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Today the air pollution is very bad again. Can't see any of the Ilands from my balcony and can smell the pollution as soon as opening the balcony door.

I'm curious to know, how many people here are wearing N95 masks every day or most days? If so, do you sometimes get some stupid smartass comments from uneducated Thai people (usually workers of some shop or motorcycle taxi) when you walk past like "this is not BKK" and they speak it in Thai?

On 2/8/2019 at 11:48 AM, Just1Voice said:

Thai people are, without a doubt, some of the laziest and dirtiest people in the world when it comes to trash.  It took me years to break my wife of the habit of just tossing wrappers, paper and whatnot anywhere and everywhere she felt like it. 

Not all Thai people. Depends on how educated or uneducated the person is.

Are electricity blackouts a common occurrence in Pattaya? It seems my building (a couple year old condo building) gets them quite often about 5 times in the past 3 months and usually lasts for 5-10 mins before the power comes back on. This morning it happened one time. I could understand if it was from a heavy thunderstorm/rainfall which was only once but all the other times it was during the day time in the morning.

As a tenant if you were to say break a one year lease after staying there for a few months, what problems could you face? I know that you would lose your 2 month's deposit but would the owner sue you or chase you for the rest of the money for the one year's lease? What type of problems could happen?

Got some 3M 8210 N95 Face Masks and have been using them but they don't last long at all. Maybe 3 days max. The rubber band strap always breaks after 3 days of usage, very poor quality indeed, and yes it is an authentic 3M mask as I verified the serial number on their website. Is this normal for other people using 3M masks or the 8210 mask in particular? How long are they meant to last for?

24 minutes ago, onera1961 said:

When you did your TM30 for the second time, what did you submit, besides the TM30 form. My agent (real estate) also did my TM30 three months ago and I haven't left the country since then. I leave next month. Wondering what docs needed for the second submission of TM30. Should I ask my agent (real estate) to do the same again?

Just bring your passport and old TM30 and ask at the immigration counter after returning to the country. They will give you the  form and tell you which pages of the passport needs photocopying plus the TM30 form. Anyway, the photocopying people will know also what needs photocopying.

On 5/1/2018 at 3:05 PM, Krataiboy said:

Nothing particularly revelationary about this Pink piece. Numerous surveys have shown that many, if not most, men who identify as heterosexual have a sexual experience with another man at some time in their lives. The same goes for women, only more so.

What a load of crap. They ain't straight if they are doing other dudes. They're either gay or bisexual, not at all straight.

14 minutes ago, Mister Fixit said:

Thank you for your holier-than-thou genius insight, Mr Sanctimonious.  I knew there's be at least one post something like that.

Don't do illegal dodgy stuff (or your buddy in this case) then you won't get posts like that ???? Do it the correct legit legal way ????

1 hour ago, ivor bigun said:

I wonder which one was you,as i was there doing it at about the same time lol in and out very quick

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I was the handsome young dude. Not hard to spot lol

5 minutes ago, vogie said:

Just got back from Jomptian, it was chocka block, we got there at about 1400hrs and the queue was half way down the car park, when we left probably about one and half hours later the queue was still the same. Normally on an afternoon it's straight in and out.

Guess you were unlucky then. At 12:30pm there was no queue for the numbers and around 1 to 1:30pm there was a small queue of a handful of people waiting for a queue number inside the building (maybe 8-10 people).

Just now, DrJack54 said:

Op, thanks for report. Could you add what you supplied. In particular, since you have changed location from CW did you do a tm28, tm30, ....Show new lease? Etc

Yep, did a TM30 by the agent/landlord when I moved in here then when I flew back in I went to Jomtien Immigration and did another TM30 to say I'm still at the same address. Completely stupid and a waste of time but has to be done here or they fine you. Actually, that was the longest queue time here, I had to wait just over one hour that time to submit the TM30 form. The TM30 form photocopied is needed when you apply for an extension so better make sure it's done.

4 minutes ago, jacko45k said:

It can be quiet some times of year, but I suspect the Chinese NY had an impact, you were lucky! 

Generally Dec/Jan/Feb is quite busy with a lot of tourists in town. If you avoid Mondays and Fridays, days after holidays you can get lucky. Getting your passport back the same day is unusual, I usually have to go pick it up the next day.

It's rare you will spend more than a few hours there though... better than most places.

Wow two days to get your passport back! Even in BKK you get it back the same day.

But just to be clear, I'm talking about a 30 day extension of a tourist visa, not a retirement visa. Don't know how quick they process the other ones or how long the queue is for that one.

7 minutes ago, glegolo said:

Do not drag this too far now. fastest in the country? And you have only checked up Wattana, Bangkok? The worst place ever timewise.....

 

No my friend, little bit more experience before you talk about best in the country. My Immigration-office in Chaiyaphum is always fast as hell,, and nice people working there, so there you have it, and I can promise there will NEVER totally during a full week being 100 people there.....

 

glegolo

Yeah, I can only compare it to BKK and it's absolutely horrible there and gets worse every 3 months for the past few years. Glad to be out for now. How quickly do they do it at Chaiyaphum? 5 mins wait or nobody in the queue at all?

53 minutes ago, kannot said:

throw  all 4 up in the air and pick one.................then wait for the Immigration  Officer to tell you theyre  all wrong and his interpretation is correct...............bunch of  clowms who have peoples  lives dangling by a thread.

I just went to Jomtien Immigration today and it was a super pleasant experience. Very nice ladies and they even made a joke with me. No mucking around and were super quick to process the paperwork and return the passport.

Made a trip to Jomtien Immigration today for my extension of stay, being my 1st ever one done at Jomtien. Always had them done at BKK and it was always a pain in the ass wasting a whole day of waiting for 100 people in the queue before me.

Today I arrived around 12:30pm when they were having their lunchbreak (12pm-1pm). Was absolutely surprised when I got my queue ticket with only 5 people in front of me. When lunch was over at 1pm I was called up at 1:10pm. Gave the passport, paperwork and fee, there was no mucking around by the immigration officer who looked through the docs quickly and told me to wait a few mins to collect my passport. About 2 mins later the paperwork is processed and another lady calls me and gives me back my stamped passport and receipt.

I was shocked I spent less than 45mins waiting (including 30mins of their lunch break). In BKK it takes nearly a full day of standing around for 80-100 people in the queue before you to get to the 1st stage of handing in their paperwork. Then having to wait another 30mins to get your passport stamped and returned. Is this normal for Jomtien Immigration or is it because I went here on Chinese New Year? Looks like Jomtien could be the one which wastes the least time of our day in the whole country, unless there's ones that process things quicker and has less people in the queue.

"The new extension rules, designed to stop people obtaining illegal extensions, has created various threads on Thai Visa in the last few weeks, running to a few thousand posts in total, most of which are negative ones by what appears to be a lot of unhappy expats.

Some expats, using false affidavits to declare income and using agents to falsify the money in the bank system, were not only illegal, they became a major problem that Immigration felt they needed to address."

Seems like there are a lot of dodgy illegal foreigners living in Thailand who will be kicked out soon as their illegal methods of staying here will be closed. Out with the dodgy foreigners. Thailand doesn't want those ones. Guess we'll start seeing half the number of grey nomads living here very soon.

5th Feb - Chinese New Year - Is Immigration open or closed today?

On 2/3/2019 at 6:26 PM, Valentine said:

In Phuket the wife will be interviewed by IO, photos of you & her both inside & outside showing house number, update marriage registration from Amphur (cost about 100 Baht), bank statement showing 400k, house paper, ID.

What happens if the married people don't live in the same house? A pic in front of both houses? lol

12 minutes ago, bbi1 said:

How could he fly next to you when you were in the elevator when the article said he jumped from the escallator from the 6th floor and those escallators are completely at the other side from the lifts. He must've had some mad super jumping skills to jump that far. Ten times better than any pro basketball player in the NBA.

Actually, if he did in fact jump from the 6th floor which is the Cinema level as the article states, how the hell did he reach the M level as shown in the pic? There's no clear path from the 6th floor to the M floor. He would've fell on the 5th floor only and just broke many bones.

On 1/4/2019 at 3:28 PM, JohnOFphon said:

I walked out that exit before lunch today. Nothing out of the ordinary. Then I log in and read this.

Makes me sick to think about what happened. Sorry for the guy and those in the area when he fell.

I guess Thai people won't go to Terminal 21 anymore because they don't like to live or stay in houses/condos where people have committed suicide or died. Something with the Buddhist religion I think.

On 1/4/2019 at 2:31 PM, meninblack said:

I was on the elevator and I saw something fly next to me and after a few second I heard strong noise when he felt in the floor. People was shocking and cry. The sad thing when he jump, he not scream, he just jump. I can’t forget that from my head. 

How could he fly next to you when you were in the elevator when the article said he jumped from the escallator from the 6th floor and those escallators are completely at the other side from the lifts. He must've had some mad super jumping skills to jump that far. Ten times better than any pro basketball player in the NBA.

Nice finger pointing by the young lady, I give it a 9/10 as it could be improved a bit. I like that her and the two thieves are concerned about the air pollution in Pattaya and are wearing masks to protect their health but unfortunately it's not the N95 masks.

7 minutes ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

 

Outside of dealing with their 3M official store or other well-established retailers, no good answer for that, except to look for any obvious signs like anomalies in packaging or text/spelling, etc.  And stick to the 3M brand as opposed to other unknown/unrecognized brand names.

 

And I supposed pricing. If, during a time of widespread shortages, someone online is selling what's claimed to be legitimate 3M N95 masks as cut-rate, bargain pricing, that might also be a cause for suspicion.

 

 

A lot of the sellers on Lazada of 3M products just seem to send those masks never in 3M's official packaging, just in a plastic bag with the bunch of masks ordered, eg. 10 masks. Those I presume must be all fakes.