thomas3940

isnt siam real ***** fully revolving around british realtors? Always see a bunch of them with the company camry leisuring around small restaurants talking about real estate and ladies of the patong

I'm sure I have seen many foreign real estate agents here, unless the term "realtor" means something different in Thai.

Realtor, a profession reserved for Thais, since 2011? Is this True? Can only Thai sell Land in Thailand or Just Phuket?

We are trying to build a House in Phan Chiangrai, Does anyone know a Good Builder? We have already been quoted 8700Bt Per Square Meter for Building a House? What is the Going Rate now in Chiangrai Bt Per Sq Meter?

Any Help would be welcomed

Thank you

Canadian killed in robbery

BANGKOK: -- A Canadian man was shot dead and three compatriots injured in a robbery last night in their condominium off Sukhumvit Soi 18.

The lone robber climbed into the room on 10th floor of City Smart Condominium while the four Canadians, including victim Mark Jay Keffer, 42, and a number of foreign guests were celebrating Christmas.

The robber, apparently a Thai man, asked them to hand over their valuables at gunpoint.

He started shooting when a woman guest, a relative of room owner Norzachray Nordin, a Bruneian, hit him with her handbag. Keffer and all three injured people were later sent to a hospital, where he was later pronounced dead.

Thong Lor police station duty inspector Pol Maj Saravuth Dejsri said he suspected the robber, who had easy access to the room from a communal area, could have been tipped off about the party by people working or residing at the condo.

--The Nation 2006-12-26

In America anyone can own a gun as long as they are not a criminal. Aliens who establish residency by just living in a State can go out and buy a gun and anyone can buy a shotgun. Too bad we in the USA allow law abiding people to own a firearm but not here.

The woman should have come out with a shotgun and blown his head into pulp. Handbags do little against a firearm.

A very backwards country is Thailand in this regard.

Ah yes our gun carrying flag waving, in your face Neighbours to the South (The Right to Bare Arms)

Or as their NRA says; an armed society is a polite society? Maybe that's why someone is injured by a gun in the USA every 3 minutes! ( Quote from Rod & Gun Magazine) God bless America (eh!)

In Canada no one carries a fire arms only law officials. I believe Thailand has harsh gun laws too, however like any country a criminal mind can always find a gun. I'm saddened at the buildings total lack of security. The poor wife must be mortified at everything, she will never look at Christmas or Thailand the same. The Thai Government still needs to protect it's visitor better.

My heart goes out to families. A another sad day for Thailand

We purchased an electric ceramic heater at Big C for about 380 Baht and it works fine. It is only 8" x6" but does the trick, heats the whole bedroom just fine.

I tried cuddling with my wife to keep warm but she kept wanting to put her ice cold feet on me to warm up!

Northern Meteorological Center Thai Meteorological Department

http://www.cmmet.com/forecast/1000Eng.htm

Daily Weather forecast for Chiangrai

I would like to extend these wishes to those among us without a Catholic or Christian background, yes, even to those who lost their faith in Santa Claus (btw: he originates from an American Coca Cola advertissement in the thirties, but don't tell the kids).

A long, long time before the Catholics pottered their mythology together, the moment that the days started to grow longer was celebrated with big fires: The Joel or Jul.

Yes, the light of the sun is coming back and we need it, especially the warmth of it, here in Chiang Rai (this morning 8,9 degrees C).

This is the real 'newyear'.

It started long time before the Holy Virgin Maria gave birth to the Son of God.

It started long time before the Romans had the first assembly of their newly elected Senate on the first of January.

It started at the beginning of days.

Enjoy it and be nice to each other

Limbo

American Origins. The American version of the Santa Claus figure received its inspiration and its name from the Dutch legend of Sinter Klaas, brought by settlers to New York in the 17th century. As early as 1773 the name appeared in the American press as St. A Claus, but it was the popular author Washington Irving who gave Americans their first detailed information about the Dutch version of Saint Nicholas. In his History of New York, published in 1809 under the pseudonym Diedrich Knickerbocker, Irving described the arrival of the saint on horseback (unaccompanied by Black Peter) each Eve of Saint Nicholas. This Dutch-American Saint Nick achieved his fully Americanized form in 1823 in the poem A Visit From Saint Nicholasmore commonly known as The Night Before Christmas by writer Clement Clarke Moore . Moore included such details as the names of the reindeer; Santa Claus's laughs, winks, and nods; and the method by which Saint Nicholas, referred to as an elf, returns up the chimney. (Moore's phrase lays his finger aside of his nose was drawn directly from Irving's 1809 description.)

The American image of Santa Claus was further elaborated by illustrator Thomas Nast who depicted a rotund Santa for Christmas issues of Harper's magazine from the 1860s to the 1880s. Nast added such details as Santa's workshop at the North Pole and Santa's list of the good and bad children of the world. A human-sized version of Santa Claus, rather than the elf of Moore's poem, was depicted in a series of illustrations for Coca-Cola advertisements introduced in 1931. In modern versions of the Santa Claus legend, only his toy-shop workers are elves. Rudolph, the ninth reindeer, with a red and shiny nose, was invented in 1939 by an advertising writer for the Montgomery Ward Company.

...and the good Colonel got those new rules from Bangkok in writing and he showed them to you?

More likely, he dreamt it the night before.

Once you are in the country, your non-imm visa is used up (unless it is a multiple-entry visa, which becomes void on its expiration date) and you are here based on the “admitted until” stamp. When you get an annual extension of stay, you are here on the basis of the extension stamp, which is not a visa, even though even immigration offices call it a visa. It no longer matters on what visa type you entered the country.

But let’s wait and see if the Colonel’s dream comes true, at least for Mae Sai. We have seen many posts about immigration officials applying the rules wrongly, so it should not come as a surprise.

--

Maestro

I asked for actual written confirmation which he was unable to provide. He stated his information comes from Bangkok Immigration?

After meeting with Thai Immigration in MaeSai yesterday the Col. Stated that as of Jan 2007 the Following changes are taking place on Renewal Visa's

"O" You will need 400,000 in the Bank for 3 months and proven income from Thailand or Abroad of 40,000 Baht

"O-A" You will need 800,000 in the Bank for 3 months and proven income from Thailand or Abroad of 65,000 Baht.

No more and or, you will need both!

I asked for actual written confirmation which he was unable to provide. He stated his information comes from Bangkok Immigration?

He said he wasn't sure about other immigration offices but these were the new rules for his office!

Bangkok Post December 19:

Chiang Rai declared a disaster area

Plunging temperatures have prompted local authorities in Chiang Rai to declare the province a disaster area. They also appealed for relief aid from relevant agencies and the public.

Kittirat Sornsue, chief of the Chiang Rai provincial office of disaster prevention and mitigation, said hundreds of thousands of Chiang Rai residents are in need of blankets and warm clothes.

Up to 150,000 blankets and 800,000 items of warm clothing are needed.

Link: http://www.bangkokpost.com/191206_News/19Dec2006_news21.php

Parts of the same article you also find in posting nr. 7 in this topic:

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/index.php?sh...=0#entry1041572

Link to original article added

Limbo

---- Bangkok Post article removed ----

Concerning the Bangkok Post article by Teerawat Khamthita and Somsak Suksai, that you posted.

The Bangkok Post allows only parts out of their articles to be reproduced and this under the condition that the source is mentioned or a link is given to that specific article as a whole.

As I did yesterday in the posting above, which concerns exactly the same article.

Thanks anyhow,

Limbo

I think the value of the western farang is about to be understood.

The value of the western farang who comes here to do legitimate business or has the financial resources to obtain a retirement visa or comes as a tourist is already understood and Thailand continues to welcome them.

The western farang who hasn't the resources to do anything other than scurry across the border every 30 days before returning to some work that generates minimal income but no foreign exchange is also understood, which is why they want them to go home.

From your post I see you must be a happy holder of a visa and or work permit. You probably have sufficent funds in your account and live life happily here in Thailand. By reading your words when you talk about people scurrying across borders makes me see your care and concern for the elderly living in this country. Possibly they wish to reside here as the weather, taxes and quality of life back home make it hard for them to have a good life. Maybe they have worked hard all their lives but weren't as fortunate as you? Maybe they have a pension less than the required amount necessary to get a visa.

Do they spend their pension checks here? Oh yes Do they help the Thai economy? More than you know!

Where is you compassion for these people? So many westerners here have such a bad attitude towards there fellow country men? Are the 30 day visa runners of lower statue in life because they fall through the cracks of the Immigrtion regultions? Not all 30 day visa runners are scum! Many are good people who just wish a better life!

Try compassion for your fellow fanang not contempt!

Sunday Telegraph Article From UK wires: "Salute To a Brave and Modest Nation" Kevin Myers, The Sunday Telegraph

LONDON - Until the deaths last week of four Canadian soldiers accidentally killed by a U.S. Warplane in Afghanistan, probably almost no one outside their home country had been aware that Canadian troops were deployed in the region. And as always, Canada will now bury its dead, just as the rest of the world as always will forget its sacrifice, just as it always forgets nearly everything Canada ever does.

It seems that Canada's historic mission is to come to the selfless aid both of its friends and of complete strangers, and then, once the crisis is over, to be well and truly ignored. Canada is the perpetual wallflower that stands on the edge of the hall, waiting for someone to come and ask her for a dance. A fire breaks out; she risks life and limb to rescue her fellow dance-goers, and suffers serious injuries. But when the hall is repaired and the dancing resumes, there is Canada, the wallflower still, while those she once helped glamorously cavort across the floor, blithely neglecting her yet again.

That is the price Canada pays for sharing the North American continent with the United States, and for being a selfless friend of Britain in two global conflicts. For much of the 20th century, Canada was torn in two different directions: It seemed to be a part of the old world, yet had an address in the new one, and that divided identity ensured that it never fully got the gratitude it deserved.

Yet its purely voluntary contribution to the cause of freedom in two world wars was perhaps the greatest of any democracy. Almost 10% of Canada's entire population of seven million people served in the armed forces during the First World War, and nearly 60,000 died. The great Allied victories of 1918 were spearheaded by Canadian troops, perhaps the most capable soldiers in the entire British order of battle.

Canada was repaid for its enormous sacrifice by downright neglect, its unique contribution to victory being absorbed into the popular Memory as somehow or other the work of the "British." The Second World War provided a re-run. The Canadian navy began the war with a half dozen vessels, and ended up policing nearly half of the Atlantic against U-boat attack. More than 120 Canadian warships participated in the Normandy landings, during which 15,000 Canadian soldiers went ashore on D-Day alone. Canada finished the war with the third-largest navy and the fourth-largest air force in the world.

The world thanked Canada with the same sublime indifference as it had the previous time. Canadian participation in the war was acknowledged in film only if it was necessary to give an American actor a part in a campaign in which the United States had clearly not participated - a touching scrupulousness which, of course, Hollywood has since abandoned, as it has any notion of a separate Canadian identity.

So it is a general rule that actors and filmmakers arriving in Hollywood keep their nationality - unless, that is, they are Canadian. Thus Mary Pickford, Walter Huston, Donald Sutherland, Michael J. Fox, William Shatner, Norman Jewison, David Cronenberg, Alex Trebek, Art Linkletter and Dan Aykroyd have in the popular perception become American, and Christopher Plummer, British. It is as if, in the very act of becoming famous, a Canadian ceases to be Canadian, unless she is Margaret Atwood, who is as unshakably Canadian as a moose, or Celine Dion, for whom Canada has proved quite unable to find any takers.

Moreover, Canada is every bit as querulously alert to the achievements of its sons and daughters as the rest of the world is completely unaware of them. The Canadians proudly say of themselves - and are unheard by anyone else - that 1% of the world's population has provided 10% of the world's peacekeeping forces. Canadian soldiers in the past half century have been the greatest peacekeepers on Earth - in 39 missions on UN mandates, and six on non-UN peacekeeping duties, from Vietnam to East Timor, from Sinai to Bosnia.

Yet the only foreign engagement that has entered the popular on-Canadian imagination was the sorry affair in Somalia, in which out-of-control paratroopers murdered two Somali infiltrators. Their regiment was then disbanded in disgrace - a uniquely Canadian act of self-abasement for which, naturally, the Canadians received no international credit.

So who today in the United States knows about the stoic and selfless friendship its northern neighbour has given it in Afghanistan? Rather like Cyrano de Bergerac, Canada repeatedly does honourable things for honourable motives, but instead of being thanked for it, it remains something of a figure of fun.

It is the Canadian way, for which Canadians should be proud, yet such honour comes at a high cost. This week, four more grieving Canadian families knew that cost all too tragically well.

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Please pass the on or print it and give it to any of your friends or relatives who served in the Canadian Forces, it is a wonderful tribute to those who choose to serve their country and the world in our quiet Canadian way.

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Maybe ask Limbo he knows everything about Chiangrai! He is our Moderator

If you have Wi-fi many appartments have it!

Do any of the rental apartments downtown have internet in each bedroom?

I was hoping I could rent one with a reasonable speed, say 256kbps. If not, is it difficlut to get direct lines set up so they go directly to your room?

The only 'appartments' which exist in Chiang Rai have only one room and a bathroom.

They are mostly rented by students (sometimes they share a room) and cost between 800 and 1500 Baht excluding electricity.

As most people nowadays use mobile telephones, the telephone for common use in the office disappeared a long time ago.

I never heard about any 'appartment' in town which offers an infrared wifi internet connection.

Limbo

PS. Think about all the things thomas3940 could have been by now, if Sigmund Freuds wife would have been his mother

Hey Limbo at least my father wasn't the milk man!

And I'm sure when a student stops you mid stride and asks why it is

"Up with which I will not put" versus "I will not put up with it".

How many so called trained teachers can say which of the above is correct.

Or why or when (exactly) is the letter A pronounced Aye or with a short a as in apple and how do you tell.

Sat 04 Nov 06, 11:20 a.m.

Hi Hublet, all,

You express yourself in an authoritative manner so it many not be evident to readers that you are merely expressing an opinion here. TEFL is rife with ongoing controversy regarding methods and approaches. For example, great numbers of experts believe that teaching any prescriptive grammar at all (e.g., "Up with which I will not put" versus "I will not put up with it") is not only inefficient but may actually be an impediment to students gaining fluency. If you look at the millions of Asian students whose heads are cluttered with rules of grammar and phonetic symbols (often more knowledgeable than their teachers) yet cannot string together two simple Engarishe sentences, it is clear that there is at least some validity to the communicative (no grammar) approach.

Personally, if I were hiring for a school in Thailand, I would prefer enthusiastic, personable, engaging teaching teachers who were capable of getting students to actually use the language in a meaningful way as opposed to some egghead adding yet another patina of grammar rules, phonetic symbols and vocab that students will never use.

My intent here is not to revisit this perennial controversy, merely to point out that these issues are complex and often controversial, and it is all too easy to maintain strong opinions without really being aware of the current thinking in the field of TEFL.

Aloha,

Rex

True, True,True! It's hard enough learing grammer when you have spoken Englsih all your life. The people learning english must be totally confused!

If you have Wi-fi many appartments have it!

Do any of the rental apartments downtown have internet in each bedroom?

I was hoping I could rent one with a reasonable speed, say 256kbps. If not, is it difficlut to get direct lines set up so they go directly to your room?

The only 'appartments' which exist in Chiang Rai have only one room and a bathroom.

They are mostly rented by students (sometimes they share a room) and cost between 800 and 1500 Baht excluding electricity.

As most people nowadays use mobile telephones, the telephone for common use in the office disappeared a long time ago.

I never heard about any 'appartment' in town which offers an infrared wifi internet connection.

Limbo

PS. Think about all the things thomas3940 could have been by now, if Sigmund Freuds wife would have been his mother

Double posting, please check!

Thanks for your insight you sound like my grade 7 school teacher! I know my spelling sucks! but nice of you to bring it to my attention.

overtake our great leader? Who me? Chalk it up to a Rainy day

can you buy those fan's in Chiangrai? Where?

Well, maybe it´s a rich place?

In the poorer places I lived, they´d have those moisturising fans outdoors, the ones that distribute the lightest spray of water

Thomas3940 are you running a marathon or just trying to get a big post count?

11 posts in 1 hour.

Soon you will overtake our great leader, or maybe that's the idea.

Thomas, brush up on your speling Wile you`ve nothig else to doo

overtake our great leader? Who me? Chalk it up to a Rainy day

can you buy those fan's in Chiangrai? Where?

Well, maybe it´s a rich place?

In the poorer places I lived, they´d have those moisturising fans outdoors, the ones that distribute the lightest spray of water

Thomas3940 are you running a marathon or just trying to get a big post count?

11 posts in 1 hour.

Soon you will overtake our great leader, or maybe that's the idea.

30,000 baht for an oven? Eeek! I believe only NGO's can afford those!

I am sorry do you want a gas oven or gas hotplates with an electric oven.

In my opinion the gas hotplates are by far the best and the electric oven (fan forced) is the way to go for baking. A nice constant heat. I have fond that baking with gas that the heat is too unevenly spread out..

But that is my opinion.

A good unit with 5 gas hotplates and an electric oven under will cost 30,000 but it is certainly worth it!

In The Rai!

I got mine in Phan with a friend. The office is small little english but very polite and helpful. My buddy had his Australian Drivers Lic and International Lic, he required the letter of residence from MaeSai (free) a doctors certificate (60baht) Visa and 4 small pictures which can be provided right there! 155 baht and 2 hours later he had his motor scooter and drivers lic! They asked what the C ment of his Australian drivers lic so we said oh it's for both car and bike A for Auto - B for Bike C-for both!

Myself I had both thai lic and I need my Work permit, doctors letter, Letter from MaeSai and 750 Baht for 5 years

can you buy those fan's in Chiangrai? Where?

Well, maybe it´s a rich place?

In the poorer places I lived, they´d have those moisturising fans outdoors, the ones that distribute the lightest spray of water

not all female...

If you have Wi-fi many appartments have it!

Do any of the rental apartments downtown have internet in each bedroom?

I was hoping I could rent one with a reasonable speed, say 256kbps. If not, is it difficlut to get direct lines set up so they go directly to your room?