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2 minutes ago, Caldera said:

What you presumably have now is an "under consideration" stamp till October 12th (nothing unusual about that, as you applied in September), but they haven't received the approval yet and told you to return on Friday (again, nothing unusual, it happens).

 

Just wait and see what will happen then. I have no idea how they would justify an overstay fine.

Yes, you're right about the visa stamp and I hope you are right about there being no overstay charges even though he distinctly mentioned them as I left. Will find out soon enough and update then if there are, and what the (bogus) justification was. Thanks for the input

4 minutes ago, ubonjoe said:

It states in a immigration announcement that your stamp can be changed to November 30th for free.

The announcement is dated October 1st so you you think they would've gotten it by now.

It is pages 3 and 4 here in Thai. https://www.immigration.go.th/en/?avada_portfolio=การอนุญาตให้คนต่างด้าว-3&portfolioCats=45%2C45

 

 

Thanks for the reply, Joe. I did go prearmed with the announcement, but was just told come back Friday, as were others. And as I was walking out, he said, there will be overstay charges too. Which given I'd only been stamped until October 12th makes me think this was premeditated plan to get some cash . Done openly in office in front of manager, and others told the same. So should i challenge this on friday or just suck it up? I'm thinking the latter

5 minutes ago, Jimmyjames120 said:

No, I think there really gonna turn it up a notch,  

 

when the bar owners waking, one of the gang will walk up behind him and tap him on the right shoulder but continue on past his left side........ Boom!  Have some of that mate!

You've been watching too much Sons of Anarchy, pal. Watch the original video and see the way they ran like chickens when fronted 1 on 1. Bunch of bullying cowards. Glueing locks is about their level - juvenile

Bit ironic writing about deficiencies in an education system while demonstrating a loose grasp on written English yourself ;-) : -

'learning by "wrote"' (sic); "each" too much junk food

Hi there,

posted the following in Pattaya forum but had no response, so if anyone can help

"could anyone who's sent their child to Hastin or knows someone who has kindly share their views on the place. I need to find a new school at K2 level for my 4-year-old boy. Currently, he's fluent in Thai but only English basics. Hastin lacks the resources and smaller class sizes of some school I've visited, but they seem committed and the 70% English to 30% Thai ratio would be about right. I'm probably taking him to be educated in the west when 7. Any experiences or views of Hastin would be most welcome"

Subsequently, Ive also visited REPS Rayong Kindergarten: great resources and the person showing me round assured me my son would be fluent in English, as well as continuing his Thai development, within two years, but the ratio of Thai to English and number of Foreign teachers didn't seem to back this up.

Again, anyone with any experience of REPS Kindergarten : your opinion would be most welcome,

cheers

Hi there,

could anyone who's sent their child to Hastin or knows someone who has share their views on the place. It would be greatly appreciated, as I need to find a new school at K2 level for my 4-year-old boy.

He's half thai child and I want him to be exposed more to the English language with a view that I may take him to England when he's seven to continue his education. Currently, he's fluent in Thai but has only English basics.

I've been to see Hastin and admittedly it lacks the resources and smaller class sizes of some school I've visited, or indeed the glossy brochures, but they seem committed and the 70% English to 30% Thai ratio would be about right.

Any experiences or views of Hastin would be most welcome, or recommendations for other places on the Eastern seaboard,

many thanks

.... and when they say 'British man' now days, it can mean anything and anybody really....

What do you mean?

'Mr. Khegobadi' ...... good traditional British name there.

yeah, like Elizabeth Saxe-Coburg, or former England cricket captain, Nasser Hussein. Your point being what exactly?

Hi there,

I was hoping any teachers/educationalists or parents here with personal experience could recommend an English Program school for my 4-year-old boy, anywhere in Thailand.

I'm still thinking of taking him to be educated in England when he's 7 - friends who are heads and teachers in England say this would be fine if he speaks English and has mastered the 'basics'; but also cover of any possibility he remains in Thailand, so an EP school seems a good compromise...currently.

But how do you determine which ones are worth the money and which ones are a waste of time? So far, I've been recommended REPS in Ban Chang and Varee School, Chiang Mai, which I intend to visit in the next couple of months.

Any more recommendations would be most welcome,

many thanks.

As someone who's installed a wife he met on the internet from a developing country in his home despite the seedy connotations often allied to such moves, I wouldn't have thought you'd gave a rat's sh*t about what the neighbours' thought...and quite right too.

Been a while since I studied Aristotle but I'm sure his ideal state was aristocracy and not democracy as this seems to imply by translating 'Politeia' as politics when in his book 'politics' it tends to be used as a form of government - rule by the many, and therefore a good democracy would simply be a better form of the rule by the many than a bad form of the rule by the many. Sorta makes his premise a house built on sand.

He could have just said the Thai political system is so f*cked that you're gonna get governed by the Shinawatra clan or the likes of Suthep: A bit like being asked, 'would you like your turd polished or au natural?'

How old is the child? If he/she's a toddler, and the mother was taking care of he/she then you cannot divide support for her from support for the child.

Personally, I think people should man up to their responsibilities and there's no bigger one than having a child - intended or not. And, I speak as someone familiar with your situation. It's easy to feel resentful at having to give cash to someone you may now positively dislike, and whose motives you may suspect, but the child's an innocent in all this. The same cannot be said for you or her, so the needs of the child are paramount.

If what you're giving is sufficient to the child not to need for anything essential, materially, then fair enough. I'd say a minimum of 15,000 personally, and I don't care that this is in excess of underpaid Thai workers' salary as other posters have said, as I wouldn't want my child, to scratch around like some kids of underpaid workers in a developing country. It is to be hoped that you'll also be able to offer emotional support for the child too as his/her dad by sorting out the issues, difficult as they are, with the mother, so you at least have access.

At the risk of appearing flippant, what surprises me most is why anyone would get addicted to such a crap drug like ya baa. The feeling is negligible, you smell like stale chocolate and it's effect is akin to taking a few pro plus. So, I'm told :-) Maybe TV expats whou='ve been here a while could clarify whether pre Thakisn it was sold openly for long distance truck drivers and the like: is that hearsay?

But to be serious, the detailing of the tragic story of the guy whose missus was hooked on meth is a warning against addiction and not a drug per se, and addiction can be devastating whether it's a legal or illegal drug.

The difference I notice in drug use between the UK and Thailand is the lack of drug education or awareness about what is acceptable drug use (obviously to hardliners none is acceptable but then they get all confused about their own legal narcotics of choice) and the dangers of addiction. I come from a generation where recreational drug use is acceptable and nothing to be frowned upon, and judging by the successful careers my friends enjoyed had no negative impact upon them. But they knew when to draw the line, they were informed about drug use. Compare that to the bug-eyed bar girl who tells you she love ice because give you power. There seems to be a ridiculous class status in Thailand where ice users look down their noses at ya baa uses, equating the higher expense with higher quality even though both are probably made from skanky ingredients in a Cambo or Burmese lab. And, it appears despite relatively draconian drug laws, it's spreading though that's only anecdotal.

As another poster mentioned, the poor get the worse end of the stick getting banged up, while others will buy themselves out of trouble, and this being Thailand there are a fair few places where the cops will be paid by dealers to recycle product and stay off their backs. Given that it's not going to go away however much they escalate punitive policies, it'd be nice to see some more preventative measures in place and better education about the effects of takings such drugs on daily, long term basis, as when long term ice use ages you prematurely and many female users thinks it makes them look beautiful, there's a clear gap in informed use.

Hilarious. I'm taking this as a wind-up joke. No-one can be that tragic, and mistake being a sexpat in a developing country buying a wife for a real relationship. can they? Ye gods.

About 85% of the worlds population still regard arranged marriage as the norm.

Worldwide divorce rate in marriage for love approaching 50%, divorce rate in arranged marriage around 8%.

Makes you wonder which culture is getting it wrong?

Lot of racists thinking the white way is the correct and only way.

(Note: topic title = marriage not relationship)

Lost me a bit there, fiftytwo. What relevance does arranged marriages which usually involve third parties choosing partners for the woman AND the man have to do with the discussion. That's leaving aside the other unshot fish in the barrel, sorry, I mean statistics on its incidence, and the bizarre racism comment.

Hmm ... Why on earth would anybody want to date/marry a Thai lady? Deep question. After 2 seconds of thought the following popped to mind:

* usually 10-30 years younger

* very good looking to beautiful

* they do the housework, shopping, cooking, laundry as they loose face if man works. They even call it woman's work.

* take direction very nicely

* willing sexual participants (this should be the first point)

* warm, cuddelly, affectionate ... if you do not sleep around

* they see us as a status symbol

* They want the man to be the leader with none of this woman's equality shit like in the West, where they want to make the man into a lady-man

* they do nag but in a very qute way

* etc

Why would anyone not date/marry a Thai lady. And if it does not work out, go into the lady forest and pick another one.

Hilarious. I'm taking this as a wind-up joke. No-one can be that tragic, and mistake being a sexpat in a developing country buying a wife for a real relationship. can they? Ye gods.

I agree with the OP to a degree despite it being troll-bait.

I don't think you can have a profound, meaningful relationship with someone you don't really know, and to know someone you need to be able to communicate. If you are not fluent in Thai, or your GF isn't fluent in English, then where's the profound connection: great sex and making you laugh you can find in any bar in Thailand. Cleaning the house and great food you can find with domestic help. But then a lot of fellas seem to express bitterness about women back home who had the audacity to have personalities and challenge them when they were being pr*cks, so welcome to paradise.

If you were lucky enough to have relationships with women who were attractive in every sense back home, then Thailand isn't paradise, but a place where you actually find it more difficult to find a GF due to communication issues. Fair play to the posters who've traversed that and have normal healthy relationships. From my experience, they are a minority .

You don't seem to realise how many western men hate western women. Google it if you are interested. Many web sites on the subject.

Sadly, I do, as I've listened in bars to many of them bang on with their bitter, generalising BS. But hate's a strong word. Why would anyone of sound mind hate western women for not being what they want them to be. Preference is a better word. And, it all depends on the reason they prefer them over western women. Because an attractive one or young one at home wouldn't look twice at them? Because they only ever managed to have bloody awful relationships with women at home? Because they were cheated on, or found them insufficiently subservient ? Not always but mainly that's as much to do with the men.

But if you mean men who have a preference for asian looking women over western women, find them more feminine etc or favour traditional relationships with old school power differentials, where they are waited on hand and foot while being the bread winner, then fair enough. Naturally,they will prefer Asian women. But read through these threads, which category would you say most of them fall into?

it seems logical to suggest that any western man that deliberately flies half way round to world to a developing nation to find a wife because his economic advantage affords him a choice of younger attractive women might not have been blessed with an abundance of relationship skills back home, or be the dream partner for any woman.

Similarly, many Thai women looking for a man purely for financial gain might not make the dream wife. But there's honourable exceptions who treat each other with kindness and respect, and that's when it seems to work.

When I lived in Pattaya, however, far too many times you saw the other type who would treat their wives with utter contempt, seeing their economic advantage as entitlement to behave like a white slave trader. Then bitch and whine when she buggers off to get her jollies with Somchai. As the Thais say, som nam naa

Clearly the Thai government simply doesn't have the funds for better English teachers, better run schools, better waged teachers; after all they are very conservative when it comes to spending, unless there are excellent programmes that clearly spark economic growth

free computer tablets in schools in 2012 - 16m bht

rise subsidy programme - 136 billion bht and counting

first car tax rebate - 2.6 bht

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I know it's off-topic, and I don't mean to be facetious, metis, but isn't this a little ironic when you've just taken a full story from The Nation verbatim and posted it on Thai Visa, as regularly occurs? Or are there profit sharing agreements in place allowing this lack of fair use attribution?

has been been previously accused of sexual offences,

so maybe thailand should look into who they are letting in to country,

I guess then there would be more going out then coming in 555

Talking sense here. Every time one of these unsavoury incidents surfaces, it begs the question what's being done to stop developing countries becoming a playground for paedophiles, namely preventative measures rather than reactive measures. There was a report on TV not long ago of an English guy getting caught and he had previous in his own country. How hard can it be to ensure anyone with previous sex offences to their name is denied entry? On a separate note, when I clocked the alleged offender's name, it was all too predictable that the brains trust would surface suggesting his offence was to do with his possible origins.

Couldn't make it up....Great that he's fine, but you'd be hard pushed to find a person who read the original story that didn't think he'd been 'offed' by the GF and accomplices due to their late reporting of the car going missing.

A lesson perhaps for our own cynicism and also that, in Thailand, nothing is ever logical or as straightforward as it appears....