PoorSucker

They have a 09-09-09 promotion on Bangkok airways today.

Booking only this date, Samui-Chiang Mai return ticket 5000 Baht.

Thinking surprising my wife by taking her up north to visit family.

Also thinking about staying one night in Chiang Mai city for Loy Krathong.

What date should I book my departure?

Will there be problems finding a hotel during Loy Krathong.

Thanks in advance.

40.000 baht / month is enough for extension of stay based on marriage.

If you don't have any income you can go for the 400.000 in bank option.

Just came back from immigration for my extension.

I had both alternatives.

2.18 In the case of a family member of a Thai(applicable only to parents, spouse, child, adopted child or child of his/her spouse):

Permission will be granted for a period of not more than 1 year at a time.

(1) The alien has obtained a temporary visa (NON-IM)

(2) Proof of family relationship

(3) In the case of a spouse, the marital relationship shall be dejure (legitimate) and de facto;

(4) In the case of a child, adopted child or child of his/her spouse, the said person must not be married, must be living with the family, and must be less than 20 years of age; or

(5) In the case of a parent, one of parents must have an average annual income of not less than 40,000 baht per month or a money deposit of not less than 400,000 baht for expenses within a year.

(6) In case of marriage with a Thai lady, the husband who is an alien must have an average annual income of not less than 40,000 baht per month or a money deposit in a local Thai bank of not less than 400,000 baht for the past 2 months for expenses within a year.

Going tomorrow to renew my extension of stay.

Q1: Should I print out the TM.7 on on page or two.

Q2: Should I fill in anything on page2 (like "This application is written by")

on my last visit to penang i called in at the tesco store there and was amazeded at the uk selection of tesco own brands food items

full range of biskuits ie custard creams/ginger nuts/ digestive a whole lane there own brand oxo and much more

no pork but plenty of n z lamb

9 varieties of potato's

and frozen chips half price than thailand

why is tesco in thailand second best in this region

Last Time I was in the UK I wrote to Tesco head office about the lack of English products in Thai based stores. I recieved a very pleasant reply telling me that they were looking at this situation and listening to observers suggestions with regard to future policy. They also reminded me that Thai based operations are a joint venture and that their partners have a strong influence on the way store space is used and what products are put on the shelf.

The initial Thai Partner (CP) sold their share back to TESCO many years ago ...

Still a Thai company must own 51% of shares.

There are 2 ways to find a job in the Krabi area, you either goto all the schools with a CV and picture and apply that way (Main schools near the high school or the technical collage) or you register with one of the English language schools as they have contracts with the local schools to fill posts, try Annas school of english near to the electricity main offices outside Krabi or Papinporn in Ao Nang near to Ao Nang gym, good luck

Forgive my ignorance for I am but a poor newbie... I've seen "CV" mentioned several times, but what, exactly is that?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CV

Goshawk, it took 2.5 years for your report to reach the top.

I see some good sponsor contracts here.

"Sponsored by Red Bull, gives you wings."

catching salmon?

I guess you don't live in Thailand.

Interesting that they still push people killed during Songkhran when to date no evidence has been produced and even in the international arena it is beleived that no red deaths occurred.

According to "Truth today" thousands were killed.

CNN and BBC was told by the government not to report it.

A stateless Burmese boy has been given the all-clear to travel to Japan to take part in a paper airplane contest after Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva stepped in to help.

A certificate and temporary passport would be issued to Mong Thongdee, 12, from Chiang Mai, allowing him to travel to the Origami Airplane contest in Chiba, Japan, this month.

-- Bangkok Post 2009-09-01

Unfortunately , yesterday, my account was broken into by a malicious hacker.

I logged in today to see my avatar defaced and replaced by a photo of jerry sienfield. I did not do this.

Anyhow i have changed my password and deleted cookies, in case the malicious hacker stole my cookies or guessed my password. I have also done a virus scan on my pc and its clean.

Hit {F5} or {CTRL} F5.

Believe it's Mr T hacking all Thailand accounts for his face> (sorry MC2, I don't think you look like Mr T)

Erase your voices on your computer, so you will not get in to MR T's new game.

Maybe an old backup?

Remember you had sienfield characters as your avatar before.

Try to reload page (F5) also clean out cache memory with {CTRL} {F5}

No comments from the red shirts?

Remember to apply for multiple entry Non Immigrant O-A Visa.

When there's one day left on the visa you can go to nearest border and get an entry stamp for one more year.

Stay overnight.

The night ferry arrives early in the morning.

You are aware that you can take the train from Butterworth to Suratthani?

Never been any report about a gun, only armed robbery.

1. 54 year old man in heavy clothes with a hood jumps over a high bank counter holding a weapon.

2. he then grabs money and puts it in his underwear and again jumps the counter with all that weight.

3. the security guard and his posse wait for him to start running out of the bank to give him an even chance to escape.

4. he then takes the guard and his posse on a jog through city streets into a park.

5. during his run he amazingly unrobes his bank robbers uniform and hides it.

6. he then turns and sprays every posse member in pursuit.

7. they all stop in their tracks and start to cry.

8. all this time he has run with 146,000 baht in his underwear???

9. the he is grabbed up and arrested by other police who happen to know exactly where to find him.

PLEASE let me be his defense attorney. I could get this guy acquited even in a Thai court based on the so called facts that we have read.

This would be voted down by every HOLLYWOOD studio as too dam_n unbelievable to be made into a movie. Why do these NEWS??? PAPERS??? report crap and not the NEWS? Get the facts then report...then you will have some credibility as a newspaper. What trash.

Three stacks of 50 1000-bills is not that much.

Sterilizing Coconut Trees, So That They Don't Grow Nuts, possible?

Loved the topic title.

I was driving in Chiang Mai a few years ago.

My Thai/Chinese wife by my side.

OK. She is from Bangkok.

We passed the corner of Chiang Moi road and the moat

I saw an old lady by the side of the road

looking to cross to the other side

I STOPPED the car.

My wife said "Why the fuc_k are you stopping the car?"

I said:

"For the old lady to cross the road!"

She said:

"But haven't you thought about all the drivers behind"

"Now, they have to brake all because of YOU!"

I thought I was being considerate to the old Lady

My wife thought I was being inconsiderate to all the drivers behind me!

You just can't win.

It was on my driving licence test.

You shall not stop to let someone cross the street.

Someone might overtake you and run over the old lady while passing the street.

What are the odds of this happening soon: an Arab looking person being shot dead, trying to escape capture by the BiB, amazingly identified as the infamous Abu Ali. BTW, isn't that the name of the 7-11 owner in the Simpsons? Maybe they should be looking in Springfield.

Nope that's Apu Nahasapeemapetilon Ph.D.

An American is arrested Wednesday for robbing Siam City Bank Plc's Future Park Rangsit branch in Pathum Thani and run away with Bt146,000 Wednesday.

The man allegedly jumped over a counter, grabbed the sum and ran away.

He was later arrested.

-- The Nation 2009-09-02

If you are male married to Thai citizen.

Read this thread: Camerata's Guide To The Permanent Residence Process

If you are female married to Thai you can skip this part but must have had extension of stay at least two years in Thailand.

OK, many comments here and not a single one about the achievement.

12.5 minutes in the air

Hope he wins.

did he throw it off Doi Suthep?

More quotes from The Nation mathematicians this week.

Since low pressure ridges still cover Thailand and Bangkok, forecasters say we should expect continuous rainfall over the current 12 month period. Bangkok's rainfall in August and September will total from 190340 millimetres, and there might be tropical cyclones.

There are now 19,653 joint Thai-foreign businesses in Phuket, which have invested around Bt62 million.

Maybe the Nation should post news here first for a reality check.

Court asked to declare Saudi businessman "missing"

The Office of the Attorney-General on Wednesday asked the South Bangkok Criminal Court asking it to declare a Saudi business who disappeared in 1990 a "missing person".

.......... snip

The missing man was seen in a car with Saudi consul Abdullah al-Besri on Feb 12, 1990, and was reported missing three days later.

.......... snip

It was widely suspected that al-Ruwaili was kidnapped by police investigating the Saudi consul's murder, and that he was tortured and later killed by his captors to cover up their brutal actions.

The businessman's disappearance and the consul's murder followed the killing of three other Saudi diplomats were in separate shootings on Feb 1, 1989. One of the diplomats, Saleh Abdullah al-Maliki, third secretary at the Saudi embassy in Bangkok, was shot dead in front of his home in soi Pipat 1.

Hole article here: Bangkok Post

-- Bangkok Post 2009-09-02