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Thank you Pattaya Mail
Editor;
It gives me great pleasure, on behalf of the sailors, staff and sponsors, to
thank you, the Pattaya Mail and your related media outlets, for the great
show you managed during the recently held Singha OK Dingy World
Championship.
As you have seen from some of the correspondence, the whole occasion of the
“16th Pattaya Mail PC Classic” was, indeed, a highlight of the Championship
and it gives me immense personal satisfaction to see the “rebirth” of one of
the Royal Varuna Yacht Club’s treasured events.
Your dedication - and the positive effect on our Club, the Eastern Seaboard
and the benefactors of the sponsorship of this event - is far reaching.
I take this opportunity also, to congratulate the Pattaya Mail group on its
forthcoming 20th anniversary, having been awarded, for the 15th consecutive
year, the “Best in the East” for your ongoing dedication through the media,
to promoting “our city-by-the-sea”.
Royal Varuna has been a constant recipient of much positive publicity for
our sailing and junior training programmes, through your editorial pages.
We look forward to many more years of continuous co-operation, to promote
the image of Pattaya/Jomtien as a sailing and family haven and to
contributing to the welfare of our less-favoured denizens.
Please visit our club as often as your busy schedule will permit.
Your sincerely,
David Littlejohn
Flag Commodore,
Royal Varuna Yacht Club
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Bags make easy targets
Editor;
Re: Waterproof phone pouches popular during Songkran (PM Friday, 26 April
2013) - These bags did a great job at keeping items dry during the water
fights, but if like me and I guess many more, these bags where a very easy
target for the thieves. I myself had the rope use on these bags cut and the
thief took my digital camera and my HD video camera. I know many others had
the same problem, as I was told this by Pattaya Police - around 400 reports
of stolen property was reported during the day.
For myself I was angry that this scum had stolen my camera. I was more angry
as it was near the end of my family’s holiday (we visit Thailand every year)
and was so angry that I had lost all my photos and video of my daughter, who
is only 8 and it was her first taste of Songkran. I just hope the scum who
did this enjoys the drugs they will buy when the sell my items on. For me,
Thailand is out of the question when it’s Songkran. It’s a shame as it is
such a fun time to be in Pattaya.
Simon Meredith
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Get a Thai drivers license
Editor;
Re: Double pricing or 50 percent discount? (PM Hillary Friday, 19 April
2013) - Take the time out of 1 day to get a Thai drivers license if you
intend to continue to spend time or live here. With your ducks in a row it
can be done in a few hrs, if you start early. It’s also great form of I.D. &
tells Thais you are committed to adapting to Thai culture & ways of life
here, whether or not you drive, & offers discounts on many other things.
Then you pay the same as Thai at all attractions.
Dill Pickles
There are many good
people in Thailand
Dear Editor.
I am continually reading letters that give the Thai population bad press.
Wherever you decide to live in the world you will find good and bad. My own
experiences since a car accident left me handicapped two years ago
continually show me the “good”. The latest example of this was a recent
phone call followed by a surprise visit to my home in Banchang from members
of the “Chonburi Independent Living Center”. Ongart Kaenthong and Olieng
Choaguoy, who are both wheelchair bound and were transported to Banchang in
a specially converted van belonging to the center. When I enquired how they
came to find out about me, they advised me that they had seen me on the
internet and had contacted me to enquire and see if they could be of any
help to me.
Apparently the center offers all manner of assistance to the disabled and
wheelchair bound, helping with home conversions, ramps and purchase of
electric wheelchairs, etc. They were the first handicapped that I have come
into contact with since my accident. Their visit was so very inspirational
to me, spurring me on to gain strength and to try and get out more in the
future.
I would publically like to thank the center for their enquiry into my
wellbeing. This shows yet another example of the “good” that can be found
here in Thailand.
Barry Hooper
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Beach Road
traffic woes
Editor;
RE: Making it harder to cross Beach Road (PM Mailbag Friday, 19 April 2013)
- I so much would like to believe in this. Any undergraduate urban traffic
planning student would tell you that the only solution to the Beach Road
traffic woes and the future of Pattaya as a beach resort is to close Beach
Road to all traffic except delivery vehicles in the morning. Beach Road
would become a pedestrian walkway. It will never happen.
Dana
Only harsh penalties will
prevent future crashes
Editor;
Re: 20 injured in speedboat collision (PM Friday, 26 April 2013) - How can
you crash in open seas in Pattaya? Jail for the people responsible and what
is 8000 euros going to do for someone who was seriously injured? An offense
to the value of life. Nothing can be fixed with compensation or jail but to
prevent future happenings only harsh penalties can hope to have an effect.
Giorgio Ciotti
Green efforts need
more monitoring
Editor;
Re: Green Pattaya Community cleans up Pratamnak Hill (PM Friday, 26 April
2013) - First, hats off to Green Pattaya Community for trying to solve one
of Pattaya’s biggest problems - trash! However, as far as the recent
Pratamnak clean-up efforts, I must, at least partially, dispute the details
outlined. I was on Kasetsin Soi 1 that day and when I saw about 20 people
walking down the street I stopped to see what was going on. There are three
trash collection areas on the street, and the group basically walked down
the center of the street without picking up any of the litter piled around
the trash bins... and there is a lot of it due to the city trash collectors
sloppy job!
In the organization’s defense, I guess, we have contacted the City Services
hotline 6 times to have the rubbish around the bins picked up, and they have
done nothing about it. So, despite the vacant promises of City Hall and the
administration to clean up the city, nothing changes.
Again, thanks to Green Pattaya Community for bringing more effort to clean
up the city. It is an admirable venture. I just wish someone had monitored
the work done in this one instance.
John in Pattaya
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Jet ski scandal
surfaces again
Editor;
Re: Yet another jet ski scam leaves 2 Chinese students robbed, beaten (PM
Friday, 27 April 2012) - I am in Pattaya at the moment. This just happened
to me yesterday (April 24, 2013). They claimed 65000 baht saying because of
me the water went inside the jet ski engine. I am staying in Hilton and I
called my hotel’s staff, who talked to them but still they weren’t letting
me and my wife go. We went to the police station where the police completely
refused to cooperate in this matter. Then the hotel staff called more people
from the hotel and told them that they know it’s a scam and wouldn’t let
them do this to us and after 4 hours of arguments they went away. I would
simply request people not to use the jet ski and not spoil your own mood and
trip. I live in London and have been to so many countries in this world but
haven’t seen such a rude nation; these Thai people have not etiquettes and
are money greedy to the extreme level.
Jamal
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