Na Fan

Here is a close-up shot. You can actually see those white particles there.

1 hour ago, seajae said:

can you post a pic of the ceilings, there are a few reasons for this happening, could be the new paint isnt bonding to the old paint(painted over grime, water damage, smoke etc)or has been watered down too much and is breaking down or it is garbage paint, a pic will help so I can see exactly what it is doing on the ceiling. Make sure you notify the owner  as well as they may well try to blame you

 

See above - any ideas what they did to cause this?

House has been empty for a while and we're the first tenants. We just moved in this month, so they can hardly blame us for anything like that.

Like this?

Or do you need a shot from very near?

We moved into a new property. Rental. The whole house was painted anew before we moved in.

Now we have these small white particles covering out entire house.

I sit at my desk working, I end up with them all over my hair and clothes.

You can imagine what happens if we are eating off of a plate......

What is going on here? Did they mess up the paint job this badly? How is that even possible?

It's a lot of mixed feelings for me.

Some dishes I absolutely love - Larb Pet, Tom Saab, Tam Tua. Some insects are great (Jingrid for example) as well.

But, in most cases, they will give me horrible diarrhea, because it's either not fresh, has been left laying in the sun or who knows where, or is just filthy because hygiene is a strange concept to Thais. When the wife cooks it, it's fine though.

And a lot of it is just disguised junk - it contains more sugar than your Big Mac would and is otherwise also rather unhealthy and did I mention it's very unhygienic  (meat sourced from markets where it's left rotting in the sun covered in flies, which hop from the nearby dog feces to the meat and back again). Prime example is the noodle soups "Guoy Tiaw" - they are drowing that <deleted> in sugar to extreme levels. Simple bowl of noodles with two tablespoons full of refined sugar. Daily. Or several times per day. Not exactly healthy.

So would I choose an Isaan feast over lobster or an Argentinian Black Angus tenderloin? Yeah, sometimes. If I know and trust the source.

Do I want to eat it every single meal for every single day? Absolutely, positively not.

That's my 0.02 Satang

Simple relocation. Within same province (Chonburi). From one house to the next.

We got 2 quotes from accounting firms.

First: 18'000

Second: 30'000

Are they out of their f'n minds? $600? $1000? To change an address?!?!?

Nothing changes. Just the address. That's it.

What is this madness?

I've seen a bunch of posts but many years old by now, so I thought I'd see what's out there now.

Ideally I'd like to use our village's pool and pay a coach for their time 1:1 with our 3 yr old.

I saw Manta but, frankly, them charging 750 Baht for 30 minutes group lessons seems excessive.

Any good contacts?

2 minutes ago, jackdd said:

Then why doesn't she get registered in the local house book, as required by law?

We just rent - we don't own the house. The owner doesn't allow her to register in it. This is very common for people that work in a different province.

3 minutes ago, fondue zoo said:

On a side note, do they actually refer to themselves as the "village headman" ?  a direct translation into English?

Pu Yai Baan - village big boy

13 minutes ago, jackdd said:

I, Village Headman, confirm that Na Fan's wife is living at address xyz.

Best regards

Village Headman

 

Why doesn't your wife just ask the hospital or the village headman on how to proceed?

The whole thing is strange. This is Pattaya - so there really isn't a "village" headman. There is a guy that apparnetly holds that title, lives nowhere near us and we have no idea who he is nor does he know who we are.

The Banglamung hospital told her she needs to provide this to get vaccinated, because she isn't in a local Tabien Baan. Even though she lived her for 4 years.

Plus, the hospital just now told us that they won't accept her regardless, contrary to what they told her yesterday with this letter.

Sigh. Thailand.

Hello

The local hospital wants a confirmation from the village headman that states that my wife really lives here (her Tabien Baan is not showing that - it's in another province).

Does anyone have any idea what such a document would look like? Can we just type a confirmation of residency ourselves and then ask the village headman to sign that? Would they even sign it?

Fan

We're paying 3000 per month, and for that, well, they do basically nothing (we have to prep all the bills and expense reports ourselves).

On top of that, we were also lured in to pay 15'000 per year for the financial statement, which has now increased to 23'000, apparently based on the profit, which is really nothing but a rip-off.

What are you paying?

Forcibly instituionalized? With no symptoms?

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Its the cheap local fuel. Use original zippo fuel - yes, more ecpensive, but it lasts 10x longer

2 hours ago, donnacha said:

If you don't find a member here willing to take them on, I recommend getting your wife, if she is Thai, to make a short phone video, with lots of cute shots of the cats and the baby, and a voiceover explaining the problem. Don't include any mention that a farang is involved.

It may seem like a long shot, but that sort of video will get a lot of attention on social media, especially from cat lovers, and Thais can be very kind when they understand that there is a real problem.

My partner's daughter successfully used this method to rehome a dog she loved but was unable to handle.

 

Good idea - thank you for that!

They're 2 female British short-hair, black, 12 years old, neutered. Spent their first 4 years in Europe, and since then have lived here in Thailand. They have vaccination passports and all.

They're friendly and pretty quiet (they're not that young anymore and sleep most of the time).

I've had them all their life but since we've got a kid, they are making our life hell, and it's gotten to the point where I need to decide: cats or marriage.

I don't know if they are jealous of the child or whatever their problem is. But every single day they pee around the house, and we just can't have it anymore. They need to change venue.

If anyone has a good outside area where they can spend the evenings of their lives in peace and without getting eaten by rabid street dogs, then that'd be great. 

We're in Chonburi and can bring them to you if it's anywhere in driving range.

I don't have access to the tank - it's underground somewhere.

But I just realized that we can't hear our pump going if we e.g. turn on the tap in the bathroom.

Duh!

So yeah, it appears that you're right, and during the day, for some reason  the water is bypassing it somehow and gets into the house directly, and at night the village is cutting the water apparently (no idea why) and then, without the pump, we're dry.

We live in a community (moo baan) with its own water well. The village has its own ground pumps and central water tower and each house has a local tank with a local pump that distributes pressured water.

And that works fine, during the day.

But for about a month now, the water pressure starts going down every day to an absolute zero, starting at around 9pm, with there being no water at all at around midnight.

In the morning it's all back to normal again, until the same thing repeats itself again in the following evening.

And, that only happens to us, to our house. Nobody else.

I'm confused as hell. But does any of this sound familiar to anyone? Or do you have any idea what could possibly cause this?

Again, there is never a problem in the day. Always a problem at night. Every day.

Or check into the hotel with something other than a passport. ID card for example. Many allow it, I do it all the time.

"WTO rules in Thai" - do you have a link to that?

Here's how I've dealt with the exact same situation before, and was faced with the same stupid nonsense original passport requirement that I equally would never fulfill:

- Phone up Amazon in the US

- Have them phone up their local UPS - it will be a conference call type of thing.

- State the problem to them, etc Most of the conversation should be lead by the Amazon agent.

They will then chase down the local UPS Thais and get them to be more reasonable. It worked for me.

2 minutes ago, natway09 said:

If working for yourself on a PR the first thing you need is a TFN.

For renewal of WP you will need a copy of filed tax return as in just about all countries.

If you leave the country on a PR for more than 6 months without having departure papers in order 

see just how quickly how Immigration is still involved on your return

So you are saying that there is no more requirements to have 4 Thais per foreigner to get a work permit - if the foreigner in question is granted PR ?

To clarify some things: yes - the "immigration is out of the picture" comment is in relation to the yearly extensions, which are no longer necessary. Hence the photoshoots with 4 Thai staff, the office, and all that silliness that goes along with it.

I've never had the labor department verify the 4 Thais and come do photo shoots with them - only immigration does that. At least it did in those 8 years that I've done it.

Now, since there are no more yearly extensions, and thus no more immigration visits - how does it work with the 4 Thai staff?

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