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FYI - For those of you with Haemochromatosis diagnosed or undiagnosed (very common) like a lot of people diabetes is basically a symptom of this condition. Worth getting an iron panel done as the 2 are like close siblings. Also if you donate blood or do phlebotomy it will screw with any A1C test results and you will need to wait 3 months from blood donation to do an accurate A1C test again.

I've had 2 friends (seperate occasions) get called aside entering at suvarnabhumi and asked to pay a fee to fix it all and be let through. It happens.

What date did this tax stuff come into effect. I might be due.

Lost me at "commemorative stickers".

Maybe he didn't know the game. When I was fresh off the plane I had no idea on the intricacies of drink commisions

Tim newton today. Is that still going. Literally gets paid to read the news i am reading each morning laced with his opinions.

Ironically i see a lot of the time nobody is "sending them" but they work illegally on student or tourist visas. But thats ok.

Storm my butt. Went to work today no farang massage storm. In real world people are happy. Storms like this only exist online.

I was sitting eating a bowl of ramen in suvarnabhumi awhile ago. It was around 200฿ from memory. A young blonde girl with a large backpack walked up to the menu, pointed out a dish and asked "can you do it any cheaper". She tried to haggle over a plate of cheap airport food then gave up and left. Also watched a young man try to haggle a bloody bicycle in chiang mai and get it down like 20 baht. Wtf people.

And added the word MISTER. Had a problem with satangpro because of this ridiculous thing. Satangpro is now Orbix after kasikorn bought it.

I've.seen a thai woman crap in the gutter and thai men piss on phone boxes and walls in cties. Nobody bats an eyelid. Most taxi riders piss on the street nearby. Give me the location of 1 public toilet in phuket, pattaya or bangkok that is free and provided to the people by the council and not a truck stop, shop or bar. I can think of 1 in a park. Rarer than hens teeth.

This is life of Thailand expat in a nutshell. We will always just be second class citizens regardless of our documents or how well we speak / read Thai.

Meanwhile in completely unrelated news.

I moved my whole condo contents from pattaya to phuket using kerry's biggest available boxes. It's quite easy. They come and pick them up from you. The hardest part was needing to go to a few different 7/11s to gather the boxes as they were either low in stock or all out.

Hardly an "overwhelming" list of documents on paper.

Great that it's open source but they need to address the privacy policy concerns and add an opt-out option. Until then it is only safe to run locally (ollama) or via a third party that processes data in a better way. Particularly: Where We Store Your Information "The personal information we collect from you may be stored on a server located outside of the country where you live. We store the information we collect in secure servers located in the People's Republic of China." and "The Services are supported by certain entities within our corporate group. These entities process Information You Provide"

No money or loss of face involved = Don't give a f.

In my experience getting a single baht out of a Thai is like trying to get blood from a stone. However, Thais seem to get baht out of everyone else like magic. The company should have used an intermediary agent instead of sending some ill-equipped woman who I assume knows about 3 words of Thai to come knocking on some rich, already agitated, Thai mans door.

"Phuket Smart Hub 4.0"

"excess of vehicles TOURISM." I can't see AI being any less intelligent than what is happening now. Providing they know how to use it as sorry but often I see them unable to make a simple website or correct road sign let alone implement AI into traffic control. Has this magically cured Bangkoks traffic woes? Everyday cars are banked up in the heart of Phuket at the heroines monument roundabout and they close the thing? I'm not sure stopping the roundabout function and forcing people to pass, do a u-turn and pass through it a second time is "intelligent"? In my observations of passing through the thing almost daily a lot of people have no idea how to use a roundabout and the lines are worn away adding to the confusion of wtf is going on and what lane you are suddenly in. Where are the BILLIONS of baht going? I see a lot of money coming in but the output of infrastructure doesn't seem to match? Shouldn't it be a rich province with a wallet bursting at the seems to improve infrastructure? Even then they don't have a lot of wiggle room with Phukets sudden growth. New laws allowing them to "build on hillsides" and a huge road that passes right through what is left of the jungle in the centre of the island is going to destroy what's left of Phukets enviroment more. Last year it took them I think at least six months to add larger drainage and redo a 100m stretch of road beside Tesco Ratsada. Bit of a rant but it's frustrating to see what is happening to the island. I'm considering moving to somewhere far away from the traffic and hordes of russian tourists this year. The place ain't what it used to be. My opinion.

Savannakhet dont bother. Vientiane I have seen mostly all positive reports but I haven't followed the topic on facebook over the last 1 or 2 months.

you proove location with a photo of your entry stamp into vietnam. Be aware that they sometimes request all pages of your passport on top of this but that is not needed by default. They say 5 days for processing. Be aware of the public holidays listed on the embassies website not counting. If they request additional documents this can rest the clock. Also consider for each category of document you can only upload 1 pdf file with a small filesize limit. Example, All your muay thai documents need to be tinified and consolidated into 1 pdf. I booked ten days and was done in 5. If you use vietjet they are easy to reschedule as needed. I think the fee for that is $30 from memory.

I used to feel sorry for them until they murdered that elderly couple south of phuket and stole their boat to go to indonesia

I stopped using lazada a couple of months now and just using shopee. I always paid with thai bank card but it had some other issue come up that has been a topic of discussion here a few months ago. Would like to sort it out but it was quite a confusing pain in the ass to get my head around it from memory.

Obviously full of Russians. This "Thai prison nightmare" is still better for them than getting blown in half in their frontlines. If Thailand sent them packing like Sri Lanka did quite a few would take their chances with overstay I think.