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Foreign owner, old guy, I'm helping out ...., putting Google Translate on condo Chonote even character by character not match the passport name correctly, so I thought condo sales contract might be needed... (his name is not on blue book at all)... Or maybe Thai officials somehow match up Thai characters with farang names without issue ...! There must be doing this forever...!? 🤔 To be honest they should use Latin characters for foreign owners on Chanotes, and/or add their date of birth, ID/passport number, something..., even for Thai people, don't they have a lot of John Smith....??? There is nothing except name...🙄

Every year there's a new game for us to play, thanks for the heads up, I will ask them about what you said, to be sure what's the current trend ...! 🤔

That's very strange, in Phuket they would want a bank statement..., no way they do extension without it, for any visa type... Of course if we want to criticise the system, an updated bank book (and copy) should really be sufficient for any fund proof - if anybody can fake that then can fake a bank statement...! But here they are proud of their paperwork and bureaucracy, it's their number one pass time...! 😉

As far as I know it's not possible to order a Bangkok Bank statement for a foreign currency account and pick it up from the bank itself. The options are either email or post to owner's address... ! As l mentioned physical printed posting could take 5 working days (that's practically 1 week), could mean immigration not accepting it, but I like to hear from people who have gone this route...? Yes I have been looking to move to another bank, can't believe the various documents they now require, but that's on the plans going forward...

As you may know Bangkok Bank needs to order a foreign currency account statement from their head office, this takes like a week to be posted as printed version, but usually a couple of days to be emailed. Over many years I had a good relationship with the girls in my bank branch and I would opt for email, then go to the bank and emailed them the statement I received as email and they would print it and stamp it for me, then off to the immigration office with only a few days old bank statement. I never used the post of physical prints because I thought it could come too late, lost or mis-delivered by postman, and maybe not accepted by immigration as it'll be too old...!? Unfortunately the girls I knew all gone from my branch and the evil new ones + a horrible new lady bank manager totally refuse printing my email last year - even for tip...! I reluctantly had to go to a print/copy shop, then take it back to them to stamp it...! Now this is doable but I am thinking in the long run it's asking for trouble as I don't trust these print shops for one minute having my bank statements on their computers or phones, this is prime data that has paying hacker customers on the dark web, this kind of data could easily get to the wrong hand, name, address, bank account number, transactions etc. etc. So what do you guys do, if no printer at home, I'm sure a few other people should have to deal with the same dilemma... - in this beautiful land of smiles with mountains of paperworks, copies and queues and office visits ..! Imagine if we could do all of this online one day...!!! 😯 P.S. this is just the first part of course, I have to also get another letter from the bank confirming I'm the account holder AND update my bank books on the "same" day as going to the immigration office with all of the copies and the rest that you know..., quite a hectic day. Lucky those who get their bank print their statement right there and then in a matter of minutes, what luxury that is, count your boessing...! 😔

I think CoR also depends on what visa he's coming on here, that makes a difference..., if you mention that, can get better responses...?

What docs are needed to register as house master of "condo" to do the TM30, for foreigners and Thais..., a bit different: -- Blue book , I think only locals get their names in there, so why needed for farangs -- Chanote (both sides), I have seen these and all is in Thai, so how do they match farang names to English character by character...!? -- Sales contract , these are in English, but not mentioned much...? And of course Thai ID or passport for foreigners (just photo page !? Or visa page and entry stamp...) Anything else...?

Be careful if you even go for a day trip or something in another town, or even same town, in Thailand and stay in a hotel or guest house, they register guests and update their TM30 for that place, even for one night...! Once back to your usual resident, must update the TM30 again. I once went for 90 day reporting and forgot that 2 months ago I stayed in a hotel outside Phuket, they told me the address was changed. Had to contact landlady to update TM30..., she has an app, did it right away and officer saw it updated on his computer live... (vow ! 😃) and all was good after that...!

So is it automatically processed...!? I thought the documents scanned and sent, like blue book, chanote etc. needs to be seen by a person to confirm that all the name and addreses match up...! Also how do they match up foreigners Thai character written name in chanote to English characters in passport...!? Is it just an approximate...

Not new, it's been like this for ages, those who have it usually fold it away and never use it...! Girls usually point it at themselves, so they can see if they look good and the hair is not messed up...! ? I heard many years ago one reason was it can easily be dismantled and taken and/or damaged, so they prefer to keep it in pristine condition back home in the cupboard...😉

No idea, some people like to stand out..., but when we were on tour though, I could always see him coming from behind in my mirrors from far, day or night ....😜

Plus smoke coming out of them worse than any chimney you've ever seen, then they wonder why there is such a bad pollution...😯, still a long way to go...!

My friend had blue light as dim light only on his Aerox, they always failed him at inspection every year, so he had to replace and go back ...! Then you see all these bikes and cars with no lights, no proper brakes or legal tires, and loud exhaust all over Thai roads...!? 🥴

Don't hold me to this but years ago someone sent a power of attorney form all filled up in Thai to the guy abroad and he signed and returned it - knowing his signature and his permission, you could try it yourself without sending...! (Shhhh...don't even mention it...). Then the other problem will be his Thai visa stamp in his passport that is old and shows he's out of country, but some provinces apparently don't car much...! No idea which ones... Ultimately the best is to take that signed power of attorney form and passport copy to an agent (dealer shop have or know of one), then see if he can help, and how much it cost..., most things can be done in LOS at the right price... It's not easy or khoshar, but I think it has been done before - specially if Thai wife or girlfriend does it...😯😉 (P.S. I wouldn't ride it around, because if police stop you and want to be a pain, they take the bike away and you never see it again, as it is maybe can sell it under the price to some dealer/Thai person...)

Despite what the authorities do to try to stop them (or not really....!), it's getting worse every day..., we have hell in Phuket..., even after midnight when everybody sleeps...!!!? 🥴

Spot on, in fact this is not just farang issue, Thais the same or worse. I recently moved next to a road which is straight and hardly any traffic, day and night these idiots come and test their loud exhausts there, young, old, local or farang...., 99% of them illegal exhausts...! I was going to find a policeman to say if you come and wait in this stretch of the road, can stop and fine at least 20 of these a day, or else I give you a 1000 baht, would that work...!? I know I still lose the 1000 but maybe it discourages some of these morons... And those thinking more noise means safer vehicle, how is that premis only applies to you, how about every car and bike out there use the same logic, do you then think anybody can hear your exhaust amongst all of that...?, a truly selfish approach, these people have no idea what it means to live in a "society", and respecting others ...! 🤔

And as usual if any complain they say go home if you don't like it...! So they never improve anything over here..., no criticism allowed...! The problem comes from animal loving nature of Thais, feeding animals when it's not their pet..., cats, dogs, monkeys, you name it. I guess in old days it was controlled by some other ways (not much food to go around anyway), or wasn't an issue, but in today's packed villages and towns and abundance of food it becomes a real problem. Authorities are actually afraid of locals, we had stray cats and dogs issue, called a so called private fixer (!?) to sort them out (authorities wouldn't do anything), but he was threatened and sent away by locals...! 🙄 Some charity organisations actually feed strays and look after them, keep their population healthy and increasing....!!!??? Soon we will be living in a zoo ... 🤔 (Well, a real animal zoo..., than human one ...!)

They add a lot of stuff built in on helmets nowadays, not sure how useful this HUD is..., but I saw one with camera in front, I heard one with camera in front and back coming as well...! Now that could be useful... The most interesting thing for me is the new Cardo helmet with built in wind noise cancellation..., reviews are superb but it cost £1000+, way too expensive...! For various reasons I'm unable to wear earplugs, so something like that will be very useful, even better will be a noise cancelling earbud that can be worn with any helmet..., I have zero interest in listening to music or any comms, but the noise canceling bit could be great... I have an earbud with noise cancelling that works very well on flights, but it falls off and/or gets loose easily even on the plane, so trying to adopt it to use with a helmet - not easy, if it has to go inside ear canal like earplugs I can't use it, but if kind of seals over ear canal it might work... Do anyone uses noise cancelling earbuds on motorbikes...? (P.S. This year I had some ear problems and also finally developed a proper tinnitus, it's not a nice thing to get but can live with it for now, I thought now I have tinnitus I shouldn't care, but I read it could get even worse !!!? , no cure ..., take care of your ears riding...)

I may be wrong but I thought the government subsidize and set the standard RON 91 and 95 prices (10% Ethanol) across the country..., same everywhere. Then the companies can set their own prices for any premium or other super sucker gas type prices as they choose...! 😉

I guess most people agree that Thai baht is artificially manipulated, but this happens in a lot of other countries, the question usually is how they manage it, Thai economy and currency is not a small one in Asia and must be hard to do comparing to other smaller countries around the world... I've seen it before in other places, they manage this for a few years, but usually at the end they can't hold it any longer and they had to let go, then a big 20% or 30% adjustment comes along..., it depends how they managed it and the process, until it is no longer possible... Thais are doing it very well, persistently and so far very successful, we just have to wait and see how long they can manage it before the floodgates overflow...!? 🤔

It's amazing how the politicians and authorities don't learn, looking around the world don't they see how small disputes end up as a full blown war and a disaster for their people and economy...!? Nobody comes out better off after a war, not even the winner... (despite all the rhetorics they feed people)... I wish they had a gene therapy for warmongers, so we could just live in peace..., and strangely this is all over a small temple that nobody cares about...!? 🤔 , there are so many peaceful ways to deal with them, even with their scammers blah blah...!

That's very much it, they don't like confrontation and contradiction, just easier to nod and agree while they really don't...! It's more like they want to be kind and not disappoint, it's very hard to get the real feeling or logic or answer out of them. This is the cause of most miscommunication and frustration in farangs and Thai relationship (and we think less of them due to this !) - language barrier doesn't help either..., there are many ways to politely and softly negate or contradict someone, not easy for non-native speakers... But Thais have this natural approach of agree and go along first, but never end up doing what promised..., even between themselves... The answer; try hard to tease it out of them softly and quietly right at the beginning when they artificially agree, give some other option see if they jump on that...., if you master that, will have a happier life in LOS... Do you want to go eat burger for lunch...? Or prefer something else..., busy at lunch..., maybe like dinner at that Thai place...! A lot of options and you might get lucky...😉

No it doesn't, I was reading about this a few weeks ago, H3N2 was mutated and discovered around June from what I remember, the seasonal flu for this year is always developed in January.... But I remember reading that although H3N2 spreads pretty easily it has very different symptoms than normal flu, sore throat and headache, but not high fever, and not too bad, just high infectious rate..., let's hope they were right about severity ...! 🤔

That's not superior to Click 160 in any way, it's a downgrade..., smaller wheels and less power..., smaller scooter, designed for tiny Asian girls...! 😉 Try Aerox or ADV 150...

Never heard of that, in Phuket they don't even want a proof of address from the seller at all, only buyer, just copy of ID and signed forms ..., but I heard some offices want that, but the scenario you are describing doesn't make sense..., if I'm a bit cynical I would say girlfriend doesn't want to transfer to your name with this excuse...!!!😜 Two options, use an agent to do it, some dealer shops or testing stations do it for about a couple of thou baht..., or get a power of attorney form and ask your girlfriend to sign it, then take all docs yourself to the office without her and try..., they are super helpful in Phuket office, and speak English...