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Central Dept Store's Kitchen Section in Central Festival has an excellent selection. And, if I remember correctly, Rim Ping Promenada's special kitchen section has some, also.

'pends where you live. No good me recommending a store in Bangkok if you live in Khon Kaen?

Have you tried ThaiWatsadu, Global House etc.

VocalNeal is correct. I have seen it in all the big hardware stores, bought it many.

The other thread made it apparent to me that in an emergency time provided Suan Dok would be the best choice of hospitals.

Two days ago, my father-in-law (85) was having chest pains. Since he is retired military and can direct bill the govt, my wife took him to Suan Dok emergency. Calling up a relative working there, she was able to get ahead of the queue to some extent. She got there at 8 am.

He is crippled and weighs about 110-120 kg. Sent him back and forth for tests. No one showed them where to go, just said it is that way. They had no one to push wheel chairs .so my wife had to do it (I was unable to go with her) and she weighs maybe 47 kg. Ten hours of pushing 120 kgs back and forth just about gave her a heart attack.

He saw only interns who were obviously not interested, over worked, and whose treatment seemed disjointed. They ran blood tests twice, xrayed twice, They finally ruled out heart problems and gave up. My wife and FIL left at 6 pm. Ten hours to rule out heart problems. If my FIL had had a real problem, who knows what would have happened, could have happened during that time.

You are on your own when you got there. They just do not have the staff to adequately help the masses that show up.

Talked to one man who said he got there early to get in the queue and got number 1004.

Suan Dok is a medical school and may have great teaching surgeons and professors on staff. But it is the major hospital for northern Thailand and gets thousands of patients every day. The teaching staff is in class or treating patients at private hospitals most of the time. You get the interns and first year residents. If you are not in the middle of an obvious going to die in the next 10 minutes condition, I would guess you will got lost in the crowd.

FIL's previous visit: With an appointment, finally got to see the doctor in his cubicle after waiting 3 1/2 hours with 300 of his closest friends and neighbors. Five patients go in at a time. One patient leaves, everyone moves up one chair, and a new 5th patient comes in. Sort of "you have 5 minutes, spit it out and leave."

Your mileage may differ.

Everything I have seen is a Thai product.

Rimping has; I have seen most, if not all, the canned milks shown in the on-line site in Rimping.

None of these are usable?

http://shoponline.tescolotus.com/en-GB/Search/List?searchQuery=evaporated+milk&Search=Search

Excellent reply. I see these in all the big grocery stores.

Why not buy them locally? Optometrists shops are all over, in the malls and stand alone. Quality is good.

I got the impression from your closing words that the computer now seems to be running normally. If so, I would suggest Googling TR/Dropper.Gen to see what it is and how to get rid of it. I quickly did that and there are articles telling you what to do on the web.

Rakman was correct; find the problem and fix that and only that. Your closing words do not justify reformatting your HD and reinstalling Windows.

I think in the long run, you would be happier with having your own suite of tools to do clean up and trouble shooting at home before simply asking some IT guy to do it for you.

So I suggest you Google CCleaner, Advanced System Care, and SpyBot, all free, and see what they are and see if you think they would be worth having (I use all 3). SpyBot might the the best one to back up your Avira findings.

And, I would recommend you go to Windows support and download a Boot Disk. It will let you fix a lot of things without deleting files. Again the web will tell you what that is and how to use it.

Happy Surprise?
Chiangmai Flower Parade 6 February 2010

Pentax K10 Sigma 18-250mm at 85 mm
F4.0 @ 1/250 ISO 200

Processed in Lightroom

Tourist Police station is about 1 km west past the zoo on the "north side" of Huey Kaew Rd.

The airport sub-station is in the airport building between the international and the domestic terminals.

Pentax K10 Sigma 18-250mm at 78mm
F9.5 @ 1/45 ISO 100 with fill flash
Processed in Lightroom

Mother and Child,
Lampang December 2012

This very large temple complex is 50km north of Chiang Mai.

Wat Ban Den -- always changing, always getting bigger and more impressive. It is a place I have to return to 2 or 3 times a year as the photo ops (for me) just get better and better.

Anyone with a decent printer/scanner/copier should be able to do that for you. Maybe ask your friends if they have such a device?

There are remotes sold separately for ceiling fans that control their operation and have a timer. I can think of no reason they could not be used, if the fixed times (e.g., 1 hr, 3 hrs, 5 hrs) are acceptable.

Under Thai law, parents have the right to reclaim ownership of any real estate property that they have gifted to their descendant or descendants. This is done by filing a petition with the court and obtaining a court order to undo the transaction at the Land Office.

Before being scared of this happening, one should remember that civil cases like this can take a year or more in civil court if contested.

If not contested, then the child just signs the chanot back over to his/her parents; done, finished.

But if contested, then the parent(s) have to think about whether or not they want to spend the time, effort, and lawyer fees.

The issue needs to be put into perspective.

"If the room is sealed." That's not possible. As mentioned, the room exhausts the heat from the air by exhausting heated air. It must replace that air with new outside air. It's a loop.

Unless you are using an exhaust fan, I would suggest your room air conditioner is circulating the hot room air over cooler/cold coils which in turn cool that same air and returns it to the room. Think of your car air conditioner; most of them have a recirculate or use outside air switches. Room air conditioners do not have that option. A room air conditioner is like having a fan blowing across a large block of ice (you get colder air) but without the added humidity.

You could Google cost of living in Thailand and check what all comes up. This particular site offers insight in the the COL for Bangkok averages and range and may have links to other cities. COL

oh, should have read all the replies before posting; this was already covered.

You might go to the MeetUp web site and consider setting up your group there. The site will explain how people's varied interests are matched with people with like interests around the world. There are quite a few dirvirse MeetUp groups in Chiangmai already.

Twais

Interesting. The IRS tried to claim said penalty and interest on me about 6 years ago but I protested quoting IRS Pub 52 with page and paragraph and had their finding reversed. Since then I have had no problem nor do any of the 5 or 6 people I help with taxes.

From the OP:

"for some of you, especially USA farang, do not forget to file your tax report and fbar before end April.

"if not, say bye bye to 50% of your asset."

I have no intention of filing a FBAR before the end of April. I have never filed a tax report and never will. I don't know anyone who has.

I will not lose any of my assets.

The OP is full of it with this misinformation. He must have just gotten home from the bars when he wrote his post.

Whether or not the OP's words are exactly correct or not, your reply confuses me. The U.S. tax laws seem to say what the OP wrote. Perhaps if you explained why none of it applies to you it might help the rest of us. Of course, if you are simply ignoring it all........................different story

Expats get an automatic extension on FILING of two months after April 15.

Any owed tax was already due April 15 -- the automatic extension is for filing only.

Yes, FBAR filings if you need to do that and many do, are due end of June.

Cheers, 'Murcans.

The follow quote from Publication 54 Tax Guide for U.S. Citizens and Resident Aliens Abroad For use in preparing 2014 Returns might be of interest to all U.S. expats.

":Automatic 2-month extension. You are allowed an automatic 2-month extension to file your return and pay federal income tax if you are a U.S. citizen or resident alien, and on the regular due date of your return: You are living outside the United States and Puerto Rico and your main place of business or post of duty is outside the United States and Puerto Rico, or You are in military or naval service."

I have made printed copies of my Thailand address in English and Thai side by side to be stuck to the envelope, and this has always worked for me, plus, use registered post so that the letter is traceable and has to be signed for.

Does the recipient gets mail regularly when the address is written in English? Whether or not, getting the address in Thai to put on the evelope is excellent advice.

And if they get Thai mail regularly, then the advice to use registered post is also an excellent suggestion.

Assuming you can track the letter on line in Australia, you can track the letter from the day you mail it to the day the recipient receives it. The THAI Post Office has an on-line tracking web site that does track foreign registration numbers. I have used this method for sending and receiving letters.

I have maybe 10 of these, black and orange ones. I say maybe 10 because they want to hide all the time. The largest (happens to be black) is some 20 inches long. The smaller ones (orange) are around 6 - 8 inches long. They seem to be quite slow growing.

I, too, got the orange ones when they were quite small and would not see them except rarely if I came out and surprised them. They would immediate hide under some water feature. And for the first year or so, it was like they had all disappeared, like you said.

Now that they are so big they do not have many places to hide, they are out more and have gotten used to me. So I see them most of the time. If I go into the pond to clean something, they swim to the other side but do not seem to panic like they used to. But there are still some unknown number of them that squeeze into small areas and stay out of sight so I am not how many there are.

As an aside, I have the suckers; hundreds of the little "mosquito" fish; maybe 15 or 20 algea eaters of various sizes (now some 7-8 inch size) which hide all the time; and 19 large koi/carp all nicely living togetherin a large tiled fish pond.

A U.S. phone has worked for me in the past. But the last two with voice mail I bought here in Thailand.

CharlieH said a U.S. located P.O. Box (a post office box) not an overseas APO (Army Post Office) box.