phompen

Have a look at Phnom Penh's requirements: http://www.thaiembassy.org/phnompenh/th/services/1435/21867-Non-Immigrant--ED.html

where to find the same document for vientiane ? (I've searched 30 minutes without success)

we also need to proof 5000$ on a bank account ?

are there people gone there recently and have some things to say ?

after the bad news from my school, only 6 months of visa, not one year like before,

I have to go outside soon for a new ED visa

my school gave me the hint to go Vientiane, but I've ever gone there,

I prefer to go Phnom pen in cambodia because i have never gone

do you know some recent experience for doing an ED visa there ?

in Vientiane I've paid someone to do all the papers for me for 3000 B

is it possible to do the same in Phom pen ?

if I do it on the friday, would I be able to get the visa on monday or tuesday ?

I don't think they will reject my new visa, but if it would be the case, I need to do a tourist visa single entry for 2 months ? or I can come back with only my passport for 30 days ?

else do you have a prefered hotel to stay in vientiane or phom pen ?

I mean not far from the embassy with a good ratio quality/price, I would like to pay less than 1500 B for one night

what cool things to do in Phnom pen on the week end ? are there disco in the center ?

what about the security there ?

so... nobody know where I can find a water distiller in Bangkok ?

the water we drink is not to mineralise us, but to clean our body

if you drink water with a lot of inorganic minerals you disturb the cleaning of the body

"A heterotroph... is an organism that cannot fix carbon and uses organic carbon for growth."

Absolutely nothing to do with transforming inorganic minerals into organic minerals.

autotroph : do not need a living source of energy or organic carbon (source : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autotroph )

the plants can use minerals in the ground/soil and in the water

the humans and animals cannot use minerals in the ground/soil and in the water

(excepted if this water contain phytoplancton, like sea water, because phytoplancton has transformed the inorganic minerals into organic minerals before)

humans and animals to get organic minerals need to eat some vegetables (or animals who ate vegetables)

the water we drink is not to get minerals, but to clean our bodies,

the less minerals is the better, more minerals means more work for our bodies to reject these unusable minerals

"Inorganic minerals are picked up as the water supply runs through the ground. These inorganic, or non-living, minerals cannot be utilized by humans or animals. However, plants can. And, they are the organisms that turn them into the organic minerals we can use through photosynthesis. But, the inorganic minerals that pass into our drinking water cannot help us and can in fact, harm us."

source : http://www.freedrinkingwater.com/water-education3/25-water-organic-inorganic-minerals-page2.htm

yes a lot of bottled water are reverse osmosis, it's an interresting point, but you don't solve the problem of the plastic bottle, the recycling is very low (maybe 10%)

and also plastic usually contain endocrine disruptor (or endocrine perturbator ?) it's not very healthly even if the water inside is good when it's bottled

then home solutions are better, like reverse osmosis or distilled water, it also cost less on the long term period

while bottled water are practical when you are not at home

yes it's scientific :

the plants are autotroph : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autotroph

the human and animals are heterotroph : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heterotroph

only the plants are able to transform inorganic minerals into organic minerals (the only one usable by us or animals)

this is the reason why we cannot eat some soil/ground (you can eat it, but the inorganic minerals would not be assimilated)

there is a difference between assimilation (nutrients usable by a cell) and unusable things that cross our body,

they are usually rejected thru urine or stools

the table salt is lightly toxic, and it is inorganic, so we cannot get our sodium this way, our sodium come from our food, not from the salt,

in fact the salt is only a way to get a salty taste in mouth, but it's bad for our kidneys

you can see what the salt do with cars always parked in front of the sea, they become older prematuraly (erosion in english ? it's corrosive)

why there are salt everywhere in the food of the supermarket ?

firstly because we are a bit addict to the salt, like the reffined sugar, and secondly because the brands who sell food, they also sell drinks,

if your food is more salty then you are more thirsty, and the sales of the soda and beverages are better

why we are thirsty when we eat some salt ?

because the salt is lightly toxic, then the body need a dilution with water to get a lightly less toxic substance

if one day you are intoxicated with something, you will see you will be probably extremly thirsty (but it depends what is the toxic substance)

the body use 3 ways to protect from toxicity : 1 - dilution with water, 2 - mix toxicity with minerals to produce a neutral product more easily manageable, 3 - use lipids/fat arround toxicity

so if the salt is lighly toxic, it should be like cigarettes and make some fatalities ?

yes it is the case, in France the abuse of salt make 100 dead per day, arround 36500 dead per year. (Source of this information : France 2, national tv channel)

if you compare to road fatalities it's only 4000 per year, so the salt kill 9 times more than the road

why TV don't talk often about the salt and prefer to talk about the road fatalities ?

because their income come from the industries (advertising) so if TV talk bad about the salt, they would get problem with advertisers of the food industry,

so TV prefer to talk about the road fatalities... TV can also talk bad about tabbaco because the tabbaco industries cannot do advertisement on TV (in France, but I think it's the same in many countries)

TV don't lie usually, they just have a partial point of view based on their income

only plants can use inorganic minerals in the water, they are autotroph, while we can't get minerals this way, we are heterotroph, we cannot get minerals from the ground or the rivers

we get our minerals only from fruits or vegetables, or from an animal (who ate fruits and vegetables, or grass)

the bottled waters often write on the label "rich in calcium" or "rich in magnesium", but we cannot use these minerals, they are going directly to the toilet,

it's not false advertising, these waters are rich in calcium, but we cannot use it this way, and the water companies like the people don't understand that, because it's sold as a plus value...

actually in france the more sold bottled waters are the less mineralised waters (TDS < 100mg/liter)

these packs of waters are often sold out

the water we drink is not to mineralise us, but to clean our bodies, and the more TDS there are the less the cleaning is efficient,

it also means that if you are fat or obese and you begin to drink waters with very low TDS, your body will work a lot (detox) giving the feeling to be sick for a while,

so when you start to drink distilled water or reverse osmosed water it's better to mix with common bottled water for a while, the time for the body to adapt better to this change

ok I see, thank you for this link

yes reverse osmosis is interresting also, but be careful : if the filter is degraded by chlorine, you can get an important problem with bacterias developpement, so you need to change often the filter,

you don't have this problem with distilled water, you just need to change the charcoal from time to time (but the price is very very low), it also remove the salt, because distillation is also a process used to transform sea water into drinkable water

do you use a TDS meter to check your water ?

I have no idea where to buy a water distiller in Bangkok

it seems hard to find...

this is the same process used in hospitals to get a very pure water

you can see a picture of what is it here : (this model is manufactured in Taiwan)

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41pwdZcIEOL.jpg

so I can order on Internet, but the machine is a bit heavy so I prefer to find it in Bangkok if possible

the goal of that machine is very simple :

you put tap water in the tank, the water heat over 100°c, and become a gaz (water vapour in english ?)

it goes into a charcoal filter, and it fall into the big glass with a purity of 99.9%, it removes bacterias, heavy metals, and many other things...

in the tap water the TDS (total dissolved solids) are usually over 5000 mg/liter, after distillation process the TDS are under 20 mg/liter

in the Evian water the TDS are 309 mg/liter, in the Aura water it's not written on the label of the bottle (I guess they don't must to write it in Thailand)

It cost arround 200-250 us$, so you get a return over investment in arround 8 months for a 1 person and less for a familly (compared to bottled water)

it can process arround 4 gallon of water a day (17 liters)

the advantages :

- it's more pure than any bottled water

- no use of plastic

- more economical than bottled water on the long term

- you can theorically use rain water or sea water (they do it on industrial process in some countries)

an interresting article about this :

24 doctors with the courage to tell the truth about distilled water

http://www.infiniteunknown.net/2012/04/15/24-doctors-with-the-courage-to-tell-the-truth-about-distilled-water/

to be at Chaeng Wattana, at the opening at 8:30am, it means arriving at 7:45am to avoid the queue, so I have to leave my home at 6:30am, and set the clock to wake up at 5:30am to be sure to get off the bed at 6am, so possible, but not so easy

usually I have only queue of 30 to 60 minutes when I go at 3pm or 3:30pm. It happen only two times that I have more than 2 hours to wait

ok I understand, thank you for your help

ok great, thank you for this info

but why my officer cannot give me this stamp ? that's weird...

his superior put the stamp in his office and close the door before going to week end ?

by the way if I get the stamp tomorrow it's great

so there will be no interview ?

Friday I've gone to immigration at Chaeng Wattana (Bangkok) to extend my ED Visa like every 2 months (was 3 months before)

There were 96 people in the queue, and after wait 3 hours and 10 minutes I'm finally in front of the officer (office N1 counter 50) it was 5:47 pm !

he has checked my documents, it was ok, and after one minute he said : "my brother is not here now, so you need to go back in few days to office N2"

and then he didn't renewed for 2 months, he has put a stamp on my passport : "application of stay is under consideration, applicant must contact again in person" with a 5 days delay

But he kept my papers from the school, I have paid 1900 B and he gave me a receipt, so the process is almost done...

I'm very surprised because I have never had this kind of case before, it scare me

I have never done something wrong, I have always been with the law, never been arrested, I even stand up for the national anthem all the time,

and I go to class and my student passbook is signed by teachers,

I have studied thai for 3 years, and I study english for 5 months now (level 2, I'm not a beginner)

so I'm able to answer question in thai or in english

one month ago I've gone to ministry of education, and pass the interview with success

(it was funny because I've expected to be interviewed in english and she has interviewed me in thai, even if I told her I'm an english student now...)

So I don't know what means this appointment, maybe it happened because I was late at the office (5:47pm) and his coworker was not there,

but I guess this coworker task is to ask questions in english ? but my officer was talking a good english, so I guess I have to see his superior ?

I guess this is a motivational test to stay in Thailand ? The last time in april the officer asked me if I had a girlfriend, I have been honest and said I'm single now

maybe if I answered "yes I have a girlfriend" they would not give me an appointment now ?

Any student here has ever see this kind of appointment ? if yes, how was it ?

at the office N2 (I have never gone there) do they ask a lot of questions on why you want to stay in Thailand ?

is it better to say now I have a girlfriend ?

I have a condo in BKK, and I like my life here more than in europe, I don't want to leave, I really love that country

I know I can do legally 2 years of english after the 3 years of thai, but I think I've forgetted one officer at the immigration can change the rule at any moment...

if they say "Ok you have spent enough time in this country, go back to your country now, goodbye"

what can I do ?

I guess I have only 2 solutions to stay : marry a thai girl, or get the elite vip visa (5 years) ?

I'm too young to get the retired visa, and the touristic visa don't allow visa run for long term period now...

I don't want to marry a thai girl, to have a girlfriend is ok for me, but not enough for the visa...

so I would like to ask if my parents can loan me the half of the fees for the elite vip visa (arround 6000 euros) and I would be able to pay for the other half

and then I can pay back my parents in 1 or 2 years...

it's very expensive, but actually I pay arround 130 euros to stay in thailand every month, with this visa it would be arround 300 euros per month (but you have to pay in advance)

it sound amazing to pay 300 euros a month to stay in a country, but if I go back to europe it would cost me more than 300 euros a month in expensive life fees...

the only problem is the fact you need to pay in advance all these months for 5 years (but this visa is transferable to someone if I change my mind in 2 or 3 years for example)

else, how many years I have to stay in Thailand to ask for double nationality ?

actually my thai language is not enough in front of a thai jury, but I can work hard on it to be fluent in thai

but I guess you can get the double nationality only if you are married ?

else I've thought to live for exemple in cambodgia or vietnam or lao for a while, but it's really if I cannot live anymore in Thailand...

maybe you have seen the sign at the philippines ambassy : "it's more fun in the philippines"

each time I go by BTS I see this sign, and each time I say in my head "it's more fun here, no need to go another place"

30 pictures I've made of Songkran 2015 :

https://www.flickr.com/photos/ooka-medias/

I see...

I search an explanation about Chaeng Wattana immigration office :
They just offered me a 2 months extention when usually it was 3 months,
I've studied thai for 3 years, and now I study english,
the officer at the immigtation office asked me if I have a girlfriend, I have been honnest saying : I had 2 girlfriends but now it's finished,
I don't know maybe it could be a better answer to have a girlfriend now ?
but now I have only 2 months extansion
is that a bad sign ? I really want to stay in that country
I don't know what to do, do I need to pay for an elite Visa ??
What are your experience recently about this ?

You still have to do the 90 days reports on the Thailand Elite PE visa, I did one on mine a few weeks ago.

but your personnal assistant has done it for you, no ?

or did you send it by mail ?

by transfer I doubt the price would go under 8500 B per month, I think it's not like a car, the value does not change with the time

ok thank you

this time it's good then :

- choice number 1 : ED visa : 25000 B a year + 10000 B to cambodgia/laos every year, so 3000 B per month + BTS 570 B + immigration fees : 2250 B every 3 months (taxi+bts included)

total = 4300 B per month (arround 110 euros)

- choice number 2 : the card thailand elite. 500000 B for 5 years, so 8350 B per month + 1900 B every year

total = 8500 B per month (arround 210 euros)

ok got it, ty ubonjoe

ok so, I have done the maths again, should be good this time :

- choice number 1 : ED visa : 25000 B a year + 10000 B to cambodgia/laos every year, so 3000 B per month + BTS 570 B + immigration fees : 2250 B every 3 months (taxi+bts included)

total = 4300 B per month (arround 110 euros)

- choice number 2 : the card thailand elite. 500000 B for 5 years, so 8350 B per month + 1900 B every 3 months

total = 9000 B per month (arround 220 euros)

so with the PE visa it's twice the price of the ED visa, but no need to go to class, no need to wait at airport immigration + free taxi + reduced prices in some malls + no need to go Chaeng Wattana every 3 months... but required to pay immediatly for 5 years... :-(

it's a bit like the country prefer to host rich foreigners now, so they don't come to work, not so dumb... but these new rules are hard for a lot of falangs :-(

I know a german actor, he has no choice and have to go back to germany : give more jobs to thai people ? ok but thai people cannot play a falang actor...

it's weird not some exemptions have been made for some jobs...

ok good for Laos... weird that the french thai embassy define these rules, it's like if thailand prefer to receive Lao immigrant than french... maybe because a lot of french people don't like the rules too much and forget to go back to france... lol

When does your current extension end?

end of november, so I'm 2 months and few days now before my ED visa expire

I don't understand well about going to Laos before to go to France :

so I go to Laos to get a new ED visa, but I don't use it to come back to Thailand and use a re-entry permit, right ?

then I go to France and when I come back I show my new ED visa at Suvarnabhumi ? No problem is it's issued in Laos ?