Andrew Dwyer

There is a number of film and rock stars that have kept their natural hair colour when older, there is also a huge number that want to go to the hairdressers every couple of days to colour their roots after dying their hair.  They have the time and money to keep it up.
 
But I reckon every aging Thai bloke I know except one does the black rinse thing, the white root brigade, seems here it is quite normal stuff. But then I have never seen natural colour dyed hair on a farang, just sticks out a mile, together with the white roots. Old farangs forget that seldom does a young mans hair colour job ever match the age of their face. And as for wigs.....Crazy stuff....
 
I saw a pic the other day on FB of a Thai lady with her farang bloke, he must have been about 70, he had a rug on his head that had more pile than an Axminster carpet and had a totally unnatural colour..Now surely this bloke must look in the mirror and see there is something wrong..

Couldn't get that excellent Balti in Brisbane out of my head !, had to Google it .

If near Brisbane and yearning for " an Indian " this is the place !!

https://www.thespiceavenue.com.au/

( I know this might be deemed off topic as I'm not eating it now, but I damn wish I was !! )

perhaps the floors are cooler then a sofa?

just saw this recipe today:
 
http://www.jamieoliver.com/recipes/chicken-recipes/perfect-chicken-balti/
 
maybe not convenient for those that have no access to the indicated spices, cardamon, cloves, cinnamon, cumin, etc...I had brought these back with me almost a year ago from saudi, now almost past their sell by date...makro has got most of the stuff, good to check out as when you got the stuff at hand it broadens yer horizon significantly...
 
today reverted back to moong dahl and chapattis...I had forgotten how good they taste...chicken balti comin' up...
 
anybody remember 20 years ago when indian balti was the latest UK food fad? balti houses springing up all over the place, especially in Birmingham...
 
 

They still prefer to sit on the floor even if you've got a perfectly good sofa or dining table.
In fact, the floor is chosen over a perfectly good kitchen worktop when making som tum !!

30 Actual Sentences Found In Patients Hospital Charts. 1. She has no rigors or shaking chills, but her husband states she was very hot in bed last night.

2. Examination of genitalia reveals that he is circus sized.

3. Since she can't get pregnant with her husband, I thought you might like to work her up.

4. The patient is tearful and crying constantly. She also appears to be depressed.

5. The patient has been depressed since she began seeing me in 1993.

6. Discharge status: Alive but without my permission.

7. Healthy appearing decrepit 69 year-old male, mentally alert but forgetful.

8. The patient refused autopsy.

9. The patient has no previous history of suicides.

10. Patient has left white blood cells at another hospital.

11. Patient's medical history has been remarkably insignificant with only a 40 pound weight gain in the past three days.

12. Patient had waffles for breakfast and anorexia for lunch.

13. Between you and me, we ought to be able to get this lady pregnant.

14. On the second day the knee was better, and on the third day it disappeared.

15. She is numb from her toes down.

16. While in ER, she was examined, X-rated and sent home.

17. The skin was moist and dry.

18. Occasional, constant, infrequent headaches.

19. Patient was alert and unresponsive.

20. Rectal examination revealed a normal size thyroid.

21. She stated that she had been constipated for most of her life, until she got a divorce.

22. I saw your patient today, who is still under our car for physical therapy.

23. Both breasts are equal and reactive to light and accommodation.

24. Patient has chest pain if she lies on her left side for over a year.

25. The lab test indicated abnormal lover function.

26. The patient was to have a bowel resection. However, he took a job as a stock broker instead.

27. Skin: somewhat pale but present.

28. The pelvic exam will be done later on the floor.

29. Patient was seen in consultation by DR. Blank, who felt we should sit on the abdomen and I agree.

30. 

Patient has two teenage children, but no other abnormalities.

Very touching:

Toni Cornell sings Hallelujah for her late father Chris and Chester Bennington who sang the same song at Chris's funeral 2 months before committing suicide .

There's a Ronnefeldt Tea Lounge in Gaysorn Shopping Centre,

https://www.tripadvisor.com/ShowUserReviews-g293916-d8689556-r387029114-1823_Tea_Lounge_by_Ronnefeldt-Bangkok.html

Had a quick look to see if they sold any tea by the package but didn't see anything.

No. The song was "Bye-bye, bye-bye, bye-bye Baby Goodbye" (Buddy Holly?) Great art should be treasured and respected. 

To get back to the OP's question 12 pages back.
 
I wanted a yellow book, so we went to the District office for Khlong Sam Wa. They too were most pleasant and demanded all the translated and certified documents previously mentioned, they were a total pain and it cost a fortune but I needed the docs for an extension of stay anyway.
 
As a UK citizen married to a Thai girl in the UK I had to get:
 
My birth certificate Apostille stamped by the Royal Thai Embassy.
The Marriage certificate ditto
My passport copied and certified by the British Embassy in Bangkok.
 
All pages of my passport photocopied, translated, legalised including incredibly the Thai Embassy Multiple Entry Visa.
 
Then I had to get ALL of those translated, and then legalised by the MFA (that in itself was an exercise) and photo-copied.
I did lovely colour scans, they insisted black and white done on an old copier outside at 10 baht a sheet - smudged and illegible they were nevertheless acceptable over my perfect high resolution colour scan copies.
 
Then they insisted on me employing a certified interpreter to attend a meeting as I don't speak Thai. My wife's English was better but, not acceptable as she might be scamming me!
 
Finally, after walking out in disgust at one point, I told them bluntly in English that they were taking the piss and that I would go to the Ombudsman I was so angry, a date was set for the Yellow book - took a few weeks and loads of visits and we did the marriage Registration and my wife's change of blue book name and new ID card at the same time.
 
Then they had the Office No2 and No, 1 bosses interview me, asking loads of questions until they had nothing else to think of.
 
They made a public handing over ceremony with the yellow book, appears they gave me the first one, and this is just up the road from Bangkok! The top official insisted on being photographed with me as though he had done anything - which he had not. 
 
The pink ID card took minutes only after all that although they discovered some anomaly in paperwork, a mistake THEY had made which involved loads more photocopying by them and paper signing by me - I have no idea what it was all about. I got the pink card. .
 
So I can testify that they made it all very difficult and expensive BUT all the papers I got legalised I use every year for extension of stay so actually nothing was wasted, they just demanded them for the wrong thing although my wife managed to change her name and ID along the way so possibly that might explain the Apostille docs translated and legalised.
 
I just followed herself's orders, sign here she tells me so I did, repeatedly. 

Load in some good covert surveillance software in (your) the computer and when she is not around, that later enables you to check all the website logs and the copies of what she was writing and to whom....
 
Just some friendly, routine advice to be 100% sure, and with full respect to Madame your Wife!
 
 

I'd love to start publishing my dash cam videos if I only knew how to edit and compress them.  

Correct: lazy I guess. Oops...  However, I wanted to guess, not cheat and find the answer first.  Hey, I'm honest.

who is the thing?
 
a yellow book would match his hair colour
 
 

Is that thing still breathing?

Why haven't you applied for a Makro card?

It took me all of 2 days to secure my yellow book.  I changed address and the procedure was just as easy, acouple of days.

You were one of the lucky ones or should I say chosen ones [emoji51]

The stories about obtaining the yellow book are numerous as are the different procedures for obtaining said document.

I, unfortunately, am sh1t out of luck in that department and feel that I probably have more chance of winning the lottery ( or being able to do a 90 day report online ) than obtaining one [emoji20]

It is free to get a COR at immigration.

I moved house ( and province) a few days ago and went to the immigration ( Ayutthaya ) to present TM30 and TM28.

TM 30 went okay, I had all the right docs: copies of passport, house masters blue book and id, got receipt stapled in passport.

The TM28: she said, bring back on 90 days report.

My next 90 day is 19 September but I tried to explain that I will likely go out of the country this month and again in mid October for a month.

So, my next 90 day report at the earliest will be mid to late Feb, 7 months from now.

So my question is:

Is the TM28 going out of fashion and they're relying more on TM30 for foreigners residence address, or should I go to immigration and try and file TM28 in a couple of weeks or so ??