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Not sure what you mean with "have land and a house but not on the same plot". "Chanot" is a nickname for the Nor Sor 4 title-deed, which is the only title deed with full ownership. There are numerous titles for deeds, some of them are only for right to use the land for farming (a post above has shown names). A house book – also called the Blue House Book – is NOT proof of ownership, it just shows the house number and address, and who is registered as living at that address. One person will be registered as "host" – which can be the house owner – that person can allow other people to be registered on the address in the house book. Foreigners are listed in a separate Yellow House Book. I'm not aware of what "metal signs" you mention.

Yes.

"The next day they finally contacted Mrs. Sun and found she was safe with a different group of friends on the Pha Ngan Island in Surat Thani."

Thanks for your comment. About ceremonies. When a spirit house is put up there will (normally) not be any ghosts moving in. You need a brahmin or shaman to make the ether-beings aware of their new home(s). There are going to be both be plenty of food and other stuff to make the new place interesting for the ghosts. The Shaman will place the small figurs that symbolic are going to host the invisible inhabitants of the house. The shaman will also shout at the spirits to force them to move into the house and often use noisy fireworks, just like the Chinese use fireworks at Chinese New Year to clean the houses from bad spirits. That kind of beings hate loud noises, also cymbals and drums are effective. Some of my images from a housewarming party for ghosts... As with the much in Thailand, the ceremony can vary from area to area, some places Buddhist monks will do the ceremony and persuade the spirits to move in. Nobody dare to touch an abandoned spirit house remaining in place. It needs to be moved to a forest. There might still be some beings living in the house and – probably not to be haunted by ghosts – abandoned spirit houses in a forest might still have fresh gifts placed in front for a while, like this abandoned home at Ghost Road, where a figure that might be hosting a ghost is still sitting there... If a ghost has already moved in, you can satisfy it with a shrine. The story here is about a spirit that lived in a sacred palm – a very high straight palm, unlike the often bended coconut palms. A foreigner bought the land a wanted to build a house, but was told that he could not cut down that sacred palm in the middle – no workers dared to do it – so he had his coming luxury house designed with the sacred palm standing in the middle, actually in a part of the living room, which made the house look quite outstanding. However, the coming house owner didn't show up for a ceremony to ask the spirits of the land's for permission to build the new house. That means bad luck – the house will never be a lucky home. A lightning hit the sacred palm-tree so it died during the building process; not to forget to say that the workers got really scared. Now the house was reconstructed so there would be roof over the area where the sacred palm once was. A old lady living nearby had a dream – or enlightment – where a ghost came to her and told her that it's home had burned by lightning and the new house owner didn't give the spirit new home – i.e., placed a spirit house on the land plot, where you some times will place a temporary home for the spirits of the land during house construction – so now the spirit has moved in a big three on a nearby land plot, neighbouring the old lady. The old lady had a shrine placed for the new inhabitant in the tree... The foreigner that build the new house never placed any homes for ghosts and (therefore) had many problems – the roof was leaking and resultet in heavy water damages – and finally he had to sell it, as it became too expensive to keep, some of the money also came from a mortgage. A new foreign owner also got lots of serious problems – and also more water damages plus the costs of a new roof on top of the old one – and finally gave up to stay in the house, which is abandoned at the moment. It has been up for sale – however, the sign seems to disappear a couple of times, without the house being sold – so if you are interested in spending $2.5 million in a haunted home, you might have a bargain right here. Therefore, in Thailand it's (very) important always to ask permission from the ether beings and in general have a good relationship with them. If you build a house, have the monks or an astrologer to give you the right starting time and point the lucky post, which is the first one to be raised. And don't forget to place a small piece of gold under it. And don't forget gifts to the spirits and attend the ceremony yourself as coming house owner – even that you don't believe in ghost, your workers and neighbours do – you never know what is the truth. The photo is the erection of the lucky post when I build my house in 2009 – and yes, i have had no problems (so far)...

"Additionally the autopsy result is awaited to determine the cause of death but it is still uncertain whether he was hanged or hanged himself, they said." (Quote from article.) Probably difficult to hang oneself with hands tied on the back with cable ties; even if one suffers from depression and is a long time habitant on the island. The are a number of Ukrainians living/staying on Samui, some have been here since before the Covid-pandemic.

Oh, they look really Lanna! I see, one of them has a ladder, one has none. In the ghost houses I see on the rice fields, they always have a letter. Are they for spirits that can't fly? They – the two spirit houses – are for two different kind of spirits. The one with the ladder is for the garden-spirits Chao Thi or spirits of the land – they seems to need a ladder to climb up into their home – while the one post house is for the ancestor's spirits or spirits of the house, or the house guards Phra Phum, which apparently seems to be more ether-beings and able to fly into the home. In rice fields it Phi Na you needs to make happy. That spirit is guardian of fields and rice paddy, and also needs a ladder. It is (extremely) important, always to ask the spirits for permission. There are 8 further ghosts/spirits besides the ones for garden and house and fields. They are the guards for gates and stairs, why you never must step on the doorstep to a Thai house; guardians of animals; guardians of storehouses and barns yards; guardian of forrest/woods; guardian of mountains; guardian of fruit plantagens; guardian of water; and guardians of military defence installations. Old spirit houses cannot just be disposed, they needs to placed in a wood. Where I live we have a road called Ghost Road, where the old outdated spirit houses ends... You might also see a tree with lots of coloured bands and often women's dress and shoes, they are for phi nang Ta-khian / younger sister Ta-khian-ghost. She is the keeper of the merawan wood, called ta-khian in Thai, a wood that has excellent properties for building the characteristic Long-tail boats. If you cut down the tree and use it for something other than boat building, for example to build a house, nang Ta-Khian will take cruel revenge, death may be the result... Larger companies, on the other hand, have a shrine to Phra Phrom, the Thai representation of the Hindu god deva Brahma, who is generally believed to protect against danger and bring prosperity in business... Spirits seem to prefer red drinks – especially Red Est or Red Fanta – for which there is not one good explanation. A newspaper (I cannot mention due to Forum-rules) wrote in an article that the red drinks may be due to kuman thong, which is marked as a figure of a little boy, or nang kwak, the beckoning younger girl. Child ghosts are said to like red drinks, just like other children. But it could also be because the red sweet drink is sweet enough to have enough energy for wishes to be fulfilled. The article added that there are many possibilities, and also mentions blood, that devotees probably don't want to cut themselves every day to please these beings, so instead they started offering them bottles of red potion - to trick them... So, I always store Red Fanta in my house...

I was also asked about religion and why I wanted to live/stay in Thailand. It seems to vary a lot between the provinces, others have posted that they more-or-less got their Yellow House Book with only an approved translation of their passport.

I just follow the local traditions and what my lovely girlfriend decide to give of alms for the monks; it's her money. I also attend service in a temple – when needed – and politely try to follow the custom. I was mainly the one that insisted on a pair of spirit houses next to my house. Both because it's custom, but also because I like them – I chose a pair of wood houses from Chiang Mai – and just in case, if there are spirits living on the land or from any ancestors, I might also be prevented from being haunted by angry poltergeists inside my own house. Just got my ghost's houses replaced – I hope the ether beings will be happy now – as the former set was worn out after almost 14 years heavy use, helped by the local weather gods...

To my experience and knowledge – I'm also extending stay based on retirement... 1) You can do it up to 45 days before expiry date of your present stay, but you need to check with the local immigration office, some don't accepts more than 30 days before. 2) You shall apply for extension of stay at the immigration office where you live (i.e. your registered address). 3) Retirement extension is simple, you don't need an agent, just follow the local immigration office's rules (they are little different from office to office). 4) You don't need agent; however, for service with paperwork a few thousand baht would be a fair price. 5) You can go alone, you don't need a translator at the major locations with foreigners, they often have a list in English with requirements; all forms are in both English and Thai language.

Yes, to my knowledge you need to be registered in a house book to get a Thai ID-card. The interview is probably needed if you have not been registered in a house book before and lived abroad; just like when a foreigner applies for being registered in a yellow house book.

Yes.

Link HERE – it's fusion jazz; I'm the original producer and publisher. Same theme use HERE (YouTube) in a more contemporary remix/new-work, one of several. More HERE of recent re-releases on vinyl and contemporary remixes/new-works.

Isn't that what I just said: "double albums"... PS: I just got one of tracks I've produced re-released on a 45RPM compilation double-album vinyl.

It's depending of where you live. Some has reported here – in ASEAN NOW forums – that it's an easy process, for others it has been complicated. In my own case it was almost like applying for permanent residency; apart from not been paying income tax from work in Thailand; I was allowed a translator (my lovely girlfriend) for the interview; and I should not sing the national hymn (the tessa ban-staff shall be happy that I did not sing).

No, the flat disc was invented by Emile Berliner in 1887, and further completed by Peter Goldmark to the LP-vinyl disc in 1948. Frequencies over 16kHz are not interesting, as you hardly can hear them, one non-existing musical octave more is 16-32kHz. In the lacquer cutting process the treble limiter would normally be set at 15kHz. 44kHz 16-bit linear digital sound goes up to 20kHz, which is just 1/4 of an octave over 16kHz, where you might be lucky to find some key rattling sound; which was our usual HF-test in recording studios. And you still need microphones to record acoustic sound – and overtones – but also microphones has a limit in frequency range. The best studio microphones, for example the Neumann U87 or Røde NT1, don't snap anything higher the 20kHz. Many microphones are in the range up 15kHz, which is enough in most cases...

Vinyl sales are up and vinyl is the present trend, numerous of old albums are re-released, some even a double albums with 45RPM instead of 33RPM.

The missing full story link to PBS is HERE.

Different sites have different measuring stations, which will gives different results depending on placement and wind... Source link HERE. Source link HERE. You can search on Google for a site that reports from a station nearby where you live.

It's an international air quality site and it's working – you can check the historical hourly readings (time is UTC/GMT) or monthly readings day by day – there is normally not that much difference on the air quality in Samui. It's mainly when wind carries haze from Malaysian fires up to here that the air quality get's bad... The ASEAN-site HERE is however, not working.

This HERE (AirQuality.com) is the normally used for Thailand...

Ask the local immigration office – not all offices follow the official regulations – it's better to just do it online than being refused extension of stay until you have made a new TM30 registration, and return in the queue line with same-day bank statements.

It's correct that you don't need to re-register TM30 within the valid stay-period. The clause says in English translation... “2.2: After the householder, owner or possessor of the premises of the hotel has reported, as defined in Article 2.1, the same alien has left the premises and returned for another stay within the valid period, the householder, owner or possessor of the premises of the hotel does not need to make another report; The alien as defined in paragraph 1 shall include those who hold multiple-entry visas who leave and return to the Kingdom within the specified period of the visa, and those with reentry permits.” Previously, immigration offices in Thailand required a new TM30 report within 24 hours every time a person left and reentered the country. This change eliminates that requirement. However, some immigration offices might still want a TM30 when one leaves the country, or just leaving the province – the office where I live do – so either check with the local immigration office or just register a new TM30. The valid stay period is the length of stay stamped in your passport from entry or extension of stay. As I understand it, you need to register a TM30 again when you get a new extension of stay.

I've tried a cheap, not brand name water pump; I cannot remember the name. It was close to half price of a brand name water pump, but it didn't even last half the lifetime of a brand name pump – it went to the eternal water pump fields shortly after the one year warranty period ended. My reasonably priced brand name water pumps have in average lasted about 7 years.

I'm not a fan, I just follow their demands – it makes a life much more easy. About "make their life, and ours, simpler" we have the pinned thread about Samui Immigration. It seems like each province have slightly different local regulations, so a database/website would be one for each province, or even one for each immigration office. That's why the pinned thread, which started as a retirement extension advise, but includes numerous other things about Samui Immigration, is so useful. Some of us pops by a few days before and get the list and attached documents. Therefore it's useful when a member updates with new requirements, like when you found out that a photo in front of the house is needed and thankfully shared that information together with the latest list of needed documentation... Re. 90-days address report, these ar the comments/posts about that on the first page of the pinned thread....

Yes – to @KhaoNiaw – your TM30 needs to be registered in the new data-system that opened September last year (if I remember the month right).