badsmurf (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} badsmurf) wrote,@ 2007-05-05 01:10:00 |
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Its 1am here - just got home and I am posting for no specific reason.
Things here in Thailand are the usual lunacy, fun for me but I get the feeling I am living in bizzaro world and one day it will all come crashing down ( actually I am waiting for that day, I want to buy a Condo )
Life here has its upside, 24 hour party time (regardless of official 1am closing); great beaches; everything cheap, etc... But it also has its brain-hurting annoyances. Top on the list right now is my local bank, they are f'ing horrible. I signed up for EBanking, they made me enter my password 3 times, then someone noticed the keypad was not plugged. After the account was set up I was directed to go upstairs where someone would verify the account worked and show me how to use it (no instruction book). Upstairs the clown couldn't even log on to his computer! he kept pointing to the windows login screen and asking me to enter my EBanking account. I explained he needed to login, not me. After a few minutes of this I decided whats the point and left, he just wandered off.
Once home I tried again, no luck. I had my assistant call the bank and find out whats wrong, after 2 days of calling I was finally informed that my account was not set up, no one was sure what was fucked up and it was being bounced to the main office. That was a week ago, I'm now supposed to call back next week to find out what the status is. In the meantime the bank rarely picks up the phone, so I have no way to check my account balance and see if any money has come in. BAH.
Luckily on the upside booze is cheap...'cause tonight I needed a lot of it.
In other news, Thailand is suing Google/YouTube for not removing an offensive video of the king, YouTube is still blocked here. This a day after Thailand hires an American PR firm to improve their image and fight off accusations that press freedom here has been seriously eroded.
Its 1am here - just got home and I am posting for no specific reason.
Things here in Thailand are the usual lunacy, fun for me but I get the feeling I am living in bizzaro world and one day it will all come crashing down ( actually I am waiting for that day, I want to buy a Condo )
Life here has its upside, 24 hour party time (regardless of official 1am closing); great beaches; everything cheap, etc... But it also has its brain-hurting annoyances. Top on the list right now is my local bank, they are f'ing horrible. I signed up for EBanking, they made me enter my password 3 times, then someone noticed the keypad was not plugged. After the account was set up I was directed to go upstairs where someone would verify the account worked and show me how to use it (no instruction book). Upstairs the clown couldn't even log on to his computer! he kept pointing to the windows login screen and asking me to enter my EBanking account. I explained he needed to login, not me. After a few minutes of this I decided whats the point and left, he just wandered off.
Once home I tried again, no luck. I had my assistant call the bank and find out whats wrong, after 2 days of calling I was finally informed that my account was not set up, no one was sure what was fucked up and it was being bounced to the main office. That was a week ago, I'm now supposed to call back next week to find out what the status is. In the meantime the bank rarely picks up the phone, so I have no way to check my account balance and see if any money has come in. BAH.
Luckily on the upside booze is cheap...'cause tonight I needed a lot of it.
In other news, Thailand is suing Google/YouTube for not removing an offensive video of the king, YouTube is still blocked here. This a day after Thailand hires an American PR firm to improve their image and fight off accusations that press freedom here has been seriously eroded.
