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Lazada's still delivering.

i recently bought what I'm assuming are non-original filters via Lazada. Green antibacterial ones. Seller claimed they come from the same factory as the genuine article, but I can't substantiate that. Side by side, the replacements appear absolutely identical, minus some Chinese writing in the plastic top edge. Quality appears to be identical too & are very well made. THB549 each + a nominal amount for freight & they perform perfectly.

After much wasted time, managed to get the WiFi phone app to work. The trick is to NOT nominate your country as Thailand in the app. Do so & your phone will never find the units. Nominate your country as Mainland China and the purifiers are recognised & added immediately! Go figure......

https://www.chiangmaicitylife.com/social-pics/classic-cars-lanna-outing

I thought this was a 'reserved occupation'!?!?

Lipstick on a pig!

It's a really old C class Merc  - not yet reached classic status - maybe 4 or 5 models old. Nothing to be proud of!

I tried using the Grab app just a short while before Uber withdrew. Despite all the vehicle icons dashing around on the app map, when I attempted to book a car, the app advised there were no available vehicles in my area (CM). As Uber were not yet finished, I tried the Uber app & had a car in a matter of minutes. Haven't tried Grab since & feel I can't rely on the service. Maybe the 12 noon timing was the problem - all drivers out at lunch! Sorry to see Uber go.....

The interview is just hilarious! Funniest thing I've listened to in ages!!! All so true too, except that maybe he needs to take care of her ever visits the southern shores of Australia & meets a white pointer! The Thais haven't eaten all of those! Not yet at least!

CM's been relatively civilised this year! Away from the tourist areas, I've seen very little water play. A HUGE improvement on prior years!

2 hours ago, Catoni said:

If not previously vaccinated against rabies, they will not only need at least five rabies vaccine shots, but they will also need rabies immune globulin injected into the bites. Rabies immune globulin can be both hard to find in some areas and also expensive. I got the three pre-exposure rabies vaccine shots. If I got bit, I would only need a further two rabies vaccine shots, and I would not need the rabies immune globulin.

I had the immune globulin injections a few years back. Not a pleasant experience. As you say, the immune globulin is injected directly into the would site, but not just in one place! In my instance, the stuff was injected around 20 times into various parts of the wound! Hurts like hell!

The immune globulin available was equine based, so before anything, they have to do an allergy injection test & wait to see if there's any reaction! Then there's the rabies shots & oh yes, tetanus as well if you're not upto date!

On 18/03/2018 at 5:10 PM, thaibeachlovers said:

Why would anyone want to watch tv on a small screen when they can get it on a big tv screen?

Because you can send it from your small screen to a big screen, using something cheap like Chromecast or similar. Or get a TV box or an internet able smart TV -  job done!

The Girl deserves a medal!

Just as a side issue, swapping over a brand new SSD drive for a laptop's old HDD will transform an old laptop & give it a completely new lease of life!

If your laptop has a built in DVD / CD drive, you can buy a replacement tray on ebay that converts the space taken up by an old DVD drive (once removed) to an additional HDD or SSD. So after swapping over your old HDD for a super fast SSD, you can even reinstall your old HDD as an additional drive in the old DVD / CD ROM drive, using a replacement tray!

Helps protect others against the wearers bad breath! 

A Samsung SSD I bought, came completed with software for transferring windows & other programmes over from the old HDD to the new SSD. Then just swapped over the old HDD with there new SSD & there laptop rebooted as normal - with one major difference. It rebooted in about a quarter of the time oft there old one & really breathed new life into an old laptop. If your laptop has an old CDROM drive, you can buy adapters on eBay which replaces the old CDROM with a second SSD or HDD, Manning that you can ring a laptop with two hard drives! Have windows & all programmes run off the SSD & store files on the second HDD ok the CDROM bay. Worked perfectly!

12 hours ago, Laza 45 said:

The whole exercise is a bit pointless if they add the fruit juice to the batch and ferment it.. this get weirder and weider.. 

I guess it's not entirely pointless, as it qualifies the 'wine' for a lower tax rate, therefore a lower selling price. A loophole really. It's pointless though from the perspective of lowering alcoholic content, as it doesn't. 

I've also noted that on box wine or on the reverse labels of some bottles, they purposefully do not refer to the contents as "wine". They'll say things like "bold red" or "easy drinking red", but never actually call it "Red wine"!!!

7 minutes ago, iang said:

I believe it's fermented pineapple juice, just like the other non-grape fruit juices are fermented, hence there fruit wine like OTOP fruit wines. As the fermented juice is not grape juice, it still qualifies for the lower tax rate.

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42 minutes ago, Laza 45 said:

My thought too..  if 12.5 %..  I'm no connoisseur but 20% pineapple juice wouldn't fool me or anyone who drinks a bit of wine..  

I believe it's fermented pineapple juice, just like the other non-grape fruit juices are fermented, hence there fruit wine like OTOP fruit wines. As the fermented juice is not grape juice, it still qualifies for the lower tax rate.

56 minutes ago, ExpatOilWorker said:

Below is a fruit wine with with the blue tax label. It is mixed in Australia, hence the blue label.

My understanding is that this specific pictured 'wine' is actually bottled in Vietnam, using a fruit wine cocktail of Australian wine + pineapple juice. Yet is still labeled as being Australian!

Has anyone had experience of the Aussie outreach operation in Chiang Mai? Do lots of people turn up & are there long queues?

I'm asking as I need a document prepared by them on Friday 8th, but am booked on a flight out of CM late morning, meaning that I won't have a lot of time to hang around & wait if there are queues?

Of course I'll be getting there early, but just how early is necessary?

No guarantees I know, but any guidance would be appreciated. 

My understanding is that back taxes definitely have to be paid all the way back to when the vehicle was last on the road legally. So bear in mind that a derelict vehicle may not have been registered for a very long time, so you could find yourself paying out for 10 years or maybe much more back tax. So aside from the blue book, it's important to know how many years it is since he vehicle was last registered & tax paid, then do the calculation.

Le Crystal Restaurant does a truly excellent Christmas Day event. Given the quality of the venue, scenic riverfront location & food, it's excellent value for money too.

Came through Singapore - Chiang Mai just yesterday. Definitely no ATM's in either the immigration or customs area. Plenty in the general arrivals area, but AFTER immigration & customs. As long as you're reasonably well presented & have an outgoing flight ticket & a hotel booking, I agree it's very unlikely you'll be requested to present THB20k in cash.

Our experience is  that there trade in value in Bangkok is higher - not to mention easier. The dealer also advised that cars on non-Bangkok plates are less desirable & so of slightly lower trade in value.

5 hours ago, johng said:

You can pay yearly tax and insurance of any vehicle in any province nothing special about Bangkok plates....now wait till the blue book is full or you want to change color or register some other modifications I bet they tell you to go get it done in Bangkok.

Sorry to tell you, but changed the blue book on my Bangkok registered & plated car last year as the old one was full. Just went along to the motor vehicle place on the Hang Dong road & they did it on the spot. No trouble, no questions & no charge.