LeeThayer

Some clarification on the work permit issue. A work permit is not required if the volunteer work is done not to a schedule. For example, You can volunteer for a beach clean up that is sponsored by the local govt, then 4 days later, you can volunteer for a diving clean up also sponsored by a business or local govt. Both are work, both are voluntary, both are not scheduled on a regular basis.

So, if a couple of monks at the local Wat would like English lessons, do not set a schedule or set times.

Why did the buffalo cross the road?...

Suicide, case closed.

New Hub???

No visa is valid for 1 year, a visa is only valid for 90 days, and you must exit at that point and re-enter. A visa permission to enter the country for 90 days, an extension is permission to remain in country for 1 year.

Maybe he fancies himself a James Bond villain...

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Couple of sharks with fricken lasers would have been cheaper

An underpass simply passes the problem on to the next traffic light, nothing more.

The place is far from a tropical paradise. It is a sewer that has been abused with no management. The place is filthy this includes the streets and the beaches.

I've just returned home from Layan beach. It was faultless, clean and white and no sewerage to be seen. Which beaches are you talking about? I've lived here for 12 years and the beaches seem okay to me. If you think the street are filthy, try the Philipinnes some time

Layan Beach, lets see, wasn't that were a backhoe burried a bunch of trash the village did not want to seem to remove, on the beach??? Maybe you missed the video of that. Faultless, clean, and white? And no sewage to be seen? Is this something (sewage) you have to look for everyday? Well, maybe you were standing on the sand and just didn't dig into, just a thought.

Comparing the streets being filthy to anywhere else is pointless. It is advertised as a beach resort area, not as "our beach is cleaner than Karachi, Pakistan (I have been there as well).

Peter, what did you use as your ground reference to check the potential on the green/yellow and other wires?

What equipment did you make these measurements with?

Hi Crossy, I appreciate your response.

As common practise I originally connected the white and black coloured conductors coming out from the wall to the water heater's terminals N and L, the yellow/green one to the dedicated Earth terminal. To my surprise the heater did NOT function. Since I have another water heater installed at a second shower room I checked the connection there and it revealed that the yellow/green conductor was connected to either the N or L terminal, I don't remember accurately, however, not to the dedicated earth terminal of the device. I couldn't believe that and I returned to the water heater to be connected, using a multimeter and taking measures between the yellow/green and the white resp. black conductors, both cases indicated a 220V potential, while taking measures between the WHITE and BLACK conductor indicated a Zero potential. Thus the ground reference was as well the white as the black conductor.

Upon this experience I contacted an external Thai electrician to brighten me up about the strange situation who confirmed the yellow/green conductor as the "live" conductor and he continued rendering the water heater operational by connecting the yellow/green conductor to the L terminal and the white resp. black wire to Earth resp. N terminal. (I described his comment about this previously).

The multimeter used is a commercial type with an int. resistance of 9kOhm/V in the AC range.

1. Is there a ground connected to the breaker panel? There should be a line, rather large coming out of that and leading outside to rod that it is clamped to.

2. If there is a ground connected, you need to inspect the connections inside the breaker panel to see if in fact the line is connected to the correct ground connection in the panel.

3. If the ground is connected in the panel, yet you have 220 on it in the bathroom, somewhere between the panel and the bathroom, an electrician has cross connected the Line and Ground wire, poosibly in a juntion box or from an outlet box. You need to find this cross connection

4. If you do not have a ground connected to the service breaker panel in the house, DO NOT add on until you find the cross connect between the Line and Ground

Or how do we get the last buck out of these tourists ...... They can also start to think about an exit fee !!!

There is an exit fee, was 700 baht at the airport before immigration departure, now that is in the ticket fee

Hub? Lets see, train accidents for starters, then maybe "schemes"

Farang means outsider. If a Thai from Chiang Mai visits a town in the south, like Nakhon Si Thammarat, if they cannot speak South dialect, they may be called farang. I have had this explained to me, and I have seen this happen on more than one ocassion.

I am 12 km outside of Pak Panang, retired US Navy.

Hmm, I thought the Muslims could not drink beer, maybe Allah gave an exception to Pattaya

My thoughts exactly!

Have your wife send you a copys of the marriage certificate, ID, and house book, then get a single entrynon-imm O visa in Singapore, you will be stamped in 90 days, at the 60 mark get an income affidavit from the US Embassy either in Bangkok or during one of the outreach visits. Then gather up all the required papers and go to Immigration in Phuket and get a 1 year extension

Sounds like a few Generals need some new homes.

I sense another Hub

Pangasius is the scientific name for Freshwater Shark Catfish, farmed throughout Asia. Nothing to do with a John Dory which a deep water ocean fish.

That is like bargaining in a bar, "80 baht for a beer? Can I pay 50 baht." Pay the posted price or move one.

In Nakhon Si Thammarat, doing your extenstion is your 90 report, they adjust the next, very easy. I told the officers in NST thank you for doing this and they asked why, I said I did extentions in Phuket for a few years and they insisteded I come in and do these per the stamp on the receipt, the NST office eruppted in laugher and said yes, that sounds like Phuket. They do it right here.

Parents Club? Is there a club for absolutely everything in Thailand?

Hub Day next???

I think Thailand nailed its first hub

For what it is worth to you, I am not a british citize, but swedish!!! I just got my new passport lastweek ,and my

embassy ALWAYS enclose a letter addressed to the immigration, where they kindly ask the immigration to transfer

the stamps involved..

Maybe this is a polite thing to do, and you lack that polite document.... I dont know just wanted to be helpful,

and tell you about my situation.....

Glegolo

Same for US passport, when I had my renewed it came with a letter, took both to immigration with the old passpast and and visa was transferred on the spot with no questions.

"He was under the Immigration Bureau’s radar since 2006"

Only 7 years to nab him? Must've had a real genius on the case...

My thought exactly