inwardglee

I have a fixed deposit account in my name, but with my wife's signature also recognised. That might work.

That "might" work. Does it really?

My idea for my account was that in a case of a fatal accident or sudden death (I heard it happens ...) my fiancee can clear my account, for her needs.

So is there a difference between a "joint account" and an account with someone's "signature recognised"?

P.S. Thank you all for making clear the difference between "visa" and "extension of permit of stay". I had not expected to create such an uproar by my wrong wording. Not being a specialist in legal terms, and neither a native speaker of English, finding the right words is always a struggle in unknown territory.

Thank you!

I will ask the Pattaya Immigration how to do it by mail.

a ) I will do my new retirement visa showing my bank holdings at Bangkok Bank in Thailand.

If the bank account runs for two names, mine and my partner's, will 800'000 THB still be enough to get the visa?

b ) Registering the visa in Pattaya, is there a way I can do the 90-day reports in other areas of Thailand?

Thank you for any information!

Psychosis happens! Anyone can get caught by it.

A Thai man some time ago who went beating up the Supreme God at Erawan shrine was instantly killed by fellow Thais.

A teacher from Africa told me recently about a woman who went stomping in the dormitories of male students.

Villagers ran by, and stoned her dead. I was shocked!

Lucky him he was on a flight, so he survived.

Nowadays, travelling simply does not make sense anymore ...

or maybe you're just jaded ... what about the hundreds of million of people that have never had an overseas holiday ... it's still very exciting to them.

Yes, sitting in an airplane is exciting a few times, then seeing oneself in bizarre circumstances like being shipped like sheep, being of a huge crowd, even on holidays, is all exciting to see ... but people will get tired of that experience.

See stocks of airlines and of travel companies, they are tanking ... even in an extreme bull market ... because just of that.

Travelling is not exciting enough anymore. The balance of excitement and annoyance does not stand straight anymore. The effort for travelling is not worth the money.

I am not the first one with that perception, but nowadays it is more true than any time before:

Willst du immer weiterschweifen?


Sieh, das Gute liegt so nah.


Lerne nur das Glück ergreifen,


denn das Glück ist immer da.


Gestern fing ich an.

Goethe

Do you continue always wander?

View, the good is so close.

Only the lucky get to take that happiness is always there.

I started yesterday.

Please, it is clear that West Africa and Liberia in special were significant car importers of Thailand, no one can deny that, and now these countries, suffering from Ebola, are buying less. So please do understand this is true, car sales are down for Ebola. As cars can also have Ebola themselves, it is dangerous to get into contact to them, they might spew a mix of virus cells that anyone better abstain of.

I am surprised how

a ) this makes it into the news

b ) people (commenters) have no heart for ones in problems.

Has anyone wanted to become a beggar by own choice? I don't think so.

Kissing is a sexual action. And so it is bad manners to do it in public, be in in the West or in Thailand, the same.

Every action that distracts the attention of people around too grossly is bad manners. Basta!

The Jomtien Immigration Office is a nice one! Professionally structured. Thank you for the report.

Are there still any embassies doing ED visas for any African student?

(My fiancee Ugandan. I cannot marry, not being able to afford divorce from my Thai wife, who got a new relation …)

For a selfie in a Thai tiger zoo, being told all is fine, the falang believes and gets mauled. Sure we need quality tourists that this does not happen again.

We now wish quality tourists for the next attempt. If occuring again, it will be even greater fun to look at.

Next target: a billionaire decapitated by a real Thai tiger.

It will prove what is strong and what is weak. Thai tiger strong! Falang: weaklings, can even be killed by a Thai tiger …

It is in fact one problem: that no one can get any secured information.

Decisions at embassies or consulates are taken randomly, without any clear frame declared by law or papers. Any consulate handles an application differently, and if wanting any information, those consulates do not reply.

I have recently bought an 10 Mio. Baht condo in Pattaya, a nice place for spending some years, and now see myself to sell it again at a big loss, as my African fiancee all at once has problems renewing her ED Visa. Penang agents all at once saying: NO ED visa for Africans for whom whatsoever. That info is new, since this week.

Then some people will come in and tell me I can marry her. Yes, good or bad idea, as males we know that we are being ripped off by marriage, so I cannot afford my divorce from my last wife, Thai, who by herself got a new relation, it happens …

So my guess is that the present government wants to have condo prices crumble, falang selling them at crash prices, so that locals buy them to resell them a bit later when laws are changed again … It is a SMART idea.

For active traders, I would place put options on the present condo market. It will tank by the present restrictions.

As for myself, in the present insecure situation in Thailand, I am still free. I can hibernate this condo for ten years, I have fortunately kids with Thai passwort who though do not like Pattaya as a residential place, they prefer Switzerland, but they would still be able to make use of this rather nice place here. Or would sell it at any time … if prices should resume again ever.

Yet, all in all, we still would want to warn foreigners of falang provenience to venture into Thailand at this moment. The politics have since recently become rather xenophobic and class-oriented. Quality tourists sought, who are NOT here, they go to other destinations mostly. I have never seen quality tourists staying in an army zone for longer than a month.

Such information, regularly given to Thai people in their own media, will create a new mindset among them. They are already bored with too many foreign looking faces, and now hearing that most of them are substandard (which is true), will get more hostile to falang than now being.

So, in short, we are being in a sort of Idi-Amin-like mindset, in ultra-populism, making foreigners reach out their hand for the benign privildedge to stay here, which comes close to a general feeling of Thai people, nowadays, to dislike falang faces. Things have changed, I understand.

I do not reproach the Thais for this new feeling, it is a consequence of general world matters. We in Europe equally got distrustful to the new immigrants … though those GET money and do not spend a cent like the foreigners here …

In an overpopulated word, this rejecting feeling to immigrants will get stronger in the coming years, or decades, if it should take some time. So: falang: stay out. Do a short trip if you like, don't plan to settle here, things will get worse. Don't buy a condo!

Just MHO: My humble opinion … I might be wrong …

Women want to marry if it is a win situation for them, not if they lose by it.

Example: My son (half Thai by blood) was in Thailand for one year studying at Chulalongkorn university, and got acquainted to a Thai student. He was later able to get her a studentship in Europe, where she finished her Master. Himself making 10'000 USD monthly, and herself making more right from the start in Europe, she does not want to marry without special contracts.

In case of divorce, she would lose half of the accumulated money in the time of marriage to him. Though she would have gained the nationality of a Western country, with its social security network, its medical system, its free travelling, its democratic rights, she still does not want to get into that trade …

Women are rational.

Now, imagine if the same woman would make no or only little income. She would wish to marry, as then it is a win situation: she gets a nationality that gives her advantages, better life, and in case of divorce (which is highly probable) she gets half of the accumulated money. Her man being ruined, herself being rewarded.

Women are rational.

Men are not. They keep marrying to get ruined later. Oh, romance, it blinds the eyes.

Apples and oranges!!

I don't think Switzerland grows oranges or apples. Imported from Spain and Turkey.

Mhhh … oranges no … apples lots of varieties … I miss them.

Switzerland: Great for rich peops (quality peops, in Thai slang …)

Thailand: Great for poor peops (losers, alcoholics, womanizers …)

lol

Now they just announced that they will change the rules again and you can get your education visa in thailand in future.

I have never understood why the government now sends people abroad to do the extension. It is not even any advantage to Thailand:

a ) people spend money on carriers as Air Asia, none of the spent money for the trip goes to Thailand

b ) the flying burns petrol and adds CO2 for our heating planet

Before it was possible to do the visa within Thailand. Even if this money went to officials, the money still was in Thailand. Now it just goes into the air, into greenhouse gas. Who could want that?

Does anyone know if so forward the visa can be gotten within Thailand again?

I have recently overhauled my traverse flute at Yamaha. For the wind Instruments, there is a lovely elderly man, Preenai Preechaporn, who has done repair all his life. As the instrument did not play anymore, he took it all apart and reassembled it, for little cost, and it is like new again . I was charged 1300 THB for the work of two days.

The building is Siam Motors Building, across the National Stadium, sky train station "National Stadium". You notice the building by the many cars in the showroom on the first floor.

For non-Yamaha Instruments, Preenai has an own shop nearby. Talk to him or give him a call: 081 288 85 24. He speaks English well and loves speaking it. If he cannot do it himself, he might know where you can do it.

It is informative to read the many comments of outsiders, from people who can speak freely, not living in Thailand.

For insiders, foreigners living in Thailand, we better shut up ...

I would have to say so many things to lots of topics, but just try to remain silent.

So, I tell myself: SHUT UP, if you don't want to get into problems. And I do … SHUT UP!

Thais shall eat rice, Germans shall eat Sauerkraut, Yankees shall take Fench Fie, sorry: French Fries, Italians Spaghetti, and Ugandans Matoke.

So be it, by command of God.

11th commandment.

Yes Sir!

I have recently called a visa agent in Penang and wanted to know the costs of the handling of a visa application.

He refused to give any information of the costs, which exposes the applicant into a situation where the agent can ask ANY money once he has the passport in his hands.

Does anyone know of an agent who is transparent with his prices?

@ gangthai: I guess you expect a traveller, tourist or resident in Thailand to see all perfect like in paradise.

Don't you think that criticism is much needed, in any organzization or system, even if you see Thailand as the perfect heaven?

I think your wishlist is too extensive to call it a child-friendly holiday. Children like to rest at a place, and do not need to see a lot, everything is new to them anyway. They need to spend time with things, and to not hasten from one to the other place.

In fact we adults are not much different, but tend to stress ourselves, wanting to see a lot instead of taking time with few things.

Yet, here a suggestion:

You take two nights in Bangkok and four nights on a nearby island, Ko Samet.

1 . Arrival Bangkok. If you can afford, stay at the Swissotel Nai Lert Park. As the name says, there is an old tropical park in this hotel, the pool area.

First day, enjoy the park and the pool area. In the evening, have an Italian dinner at the Lido, in Sathorn Soi 1.

Second day, enjoy the pool again. then visit the aquarium in the underground of the Siam Paragon shopping center. The child will enjoy the many fish, and you too.

In the late afternoon hours, go to Wat Suthat and join the meditators there. Play flute in the Buddha alleys.

2 . Third day, take a taxi to Ban Phe, Rayong, a two and a half hour ride from Bangkok. The boat to Vongduean Beach leaves at 1.30 pm.

Take a Thai House, which are wooden bungalows, at the Vongduean Resort. Booking by agoda.com

Enjoy the days on walks along the beaches which are free of traffic here. There are remote beaches which are calm.

3. Take a direct taxi to the airport on your last day.

For further questions, you can pn me.

A car bullies you on your motorbike, you give him a little short hoot in response, and that may be enough that the driver plus others will beat you up at the next red light when you are stopping … Happened to me. And many more things … more severe.

Walk past a bar with some transvestites, holding a camera, not even trying to take pics of anything, just holding the cam, and they beat you half dead … and everybody looking on.

So, I have heard on this forum to just follow the rules to not have problems. I say: Following the rule is not enough.

You need basically to be non-existent to not potentially getting into problems sooner or later. The guys smile, yet are explosive with aggression.

If an aggression starts going, then anything bestial can happen the next moment.

Survival may more depend then whether some other Thais stop the aggressors or not. There are some that tell him to stop, and that's it. Just need to be lucky to have someone around who is able to stop the killers. If, then mostly a woman who goes screaming … guys find that fun.