pack up everything and go home. But the truth is, I really don’t have that much to go back to. Plus, I’m married and have a child now; that kind of anchors me down here a little.

I’m looking forward to part 5

]]> Comment on My Love Affair with Thailand-Epilogue-Chapter 3 by Ray Malcolm http://www.thailand-blogs.com/2011/11/10/my-love-affair-with-thailand-epilogue-chapter-3/#comment-2654 Ray Malcolm Sat, 10 Dec 2011 09:48:00 +0000 http://www.thailand-blogs.com/?p=3016#comment-2654 Really Like this. It's well written (except for  few typos: what could possible go wrong) and I feel myself being drawn onto chapter 4. Great idea for a blog post too .... I will keep reading Really Like this. It’s well written (except for  few typos: what could possible go wrong) and I feel myself being drawn onto chapter 4. Great idea for a blog post too …. I will keep reading

]]> Comment on My Love Affair with Thailand-Epilogue-Chapter 4 by Anonymous http://www.thailand-blogs.com/2011/11/28/my-love-affair-with-thailand-epilogue-chapter-4/#comment-2653 Anonymous Wed, 07 Dec 2011 08:57:00 +0000 http://www.thailand-blogs.com/?p=3028#comment-2653 New here - simply wanted to comment that we have enjoyed reading your thoughtful series on the pros and cons of living in Thailand. With regards to adjusting to life in Thailand, learning to speak and write Thai (while very difficult) has been key for all of our foreign staff living here, for the express reason  you mention. Life without conversation is terribly lonely! New here – simply wanted to comment that we have enjoyed reading your thoughtful series on the pros and cons of living in Thailand. With regards to adjusting to life in Thailand, learning to speak and write Thai (while very difficult) has been key for all of our foreign staff living here, for the express reason  you mention. Life without conversation is terribly lonely!

]]> Comment on My Love Affair with Thailand-Epilogue-Chapter 4 by J P http://www.thailand-blogs.com/2011/11/28/my-love-affair-with-thailand-epilogue-chapter-4/#comment-2652 J P Thu, 01 Dec 2011 18:07:00 +0000 http://www.thailand-blogs.com/?p=3028#comment-2652 Great posts Mike..... Great posts Mike…..

]]> Comment on My Love Affair with Thailand-Epilogue-Chapter 4 by Mike http://www.thailand-blogs.com/2011/11/28/my-love-affair-with-thailand-epilogue-chapter-4/#comment-2607 Mike Tue, 29 Nov 2011 11:53:00 +0000 http://www.thailand-blogs.com/?p=3028#comment-2607 Hi Dan thanks for the thoughtful input. I believe you are spot on in your assessment.  I have been reading your diary with interest recently and I certainly understand where you are coming from. I think having Ploy is a big bonus for you, mind you you are made of sterner stuff than me. Hi Dan thanks for the thoughtful input. I believe you are spot on in your assessment.  I have been reading your diary with interest recently and I certainly understand where you are coming from.

I think having Ploy is a big bonus for you, mind you you are made of sterner stuff than me.

]]> Comment on My Love Affair with Thailand-Epilogue-Chapter 4 by Mike http://www.thailand-blogs.com/2011/11/28/my-love-affair-with-thailand-epilogue-chapter-4/#comment-2606 Mike Tue, 29 Nov 2011 11:41:00 +0000 http://www.thailand-blogs.com/?p=3028#comment-2606 VF, I have really appreciated your comments on this series of articles. Some very astute observations in my opinion. I do believe that my stay in Thailand was useful(and mostly enjoyable), it has also as you say helped me focus on things that need addressing back here. I certainly value things quite differently. Slipping back into UK society has not been difficult although looking after an ageing and mentally deteriorating parent was not something I ever saw myself doing. A different focus for sure! As for the blogging, well we will have to see as I don't have the same enthusiasm(or time) as I did in Thailand, I need to find the right type of blog to exercise my grey matter through writing. The current offering is linked to an idea I have for a small commercial venture aimed at new UK citizens. This sounded good when I was planning it but is proving more of a challenge than I imagined. VF, I have really appreciated your comments on this series of articles. Some very astute observations in my opinion. I do believe that my stay in Thailand was useful(and mostly enjoyable), it has also as you say helped me focus on things that need addressing back here.

I certainly value things quite differently.

Slipping back into UK society has not been difficult although looking after an ageing and mentally deteriorating parent was not something I ever saw myself doing.

A different focus for sure!

As for the blogging, well we will have to see as I don’t have the same enthusiasm(or time) as I did in Thailand, I need to find the right type of blog to exercise my grey matter through writing. The current offering is linked to an idea I have for a small commercial venture aimed at new UK citizens. This sounded good when I was planning it but is proving more of a challenge than I imagined.

]]> Comment on My Love Affair with Thailand-Epilogue-Chapter 4 by daniel http://www.thailand-blogs.com/2011/11/28/my-love-affair-with-thailand-epilogue-chapter-4/#comment-2605 daniel Tue, 29 Nov 2011 06:23:00 +0000 http://www.thailand-blogs.com/?p=3028#comment-2605 It seems that you were caught between a rock and hard place, Mike. Not wanting to park yourself in the mini-Britain parts of Bangkok or Pattaya you chose a place a world away from that. But that place was perhaps just a little too far too soon. The remoteness and solitude was a little too extreme. I live in similar circumstances to what you did but I have my wife. Unable to really master this language, (or even get a grip on it), I am also isolated, but I have my work and my writing and, most important of all, I have my wife who is both my buffer from the bits of Thailand that grate and the bridge to the bits of Thailand (the majority) that I like. So I have the best of both worlds, my solitude, but also people (Thais) who I can communicate with (just) when I wish. One other thing that I do that you didn't is travel. I don't bother with the yearly visas and do a 3 month visa renewal in Singapore. It gives me a break away with friends and ex-colleagues, in a place a know well who speak a language I know, (and avoids one more bueaucratic encounter). Please keep going with the circumspection. It allows me to examine my life here too. It seems that you were caught between a rock and hard place, Mike. Not wanting to park yourself in the mini-Britain parts of Bangkok or Pattaya you chose a place a world away from that. But that place was perhaps just a little too far too soon.

The remoteness and solitude was a little too extreme. I live in similar circumstances to what you did but I have my wife. Unable to really master this language, (or even get a grip on it), I am also isolated, but I have my work and my writing and, most important of all, I have my wife who is both my buffer from the bits of Thailand that grate and the bridge to the bits of Thailand (the majority) that I like. So I have the best of both worlds, my solitude, but also people (Thais) who I can communicate with (just) when I wish.

One other thing that I do that you didn’t is travel. I don’t bother with the yearly visas and do a 3 month visa renewal in Singapore. It gives me a break away with friends and ex-colleagues, in a place a know well who speak a language I know, (and avoids one more bueaucratic encounter).

Please keep going with the circumspection. It allows me to examine my life here too.

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