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    Bangkok child rescue: 8-year-old escapes brutal treatment

    in Bangkok News

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    I don't think it's that people don't want their children, it's more likely that failed marriages have created 1 parent families and the parent can't look after the children and provide for them at the same time. The classic scenario is that the husband <deleted> off, the wife goes to work in a bar and the kids get dumped on grandma.

    With no welfare system and a husband pleading poverty, what else can she do?

    Ophthalmologist please weigh in

    in Health and Medicine

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    It is said that Dr Prin of Bumrungrad Hospital is the go to Ophthalmologist for the rich and famous here in Thailand. I'm neither, but I put my trust in him for cataract surgery and the result was perfect. Fortunately the operation was timely as I was millimetres away from glaucoma.

    Smart watches

    in Mobile Devices and Apps

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    2 hours ago, bradiston said:

    Hi. I have afib (irregular heartbeat) and my neurologist has suggested wearing a decent FDA aporoved smart watch with ECG capabilities, to monitor my heart. I experience an anomaly occasionally which he said would need to be recorded for him to be able to look at the output. I had an EEG recently and no problems were detected.

     

    I'm not in training. I'm not really interested in all the bells and whistles. I don't do Apple. I don't have a Samsung phone. So it narrows the field down quite considerably. Any advice/experience out there? Google? Garmin? Or...?

    Why are you visiting a neurologist and not a cardiologist?

     

     

    Lazada Nonsense Again.

    in General Topics

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    On 12/15/2023 at 5:06 PM, lopburi3 said:

    But for some reason that information may not be available to Lazada processing service currently so approval is being delayed.  Only offer as a possibility.  Was not suggesting your account was empty.

    Oh yes you were!

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    7-11 takes 1000-Baht-bill for 100 Baht, shortchanges - your take?

    in General Topics

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    I think you'll find that most, if not all. 7/11s have CCTV, which you can ask to see, in the event of a dispute over payment. If it's refused, you call the old Bill

     

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    12 hours ago, henrik2000 said:

    Hello, the bill at the 7-11 was 59 THB. I opened my wallet and saw that i only have some 1000-Baht-bills. i showed 1000 THB, asked in Thai, “dai mai khrap?” (can do?) and  the cashier murmured something jolly confirming. 

    I received the change of 41 baht. After some fruitless waiting, I said “I still need 900, because I gave you 1,000”. The cashier said “no, you gave me 100”. A tense discussion ensued. At one point someone like perhaps a supervisor counted all the 100 THB bills and the 20 THB bills in the cash register without commenting on it. Stupidly I didn't check if there was any 1,000 THB bill.

    My cashier said something about “Thailand Thailand” which I didn't understand. He seemed to insinuate that I confused the 100 and the 1,000 TBH bills because of their slightly similar colors, but I am 1000% sure that I gave him 1,000, and I can distinguish between the two very well. 

    Now 4 or 5 staff watched us. Then he opened the cash register again and showed me that there was not a single 1,000 THB bill in it. I hadn't looked for that when they had opened it first for me, but of course my 1,000 THB could have been hidden anywhere, not the least under the stack of 100 THB bills that were there.

    Finally I said, “okay up to you”, took my two small things, my 41 THB and left. On the spacious parking lot was my blinking bicycle (7 pm). At least one staff member observed me through the window. I was hoping they would come down, but they didn't and let me leave.

    When cycling home I thought, I should have not taken anything - neither the 41 THB change nor the two small things - and should have said instead, “okay, please wait a little, I come back with police”, and see if they follow me to the parking lot. (I would have never contacted police anyway.)

    How would you deal such a situation?

    Backgrounds: 

    It is the 7-Eleven in Samut Songhkram, the one next to the Don Hoi Lot landmark, about 3 km away. I believe that 7-Eleven doesn't get many foreigners. I had shown upon entering the cashiers two photos of anti-mosquito things I had snapped at friends’, and one had helpfully accompanied me to the 2 different shelves where I could find the items. I think I overheard them saying “oh, he speaks Thai” (and they can't know that I understand much less than I speak). They were much more personal with me than, say, a 7-Eleven cashier in Jomtien. 

    I believe that I was dressed politely enough (not in sports garb, not in beach garb), but of course seeing me with a bicycle is a minus normally (I think I didn't see more than 3 bicycles total in several days of cycling around the province and locals told me it was silly and dangerous to bicycle; on the same morning a dog had bitten me physically because I bicycled).

    Again I know very well that I gave 1,000 in the 7-11, as I am aware that I spent my last 100 THB bills for fish and rice at the Don Hoi Lot market. 

    Your take?

     

    PS

    If you have a comment on getting bitten by a dog that clearly belongs to a rural 1-family-home next to a regular paved road I am interested too.

     

     

     

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    Tourist dies after being refused treatment at BKK private hospital - Tim Newton Today - Dec 13

    in Thailand News

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    I'm so glad that this hospital has shown its true colours to the rest of the World. A few years back I was sent there by speed boat and ambulance from KP and wheeled straight into ICU having had a suspected heart attack. Along comes a nurse with a clipboard asking me to sign an admittance form agreeing to pay 68000 tbh PER NIGHT for the pleasure of staying. It was Saturday night and I asked the nurse when would I see the cardiologist. Not before Tuesday she replied, there's not a cardiologist on the Island before then. Fortunately I had recovered somewhat and was able to work out that I would be racking up a bill for 200000 tbh having my blood pressure checked for the next 3 nights while waiting for the cardiologist. Anyway, to cut a long story short, I got my gf to call a taxi and take me to the state hospital, where I spent the night. I was given the OK and discharged the following morning and the bill, including medication was less than 7000tbh.

    Thankfully I was more fortunate than the poor Taiwanese.

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    Make sure you count your change

    in Koh Samui, Koh Phangan, Koh Tao

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    1 hour ago, Tropicalevo said:

    There was a trick a while back when Samui was not so developed. (No supermarkets, only a few of ATM's etc.)

    The staff in a couple of the local mum and pop stores would hold back the small shrapnel.

    When I challenged them on that 'You are farang. You tip.' was the response.

    Pleased to say that it has not happened for a very long time.

    However, many shop staff keep the satang coins these days.

    The Electricity company still does it

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    Make sure you count your change

    in Koh Samui, Koh Phangan, Koh Tao

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    Especially at the 7/11 opposite the police station in Koh Phangan. Fortunately there was a policeman standing next to me when I counted my change, which was 100baht short. He waited with me while the girl who had served me returned , she had handed me my change with no bill and disappeared immediately, before I had a chance to check the change. The policeman also told me that I could check the CCTV if she didn't pay me when she returned. She paid me of course.

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    TM30 required when returning to the previously reported address?

    in Thai Visas, Residency, and Work Permits

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    I made my usual 90 day report online, a few days ago and this time it was rejected, telling me to visit my nearest Imm office immediately, which happens to be Koh Phangan. I took copies of my online request and receipt and subsequent rejection from Thai Immigration and had to do the whole thing again by hand, together with a TM30 with the house owner (my gf) present.

    As usual, there was no explanation of why the online report was rejected and whether or not I could continue online reports in future. I will just have to wait and see!

    I've been here almost 12 years now and haven't left Thailand since October 2019 (my last re-entry) and I've found nothing in Thailand quite as traumatic as a visit to the Immigration office.

     

     

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