PJPom

Also responsible for introducing Margarita Pracatan, once seen never forgotten. Goodbye to a very clever and entertaining chap, RIP.

Why are you asking this question on here ? A trip to your nearest Dealer will probably have the message removed in seconds after an OBD scan. Lack of mechanical sympathy or knowledge can be very expensive, do not ignore warning lights or messages. Should a fault exist and your engine goes bang on the way to the Dealers and you have told everyone the warning has been happening for a while bang goes your warranty.

12 hours ago, Olmate said:

Reading the press on Commission into aged care lately, aged care in Oz is first class! 

Having first hand knowledge I can assure you that it is far from first class.

My ex mother in law was in an upmarket care home in Sydney and yes it was good but her million dollar unit in Neutral Bay had to be sold to pay for it. Aged care in Australia is a very profitable business, staff are mostly sourced from the unemployed who receive free training by the Government and whose wages are subsidised for a number of months. Though many of them are good their roll is only to shower and feed and generally look after the residents.

Qualified Nurses are paid award wages but their responsibility and workload is ridiculous, one Registered Nurse and one lesser qualified Enrolled Nurse to look after and administer medications and dressings for 100 inmates during an eight hour shift. My late partner would come home in the evenings and take about two hours to wind down, because she cared she ended up after fifteen years unable to take any more. Make no mistake, I would rather end my time here with adequate pain relief and people who care about me, they can then have a good party at the Temple.

5 hours ago, Olmate said:

Reading the press on Commission into aged care lately, aged care in Oz is first class! 

A must have at Krabi, no problem, only cost 30 baht.

I finally found out how to upload photos . A very appropriate comment, a “man” giving birth even though legally male is ridiculous, maybe we need to apply common sense a little more.

10 minutes ago, jacko45k said:

You are fortunate, quite a few small offices ask for some quite strange variations from the norm too. I do hear that the Immigration staff at your airport are not so easy going. 

You are very right, before I organised my non O the trip to KL or Penang seemed to be severely frowned upon.

Sorry but I can’t be of any further help, as you see from the date of oxmermaids post this was the time of the big panic as the Embassy letters were running out. Pages of posts were appearing but very few were actually saying anything of importance, TransferWise were copping heaps and Predictions of gloom abounded.

The finding of the code explanation was a quick answer to my problem and I posted it at the time but the thread went on for another hundred or so posts with no comments so I left it at that.

31 minutes ago, Moonlover said:

In answer to your first para: It certainly would!

 

And to the second: Sorry I don't know. Perhaps @PJPom can answer that.

 

Have a good one.

I am lucky that my Immigration Office is smaller and seems to be staffed by reasonable and competent people, it makes life so much easier.

I did my extension in July with six months of Bank statement from SCB which only showed my Transferwise from Australia as domestic, HOWEVER each deposit was coded MCL00001. Nobody in SCB knew what this meant and all they gave me was the letter showing current funds and stamped statement from Jan 2019. I was a bit worried until a poster on one of the many Transferwise posts got formal notice from Kasikorn that "teller I D MCL00001 " means international fund transfer from other bank with API system (application programming interface).  Armed with this and a printout of each months Transferwise transfer from Australia my I O made a phone call and after a couple of minutes of Da and Chai and a lot of Krap he said all OK.

2000baht and a wai and that was it,

My belated thanks to oxmermaid for his post on 7/5/2019 

3 hours ago, Brer said:

I don’t know how you can live on that figure, I guess you just eat lettuce, live alone and don’t go anywhere. 

You must be a lucky one to get that amount, the part pension they give me is substantially less.

I budget and review every month there is no way I could live on 38k baht with my wife and we don’t live a decadent life.

I have a wife and we live quite well on that amount, last month three days In Bangkok, airfare, taxis, MBK and IconSiam, now that can be expensive. The following week a short drive to Trang, why, because we had never been there, overnight in a reasonable hotel was 590 baht, petrol ,dinner breakfast and lunch another couple of thousand.

Late September was my birthday so again a drive down to Koh Lanta and lunch at one of the best resorts I have ever been to.

We all have our different priorities, mine is a quiet life debt free and so I own an older Ford Focus, a scooter bought new, a bicycle for exercise, rent a pleasant cottage with a garden and eat out at least twice a week.

I arrived in Thailand to live in 2016 and had a few thousand dollars which bought the car and scooter also did a deal to pre-pay rent which gave me a very reasonable outlay per year so everything is manageable.

I can certainly sympathise with those totally dependent on the pension and the only way I can see out of this problem is using an agent, an awful choice but might be necessary.

1 hour ago, keith101 said:

I DONT KNOW WHERE YOU GOT THAT FIGURE FROM  but my next payment due Monday will be around 35,200 well under what your saying and going down despite the bi-annual increases to the pension . The actual 28 day payment is $1,700.80 which the basic amount which all overseas pensioners get .

Actual rate now is36,400 and don’t forget that it is paid 26 times a year, my current sum is 1840 per calendar month =37,949.00 . I use TransferWise and their costs are roughly 12 - 14 dollars .

Here we go again, the Middle East is once again at war, how long before others join in.

Turkey is aiming to eradicate the Kurds and it looks as though they will be able to do it without NATO lifting a finger to stop them.

Don’t forget that the battles are in Syria and Assad’s main supporter is Russia, are they going to sit back quietly ?, I very much doubt it.

So very, very sad, there is no appropriate comment I can make so I will leave it at that .

To all of you worried about Pangasius remember that farmed  prawns are just as bad and in the wild mud crabs live in filthy mud and shrimp are always plentiful near sewer outlets.

I will now go and try to successfully batter my fillets having followed a few tips from here.