OurManinSamui2008

Interesting Stats...... on Radio, BBC, yesterday in the UK, they put Spain well before Thailand,.mmmmmm

I am returning Muang Thai, soon for my well earned 3 months sabbatical and, I will go up North to Surin to chill, for xmas,

But I will return to Koh Samui, new year, to see what has happened there in the last 7 months, and I do see the mayhem, happens every year, and it has got worse, New Year can be carnage, BUT .... also nice to see close friends.

You are all right in aspects of this post, Brits abroad mmmmm......

I will not desert this lovely country, lets hope they,,,,,...Government, .get there act together

OMIS 2008

Question to one and all re visa residency for my wife we worked together for 4 years in Samui, she has been in the uk and france on two occasions with me, and she works for the company I set up, and she manages the company now, whilst I am in Uk working we talk daily and we are going to try and sell the business, in the mean time we are applying for her residency visa. what paper work does she require, I have looked at the visa website we have filled in the forms etc but the info is very sketchy on paper work needed. can any body point me in the right direction please

Regards

Our Man In Samui 2008

Khundon had your wife spent any time living in UK before coming back to BKK & then being granted ILR?

Question to one and all re visa residency for my wife we worked together for 4 years in Samui, she has been in the uk and france on two occasions with me, and she works for the company I set up, and she manages the company now, whilst I am in Uk working we talk daily and we are going to try and sell the business, in the mean time we are applying for her residency visa. what paper work does she require, I have looked at the visa website we have filled in the forms etc but the info is very sketchy on paper work needed. can any body point me in the right direction please

Regards

Our Man In Samui 2008

Many thanks for the information, we have the letter, and will do the contract after the decifering the Thai, my wife is assisting me as we speak.

Regards

O M IN S 2008

Hi I know this is a debate re visa's, Iam in employment here and went to update my work permit at the local labour office they require a "contract", is this from my company to myself or am I barking up the wrong tree, does any body know the new criteria.

Regards

O M IN S 2008

It an employment contract between the company and you. It would show how much you are to be paid and other terms and conditions.

I think the labour department has a sample that can be used.

Hi I know this is a debate re visa's, Iam in employment here and went to update my work permit at the local labour office they require a "contract", is this from my company to myself or am I barking up the wrong tree, does any body know the new criteria.

Regards

O M IN S 2008

Hi Maestro, Ubonjoe,

Thanks a lot for both of your feedback, really helpful. I do have few more questions and hoping you guys can help me out further,

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The best value for money 99bht is The Three Aces Cafe in Lamai, near the market, NEAR THE CORNER WHERE THE Siam City exchange booth, 50 metres from the beach! for full English Two Bacon, Two Sausages Egg, Saute Potatoes, Tomatoes, Beans, Tetley's Tea or Coffee!!

And you can add on Hash Browns or what ever!!!!!!!

Try it 8.00am till Midday, Sunday Roast Chicken Beef or Pork 199.00!!!!!

And Thai food and Euro menu Try it Brill!

O M IN S 2008

Just go to the Elephant & Castle in Bangrak and have the Big Elephant Breakfast, you won't need to eat for the rest of the week and you can spend the change from your 1000 baht on beer!!

Just one thought when I came here, they are lovely people and as the previous posts have said, its only her job ..

I was told about this kind of action on my learning curve here 6 years ago, the saying goes "you can take the girl out of the bar, but you can never take the bar out of the girl" I know there are exceptions to this "sayinG", but it says things which your hubby may take on board, lets hope hey.....

"Choc Di"

Good Luck

O M IN S 2008

Hi

Many thanks to all of you for your postings, it's also good to get a male perspective of things too.

The Condo was supposed to be for our retirement. I just don't want the girl getting her hands on a penny, I have to protect my kids.

I'm in a place where does head or heart win? So confused.

Once again, many thanks to you all.

Regards

Time to get even

Hi

Ok you have tourist visa right for UK right?for your lady...

So you book a reserved ticket, example via Channel Tunnel just cut and paste print with dates you want to enter France.

Not pay just a booking reference

Calais...entry port....

Then you will need sponsor letter from French national with a letter from there employee, with there le addition, work proof and house address any where in France.

Signed with copy of there passport then apply on line for visa, print form and they will give you date, online, at the embassy you turn up with all the forementioned.includig all her info, tabien ban id card passport with visa, as much info as possible really...

One day done!

May take two but make sure you have a UK visa first, once you enter, example Calais, your Svengen visa is activated all Svengen states, Uk is not one, Holland Germany Sweden etc....yes....

A wee bit of a paper chase well worth it we did it last year brilliant.

Good luck

O M IN S 2008

We wish to spend a week in Monaco, and then 10 days or so more traveling throughout the EU.

Does the UK fall under the Schengen Visa?

I do not see visa requirements on the France Thai Consulate site in English. Any idea of where I can find the English translation? Do they need the original tambien baan or just a copy?

edit: I realize the instructions have english at the bottom of the french writing.

they say that they want to see the original return flight plane tickets, not a copy. Where am I supposed to get original tickets from, the airport? What is this 1992? I have been using E-tickets for years now.

they also say they do not want a third party hotel booking... A bit ridiculous.

Morning, Re Rugby 6 Nations, Outback bar Lamai, on the corner of soi to the beach, or Red Fox down walking street.

Boh Phut/ Steve's pub,......main drag

Chaweng / Sportsman /Tropical M...../ Main drag

Enjoy!!!

Hi folks

Any suggestions on good venues to watch 6 nations rugby in February? I'll be based in Maenam but suggestions anywhere appreciated.

Cheers, Somchai

Evening Light star, Lamai Hillside behind Wat Lamai, two bedroomed Villa with pool aircon, wifi and from 15,500bht per month plus electric and TV.

Close to the golf range

Regards

O M IN S.

Hi all,

can anyone advise on apartments or bungalows for rent in lamai.

I'm looking for somewhere that has internet connection available and is reasonably priced (under 20,000 per month).

If anyone can suggest names, I can do a google search / contact owners.

Thanks so much!

Morning! well if you and live and work here early breaky, yep 7.00am toast and tea, fine!In doors...

But....

The two I would reccomend in Lamai area, as a late starter..

1/ Harry's, Lamai high street going over the bridge on the left, near the banks which are on the right.opens 8.00am- 9.00am, all day...

Good service a variety...American, Muesli, gut buster etc .. Thai food also 200.00bht circa.

2/ Three Aces Cafe, this opens at 11.00am, so a walk on the beach, after rising from your slumber,.

Situated, turn left into Lamai, by the Macdonalds sign on the main road, then cross roads maybe 100 metres turn right towards the food market, left will take you to the beach, immediatly on your right, next to Siam City red booth exchange booth, Three Aces.

Good food from English breaky, etc..and even for your lady Thai food, Tom Yam Kung the best in Lamai, by far..

And your Sunday Roast, served ALSO at weekends.

Fresh and good!!

RECCOMENDED

ENJOY

O M IN S

I ate a thai omelette for breakfast yesterday and the 99 baht breakfast at Catcandoo for dinner. I'd be happy as hel_l to eat nothing but breakfast all the time.

I´m gonna invite some friends for my delecios crepes, but after your laughter and this latest post im thinking of making only egg and bacon for you! .

(Joking offcourse .)

Toxin is like a little boy with a ball. He's okay if he's winning the game, but when he loses possesion he cries foul and wants to take it home. Shame that the UK immigration weren't as stringet with Pokamon as the Thai authorities where with Glitter. Whilst there's difference in offences, there's no difference in culpability. It's about time Thailand opened up the box and investigated some of the other stuff that Toxin has been accused of, but it's probably unlikely, just as much as Thailand genuinely pushing for extradition.

Dave, Hi ok here goes, a sloping wall is not proper building practise, in my 30years building here in Muang Thai and England.

Now, your dilema comes from 2 metres high, all you do is step, as one gentlemen suggests, the Thais know how to do that,

But what you have to do is an average

Example, if the land in the middle, rises slightly, you have to look at the lay as in what looks right.

So it may be in area's 1.9 but if the the steps are fairly even, you can get involved with this, stand back look and decide.

Sloping is a night mare and I know the Thai's will make a mountain out of a mole hill, because......

They really do not want to do it, the slope that is..

Good luck

OurManinSamui2008

Hi,

RE Boundary brick wall.

I am in urgent need of advice as my builder is not doing as I expected. He is making a different assumption on lining up than I.

I know what I want but before I tackle his error I wish to make sure that my layman's logic is correct (or the norm) and that I am not trying to ask for something a professional builder would never do or recommend.

OK Facts:

plot of land is 200 Talangwah.

From the road (left side) it slopes UP to the back by about 1.25 metre.

From the road (right side) it slopes UP to the back by about .75 metre.

Back wall left to right slopes UP to the right by about .3 meters

The house is level but the garden being allowed to mostly follow the slopes and contour of the land.

I said I wanted the wall 2 metres high all the way around as i intedn putting barbed wire on top (so want it above head height)

The builder firstly has made the back wall only 1.5 metre so that is wrong anyway.

Where we are thinking differently is that he is keeping a straight line along the top of the walls no matter how big the slope of the land the wall is built on. Consequently the back left SIDE starts 1.5metres high above soil and rises to just over 2.25 metre at the front. If the back wall was the correct height of 2 metres then the front side wall would be over 3.25 metres high above soil level.

There is a similar situation on the right wall but not quite so pronounced.

The workers are saying the wall should be parallel along the top. I am saying it looks ludicrous and much too high at the front and it should a have been built exactly 2 metres from the foundation (soil level) all along its length. i think it look awful 80% completed their way

I accept to deal with the slope either bricks needed cutting at the top to maintain 2 meters along the length, or extra concrete used to deal it. or less pretty and desirable the wall staggered at certain supporting posts in order to retain closish to 2 metres height above ground level all the way around.

Is there any boundary wall experts who know which (or other) option is the usual practice for boundary walls on sloping land

The way the builder is doing it (far advanced in 2 days before I saw the issue). No wall is the same height above the soil level and the back to front height of the left wall is 1.5 to 2.25 metres. Looks awful (and stupid) to me.

As I said earlier if I get the back wall corrected to 2 metres then the front left side wall will rise to over 3.25 metres at the front (looking like a mini Berlin wall is being built and more vunerable to high gusts of wind.

I accept a way round this would be to raise all the garden area to the same level then the walls will be identical but this strikes me a paying out extra money to compensate for a builders lack of logic (or am I being unfair on the builder and for some reason his logic is correct.

Urgent advice would be much appreciated as I wish to tackle the builder (or concede to what he has done) sometime tomorrow before it is totally finished.

Many thanks and kind regards

Dave

If all paper/documents are in order, what is the average time frame for a successful UK fiancée visa application

thanks in advance

Hi NJ,

I submitted my girlfriends Fiancee application on Monday morning 21st April (10.30am) and received a successful uk visa at 12noon on Friday 25th April....Hope this is any help to you.

Regards

cfrmatt

Morning !! Gentemen!....Ok

Did the same as you cfrmatt, quick turnaround but......Yes....

And, my ladies visa was rejected on three points,

I was surprised but made 3 simple errors

1/ I assumed copies of her old passport, showing her previous visas, with her new hard copy of her new passport would do, with all the invitations from myself, been (married) in Thai for 3 years.etc...relevant paper work.....etc etc. No take the old passport to!

2/ No covering letter with my bank statements, last time 4 years ago no problem, now they need.

3/ Evidence that my lady has her brother and mother running our small rental business whilst she is back in England, for a three month holiday.

So I have now re done all the letters, id cards, copies signed, letters , which I may add the first lot were taken from here. they returned my company papers etc showing her and her family, who work in our company structure, she is taking all the new paper work with her to re apply the end of the week.!!

So I know the problems we all have but they do not seem to read between the lines.....

Any advice out there.... Am I doing the right things????

Would like any advice or pointers as in what is critical here!!!???

Thanks,

OurManinSamui2008........look forward to your replies I hopE!

If all paper/documents are in order, what is the average time frame for a successful UK fiancée visa application

thanks in advance

Hi NJ,

I submitted my girlfriends Fiancee application on Monday morning 21st April (10.30am) and received a successful uk visa at 12noon on Friday 25th April....Hope this is any help to you.

Regards

cfrmatt

Morning Gentlemen, I

The new route is expected to be popular among foreign tourists as they will be able to travel by a direct flight from Suvarnbhumi to Samui's tourist destinations in the southern province of Surat Thani.

This is nonsense. All Bangkok Airways flights from Bangkok to Samui operate out of Suvarnbhumi - direct, so what is new here? Bangkok Airways make a fortune on this route - check out the daytime rate of over THB 4200 per person one way for a one hour flight. (Oh, and add 300 baht more if you are flying from Samui for their airport tax).

For some years now the government has leaned on Bangkok Air to open up their airport to other carriers, but their view is that they built it in the first place therefore why should they. The government then talks of building a second, public airport and so Bangkok Air gives way a little bit and allows Thai Air to operate two flight a day. But Bangkok Air, being owners of the airport set the landing fees for Thai Air at a premium, thus forcing Thai Air to charge a similar rate to Bangkok Air in order to make a profit! So who benefits here? certainly not the passenger unless they are fussy who they fly with!

Bangkok Air currently allows Berjaya Air to run two flight per week to KL from Samui, and Fireflyz to Penang more frequently. But don't expect Bangkok Air to give way too much on the very lucrative BKK - USM route anytime soon or in the long run.

By the way, for a family of four coming to Samui for a holiday and flying Bangkok to Samui return, the total cost is 35,200 baht (including departure tax) !!

Small wonder everyone is going to Phuket instead......

Dead right and I was wrong, sorry, I was feeding the buffalo and reading, multi taskin is not my strong point... they do go to The New airport, put your hand in front of your face, yep that is far as they can see!

Amazing Thailand.......

Lov it here!

I thought Bangkok Airways had a monoploy to Samui - seeing as how they built the infrastructure?

Just another example of the corrupt coup leaders moving the goal posts.

State owned monopolys rock man!!!!!

It's difficult to see what this has to do with state owned monopolies, since it has been a private monopoly for years. The state owned Thai Airways are the one representing new competition here, while Bangkok Airways have done all they can to keep the prices on that route on a maximum level. So much so that Thai Airways at one stage considered building a second airport at Koh Samui. The present airport is too small (too short runway) to accommodate the 737s of Thai Airways, or at least that has been the official reason not to fly there previously.

Hi I live and work here I have a residents card( gives you discount on main time flights) but the food is crap, they delay at the drop of a hat, 3 hours last time, they hold flights back, oh yeh and they call it the bOutique Airline, yeh go on, I emailed 10 directors they said sorry, as in I suggested making the food more Thai, as in Kaow Pad, fried rice, easy and most people eat it, no they give you card board sarnies and pastries and dodgy sausages!

It will not change and yes Thai airways land where.....oh Don Muang !doh!

Ciao

Wife just got 500bht for her vote. then said "I should get 5000bht, because I have farang!"

LOL!

Morning my wife got 100 bht, to vote, yep the money went missing .....But she is voting for who she wants to vote for, so I guess a double wammy!

Happy voting Thailand!

xx

But then this part of Thailand is more prosperous than Issan and local folks are more enterprising when it comes to farming of course bearing in mind the climate here is different

Hi Mac

I'm interested to know.

What is the climate like generally in the Udon Thani or Sakhon Prakhon region of Thailand compared to southern places like Bangkok & Phuket?

Is it more temperate or does it get very hot and humid?

Also what's it like around April - May?

danny

Hi Danny ok generally it is hotter,but colder in the evenings, April god, you need aircon, if you can get it, it is like this, you stick the put lum on, (FAN) and it is like a hairdryer!

Jesus I was sweating and drinking water like a Muay Thai boxer!

Sithai

First thanks to you guys so far for your very interesting input I want to praise you for intrigrating with the family:

Now having started the Topic I will tell you about my village life. I purposely waited for some input before adding mine.

Here goes then.

First here is a pic of me with the wife

Hi well not totally villaged up near damit

Well moved into the village full time February 2005 when our house was completed. Then a lot of time was spent adding more fill and preparing for planting etc, To-date about 60 trees have been planted different varieties of Mango, coconuts, Tamarind. papaya and fruits I cant remember them all. THen we built a Gazebo, and a seperate car-port, and had the drive laid.

So now its general pottering around. Morning starts at about 5-30 am we both get up, Bee gets the rice on for Buddha and sometimes cooks a dish for the monks and takes some to here mum and dads , there house is about 200 metres away, yes they shout to each other.

I have my coffee first and wonder round the garden with my dog (German Shepherd). Any bits I want to do in the garden before it gets hot I get on with it, the house stands in just over 1 Rai walled in. I have turfed around the house then let the rest grow green naturally around the garden area, so I bought a 4 stroke strimmer and at the moment in the wet season the whole area needs strimming and I like to do this myself, I may do it over 2 days. Here is a pic of some of the area to strim

I also go to the farm and strim the grass that the cows cannot eat because it is course with irritating sharp bits on the top. In the morning after Bee has cooked and eaten she will clean the house. If I have nothing to do much we work together I clean the bathrooms or put the laundry on.

After all these choral things she will sleep I hit the 2nd Coffee then check emails etc. Sometimes the wife will be off seeing other cousins in the village for a chit chat, then I chill on here.

We go to the night market in Burriram whenever we need stuff and get supplies for us and her parents (At her parents house there is mum & dad grandad and two nieces) We also buy there meat for them and I pay there electric each month. My wife has a big family So i tel the wife that they must help as well financially and they do.

This year we aquired 13 Rai at the rear of our house so there has been that to sort this year.

I dont have many Farang friends, ( not by choice I might add) I have an american guy who has married into the family so we reckon somewhere along the line we might be distant cousins however many times removed lol.

Twikits a Supermkt in Burriram is very good for Farang bits and pieces and I am quite happy getting stuff there, again we go when we feel the need. Sometimes I dont go out the gate there is always something to do.

The other night we went to the Night Mkt then took her dad and a niece for BBQ very nice love it washed down with a bottle or two of leo.

Surin is only 25 clicks from our village and takes me about 30 mins, there we have Big 'C' Makro and Tesco Lotus, next Monday we are going and I will make my first visit to the Farang Connection.

Evenings well I might eat Thai food or Farang food, I have a Euroapean style kitchen so Shepherds pie or Roast dinner or Spagbol. What more could one want.

In the afternoon I might come on here then look some TV. In the evening I let Bee look Thai TV and I come back on here it keeps me in contact with the outside world.

Bedtime is normally about 9-30 pm thereabouts my wife wont go to bed untill I do bless her, she normally falls asleep on the settee.

Well I have not planned this write or scenario just typed things as I think of them.

To-Date This morning up normal time I cleaned the pick up in and out, Bee's dad came to borrow the m/c we ran into Huairat for bits and bobs then Bee got me Grapo moo Kai dow, aroi then I cam on here.

macb

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Mac Broadbridge

55 Moo 6

Banthago Sub-District

Huairat

Burriram

Thailand

31000

Hi, well not totally villaged up, yet, near damit, ok I work in Muang thai now 4 years, but as this part of the forum I will give my Issan life style, which I may add I enjoy!

This happens twice a year but within a few years when I retire it will be total here.

Well it goes without saying, Cockerels giving a large vocal support about 5.30am, then I raise my body from my my ample, nice bedroom, get the tea on the go, mum in law is already up, dad is up with the buffalo and out with the tuk tuk,

Wife up taking care of Laan Sow, we have no kids, but she is brill with all her neices nephews etc..

Then I stick my sim card, from my mobile, in my lap top, we are 10 k from the nearest land line we have applied but, needs a few more applications, before I get high speed internet, or some sort of 20 century connection, so my sim does ok.

Log on, check emails, bit of rice fish, spicy salad great stuff.

Shower check the land which keep the family rice, just finished, rubber doing ok.

Then as we were picking the rice I got my wellies on covered up, and three days with my Thai hat on,

sweated like Jill Dando getting the key in the door, (that is an English story).And Tam Kaow

But brilliant experience and love getting my hands dirty, the Thai's look on in a smile and wonder why, I tell them, they clap and shout, love it, seeing them, makes you realise how hard they work.

So back from the rice fields, kin kaow, then off to finish.

Evening...

Shower cuppa, KIN SOM TAM, Kin Pla ... and check emails.

Read, bed 7.30pm .....

Every three days we go shopping to Prasat, 25 k away.

Lovely drive on straight roads, on our rot mocy, motorbike, get the fish, tea bags, need them..

Veggies, fruit ....and any large emails I take my memory stick, to transfer if needed by internet shop.

Then back to our village, and chill

The locals know me, there are about 4/5 around, but in local Tambon myself, yep condial!

So I wonder round they talk to me we check if the lotto win, we sit at bits and peices.

As you said Mac Iam writing as it is happening.....

Then after 10 days or so back to the hussle and bussle of Bangkok, then back to work.

Life aint bad, just sometimes sucks.....

Si Thai

i really can not see your problem the goverment is not telling you who or not to fall in love with as you know when you fall in love with a thai even before this rule it took time to get visa's to go anywhere out of thailand so during that time if your true love really loves you she/he would want to learn your langauge, it took a friend of mine 5 months to get her visa so true love always pervails

I was just widening the debate, Carole. This potential requirement is only the latest in a string of government acts which, introduced insidiously, strike at the fundamental meaning of democracy.

Scouse.

Scouse Hi, I was back in England a few months ago, and it seems to me the horse has already bolted, Poles Bulgs Russkies etc CANNOT SPEAK PAASA ANGRIT, and well the welfare seems to help them more than there own kind, so I sympathise with this debate, but Iam married to a Thai and we have been back a few times but the grilling is still on the agenda at the Airport, so the feeling I have that it is stopping sound cases, and letting tom dick and andropov, in at the drop of a hat, I am not a racist but you look at GB, ONLY AN ISLAND....but, we did welcome one and all, now it seems it is doing the Aussie bit which I feel should have been in place years ago....Enoch Powell said something years ago, slightly racist, in today's terms but it had an element of truth to it.

GB is well and truly buggered!

Si Thai

Happy Birthday your Majesty, krub, suk-sa wan goet krub!

A truly amazing human being, I wish only the people, look, listen, and learn from this inspirational man, every day!

Then.... we hope, we will see a truly Amazing Thailand, go forward in the right direction!

From Khun El, Khun Simon

LONG LIVE THE KING

Below is a copy of a bit of an article on Sky News which shows that Global Warming is affecting places everywhere, even the most developed countries and authorities everywhere are patching up problems rather than spending the money to really fix the situation well and prepare for the worse weather. Just thought it might be interesting...

'Sea Defences Smashed To Oblivion'

By Roger Collier, Dunwich resident, Updated:12:35, Friday November 09, 2007

"The shingle bank, that has protected Dunwich from the North Sea has been

breached for the second time in the last 12 months and water is pouring over the

fields and into gardens.

But the question villagers are now asking is what happens when the waters

subside.

For years they have been battling the authorities to provide adequate sea

defences. And for years these authorities have spent pocket money patching up

what nature has provided."

I wondered how long it would be before someone bought up the subject of global warming once it was called bad weather before the poiliticians saw an opportunity to tax everyone to the hilt in the name of saving polar bears and the planet.

Lets get this straight we are not talking about freak tidal surges in the North Sea we are talking about the roads and peoples houses getting flooded when it rains.

Well maybe global warming but, IT EFFECTS EVERY ONE WORLD WIDE, the problems will not go away as in the drainage the collapsed roads/bridges etc...Here in Samui.....

But on the weather thingy I have a friend who works in the BBC metrological office/ advisor etc this is wee caption on the Nino subject, which does effect Asia in general.....

Most important factor is the El Nino / La Nina oscillation which no doubt you have heard about. It involves an equatorial ocean current in the Pacific which switches between east-flowing and west-flowing. El Nino is east-flowing, and La Nina is west-flowing. The ocean currents are driven by the winds, so a La Nina, for instance, also brings a westerly airflow across the Pacific. It's not really an oscillation, as there is nothing particularly regular about it, and it can be in any one of five phases: Strong El Nino, weak El Nino, Neutral, weak La Nina and strong La Nina. A La Nina (west flowing) delivers copious amounts of very warm and very moist air from the Pacific to Indonesia, and when it is particularly strong this also affects SE Asia. We have a moderately strong La Nina at the moment which one would certainly expect to result in above-average rainfall over a large area from Papua-New Guinea to Malaysia and Thailand. Forecasting these things is fraught with difficulty.....

So if you can understand that it gives us well hope for December!!!

Ciao

Well, it doesn't seem to apply in Samui as I was just there last week and none of the Immigration officers I dealt with said anything to me about checking in (or not as the case may be) after I returned from a visit to the US. No report form, no fine, not even a comment. Nada.

So far, all reports are from Hua Hin. Quite odd that the HH officer seemed to feel the need to fine for another province tho---ie people fined for not checking in in Bangkok.

Yes, Samui is a different fish of kettle, but, even which, I have, a work permit, if you have logged out of Thailand for a period of time, you to STILL report either to the labour office/ immagration/ officianado/ what ever sort of visa you have, just play the game and tell them where you are.

Its changing, and Samui begs to difer, but that could change, tomorrow, Monday who knows!!!

Ciao