Lifer

The prostate is an endocrin gland hence you need to see an endocrinologist, Dr Ampica at Sriphat Hospital (13th floor) is one of the very best in the country and a consultation with her should be no more than 300 baht plus the cost of tests.

Bad advice. Go see a Urologist at Sripat, Ram, or clinic of your choosing. The PSA test for men over 50 is ordered by the urologist who will also do a rectal digital exam. My Internal medicine Dr of 15 years does a thorogh exam as well and will send the PSA test off to the lab he uses for testing. You don't have to see endocrinologist.

I tried to sympathise with the sentiment of the some Red Shirt supporters – i.e. the working class fight for democracy (supposedly). Now their protests are signs of threat/aggression and simply bothersome.

On the way to work this morning (7.30am) – a Red Shirt truck was blaring music at full volume! 7.30am!!! That is just inconsiderate, intrusive and plain selfish. I don’t care how noble the cause is – I don’t want to listen to any loud music at 7.30am in the morning!!!

Although I live in a "red Shirt" area and see this l kind of crap going on all the time, remember that Thais only really care about themselves when it comes to disturbing neighbors with their drinking, low music, and 1-5 dogs/house.

The key to living in Thailand is to stay away from all the blatant tourist places, scams, and criminal activity. Enjoy the village life, the food, etc. I have seen a definite bit by bit deteriation since 1972 of the Thailand it used to be. The culture is also starting to decline in importance to many Thais too.

Want it rolled, stick to the tourist areas (traps). Want to enjoy Thailand stick to other areas of Thailand. There is a big difference between the slicksters of the city and the hard working farmers in the village.

Well its friday, I think I'll take walk over to my neighbor and good friend's house.He's a US educated thai army colonel. He will have a good laugh reading the majority of the posts on here.

You don't have to be a retired Army Colonel to get a laugh reading TV. Many Thai Officers and technicians were trained at Lowry AFB, Colorado back in the 70's too. They didn't go to China, they came to the US.

It will definitely increase the number of fake phones in Thailand.

Actually the poster is spot on. Retirees have great experience (usually) after working their entire life that could be used to help the Thai people. I have been here long enough to know some that volunteer anyway, and just stay low key about it. Usually nobody complains about it unless they think your getting paid for your work.

Only time is usually right after you apply for the first extension based on marriage. Immigration police come out to the house and go through rooms, open closet doors to make sure your actually living together, talk to neighbhors, and get someone that knows you, where you live, to sign an affidavit that they know you, and you live together.

After that, never saw them again. Guess it was the underware, after being washed, hanging together on the rack outside that convinced them. Nothing to worrty about. They were very polite and nice in my case. Wife was at work when they came.

What a huge waste of a great potential resource! I reckon quite a significant percentage of retired expats would be very interested in at least part time volunteer work. Many of us have lots to give from a lifetime of work experience. Another example of protectionist policies shooting Thailand in it's own foot.

Agree! Just add it to the list of things you don't like about Thailand. They don't like volunteers to be involved anymore than other countries that try and help in cases of disaster. It's their country.

Thai paranoia will distroya.

Pictures almost always required with CV's sent to Thai employers and companies. Do not know about requirement for Foreigners. Have never submitted one ever. The reason is that many Thai's/companies hire employees based on looks that would be illegal under many Western laws.

Does not surprise me. People on here and other forums openly talk about how they use this type of visa in Thailand to either study legitimately or to just have an extended stay in Thailand.

Immigration have long used websites and forums as research to close perceived “loop holes”

Totally agree. Seems posters do some crazy thing to avoid legality and then talk and sometimes brag about it on TV about how they got away with it. If you don't think someone in Immigration or Thai Government is not reading these open forems from time to time, I have some resort property to sell you in the Louisiana swamps. A few spoil it for the ones trying to do the right thing. Could care less if you agree or not.

Is anybody actually surprised by these reports?! Every facet of Government and non-government life is envolved in these type of things. Changes start at home with parents teching their kids, and possible a few really outstanding Thai people in top positions able to start and enforce change.

Thais only care about themselves. That's the way they are raised, with the exception of a village where many of the residents are related in some way. The owners will walk away from their small houses or single story shop homes and rent to idiots who bring in, not only 1 dog, but three or 4. They bark day and night, especially if they go off and are not home, and don't give a rats behind whether you can sleep at night or are disturbed all day.

We have even seen Beverly Hillbillies come in to a nice place where most own their homes and bring their roosters and chickens with them to run around a crow. None of the neighbors like it, but do not have the backbone to speak up.

I've seen Thais dump garbage or trash over their fence wall into a a small canal or into anothers yard when nobodies looking. The educated Thais dond't do this, it is the villagers who decide to move intod the big city and destroy the environment that saved their entire life for.

Love or leave it. It's not our country. The only thing you can do is hope that some of the more educated Thais will eventually get tired of it and say something.

I have found the superstores here good. Many are foreigned owned and used to having somekind of return policy if you follow their requirments. Don't bother with the Mom and Pop places. Once they have your money they do not care if yoou ever come back to buy anything. The exception is if you have lived in a village for some time and they know you or your wife, then they will make adjustments sometimes.

My wife can go to the market on market day and if she forgets her money, can buy anything and pay the vendor later. That's Thais trusting Thais.

Wish they would do it at every intersection 24/7 and out McKean Hospital way.

Come up and spend a couple weeks here in a GH and search these things out for yourselves. Everyone will have there own ideas about Chiangmai depending on their background. Two weeks is probabaly not even long enough because the longer your in any new place, you will see things differently. Kind of like the honeymoon versus your 5th year of marriage. Lots of inexpensive GH's and this is off season.

It's not home, it's Thailand. You hve to adjust or go somewhere where you can adjust and be ahppy with your environoment. It's always greener on the other side of the fence! NOT!

He must have been reading your posts on Thai Visa.

Maybe the Thais are tired of reading all the rude, crude remarks about Thai people, culture, and Government that posters put up on TV blogs, and decided they are going to give back some of the same medicine. Most of the expats here go about their business, minding their own business, and never have the kinds of problems that many posters complain about.

Isn't it amazing that Thais must go outside of Thailand to find role models doing the right thing and obeying the laws.

I have several Kasikorn accounts. I opened my first in Bkk on Sukhumvit near Emporium and was asked to show my work permit. I do not have one but I have several accounts so I was permitted to open a new one. Otherwise, not.

So what! These posts keep sinking lower.

Amazing how many despicable dishonest people will still try a way to steal TV channels from true without paying for them; Most likely the same ones who complain about Thaiws ripping them off in one way or another.

Unfortunately the only idea they will accept from an expat is the one that they can claim they thought of themselves. They don't want expats telling them what to do, might look bad. I'm sure posters could come up with a lot of ideas that make better sense than what they are doing.

Why should somebody who lives here, retired or married have to go in every 90 days to tell them they live in the same place. It should only be done annually with the extension or if the address changes.

It's not the long termers they should worry about. It's the ones that don't qualify to be here long term who are breaking the rules, lying about their situation, or making border runs to stay here a long time.

A lot of stupid posts and questions on this site! Posters are so lazy they can't go find any information themseves, or they are so addicted to their computers they don't want to go out to get information themselves.