MadMac

Should be open. Central Airport opens 11:00.

Borax you can get at Mahidol Rd, left side when you come from the airport, before the Ping bridge. It's a chemical supply shop, blue color outside. 1kg for 90B IIRC. Lasts for a lifetime. And it's really good too. Even that nasty slow moving black ants eat it, the other ones really love it. Cockroaches should also be vulnerable, but haven't seen one for a while.

worldchemical.co.th (throw into Google Maps search)

Been in the city before lunch. They just started to throw stinking moat water at each other. Disgusting. Lot's of foreigners, not only asians, also many farangs, who don't know how to walk or drive. Queues in front of 7/11. When the crowd is drunk a bit later, accidents will just happen.

The old city is again fully commercialized, sellers of all kind of cr*p everywhere, temples become bazaars, there is nothing traditional at all. Just a big, stinking, dirty mess with lots of id*ots inside.

A bit further outside it's different, people have clean water, kids play at the side of the street and have fun. Nice enough for a short stop and a smile.

Use borax, does not get simpler and all ants love it

1/2 cup suger

1 1/2 tablespoon borax

1 1/2 cup warm water

Mix and put it on some tissue paper, I usually use the caps of milk bottles, stuffed with the paper. Then place at a strategic location. Worker ants will carry it into their nest and poof....mass extinction. Don't use too much borax or they will die on the way home.

It's not an official immigration requirement, it's a local document from Immigration Division 1. We can now argue forever about it, but what's the point? TiT and all depends on the weather and the last night of the officer in charge

It says immigration division 1, that is Chaeng Wattana. Someone there (that Maj.Gen.) obviously ordered one of his minions to "optimize" the tracking of evil aliens (us) and that came out with that comprehensive all-round checklist, inofficial as it does not carry a TM.xx number. Now they probably try to implement this in BKK. More reports are needed.

Eventually that may become a one-time questionnaire at the time one applies for an extension of stay. Not for 90 days or re-entry permits. Even the generals will understand that such work load can not be carried on the shoulders of already understaffed immigration.

Standard supermarket prices are the same. However in Chiang Mai you have a lot of local products. Be it fresh vegetables (Royal Project) for as cheap as you can't imagine or local produced food (bread, sausage, pickles etc). Lot's of small factories that provide a huge choice of farang food of all kind for very reasonable prices. Local supermarket change Rimping aggregates a lot of this stuff, so it's centrally available. There is no tourist fee on top unlike I'd expect to see in Krabi. Of course you can get ripped off too if you don't do your homework.

Fuel prices are a bit higher, but that's just a few satang, no real impact.

do you have any concept of the term mineral water?

Yes, got all kind of things on the backside back too. Latest was a list of policemen in CNX.

I don't think it is ok, but there's nothing that can be done. Does not change the fact that they have all the details already. Besides the social media. I'd just strike that through. That's bit over the top.

Was only 23 years old, must be one of the newest they have...

Well, can't do much wrong for that price. It's certainly drinkable. I don't think they have any laws to declare what is really inside.

I've never had to provide this information for my extension.

OB

Perhaps you are on a B extension? For the rest of us we have to provide details about funds and bank accounts to the immigration officer when applying for an extension.

We use TESCO points, just around the corner and cheaper than 7/11. They send a letter with discount vouchers every month. Not much but why throw it away.

Other than that you get some 3% and points with many credit cards, HomePro, Central, this stuff, but it's more expensive to start with, in the end you don't save any money.

I have an SCB CC, they give 10 or 15% for King Power, so you can get some industrial alcohol a little bit cheaper at the airport.

Black label, no fruit mentioned.

What it says is (in Thinglish, back label is English/Thai, one piece, with that warning or whatever in big letters):

" An elegance Cabernet Sauvignon with black and distinct aromas of Blackberries and Black Pepper, selected and fermented by experience winemakers. Serve original tastes and traditional process of South Australia.

Handpicked Cabernet Sauvignon from South Australia. Intense and spicy on the palate, mouth-filling and powerful ruby red ; fully bodied and round tannins with a long finish".

Taste is so-so, have had worse ones, but for the price I'd say ok. They also had a white one, not sure what it was, did not look closer. Same price.

That HS-BRI is more than 23 years old, a youngster in the Orient Thai fleet

HS-LTM (the Lion plane) is 2 years old. What is weird, it was already in Pitsanulok (they have an airport there) but returned to Chiang Mai.

https://premium.flightradar24.com/data/flights/sl539#95dd377

These are all pretty new planes. Lion was launch customer for the Boeing 737-900. Thai pilots also fly a lot different (better) than their Indonesian counterparts. So it's all speculation for now.

I know one case in BKK where immigration accepted a missing document sent to them via Line. So it's not a one way road. Perhaps can also get the contact from some of the pretties . It's all Line in this country...555

Immigration has my bank details. Why should I fill out some template that is as far as I can see inofficial and could possibly come from Nigeria. All immigration forms carry a TM.xx designation.

Some years ago they had a stone old 747 parked at Don Muang with one engine missing. They were getting another one from another old plan and fitting it themselves, no hangar, just on the tarmac.

Orient Thai, formerly known as 1-2-go buys the oldest planes even the Chinese don't want to maintain anymore and give them a new lease of life. If you fly with them you could also fly off the next balcony. The latter certainly offers the better experience

Who's fault will it be when peoples accounts are plundered as a result of skips being harvested?

BS, how should this happen....it's information you have to provide anyway for an extension of stay. Don't know any case where someone go plundered because of that.

Nothing in it they don't have already or could easily find out. Someone just tries to delegate work to the evil alien. Of course without looking at the consequences. Will likely be another disaster for data security, but that does not exist in this country anyway.

No news really.

Also have the missionaries. We have some here in the Moo Baan. They live in another universe.

Saw some new stuff in Makro today, 2l bottle, PRIM Bin 10. South Australia, Cabernet Sauvignon, no fruit mentioned on the label. 370B only. Got one bottle but haven't tried yet. Seems to be real wine and not fruit juice though.

Did not know they still exist. That's one of the best in TH .

Why would anyone with a functioning brain buy a ticket from/with them?

Probably the 20001 that slipped through the net last week. After all the caught him! The BiB should be commended! The quality tourists will be grateful! Shame on that criminal.