ThaiFelix

I had the same problem with a neighbour, not a business, although I think he thought he had his own Bar Beer. He would invite all his mates around and go till sometimes 2 in the morning on a week night. I got into trouble for complaining...I was a trouble maker. Even though the bulk of the neighbours, including my landlady's mother from next door, complained or at least agreed with me, he would do nothing. Finally he lost his job (2nd time in 3 years) for being late and hungover....did he learn from the experience...no! He actually got worse....apologised to us but said he had to do it now coz he was depressed from losing his job again Go figure that one!

The outcome...I moved. I sleep very well now.

I wish you all the best but dont hold your breath.

You report to the office for the area where you reside.

I obtained my one year extension of stay based on THAI WIFE at Chaeng Wattana and did my first 90 day report at Nakhon Srithamarat. We specifically asked the officials at NS if the 90 day reports could be done anywhere and they concurred at any immigration office in the country.

I live in Minburi but work in Rangsit. I have always been told that I must 90 day report to Pathum Thani office based on the fact that Rangsit comes under P.T's area so that's where I had to get my Non Im B visa issued and renewed. Also told same thing when applying for a reentry permit. I wish I didnt coz its so far away but I have always got the same answer.

I am slightly offtopic but i did not wanted to open a new one for this simple question

I moved to a new address and i got the house registration document from the landlord and i am planning to go to immigration to notify them. What else do i need to bring? (My next 90 days reporting appointment is due 35 days or so...)

Complete the TM28 Change of Address one page form and provide that to immigration when doing your next 90 day address reporting. Or, go process the TM28 form now as you are suppose to do that immediately when changing addresses. You'll need to take your passport also.

When my address changed about 4 months ago, I just submitted the change of address form when I went and submitted my 90 address reporting form which was about a month after the change of address occurred. Actually, I hadn't moved but the district office had changed the house numbers/addresses for our entire moobaan, but immigration wouldn't have known that as I didn't tell them...I just submitted the TM28 with the new address on it...immigration would have figured I had physically moved to a new house on the same soi. The immigration officer at Bangkok Immigration first processed the change of address form and gave me the receipt from the bottom of the form...then the officer processed the 90 day address reporting form and gave me the receipt to me. Out the door I went.

Oh oh, I didnt know you had to fill in a form when you move. I have moved twice (rentals) in the six years I have been here and have always just put the new address on the 90 day reporting form. Is this a new thing?

Do I need to provide the house rego book?

If I put in a change of address form now do I also have to give the 90 day report form or can that wait till its due.

Hope someone out there can shed some light on the subject

Thanks

While I would like to congratulate those teachers who have made headway in their proffession, I am sick and tired of the govt and those morons who critisize teachers as though teachers have the last say. Many teachers, including myself, have their hands tied by the idiots that run these schools (I'm talking private here) who are only interested in marketing and have the idea that providing what parents actually pay for is the last priority.

It is all a big joke really when you think about it.

The US are the biggest arms dealers on the planet.

They were the ones that originally armed the mujahadein when the Russians were in Afghanistan.

They also armed and supported Saddam Hussein in his early days.

The pick and swap sides and sell arms here and there so I take anything the US government or for that matter the British, French or Russian governments say with a pinch of salt.

They are hipporcrits the lot of them.

I agree wholeheartedly, except for the last line. I do know a lot of Americans here who openly detest their country's foreign policies. But they are highly educated, not like some on this site.

The one I always remember is "There are no Us troops in Cambodia.................... haha

Is that loud enough for some people? To date, all of the protests have railed about the evil Americans, the abrogation of Mr. Bout's personal liberties, the intrusions of the state into commercial enterprise, etc. and now the full story is coming out. And best of all it is transcribed and recorded for the whole world to see.

No, for the anti USA crowd nothing is loud enough. If the US ceased to exist, the anti USA gang would shift their frustrations to another country. They are just unhappy people that need a whipping boy and, for now, the US fits the bill

PS-If Mr. Bout were as innocent as some proclaim, why would he have shown any interest in meeting FARC rebels with the express purpose of selling them weapons to kill people?

You obviously miss the point completely!! No one is saying he is innocent, rather there are others who are just as guilty and get away with it because its 'unofficial' government policy. Oh, and because they trust in god. What a laugh.

I work for a large private bilingual chain here and have done so for over 6 years. We often tell new teachers that come along that if they are keen to teach children then drop the idea real quick because the system will tear you to bits.

For one we have far too many activities designed only to impress parents and the same, smarter children are taken out of the class for weeks beforehand to practice dancing and singing for it. The school will pay little for teaching resources while fortunes are spent on opening more schools or their surroundings. They expect the teachers to pay for just about everything. You need to buy your own computer and printer to make worksheets etc as the computers provided are always breaking down and the school refuses to pay for ink. The copy room is always late in copying materials because they have no toner.

Out of a 50 minute period I can only teach for approximately 20 minutes because the school demands that everything must be completely coloured in - again to impress the teachers. So the students spend more than half the period mindlessly colouring with tiny worn down pencils because of the tight budget on materials. Students often have to wait their turn for coloured pencils as there is often not enough to go around. If you try to cut down on the size and number of images on the worksheets to get around it the school wont approve them because the images are too few or small. We cannot have any bold print, such as headings etc on worksheets as it uses too much toner.

Much of the students' written work is rubbed out and rewritten by the Thai teachers and assistants so they will look beautiful for the parents. If a student is absent the work must still be completed and when we enquired how can a student catch up they told us if its too much we must do it or pay someone else to do it. The parents are obviously aware their children were absent and that the work is not theirs but we never hear a murmur from the parents.

The school will not dish out any discipline nor allow the teachers as it may upset the parents - the sacred source of income. It is almost impossible to teach due to the noise of passing students playfighting as they pass classrooms. Most show little respect to teachers and you have to get out of their way on walkways and stairs. Some weeks ago there was a fight that resulted in a student being admitted to hospital with head injuries after one of his classmate's older brothers attacked him because of an argument. Afterwards they called the offender to the office and then told him to go back to his classroom unescorted and bring his bag back to the office so they could search it for weapons ???

But at the end of the day they are still putting pressure on us to raise the educational level of the students?? I could go on forever here but wont because I'm told the school's lawyers keep a close eye on such sites.

Why are you still there after 6 years?

Because I care for the kids, I couldnt just walk away so I do the best I can for them.

I work for a large private bilingual chain here and have done so for over 6 years. We often tell new teachers that come along that if they are keen to teach children then drop the idea real quick because the system will tear you to bits.

For one we have far too many activities designed only to impress parents and the same, smarter children are taken out of the class for weeks beforehand to practice dancing and singing for it. The school will pay little for teaching resources while fortunes are spent on opening more schools or their surroundings. They expect the teachers to pay for just about everything. You need to buy your own computer and printer to make worksheets etc as the computers provided are always breaking down and the school refuses to pay for ink. The copy room is always late in copying materials because they have no toner.

Out of a 50 minute period I can only teach for approximately 20 minutes because the school demands that everything must be completely coloured in - again to impress the teachers. So the students spend more than half the period mindlessly colouring with tiny worn down pencils because of the tight budget on materials. Students often have to wait their turn for coloured pencils as there is often not enough to go around. If you try to cut down on the size and number of images on the worksheets to get around it the school wont approve them because the images are too few or small. We cannot have any bold print, such as headings etc on worksheets as it uses too much toner.

Much of the students' written work is rubbed out and rewritten by the Thai teachers and assistants so they will look beautiful for the parents. If a student is absent the work must still be completed and when we enquired how can a student catch up they told us if its too much we must do it or pay someone else to do it. The parents are obviously aware their children were absent and that the work is not theirs but we never hear a murmur from the parents.

The school will not dish out any discipline nor allow the teachers as it may upset the parents - the sacred source of income. It is almost impossible to teach due to the noise of passing students playfighting as they pass classrooms. Most show little respect to teachers and you have to get out of their way on walkways and stairs. Some weeks ago there was a fight that resulted in a student being admitted to hospital with head injuries after one of his classmate's older brothers attacked him because of an argument. Afterwards they called the offender to the office and then told him to go back to his classroom unescorted and bring his bag back to the office so they could search it for weapons ???

But at the end of the day they are still putting pressure on us to raise the educational level of the students?? I could go on forever here but wont because I'm told the school's lawyers keep a close eye on such sites.

And then I once met this guy who wore one black and one brown shoe.

I pointed it out to him and he said: I know, and you know what? I have another pair of shoes like this.

I used to do the same with socks, purposely wearing one red and one blue. People would point out that I was wearing odd socks, to which I would reply 'There's nothing odd about them at all, I have aother pair at home exactly the same!

Hey thats good news guys, thanks so much for your help.

Hey its very quiet in here eh? No trolls, racists or barbarian verbal abuse so far??!!? Just good friendly advise...whats going on?

Thanks

Thaifelix

On my way to Saigon next week and am wondering whether I can use my Siam Comercial Bank or Bangkok bank ATM cards there? I am taking $US and also have a debit card from an Australian bank which I am fairly sure will work but like to have a back-up.

Anybody tried the Thai atm cards in Vietnam.

the Thai Baht / Baht???

Yes the current price of gold is around 18,800 THB/Baht weight of gold. I don't have a chart but it seems to be near it's all time high.

the same as it was several months ago and that means poor respectively zero performance of gold.

Excuse my ignorance on such matters, but can someone clarify as to why the local price for gold has not really gone anywhere in the last week or so compared to the spot gold price. I bought some 96.5 thai gold about a week ago and the price today is the same as then according to the Gold Traders Assoc website whereas the spotgold has has gone up by US$25 -30 in the same period. I know we are talking different purities and the US$ has weakened while they say the Baht has strengthened..but by that much?? Can anyone help me get my tiny brain around it please. It hardly seems worth hanging on to if this is the norm.

I have bought cheap tickets ok with AirAsia before, off to Vietnam next month. However I find their web info very vague, such as:

I have never been able to find out what the baggage allowance is before you supersize? Emails to them have been unanswered!

They also charge a convenience fee (100 baht) for using a debit or credit card but it is per person per leg. So if your going to Perth via Singapore it is an extra 400 baht per person return. I have emailed them to ask if you can pay cash at an AirAsia office to avoid this convenience fee but they have also been unanswered. (not sure if its for my convenience or theirs??)

Be careful if you also book hotels with your flight as I found it far cheaper to book direct yourself. The advertised flights often look very cheap but arent always after they add on all the charges. Its a bit like that big M shop that keeps asking you if you want any fries/shakes with that order.

Generally speaking, the earlier you book the cheaper.

I also find it particularly annoying that they dont answer emails.

cup-O-coffee, post #6

Good post, thanks for that.

G

Yeah, I'll second that, interesting post.

sorry double post

Fine with me, I often read intelligent articles twice in case I missed something.

I too seem to remember hearing something about an anti-extradition law....Now why would you wanna do that?? hmmmmmm??

Are we really so ignoreant that we'd care what the "US" agenda in this matter is? Who cares at this point? If he is truly the supplier of weapons to places like Sierra Leona and the Congo where mass rape, looting, and murder on a scale that parallel an epedemic occcur regularly, than who cares who wants him? Let New Zealand arrest him for all I care.

Do we as people turn a blind eye to genocide merely because we care who they killed or why? Shame on you! I don't care who his enemies are or what someone has on him; wholesale murder is wrong no matter who the target is. Do you suggest otherwise????????????????

The world is tired of the US trying to police the whole world.

Yes, it is possible that those weapons could be used to shoot

down an American helicopter, because the US is everywhere

where it thinks it has a 'right' to (whether that is true or not),

and there are most likely helicopters of them too.

As Henry Kissinger said:" The US has no friends, it only has interests!"

With that kind of logic we may as well string up every gunshop owner as well, not too mention every American because they all benefit from being part of the biggest arms dealing organisation in the world. And that is what this is all about. The USA doesnt like fair competition from another arms dealer like Bout. And its even more difficult because he's an independant. They would prefer to make threats if he was part of a country, impose embargos, accuse them of having WMD's (which they sold to em), labelled them terrorists, destroy their exports by subsidising their own or somebody elses...or just go to war with another 'coalition of the willing' (ha ha ha) force comprised of those who have unwillingly joined due to the same aformentioned threats.

sedeflonga, thanks for that quote. My favourite is the one my old dad use to tell me..' When you have the yanks as your friends, who needs enemies?

However, I would like to point out that I dont dislike all Americans, its their governments. I have a lot of friends from the US, and they are just some of the meagre few who have had the luck? to travel outside the US and have had their eyes jerked wide open by reality.

What were those 800,000 rais growing that they won't be growing in 6 years?

Perhaps that would be the best thing to be growing? Extra rubber means less.....?

...Cassava I believe. And if the TV last week was correct that price has gone up lately too.

Ok I went to pick up my new passport yesterday and tried to feign that I didnt have my old one on me to see their response. They refused to give new without old. I then remembered it was in my bag at the secuirty gate. They cut a strip off the hieight of the front cover thus removing the barcode inside. They also cut off the back cover's corners and stamped cancelled in the first few pages and gave it back.

I presented my new and old passport to the lady that takes care of our visas etc and although I said I wasnt going anywhere and we could leave the stamp transfer until my new visa goes in in September she said mai dai and I take care. So I had a happy ending but thus dont know what would have happened if I would have just left it for now.

Anyhow thanks for the replies folks,

Thaifelix

What a crazy story.

I googled his name and found this interview with him back when he played poker. A bit irrelevant but some people might be interested:

Actually, just watched all of it. It is relevant, the guys mad!

Agreed, one can short of a six pack.

Now to the police sympaphy.... the way I read it there were some sympathetic police reported, but I think what some have read as police excuses are actually them chasing motives. And the dodgy internet connection...well,... there have been times when I could have strangled my wife when she interupts my wrestling match with my computer coz it wont do what I want it to do. And all she has to say is 'what do you want for dinner honey/' HOW DARE SHE !!!

I think what we should also remember is there have been a lot of f.....ed up guys come outa Nam, Iraq and Afghanistan etc and just plopped back on the streets by their govts without any real debriefing/assessment rehab etc. to turn them from freaked out killers to normal civs.

Remember Timothy McVeigh???

Tim McVeigh....That's going back over 15 years. Is that the best you have to try to denigrate the USA with? There are currently over 1,500,000 active duty US personnel, not including almost 1,000,000 reserve personnel. As a percentage of the military population at large since 1995 I don't see that we have a world wide epidemic of blood thirsty rapes and murders being committed by US military personnel. I can't speak for the Air Force but the Navy, Marine Corp and the Army all debrief their personnel coming out of combat assignments contrary to your assertion.

Ok ok keep your shirt on. Phew, do you see what I mean. One mention of a name that connects with the Usa and you got hel_l on your doorstep. You have proved my point completely.

Goodnight.

What a crazy story.

I googled his name and found this interview with him back when he played poker. A bit irrelevant but some people might be interested:

Actually, just watched all of it. It is relevant, the guys mad!

Agreed, one can short of a six pack.

Now to the police sympaphy.... the way I read it there were some sympathetic police reported, but I think what some have read as police excuses are actually them chasing motives. And the dodgy internet connection...well,... there have been times when I could have strangled my wife when she interupts my wrestling match with my computer coz it wont do what I want it to do. And all she has to say is 'what do you want for dinner honey/' HOW DARE SHE !!!

I think what we should also remember is there have been a lot of f.....ed up guys come outa Nam, Iraq and Afghanistan etc and just plopped back on the streets by their govts without any real debriefing/assessment rehab etc. to turn them from freaked out killers to normal civs.

Remember Timothy McVeigh???

From memory it was 5,600 baht for the regular passport.

They used to want it transferred upon issue of new passport but several recent reports would indicate this may not be the case currently. If you do not plan travel I would wait unless your Embassy tells you different. I have not seen anything official on a new policy.

Thanks Lopburi3. No, I have no travel plans so will take it as it comes.

Hi guys. I am picking up a new passport from Oz embassy next week (renewal). I have extension of stay in old passport valid till end Sept this year. Can I just keep using the old passport till then and have the new extension of stay put in the new passport when issued (Sept 2010) or do I have to transfer current extension into new passport now? Thanks.

The Cambodian Government must be planning something un-popular on Thursday ...A diversion is required to focus attention elsewhere!.

I believe Duch gets the verdict his week over the S21 torture camp trail. Maybe Hun Sen doesnt want the trails attention to remind Cambodians he was a Khmer Rouge boss himself.

Its hot in Thailand, whats wrong with wearing temperature appropriate clothing. Maybe a Burka would appease the skin police.

Besides I like looking at short skirts

Absolutely disgusting. Whatever it is ban them and ban them now. Just can't stand this carefree society anymore. Just hate the sight of all those naked long legs on motorbikes or the ultra short skirts in the bars when all I'm trying to do is have a quiet drink. Ban 'em, hang 'em, flog 'em I say.

The floggings will continue until morale improves!