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  1. You might want to look for street lighting LED assemblies as normal LEDs assemblies used in the house won't do the job right (something to do with light distribution ). LEDs are very energy efficient but may cost a bit more than conventional sodium street lights.

  2. Be there at around 4am. By 5am there will already be a very long queue for those big laminated numbers. After you get one of those big laminated cards from the immigration staff you wait until the number on the card is called out and someone from the staff will ask you the reason for your visit and will give you the appropriate queue stub as well as tell you whether you wait in the morning or come back in the afternoon. Visa Extensions usually last half a day. 90 day report will probably less than an hour or two if you're early.

    Basically it's queueing early to get a queue number so you can queue to get another number for another queue... :D:lol::D .

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  3. If you're showing up on the day it expires, I'd get there a lot earlier than 6am.......go for 4am to be safe.

    I agree... go there earlier just to be on the safe side. By 5:00AM there would already be a very long queue at the front door. By 6:00 some immigration officials will be giving out those big laminated numbers.
  4. About past 7:00 just out of Bosang towards the Super Highway as the police an EMT where on the scene trying to sort thing out, traffic slowed down to a grinding pace. From what I saw, I think there were three vehicles involved, including a black "tuner" and a school van carrying students. The other car (not the tuner) looked like a huge crumpled piece of paper lying in the middle of the road. Glass shards and car bits where scattered everywhere on the road.

  5. As far as I know it goes like this:

    Anubaan 1-3 (Nursery/Kindergarden)

    Pratom - 1-6 (Primary School)

    Matayom - 1-3 (compulsory) Secondary school

    Matayom - 4-6 (optional) Secondary school (can also change to vocational course instead at this stage)

    Mahavitiyalai - University - I'm not sure if teachers during M6 would help with the application process but at this stage the kids can apply for Uni

    Can some of the learned folk review the table above?

    Correct?

    Also add some typical child's/teenager's age to the above.

    As always ... thanks a heap.

    I am learning by reading and your experience is being passed onto me ... wai.gif

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    Let me try:

    Anubaan 1-3 (Nursery/Kindergarden) (around 3 to 4 years old-6 years old)

    Pratom - 1-6 (Primary School) (7 years old-12 years old)

    Matayom - 1-3 (compulsory) Secondary school (13 years old-15 years old)

    Matayom - 4-6 (optional) Secondary school (16 years old-18 years old)

    Some schools offer Triam Anubaan (literally translated as Preparatory for Kindergarten) which is a bit bonkers I think, since kindergarten is in itself pre-school education... so it would mean pre-pre-school).

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  6. Last year, one of my students participated in a storytelling competition. One of the judges was a big shot English teacher in a public school (she was in her fifties and everyone was tip-toeing and kowtowing in front of her). When my colleague approached to talk to her to clarify the contest regulations, one of the Thai teachers from the host school stopped her and told her it would be pointless since Ms. Bigshot Head English Teacher doesn't speak the language. My colleague ignored the warning and went ahead. Her inquiries were met with a blank stare followed by the usual "Mai Khawchai!" The other foreign teachers and I had a hard time containing ourselves from laughing out loud over the hilarity of the situation which became a hot topic in the school bus on our way back home.

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  7. The original poster's responses, phonetically in English:

    1. rawang nawy na .... man praw' bang (lit. "please be careful, it's fragile")

    2. nuat bao bao ... yaa chai raeng maak (lit. "massage softly, don't use much strength")

    No. 1's right on the money, don't forget the "khrap" or "na khrap" at the end of the sentence.As for no. 2, you could say,"Bao bao noi, da mai, jaah?".

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  8. Just go to an AIS, True Move, or DTAC center, they'll set you up. All three carriers have them at Airport Plaza. Plans go from1GB per month to unlimited. You get a text message at the end of the month to remind you to top up your credits. You also get a text when you are near your bandwidth limit if you choose a limited plan.

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  9. You can just go there earlier just before opening time. Most of the time there will always be space in the outdoor parking lot.

    Kad Suan Kaew can be worse at times, especially when you have to pay for 10 baht.

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