tomazbodner

ADATA doesn't make hard disks. It should either be WD, Seagate or Toshiba. Latter seems the cheapest, but not much experience with them. Most of my drives are WD and yet to have one die. Seagate just died on me last week, but that's after quite a while. My NAS (Netgear ReadyNAS) is using WD Blue (not Red) drives and has been running for a long time. Another QNAP is using SSDs (ADATA) with 3.5" adapters. I do have all of them on UPS, as I have faced data corruption on abrupt power failure before.

Maybe. But go around the World and ask 1 million people what Pattaya's reputation is... Actually I went to Pattaya in 1994, completely unaware of the place and loved it (turns out I wasn't actually in Pattaya but more or less Sattahip, in some private weekend houses resort) anyway... at that time, with very limited internet, I had no idea what the place was famous for. Until I was reading a newspaper (you know, these things that used to exist... the paper version of news section of this forum without discussion board), of the problems with Brazilian prostitutes in Rimini in Italy. After describing police catching these women and putting them on the planes, just for them to be back a week later, and describing in details of how they were chasing them down the beach, I noticed the headline "Rimini, the Pattaya of the West" ... I'd bet there are some nice restaurants or shops in Patpong as well... but posting "I went to Patpong and it was aweeeesssssoooommmmmeeeeee!" is likely going to get people think of only one thing. About the same with Pattaya.

It is. You need to start from scratch and get 2 year temporary license.

I was in similar situation when arranging place for my parents, but eventually picked one from AirBnB which had daily and monthly rates. Ended up about 18k/month including all the utilities (water, electricity, etc.). I was looking for 4 months. Most other places wanted 1 year contract and 3 months deposit (2 months+1 month forward).

Not sure if that's still so, but in the old days MBK sellers would only offer half of what they can sell it for. So for example they can sell it for 30k, they would offer 15k. A very lousy deal. Try kaidee or some other classifieds site, if you live in condo maybe there's Urbanice app, post it in there, etc. But basically try to sell it without middle-man or you stand to lose a lot. But if you don't care how much you get for it, then go to MBK or Pantip or some market selling second hand phones, and see what you get for it. From Houk and Bank (I think it's not Bank and Houk) Apple shop, your phone would be worth around 30-35k now that 14 is out, second hand and still in warranty. I know those selling for 30-35k for 128 GB model, below a year old but with AppleCare included. Was tempted... but don't like number 13. Too many 13s in my life already.

In our condo it's severe penalties for smoking (anything) in the building. Juristic reminds everyone in app and by sticking notices in all lifts at least once a month (probably when someone ignores them). Not paying the fines (which are 5000 baht per time), would have water and power cut in the room and equates not paying maintenance fees. All proceeds of fines are going to charity. Our building committee approved that and vast majority of unit owners approve of it, given the vote in the app. If your condo doesn't have such policy - bring it up with committee and juristic.

ddproperty and hipflat come to mind. That's where I was checking when buying a condo and they had many different types of properties for sale and rent.

Did you use VPN? Logged in from different computers? Lazada will require verification when they believe that your account could be compromised. If using same computer for some days after that, and verifications are successful, it will stop asking. Same for payment if card is stored in system - if it's considered unusual hour for you to be shopping, it'll ask for OTP, and will continue asking several times before it stops if activity is no longer suspicious. At least that's been my experience with them.

That ticket that allows you to change date for 2000 baht fee is a flexible ticket. There are several types of tickets, though: - so called saver tickets, which are the cheapest, allow no changes, and are completely non-refundable - then you have flexible tickets, which usually allow changes of dates, but not destinations, and could or could not be refunded. There's several kinds of these, from cheaper and more restrictive to more expensive and fully open (meaning changing date with no fees, sometimes even route - there could be a difference in fare to pay still). Flexible tickets are valid for a year from date of issue (there is "not valid before" and "not valid after" date included on them). Most flexible tickets can be expensive.

You'll need to go back twice. There would probably be about 2 weeks between first time, making appointment, and going for actual renewal. On the day of appointment you'd go to same counter to confirm appointment, before sending you to 2nd floor, where you'll get the queue (might be possible to just skip the counter and go straight to 2nd floor - didn't try). There you'll get documents checked and a form checked that all information is correct. Sign, and go another floor up for physical check. There could be some waiting but once inside the room, it's 10 min to complete all, get all stamps and signatures and back to 2nd floor to wait your queue. The photo is taken there and license issued. In total it took about 45 minutes, if I remember correctly, from walking into building to walking out with license in hand. I was 20 min early for appointment but was accepted immediately, so it's not like you have to wait for the queue on appointment date. But on same date? Not terribly likely. There was a French accent foreigners arguing with the counter on ground floor that he needs license immediately as the old one expires the next day, and I was listening to that for about 15 minutes while waiting for my queue, but officer had no sympathy for him at all. He was still holding everyone else up and arguing by the time I've left. Others just took appointment 2 weeks later. PS: I went to Bang Chak first, as that's where I got my 2 year license issued, and after making appointment for 6 months later, I was told I should actually go to Chatuchak as my address is outside their area. Great they didn't accept me,... in retrospect. Hope this helps.

In person, ground floor, building 4, on the right side after walking in the front door. There are 2 counters for foreigners on the left. After checking documents and making sure all is in order, they'll give you a piece of paper for first available date, and ask you to put your name in there along with your passport or pink ID number, and phone number. That's your date and time of appointment. They are all for the morning only, it seems. At least a month back, the queue was about 2 weeks. You'll be given application form there, and fill it out in front of the counter while the officer is checking your documents. They'll then be stapled together and stamped. The rest of documents listed are already posted by someone else. There were a few in a queue at 1 pm when their lunch break was over, but there was nobody at 10 am, walked straight to counter. So I'd say 10 am was good, but even normally there were not many people. Yes, upon completion it states that it is valid 6 months. At least Thai version is. That's just answering 4 questions correctly from a multiple choice answers. No idea how the foreigner version looks like.

Don't die of cold! Die of lung cancer instead!

2 blokes at the back ruin the entire photo...

https://www.pavenafoundation.or.th/ Call Center 1134 Address: No. 84/14 Moo 2, Rangsit-Nakhon Nayok Road (Khlong 7) Lam Phak Kut Sub-district, Thanyaburi District, Pathum Thani Province or in Thai: เลขที่ 84/14 หมู่ 2 ถ.รังสิต-นครนายก (คลอง 7) ตำบลลำผักกูด อำเภอธัญบุรี จังหวัดปทุมธานี Other phone numbers: สายด่วน : 1134 มือถือ : 098-478-8991, 062-560-1636, 081-814-0244, 081-890-1355 เบอร์ : 02-577-0500-1 , 02-577-0496-8 Fax : 02-577-0499 Social Media contacts: Line@ : @Pavenafoundation Facebook : Pavenafoundation Mail : [email protected] Web : www.pavenafoundation.or.th Literally the first hit on Google for "Pavena Foundation"...

At TG, A380 simulator, but can't book when pilots are training on it, obviously. A bit pricey but worth it. One of credit cards companies just offered 3k baht discount per booking.

I could think of a few 25 million baht houses that are available for sale. But foreigner can only own house, not the land, and no loan. Paying cash?

I mean given they are asking for people to invest millions of dollars to get long term visas, maybe 1999 baht per month is not going to fly. How about 199,999 baht per month? Please don't give Thai government ideas you all might regret later.

On thaiairways.com page, select UK - English as location/language and you'll see everything in GBP. If you can't find it, click this link: https://www.thaiairways.com/en_GB/index.page

Has Tony just awaken from the dead? After years of relative silence, he's in the news every day now...

AFAIK, the border is closed for foreigners, no day passes issued (according to someone who lives in Mae Sai).

Yes, they have pet names also. The top one is called Phone and bottom one is PowerBank...

Opposite Siriraj hospital, Diamond Pharmacy.

I don't have FB. Used to have it until about 10 years back. Now I receive SMS nearly daily with some code to login. Had I not had a dual factor authentication, that person/s would have logged in and started scamming others in my name. I know of people selling all kind of stuff with stolen accounts, then disappearing, and sending police to homes of those whose accounts were hacked. Security questions and OTP are there for a reason.

You could open taladrod.com and search... that's the second hand car sales site. Once you choose a car, it will show (near the bottom of the page) the price ranges of different variations and ages of that car model. If you can't read Thai, open the page with Google Chrome and right click into a blank space, then choose Translate to English (or click on translate icon in the website address field). Example for first car that was listed on New cars today... a Civic: See the price ranges at the bottom, medium price and price ranges (and offers in brackets below).

Was in BigC yesterday next to condo as it's the closest. Not going there particularly often, but never got asked for any kind of ID. Cashiers were always very nice, but I never used any kind of membership, nor would I bother to apply for one. Used The1 card at Central and Tops - nobody asked for anything there either. Didn't use that card for at least 5 years. Maybe there was a discount or promotion coupon you received and they needed to register it against your ID?