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hahahahahahahahaha!

 

just curious.   What on earth does a gf need $5000 for?

 

 

hahahahahahaha!

 

 

i can understand wife but gf.......................ohh my buddha!

help stop hate messages on thaivisa.com.

 

 

seems clear to me;
'if ur white  we dont want you
'if ur yellow  come on over

 
 
Yes very clear, except most "white" countries are visa exempt

And 2007/8 was free for whities

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If you do not like Thailand, the exit door is wide open.

So silly typists here say "I hate Thailand so much, and I hate it even more for not letting me stay here."

Please, someone tell that this is a silly, even insane position to hold.

Chinese tourists pay to be here;  unlike "some" people.

Perhaps the 5 year Elite visa would work for you. It would cost 500k baht but it would give unlimited one year entries for 5 years.

Interesting but is quite expensive, I am just a south american LOL

But thanks anyway, maybe is not that much if save all the hustle.

Fess up, you are an undocumented worker in Thailand, hiding as a fake tourist. Stop polluting the system and just do the legal thing for a change.

It is very very difficult SOBER to fall from a balcony or by accident.

Most people have a slight or a total fear of heights and feel funny near a high balcony.

These are not just slippery floors and low railings.

when a man closes off all reasonable options..........

NOT.....

hobby,

DIY,

massage,

gik,

taking a walk and beating dogs with cane pole,

all the other suggestions,

THEN,

this suggests real mental problems that you must address for a happy life.  Counseling is not available, I feel sure.  I recommend diving hold hog, totally, into Buddhism and meditation.  That is waiting for you in Thailand all over the place.  Visit a wat for a week at a time and tell them you took vow of silence to avoid language barriers.

Get out of your rut now, man, before you do something really bad.   Good luck and best wishes.

If only it were armed and towed backwards, a few gun bursts back down that row of cars would have cleaned out traffic problems for that little stretch, anyway.

Pit bulls have been bred for CENTURIES to fight.  Now people think they can control them at home.

Pit bull dogs should be registered along with fire arms, they are that dangerous.

If you have cataracts, DEFINITELY get them fixed..... a new lease on life and my nearsightedness went away and now I can admire women across the street.

I use reading glasses from Lotus for close work, but can read a newspaper with no aids.

I am one of those people who thinks my health comes absolutely first, so I have gone to only Bumrungrad in BKK for over ten years and, for me, that place has all my trust. I got both eyes done there, one at a time, single vision lenses, and no pain and fast healing. I am overjoyed and I really did not care what it cost because if I am blind, money not well spent is just silly.

I like the rock star treatment I and my white pony tail get at the local Lotus.  A little boy had his father ask me if I am a cowboy;  another asked if I fought Indians in America;  another wanted to know the name of my rock band.  I also enjoy the admiring looks I get from Thai ladies who are also checking to see if I already have a Thai wife in tow.

However, sitting among an all-Thai language group or party is wearing and just lonely.  Oh well.

BEFORE a person gets beyond 60, he should have assembled around him a tested and trusted core of people who can help all those little tasks......... in Thailand or anywhere.

The core of people cost money, and one should not be cheap with them.  Pay your Thai wife an allowance, make sure your close workers get a little more than what is fair.  Thaksin proved that you CAN buy loyalty, and even not in extreme cases like that, it does take some money.  It would not be fair to those close to you to just work for your love because you know how much food love buys.

There are a surprisingly huge number of Thai people with good hearts.  You must find and recruit a few good hearts and keep them close.   The Thai I know also respect and honor a good turn done to them and want to reciprocate, it is built into the culture here.

If a person is in Thailand alone and with no circle of supporting people, that person did not think ahead and is now screwed to the wall.  I guess he could hire a lawyer, hee hee, to do these necessary jobs.

We must all think, who will wipe your shiny hiny when you can no longer get out of bed? 

It is so tuff to be realistic.

And they are really cute little guys ! Congrats!

Thailand govt schools, what an American would call public schools, are EXCELLENT for what they were designed for. ... to prepare workers for assembly line, repetitive exacting, one-skill work. Also, to follow orders and do the job as assigned and not to think of a better way.

Because all of the jobs in Thailand for lower middle to low classes are either farm work or factory work, this method of schooling is ideal. It teaches doing and coping with standardized repetitive single skill.... pushing thousands of rice shoots into the ground or repeatedly putting part A into its slot into assembly Z.

So, the schools fit the jobs.

Now, if a parent wants something different, go to the international schools which are reputed to have international standards. A couple of visits should tell an alert parent which school to choose, and then also how to get the kid enrolled under limited enrollment numbers.

American schools, with notable few exceptions scattered around, current practice the Harvard U advice to school the child's ego, not so much his mind, with the goal of have the person think he is ok even if he flunks. This has given USA a couple of generations of people who think the world owes 'em a living. Now, Obama is trying to reverse this trend, with lots of outcries from parents whose egos are just fine!, in the Core thingy where actual achievement and the "whys" are taught again and failure is again possible. The Core will have a long fight and meanwhile your kid will be caught in that mess of change.

A good private school in America offers the best education for children in the world. Very expensive. Take your choice.

Home schooling requires a discipline that most adults just can not maintain. There are many distractions and excuses not to hold class today. Also, teaching is a learned skill, not something just anyone can do WELL via just love. Too, home schooling eliminates socialization with others, a huge drawback.

A proof of my NYU Ph.D. was requested by Mahidol U in 2004 and what was insisted on was a Xerox copy of my diploma, not my official transcript. 

I explained that obtaining a certified transcript is the final proof of a degree, but MU wanted the diploma copy.

It was not easy to copy an oversized document while still remaining inside its very nice frame.  Did it.

Asian degrees are a snap to get, even the real ones.  But, this requirement by Thailand is a step in right direction.

The cannery will have to sing for his supper...

 

Tell us more... or we will send you back must be a lot more effective than any truth serum.

You wrongly assume that Russia has even a few items It does not already know about.  Surely it has several of its own people working in jobs like Snowden.  It is supremely naïve to think Snowden has some deep secrets so far unknown to governments like Russia, Israel, and Red China.  The only secrets are those THE PEOPLE do not know about.

BTW, no one has been able to cite ONE field agent/spy who has been compromised by just Snowden's files.

Don't be conned by this Cambodian monk, support your country and be conned by your own Thai monks

Name names or shut up.

"He who does not know, speaks.  He who does knows, does not speak."   That makes it really tuff to find a self-proclaimed Buddha.

 

 

"It's impossible for Buddha to be reincarnated," said Phra Kru Sumon Thammakun, abbot of Koke Tabaeng Temple in Sa Kaeo province. "Buddha spent more than 500 lives before he finally reached Enlightenment, and he has already gone to Nirvana long ago."

Heck, everyone should be allowed to come out of retirement once in a while.

 

So the Dalai Lama is an imposter?

 

No, HH the Dalai Lama has never been in the nirvana state.  The current manifestation has said that he may choose not to reincarnate after this coming death.  The implication he gives is that he will choose to enter nirvana.  Nirvana has NO RETURN TICKET, enter, never return. 

A Buddha can chose to die and return but he/she can not reincarnate out or back out of nirvana.

The current manifestation also has never claimed to be a Buddha altho he has said that there can be several or many Buddhas alive in any era, including this one. 

As you should know, Red China has the avowed intention of claiming the next Dalai Lama as a cooperative in their govt.  Red China has also kidnapped the current Panchen Lama and put their own boy up in that position to try to control and undermine Buddhism.  The current Panchen Lama has been called the youngest political prisoner and Red China refuses to allow free people to see that personage. 

In maybe his most cool move, the current HH the Dalai Lama stated that if he chooses to reincarnate, IT WILL NOT BE UNDER RED CHINESE CONTROL.  Trumped Red China in a single sentence !

Advice to typists on this venue.... be careful with your words about this most holy man or obvious shame will rain down on you.

Where does a wise traveler keep his passport???

On his person in

a neck pouch or under belt ...money belt.

A traveler in his right mind, i.e. not drunk, will never lose his passport this way.

Do not keep at home ... cant get to it quickly and people have home burglaries.

To swim alone, seal passport in plastic baggie and tuck it into your swim pants, front or back.  If you are a strong swimmer, tie the baggie around your waist.

 

I think a better topic would be : has your Mrs ever washed yours?

YES! Soaked it even! I was in the washer for around 75 minutes together with HER passport, her 3-month old iPad mini, and her ipod touch all inside her Carry All bag.

 

Lesson...... do laundry sober.

Many writers on this venue can use the time spent ranting about how bad Thailand is and how mean it is not to let them stay here....... use that time instead to do your Buddhist practice.  Will save lots of silly posts.

I recommend walking meditation because often you have to walk somewhere, even if to the refrig to get another beer, and there you are..... opportunity to practice.

The ONLY way is total immersion. You never do anything in any language except Thai. You can play around trying to get some vocabulary which you then mis pronounce. Oh, the other is in directed study 8 hrs a day for 9 mos. the way the US State Dept does it.

Only one real reason for import duty charges.......

To protect a domestic industry that makes the same thing that is wanted to be imported.

Other reason is to grab money for the government.

Many thanks Pib

Some UPS have surge protection, some do not. Read the label.

A UPS on a TV is specialized because the main job of a UPS is to provide temporary power to a device like a computer where your loss of power also loses data sometimes, and UPS are there to keep the computer operational until YOU can shut down the computer in the normal safe way. Similarly, big UPS powering your TV is only useful IF a knowledgeable person is present to turn off the TV before the UPS battery is exhausted.*

OVERVOLTAGE...To try to protect a TV, use a specially marked SURGE PROTECTION outlet strip. If it is indeed such a device as the label says, buy the best you can get, it has circuits and components inside which electrically clamp off voltages coming in above a certain value. The clamping voltage should be on the label and can be 20% to 50%, for example, above normal line voltage of 220-240 volts AC. The components are only strong enough to take very short duration upward spikes. Some models of strips will burn out this clamping function BY DESIGN as part of the way clamping is obtained in that model. Thus, with some strips (and UPS), one good spike will be clamped, but all following spikes will obtain little, and finally no, effect. Some models show this burn-out and some look the same all the time.

The basic overvoltage shunting function is done by an MOV (a little part that should be inside a surge protection outlet strip). The MOV clamps and sends the overvoltage to GROUND/earth. If it shunts a surge to the neutral wire in Thailand's system, problems can occur. And, the two main problems with MOVs are that.....

1. they wear out after one or several surges, and unless your outlet strip blinks its power switch light, you will not know if the MOVs inside are worn out or not.

2. you must provide a ground for the MOV to shunt into; most Thailand home wall electrical outlets/sockets do not have a ground. If only two pins are present, there is no ground. If three pins, there can still be no ground connected inside. Point is, NO GROUND, NO SHUNTING regardless of the quality of your surge strip.

The absence of a ground negates all the clamping function of a surge suppressor outlet strip. No protection. However, the MOV can shunt to the neutral of Thailand's system, but you usually will not know which wall outlet socket pin is neutral, so you can not connect your strip neutral to your electrical supply neutral (50/50% chance of being right). Shunting to Thailand's neutral, even if you get it correct, provides little to no protection.

UNDERVOLTAGE.... Under voltage, called brown-out if planned to happen, is thought possible to do damage to modern electronic and electrical devices. However, such modern devices almost always have "switching power supplies" which are designed to work at voltages from Japan's 100VAC to Thailand's 240VAC, continuous. That means if your voltage drops in Thailand, it is almost never below 150VAC (because the electric company's transformers vastly overheat in that condition and usually burn out, so co. tries to keep voltage up).

All that means that for a device marked 100-250VAC, a "brown out" will not hurt it. If voltage goes below 100, the device simply stops functioning with no harm.

Older devices are transformer powered (and heavier to lift) and the transformer designed to work at around 220VAC will get very hot at LOWER voltages and can burn up or associated parts burn up due to the extra load. Then, that device could be saved by using a UPS to switch on, provide the correct voltage, and have YOU turn off the device (because of limited battery supply in all UPSs). YOU turn off during the UPS supplying voltage because soon the UPS will quit normally and whatever voltage you had first, you will have again.*

Note, most UPS are designed to switch on only in the event of total power failure... the lights go out... and not for only lower voltage. There is a threshold. Also, UPS do not clamp off surges unless that function is built into it AND if it has a ground/earth.

Summary:

No ground on your wall outlet, then no surge suppression, UPS or strip, regardless.

Undervoltage can be managed only if a person turns the TV off before the UPS batteries are exhausted.*

That's very encouraging Samran. Thank you.

I once got a permit to stay, one year renewable, based on my marriage to a Thai national.  It took about two weeks and some paperwork and photos.  I kept that permit and renewed it until retirement and changed to retirement permit to stay, one year renewable, based on my monthly income etc.

When my Work Permit and work contract ran out, of course, I abandoned my work permit and that visa category and got the stay based on marriage.  Seems best future route for you if your work dries up for a while or forever.

I found all the Thailand visas and permits to stay processes ultimately not difficult.  Most of my worry came from not knowing the processes needed.  Now, after going through many "visa" categories and learning them, I look back on my worries as totally unfounded.