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28 minutes ago, wensiensheng said:

“a permanent visa-free policy“

 

What is a permanent visa free policy?

Entry without requiring a visa until such time as the policy is changed?

 

Free tourist entry visa, good for 90 days?

 

Permanent entry visa free of charge.

 

some combination of the above?

 

I’m unsure why any of them would cause the condo market to boom. It was easy enough for Chinese to get a tourist visa previously and I don’t think the requirements for any other visas have changed. But hey ho, any reason to talk up the housing market is a good reason

 

 

I read it as a permanent stay in Thailand without a visa, for free,  but I think it is actually a permanent policy of a visa free 30 day stay.

Time to start brewing your own.

Gold coins not everywhere.  Coles and Woolies usually not.  Yes trolleys as scrap metal  not worth the hassle here and they would probably not accept them anyway if they had Property of Coles or whatever on them.

Not something I recall seeing is abandoned shopping trolleys in BKK and other cities.  I think they make use of bollards around car parks and security guards watching exits.  Here in Australia, Adelaide to be precise its a common site.  Is this something we can learn from Thailand?

My wife screwed this up last year. She left Australia on her Aust passport, and I told her to give them her Thai passport when she arrived at Don Muang. She says they wanted to know how she left Australia or some such so she showed them her Aust passport and they stamped that. 3 months in Thailand and discovered this on leaving. 20,000 baht fine.

Buy a turbo oven, glass bowl with heat and fan on the top with dial with temp and time. Something like http://tinyurl.com/owgtem8 under 1000 baht from tesco or makro etc.

Staying in a small village, temple across the road, funeral pyre tall chimney just over from the temple. Few days prior to cremation lots of noise, music, drinking but have never participated. All business suppose to stop trading. Monks come in the evening at the house and do a lengthy chant. The day of cremation anyone in the village can join in, no special dress, just wear whatever you happen to be in. The monks do a chant, serving of soft drinks, procession of people passing the coffin. Open a coconut pour into coffin, push coffin into furnace, light a match and watch the black smoke. A few firework banger are let off, throwing sweets for usually children to grab. The next day or 2, monks come, open up furnace and collect the bones.

I like statistics, and I can tell that 80% of people in this forum is negative, specially when referring to Thailand, Immigration, politics, and women.

I will like to believe that the reason is because most lives in tourist towns, living and spending like tourist do, and not interested in make local friends and to learn and integrates into Thai culture and community.

What I said here, is exactly what I do for the last 3 years without any problem, and again, is TOTALLY LEGAL. Some of our clients in our shop are officers from the local Police and Immigration.

In my case, I have marriage extension and work permit, and our company is a Limited Partnership Company with 500000thb stated capital, without the needs of showing or having it. We live very well with our annual 500000 thb net profit, happy in paying taxed, hiring a couple of happy helpers, and keep growing. But, here, some people's opinion and comments shows a total ignorance of Thai laws and rules.

Anyway. If you really live here for some years, and do not have Thai good friends and connections, you are living in the wrong country....or you still a tourist. Your choice.

I haven't read every post either, but this is the general vibe I get. Visitors to Thailand and always comparing to their home country, and not really liking the place for its corruption and difficulties. Friends and connections are useful where ever. To reiterate the popular adage, it's not what you know but who you know.

Life wasn't meant to be easy.

A misquote!! "Life wasn't meant to be easy" ... for others. Malcolm Fraser died 20/3/2015 http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2015/03/20/malcolm-fraser-life-wasnt-meant-be-easy

Muslims don't have to only eat food with the halal label. Like the red tick for the heart foundation its purely a marketing gimmick for gullible Muslims. There is no such thing as Halal milk for instance unless it is pig milk. They have to watch out for products with gelatin in it. They can read the ingredients labels or play it safe like anyone with a food allergy or make their own food.

At last, an article which never uses the wrong word - footpaths - and uses the right ones - pavements and sidewalks.

We call them footpaths here. American English or UK English.

Let's start another thread: Why are there so many Greeks in Australia?

Or why are there so many Indians everywhere you go? Which leads to an interesting question. 2 years ago there was an Indian man on a student visa, so he says, selling peanuts on a push bike in BKK. 2 years later he has a motor bike selling material. Now there is another Indian chap selling peanuts on foot. Is this some sort of franchise?

The V-fit germinated brown rice milk is organic, and found in many supermarkets, and is inexpensive. 45 baht for a liter. The blue label, is sugar free. It tastes good, And is infinitely healthier to consume than soy milk, which has marginal nutritional qualities.

Again as in soy milk why don't you make it yourself, the only investment is a blender, get a high speed one. 200g of cooked rice to say a litre of water. Blend to very fine and drink. 45 baht sounds expensive to me, more than a litre of milk.

Back in Australia, I rediscovered what I was doing wrong with the tofu making, I didn't allow the soy milk to boil. Also my comment about Thai soy beans being smaller and shrivelled up. Well I think the reason is Australia grows the Bunya variety, larger and suitable for soy milk high yield and tofu. and is non gmo.

http://www.csiro.au/~/media/CSIROau/Divisions/CSIRO%20Entomology/NewAussieSoybean_ento_pdf%20Standard.pdf

I don't envy the cold washes in those temperatures considering hot water is pretty rare in the villages. Yes 15 deg and under isn't extreme for Australia but we do have hot water.

We just left Thailand on Friday night. I was OK went through immigration without dramas with my 3 month 'O' tourist visa. My wife however presented her Thai passport on exit and they wanted to see her Australian passport. The mistake I think she made, she left Australia on her Australian passport, then because there was no stamp on her Thai passport they used her Australian passport and put in the 30 day stamp. She did tell me they wanted her to report to immigration after 90 days (she must have misunderstood this and they meant 30 days). Anyway though she is Thai but because she came in on her Australian passport and she was 58 days over stay, they wanted the 20,000 baht before allowing her to exit. They also suggested to her to "lose" her Thai passport and get another one. Expensive mistake!!

No failed attempt, must be the epsom salts just didn't curdle. Another 2 weeks time back in Oz so not to worry.

I have been making soy milk for many years and never ever came across 'shrivelled' looking beans available at Makro. (It's a dried product you know, similar to other legumes such as lentils, peas, kidney beans etc.).

And could you please elaborate on 'vitamise'?

Yes I guess we must be spoiled in Australia when it comes to soy beans. Yes I realise its a dried product so perhaps shrivelled wasn't the right word, they just look smaller. I think I know where I have been going wrong. The instructions on the pack say to use 1kg of beans to 4 litres of water so I conclude the beans are indeed not as potent as our Australian grown ones. In Australia I would soak about 300g of water and use plenty of water to vitamise them and would end up with nearly a kg of tofu. My last attempt was a 500g packet with 6 litres of water.

Oh and vitamise or vitamize depending on which continent you live on, means to blend, to turn the beans into a liquid so it can be filtered through the clothe.

Now I have 1kg of beans soaking so wish me luck with my next attempt with only 4 litres of water!!

Soy milk is very easy to make, just soak the beans, vitamise then filter through the rice clothe and then cook. However I have wanted to make tofu. I don't think the beans I have been getting from Makro are quite right compared to those I am use to in Australia. They are smaller and a little shriveled looking. Anyway finally managed to source some epsom salts (I think!!) from a chinese medicine shop 10 baht per 100g. My first attempt well, the epsom salt solution just didn't seem to curdle the milk. Then I tried lemon juice and vinegar. Eventually it did curdle but a very fine and seems still a milky solution. I tried filtering but just too fine and not get a good curdle. Today I tried again this time small amount of milk and heaps of epsom salt solution just to see if it was perhaps the salts. I left it for some time and whola it did curdle but still very fine, useless for tofu. I conclude its the soy beans. I have made many times in Australia, with presumably Australian soy beans. Anyone with similar experiences and suggestions?

>> until it tops at the price of 27.85 baht per kilogramme from the current 22.63 baht per kilogramme. <<

Current is now 13.25... to 14.xx baht.

But how many litres in a kg of lpg?

Exactly as I was saying.

OK, hold the phone. On the Thai Airways Facebook page, they have uploaded an infographic showing that you CAN bring most batteries on board, but can NOT have them in check-in baggage.

I think you should re-post this on the top of every page in the thread, save some members making tit's of themselves foolish posts!!

Initially thought this was bad news for my powerbank, but the biggest one I have is only 11000mAHr and I have 2 others which are even smaller, so no big deal. Can you even buy power banks over 32000mAHr, I doubt it. Its a bit of a beat up story in my opinion.