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Ok sounds good, thanks for the help. I guess my next stop is the immigration office

Ok so aside from the ED Visa is the best/only way for me to extend is with another tourist visa? Is there any limit on how many times I can get tourist visa's?

Also are there any limits to how many times the basic 15 day re-entry can be used back to back?

Yes sorry I wasn't clear, it was a 3 entry tourist visa. Original entry counted as one with two border runs, each giving me two months for six months total. I just did my last one recently so I have two months left.

I have not had it extended 30 days, and I'm confused at what you mean by 7 days to depart.

As for an ED Visa, if I were to sign up and pay for a course that didn't start for a few months, would the ED Visa replace and override my current one, or would it go into effect after my current one has finished?

I'm a 28 year old Canadian and I just did my 3rd and final border run of my 6 month visa.

How can I go about extending this? For possibly even longer, say up to a year?

I've heard that I would need to take a course at a University to do so, which I would be willing to do. I do want to take a course on Thai if that counts.

I'd also like to eventually start teaching english, so would there be a specific type of visa I'd need to obtain to do so? Or are most english teaching positions under the table?

Thanks for any answers/advice

It's only terrible if you try to play with keyboard and mouse, you really need a controller. The resolution is low like the console, but there was a fix for that 3 hours after release.

Other then that it's great. No more frame rate issues at all, especially in blight town.

Really happy I got it and it's on PC, just wish I could play online.

This is probably one of my all time favourite games, and I was super excited to hear that they were going to port it over for the PC, since I do not own a console any more.

However the game uses Games For Windows Live which apparently is not supported in Thailand currently.

Basically, that means that I cannot play online until Xbox/Microsoft release their next Xbox Dashboard version, which supposedly includes support to more regions.

No PvP in Dark Souls? I'm crushed.

Is there anyone out there in the same position. I'm hoping somebody has figured out a way to play this online in Thailand!

For those of you who don't know Canada day is the first of July or the eighth.

The way it is set up is kind of weird. It is the first or maybe second Monday of the month but they have the Thanksgiving diner on the Sunday

huh?

Canada Day is July 1, always. What's up with the 8th? And why are you talking about Thanksgiving when that's in October?

Magic the Gathering. Always looking for new players in CM.

I just started to play the 2013 planeswalker game a bit and I'm catching the magic fever. I'm definitely a new player but I'm a quick learner. I'd love to play if you or anyone else is interested.

I'm in Chiang Mai and haven't been to the theatre at Airport plaza yet and was wondering this exact thing. I assumed they would just use Thai subs for them, but I guess that's not the case?

I want to see prometheus, but not if its dubbed, even if they have english subs, I wouldn't bother.

I have just bought it. Wow, that was a fast download. Less than 2 hrs for 7+GB in Bangkok is quite good Can't login though, servers full / error 37 so I am beginning to understand the nerdrage. Ah well, patience. Basch

What ISP are you using?

I live in an apartment in Chiang Mai with shared True, with speeds of 15gb down. The first week was great, the ping was still kind of high at 200, but at least it was playable. I was able to get two characters into inferno on the Asia servers and the minor lag was only an annoyance, but after the first patch that went out, I have extreme lag issues. Logging in now takes a minute instead of a few seconds, same goes for joining games. Sometimes I'll be stuck on the loading screen for upwards of 5minutes, despite hearing the sounds of having entered. When I do finally get in, there's severe spikes up to 1k+ latency which causes everything on the screen to freeze except for my character, and the game will "rubber band" after a few minutes which makes the game unplayable. I haven't been able to really truly play for 2 weeks now and it's getting frustrating.

I don't think it's the fact the internet is shared, since it was working fine at release and I can still get download speeds of 1.4mb/s through newzbins. Although I believe it's being throttled as the speeds drop down to 100kb/s after a few minutes. But at the same time I've had issues connecting with steam recently and only getting 10kb max download speeds through it as well. The only game I can really play without any issues recently is TF2 (On the days I can log into steam...). Counter strike has really annoying spikes, and I've just covered D3.

So I'm thinking about getting my own independent connection. I was thinking of either 3BB or CAT, does anyone use either of these for gaming? How are your connections? Download speeds? Etc.?

Good thing you wrote down their profiles, that's not weird and creepy.

You should be ok to Pai and Mae Sai to be honest. Just a little easier if you have a little more grunt as your not up and down the gears quite so much. A better way of thinking may be to rent one of each of the bikes you are considering (within your budget) and see which feels good.

I owned the Ninja 250 but considering the price and comfort level I couldn't realistically recommend this over the Honda. I just got fed up of waiting for the Honda to be released lol.

Ya renting sounds like a good plan for now. Any idea on where to find a place that rents them out? Particularly the 150, as I've only seen 1 place renting out a 250 and have yet to find a 150 for rent anywhere.

I think you're more likely to find the older style 150 for rent to be honest. These are much smaller and thinner than the newer ones. I know Tony & Jeff have 250's at Tony's big bikes in town. I know they have given a few riding lessons / guidance to people who want to rent but have little to no experience. May be worth looking them up.

Not sure of the address and number but I'm sure a quick google search will put you right.

I found a 150 at Mr Beer's today, and you're right it does seem very thin. It looks like a scooter from the front.

It was hard to get a good feel for it as it's older and has been ridden hard over the years. I drove halfway up Doi Suthep and it handled the hill easily. It was a good enough amount of power for me, especially since I'll be doing a lot of city driving. Putting it into neutral was almost impossible, so I ended up holding down on the clutch, which I forgot to adjust before I started riding (I have small hands and it was at the max distance), and destroyed my forearm. Hopefully it's ok for tomorrow and I can try out the 250 without too much discomfort. I walked by Tony's Big Bike awhile ago so I'm sure I can find it, it's close to Mr. Beer's.

You should be ok to Pai and Mae Sai to be honest. Just a little easier if you have a little more grunt as your not up and down the gears quite so much. A better way of thinking may be to rent one of each of the bikes you are considering (within your budget) and see which feels good.

I owned the Ninja 250 but considering the price and comfort level I couldn't realistically recommend this over the Honda. I just got fed up of waiting for the Honda to be released lol.

Ya renting sounds like a good plan for now. Any idea on where to find a place that rents them out? Particularly the 150, as I've only seen 1 place renting out a 250 and have yet to find a 150 for rent anywhere.

I hit up Gat (ngua?) in San Patong on Saturday and picked up a Honda nice, they had a lot of bikes there, including KSRs.

I went to the 7-11 at the beginning of Wu Lai road at about 5am and got one of the yellow trucks for 20B. Took the 30min ride out there, found a bike I liked, bought it and rode it back.

Nice what bike did you end up with?

Are you sure you want to go to Mae Sai and back on a small bike?

It's entirely your choice at the end of the day. The link to the 250 was an example of available options more than anything else.

As far as I'm aware the 150 & 250 are exactly the same size, just bigger engine in the latter.

If you're going to do Mae Sai visa runs on your bike then the extra power of the 250 would be a big advantage. Better for getting up those hills, which there are plenty of and not revving the engine quite so high when cruising along.

I travelled up to Chiang Rai quite a lot when I had my Ninja 250 and it was fine on those runs. There's very little difference between that & the CBR 250 apart from the price lol.

Out of town I now ride my 650 and it's obviously much easier going on those kind of routes and not really difference in fuel costs if you're doing the same sort of speeds as the engine doesn't work as hard.

Maybe that's also an option for you further down the line once you're ready.

I went from 150 to 250 to 650 and was glad I didn't try jumping on the big bike straight away as many people do. I think it was a confidence thing more than anything in my case.

I did ride up to Pai with a Sonic 125 and can't recall having any issues. I know that Mae Sai is considerably further, but asides from a comfort point of view, should I really be concerned about doing the run with a 150?

Will I be working the engine too hard and end up thrashing it?

Like you said, it's a confidence thing for me too, and I'm wary about jumping into a 250 right away. Although I do like that it's the same size, so maybe it's an option still.

Just saw this on the classifieds, may be of interest to you.

http://classifieds.t...mai-166139.html

Thanks, although I'm still hesitant going with anything bigger then 150. I'm paying for more power, which I don't need or want. Are the 150 and 250 the same physical size? Because I like the medium size of the 150.

Also, I'm more of a beginner rider just looking to get around town while having some fun, and the obligatory visa runs when necessary.

I'd really love to get an oldschool cruiser type, but hassle free low maintenance is big for me and I'll get that with a newer sport bike I'd imagine.

How much does a new CBR 150 go for? And where could I find one?

I think anything above 150 is overkill for me

The CBR150 looks really good, I may have to splurge a bit then.

Also I remember riding a standard Sonic 125 up to Pai and thoroughly enjoying it, but that was 5 years ago and they seem to be rare these days as I've only seen one so far.

I was walking around the Tha Pae area and saw a Muay Thai ring sunken back 100 yards from the road, easy to miss during the day when the bars lining the walkway (towards the ring) are all closed, but I'm pretty sure it's on Loi Khor road around Soi 2 or 3. There's a shop right on the road beside the walkway that sells all the gear you're looking for I'd imagine.

Where do people play in CM?

I'd be interested in some drop-in type of play.

Anyone know a good place for used motorbikes, aside from the classifieds?

I'm looking for a Kawasaki KSR or something similar to it. ~150cc. Manual, preferably with a clutch.

I'm hoping to buy in the 30-50k baht range.