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willy.....where did you get your extra insurance?

Mittyon only offers the CPTL + up to 2 years of theft (with new bikes), but nothing extra.

Hotel exchange rate: Kyat 700 per USD and non-official exchange-rate Kyat 800 per USD (19-3-2012).

Off topic: 4.5 liter of diesel is Kyat 3,500..........or USD 4.27. (Yangon City Center)

Same level as Thailand.

Only heard of it, but it's very hard to believe that it actually happens.

Usually you only see this in Italian or American mob-movies.

I disagree... I have kids and would definitely take the kids if there was a Disney theme park in Thailand

Did you ever visit Dream World in Bangkok?

Does Thailand need a similar park once again?

Monday 19-3-2012 7.30 a.m...............15 whopping seconds to pass immigration 2 (outbound)

Tuesday 20-3-2012 7.15 p.m................1.5 minute to pass immigration 2 (inbound)

More staff, airport hostesses and extra security showing people where to go and what to do.

Keep up the good work guys!

4evermaat, you are right about different consulates and embassies asking for different docs and requirements. We've been dealing with Hull, Amsterdam, Helsinki, Antwerp, Zürich, Brussels, Vientiane, Penang and Kuala Lumpur.

Especially the latter 3 are asking for the full range of paperwork. Zürich didn't even submit an ED-visa. Helsinki and Hull submitted a one-year visa and the rest only 3 months.

See my info as worst case scenario.

You will have to rapport it to the police. Armed with the policerapport, you go to your DLT-office and within a week,, you should be able to pick up a new plate. Some small fee, but no big drama.

Correct, except that in stead of a week it took the DLT here over 2 months.

A lot of hassle for me doing it at the local motorbike-shop.

After 3 months waiting they offered me to do it myself........

cost me only 100 baht, but a lot of needless visits to the shop.

"AirAsia, the no-frills airline, is reportedly interested in shifting its operations from Suvarnabhumi to Don Mueang, Mr Chatchart said."

Please say it ain't true! I have 6 bookings with AirAsia (I fly to Bkk every month) and I really prefer Suvarnabhumi to DM.

Amazing..........and International AirAsia flights don't need immigration-officers at DM?

Not very long ago, a rather poor family went to Bangkok Police Hospital to pick up the body of a relative.

The transport from Bangkok to Jomtien, NO 5 days on ice but a quick Buddhist ceremony at the local Wat, the actual cremation and.......approx. THB 8,000 - THB 9,000.

A funeral is as a wedding, a birthday or any other important party: Show off!! I've been to funerals which must have cost millions and the result is the same: the body has gone up in smoke.

In the time that I was active in this line of work, we submitted:

- school registration submitted by the MoE

- letter from MoE stating that you will be a student

- ID copy of principal (as mentioned in school reg)

- a letter from the school, stating that you will study with them and asking for a one year visa

You have to add:

- a copy of your passport (every used page)

- visa application form

- 2 pass photo's

(- a copy of a recent bank-statement with at least Euro 1,250/GBP 1,000/USD 1600 on it)

Usually, an Embassy or Consulate will submit a 3 month - single entry ED-visa which can be extended at the nearest immigration office EVERY 90 days.

In case a one year visa is submitted, you only have to report every 90 days.

In some cases, the school who you are dealing with manages to extend a permission of stay based on a 3 month ED-visa up to one year.

Please beware: In some places, ED-visa are extremely popular and the local immigration-offices/officers developed the habit to actually interview you and evaluate your progress. For your own good........only apply for an ED-visa if you are actually going to study in Thailand; whether that is yoga, any language or cooking is up-2-you; attend the classes and stick to the rules.

Uhm, I don't know where it's for, but there is a SSt guy along Soi Khao Noi after the bend to the right.

He's doing mainly gates and fences.

In my condo in Bang Saen they use 3BB (10Mb) too.

Doing a speedtest at speedtest.net shows the hub in Bangkok but there is also a dot "flashing" in the North of Thailand (map).

My speed is a whopping 0.83 down and 0.09 up.

Fact is, if the 70 riot police are going to be dealing with visa's and stamps: check whether you got the correct stamp. At least the first few months.

Furthermore.........at the moment: 1045 immigration employees? Amazing....what are they doing and more important, where are they?

17 is not underage.

A girl working in a bar must be 20 years old, legally.

Actually it's 18 for service staff, although 20 to drink alcohol.

Correct, in fact: A customer is supposed to be 20+

I used to use a N86 8MP which I bought October 2010.

Did have some problems with Ovi-Suite, downloads and use of the GPS which required a re-boot before being able to find a satellite.

Last Saturday I received one call which I answered on my way out from Bangkok towards Chonburi. At some point I needed my GPS to get me out of the area and point me in the right direction...........screen was white, turning the phone off and on again didn't help.

Anyway, at home in Pattaya I headed to Power Buy and got me a Samsung DUOS Champ (THB 2,500) and guess what? The next morning my Nokia was working again. Will bring it to the Nokia service center and sell it at TukCom.........for me NEVER a Nokia again (it was not the first Nokia with technical problems).

Went to the Nokia Service Center last weekend. Explained the problem and luckily, the problem still existed.

I was asked THB 200 deposit on the investigation cost of THB 500, because the phone was out of warranty. I asked why should I pay THB 200 deposit on a phone of THB 16,900 that is in your possession? Policy of course!!

Anyway......they phoned me (as promised) with an estimate on the repair-cost: THB 4,800 for a new display and some cover part. I told them NOT to repair it.

They were puzzled: "Misterrrr, telephone is not old........can repair no problem"

My answer: "If the phone is not that old, then some leniency would be in place." Big silence followed.

BTW, I'm very happy with my Samsung of THB 2,500.

Went to True shop in Central Chonburi last week.

Would like to have a post-paid air-card for super high speed.....21Mb ........... didn't have my WP with me, only a passport copy, but a 3.6Mb pre-paid could be done.

Huhhhh........

They said it was the government who made the rules and True is following them! Yeah right.

During the conversation that followed, it was a True policy. Of course.

So........."Can you offer me a post-paid air-card service without on just a passport?"

"No!"

So I went for the AIS service.

"Legally, the total foreign ownership of a company cannot exceed 49%, but in practice, it is often found that more than 51 percent of the shares belong to Thai nominees appointed by foreigners."

What else should they do.........leave 51% of the company in the hands of total strangers?

Problem is most probably the fact that a few new-wealthy Thais were planning on buying land in Hua Hin, Pattaya and Phuket, but that they found the owners to be foreign.

Of course, those losers do have connections and those connections have connections again ending up at Sriracha's desk who can not do otherwise then to investigate the matter.......come up with some daft conclusion.......and rest the case.

Besides that, I guess that not one retiree, married to a Thai and living happily on their piece of Thai soil need to be afraid.

Try this one.....it appears at the top of some pages:

http://mosmann.com.au/shop-product/essential-grey-brief/142?gclid=CL2hwpS24K4CFcx66wodG3uUXQ

I think I would report it to the Mall's security.

What would you do?

1. Report the mall-security that there is a boy in the rest-rooms "renting" himself out?

2. Drag the boy to the mall-security and report him "renting" himself out?

The second option would satisfy me big time, but what are the chances that the boy in way better Thai will manage to get me cuffed?

Not sure, but I'll surely attend this one:

http://www.buildtechexpo.com/expo2012/

Same for LM.

Is it possible to buy duty-free at a duty-free-shop if you can't show an outbound-boarding-pass?

Or will they add 7% VAT?

The alternative for "farang" is "alien" which is used to describe "us" in the Thai law.

I look more like a white-skinned Westerner than E.T., so I'm not bothered.

I'm only bothered with "farang" if the tone used to express it sounds aggressive.

Using a nasty adjective like "f*cking, stupid or poor" will only express the category in which the general noun "farang" should be placed.

Suppose there are a 1,000 posts per day on here.

It's easy to skip 800 posts which are absolutely not relevant or insulting.

Unfortunately, without those 800 irrelevant and insulting posts, this forum is dead meat.

Most of the posters show only their creativity in riding on the OP's back and do not have enough brain-power to come up with OP's themselves, knowing that their precious posts will be buried in loads of crappy replies.

If people first start to read a post properly, think about a reasonable reply and then post, this forum would look a lot better and would be even more valuable for expats, Thailand-interestees and all other folks.

So which is it?

1) The forum would be "dead meat without the irrelevant and insulting posts" or 2) "posters need to think about a reasonable reply"? Presumably making the forum 'dead meat'?

Similarly, 1) posters "do not have enough brain-power to come up with their own posts" or 2) (presumably) they have the brain-power but know that "their posts will be buried in crappy replies"?

Yessssss, a perfect example of a non-relevant and crappy post.

3,350 more of them.....what a waste of time.