RikDao

I'm confused and hope I can get some help clarifying a couple of things.

I have a one year non-immigrant, multiple entry O visa which I got back in the States. I got to Thailand on 22 Feb 2014, and my first 90 days are up on 22 May, and I plan to apply for a retirement extension. However, I am planning on leaving Thailand for a week from 25 Apr til 2 May. I have read on numerous websites that if I leave and want to come back to Thailand, I need a re-entry permit, which is what I applied for and received today. However, the woman at the immigration office told me (after they took my 1000 baht, processed the application and stamped my passport with a Non-Imm, single entry re-entry permit, good until 22 May) that I didn't really need a re-entry permit because I already have a multiple entry non-immigrant O visa, and that if I in fact use the re-entry permit when I return to Thailand on 2 May, then my non-immigrant O visa will no longer be valid. I asked if they would cancel the re-entry permit, and she said they couldn't do that. She told me that when I return I should tell the Thai border officials to disregard the re-entry permit and instead honor the original non-immigrant O visa, which will then remain valid.

Complicated??? I sure think so! Wow.

Just wondering if anybody out there can clarify this situation for me and give me some advice as to what I need to do to put things right and not lose my non-immigrant O visa, for crying out loud. (This whole drama took place at Chiang Mai immigration, btw).

I grew up in L.A., and the Pacific is definitely an ocean! I've lived near the Gulf of Mexico, and I'd say it's definitely not one. It's an energy thing, that's the difference, I do believe.

But here in Thailand, I love watching the people, esp the kids and the women, ummm, yeah, ESP the women. So delicate and graceful, so simple yet sooooo complex, like my wife. I love the food, too, and the sunrises and sunsets and cloud shows, and all the lush greenery and delicious smells, and the birds and lizards and ants. And the old women who walk around permanently stooped over, helped by their grandchildren, and I realize the stooping is a result of working for years in the rice fields... I love them, too. If I were one of them, I'd be proud.

Somebody on here Saïd "confort is thé enemy of enlightenment." Nope, it's thé goal.

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If someone I don't know wants to say Hi to me, I'll think they are a dash weird... That doesn't make me stuck up, it just makes me think you might be a bit of a nut-job...

In quieter area's, small villages etc there may be other reasons, but in a large city such as Bangkok I don't expect strangers of any nationality to say Hi to me and I certainly don't imagine that I'll go around saying Hi to people I don't know.

A counter question may be asked: "Do people think you are weird if you say Hi to strangers and expect a response ?"

You my friend are what we are talking about. Must be a sad life.

Lol. Yep, poor r_s237 probably shouldn't be calling other people nut-jobs.

There is a very serious in depth thesis at a leading hub university,

However must dash now to help the investigation of a serial hotel smurf.

I think the exegesis is simple simon

Pseudo-intellectual twaddle, this? Must be British...

Isolated, bored, scared, hung over, judgmental, frustrated sexually, angry to begin with...

An endless list, no need to continue. These people will be angry in heaven.

Cash Rules - Always has and always will. It's sad when having cash makes you a criminal.

Yeah cash is good. Unfortunately, cash is easier to steal. Also, bad guys deal in cash a lot, so it has become suspicious to deal with a lot of cash. TPTB want us to use digital money, so they can control things better.

Of course, you and most others know all this, helms, I'm just commenting on your comment.

Why didn't he do something about the dead dog? I quit reading a few sentences later. I know what he's going to say. Snore.

LOL, love all the whiners.. oh not this thread again.

No, i don't appreciate being called farang. Its reminds of the Japanese word Gaijin.

I dont say "Hay, Thai Lady"

If you would say something similar to some Thai calling you farang, it would be "hey brownie"

And yes, people who does not see the negative aspects of the farang word, well, they are down right naive and ignrant

Wow, classic comment!!! LOL! I guess you gotta put me in tha "ignrant" collum, err, column.

I like being called farang, it sounds nice to my ears. Now, if I were still in high school, it might bother me a little, because I would be insecure.

JUST KIDDING!!! I hate being called that, it's so unfair, what am I, some sort of animal? Don't they know my father used to call me that? And if I said anything back, he'd spank me while my mother watched helplessly? My life has been made miserable by THAT ONE WORD! Do you understand now? That's why I came to Thailand in the first place, so I could surround myself with other sensitive souls who understand how I've felt MY WHOLE LIFE!!! I know how gay people feel when people call them f%#@&ts! Life's so unfair!!!

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Dowry is where bride's family pays, which is why some countries like to drown little girls. Sin sod, what they do in Thailand, is the opposite, and certainly a, if not the major reason Thailand offers up its women so willingly. I'm not being profound or original, I'm just pointing out this fact, which someone may have brought up already in this thread. So, it seems to come down to a big, emphatic caveat emptor for anyone who marries a Thai woman, whether he's a farang or not. This is just how they do things here, apparently aware of just how desirable their women are.

Sounds to me like OP's in love, so it's not gonna be so easy to just walk away.

So ham.

So on inbreath, ham (pronounced hom) on out breath.

Just repeat silently for a half hour a day. Simple as pie. Your mind will wander, just bring it back to the mantra.

See what happens.

Back in mid-November I submitted a topic on here about the Thai people next door sacrificing a pig in order to satisfy the demons in the area, and encourage them to go elsewhere. What was happening was the guy who lives next door got sick, problems with his hips (kidneys? who knows?), so that he was bed-ridden, unable to walk, all that, and killing the pig was meant to help him. Time went on, and the longer he was gone, the more likely it seemed he wasn't going to make it at all. I was sorry for the guy but freaked (a little, not a lot) out about the pig, but at least they ate him, and the barbecue smelled real good, too. I asked for comments about this situation in my post, but didn't get too many, which is fine.

Well, fast-forward to yesterday and Hey! Guess what!

He's baaaack!

Has a slight limp, but that should get better. So, all I'm saying is maybe the pig thing worked! Glad he's back, for sure.

What's that line? Oh yeah,

You mad, bro?

Rikdao owd pal

On the basis that your post is in answer to mine but could also be in answer to the OP I answer on the strength that indeed you were addressing me.

It very well could be that I am mad, who knows, what are the paradigms and what parameters do you use for your assumption of madness?

I Could be a bit Brahms and list though!

One thing I'm not though owd lad is a mind reader!

So Maybe you could with all possible respect, elucidate or enlighten me with a couple of paragraphs of what you meant to say mean or imply in your words of wisdom in your very terse post?

No offence taken or given, just want to know <deleted> you are talking about.

Yo Cuz, my comment was aimed at the OP, not you. My understanding is/was that when one wants to reply to a particular post, such as yours, one uses the quote function, and if it's to the OP, quote isn't needed. In fact, like many people, sometimes I don't read all of the posts in a thread, just go to the end and do a reply, and that's what happened in this case, that is, I hadn't read your reply to OP before I added my comment.

Now, having read your original comment, I can understand why you might wonder about my comment, if it was in fact directed to you. What you said is perfectly sensible, and I agree with you. Not only that, it's given me a new way to look at some of the highly negative (and petty) expat comments here on TV, so that now I've got more sympathy for the commenters (as if they care, LOL).

Hey, Brahms and list (Liszt?), all right! Blimey, nuffink makes me 'appier than 'avin' to consult me bleedin' Cockney Rhyming Dictionary. Fanks! 'Ave a lovely day, guvnah!

What's that line? Oh yeah,

You mad, bro?

Umm, it's called pensive, uhh no, it's pre-menstrual, wait, that's not it, but I know it starts with a P. Hmmmm. Oh yeah! Passive aggressive! That's it! Their way of dealing with the negativity in their lives.

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No. Place is way more complex than I thought previously, based on my several two-week visits. And it isn't Europe or the US, but it's far from "failed." That's a silly modern cliche anyway. I think the title of the thread is asking the "failed state" crowd to come out in droves; that doesn't seem to be happening.

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Only thing I never understood about some Thai-parents, is how they can live with sending their daughters work in GoGo bars - and call them constantly for to have them send more and more money (even after they have built the house and bought the pick-up truck).

How they as parents can do that and live with themselves, I will never understand... Maybe you can ask that? Personally, I would rather work myself to death, than send my daughter into prostitution. But I guess these parents will not be members of that site anyway...

Some honestly don't know, convinced their daughter works for a bank and is very successful. Some think their daughter is simply married off to a rich foreigner. Some haven't seen or heard from their children in years and think they're dead. Some are just in desperate poverty and can do nothing about it. Some are evil, but not many.

It's all heartbreakingly sad to witness.

Sorry to go off topic.

Kind and reasonable response, MJP, perhaps appropriate for Christmas day. K's question was a little upsetting for me to contemplate, but I feel better now. I think I haven't given that issue enough thought. I don't know much about debts and human trafficking with regard to Thailand, but some families might be forced to sell their daughters or sisters into that trade. That's another option, I'm afraid, and maybe something for all the johns to think about. (Speaking of johns, I'm hardly in a position to condemn, given my uneven amorous history, but every time I hear of one getting ripped off, I feel kind of good, yeah, I really do just a little bit. Do I sound like a condescending ass? Yeah, I guess so).

And I'm curious, is there some kind of rule about staying so-called "on-topic?" Threads are like conversations sometimes, and the topic changes and meanders around, to and fro, right? Sometimes a newish topic can be more important and interesting than the original, even.

Thank you! Yes you understood me well, i walked away because i don't like salespeople like that. I would rather buy from a nice friendly girl then from him. There are loads of other sellers in Chitlom so i can easy find another sales. Funny thing was also, i went to Samsonite to see their wallets which are under the glass counter. When i asked the sales to show me one model it took him 5 minutes to open that drawer under the glass so i walked away again....Guess the drawer was made in Thailand.

A little birdy told me this, but I don't actually believe it myself:

That cheap garbage like wallets and jewelry and watches is on display under locked glass in malls all over the world so the banksters can launder through those outlets. It's not really for sale to the retail public. Have you ever seen anyone actually buy anything from one of those? In fact, if someone makes a retail purchase, it probably messes up the accounting scheme, which is why it's priced so ridiculously high, in order to discourage sales.

If the kid took five minutes to open the drawer, it's probably because you're the first person who ever asked to see anything. I'm surprised he even had a key. I'm curious, did he have to make a call before he got the key? Yeah baby, the drawer was made in Thailand all right!!! You showed him, yessirree bob!

Again, DISCLAIMER! I don't really believe the above, and I don't encourage anyone else to believe it; it's just what a little birdy told me.

I think the farang took her to the jewelry store to sell all that stuff.

Thais do seem to like to show stuff off, but who cares? On the 1 to 10 importance scale, it's below 1.

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And yet here you are,more pathetic is the person answering a thread he dislikes,lol.

Huh? I like the thread just fine, I'm only giving my opinion.

But wait! You're one of them amateur psychologists, right? Psychoanalyzing everyone but yourself? LOL. I got hooked right in. My sister taught me it's always a loser to engage that type...

I think the farang took her to the jewelry store to sell all that stuff.

Thais do seem to like to show stuff off, but who cares? On the 1 to 10 importance scale, it's below 1.

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Is it not true that single (divorced? even moreso) Asian women over a certain age, say, 40 perhaps are considered damaged goods by many in their own society, including eligible men? If this is true, and I think it is to some extent, online dating sites might be the perfect answer. I hope people on both sides of this issue will admit that there are plenty of attractive, single, sane, lonely women over 40 in Thailand. Many of these women crave companionship but don't know how to meet men other than online.

Also, even though the women on these sites might have to put up with creepy/mean comments and behavior from some of the men, at least the sites are relatively safe, physically speaking.

At any rate, there are loads of these sites out there and they're very popular, with both Asian women and western men, so there must be some positives involved. It's interesting to me that some people have such negative reactions to the entire concept. Really, why do these people even care enough to comment?

(Oh yeah, I almost forgot to mention: I met my wonderful, beautiful, incredibly kind and emotionally well-adjusted Thai wife on one of these sites. No, she's not perfect, but neither am I, nor is anyone else).

Secondly, If in a non tourist area they may have never heard a Falang speak Thai so our accent/lack of fluency totally throws them. Thais are just not used to hearing non-Thai speak their language. Unlike we Europeans who hear accents as varied as broad Glaswegian to sing-song Swedes speaking English and we can understand it.

Wow, you can understand Glaswegian? Impressive!

I got photos at the Thai immigration place, the place where I got my 30-day extension on my 60/90 day tourist visa. I assume they're good enough for passports. I think they were four for 100 baht.