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Regarding the list of required docs at jomtien immigration by OP - I have just moved to jomtien permanently from surin. Ive done

my past 3 marriage extensions in Surin and before that CW. I notice on the list at jomtien, there is no mention of a need for proof of address? In surin i had to show my yellow tabien baan and in bkk, a signed affidavit from embassy outlining my residential address. Can anyone else confirm that proof of address is not required at jomtien office, as would save me a trip up to the embassy in bkk.

Thanks in advance...

Paramedic22- how many juiced up doctors have u ever seen? Not many....and there's a reason for it. They know the dangers. You are late 40s and dont have any negative effects - yet... Lets hear from you in another ten years on whether your 20 years of AS steroid use has been worth it. And why the need for a paramedic to use anyhow? I thought all ambulances used hydraulic trolleys these days? So your use is for pure vanity, just like all the other fools who painfully try to justify themselves?

Thanks for taking the time to reply guys, appreciate it.

Hoping someone with recent knowledge of requirements at Jomtien immigration can help me out:

I have my fourth extension of stay based on marriage coming up. Previously I have been living in Surin and doing the

extension up there. This year I have permanently moved to Jomtien. In Surin, I had a Tabien Baan that I used as proof of residency. In JOmtien, I own the condo I live in and therefore have the Chanote as proof of ownership and also have bills etc in my name at that address...Is the chanote and bills enough for proof of residence with JOmtien immigration?

Also, the officer my wife spoke to on the phone,mentioned some requirement of obtaining a letter from immigration in Bangkok saying that previous extensions had been done in Surin? Anyone heard of this or had to do something similar?

I know TIT,but surely each immigration office has access to a central database that shows where previous extensions have been granted? Any advice appreciated, thanks.

Are you in Bangkok? I booked to have CTH installed 2 months ago, and at the last minute they have said they dont have enough digital boxes for Bangkok customers. My girlfriend put it on in BangNa and yesterday it was like watching streaming internet.

Thanks for your reply but doesnt really help.

i have started a website to address the needs of people looking for information about camping in Thailand,

Like the lead poster, I have camped all over Thailand, and share the love of camping in Thailand. The website is non-commercial. Please post and share your experiences.

http://www.campinginthailand.com/

Good idea, and thanks for taking the time. I hope it can grow and more people contribute info to it.

I think the main reason that camping is not popular in Thailand is that generally accommodation is just so cheap...

Hi all,

Looking to head out and watch the footy tonight....anyone find a pub on Sukhumvit last night where CTH was actually

working for the Premier League?What a clusterF**k this transition from True to CTH has been!

Any info much appreciated - cheers.

Try the Australian pub in soi 11, or the office bar in soi 33. Both will have the AFL.

Many hotel cable packages carry the Australian network, so will be on there also.

The best bet without a work permit is to ensure you get a foreign exchange transaction form (Tor Tor Sam?) from the Thai bank every time you transfer large amounts of money into Thailand, specifying the transfer reason ie.purchase of condso, purchase motor vehicle etc...hold onto this and when presenting to the bank can transfer the same amount of baht back to your home country account when you want later on. No work permit required. Similarly, if selling assets such as condos, funds up to the amount sold for on the land office sales receipt can also be transferred back home. No work permit required. Some bank branches can provide the international funds transfer, others cannot. Most bank websites list which branches can do it.

For the OP, wouldnt you have had a TT3 from a bank when purchasing your shophouse etc and relevant land office receipts for the sale of assets?? Should be able to use those to transfer funds out...

Anyone who does steroids is a dumb fool....actually if you look up the definition of "dumb, steroid using fool" in wikipedia, you will see a picture of the guy in this article. You can see from his eyes there's not much going on inside his head. Having lifted weights for sport and fitness for more than 25 years, I appreciate natural bodybuilders who rely on legal supplements, immaculate diet and good old fashioned hard work to achieve their goals. No short cuts, no cheating and better health in the long term. Anyone who thinks steroid abuse does not have long term effects on the body, just do some research on the disproportionate numbers of bodybuilders who die from heart related issues at very young ages. The most famous being Schwarzennegger who know openly admits that he abused steroids, advises to stay away from them and had two major heart operations in his early fifties. Yes Arnold says he was genectically predisposed to heart problems, but Im sure the horse steroids he was taking in the 60s didnt help.

Im sure this post will get the usual reaction from the roid heads living in denial, but its fickle human nature to attack something you dont want to hear. As is the human trait of vanity, that leads naive 21 year olds to inject themselves with harmful chemicals in the hope of improving their bodies, when they are actually doing the opposite.

Have looked at the Universe Gym website, looks ok and at a reasonable price...Does anyone train there who can comment on the quality/quantity of the machines and range of dumbells available?

cheers

jomtien is also "manned" by a Russian bird. customer convenience?

How do they get work permits for such a task?

How do most of Tony's staff get work permits? He's had plenty of Burmese and Filipino staff over the years, along with other assorted nationalities. The low pay keeps them coming.

Those from ASEAN countries such as the Philippines are able to work in LOS easier than those who are not. This does not explain how Russians are performing menial tasks such as a gym receptionist, something a Thai can do and therefore technically illegal. Russians working in the gyms would suggest that Tony has sold out already IMO.

Who cares what nationality he was? Majority of expats or long time workers in LOS are from UK,US, Oz or Germany. There was a good chance he'd be from one of these countries. Russians and Chinese don't need the cash with their elite cards and Arabs never steal because of their muslim beliefs <deleted> me, lighten up everybody and learn to laugh again....

Lae Mae Phim/Klaeng is another 40 minutes or so further on than the pier for Koh Samed (Ban Phe), nowhere near it really.

If you are coming from the airport, a taxi could get to Klaeng in about 2.5 hours (it takes me 1hr 45 minutes to Ban Phe (near Koh Samed) from inner Bangkok). Minivans from the airport will go to Ban Phe and then onto Klaeng etc...but may be alot slower as they often stop at

Rayong bus station etc.Unless you are driving a car yourself or going direct from airport via taxi, you are looking at at least 3 hours to Klaeng from Bangkok. No other way around it sorry....

Sounds like the local powers that be have invested in a fleet of speed boats.....

On a serious note, good to see some proactivity in regards to public safety. Better to be slightly inconvenienced for a while than to have a tragic mass drowning....if only there was more of it (proactive rather than re-active safety measures) in Thailand.

Piss a guy off in a pub in Sydney,London, New York etc and you might cop a punch in the head.

Piss the wrong guy off in a Bangkok nightclub and you could lose your head. Yeah perhaps exaggeration, but the odds are certainly higher.

Playing with stats is easy, but the important message of the article,is that guns ARE rife in Thailand and the use of them and deadly force comes easy to Thais. In a society where money,status,beauty and physical size/shape are the be all - guns are the ultimate playing field leveller. This can be said for most of SE Asia. I have seen one Taxi driver shoot another on Sukhumvit road, a 7/11 getting robbed at gunpoint by a meth whacked youth whilst buying my bread and a pissed off driver shooting at another car because it didnt move over for him on the no. 7 motorway.Im sure other readers have similar stories. In time spent in Mexico,Philippines,Cambodia and the USA, I have not seen a single crime involving guns. This knowledge of Thai gun worship over the years has led me to try and follow these rules 1) dont get rotten drunk in public watering holes/discos 2) never pick an argument/fight with a Thai as annoying as they may be 3) never deliberately cause a Thai to lose face in public and 4) never cheat on my Thai wife. Problem is, at times when I have not stayed true to rule 1, all the other rules go out the window :-) Would be interesting to break down the percentage of homicide offenders with gun MO, who were under the influence of alcohol at the time of the crime?? Im guessing its pretty high. But we'll never see an article about the problems that alcohol abuse causes in Thai society will we?? There's more money to be made in beer and whiskey than gun trafficking, no doubt about that....

I can understand the hurt and anguish about the apparent lack of love and respect shown towards your children/their grandchildren. However, try not to get too hung up about how they treat you. Im lucky, my Thai in laws are happy,respectful country people. But whilst we dont ignore each other, we rarely talk and just acknowledge each other briefly, thats all. After having a demon farang woman as my first mother in law, one of the things I love most about being married to a Thai is not having to talk to the in laws and getting involved in family bullshit. Embrace it my friend :-)

Its an interesting question, one Im sure we'd all like to know a definitive answer to.

From what I know of Thai spending habits, I can only think that there will be a credit bust based recession in next 2-3 years. My wife works for Citibank credit and she says the way money is handed out to low-middle income earners with no means to repay it is criminal. A situation very similar to what happened to the States etc in 2008 is brewing in my opinion. The Thai government did identify the credit problem and tried to address it by offering low interest loans to pay off the credit card companies, but this wont be enough. Most Thais are living well beyond there means and it will catch up to them soon. I have worked for 30 years and never owned a brand new car,yet see rice farmers driving new Fortuners and Thai school teachers BMWs.

Because of the continuing political instability, uncertainty over the monarchy and predicted credit bust, I would not invest large sums in Thai banks. If not already living here in Thailand,I would leave your money in home country bank and transfer amounts as required once the permanent move is made.Its quite easy to transfer money into Thailand these days with internet banking etc..

On the other hand, if already residing in Thailand and money is in Thai bank, its baht for baht unless inflation really kicks in.Good luck.

Think the writer of this piece is being a little naive here...just say no

If the US wants to use UTP for what ever reason, they will get it, if it serves the US's interests...resistance is futile...as they will just do the same as they have done in other places...

"just say no".........."just say invade"..............."mission accomplished"...............

Mate, unless its made in jest, I think your post is a little "naive". To suggest that the US would "invade" Thailand to secure the strategic use of UTP is ludicrous. China and Thailand have

stronger ties than most realise, including the ancestry of the current Prime Minister and much of the Thai elite. Thailand has a long history of saying "no", which is largely why they have never

been colonised by Europeans. Besides, why would the US bother? Not alot of oil in the area.....

Honda is sooooo common here every mom and pop shop can do just about anything you need on them but that doesn't mean I'd trust every mom & pop shop anymore then anywhere else.

But that is what you need to sort out in the end regardless who does it. The point is there is plenty of options, I'm always of the mind "better the devil you know versus the devil you don't" so if my engine isn't completely trashed, I'd opt for a professional rebuild, the key word being "professional" but that will take more time to do properly then just popping in a second hand one that comes with little, to no, known history of it's use or abuse..

Parts very available most places..

Cheers mate, a rebuild is another option to consider.

Hello all,

I have a 2003 Honda CRV. Its exterior and interior, gearbox and everything beside the engine is in great condition. Thus I want to keep this car.

I have done alot of travelling in Thailand and the car is approaching the 250,000km mark. The grunt coming from under the bonnet just isnt

what it was. Not that the 2L motor was ever that powerful, but i could at least get up hills with the A/C on.....now, its struggling.

Does anyone have experience with CRV engines, in particular how easy/difficult are they to fit? What would be estimated cost of new and reworked motors and would it be financially viable to do so compared to buying a new car? Are Honda engines made in Thailand or need to import from Japan/elsewhere?

Would you go with a new engine or a reworked one? If reworked, where to find one? Would you only do at Honda dealer or average Thai mechanic could fit?

I realise that this information could probably be obtained from my local Honda dealer, but their English is terrible and my Thai even worse...

Appreciate any advice on this as my knowledge on the subject is very limited.

cheers - J

That Gallop Poll from 2005 would still be valid today - spot on. Having travelled the globe I would say that the Thais are amongst the most racist people on the planet - a fact illustrated even more when you can speak a little Thai and understand what they are actually saying about the "aliens". Only in Thailand can the population be more concerned about illegal immigrants fleeing from poverty and violence, than they are about corruption in the political system (as a recent poll showed that only a minority of Thais believed corruption in Thailand was a problem).

Back to this story, without knowing the outcome of this case, it seems from the attached pictures that this young fella was hardly being treated harshly, not even as a suspect. I would not imagine that it is normal police procedure (even in Thailand) to allow a "suspect" (potential murderer) into the same room as his badly injured "victim"?

As a minimum he will need in addition to the regular tools (screwdrivers etc.):-

1. A multimeter with a decent low Ohms range (< 20 Ohms full scale).
2. An insulation tester (250V and 500V DC test ranges).
3. An earth resistance tester or an earth loop impedance tester.
4. An RCD tester would be nice.
5. An outlet polarity tester is handy as a quick test.

1-3 are non-negotiable if a safe installation is required.

The above are all catered for if he has an Installation Tester (expensive).

Of course, all the gear in the world is of no use if he does not know how to use it, how to interpret the results and how to fix the issues it brings to light.

Good luck!

Thanks for taking the time to reply Crossy,your info here is great. I was probably unclear with my post asking to list "equipment" required for a safe electrical plan.

I am more after - what type/brand of circuit breaker should I use, what size meter required for small house with minimal appliances (1 air con unit, 1 washing machine, gas cooking)

How many circuits should I do - 1 for hot water,washine machine etc, 1 for kitchen, 1 for lights in each room? (only have 2 rooms of 9m x 3;5m), if the breaker box is earthed, is it still necessary to use

a grounding pole? Which is best way to protect computer and hifi equipment from lightning and power surges?

Cheers mate, your efforts are much appreciated as my sparky does not speak a word of English and my Thai is very limited