bluesofa

1 minute ago, SABloke said:

Is this a report or a query? 

It's a report of what happened.

I want to know why the IO made me fill in a TM30 and TM28 together?

I went to Laos on a cycling trip. On my return to Thailand, I knew I should do the correct thing and register having returned to my house, via a TM30.

Actually, I re-entered Thailand on 10 January, stayed at a couple of guest houses on the way home. Went home, didn’t stay there, but went straight out again to see my wife who was staying in Bangkok, visiting her sister there.

We all came back home to Udon on 19 January. 
In the afternoon I went to Udon Immigration with the TM30 filled in by the housemaster, along with a copy of their ID and house registration. Very helpful IO there said I also needed to complete a TM28 for change of address. I did that, although I couldn’t work out why I needed  a TM30 and a TM28 on the same day?

While I was there I queried about a new 90 day registration date. He said sure, and just manually changed the date, writing a new one on the original 90 day yellow slip in my passport, which was fine.

4 minutes ago, ubonjoe said:

Arrival in the country. The date you arrived at the residence is on page one.

Thanks UJ

On page 2 of the TM30 it asks for "date of arrival".

Is that referring to the date of arrival into Thailand, or the date of arrival at the residence where the TM30 is being submitted for?

5 minutes ago, speedtripler said:

Order cases of erdinger, it's much better.... 

I'd forgotten about that, not heard it mentioned for years now. Yes it's a very good German bottled beer.

Just now, joskeshake said:

I thought Chang before was 6% and they also went from 33 to 32 cl.

Oh, has the small bottle size been reduced too? I wasn't aware of that.

39 minutes ago, nisakiman said:

I remember reading years ago that someone tested various bottles of Singha and found that the ABV varied between 5% and 9% (not sure if those figures are correct, but it was somewhere around there) depending on the batch. How much truth there is in that I have no idea, but it wouldn't surprise me. They don't seem to be big on QC in Thailand.

What you've said rings a bell with me too.

Twenty-five years ago in the UK we used to cook and sell Thai food in pubs, just as it was starting to become popular. We also sold to the landlord boxes of Singha on sale-or-return as an additional income for the Thai-night.

IIRC there was a company somewhere near Slough that had the monopoly on importing Beer Singha and Mekhong Whiskey. If we ordered I think 20 boxes at a time, they would deliver free to anywhere in the UK.

There were regular customers who commented the same, regarding the variation in strength.

3 minutes ago, tryasimight said:

I reckon I covered two or three of them with vomit!

But it was a great place to visit. Fascinating how we have evolved....those guys must have been 4 foot tall back in their day.

Nah, they were all p155ed too, so on their knees permanently!

9 minutes ago, tryasimight said:

As an Aussie on holidays I got adventurous and tried real ale after many lagers in the Uk at the Trip to Jerusalem I think it was called - some castle.

I think the first was called and tasted like Firkin ELL...then Firk That, followed by projectile vomiting in the main street of Nottingham.

Never, ever again.

Nottingham Castle. The Trip To Jerusalem is (supposed to be) the oldest pub in England, started in 1189.

An excellent selection of real ale in there too. I lived about thirty miles from there.

1 minute ago, SunsetT said:

Old Chang was 6.4% and I didnt like the taste at all; too sweet and sickly for me. I like the latest Chang which was originally declared to be 5% but I reckon it was still stronger than most other beers which are 5%, so I stayed with the others which I like as, unlike the OP, I want a decent taste with the least alcohol. Last time I looked Chang was labeled at 5.2% so I was right in that it was stronger, and I reckon that it could be even stronger than that.

The declared strength against the actual strength. Isn't that one of those TIT situations?

I'm sure I read months ago that the brewer is allowed something like a 0.5% "error" when declaring the ABV.

Then there's the tax due on different ABVs.

Hence by under-declaring the ABV by a small amount, the brewer is liable to pay tax at the lower rate. IIRC isn't Chang 5.2% in reality, but declared at 5%?

I wait to be corrected on my faulty memory.

2 hours ago, alex8912 said:

Best is beer Lao dark 6.5%. It's good. I've seen some 7/11's selling it as well as supermarkets. Does anyone know if you can buy a case of it in BKK somewhere ? 

Yup, I'd agree with that about it being good. Very nice, very more-ish.

6 minutes ago, tinca tinca said:

4 hours ago, davetrout said:

Might save some Thai lives on the road 

NO CHANCE....they can not take their booze  !!!

While not defending drink-driving in any way, isn't the reason a lot of the population in this region seem to get drunk easily is due to their lactose intolerance - not tending to have dairy products in their diet?

I'm sure someone better informed will put me straight if I've got that wrong.

4 hours ago, Lite Beer said:

Used to be a great beer but is now totally undrinkable.

Did you also notice that the bottles are smaller than they used to be.

 

Smaller bottles, lower strength and tastes awful but the price keeps going up.

Try Cheers Extra. 6%

Chang and also Leo reduced their large bottle size well over a year ago, from 630ml to 620ml. The small bottle/can is still 330ml.

No idea on Singha though?

Slightly OT, going back 15/20 years ago there was a Thai produced dark beer called "Tai" that I thought was very good. 7 Eleven sold it. It seemed to last only perhaps a year, then disappeared.

2 minutes ago, Rimkok said:

5 hours ago, bluesofa said:

Or looking after his commanding officer's senile parents for a year, as my brother in law had to do.

Hilarious!!

It doesn't worry me you find it funny.

I see it as typical of a corrupt society where in this case there are more conscripts than they know what to do with, so the higher layers make use of them, as the conscripts have no option but to do as they're told.

Instead of reducing the numbers drafted each year, giving them more worthwhile training, they just carry on wasting public money, but that what's the government's good at.

In my brother in law's case, he was basically a cleaner, cook and care-worker for them. I remember him telling me every day they asked for exactly the same food. An hour after they'd eaten it they would complain he hadn't fed them - due to their senility.

They watched the same cartoons on the TV day after day, laughing at them as they didn't remember seeing them the day before.

He had to wash the parents and perform just about every task for them.

Still if the commanding officer can get his parents looked after for free, rather than paying, then he's going to do that if he can get away with it.

14 hours ago, Rimkok said:

You missed clearing leaves on golf courses!

Or looking after his commanding officer's senile parents for a year, as my brother in law had to do.

I've been with AIS as a post paid customer for 13 years, no real complaints.

However, if you do decide to move elsewhere, remember that you can take your existing mobile number with you to the new mobile service provider.

It will cost you 30 Baht and should be transferred within a couple of days. The mobile companies have no option but to accept your request, it is part of the regulations, so if you do want to transfer your number don't be put off by someone telling you it's not possible.

15 minutes ago, BritTim said:

I agree with you, but I am not sure the law makes a distinction, and think it would be difficult to word the law to allow such a distinction. In the example you give, let's say you use the completed boat for a month, then decide it is not really what you want, and you sell it. Have you at that point retrospectively "worked", even though it was originally personal DIY?

I was thinking exactly the same thing.

Even if there was a clearly defined time period from when you completed your personal repairs to when the boat was sold, there will no doubt be someone who might try to take advantage of it.

8 minutes ago, overherebc said:

That is now the best post of the thread.

You're not the only one who can't follow the thread as to what wanting a name and address is to do with not causing trouble?

I'm completely baffled. Perhaps I should have ordered a bottle of whatever it was that poster must have had to drink?

(Just my sense of humour!)

1 minute ago, pearciderman said:

 

Thank you for proving my point, no mention of depriving a Thai of work.

Very true.

In this instance it seems this is the relevant profession:

3. Bricklaying, carpentry or other construction works

6 minutes ago, pearciderman said:

 

Nowhere does any law/rule or regulation mention "depriving a Thai" of a job ! People still post this myth. There is the list of prohibited professions - no mention of Thais or deprivation!

At the risk of being boring, this is the latest copy I have.

Not sure if there have been any minor changes recently - there has been talk about some though:

Updated and released Oct 26th 2006 by the Royal Thai Government.

Annex attached to the Royal Decree
Prescribing works relating to occupation and professional in which an alien is prohibited to engage B.E.2522

1. Manual work
2. Work in agriculture, animal husbandry, forestry or fishery excluding specialized work in each particular branch or farm supervision
3. Bricklaying, carpentry or other construction works
4. Wood carving
5. Driving mechanically propelled carried or driving non-mechanically-propelled vehicle, excluding international aircraft piloting
6. Shop attendance
7. Auction
8. Supervising, auditing or giving service in accountancy excluding internal auditing on occasions
9. Cutting or polishing jewelry
10. Haircutting, hairdressing or beauty treatment
11. Cloth weaving by hand
12. Weaving of mate or making products from reeds, rattan, hemp, straw or bamboo pellicle
13. Making of Sa paper by hand
14. Lacquer ware making
15. Making of Thai musical instrument
16. Niello ware making
17. Making of products from gold, silver or gold-copper alloy
18. Bronze ware making
19. Making of Thai dolls
20. Making of mattress or quilt blanket
21. Alms bowls casting
22. Making of silk products by hand
23. Casting of Buddha images
24. Knife making
25. Making of paper of cloth umbrella
26. Shoemaking
27. Hat Making
28. Brokerage or agency excluding brokerage or agency in international trade business
29. Engineering work in civil engineering branch concerning designing and calculation, organization, research, planning, testing, construction supervision or advising excluding specialized work
30. Architectural work concerning designing, drawing of plan, estimating, construction directing or advising
31. Garments making
32. Pottery or ceramic ware making
33. Cigarette making by hand
34. Guide or conducting sightseeing tours
35. Street Vending
36. Type setting of Thai characters by hand
37. Drawing and twisting silk-thread by hand
38. Office or secretarial work
39. Legal or lawsuit services

25 minutes ago, stevenl said:

The question and discussion is about exerting effort in your own house, not in a commercial enterprise.

Is that for sure - are you certain about that? I don't know if there's an official definition regarding separating home from work (even though you could work at home).

From what I've read, the decision seems to be always "at the discretion of the investigating officer".

I'm not trying to make a clever point, it's a straight question.

8 minutes ago, Foozool said:

School is not your own house !!!

we are talking about "own" house.

Will you get paid for your house work ?

i guess not. 

Being pedantic again, IIRC, isn't the definition of work by immigration as the 'expenditure of energy, physical or mental' regarding working, not just being paid for something?

1 hour ago, overherebc said:

Don't forget you can't teach her without a degree and a WP.

You may have to close the curtains and watch instructional videos on it but keep the volume down.

??

If you used a protractor to check the mower line were square, you'd have plenty of degrees...

49 minutes ago, Saan said:

The crux is that the home is not yours. The DIY you are doing is for someone else's home. 

I think being pedantic you could possibly own the house (the building, but not the land).

BTW, when I tried to translate 'common sense' into Thai, google came up with an error. (sorry!)

The banking inconsistency here is nothing new. 

As previous posters have already said, it's more or less down to the manager, hence the different answers with the same bank, but a different branch.

Twenty years ago I went into the branch where I had my account and asked for change for the business (20 & 100 Baht notes, 5 & 10 Baht coins, about 10,000 Baht's worth).

The staff five times in succession just came out with the old 'no have'. Found another bank where I didn't have an account, they were happy to give me change on most occasions.

Eventually went into my bank along with my business partner, and asked for change again: 'No have'.

We both asked them to close our two accounts (3M Baht in each account), as they were not looking after us. Asked for a bankers draft for both balances and told the staff the other bank we were going to deposit it with.

Naturally, they immediately said we could have change every day. Too late. Moved banks.