briley

Were you told the same as me?

When I did my retirement extension a week or so ago I was told I had to do a 90 day reporting on the date my retirement extension started - 12th Feb. This was despite doing a 90 day reporting early in January. Interesting the 90 day form has 12th Feb stamped on it.

I plan to go on the 12th, if I do have to do a 90 day then it seems the rules have changed.

The bus takes less than 4 hours - normally gets to Mai Sai before midday - 10 baht red bus to the border. But make sure you book your return ticket before going to the border, the bus back can be full and then you are stuck.

I wouldn't take the cheaper buses, very slow and uncomfortable.

The A/C bus is very nice and comfortable. Leaves about 8am and you get back early evening. Works fine.

Easyride - Nationwide reject ATMs that do not have a chip reader inside them. Look for a new machine or one in a bigger branch as they do have chip readers inside.

I got that information from Nationwide who knew I had used an ATM and what time - but that NW had rejected the transaction.

http://www.thanachartauction.com/

Use google to translate but it is easy to click on the car with next months date. No auction for Chiang Mai is shown as far as I can see.

Held behind Carrefour - the super highway one.

Thaivisa insurance- what do you charge for taxing a vehicle?

Just to echo Jingjok the rules are straight forward and on the web site.

In addition Inland Revenue are actually there to help you and will answer questions and tell you the rules. Anonymously if you want.

You must have a UK address - they send you a code to that address that has to be entered within 30 days. Once you have done that and registered there is nothing to stop you using the system from anywhere.

A friends address will do.

If the condo is still below the 50% foreign ownership woldn't it be a good idea for your 'company' to sell the unit to you?

Very low cost in selling and buying until April.

Mind I have a friend who is having problems winding up his 'company' and is still paying for it each year.

90% of all trade between the founding ASEAN countries, according to the BBC, is now tax free.

Couple of other countries (Vietnam?) are joining the group later.

A few of us oldies still like the radio - and you can't get radio 5 sports programs from the iPlayer.

But you can if you use your-freedom, only as said before they throttle the connection.

However once the connection is made if you are listening using real player you can disconnect from your-freedom and the program continues to come, un-throttled. Also think this is polite to not abuse your-freedom.

SWMBO can now listen to Liverpool FC play.

There is petrol near the junction on the main road. I think there might even be one at a fork just up the road towards Doi Inthanon - but do not think there is any inside the gate.

Don't forget to use your licence to get Thai entry prices.

It is a full days journey there and back.

I've always used meths - methylated spirits often purple coloured. Yes has a bit of a smell but nothing compared to the food.

Seen it for sale in most supermarkets.

Depends on what you are calling a moped - I did it on a 100cc bike with a passenger. More problem is brakes overheating on the way down.

Take Harry's warning about temperatures.

Macromedia (makers of dreamweaver) have a set of tutorials on using dreamweaver on their web site. You can even download a trial version of dreamweaver to go through the steps with them.

Probably get to it through the adobe website.

Starts the day your flight lands (or is scheduled to land) to the day it takes off. Even if you are scheduled to land at 2359 that one minute counts as one full day.

And the day you arrive is day 1, next day day 2 etc so if you arrive on the 1st you have to leave on the 29th - NOT the 30th.

Rimping in town, near airport plaza, had some yesterday.

Probably worth 180 Baht.

It only OCRs simple Thai, any complicated layout, small text or diagrams makes problems. Even using a longer document can cause problems.

Depends what you want from the software.

PS - don't try Google translate for English to Thai and expect it to be understandable. But it will make Thai friends laugh.

For translations I use Google.

They are hopeless at word order and sentences but translates each word at a time. However if you are reasonably fluent in English you cna make a stab at the meaning.

Or roll around on the floor laughing.

TOT 2mb for 490pm - near CMU. Been with them for 5 years

Mostly get 2mb whenever I want it. Use the net all day every day for over 5 years. During that time a few breaks in service of an hour or so but no more. One period recently when I could not get web sites (everything else worked) for a weekend but that seemed to be a Thailand wide problem.

Compare to the UK. (hope the layout works)

............................Thailand (TOT).............UK (Plusnet)

Cost......................490pm........................660pm

Max speed down....2Meg (get 2Meg)...........up to 8Meg (get 3 meg)

Max speed up........512Kb..........................256Kb

Restrictions:

Monthly traffic........none (50G last month)...10Gig pm

speed restrictions...none.............................varies over the day and type of usage

connection probs....very few........................very few

Finereader version 10 does do Thai script - does a good job as well.

So does the later versions of Finereader 9 build 1019 and above. I have not found any noticeable improvement between v9 and v10 so if you have v9 make sure it is updated to the latest build

Am I the only one who thinks that all these 'speed test' things are a waste of time?

I've tried a few and get very varying results.

A 'real life' test is to find a big file on a good site and down load it, read the download speed on your screen.

I download open office using uTorrent (a completely legal download) and get speeds near to my 2meg limit almost every time.

Of course this does not check your upload speed so efficiently but again with torrents my maximum upload is around the 512K I pay for.

(Do note you often have to multiply the figure in your torrent program by 8 to get the figure talked about by the ISPs as one is bytes and one bits.)

Most ATMs had a limit of 25 notes - some can pay out more these days - so 25,000 Baht is the normal mechanical limit of the machine.

Of course the Thai bank might limit the withdrawal to 20,000 baht or less and many UK banks limit you to £300, or about 16,000 Baht.

The 2nd hand computer stuff is very overprice. They seem to want two thirds the new price for a machine 3-4 years old with dubious battery.

I recommend saving up and go for new.

Nationwide again!

I had my cards refused by an ATM saying refer to my bank.

I e-mailed nationwide and their reply on one of the cards might be interesting.

They found the record of my two attempts to withdraw and said they had refused them as the ATM did not have a chip reader and Nationwide are refusing withdrawals from these older types of machines. Recommenced I went to a machine in a main bank branch where they have more modern ATMs.

Instead I went into Bangkok bank and took out 40,000 Baht over the counter for no charge.