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Buy a Philips, they are non smokes...????

I was never asked for bribe, but I didn't get my 100 baht change when paying two 1,000-baht notes, nor a receipt, and I never asked for change or receipt. I still don't get change and receipt in the new Maenam Soi 1 office. Once I has my photos taken in the front office, when he would let me out from the backdoor to the meeting room – which also worked as store room and the Birdman's office, and looked mainly like a store room – and I said that I need to pay for the photo. »No, give me the money,« he answered, so he got the extra 400 baht for the photo. Based on the initial interview for extension of stay based on retirement – at that time we, or at least I, would be interviewed about why we wished to stay in Thailand – he always asked to my girlfriend and my daughter. Sometimes he would walk out with me by the backdoor and have a chat on the bench outside while smoking a cigaret. At that time we got the extension of stay stamp immediately after interview, no waiting and no come back next week to collect the passport. However, one year the girl in the front office said: »Today not good, come back tomorrow.« I had seen that the birdman was inside the office, presumably in such a bad mood that might fit some of the scary stories about him. I didn't intend to drive home and come back tomorrow, so I just walked in. He looked at me, as was I some alien arriving from Neptun, but I said that I needed my annual extension. Little angry he asked for the papers, which he put aside, open my passport and stamped it – the fastest extension of stay, ever – and got his 2,000 baht...???? In a way, it was more easy in old time with the Birdman, than now...

I've lived on the island permanently since 2006, so I've been a regular visitor at the immigration office a number of years, also the old office in Nathon and the so-called "Birdman", who was always fair, kind and polite to me...????

The Danish embassy in Bangkok charge minimum one hour for everything, and one hour embassy-staff-work costs 5,460 baht or 1,125 Danish kroner... I don't mind paying a modest fee of 300 or 500 baht for a certificate – even it might officially be free – but of course I'm happy if I receive free service. I'm hopefully going to be serviced at Samui Immigration for many more years and will prefers good service with a smile, because I'm one of them farangs never complaining about not getting a receipt or 100 baht change...????

Most important is that the dogs enjoys it...???? I've always been told that you shall not give chicken bones to a dog... The dog residents in my house – self movers that decided to stay – are fed for about 20 baht a day per head and the only get one meal in the evenings. The always get some meat – about 125 gram (they are around 20 kilo dogs) – which can be fried minced chicken or chickens breast with skin – or a can of mackerel in tomato, or a juicy pork bone. It's always served with dry food of the dogs preference, the latter to make them full enough and in theory give them what is needed for a healthy dog. If there are rice left over they might have fried rice with chicken – could occasionally be mixed with an egg – or the mackerel in tomato mixed with rice. Left overs that might appeal to a dog, are also served – Australian beef is the absolute gourmet preference – and instead of mixing it, I always serve separate dishes for the dogs; i.e. meat and dry-food as two dishes. The dogs loves that, as they otherwise would try to separate mix food themselves and eat the best stuff first. Beef is eaten before chicken or pork, and meat before dry-food; however, one of the dogs actually rate dry-food quite high. Remember to add little bit of oil if the dogs are eating much dry-food. As dessert they are serve a goodie stick, they will sit nicely and wait for that when finisher their dinner courses. In the morning they are served a small bowl of milk, when I make my coffee with milk; they also sit nice a wait for that while I'm busy making coffee...????

He already gave you a "good price". Find some other land instead and buy that...????

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As long as it's minced, you might have a chance to chew it... Unfortunately, there are still difference enough between imported quality meat and Thai produced beef to pay the price difference; however Thai Angus meat is however becoming a fair option to my experience...????

Move Forward Party – which is likely to form the next government – said in their campaign that they would allow sex-toys. So the police better better take good care of them, perhaps they will have to be returned...

It's depending of where you stay in Thailand, as the climate and rainy season are different in different areas. If you use Wikipedia in English and find your province or location, you will for most areas find a table with climate, including the rainy months. The few examples below shows you the difference, like Phuket and Samui close to each other but with different rainy seasons due to south-western monsoon at Phuket and north-eastern monsoon on Samui and her sisters...

Wind from north or south, depending of weather and burning season. Smoke all the way from Indonesia can in worst case scenarios be moved up to Samui and her sisters, like it happened in 2015... –where you hardly could see 2.5 kilometers from the middle to the end of Maenam Bay for a few days... This is what it normally looks like (also 2015)...

It's common knowledge: Stay away from drugs and people taking drugs when in Thailand, so you are not in the wrong place at the wrong time.

I've been doing mine online, you state your last entry-date in the online-version.

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I installed one on my rooftop when building my house in 2009-2010. Works great...???? Whens it's really hot – like now – the water is close to perfect coffee-water temperature...???? However, when it's cloudy and cold the water is not hot, but might still be lukewarm. You would need hot-water-pipes –normally the green insulated water pipes – to distribute the water from the solar heater. If you install on the roof your tank might be places in the attic. In that case you'll need a circulation pump. Don't use a normal pump, it need to be a pump designed for hot water. I use a Danish brand "Grundfoss" hot-water circulation-pump – we use them in my Danish home country for water-circulation in central heating systems – they are available in Thailand and can sometimes also be found online at Lazada or Shopee. They almost lasts for ever. A 30 watt pump will do it, even when running on lowest of three speeds... Some water-tanks comes with a back-up electric heater in case when not enough heat from the Sun. Mind you, that the hot water storage-tank might be 200 liters, so not cheap to keep it warm or hot by electric heating during cold periods. I distribute the hot water from the central tank in insulated hot water pipes and have a local flow-through water 3.5kW heater in each bathroom to boost during cloudy cooler season, instead of using the central tank's heater. The local flow-heaters only need to be heating almost at minimum. During warm sunny periods the mains can be switches off for water heaters; their inter 0.5L or less storage tanks is not a problem for fast hot water in the tap, but of course depending of the distance from your solar water heater's storage tank to the outlet...????

You just plug you normal (modern) phone into a normal phone plug on the modem, it works just like a good old-fashioned land-line phone. Same-same, but different: The "different" is that your line is digitalized little earlier than before. I've been using IP-phone for 20 years. I just took my IP-phone-modem and telephone with me to Thailand in 2006 and plugged it into an RJ45 internet line. I still have my same old telephone number from my Scandinavian home-country and make calls for local home-country tariff, just like I was calling from my previous home...

The tread is about a car ferry...

Wow...????

Depending on which island you might choose to live on...

So what do you suggest? "Travel insurance is a must and knowing the conditions is also a must."

Very, very sad, but yet another story about fundraising and something is missing in the article about insurance and cover – or the insurance is missing. Travel insurance is a must and knowing the conditions is also a must.

You need 800k baht in your bank account two month before your application, and three month after your extended stay is granted. Thereafter the account cannot go below 400k baht until two month before your next application for extended stay, by which time the bank account needs to be topped up to 800k baht again. I've been using the deposit method for extension of stay based on retirement since 2006. I also have Bangkok Bank, but in periods I used others for slightly higher interest, also SCB. My method and advice is to use a separate account for the extension-of-stay deposit, so it is easy and clear for the immigration officer to check the funds and balance. I also show my daily expenses account to where I move my retirement living expenses funds from abroad and withdraw money. If you can afford the keep 800k baht permanently in the bank – and thereby don't get nightmares about topping the funds up – then a 12-month fixed account gives the best interest. That's what I use and once a year I withdraw the interest, so there is always a clean 800k baht balance...

Be present when exorcism was performed by a monk in a temple...

Your school should be able to inform you about legality of work permit for home teaching, it's quite often done, also by foreign teachers. In principle all income is taxable and when looking at the income tax rate in percent in the lower figures it's between 5% and 10%, so not worth avoiding with risk of future problems (said by a person coming from a country where the lowest income tax rate from work is 46%...)...????

No, but if you wish to extend next year you might not be able to do it, as your balance has gone under the 800k baht within the three month period. However, that might not be actual in your case when moving permanently.