Aland

Ive just returned to the states from Thailand, I was in the northeast for 4 months with a quick trip down to Phuket. Literally, as I was driving home from the airport, I had a friend ask about getting some suits made and sent  to him here in the states. I seem to recall seeing signs before that claim tailor shops will make a suit and mail/fedex it to your home address. My question is, can anyone recommend a good tailor that one can send him measurements, have a suit made and have it posted outside of Thailand? 

Can someone tell me where I am going wrong? I get email updates from thaivisa several times a day. Earlier I received one with the headline "Drunk Swiss man tied up on flight to Bangkok" and at the bottom of that headline is "MH370: Plane wreckage found in Indian Ocean". Am I just not seeing it? Where is the story about the plane wreckage? I would really like to read it, does anyone know if there is a story that goes along with the headline? and if so where does one find it?

My thai wife and I have been married for 1.5 yrs. I work and have a house in the states but spend a large part of the year with my wife in Thailand. My family has never met her and of course they would like to as I and she also would like this to happen. My problem is that the whole visa process seems fairly complicated and I have been told that if you screw something up and the visa is denied then there is no chance of getting a visa in the future. I dont want to screw it up but at the same time Im hesitant in dropping a big chunk of money with a Thai visa company. I just read some information on the I-130 petition for relative alien. Is anyone familiar with this? Is this a viable option to going through the whole visa process? I would like to hear from anyone who has successfully been through the process as I have more questions.

Thanks for the info, Ill pass it on and let him decide what he wants to do.

Interesting answers, and yes it truly is my friends problem and not mine. He met this girl back in February and they hit it off pretty well. He has met the older sister that bought the motorcycle as well as the older brother but he has not met the father and the mother died several years ago. From what I was told the bike is messed up but possibly not totaled and yes money was also asked for to get it repaired. I simply wanted to know if its a common thing for Thais that are involved in accidents, to pay for the other parties lost wages, over and above what may be covered by insurance?

I have a good friend that is in a relationship with a younger thai girl. This girls elder sister went home for a vacation/visit a month or so back and while she was there she decided it was a good idea to buy her father a motorcycle, because he wanted one. They say that dear old dad isn't all there in the head but thats beside the point. Anyway, elder sister went back to Pattaya, dad goes out for a ride and wipes out his new bike, in the process he takes out 2 kids and the person that was taking them to school. Now the family wants the younger sister and of course that means my friend, to pay the injured persons wages as she is in the hospital and not able to work. Ive heard all kinds of crazy shit before from my time in Thailand but Ive never heard of someone having to pay someone elses wages when there is an accident. I understand that insurance is compulsory and I also understand that the basic insurance doesn't pay very much but where Im from, if you get in an accident and you hurt someone, they will probably sue you, never heard of someone chipping in to pay their lost wages unless the court ordered it. Is this something that normally goes on here or does it seem that there might be more to this story that isn't being told here?

Anyone know anything about that gym in that building on soi 3? The building looks like a big ship and has a lighthouse on the beach road.

Im sure this topic has been done to death but Im seeking a little bit of a differnt answer. I will be visiting Pattaya for the next week. Ill be staying in North Pattaya at the Sabai Resort and Id like to know if there are any decent Gyms in this area that allow a pay per day type thing?

If you are going to Home Depot buy some simple faucet washers for a garden hose, impossible to find here unless you buy a faucet attachment of some sort. Tapcon concrete screws, I bought a box with the corrisponding masonry drill bit for a project that in the end I didn't end up using them for but I've just about gone through the box because being that my house is made out of concrete block and ceramic tile, these screws are invaluable. They have a display at my local IQ of some concrete screws, I have enquired twice about buying these screws, the last time I had my thai brother in law along to translate. Both times they tried to pass me off self tapping screws and I had to point out that self tapping screws are not the same as concrete screws, at which point they always say mi me. I also bought and brought a gas grill through amazon before I came over, it also is invaluable and gets used at least 3 times a week. It's not a weber, to be honest I can't recall the brand name but I would think ANY gas grill would be way cheaper the the $500 or $600 gas grills that you can buy from the Thai place up near Chang Mia.

I'm afraid I will have to disagree with most everyone that has responded. I myself am getting married tomorrow, before the holidays we went to Bangkok and were legally married. I didn't mention sinsot and neither did my wife. A traditional wedding or marriage is a whole different story. I like yourself support not only my wife and her daughter but one way or another I support the entire family, when we buy food to take and eat at home, we have to buy enough for the entire family, when someone gets sick to where a hospital visit is needed? They turn to me to help out with a "loan". I don't like it but that's the way it is, however, when I need something the family will bend over backwards to help me out. Point being I also wasn't happy about paying sinsot but as I understand it it is a face thing, my wife's aunt married a Thai man last year and he refused to pay sinsot, we'll guess what? He caught crap from her family and his. I negotiated with my mother in law, it wasn't much of a negotiation as I told her I would pay baht 45,000 and she said ok. Everyone's happy now but me, I'll get over it, I have the best woman that I've ever met and she treats me like a king so if it cost me a couple days pay to keep the peace I figure it's well worth it. Just my opinion but what do I know, I live out in the sticks with the country bumpkins but they are good people.

I have a quick question, as to requirements listed by Bangkok Bank, along with passport they state a driving license with address. Are they asking for a Thai driving license or will my US driving license suffice?

My dad was stationed in Nakhon Phanom in the early 70's, he passed in 2012 and I've since often thought about going up there to see what's what

Cool ,thanks for the speedy replies

Can anyone tell me what the procedure is when arriving at BKK with a 60 day tourist visa? Do you just get in the same line as the people that are getting a visa on arrival?

Thanks a million khwaibah, I am in the states right now working, my wife is checking out if the hospital as we speak, for the 2nd time in 3 weeks she has had some kind of breathing problem. I'm not sure exactly what the problem is but besides the breathing problem in a weeks time her stomach had blown up and she looks like she is 5 months pregnant only she isn't pregnant. I am trying to find a Doctor that she can go see that might actually try to figure out what the problem is and maybe take care of it. So far everything she had a problem she rushes to the hospital, they give her some shots and then send her on her way. I will pass on the photo and see if I can't get her to go before she has to be wheeled in again

Never mind, I found a Ruampaet hospital. Thanks

Rhumpet private hospital? can you give me a ruff idea as to where I can find this hospital?

Thanks for the info Sheryl, I will look into Khon Kaen University Hospital as I only speak Thanglish

Does anyone know of a good General Practitioner or Internal Medicine Doctor in the Northeast of Thailand? Preferably in the Surin or surrounding area that I can get my Thai wife to?

Does anyone know of a good G.P. or internist in the Surin city area? if not there how about Buri Ram? Bangkok?

You won't find much "decent" hotel wise around there.

Probably, the best thing to do would be to taxi around on the Ratchapisek inner ring road to hotels around the Suttisan to Huay Kwang area of Ratchada rd - some boutique hotels in the 1500 range along with the larger ones catering for asian tourists. Alternatively, there is a recently refurbished cheap hotel on the cnr of Vihavadi and Suttisan rds (NW cnr).

A little closer to Mo Chit, Saphan Mai has a number of cheap and nasty hotels used by thais for short time purposes but as I said noth much "decent" in the area.

Looking for a decent hotel near the nakornchai bus terminal in Bangkok

Looking for a decent hotel near the nakornchai air bus station in Bangkok ( mochit? )