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I bought gold last year at the perth mint. Its guaranteed/ backed by the WA govt. you can do it online

listent to this recent podcast: I think its a good time to buy if central banks are buying don't you?

On 2/2/2019 at 12:35 PM, Rv Hawee said:

If you work for a government university / (probably school too ??), i mean directly employed by them not with agency, you didn't receive any papers, salary slip, except the yearly PND 91. It's have been like that more than 30 years.

Maybe you are too old / techie phobic to know that you can get your payslips online at your govt uni website...

I want to hang a chinese lantern with light bulb inside. Where can I buy this? Would MBK have this or maybe Chatuchak mkt? Is this market only open on weekends

thanks

I recently went for check ups at http://www.phyathai-sriracha.com/pytsweb/  in Sri Racha which is not far from Pattaya. I was impressed with the service and they diagnosed a health problem that I was unaware of. At the time I was there, I spoke to another farang who said they just diagnosed him with kidney stone and enlarged prostate. He agreed that the prices at phyathai were substantially better than bkk pattaya hospital. 

Prior to seeing them I compared package prices with bangkok hospital pattaya which was very expensive by comparison.

Also, they are having a new generation CT X-ray machine installed in march / april. The new tech means lower radiation. The equivalent machine in bkk hospital pattaya was installed in 2011 and thus old tech at a much higher price. 

If you are after a better deal and have your own transport its worth the drive to Sri Racha IMHO

cheers

3 hours ago, bbko said:

When I need to drive to Sri Racha, I head north out of town on Sukhumvit and just drive straight, no tollbooths, on the maps it's shown a "Motorway 3", from Patts to Sri Racha it's about a 30 minute drive.

As for returning, just head South on the same motorway.

if Im driving past the bus station on the left when I get to that intersection do I then turn left? is that northbound to sr racha?

Noob question here but if I want to drive from pats to sri racha.... do I drive up that road past the new terminal 21... drive past bus station on left. Right a T intersection and then 1st left on that toll way? Do I just follow that all the way to Sri  racha? Assuming there are signs to turn off there?

If I want to return to rayong am I best to head back down that same highway?

thanks

On 1/17/2019 at 8:46 AM, oskar55 said:

I want to be an english teacher in thailand

Jesus wept, don't forget English and Thailand. Your grammar is poor. What kind of teacher will you be? More like teach the teacher

12 minutes ago, Jingthing said:

The feature is still there for restaurant reviews though. 

Thats fair enough but when reading about hotels I specifically used to look at that count function under the user name to determine if I would bother reading the review. I would never bother to read a review that was on the first post (ie newly registered). Surely trip advisor understand the issue of fake reviews. <deleted>>>??

We have a small business recently opened 4 months ago in Thailand and I recently typed in google the type of business that we have followed by the name of the city. 

I was surprised to see that one of our competitors has a top ranking link for his fbook site. Ours was no where to be seen. He has a long established business with only a few actual fbook reviews (one of them being quite negative). But I assume he might be paying someone to do SEO? Or does he pay google for ads? 

Ive put our name on other sites such as trip advisor and lonely planet and even tv.com and our business is thus displayed in links further down the page. But Im interested to know how I can get our fbook url above our competitors

thanks

I use trip advisor a lot to choose hotels when traveling around Thailand.

They have recently done an upgrade. I can't believe that they have removed the member report count. ie normally when one reads a review written by someone, you can see how many reviews they have done in the past. Obviously when you see a hotel with a lot of 1's you know its the hotel owner likely to be writing it. Some hotels are clearly writing their own reviews as there are so many reviews with just being the first time to use trip advisor. 

But if I see a count of above 10 or 20 then I generally know its a real review. Now this functionality is completely gone and thus now there is no way of knowing if a positive review is real or not. 

The integrity of Trip advisor has now gone down substantially IMHO....

11 minutes ago, Crossy said:

OK, found a free converter.

 

If it was the bottom two doors, I suggest that the right hand box has a MEN link which it should not have, the link should be in the Safe-T-Cut box.

 

Piccies with the lids off will confirm.

 

Thanks for your reply. What does MEN stand for? I have to somehow translate this to the electrician. 

thanks

IMG_7084.HEICWe have a small business on the ground floor. Recently renovated and brand new huge electric box installed with safeTcut etc. 

Today my wife opened 2 of the doors of the box and she said when they touched each other there was a sound and we lost all power to the ground floor. 

This clearly should not happen??? How dangerous is this? We are asking the guys to come back but would like to have some knowledge on this issue prior

thanks

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If you can travel a bit further from Rayong to Chanthaburi I would recommend using 'Dr. Air Dental Clinic'. Its modern and clean. The assistant told me that they change the 'burr' (maybe incorrect spelling) for each customer. I think its the thingy that covers the suctions and other tubes that the dr uses on all patients. She said most clinics just wipe them clean because its cheaper. But Dr Air dental clinic uses a new burr on each customer. 

In the past I've had to get regular chest X-rays as part of the yearly WP process in Thailand. Soon Im going for a routine package check up and on the list is a chest X-ray. 

Does anyone know if this radiation is harmful to the body?

thanks

are you sure its not bc your eating fatty food? Test eating a whole lot of cooked pork fat without drinking any water. If you get upper body pain then you have the same issue as me. check your gall bladder

A few days ago I logged onto my MacBook pro and a message was displayed along the lines that the next software update would not support my Excel and word etc. It was something in relation to the migration to 64 bit technology and how it affects 32 bit applications. 

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208436

If I do the update and then buy a new excel / word app.... will I be able to then open old excel spreadsheets? Its a royal pain in the ass if I can do this.

thanks

I had similar problems recently. Go to pharmacy and ask for Gardia medicine. 4 x 500mg tabs. 1 a day for 4 days. It sorted me out

On 5/6/2018 at 7:14 PM, maheba said:

Where I can find a Traveloffice in Chanthaburi for to book flight?
Where I can change Money (Money Changer not Bank)  Euro - THB in Chanthaburi?

Ive never seen a travel office at all in the city. But maybe you can change money at any of the banks at Robinsons. 

If you're after a good dentist you can consider Dr. Air Dental who is located close to Chanthaburi. She did 2 veneers for me and I was really happy with the results. A beautiful job indeed. Highly recommend her. 

4 hours ago, ezzra said:

Expect a flood of similar situations to come about now that this woman has showed that immigration rules can be flaunted and circumvented by simply saying that your life is in dander true or not...

'flaunted'... what is your evidence for this comment. 

No doubt you grew up in your privileged safe nanny state. Did your small brain ever think maybe she has a legitimate issue. 

On 1/4/2019 at 12:56 PM, xylophone said:

I have to say that I am envious of those posters who manage a trip to the loo twice a day, because my average here is about once every three days and towards the end of that time I'm feeling very bloated.

 

I went to the hospital to get checked out by a gastroenterologist who gave me a colonoscopy and gave me the all clear and recommended that I drink more water and include more fibre in my diet.

 

This I did and do and no change, in fact I have tried the psyllium husk in water twice a day, as well as Mucillin and other various fibres designed to lighten one's load, so to speak, but all to no avail.

 

So I did a bit more research and found that I am probably one of those few that has a slow digestive system and in fact taking fibre doesn't really do this any good because it just tends to sit there, so taking extra fibre doesn't do the job for me.

 

However help seems to be at hand because there was another thread on here about constipation and one poster, in conjunction with Sheryl, pointed out that there is drug available which can help speed up this process (no not a laxative per se) and which helps to get the internal system working a little more efficiently, so I'm going to try and access that through the hospital here in a few days.

 

It's a wonder what one can find when trawling through the bowels of Thaivisa (pun intended).

add 4 to 6 prunes to your daily porridge

On 1/1/2019 at 6:20 PM, Sheryl said:

Once a day like clockwork. Same when back in farangland.

 

Of course, your diet is likely different here, but 4 times is rather excessive for pretty much anybody.

 

How long have you been in Thailand? What are you eating and what water are you drinking?

I ended up taking 1x500mg antibiotics a day for Gardia (for 4 days). Now Im back to 2 squats a day

tv.com has gone downhill big time. there is already mass exodus from this url to other forums