to laos="to laos" How to do a visa run from Thailand to Laos, via the border, after flying to Udonthani ..?
Can I just take a bus from Udonthani to the Laos border for the visa run, pay for the Laos visa, and not have to go to the Thai Embassy in Laos capital, but just come right back to Udonthani and do I still get the 30 days back for Thailand?
I don't suppose whatever you are saying is correct,for your info here are some pages to go through for the Lao visa run: http://teakdoor.com/laos-travel-forum/5379-nong-khai-to-vientiane-visa-run.html http://www.seansite.net/thailand/pattaya/visa-run-to-laos http://www.easy-chiangmai.com/visa-run-from-chiang-mai-to-laos.html http://babakfakhamzadeh.com/site/index.php?c=12&i=985
Give A Man A Fish, Feed Him For A Day. Teach A Man To Fish, Feed Him For A Lifetime - Lao Tzu 101
Lao Tzu was the founder of taoism, the mystical 'way' or 'path' that many have followed since. From way back between the 4th and 6th century BC, his amazing words echo down the centuries.
As well as many more wise sayings for which he is so well renowned.
One of the best known is the one quoted above, "Give a man a fish; feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish; feed him for a lifetime", which has a wonderful analogy with the modern world of management today.
The metaphor of feeding someone and that sufficing to get them through one day, and one day alone shows that people can only be helped so far. If we help them and do things for them all the time, then they rely on us, which is not only unhealthy for their development of skills, but also potentially dangerous, if we are not there to help them one day, their very future is at risk.
The principle whereby we rely totally on the support, guidance and even nurturing of someone else, for too long a period, is typical of many modern management environments. The old-style 'command and control' management processes lead to employees only being required or even able to do what they were told, which puts great pressure on those doing the telling.
Not only that, but where employees are not provided with stimulating work and aren't asked to challenge themselves mentally, this often leads to demotivation and then higher absence rates, as well as employee turnover that such boredom precipitates.
Lack of stimulation=boredom=frustration=leave to find something else.
Let's look at the flip side, where we 'teach a man to fish'. Not only does the man become self-sufficient and be able to survive without being provided for, but he has a sense of achievement and fulfillment. How good does an angler feel as he pulls a fish from the water?
Much better than when one is placed generously in front of him, merely to eat. Sure it may be good, for a while, to be provided for, but human psyche is bigger than that in a healthy human being. People need to be valued for who they are.
So - we 'teach them to fish'. In the workplace, by teaching out people new skills, we validate them for who they are and the contribution they are able to make. They know they are useful and valued and with this confidence they do more. They learn that to stretch themselves is good. That they have within themselves untapped resources which show off the potential they have always had, now released.
Indeed 'teaching them to fish' realizes not just the material potential they have, but catalyses even bigger capabilities in them. Their development muscle has been stretched and exercised, so it becomes bigger and more capable.
The business upside for 'teaching our people to fish'? Well, managers are able to offload some of their tactical workload to others who relish the opportunity. This frees managers to do more with more of their people.
A workplace environment that becomes the breeding ground for capable, committed and excited employees, straining at the leash to do more. Managers enable their business to become a developmental mixing bowl of ideas and capability like nothing before.
In a business world where the embodiment of excellent management is an operation that works at least as well (and sometimes better!), when the manager is absent is to be acknowledged as the purest quality.
And with that level of capability developed, all because the manager taught his people 'how to fish', business thrives.
In the hurried excitement of the crazy business world of today, how Lao Tzu would be impressed at the relevance of his ancient words.
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(c) 2007 Martin Haworth is a Business and Management Coach, trainer and writer. He works worldwide, mainly by phone, with small business owners, managers and corporate leaders. He has hundreds of hints, tips and ideas at his website, www.coaching-businesses-to-success.com.
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Well, who actually did invent the game of Golf? The question has been asked and argued for many years with no true winner. Many countries have a valid claim to an early game that resembles the game of golf. Some of the countries that make this claim are England. Scotland, China, Rome, France, The Netherlands, Belgium and Laos. The most heated debate over who invented golf definitely comes from Great Britain and Scotland.
The first area to look when deciding the answer to our question must be what actually determines when a game with sticks and balls is golf or another game. Most countries in the world have had games where you hit an object with a stick at some sort of target. Is this enough to be called golf, I don't think so. If so, then these early games could claim the origin of many sports played today. I think it takes more than just a game with some kind of object being hit by a stick to qualify as the origin of golf(discount golf).
Holland is believed to be the origin of the name of golf but not the actual game itself. Holland played a game in the 1200s called Colf, which means clubs. This was a form of golf but once again the form of many other sports.
Colf has been traced back to Dec. 26, 1297, in the town of Loenen aan de Vecht in northern Holland. On that day, the local townsfolk played four holes of the game to commemorate the relieving of the Kronenburg Castle exactly one year before. The fact that colf was chosen to mark the occasion is proof that the game was already popular by that time.
Great Britain The earliest traces of golf history has golf being played are said to date back to 1340, where in a sketch from a stained glass window, the Great East Window, in the east wing of the Gloucester Cathedral, England, scenes of the Battle of Crecy in France showed a man apparently preparing to strike a ball in a golf-like manner.(wholesale golf )
One of the early forms of golf(discount golf) were all missing one important ingredient to their games to truly make the game golf and that was the hole. Scotland is widely believed to be the first country to put all the ingredients together and actually start a primitive form of the great game of golf.
Yes, this will always be a disputed point, who actually invented the game of golf. If you believe some of the claims that the game they were playing was golf and they didn't have a hole, then you could take this same game and turn it into the origin of many games we still play today. I believe the hole is what separates all the early claims to who originated the game of golf.
Look at our Golf History section at the World of Golf Handicap for more detailed information on the History of Golf.
If you are capable of speaking Thai language, it is not simply preparing your own self for a visit or perhaps a short stay to work in Thailand. You can actually appreciate the goes through of visiting the neighboring nations, which include Vietnam, Laos and even the southern towns in China.
If you love to eat Thai foods, you can enjoy a fine dining in some of the best restaurants in Thailand as you converse to the Thai food handlers in their unique language. This is of course, different from dealing transactions to other Thai business owners. However, Thais are specific that their own language is not easy to learn and they expect people who know and understand the language are married to Thais or they have descent in Thailand. The good news is that you can find folks who are willing to help if you like to learn Thai language.
There are important things to consider in learning this particular language. It is important to speak confidently and if you hesitate in speaking the tones, it is difficult to understand. Considering that, you may discover at least five notes in a single Thai word having different definitions relying on every tone of the particular word, thus, it is crucial to keep the tone when speaking. Thais are excellent in understanding their language by means of context to avoid huge trouble for a speaking foreigner using it with unusual tones.
It is important to attempt to speak the language precisely rather of speaking it better. You may actually survive the language in reality with just couple of words, as when they utilize the language in different tones you can take advantage of it in distinctive meanings. To learn Thai language easily is through learning the rising and falling intonations. The rising intonation is just similar to asking an English question and the falling intonation is like calling the name of your friend in a distance. You will discover additional intonations in time as exposing your own self more about the Thai language.
Another good idea to learn the language easily is to look for online audio course that can help you become familiar with the original accent of using the words. Such alternative can aid you understand the language slowly using your own skills whatever place you go or even anytime you want. You can also visit several bookstores that sell different foreign language books.
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You can discover useful ways to learn Thai language quickly using audio language program through listening during your spare time at home. You may also buy a copy of a book about learning Thai language in many bookstores worldwide.
language of laos="language of laos" What language is best to learn out of these?
I was thinking to learn German or Danish. I know Danish Swedish and Norwegian are intelligible is German also intelligible with these 3? NOTE Not all people that speak one can understand the other. Like Thai and Laos Portuguese and Spanish etc. Hmm. I KNOW about Swedish Danish and Norwegian... German is not inteligable but there is a lot of common vocab okay. I have European dictionaries for all 4 and I can see the vocab is extreamly similar some words on paper seem to be the same. I learn languages easily so passion for one is not of importants. I speak spanish and am able to understand much Italian because of it.. If you speak Danish I'd like your kind logical opinion please thanks.
The Scandinavian languages (Norwegian, Swedish and Danish) are very alike. Danish differs from the other two in pronunciation and Swedish has more words that the other two don't have (Norwegian and Danish are very alike because the modern Norwegian is based on Danish), but other than that, they are extremely similar and people from the 3 countries understand each other very easily (though the Swedish and the Danish might have problems with each other). The three languages are more alike than anything else I can think of. The fact that they are in fact three different languages is just a historical thing. They could very easily be three different dialects of the same language. So if you learned Danish, you would find that pretty much all of Scandinavia was open to you.
Still I would suggest German. See, if you combine the native speakers of Danish, Swedish and Norwegian, you would end up somewhere between 20 and 25 million. German has over 90 million. And there are also far more people who have German as a 2nd or 3rd language than the ones who have a Scandinavian one. And chances are that if you take Danish, it's gonna take a long time before you can understand people speaking it natively. And then another long time before you get Norwegian. And Swedish is on all the way on the other side of the Scandinavian language tree, and they contribute with a little under half of all Scandinavians.
As for the question of Scandinavians understand German and the other way around: I am Norwegian and I can understand about a third of the German words when I see it written. When I hear it spoken it'll probably go down to one 10th. They are related, yes, but still very different. With the amount of English words making it to Norway as slang, I'd guess a non-English speaking Scandinavian would understand more English than German. Maybe with the exception of the Danes who live all the way down south, at the German border.
Teaching languages as a foreigner in Asia is really popular these days. Many backpackers from Europe really fall in love with Asia and ends up spending many years there, often doing jobs like language teaching. There is something special with Asia that makes you really not want to go back to work in boring Europe or the US again.
Anyways, most of these young backpackers end up becoming English teachers. There are several countries in Asia that you can teach English in, Thailand, Korea and Japan being the most common. I have also met people teaching English in Cambodia, Laos and Singapore on my travels in Asia however, and almost all of them seem to enjoy their job. There is a high demand for English teachers in Asia as it is often very hard to find local people that speak English well enough to be able to teach it.
The only bad thing with being an English teacher in most Asian countries is the salary. Countries like Thailand, Cambodia and Laos are really cheap to live in, but that is of course also reflected in the salaries. Like I said, being an English teacher is quite popular these days, so the language schools don not have to give high salaraies to attract people to work for them. The salary is still quite good in Korea and Japan though, but again these countries are more expensive to live in.
Something that I would suggest is to look into teaching other languages than English. Often the slaray will be quite a bit higher if you're teaching another language, as it is quite hard for language schools to find teachers qualified to teach other languages. There is a big market for the large languages like Spanish, German and French, and even speaking these languages as your second language chances are you can get a job.
Also when it comes to smaller languages there might be a market for teaching it somewhere in Asia. Take a country like Philippines, they speak good English there so there is not much of a market for that, but when it comes to other languages, even small ones like Norwegian and Swedish, there is a market. The reason is that it is very common for Filipinos to work abroad, both on ships and in different countries all over the world, and foreign companies prefer that they speak some of the local language then.
I have myself had the experience to teach languages in Manila, which was a very rewarding and interesting experience. There was a wide range of different students, my youngest 16 and my oldest close to 40 years old. Most of my students were planning to go abroad to work in the near future, and some just wanted to learn the language as they had relatives from my country.
The way I got my job as a language teacher was through my blog about the Philippines. I also run a general travel blog with lots of information about long term travel and living abroad for several years.
viang vien="viang vien" How can I get to Vien Viang from Bangkok?
I am traveling to Vien Viang from Bangkok and wondering if i need to go through Vientiane first? I haven't found any info on the web except that I know there is a train from BKK to the Thai/Laos border. From there, i have no idea. Thanks for any advice.
you can fly or bus to udonthani, then bus to vientiane, then bus again to vang vieng. http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=vang+vieng&aq=0&oq=vang+v
or fly into luang prabang via airasia or another airlines, then bus it to vang vieng. flying is expensive into Laos for some reason?
best hotel prices guaranteed="best hotel prices guaranteed" What is the timeframe for voiding a contract pertaining to EFT debit from bank account?
I made a reservation online for a hotel room in Las Vegas with my VISA debit card. I cancelled the reservation within 48 hrs of the ACH hitting my account. The vendor states that my credit owed, minus the standard cancellation fee, would take 30 business days yet the vendor's site states that they will match and credit (at their discretion) any Best Price Guarantee that is found, within 7-10 business days once a reservation is booked online. Why can't the vendor process my credit within the same amount of time as their "Best Price Guarantee"? The vendor gets his cancellation fee but is allowed up to 30 days to return my credit while collecting interest on my funds in the vendor's account over a 30 day period of time? Isn't that considered "Double-dipping"?
Yep a lot of places will charge you immediatly for charges but getting money back from them is like pulling teeth sometimes.
If this is stated in their refund policy then there is not much you can do but wait as they did disclose it before you made the purchase. They usually stick this in pages of terms that no one reads but it is probably in there somewhere.
In the future, I would read their cancellation and refund policies. I have seen sites that do this and have acually sent messages to them stating that I did not use their site because of a specific policy.
There are a lot of sites that will credit any refunds in a resonable amount of time, that is a few days not a few weeks.
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