Mig15

I hope your right. Just thought I would pass it on.

I was talking to our Visa girl yesterday and she told me that there is a new plan to stop none immigrant B visas being issued in Malaysia, Cambodia, Vietnam and Lao. You will only be able to get them from English speaking countries – UK, US, Australia, New Zeeland. So if you forget your re-entry permit you have to go to one of those countries to get started again.

In seven years here never been stopped, searched or had anything to do with the police apart from one fag end fine in 1996.

All the gold has gone of the front of mine. The small “Napoleon,” brand notebooks have a plastic cover that is just the right size for a passport.

I am looking for a 2 bedroom flat / apartment in the Sathorn area. Anyone know of anything not too expencive?

Is there anywhere other than Central Bang Na that you can get a Thai passport? Someone told me there was a place near the Morchit BTS?

She has actually changed her name back to her maiden name after her divorce was finalized. So I hope it will not be too complicated as she has the new ID card already.

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How do we change the name on a Thai passport? Is it just a matter of going down to the passport office at Central Bang Na and going through the possess again? Or is there an easier way? We went to Bang Na to get the passport last year but it took most of the day and I would like to cut down the time and expense to change the name if I can.

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There is no big secret to teaching – if you know your stuff – as you say you do. All you need to do is to present the information in the most accessible way depending on your students.

There is a lot of discussion amongst teachers as to the usefulness of lesson plans but for someone like you they will be a big help. Just write down what you are going to do or cover with the students, what you want them to know and understand at the end. Some notes on what you are going to say – not word for word – just to keep you on track if your freeze up and can’t remember what you are going to say.

Always have more than you need because something you think may take half an hour to say may take five minutes and then you are stuck! . Make a guess at how long each bit of the class will take so you know that you have enough for the time.

Try using overheads or visual aids with short punchy bullet points – not too much because people will not read it. It is good to do this if you are new to teaching and feel nervous because it takes the attention of you a bit.

Review how it went in your own mind after the class and change things as you need to for next time. Get the students to do something, an activity of some kind.

I just take a look at BBC Prime and I know why I’m here. Changing Rooms, Gardening, the Weakest Link. These programs are the highlight of some peoples lives.

Why do I want the divorce? Well to me it is not a big deal. I am divorced from my former wife who was Thai, and I don’t want to rush into it again.

We went to the UK embassy the other day to try to get my partner a visa for a short holiday with me to meet my Mum and Dad who are getting on and not in the best of health.

They did not refuse her but I had not left enough time and the date for the interview was after the date we needed to fly. The woman interviewing us on the initial review was snotty to say the least. Asking my partner questions in Thai and she hesitated to answer like “how long are you going for?” She hesitated because she cold not hear her!

I was there as well – they did not like that – I was standing up at the counter. Suddenly she goes “I want to talk to her! Stand back from the window! Stand back from the window!” OK I’m not going to explode. She asked my partner about her husband and then she said “And what is YOUR status?” To me. She did miss the word Scum off the end of the sentence which was something I suppose.

So we got thinking about getting him out of her life for good. I know she would like to and I can understand why.

Thanks for your input,

John

My long term partner is still married to her husband, who deserted her and her three children. Having heard that she is now with a foreigner he has said that he will not give her a divorce unless she gives him money. Surprise, surprise! The amount mentioned was 500,000 baht. So I started to look at the possibility of divorcing through the courts and the lawyers have said a figure of 100,000 – 200,000 baht as an estimate for doing this.

Has anyone experience of contested divorce? What the cost may be – I don’t think that I trust Thai lawyers anymore than I trust her husband! Any recommendations for a good law firm? Your thought and experiences would be appreciated.

John

Many of them just put them up, I guess. There can’t be that many parachutes to go round the number of people who have parachute wings. Ranger qualified, combat infantryman, shooting awards – merchant bankers.

I had a card stolen in this way some years ago. I enquired with the bank, HSBC, and they said that they never send cards to Thailand from the UK! But why do they do it? The card was not in date and I had weeks to cancel it.

A verbal contract is not worth the paper it’s written on.

Northern dish Cow Soi is very good and I do miss it. Noodles and curry soup.

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The virus is carried by a daytime biting mosquito so don't worry if you get bitten at night. Try to limit the number of times you get bitten in the day is the only way to protect yourself.

You can have it more than ones because there are different strains. If you get the same strain twice is the very dangerous thing.

If that is the lowest of dishonorable conduct what is abandoning ones children and wife to fend for themselves? The height of good conduct? You don’t want to believe everything you read on Stickman.

Children being put out to beg. I past this little girl the other day on the road near Pantip, begging and just hiding round the corner on her mobile phone was what I guess was her mother!

I am not quite sure of the name but I think Garuda is used as a symbol of the Thai Government. Also I think as a symbol of official recognition, for example on a bank. I have seen a Thai guy who had this tattoo on his shoulder. I don't think you need to worry about it.

My ex-wife never changed her name. Technically illegal, I think, but we never had any problems here or in the UK, or when we got divorced here.

I find it very annoying that if you watch a Discovery Channel program that in one hour you are shown the same trailers about six times. However, having just returned fro a trip to the UK I found UBC better than the UK TV now!

I ride a bicycle and would love to have a 1 baht licence.