WonnabeBiker

Howdy,

I have 2 Iphone 5s and an Ipad. Only the Ip5 with the SIM lock is linked to the Icloud, like the Ipad.

The other Iphone 5 was bought in Vietnam during the last holidays. I urged my Vietnamese friend who bought it for me to please ask the seller to "sign out" of his Icloud.

Well, I have managed to sign out myself, but Apple won't let me sign in.

Some unlock message appeared.

TBH, this is becoming annoying (including my own ignorance and stupidity). Not being able to use an Iphone with the Icloud and 

having vital stuff still coming up in $^^%$%ER%ing Vietnamese (despite setting it to ENLISH) is sullying the otherwise good experience.

A Google search brought up a website, but the Iphone now won't let me enter the ending org - turning it into something else "Vietnamese".

Thanks for reading. 

I tried to call the SSO. What a sick joke, their hotline is:

* often, one doesn't get through.

* choose English and the service won't be provided.

How you doing?

The other day, I used RIA at GSB. The form was easy to fill out. But the staff was telling me nonsense regarding "no fee".

Okay, I sent only 5,500 THB and had to leave in a hurry as the lunch break hour was up.

Upon return, they said "the payment was made" and "there is a 695 THB charge". The exchange rate wasn't great either. And on their website, they fail to state clearly how much such a transfer will cost.

About 2 years ago, I checked out Western Union. Forex losses and fees amounted to about 20%. He** no! ????

With having about 45,000 THB to send, that 1,600 THB flat rate deal by KTB might be the better option. TRANSFERWISE won't do it from Thailand to my home country.

Cheers,

A few years ago, all 5 songthaews demanded the  s a m e  outrageous fare from the Old Town to the bus station. 150 THB I think it was. That stank.

Yesterday, a colleague used GRAB to go to the #1 hotel in Hat Yai named Lee Gardens. The driver took her to some other place... Amazing Thailand!

Mmm, I'm an armchair mechanic and keyboard jockey. But friends have serviced carbs and they know carbs well. No way will someone who knows how to service carbs need to replace them like proposed. This does sound like a rip-off.

Gaskets and stuff are sold by the maker of that carb. And the "i" indicates an injection model, doesn't it?

Is lack of fuel the roots to the problem? Which colour are the spark plugs?

How old / how many miles does the Vespa have?

Some bikes come with a ton of deferred maintenance and I walked away from a Kawa 150 Serpico 2-stroke.

I buy expired protein on Ebay in Germany... A mixer is a must. Add milk, Psyllium Husk, ice, fruit and voila, your meal replacement is going to be delicious!

Resistance training, try to really give this a go, is the way to go.

Check the ingredients. Most "protein" powders are loaded with carbs & fat and junk. And shun "Gainers" like the plague. They sprinkle a bit of protein which should also contain BCAAs by nature to the carbs they peddle. You might as well buy doughnuts in bulk 555.

In the real world, will tenants be fending for themselves?

TV published this law which has been in effect since May. But my multi keeps charging i. 8 THB per kw/h and ii. 150 THB despite taking water meter readings. And there is no proper bill.

Last question, bed bugs. Will this be the tenants' issue?

Just wondering how these things are handled in the real world.

The notice regarding 8 THB per kw/h is posted for all to see on the PM's window. And in 2005, I had to pay 10 THB per kw/h elsewhere.

On 6/7/2018 at 9:55 PM, juice777 said:

Don't think you can build much for 10000THB

I am going home soon if you live in pattaya I have a few spare bits of kit going cheap(some if it I might even be able to give to you) but not sure what yet and how much.And not even sure if any if it will be any good for you.I have a half decent Gaming PC what handles the top games on somewhere near 60FPS on somewhere near high settings but I might take the GPU and ram and mother board etc with me.Or I might sell the whole thing I haven't decided yet.

But if you buy new it will be hard to build anything good for 10000THB especially now GPUs have gone up in price because everyone is mining with them.

You are better of spending about 12 and getting a ps4



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Earlier today, I was looking up Alieenware prices on Ebay. Found some nice ones but for more than double your budgeet. Get a good used one?

Hell yeah! By my school's computer teacher who also owned a computer shop. All new CRRUCIAL RAM bought in the U.S.

4 GB replaced with 1 GB...

...

At Zeer Street, I took one of several Thinkpads for a SSD upgrade. The guy tried the same fairy tale about "CPU / mainboard not working". I swapped computers and voila, the new HDD booted just fine.

Shame? What's that?!?

20 hours ago, NCC1701A said:

I don't have experience with a dog but that sounds crazy high to me.

 

my colonoscopy at Bumrungrad Hospital cost less than 35000. 

 

My cats vet bills run 400-1250 baht. 1250 was for lab tests, antibiotics, shots... 

 

Maybe the one week stay is the expensive part. Did you see how the bill was broken down?

 

 

Look closer to home, following an invoice request from the vet. Go get a copy of that invoice!

In Vietnam, I witnessed a local friend lying about the bill of street food. I happen to know the exact amount and we are talking 50,000 Dong or $ 2.10. Still...

Keeping animals around for a week will unlikely cost more than a grand or two. Think the operation to neuter cats. Back in CA, I paid less than $ 100 in 2004. And they also cut her claws...

The length this has taken renders the verdict unfair, no matter what actually happened back then.

There have been torture and murder cases in Egypt, one involving an Italian academic. Italian Police used mobile phone data and surprise! Cops were at the site the body was dumped ????

If Thailand wants to change for the better, there must be a strict policy of terminating bent coppers. No "inactive posts" and no pensions. - And bring in a lawyer or adulat guarding when interrogating a minor!!!

Excuse me? Playing strangulation - what is wrong with such people?!?

On 10/3/2018 at 6:36 AM, Jimjim1968 said:

Update: I had a buddy from EP (I'm regular kids) read out his contract (I presume it's the same). There is no mention of holidays, only 10 days for sick/personal business. Looks like we're screwed. but they have lost all my good will. I'll finish the contract in March and leave.

Excuse me, some moron is violating Thai labour law. Go get this sorted subito, pronto. Get some holidays, return refreshed and do a better job upon return than without holidays.

Private school: Google, call Labour Court, they do have lawyers and this is a basic question and no, holidays are 100% NOT "optional for folks working i. full-time with ii. a 12-months-contract. Government school, contact Administrative Court. They have lawyers, too. (Just get the facts, from the horse's mouth. And nip it in the bud!

On 10/2/2018 at 5:34 PM, Jimjim1968 said:

 

Thanks. The contracts are in the office. A buddy went to get it today but there was no one there. We are employees, 12 months contract, up to 25 hours a week contact time, not sure about holiday time.

 

I will attempt to find out.

Is that a government school?

Silly people! What's wrong with teachers recharging their batteries?!? Sounds like some petty, spiteful farang-hater coming up with his own "ideas", which are presented as "rules".  But then, aren't those the people who make new starts cought up big bucks to get jobs in the first place?!?

A director once suckered the new starts. At the first introduction, he requested that the foreigners hold some seminar. No takers, so it was turned into free lessons.

Well, as self-proclaimed 'King of Misers', my phone cost 200 THB and is 11 years old. The next one will be an Iphone 5 for less than 1,500 THB.

That said, I cannot see the young lady keeping all those balls in the air. Supporting Dad, paying school fees for some kids in her family? STOP, if that list gets longer, we are in a dream world.

She might be buying 2nd hand clothes like yours truly, but it's mission impossible to do all those things on 15,000 THB.

I ride a small motorcycle. My phone bill is both unlimited (within AIS plus slow internet) @ 100 THB a month, prepaid as 6 months for 600 THB.

My tip to her: stay away from supermarkets!!!

On 10/4/2018 at 3:47 AM, The manic said:

Fantasy and delusion. 

There has to be  s o m e  time off. NO HOLIDAYS would contravene Thai law. Besides, the Thais are all getting time off.

In the light of you  not  doing anything productive, this is like making some chain gang of prisoners do something, anything.

Some people have weird ideas. Others play power games and let a select few go on holiday while demanding that others sign in.

Bloody hell, here we go again!

I had been told "2 weeks holidays"... then I got a call waiting for my overseas flight... You are only temporary...

Even the cleaners get  s o m e  holidays. and they are just mean fools: holidays benefit the employer, too. Really, think about it.

With you having nothing, nada to do, this is just an exercise of abusive power. (Years ago, a school granted us 4 weeks holidays, then refused to pay the salary, ad hoc. But we had a contract for like X months x 27,000 THB and they ended up paying, after mulling it over for days.

They walk among us!

Hey, holidays are part of the law!

Check out Vietnam! Buy a long VISA on arrival (hey, Thailand; wake up)

Find a town you like.

Check out the posts on www.expat.com

Sending money back home has been an issue for me, TBH. But you may find a work-around to this issue with time.

Got an explanation? Am shocked at consistently high prices for now dated notebook RAM...

May I just show up and talk to the monks? Would donate something and be okay to sleep on a straw mat or on the floor

Experiences, please!

Should I stay at a hotel? I'd like to experience the real temple life

Thank you

Airlines won't take him in First class, with the privacy screen in place and a nurse accompanying him and a dozen release forms signed? He will be quiet, wear adult diapers... Just wondering.

Wish Thailand would make VISAs easier and add health insurance for tourists. Short-term visitors get that with their gold cards or can buy it for a month in their home countries.

Euthanasia would be an act of kindness for many soi dogs. I saw one running scared with his front leg hanging by a bit of skin. Wish I had the chance to catch him and have him put down painlessly!

I heard of a drug named "Bath Salts" turning users into zombies (eating neighbors' pets etc.). So this guy was walking around in public and next we know, his lower lip was bitten off? <deleted>?!?

Or are we to believe he was attempting to attack some random woman in public on Walking Street?!? Bizarre, whatever went down

10 hours ago, Somtamnication said:

That is bad. One day, one of my students asked me why her English homework was wrong; her well written paragraph had: "She was in an accident and went to the hospital". Perfect, right?  The teacher scratched out "accident" and wrote "accidented".

 

I bought her some ice cream.

 

Am checking a PhD thesis. Instead of "pregant", xx times "pregnancy" is being used...

They can't even check the standards of their English teachers, <deleted>. But hey,  o n l y  500 criteria (which the minister can enumerate at any time without a teleprompter. Why not 699 criteria? Add body image data, measure the range of teachers' voices and their heart beat and brain function during such evaluations...

Sounds great, huh?

But they keep speaking Thai during "English lessons". And guess what, some kids cannot even form simple sentences or even read English by  the 8th grade. (Yes, they were bright girls, well behaved and eager to learn. No I-don't-care-village-kids).

Just keep telling yourselves that all is well and don't think too much, huh? Fail nobody, render the brightest students' results worthless...