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enjoy.

i would never consider myself a whiner although at times i do get frustrated with certain things here or not being able to get something done how i would like, but at the end of the day the pros still outweigh the cons in living here for me. But having said that if i want to whine i will ###### well have a good whine and no-one is going to stop me, you don't have to listen to me though.

Unfortunately the better half has just reminded me of a prior engagement we have for this Friday, i had totaly forgotten about it, and as much as i would like to i can not get out of it, so it is with regret i will not be able to make it tomorrow but hope to catch up with you all on future Fridays.

i have been thinking for a while now about transferring my daughter from The Tantarak school to Best but after reading this thread, i think i will leave her where she is for now.

if you are coming from suk road the soi after the bar, or from the darkside the soi before the bar you can park your car there.

OK boys and girls an about turn of face was in the Lucky Time Bar tonight (and i met that ###### helicoptor again), well actually just got back as they are not averse to a late drink, and they will be more than happy to accomadate all of us piss heads plus maybe provide a little bit of food. They have free inter-net in the bar and i was trying to get the owner (female Thai, has a dutch husband (alex)) to sign up, , i'll try again tomorrow (honest) but if you want this bar for friday she will keep tables free , but i have to let her know tomorrow or thursday afetrnoon at latest.

UP TO YOU ALL.................

i am british, my daughter is 4 and i have both a Thai and British passport for my daughter since she was about 4 months old. Just take birth certificate, family book and wifes ID (and the wife) along to the passport office, they take the photo there, cost for passport about 1000 baht.

Cause you are not married, go have a look at the bangkok british embassy website that will tell you what to do as in aquiring a british passport for your kid.

i know it was me who suggested it, but thinking about it Lucky Time Bar probably not to good an idea, as seating could be a problem, also for those with cars parking a problem. I know someone also mentioned D&D's in Jomtien, what about that as an alternative??

Somewhere new would be good

Mamanoodles and Begsaresponse were highly recomending the Lion bar (along from the Harley), could maybe be worth a try.

i know it was me who suggested it, but thinking about it Lucky Time Bar probably not to good an idea, as seating could be a problem, also for those with cars parking a problem. I know someone also mentioned D&D's in Jomtien, what about that as an alternative??

anywhere decided on for this Friday yet????

great night last night, still recovering now, and cheers for the delicious food too. For those of you who haven't been to the Lake Mabprachan Resort, i would highly recomend it. Too hung over to type anymore.

even worse than people who just got off the plane 5 minutes ago and claim to know everything are the ones who have been here 10-20 years, never moved from the same bar stool and claim to know it all and like to talk down to people when in fact they are so out of touch with what is going on all around them and in reality they know F-all.

With a free buffet on i am surprised Weho hasnt said he is coming

I heard rumours that he has already handed out a bidding invitation to Baht bus drivers to get the cheapest possible ride up to Monty's...

I would even chip in to get him there just to meet this character

wouldn't surprise me if weho is pattaya punter (Harris Black)

i e-mailed the embassy myself at the beginning of April but they have never replied to me. Not giving me an answer to that question anyway which was the main point of my e-mail to them.

Yes, you have to do the 'Life in the UK' test at a test centre and it would appear that the only test centres for it are in the UK (there aren't that many at the moment, only about 90, the closest one to us that my wife will have to go to at Learndirect in Guildford is 20+ miles away) at a cost of £34.

Ergo, you have to be in the UK to take the test and your wife will therefore have to obtain a settlement visa first, not ILR.

this is the point i am trying to clarify as before if you were married for over 4 years you could get ILR straight away no need for a settlement visa first, so am i correct in my understanding that this is no longer the case???????????????????

Yes. If it weren't possible, the rules would specific such, and there's no such exclusion.

I don't doubt you as I don't know the answer but the Life in UK site does state

When do I take the test?

You should take the test before you apply for naturalisation as a British citizen or before you apply for indefinite leave to remain, provided you meet all the other requirements.

(My emphasis.)

ok, so you have been married to a Thai for over 4 years and never set foot in the uk since you were married, so what you are saying is that now you can not apply for ILR without taking the test, but yet there is no where to take the test in Thailand???????

Now that did make me laugh, its in the pattaya people so it has to be true LOL. get a life meg or ken which ever you are. The PP does not give a whoot what is true or not, just take a look at the owner.

I wonder how many laws all of the squeaky clean brigade on here have broken but are afraid to admit?

Stones and glass houses mean anything to any one?

HAHAHA Please, stop! Your post is hilarious!

So, you're saying, that Pattaya people newspaper sent their reporters to take a picture of Sean at the Visa shop (Even though he hasnt done anything wrong) So that they could make up a story about him? But actually its all lies and he hasnt done anything wrong?

Hahaha, Come on, man!! Maybe the newspapers got some parts of their story wrong sometimes, but obviously this Sean guy has been involved with fake Visa's - Look how many people are in trouble because of him! And look how many people have been offered fake visa's by him..

where are all these people who are in trouble because of Sean?????

1 bloke is claiming he has 3 mates who have got visas from Sean and are facing 300,000 baht fines and deportation but where is the proof, i haven't seen or read anything in the newspapers to back that up. Please feel free to provide me a link. Also people who obtain visas by dubious mean are generaly people who can't obtain one legaly themselves, they know full well the risks they are taking and in my opinion deserve what they get.

if he is such a friend why don't you simply ask him what is going on ? ask him if he ever offered people a 1 year type B or O visa without them ever having to leave Thailand, the only place these visa's are avalable are in the UK, he was taking peoples passports and getting a 1 year visa stamped from Cardif including exit and entry stamps, the individual and their passport never left Thailand, I am pretty sure there are now a few very worried people around town who have yet to visit Imigration

You are the one coming out with accusations about someone who is not here to defend himself and also providing no evidence for your accusations. I only know Sean socially, and all i knew is that he had a travel agent and visa run business and like i said in a previous post i have only ever used his business once to book a plane ticket to Manilla. Maybe what you are saying about Sean is true, maybe it is not but if you insist on running him down then please provide some evidence.

Dave - anyone can jam??

you been sacked from JST???

Judging from the rash of replies I guess we haven't got too many ThaiVisa members in Songkhla...

don't worry about him, he is currently 3km off the coast of Jomtien on a barge for the next 19 days.

i see this has been re-opened, anyway i think how it could be considered Thai related is that if there were an insurgency in Laos, there is a very strong possibility it would spill over the border or Thailand could face a refugee crisis.

(06-05) 04:00 PDT Sacramento --

Echoes of the war in Southeast Asia rolled through a federal courtroom here Monday as a group of Laotian men and a retired Army officer who served during the Vietnam War were accused of raising thousands of dollars to mount a coup to overthrow the communist government of Laos.

A prominent Laotian exile leader enlisted by the CIA to fight the communists during the war was among the 10 men accused of violating the federal Neutrality Act by lining up mercenary forces and trying to buy high-powered military equipment for an insurrection against the Laotian government.

The equipment, some of which had already been purchased, included shoulder-fired Stinger anti-aircraft missiles, machine guns and land mines, according to a criminal complaint filed in federal court.

The arsenal was to be used against both military and civilian officials of Laos, including an attack on the nation's capital intended to reduce government targets to rubble, federal authorities said.

The men were arrested in raids across the state Monday after the operation was infiltrated by an undercover agent from the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, according to a criminal complaint filled with references to safe houses, wiretaps and CIA secrets.

"The enormity of the crimes is beyond anything I've encountered," Assistant U.S. Attorney Bob Twiss told U.S. Magistrate Judge Kimberly Mueller during a court hearing. "The defendants conspired to murder thousands of people."

The case is an explosive one for the estimated 65,000 ethnic Hmong in California, because of the arrest of 77-year-old Vang Pao of Westminster (Orange County), perhaps the most prominent Hmong exile in the country.

Pao was a general under the former Laotian government who came to the United States in 1975. He led Hmong tribesmen during the Vietnam War, when members of the ethnic group were recruited and trained by the CIA to fight communist forces.

The criminal complaint identifies him as the head of the Neo Hom, a movement opposing the Laotian government.

Also arrested was Harrison Ulrich Jack, 60, of Woodland (Yolo County), described by the government as a former Army officer who was stationed for a time in Southeast Asia before leaving active duty in 1977.

He later served in the California National Guard and retired as a lieutenant colonel, the complaint says.

The complaint says Jack was hired by the other men, who are of Hmong ancestry, because of his "contacts in the American defense, homeland security and defense contractor community."

Jack has been an adjunct professor with Golden Gate University for 15 years. Yolo County officials say they hired him in March as an ombudsman to help county employees with workplace issues.

Eight of the 10 men who were arrested appeared in court Monday.

Pao, wearing heavy dark glasses, sat quietly until acknowledging acceptance of his court-appointed attorney.

At one point, Jack turned and winked at his wife in the audience.

All the men are being held without bail and are due back in court today. None has been charged. Federal prosecutors have 10 days to file charges or obtain a grand jury indictment.

Attorneys for Jack and Pao declined to comment Monday.

Mark Reichel, a Sacramento attorney appointed to represent Lo Cha Thao, a 34-year-old Clovis resident who did not appear in court, said he had not yet spoken to his client but had some initial concerns about the case.

"Most people in their lifetime never have to suffer the way these people suffered in their homeland," Reichel said. "It may be the case that they have thoughts of returning, and it may also be the case that law enforcement pushed them further than they would have gone just with their own feelings."

Other defendants include Lo Thao, 53, of Stockton, president of the nonprofit United Hmong International; Youa True Vang, 60, of Sanger (Fresno County), founder of a group called Hmong International New Year; and Hue Vang, 39, a police officer in Clovis from 1989 to 1999 who directs the Fresno-based United Lao Council for Peace, Freedom and Reconstruction.

Also arrested were Chong Yang Thao, 53, of Fresno; Seng Vue, 68, of Fresno; Chue Lo, 59, of Stockton; and Nhia Kao Vang, 48, of Rancho Cordova.

The criminal complaint included an account from the unidentified federal undercover agent, who wrote that seven of the men had formed a committee to look at the possibility of overthrowing the Laotian government while operating within the "general scope" of Pao's Neo Hom movement.

The agent said he had been tipped off by a defense contractor who had spoken to Jack about weapons.

The men allegedly raised money to buy AK-47s and other automatic weapons, Stinger missiles, anti-tank rockets, Claymore mines, C-4 explosives, ammunition, night-vision goggles and other equipment.

As of last month, the group had agents in the Laotian capital of Vientiane and had drawn up plans for a military strike there, the complaint says.

"The defendants have issued instructions that the mercenary force is to destroy ... government facilities, to reduce them to rubble, and make them look like the results of the attack upon the World Trade Center in New York on Sept. 11, 2001," the complaint says.

The undercover agent said he first spoke with Jack in late January. On Feb. 7, he said, he had a face-to-face meeting with Jack, Pao and 10 others at a Sacramento restaurant, where the subject was the purchase of weapons.

The agent said he was shown "several maps of Laos, showing locations purported to be Lao government military positions and insurgent forces positions." The agent also said he allowed the men to inspect samples of weapons, including AK-47s, rockets and mines.

During one conversation, the agent wrote, Jack quoted Lo Cha Thao as saying that "the CIA was preparing to assist the Hmong insurgency once the takeover of Laos had begun."

On Feb. 15, the complaint says, Jack told the agent he had met with nearly two dozen of his clients and had budgeted for the purchase of weapons.

"The cost of the entire list which had been provided was approximately $9.8 million," the complaint says.

The men had paid $100,000 for an initial installment of 125 machine guns, 20,000 rounds of ammunition and smoke grenades that were to be delivered June 12 to a safe house in Bangkok, the complaint says. A second installment of weapons, including Stinger missiles, was to be delivered to a remote location in Thailand on June 19, the complaint says.

McGregor Scott, the U.S. attorney for the eastern district of California, noted that while the United States and Laotian communists were once enemies, the two governments now have normal relations.

"This the legitimate government of Laos," he said. "It is a country with which we are at peace, and our laws say that you cannot do what these men attempted to do."

Jack's neighbors were stunned upon hearing the news about his arrest.

"I would say it's shocking to say the least, especially in a small town like Woodland. ... This just seems too Tom Clancy-ish to me," said Ryan Hermle, 30.

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c.../06/05/PLOT.TMP

This article appeared on page A - 1 of the San Francisco Chronicle

Now that did make me laugh, its in the pattaya people so it has to be true LOL. get a life meg or ken which ever you are. The PP does not give a whoot what is true or not, just take a look at the owner.

I wonder how many laws all of the squeaky clean brigade on here have broken but are afraid to admit?

Stones and glass houses mean anything to any one?

HAHAHA Please, stop! Your post is hilarious!

So, you're saying, that Pattaya people newspaper sent their reporters to take a picture of Sean at the Visa shop (Even though he hasnt done anything wrong) So that they could make up a story about him? But actually its all lies and he hasnt done anything wrong?

Hahaha, Come on, man!! Maybe the newspapers got some parts of their story wrong sometimes, but obviously this Sean guy has been involved with fake Visa's - Look how many people are in trouble because of him! And look how many people have been offered fake visa's by him..

where are all these people who are in trouble because of Sean?????

1 bloke is claiming he has 3 mates who have got visas from Sean and are facing 300,000 baht fines and deportation but where is the proof, i haven't seen or read anything in the newspapers to back that up. Please feel free to provide me a link. Also people who obtain visas by dubious mean are generaly people who can't obtain one legaly themselves, they know full well the risks they are taking and in my opinion deserve what they get.

i don't think anyone is trying to defend his business practices if as stated he has been providing people with fake visas, all i have ever used his business for is a plane ticket. But like i said in an earlier post, he is a nice bloke and got a lovely son, i have known him years and not once has he ever offered me a fake visa or have i even heard him talk about it, i know he used to do organized trips to penang for about 20-25k which included airfares, hotel, transfers and 1 year visa (totaly legal) for Thailand from Penang consulate.

do you actually have to attend school though??????????