DrPhibes

3 hours ago, Fairynuff said:

Thai food is probably the biggest reason I’m still living here.

I think their asking for what you eat, not who... ????

Awesome possum everyone, thanks!  As I remember you get an "under consideration" stamp to return in about 30 days, correct?  Planning to fly for a 10 day trip to Phuket after I get paperwork filed and get the extension stamp after I come back but prior to expiration of previous extension.

19 hours ago, kurtmartens said:

Interesting.  When my wife called they told her I would need to show proof of traveling and it would take a week, etc.  Rather than be "that Farang", I ended up just ordering a yellow vaccine passport from the WHO and having McCormick stamp the inside with my 2 Pfizer shots.  (My wife also asked the guys at the Thai CDC is they would accept the WHO yellow vaccine passport and they told her you can only put yellow fever vaccine information in it, which is of course not the case.  But, I've learned not to have these arguments.)

 

I assume you managed in getting the Thai vaccine passport?  Which is the same as the WHO vaccine passport?

Wow, I just said I will have to travel in the future to the US and that was all that was asked at the window about travel.  Location is the Nankornping Hospital Tuberculosis Center across from Suriwong bookstore Sridonchai Rd.  Came back a week later for the yellow Thai vaccine book and pay my 50 baht, easy peasey.

1 minute ago, ThailandRyan said:

Your name must be Jamie Dimon....a non believer

Not named Jamie Dimon, but have often been called the Jack of Hearts by the ladies ????

Some offices allow submitting extension renewal package 30 days and some are 45 days before extension expiration.  Anyone know what CM office timing is?  Could not find in internet search.  Thanks in advance.

And still nothing about college kids.  I was going to have the Moderna shot I signed up for a while ago as a booster to my 2 Pfizer before I go back to the US, but now I think I'm going to move it to my son who will be moving to BKK soon for college.

China is closing up on several fronts and re-instituting ideological indoctrination.  Recently declaring Crypto-currency illegal so as to not allow flight of capital out of the country as things go bad.  Same with not issuing passports, don't want to lose the best and brightest.  I think they will manipulate internal capitalism to fail and use all the suffering to drive home the social example of why communism/socialism is better.  I understand Jack Ma is doing a lot of painting these days...

I would not count on mass tourism out of China for a long time.

On 10/3/2021 at 4:26 PM, zzaa09 said:

Who's Shirley?

Seriously, stop calling me that.

8 hours ago, gim12 said:

look in qatar airways   @$500 one way san francisco direct into phuket BUT takes @35 hours

Will pass that on, thanks!

I noticed that Thai Airways is showing flights out of BKK as part of the flights into Phuket for the Sandbox.  Is this a mistake or can you fly into BKK and transit out to Phuket for the sandbox?  A friend is leaving from the west coast of the US in early NOV and is going to do the Sandbox despite possible changes at that time and is confused on flights he can take.  Thanks in advance.

44 minutes ago, Anna56 said:

Thank you very much for your explanation ???????? I’ve read a lot of articles and I got confused with terminology. Did I understand correct that if I receive less then 10 million baht in a calendar year I don’t need to do anything? 

Yup!

A non-spouse, non-ascendant, non-descendant who receives more than 10 million baht in a calendar year would be subject to gift tax on the excess of the 10 million at the rate of 10% paid in the receivers Thai tax return.

57 minutes ago, Denim said:

And 100% more is she is especially naughty.

...and your retired ;-}

Is 1 million of the 2 the Pfizer the US already said was ready to deliver through donation but there was a paperwork problem of the US wanting Thailand to ask for it and Thailand saying the US has to ask permission to donate it?

10 hours ago, hioctane said:

I believe 18+ can already get the vaccine.

Where?  No source of availability for anyone under 50 here for Pfizer in Chiang Mai that I can find.

On 9/27/2021 at 5:13 PM, KannikaP said:

Two days after 2nd Pfizer. Doctor friend suggested it may be Zoster virus ie Shingles, Chicken Pox, Genital Warts has been awoken by the vax. Got cream from pharmacy which seems to be drying it up.

No symptoms until about 1.5 weeks after the second shot when I had the worst Rosacea flareup I have ever had on cheeks and upper forehead with red flush flaking skin and bad acne.  No change in life style prior.  Nothing life threatening but was mugly for about 1 week, currently in remission.  Looked it up and it is one of the off-beat side effects.

19 hours ago, LawrenceN said:

Taweechol Horizon is a hidden gem, closer than Doi Saket. Swimming pool, labyrinth, topiary, caged peafowl, ostriches can be fed by hand. Other zoo animals. Museum of Chiang Mai history. Paddle boats and bikes for rent. Very comfortable accommodations onsite. Used to have a buffet on weekends, not sure about that during Covid-19. 

https://www.tweecholbotanicgarden.com/en/index.php

Lovely place!  I and a buddy of mine hang at the pool there when he is in Thailand and the weather/C=19 laws permit.  Have done the tram, nice.

47 minutes ago, Gsxrnz said:

I also heard they are insisting you must drink alcohol only through a straw, ice-cubes must be tested for traces of covid, and any attending hostesses must wear full hazmat suits and masks.  Stiletto shoes are not considered de rigueur.

Last I saw, they had to be translucent hazmat suits with little underneath since it will be hot and sweaty inside which will lead to certain asspects of the suit adhering to certain parts the wearers anatomy ;-0

23 minutes ago, overherebc said:

Canada (70's) was similar. If your girlfriend was 19, depending on province you could sleep with her and both drink. Cross the line she couldn't drink but you could sleep with her. Cross another line you couldn't sleep with her but she could have a beer.

Confusing much.

And then there's the donkey, but that's a whole different crossed line ????

2 hours ago, zzaa09 said:

They do miss the bigger picture.......or even the basic picture.

..or even that it's a picture.  Looks more like a poorly drawn police sketch to me ????

Blood type needed is ?

On 9/23/2021 at 4:44 PM, Aussiepeter said:

I lived in C Mai for twenty-five years or so, but finally left in 2013. At one stage I visited many of the abandoned buildings and wrote a story about them for a local magazine, only to have them lose my draft. The movie theatre was still operating in 1989 as I went there once or twice - very nice & very cheap (no double pricing). I recall a sad occasion when a farang was found dead there after the end of a film. Apparently a cobra had slithered in at some time during the film and had bitten him several times - it was rainy season. If you go down Changklan Rd past the old theatre about 500m, just before the next traffic lights there is an abandoned 14 storey building in a Soi on the right - it's been there unfinished  since at least 1990. It had been approved as eight floors from memory, but the builder illegally added extra floors. A similar hotel building that had been "modified" collapsed in the early 90's (in Udon Thani from memory), killing a US Medal of Honour winner from the Vietnam conflict, his Thai wife & others eating dinner. After that they clamped down on illegally modified high-rise buildings. They demolished the old railway hotel opposite C Mai railway station, but not before I climbed up to the top and got some amazing (pre-digital) photos. The best secret is Asia's first ever revolving restaurant, which sits on top of the long abandoned Bpoy Luang Hotel. It is on the main highway intersection with the road coming from the railway station. I left in 2013, but it was still there a few years ago when I visited. (I did write about it a while back on 'tv'). Assuming it is still there, it looks like a smaller round room on top of an old white rectangular building. I rode a Honda Dream up the ramp/fire-esape to the top about 20 years ago & climbed into the old revolving restaurant. It was a big G.I. hotel in the Vietnam War & had a disco-like mirror-ball in the revolving restaurant & it had a big swimming pool in the rear. All the lifts etc have been removed and it is just a shell now, but it was incredible back in 1968 or so. They started to refurb it in the 90's as a hospital, but the 97 crash killed it. They fixed up a couple of rooms and filmed episodes of a popular Thai 'soap' opera there in the early 90's too. I actually appeared in that show quite by accident, when I stopped & asked a BIB for directions (I speak local Thai). The 'cop' laughed and told me in perfect English that he was not a real cop but was an actor and, "would I mind riding my motorbike up the street again and asking him the same question, so they could film it" ! I was famous in local bars for a week to two. The 90's were a fantastic time to be in Chiang Mai (or elsewhere in Thailand for that matter) and, the air was clean !

'92- Black Cat Bar off the Moat road (I think near a bar named Johns?), had some crazy times there!