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Been using Toyota authorized service center in Bangkok (thonglor, Sathorn, Bangna ) for 18yrs. Excellent service, most of the time. Maybe you have language issues or this particular dealer is bad.

Jog & Joy, Amazing Field, Champion Chip, SG Runners etc are all professionals (companies?) that organise all sorts of marathon runs (mini, half, super-half, full) all year round at various places and would be the ones to guide you best. You can just google the names to get further details.

Are you guys doing this for fun or can one find enough to make a living out of this ? Must be a strange sight to see a bunch of farangs swinging those long detectors in the wilderness.

PS Sorry, just noticed it is posted in the sports section.

What does FET mean? Foreign Exchange Transfer?

Department store has been open since 2 weeks now. The grand opening is slated for 24th October.

Seems all Aussie visas are now for multiple entry one year and comes in a separate paper. Knowing the code number at the bottom of this paper is enough. This has been done to reduce fake visas. Recently applied for a single entry business visa and got a 1 year multiple.

LMAO Laughing my *ss out

ROFL rolling on the floor laughing

BTW By the way

Land bank, waiting to buy up adjacent plots? You can find several such sites such as you mentioned, bought up by big developers.

I am a parent trying to make a decision on sending my child to an international school and your post certainly helped me. I do hope that all the teachers are equally diligent and sincere like you.

The workload in international schools is significantly higher, in my opinion, than in a Thai school.

When i worked in a Thai school, I created and submitted lesson plans, marked books (tick and flick only - no comments), set tests at the end of every term and input the test results in a ledger.

I taught my lessons and went home. I worked from 7.45 to about 4pm Monday to Friday. I think the key-words are that I was responsible for teaching and that's about it.

In the international school I work in now, I work from 7.30 to 5pm Monday to Friday. I catch up with marking and emails in the evenings or at weekends.

In addition to what i did in a Thai school, all teachers have a lot more responsibilities. Arrange assemblies once a week (on a rota), do homeroom and take care of the students' pastoral needs which can be significant, mark students books according to the ATL (Attainment Target Levels) and leave specific comments about how they can improve their level. Record student progress and show evidence about this. It may include photocopying work and filing it under the student's name in a very large filing cabinet for every student I teach. If students are either failing or advancing at a gifted-student rate I have to show how i am using differentiation to meet their needs. I have to make sure every student in my homeroom is doing their homework (subject teachers sign it off in their student diaries) and if they are not, call or email the parents and meet with them to discuss the problem. I have to organise at least 3 field trips per academic year and get parental consent for each of them. If students have a problem or are sick, as a homeroom teacher, I have to deal with this. Many lunchtimes will see some students in lunchtime detention. If i confiscate a mobile phone, I have to get the parents to come in. I probably answer 4 or 5 parental email enquiries per day ranging from 'Jane said Jimmy is bullying her' to 'Jane's aunt just committed suicide, please take it easy on her at school'.

Working at an international school required me to change up at least 2 gears. The workload is MUCH much more. However, the holidays are far far better. If I average out my working week over the course of a year, it's about the same as working in a Thai school.

Things that i like about it are that i speak at native English speaker rate as all lessons are in English. Most of our kids cannot speak Thai, so the lingua franca in the playground is English. The other thing is that i speak quietly. The students absolutely do NOT speak when I am speaking. That never happend in a Thai school.

I enjoy the increased level of responsibility with the students - the buck stops with me.

Tracking students' academic progress and providing evidence takes up an awful lot of time.

Hope that helps you.

A few weeks back I was having lunch at Mrs.Balbir's restaurant in Sukhumvit Soi 13 and observed 2 Sikhs bringing a western tourist (assumption) into the outdoor dining area of Dosa King on the opposite side. They were talking non-stop, fast and excitedly, without a pause and wild gestures. I tried to pass close to them while leaving. They were looking at his palms and he looked hypnotized or mesmerized. I took down the restaurant phone number and called the manager to report it as I walked to my car parked down the Soi. When I exited, they were still there with him.

They do a few tricks and then hassle you for money. They are all over Bangkok and apparently tourist areas in other towns. See Bangkok Scams or just Google "you are a lucky man thailand". Some victims claim they felt like they were hypnotized when they were escorted to an ATM to withdraw money.

For the first 10yrs, I remember using the aircon at home only for about 3hrs in the bedroom, switching on the fan just before sleeping. Now a/c is switched on all night, and that is 10hrs. Car and office a/c run all the time, so it is now practically 24/7. Last month the bedroom AC broke down and I tried being without it for almost 4 weeks, gave up and fixed a new unit this week. Body gets used to comforts.

I have the same problem too since the last couple of weeks, it is very frustrating. I did download the iPhone application but can't find the button for 'new content' listing latest posts by time.

Excellent, count me in as a customer, don't mind paying delivery charge also to Rama 3 area.

A straight, simple to understand reply from Sheryl which should greatly reduce OP's anxiety. Wonder why the doctor or the hospital could not have explained this to them.

You can take him to Lumpini park, lots of green open space and plenty of children playing there. Take a ball or badminton racquet. In the summer, you can still have daylight until almost 7pm.

Hi, Someone mentioned one in BKK,so hope to find that one as nearer.

Any ideas on proceedure and costs ?

Thanks

Google "Indian visa bangkok" and go to the Indian embassy website or the website of VFS Thailand (Indian government has outsourced the visa work to VFS). I am not sure if i can post a link to their websites, but i found it by googling. VFS is located in Glass House 15th floor, short walk from MRT/Skytrain Sukhumvit station. Went there for tourist visa on friday. Single entry validity 3 months cost 2200Baht approx.

And you MUST fill the visa form online, take a print out and only then go to the VFS office. Only online filled forms are accepted as it generates a reference number also.

Is she allowed to wear the outfit home every night after work ??

Dont feed the troll.....

Geez! I wonder if they will say she was trying to steal hotel towels!

A very young woman in the prime of her life has been murdered in the most brutal way imaginable. Wrists and ankles bound with cable and packed in a fertiliser bag with stones and thrown into the river. Please be considerate.

Funnily, if you consider a pile of 5-year approved applications ready to sign, the whole could be processed in just an hour or so.

(200 applicants/year x 5years x 4 seconds per signature = 4000 seconds).

I am dreaming today...

It seems the process of issuing PR is not completely frozen as i had been given to understand, ever since i completed my application process a few years ago. A person known to me got his PR last week. His initial application process was done in 2007 through a broker and he had paid about 150k Baht (fee was for guiding him in completing and submitting all documentation correctly and not for getting a PR). He was contacted by the same broker now informing him that there was a small quota of 3-4 available for an additional payment of 200k which he paid and got the PR on the 1st of September 2011.

Reviving an old post and a bit off topic, but can any member here give me the thai name in the thai script for Kapilavatsu. Many thanks in advance.

กะบิละพัด

At least that's what I got from the dictionary (thai-language.com).

Thanks!

กิระณา (Kirana) - The moon

Many thanks!

Can anybody be kind enough to let me know the meaning of the thai word กิระณา and how to correctly spell it in english. I understand it is associated with planets, is this correct. Thanks in advance.

The first one was The Search for the Buddha: The Men Who Discovered India's Lost Religion.

Thank you.

Reviving an old post and a bit off topic, but can any member here give me the thai name in the thai script for Kapilavatsu. Many thanks in advance.

there are still alot of people making money and good returns from there properties , people dont just buy to filp, bit also to gain a yearly return...

so if you could purchase a property for say 3 Million THB, and have a yearly tenant in there paying 25 K month ( minus 5 K month in fee's ect ) you would be yeilding 8 % per annum against your property ( is there any bank in the world that offers this ? )

this is just one example, but as the other poster mentioned , its all about location and timing, i have seen some extremly good offers snapped up recently which have all proven great returns to the buyer

Very doubtful a 3 million Baht property anywhere in Thailand can fetch you a 25k Baht rent per month.