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Probably all the returns from over the year.

nah , it's a clearance sale.They can get money back as factory prices and invest for upcoming season.Every country or city has it as season finish.In thailand it's in June-July period. If you go today in Central World or similar you can see most stuff are selling for 50-60% off. Impact arena sale is like the biggest event.

i keep coming back every year and every year i feel like a kid in a candy shop.All my stuff that i bought there have been superb . definitely worth checkin out

Does anyone knows which documents i need for 30days tourist visa extension? I can't seem to find latest requirements

I got the 16th by counting 60 days from the date you entered the country.

Forget the dates on your visa other than the enter before date. You need to look in your passport for the entry stamp I mentioned in my post.

Thank you for your help.Have a nice weekend.

You do not extend your visa. You extend the 60 day entry you got when you entered the country. You need to look at the entry stamp you got and do the extension by that date. By my count your admitted until date is August 16th.

So can extend visa in immigration until 16th of august,right? BTW why 16th? It's says only 12June or 18June,how did you get 16?

Can someone please tell me when i have to make tourist visa extension in immigration? I made visa on 12 June and i came to Thailand on 18june. Should i make extension before 12 June or "enter before"18 June?

If i have to make extension before 18june,that means visa begins to expire on date you enter Thailand not the date you made visa?

My visa

http://i.imgur.com/kaM9Oqg.jpg

Thank you

So tomorrow my 30-days smartpass 50trips expires.I'm still left with 30trips that i didn't use. If i refill minimal of 15 trips can i still use my unused 30trips that are left from before or with i be left with just newly 15trips?

(sry double thread).Pls delete this one

Last july you could get 44 baht for 1 euro.Nowadays it's 36-37 per euro.I know many expats,including me,lost 4-5000 baht on a salary over less than a year period. Is there any chance of euro getting stronger and getting 43-44 exchange rate again over a period of next 3-4 months?

July last year 1 euro was 44baht.Nowadays 36-37 per euro.It's basically 5-6000 lower salary over a 1 year period. Any chance of euro getting stronger a bit and that we can see again rate of 43-44 in period of next 3-4 months?

Since i'm spending cca 3000-4000 baht a month in big c ,should i get their membership card? If someone uses it,what are the benefits of getting one? thx

Actually i dont monitor my spending, dont need to. But just thinking about the basics as i spend:

Condo total: 7500

basic groceries 6 000

Some days even have to add beer to make it up to the minimum credit card purchase of 200baht.

Meat and veg at markets not much more than 150 a day for 2 people.

That would still leave 5,500 on your budget.

Shouldnt be that hard, although addmittedly i probably easy drop 8000 on a few nights out.

man, I donate my missus 5k a month pocket money and can still do it all under 30k.

A single guy should be living in luxury on 20k

I agree. After paying 10k on condo and food he would still have 10k to go. My advice to OP is,stop eating in tourist shopping malls where you pay 300-400baht meal unless it's 1 time a month to take out your gf.Instead of buying cakes in malls just buy it somewhere else,paying 20-30 baht vs 150baht isn't the same.Stop eating 400 baht popcorn+pepsi combo in movie theaters,and go to movies on wednesday when it's 80baht a ticket. And many other small things like that maybe wouldn't matter on the first but believe me you pay for those things without even realizing what you payed for and you end up wondering where the hell did the money went.You can buy a coconut in Siam Square for 50 baht and somewhere else for 10baht.So decision is yours.

Remember that minimal salary in thai 8000-9000 baht,and you have double of that.So that isnt too bad,you just need a self control where to spend and on what.

I live in Eastern Europe country where the average salary is 600euro.And you have cca 500 euro while living in Thai.So don't tell me it isn't possible.

20.000 isn't THAT bad.Poverty level would be 10.000 baht, With 20k you can still afford decent condo and eat pretty well.And still have 10k to spend through the month.Many farang teachers here are living with 20-25k a month. I have 30k a month and i have decent life with my gf. I'd say you have to aim for at least 25k a month.

Depending on where you apply for your double-entry tourist visa it will be valid for two entries into Thailand within three or within six months. On each arrival you will be given permission to stay for 60 days and each of these can be extended by 30 days at an immigration office. This means that you can have two uninterrupted stays in Thailand for not more than 90 days at a time.

You can continue to get tourist visas as long as your trips to Thailand are for the purpose of tourism and, if challenged by the Thai consulate, you can convince them that you are not working illegally in Thailand.

Thank you.If i may ask,i can have a proof that 20.000-25.000 baht is coming every month to my bank account(from my country).So that should be proof that i'm not working in thailand,right? I guess it's even more important for ED visa

Entirely your decision ....................What you suggest is possible ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

Thank you.Just wanted to know if that's possible cause i wasn't following visa news for the 1-2 year

I'm 26 year old guy(so retirement option is out).

If i get double entry tourist visa i could in stay in thai for 6 months right?Then can i make 1 more double entry tourist visa and after that maybe ED visa?

Experiencing Thainess, its all part of the campaign to show the world how generous and welcoming Thais are to tourists.

I really feel sorry for you.You know very little about Thailand,probably only bad things

That's an excellent idea! Keep it up!

Any suggestions for us lazy people that have been negligent with that for several decades?

You can do a vocab test to get a rough estimate of how many words you know, like this one:

http://linguee.me/vocabularytest/index

i got 5,100 words.Not too bad considering i know a bit less than 4,000(based on words that i've written in my notebook).

http://i.imgur.com/WD4wYcX.jpg

What's your score,guys? (no cheating please )

How does one actually count the words that one knows? For me it's just a guess to nearest thousand or so.

I've written in my notebook every word that i have learned

I would say that I am at the end of 2 and start going to the 3; I speak enough to say many things in every day life, Thai people understand me and don't ask me to repeat, but as to be fluent one day, no !!; 1000 words more and I stop, no need to go further ( I read too, everyday , school books or easynovels )

I am French too, and I have met and worked with foreigners who spoke very good French, as said above: they seemed to be fluent ; why ?

because if you live for ever in France, you have to speak the language, don't think you can do it in English, French are not good for foreign languages ( Not gifted, bad teaching at school ? )

for Thai language , I don't think it's a so difficult language but to be fluent seems to me too much work ; why to be fluent ? 3-5000 words, you can say everything you want

as for me,i set my goal to 6000 words along with correct tone.It's a VERY hard task though,but i think that's enough for everything i want to say.After that i won't be learning new words except getting some new from the context and in everyday speech if i stumble upon one occasionally.

forgot to add to my previous post,if you've actually(like it has been said) learned vocab by frequency vocabulary from chulalonkorn university etc. you can use most of the words in a context already.Most of the words there people use very often.That's why i love frequency vocabulary,you learn words that most of the people actually use every day.It's much better to learn that way than going and learn words from general literature.

it's not the end of the world if you know some words without knowing to use them or put them in a context.Just read thai books a lot,watch thai programs and movies and you'll get them.

^Haha nice one

Another image of the same sign at www2.manager.co.th/mwebboard/listComment.aspx?QNumber=257306&Mbrowse=11 [not posted as a link since that's against forum rules].

That image makes it clear that the original read "BRICK", rather than "PRICK". Someone's doctored the sign.

Brick as a poor translation of "falling rocks", yup, that's believable.

I think you're right.Here is the same sign from a different perspective that i've found on google,it's obvious someone had decorated the sign a bit:)

Since we've sort of drifted into Thai pronunciation of foreign words, today my wife asked me something about Ah Buddha Bee. (Abu Dhabi) Emphasis on the Bee.

Just wait until she ask you about an actor Harry Stanford:)Hint= it's Harrison Ford

^Haha nice one