BoganInParasite

My wife's homestay in northern Thailand is seeing this. She has had unusually high amount of business since reopening 8 June and forward bookings through to early January are amazing. She is set to make some serious money through to at least then provided COVID stays contained. But she is very aware everything could change for the worse really quickly.

Be a bit hard to track them here. The TMD Nan radar is still broadcasting images for the morning of 5 August. A few other TMD radars seem to be behind as well.

Have a number of personal stories and several more involving close family members. I wrote about this one on another site once but am too lazy to go and find it so will just write it again.

Almost three years ago in an older style hotel in Niagara Falls. Woke in the very early hours to the Thai wife seemingly trying to utter something, but could not make it out. I'm on my side facing away from her and thinking it was just her having a bit of a nightmare did not disturb her. I noticed the room seemed very cold, colder than it had been. As I fell asleep I heard something near the room door but just put it down to someone shoving the account statement under it as happens in many hotels. Next morning not sure how it came up but the wife tells me she woke to a presence standing over her and pressing on her chest. She swears she was awake and tried to wake me by voice but nothing coherent would come out. She said even though she was terrified she fell back to sleep immediately the presence ended. And that noise near the room door...next morning a pad of post-it notes that had been on the table near the window was 5-6 meters away lying at the foot of the closed and bolted room door. I later did some research on the hotel and while it has a colourful past, don't recall that I found anything on it being haunted. It actually has a higher profile for a historical UFO related event. We were only staying that one night and in the unlikely event we were ever to return to Niagara Falls, I wouldn't stay there.

10 hours ago, Wiggy said:

But weren’t these guys defending the spoilt brat by saying he was driving less than 80kph? This is what I find strange. 

Perhaps he is now not in a position to change his story and that was important to someone. RIP to him, he may well have paid a high price for compromising himself. I doubt we'll ever know.

On 8/4/2020 at 2:44 PM, johng said:

The Chinese opened some dams ?

Believe the Yom does not have any. Plus the catchment is entirely inside Thailand.

Might have had it. A Thai guest in our homestay over Christmas was quite ill with heavy cold/flu symptoms. Last day of the year I came down with fever, body aches/pains, a bit of coughing and some chest tightness. No nasal discharge. I put myself to bed for four days and put it down to a bout of mild flu, albeit a bit different from what I've had previously. For me, the body aches/pains were the worst I've experienced compared to other flu bouts. Drove me to take some very strong and effective painkillers. I've not sought any type of follow-up test and take all of the precautions as if I haven't had it, which I suspect is the more likely possibility. Was a poor introduction to 2020.

I see they are wasting money by running a feel-good type advertisement on CNN.

Nan Makro can be infuriating. Last week no whipping cream, smoked chicken breasts, green melons or pasta sauce. Additionally over the last six months they have stopped carrying my favourite greek yougurt and pork sausages.

Had some in our master bedroom in Dubai a few years back. Likely came with the rented furniture and soft coverings. We had to strip, clean, wash the blankets/covers multiple times and dismantle and clean the wooden bed several times to get rid of them. A key element was using a strong jet of hot air from a hair dryer on every piece and nook and cranny of the bed. And even then took maybe four times before we were confident they were gone.

Just had four units done for 1,900 baht in Nan province. Three gents, two hours, seemed to do a very thorough job,

5 hours ago, mr mr said:

i suggest focusing on hi so tourism to reduce the numbers ? 

Nailed it!

Serious question...is there a list of viruses that traditional Thai medicines cure?

If he said something like he had full confidence in the cabinet that would generally mean it will be next week.

Near Pua in Nan province...we got a 3% discount on March and April, and were told to wait until early May to pay both.

In the last couple of months have been making my way through some dessert recipes from my elderly mum, in some cases reliving childhood memories. Done apple crumble, golden dumplings and bread and butter pudding. Already cook similar such as upside down pineapple cake and chocolate self saucing pudding. All go down quite nicely with a good quality vanilla ice cream.

Australia in March last year...visited elderly parents and welcomed latest grandson.

On 2/22/2020 at 6:42 PM, saengd said:

These are the rules of thumb that I know of (about three years old):

 

15k per square metre unfinished.

 

25K per square metre finished to Thai standards

 

45k to Western standards

 

55k to top end standard.

I paid 13K per square meter in upper Nan province. The build finished in Feb last year. I'd say my build was far closer to Western standards than Thai standards and have had many comments to that regard. Spend considerable time to get a competent builder and yes indeed, make sure family are not supplying anything or working on it.

I give my wife's mobile number at the Big C register as she is the member and more often than not is not with me. In more than a year I've received thousands of baht discounts (in total) and not once had to show any ID. But I can recall occasionally the wife has had to show her Thai ID card for a discount to be processed.

Basically the same at Tesco Lotus although I don't ever recall the wife needing to show ID.

No.

Been some nice sunsets up here near Pua. Not a lot of burning evident in the area but there is a hint of smoke in the air.

I got hugged by a Tom girl guest at our homestay last week. Neither of us seemed awkward about it. I've only ever had a Thai initiate a handshake once, and he offered his left hand which I shook with my left to avoid any issue.

We had our first annual extension last month. I was expecting a visit, nothing. So a week out from the end of the one month extension got the wife to call to see why there had not been a visit...maybe you have overlooked us. Told they only randomly select for subsequent visits and to come in on the extension end date for the one year extension. Did so, and no issues.

Then last week as we were leaving the IO after doing the 90 day report one of the head officers approaches us to say they came out for a surprise visit and couldn't find our house. Despite the accurate hand-drawn map, despite the name and location of our village shown, despite the GPS coordinates also on it, despite them having my and the wife's mobile numbers, despite it being a prominent house on a well used road. Beggars belief.

BTW, my IO have never muttered a word about the TM30 this year when we have two 90 day report and the two visit annual marriage extension interactions.

Have done a 90 day report a couple of months ago and just last week got the marriage extension at Nan Immigration...no TM30 was mentioned. We had the supporting docs ready in case requested but were going to push back on any fine since in March when I got a single re-entry permit they told us it was not required.