PattayaParent

photocopy of your old licence as well as the originals.

^a piece of paper, a pen and some sticky tape and DIY?

No problems, I like Chang.

It's certainly better than Tiger and Heineken.

all through the 90's only one for me mrs.balbir's shows how good it is if its still there.

That's also the name of the curry counter under Robinson's.

You'd have to declare your income in A for tax in A.

In Thailand you have to declare remittances into Thailand if the money was earned in the year in which it is remitted, so you'd have to declare it in Thailand and pay tax.

You wouldn't need a Thai work permit.

what's c/s?

Why do you need the service at the second location?

If it's to be used only when you are there (and not permanently, say for a renter) then just carry the one box between the 2 locations as and when you transfer, then you save the cost of the second box.

You'll still need 2 dishes though.

First job here I got in a bar. I came on holiday and met up for a beer with a mate I'd worked with before and his company was looking for someone.

Started work a week later and on that job met someone from another company that gave me my next job.

Same with that job too.

By then I was known by the local agents and kept getting calls which gave me a few more jobs.

All short terms contracts with expat salaries, medical and car but no flights etc.

Current job I was working for the company in their head office and they sent me to Thailand.

The owner is from Korea, so I reckon Korean nationals will also be triple plus charged , so I reckon this isn't racial, so of course that makes it totally OK!

Maybe I can get a discount for being Korean?

A company I know have used this company http://www.american-...th/company.html but for the purposes of valuing a building for purchase.

They might be able to help you or Google using google.co.th and you may get some hits (but possibly in Thai).

Whatever you could get in your home country plus uplift for being away from home, plus accommodation plus airfares (and plus schooling if you can get it.)

You might take tax into consideration if you would pay less here than back home.

Edit: oops, forgot medical.

DIY

I've had 3 condos I wanted painting and got silly prices for so ended up doing 2 myself and the third I had wallpapered because it was cheaper.

A mate had his whole 3 bedroom house painted inside and out for 9,000 Baht (he supplied paint) and the same guy wanted 14,000 Baht for my 100m2 flat!

My wallpapered flat cost around 8,000 Baht but I stripped the old wallpaper myself.

Where did you get the wallpaper please P.P. and what sort of adhesive did you use. ( I,m near Sriracha )

I read previously it was impossible to get the cold water type we use back home and somone had used a Thai substitute that caused all sorts of problems.

I,d be grateful for any info from yourself or other members on where best to buy the wallpaper and a good Thai substitute for the cold waterpaste if it isn,t available here.

I was resigned to the idea of bringing some paste back the next visit home after reading about the difficulties experienced previously.

Thank you

marshbags

a place called Pop on Thepprasit just before the PTT petrol station heading towards Sukhumvit and on the same side.

They do curtains as well. Wallpaper's been up 5 years now and no problems with it.

The first one was on the soi beside (Carrefour) Big C Extra, Pattaya Klang.

It's a computer shop now isn't it?

Don't know if they moved elsewhere though? The OP did say 'expanding' to establish a new restaurant.

^last year they had an outdoor beer garden at Christmas at Paragon, with live jazz.

And as I said before they have the beer tents at CentralWorld still.

Maybe you were there when the red shirt protestors occupied it and burnt it down?

Ya I agree, I think it is similar to Japan if you try to tip they will say they don't want it and be offended that you think they need more money just to do their job.

Same in Viet Nam, Ha Noi anyway.

Board sponsor JSAT sells them.

JSAT who were the one and the only official Dream Multi Media re-seller in Thailand stopped selling them three years ago when the clone market killed the original set top box business. DM500 stopped production years ago. All you see here in the local market are clones and not originals and something you should ask your dreambox provider to prove to you. We even still have our original dealers certificate, the only one ever issued for Thailand.

So no we do not sell them. But nice to know you were thinking of us .

I actually googled Dreambox in Bangkok and you were the first hit.

This thread was the second!

Try ishopdreambox then OP or satelitetvthailand (dot) net which is in English.

Me too.

Been here 18 years and only in the last month or 2 have had bouts of itchy eyes and sties and swelling of the bags.

My AC only goes to a maximum of 30C so I have to wear a sweater.

Ahhhh, when I hear/read about Central World, I always think of the 1990's (its name was World Trade Center then)

Yeah, wasn't it Zen-something then? I remember the Ice skating upstairs, but not much else.

ZEN was the prominent anchor store and is still there but in a different location now.

The ice skating was on the ground floor at a link between 2 of the buildings. Now it is down one end outside of Zen.

Ahhhh, when I hear/read about Central World, I always think of the 1990's (its name was World Trade Center then) and the beer garden/festival set up in front of it every year between November and February. It was great atmosphere. I am sure some of you remember/know of it.

Since many years ago, I have been going to Thailand very infrequently but I think they haven't had the beer garden thing there for many years now. Am I right ?

They still have it at certain times of the year. I'm usually there in March and October and it is on one of those times.

Fashion Island not on the list anymore?

When it was first built I think it was the largest in Asia?

Surely not. I'm no expert but it has always struck me as rather on the small side comapred to the likes of Central World and Future Park etc.

Edit: just did a google search, it is big 350,000 sq.m. I'm a little surprised.

It was built before Central World and Future Park though.

I put a 200 Baht top up on my DTAC SIM yesterday and it extended validity by 365 days same as always.

Well, not exactly, and I suspect you may find this challenging to comprehend but a 200 baht top-up with Happy (DTAC) adds just 20 days of validity, on most SIMs (60 days on an Internet or Smartphone SIM). However in your case you already had between 345 and 365 days validity accumulated when you topped up most recently. Basically you've been topping up for some time, nearly always before using those days included in each top-up thereby building up your validity.

For the Happy Simple SIM, activates since 26 July 2011, each top-up, of any value, adds 90 days validity up to 365 days max. But the Simple SIM does have pretty bad call rates.

The Happy Kong Kra Pun SIM, as its name implies, never ends, assuming you use it at least once every 1,000 hours (~ 40 days). The call/SMS rates are pretty good - 99 satang per min or per SMS anytime, to all networks.

365 days is the maximum validity balance one can carry.

I got a message from Happy saying "your validity has been extended 365 days" and new validity was 1 year from 13 July, previous validity was mid-May so it was extended by more than 20 days.

Usually I top up 800 baht over the counter at DTAC but wasn't near one and with low credit just put enough on to tide me over.

Board sponsor JSAT sells them.

You're on!

Great! You know I live by the Ambassador. A place I like is called Drifters. It's near The Pinnacle, just north of the Ambassador. Great place to sit by the sea. Next time you are by, let me know!

Tripadvisor is a joke. Number two: Natans?

Are you having a laugh?

Wow...when I wrote this review, about 1/3rd of the restaurants in the top 20 were not there. One with only 6 reviews? Fishy for sure.

But several good ones in the top 20.

Going away for a couple of weeks holiday this week so will look you up when we get back.

Drifters sounds like it's near Sea Falcon? That's a place we sometimes drop into, and the Thai restaurant at the end of the road.