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Homepro (same store), saw a nice desk lamp with cantliver operation. it was black colour. Asked several staff 'what colour do you have?', response 'see deow', basically meaning one colour / this colour only. At same time I was looking at the boxed products in the shelves below. Item open and on display had a code number, I looked yes many boxes below with same code no. I opened one box, exact same lamp silver colour then red coulour white colour. Great customer servvice - basically just lazy and assumption that customers are stupid.

Thank you Dr. Sheryl.

Several times members have shared that on resigning from a Thai company they have been able to contine private payment to contine their 30Baht health fund membership. I think I recall an amount of 543Baht a month paid direct to the fund. Can members who are in this situation please share the correct monthly amount and other relevant information (E.g. does this bring coverage for both outpatients and inpatients fees Also I'm not sure if I am using the correct words / correct fund name etc. Would you please correct my words as needed. Thanks.

Are you eligible to receive a pink Thai ID card?

Or put it another way, seems to me that any 'witness protetcion' activity would be ripe for corruption, leakage of info., etc.

I can share that they actually prefer to use the ID number on your pink card, if you have one. Banks, like all businesses, are focused on reducing/mimimizing costs. Every time they do an update in their records there's costs: - Staff - salaries etc., cost - IT costs - every entry has an IT processing cost (buying, installing, upgrading, maintain their IT systems is not free.) - Every time they update your/my passport number that incurs costs (above). - If they use the pink card number these costs are minimized (it's a once only IT processing cost), when there's hundreds of thousands / million of accounts, these costs add up to large amount of money.

Really, can you share something which supports your comment. Thanks. Ultimately a will is the expression of the personal wishes of the person making the will. In Thailand if a person dies without making a will (dies intestate) then there are national laws which dictate how the assets must be shared and that includes what 'share' the wife or husband and the children are entitled to by law*. However if the deceased person has made a valid will then the law (mention paragraph just above) are not relevant. What is valid is (if the person has made a valid will before their death) the personal wishes of the deceased person as specifically detailed in their will, and this is not / cannot be influenced by the 'died intestate - no will' laws (paragraph above marked *).

Does waterproof mean: - Water cannot soak down into the laminate from above and canot soak up into the laminate (if somehow there's moisture/water under the boards? Or....

You sure about that? Example: Bangkok Hospital Super Highway Chiang Mai, are you saying all of their customers are farang?

Well yes and no. There's thusands of old/elderly farang in LOS with no private health insurance (incl., me) and they cannot pay afford the private premiums. Please don't instantly respond with negative comments 'can't afford to live here then go home', it's not that simple. I suspect many of these farang would be interested in a gov't scheme which gives them some health cover (depending on the fees/premiums etc).

But where is the specific report confirming that the 300Baht will all go into a fund to clear unpaid medical bills of tourists?

So, perhaps TAT will explain the 'benefits' in specific terms? Nah, forget that suggestion, TIT.

Someone will find a way to interpret the law so that he finishes 8 years currently, so that he doesn't lose face.

What foreigners should realize is that this is Thailand,. Shirtless or with shirt is nothing to do with attitudes in other countries. Bottom line ; Except for at the beach and at a swimming pool (in LOS) it's OK* but in other locations men/youths without a shirt is seen as low class behavior. nothing to do with anything else. (* Even at the beach/at a swimming pool many Thai men would wear a T shirt, rather then be fully topless.) How often do you see men/young men on a building site shirtless? Close to never, because they know it's not appropriate and they know that they will be seen as low class and they don't want that. I'm aware of an incident where a young Thai man was working as a waiter in a hotel in Pattaya for several years, and had developed a friendship with several regular guests. The young man was going to get married in his hoe village 40Km from Roi Et city. He invited one farang families who were on their annual holiday to his wedding and found a 3 star hotel for them about 10 Km from his village. Day before the wedding the farang family (father, mother, 2 adult sons and their farang wives, 1 adult daughter and her farang husband) turned up at the waiter's village. All the farang men were topless, 1 wife just a bikini top with shorts. Others with full shirts. Young waiter quickly asked all of them to put on full shirts. Farang all said 'what for, it's hot'. Young waiter tried to explain that in Thai villages this is seen as low class activity and he was concerned their shirtless action would reflect on the class level of his family and on his bride to be. Farang group declined to put on shirts saying 'but it's OK in Australia and every country'.

But how is the Singapore charge actually labelled: - 'Singapore Airport usage charge (tax)' - 'Singapore fund to cover unpaid medical bills of tourists' - 'Singapore tourism tax to help build infrastructure to enhance tourists experience'. Or???

Never fear that item will be mentioned after the event along with a silly excuses 'we forget to add that one to the list of not allowed but never mind because people will know it's not Ok from previous elections'. Sad.

Yep, as before, and as before the rules will all be ignored and we'll see giant Chinese style banquets happening and then a comment 'but I didn't know this was not allowed'. And same with vote buying, it still happens and in many/most districts/provinces it's all ignored and the usual excuses made.

There was a report a few months back saying the purpose of the 300Baht fee was to develop tourism.

My Thai son is very interested in solar power and is doing a lot of reading. Just one of his worries is a 'process' to install the panels* on his black concrete tiled roof (probably over most of the roof) without causing a lot of leaks in the roof when it rains. (*realising that this probably means installing a framework then the panels onto the framework). He's also trying to find information about temperature reduction in the ceiling cavity when most of the roof is covered in panels.

Family too.

Here's a thought; perhaps there should be more discussion about highly subsidized education at all levels to help increase the countries capabilities, and along with highly subsidized a scale of charges; 'At end of academic year students with 4 A grades get 100% reduction on a notional study fee and etc., But what would also be needed is a method of scoring students who work very hard / study seriously but because of their natural abilities don't get many As.

In regard to the paperwork. The auto shop told my son they had imported/installed new engines before, they were well aware of the need for the blue book to be updated and what specific docs. would be needed. Auto shop insisted that the japanese supplier include some specific documents and when the engine and docs. arrived the auto shop owner quickly told my son the new engine came well packed, appeared to be fully complete and the documents were in order. On day of completion of installation and son satisfied with the new engine/installation/testing etc., the auto shop gave my son an envelope with several documents saying 'take this envelope with the blue book to the LT office'. Son did that promptly, all in order, new engine number double checked, no questions asked, son walked out of the LT office with blue book updated within a few minutes. Cost of blue book update I don't know. No hint for tea money and non offered.

Authotities, banks etc., in all countries know that passports expire and for many things it's just a simple action to update the pasport numbers with no hassles. Not long back K Bank (at the branch) mentioned that my passport had expires. The officer asked me if I had the new p'port number and also sked if I had a pink card. I showed her my pink card and she used that for the update. She mentioned that the bank prefers to us the Thai pink card ID number, the number never needs updating. Thai ID cards (Thai citizens) do have an expiry date and should be renewed promptly however the ID number never changes.

I can't give you a complete answer. This is what I know: - It was a new fully imported engine (who manufactured the engine in Japan I don't know) - It's a fuel injection engine rather than the carb. technology in the original engine. - From what I understand the engine came fully built up, plus a number of other 'fittings', but I don't know the full details. - Cost of engine, fittings, all transport import# costs from Japan, fitted, some further small fittings, tested etc, the all up cost was 55,000Baht. It runs well, not noisy, and the gasoline usage much better than the 'past use by' original engine. I don't know if that's a good price or what other options / comparisons exist, all my son's decision which he didn't take in 5 minutes, and I respect his decision. I bought the car new a long time ago in Bkk, years later I gave it to my son which he was very happy about, now he wants to slowly / completely 'rebuild' the car as his gift to his daughter for her 18th birthday and she is more than happy with this idea. I won't be engaging in any further open debate from members*. Case closed. * This comment not directed at member Orinoco. # I don't know the details.

Just wondering how well that works, especially for discounted/promotion items. Another 'brand name' got into hot water with this some years back. Member card cost 500Baht but on many occasions when members tried to use the card they were denied. 'cannot use member card for xx, zz, gg, rr, yy, hh, vv, metc. I recall one member wanted to buy a specific paint, it was suddenly on promotion. He tried to use member card but denied. So 'OK, give me the non-promotion/full price and I'll claim my member discount on the full price'. Manager came and accused the member of trying to play tricky games. Member gave the card to the manager and said 'I don't want your card, many other shops where I can buy what I want'.