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@ Somtamnification

Firstly, your name is brilliant! I'm nearly completely somtamnificated and I've only been here five months. I love it!

I'm struggling to follow your instructions for the dim sum place.

I've found Robinson's on the map (handbag marker at top of map) and I can see the Immigration Office (bottom of map) but I don't know what you mean by the last traffic lights before Robinson's.

Please help, cos I really want to try this place.

Cheers

I love dim sum, so I'm grateful to OP for this thread!

One day I'll visit Hong Kong and will have to be airlifted out of there because I'll weigh so much afterwards!

There's a small dim sum place very near Chalong circle, on Chao Far Road East. You would be coming from the North so directions are easy: as you approach the circle on CFRE, park just before the last 7/11 on the left, approx 100m before the circle and almost opposite a Kodak shop on the right. The dim sum place is to the left of the 7/11.

It has a small selection of dim sum but authentic. It opens at 12 noon.

Enjoy!

OK, gents!

Check this out!!

Grateful thanks and here's the place and the successful completion of the project:

7.828616,98.343724 are the GPS coordinates of this workshop. It's in Chalong, just further up the right side than you said, LivinginKata. Thanks, mate!!

@Jock. This place in Chalong is less than 10 minutes from me. I'm sure your suggestion would have worked equally well but it was a lot further away.

Not a bad job, I reckon.

930THB for a one-off, 'totally does the job with no important compromises, and will last the lifetime of the guitar' part.

@phuketjock

Jock, you are far from useless at computers!!

You have done everything other than take me there by the hand!! I'm very grateful.

As to your last bit of help, I can only say, "You nailed it, mate!".

I'll certainly take a look at these guys.

Cheers.

@LivinginKata

Many thanks. I like the sound of precision engineering!!

I'll check them out.

Indeed!

Do you know where I could get this done in Phuket?

Thank you.

They might be a little high-end for my job but I'll keep them in mind.

Don't know the name of this shop but he has done some work for me,

successfully.

Drive past with Bangkok hospital on your right after the next set of lights

on your left approx 75-100 mtr, opposite a chicken rice shop, there is a

light engineering workshop. Just a few metres further on the same side

another, which I have not used but has what appears to be milling and

turning (steel) lathes.

Hope this helps.

Thanks, Jock.

I'm not quite sure about your directions as I'm new here:

I've attached a Google Earth photo showing the area around the Bangkok Hospital.

Please will you direct me with reference to that.

Cheers

Thank you.

They might be a little high-end for my job but I'll keep them in mind.

Hi

There must be someone who has used a company like this?

I need to make this (please see image).

Please can anyone recommend a place where I might get this done. I live in Chalong.

I'm sure I've driven past places that can do this but they all look dark and mysterious, except for the occasional flash of a welder!

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

@OP:

I'm going to be doing this on a retirement extension within the next year.

I have read all about it and the link given above is very useful.

There appears to be a six-month no-duty period for importation:

"It is important that the used/secondhand household effects must be imported not earlier than one month before or not later than six months after the arrival of the importers. Under exceptional circumstances, Customs may extend the time limits for the importers."

I have read this elsewhere as well.

Cheers

Hi,

I need to make this (please see image).

Please can anyone recommend a place where I might get this done. I live in Chalong.

I'm sure I've driven past places that can do this but they all look dark and mysterious, except for the occasional flash of a welder!

Many thanks in advance.

This is just a thinly veiled attempt to extract info to be used later as ammunition...nice try...

I suffered from paranoia for many years until I surrendered. I found the ammunition that I imagined was merely blank cartridges, whose only danger was the noise it created in my mind.

"Keep It Simple"

Oooo..........you hippy!!!

This is just a thinly veiled attempt to extract info to be used later as ammunition...nice try...

Cynical!!!!

Does anybody remember this?

The tubes: "What do you want from life?"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKfgahqIAzQ

Cool, gentlemen, Thanks!

@Oilinki

Where can I buy popcorn kernels like that, please?

Late, but grateful thanks for your help on this query.

Cheers

Hi,

If anyone knows, please, can I port my number from a True-H pay-as-you-go free tourist SIM to a True contract?

Reading between the lines, I think that the answer may be here, but not stated specifically.

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/664856-is-it-possible-to-keep-your-mobile-number-when-switching-carriers/#entry7583127

We came for seven months and want to live here but when we go back to South Africa for six months, we'll lose our numbers as they have to be used every 30 days, I think.

Many people have our numbers in Thailand so we'd rather keep them long term.

Many thanks in advance,

@Whereustay

I hope you've had your tin hat on! But you must have known your previous topics would come back to haunt you.

However, I like your question and I think it's valid. I do find many posts on this forum negative and more especially, not constructive. This is the most moany (is that a word?) forum I'm involved in, and that's quite a few.

I think TV is a very useful resource in many ways and I'm really glad I came across it. I have been given a lot of useful info and I'm very grateful to people who take the time to help. It is challenging living in Thailand. I remember travelling here before mobile phones and the internet, when your battered copy of 'South East Asia on a Shoestring' was all that kept you from hippy meltdown! Now that was a challenge, for me anyway!

Are these negative people similar in real life?

Yes!

It's a massive generalisation but if you have an open mind and a happy heart, you just wouldn't waste your time selling yourself short by negativity.

Here's my one piece of hard evidence for this:

I'm on a South African rock climbing forum and in the past I've been active in setting up new routes with bolts, etc.

So, I made a comment, and a well-respected crag developer called me a very defamatory name. It was 'ball licker' if I remember correctly. Not a very snappy one, that!

Anyway, by chance I met this same guy at a crag the next month and I told him that I was the bloke he referred to. He was full of apologies and I thought, 'this man isn't so bad after all'.

A crowd of people were spending a week at this crag over Christmas so I had a few opportunities to meet this guy and, over beers and chats round the fire it became clear that he wasn't a lovely guy who occasionally chose 'ball licker' as a term of endearment. No, this was a guy who regularly ran people down in their absence, had fixed views about climbing and life issues in general and was happy to share them in a loud voice with those unfortunate enough to be in hearing range. His experience in the climbing world was considerable but in his case (no doubt aided by a particular aspect of his character) it had led to his becoming a bit of a ****.

OK, that's my 5 cents' worth, except to reiterate the cliche: if you haven't got anything positive to say, don't say anything.

Good points both!!

In the past (in the UK) I have used a tile sealer to seal terracotta floor tiles. That's what I'm looking for here.

The people we're renting from made much of the fact that we shouldn't allow water to sit on their kitchen worktops.

It's that black granite/marble stone but, it's true: their's seems to be porous!

I can see our THB 106,000 deposit dwindling before my eyes!

Convenience-wise, nobody's supposed to wipe a worktop every time it gets a bit wet. That's too anal and far too much for yer average fun-loving Phuketian to remember!

So, I'm thinking.........scrub/sand it and seal it.

Please - what do I use to seal it and where can I get that in Phuket?

Most grateful, Effendi!

Apologies for late response:

Many thanks for the input, guys.

I have decided that it's too much trouble and expense to go for a change of visa now and so I'll do it when we get back to South Africa.

Thanks for helping me in my decision.

Hi Ubonjoe,

Thanks for your reply.

We have 5 1/2 months left before I have to go back to South Africa.

Do you think I can do all this in that time?

If so, please will you sketch out a timescale for me? Do I have to apply for a non-O, get that and then apply for the retirement extension?

Many thanks in advance.