CM Dad

I have been doing my own laundry and ironing since I was ten years old.  Any person who cannot take care of themself will never mature and grow to become a real man or woman.  Life skills do not have a gender.

Visit Kalm in the old city.  Even if nothing catches your eye, it's a very interesting place to visit.

Talk to Paul at Doi Saket Properties.  I hired him and his very reliable and competent crew to build two homes in a family compound for me and my loved ones.  I have been extremely satisfied with the work and the continued support provided.

7 hours ago, 2baht said:

Oh come on, it's ELVIS!

I think this might be related to the guy who was told that he was too fat by the taxi driver.  Perhaps that is why he is standing in the middle of a road.

19 hours ago, Chris Daley said:

In 2022 I got my work permit from the Nonthaburi Immigration Office. I went back in 2023 and they said the stamps are wrong and I have to pay a 11,000 baht overstay fine (even though I was doing 90 days on time and had a valid work permit + a stamp from the Thai embassy in Laos + airport stamps).

 

I thought it was kind of odd that she pushed aside the school documents and immediately started to flick though my passport port.  Stamp by stamp since the first page.  It was like she knew something.

 

The nasty truth:  The teacher agencies pay money under the table (this is the same office that issued the work permit).  Wait a year and then purposefully find those stamps and fine you.

I have a degree and a work permit and I still get punished.

It's a mistake to use a teacher's agency.  It is quite easy to find available jobs using the internet.  Before committing to a school, visit it and talk to other foreign teachers there.

No, you cannot do extensions based on marriage at the Central Festival Immigration Office in Chiang Mai.

21 hours ago, GammaGlobulin said:

In Chiang Mai (only):

 

What is the best ===alternative to drapes/curtains=== for 98-Percent BLACKOUT and HIGH ENERGY EFFICIENCY to keep the blasted sun from heating me up, and waking me up, and spoiling the contrast on my several computer displays?

 

I don't like the idea of traditional cloth curtains for sliding glass doors.

They always get in the way when opening and shutting the class doors.

They collect dust from the floor.

They are usually ugly.

They are not completely opaque.

 

I like solid colors for this use.

 

MUST be HEAVY:  The heavier the better to keep out the sound of overhead aircraft, and to provide better heat insulation.

 

So, you get the idea without my writing more in the description, and a picture is worth a thousand words, anyway:

 

 

 

 

a. Where can I get something like this in Chiang Mai?

b. USD20.00 seems too cheap to me. Cheap means Shoddy in my book.

c. I will NOT buy online because I hate the L word, and I am tired of getting ripped off buying crapola sight-unseen.

 

 

Also, I don't like those flimsy curtain rods they often use here.

 

I LOVE the curtain rod shown in the above photo, comparatively to what I have seen used here in houses.

And this one is nice, too...

 

I need both, in fact, for several sliding-glass doors in Chiang Mai.

Low cost is good if the quality is good, too.

 

Need to buy w/in a week, most likely.

 

Tks.

 

 

 

 

 

High gloss paint - dark brown or black would fit your style.

On 8/31/2023 at 12:34 PM, Goat said:

A business associate called me last week. Said he had a mate coming to Thailand for the first time and asked me to take him out and show him around.

So i met the bloke and quickly realised that he didnt have the looks or game/personality/hygiene/style to pick up real girls.

So i thought we may as well head straight for the gogos.

 

After a couple of gogos he told me they were too noisy for him and he would prefer to just go to the beer bars he saw, which bore me, but I thought up to him.

So I know if you buy these girls drinks they will usually give you a bit of a squirrel grip and allow you to fondle and grope them.

Problem with this bloke is he started trying, and sometimes successfully, to start kissing them toungue down the throat style, much to the amusement and disgust of everyone else in the bars, mongers and hookers included.

It wasnt just for a few seconds, he would go on and on for as long as he could like a teenager. I think a few of the girls who didnt reject him thought it would lead to a bar fine, but it never did.

 

I mentioned a few things to try and put him off, like she had just done a blow bang with a van full of Indians etc, but there was no stopping this bloke.

He was a bit tight with buying drinks and tipping which made it worse. 

 

I know these girls do a lot worse, but that is in the rooms.

Is it just me, or is this a bit off?

I told his mate about him, who thought it was very funny.

Over the many years that I have lived here, I have often been asked to meet friends or family members of friends when they came to visit.  I don't have a problem doing this, but I usually will not travel anywhere with them and I definitely will not take them to bars.  I will tell them where the bars are, but they can go on their own.  Meeting them for dinner and talking with them about the place where I have chosen to live is the most i will do.

2 hours ago, radiochaser said:

I signed a document that read like that, last year, before a condo sale was finalized a couple of months later.   I used the google language app camera function to read it.  The Thai woman who gave me the document to sign,  at the signing (my wife was in the U.S.), was insisting that I need to understand that I had no legal rights of ownership for the condo.   

When I asked why she was so insistent about my understanding the issue of no legal ownership rights of the condo, I was told the Thai government was concerned about foreign men buying residences for their wives, in their wives name, then being kicked out of them and sometimes left penniless.   

It was my wife's money that paid for it, she wanted the condo after the price dropped 49%, and she paid cash for it.   It is a two bedroom condo on the 26th floor on the corner of the building with two balconies, right next to the Chao Phraya River and has  magnificent night time views.   The grandkids and I like watching the barges and boats run up and down the river. 

My wife gets pissed off whenever I say, it's your condo and tells me it's our condo.   ???? 

 

It sounds like you have a wonderful wife.  Not all Thai women are only after a man's money just like not all women in your home country are not only after a man's money.  There are good and bad women and men everywhere.  Men need to trust their own judgement regarding their wives.   If they don't plan to live on the land then I wouldn't buy it and I would never buy land for someone who was only my girlfriend.  My wife and I bought land and built a house on it, which we moved to, two years ago.  Everything was done in my wife's name and I had no problems with that as we have been together for almost three decades.  We are now in the process of transferring the land ownership deed - chanote - to our son who has just turned 18.  We had wanted to put the land in his name from the beginning but he needed to be 18 years old.  You only tend to hear horror stories on forums like this, but there are many more successful relationships than bad ones.

On 8/15/2023 at 12:57 PM, Lacessit said:

In case you have not noticed, there is something of a language barrier when communicating with a Thai insurance company, even when they are communicating in English.

That's another reason to learn Thai if you choose to live in Thailand.  

Looking at your photo, you would have to pay someone to share your bed.

19 hours ago, stix40 said:

I am asking if anyone that has applied for a visa via their local io . Has not arrived or been approved on the date given by local io.

Local io is dealing with changmai Immigration and stating changmai has delays currently.

So is anyone experiencing the same?

 

Wind your neck in !

Jeez I know it's hot but chill Brit Tim 

 

 

I agree with Brit Tim.  I didn't understand what your original post was about either.  In fact, I still am confused about what you are asking.  Perhaps you need to write more clearly and maybe even give more information.  For example, what kind of service are you requesting at Chiang Mai Immigration?  If you are trying to extend your visa then what kind of visa do you currently have?  It would appear that you are the one who needs to 'chill'.

3 hours ago, Enzian said:

I'm no expert, but it seems this is where the "agents" system becomes an even more serious issue. If I can use money to have an agent appear for me at Immigration and guarantee an outcome (I don't) then any criminal from around the world can do the same. What if these sort had to each appear in person in front of an officer and answer random questions while the officer searches the data base on the desktop computer? Does anyone talk about how the agent system helps bad guys hide, or are they all just there to look like they are doing something?

Agents prepare paperwork.  They do not appear at immigration offices in place of foreigners.  The agents do not help people hide.  You posted that you do not use an agent.  I believe you since you have no idea what an agent does.

If I am not happy with a hotel, I simply move to another.  I do that even if I have already paid for one night.

I used to use Mr. Clean to sanitize my toilet.

On 6/1/2023 at 2:51 PM, herfiehandbag said:

Now I am a complete numpty (widespread howls of agreement), so how does this paying by QR on your mobile phone work?

 

I presume that somehow the QR code links to the vendors bank and allows you to transfer money to their account.

 

Since I bank with Krungthai, and their new app seemingly is not available to foreigners (the last two visits to my branch to sign up have met with"sorry, cannot!" although I haven't tried for a couple of months) it seems to be a route not open to me

I had  Krungthai account for almost two decades and never had problems.  Sadly, I quit using it a few years ago when they became quite unfriendly towards Farang.  

On 6/6/2023 at 12:45 PM, 1FinickyOne said:

what will be your pronouns? 

Pronouns won't matter but the verbs will all be past tense.