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A young Arab boy asks his father “What is that strange hat you are wearing?” The father said: "Why, my son, it is a 'chechia.' In the desert it protects our heads from the intense heat of the sun.” "And what is the long flowing robe you are wearing?” asked the boy. “Oh, my son!” exclaimed the father “It is very simple. This is a 'djbellah.' As I have told you, in the desert it is not only very hot, but the sand is always blowing. My djbellah protects the entire body." The son then asked: "But Father, what about those ugly shoes you have on your feet?” "These are 'babouches' my son,” the father replied. You must understand that although the desert sands are very beautiful, they are also extremely hot. These babouches keep us from burning our feet." "So tell me then," added the boy. "Yes, my son…” "Why are we living in Melbourne and still wearing all this shit?”

View this quiz 21st Feb 2025 - Weekly Featured Quiz - 1981 / Ronald Reagan Continuing our theme of having two (somewhat) related subjects - This week it's 1981 and Ronald Reagan. Submitter Crossy Type One Right Answer Time 5 minutes Total Questions 10 Category Weekly Featured Quiz Submitted 02/18/2025  

The portables need looking after, water top-up etc. etc. Small mini-split inverter A/C units (say 9,000BTU) are readily available and sip the energy when running relatively light. You don't need server-room cool, just keep things in the mid 20sC.

Our 5kW Deye hybrids (3 of the beasts) are outdoors, under the shade of the car port. Deye inverters are specced -40C to +60C ambient, but derate when >45C. Obviously, the cooler they run the better. I have added some fans to help with the fanless cooling. And a simple thermostat to control them. The sensor is bolted to the inverter heatsink.

Yup, they also do an approximate monthly deduction from my $$$ (a bit like UKs PAYE) I just cough up any balance owed 😞

That makes sense, I was 65 in April 2024 so it should apply. Still waiting for the company accountant to get back to me.

If none of your neighbours can help then the standard fall-back is the local bike taxi chaps. They know anyone and everyone! I swear that if I asked the bike chaps if they could get me an elephant, one would arrive within the hour! Now there's an idea for our family Songkran party!

And even doing that was quick and convenient. I had my UK passport lifted in Rome, would have been in the early naughties. Off to the cop-shop with an Italian friend, 15 minutes to get a police report. Visit the British Embassy as soon as they opened with police report and my details (UK driving licence). Paid some $$$. Collected new 10-year passport that afternoon! The only minor bump in the road was that said passport didn't have the machine-readable text block on the photo page which did cause some consternation with Malaysian immigration, but they let me in anyway 🙂

With your Sofar inverter you are going to have to add panels in series with the existing ones. New panels should be fairly close to the power output of your existing ones (we have 300W in series with 340W with no problems). For panels in series, you should try to get additional ones with about the same or slightly higher Imp (max power current) as your existing ones. The string max current will be limited to whatever the lower Imp panels are. It rarely makes much difference as getting to that level is pretty rare even here. For your voltage the sum of the Voc (open circuit voltage) of all the series panels must not exceed the maximum permitted input voltage of the MPPT. At least here we don't have to worry about cold weather (Voc goes up as the panels get cooler).

I tried to buy one from Lazada. All the reasonably high-spec ones were shipped from China. Ordered one anyway. Three weeks later it hadn't even shipped. This was from the manufacturer's own Lazada store! Excuses! Cancelled! Ordered one of these from JiB https://www.jib.co.th/web/product/readProduct/70060/2/ got it the same afternoon. QED

I was 65 in April 2024, is the allowance pro-rata or only for full years? Office lady is checking with the accountant.

Yup.

Which immigration office? There have been reports of some offices wanting Google Maps maps now.

As header - My employer is saying the additional allowance is for Thais only 😞 Any and all information is welcomed.