teacherofwoe

Two MTG players looking for other players in Chiang Mai for friendly games. Novices and experienced players welcom.

So many posters want to lynch this man. This isn't the wild west. Has anyone not though that this person might need special care? I see a very troubled individual without the mental or emotional capacity to function in society. This person clearly needs help.

I would like to put my name forward

Ill give him some special care ,really creative special care

Its weak liberals like you Mr teacher that have created chaos in Europe over the last 30 years

People like Jeff,just love people like you dont they because with you about there is never any social responsibilty only excuses and eventual decay of society values

We need to understand him, f...k that i would say after 48 years if Jeff the Jaffa has not worked out who he is

Why should anybody else

Lets hope you are really not a teacher as your name refers to because as i see it

The only one that needs help is you mate !

If he cant function in society then the easy answer and the only one is take him out of society

Forever

All of the underlining you made of my post refers to yourself. Unlike you, I don't hate the man; I pity him. I also pity you.

So many posters want to lynch this man. This isn't the wild west. Has anyone not though that this person might need special care? I see a very troubled individual without the mental or emotional capacity to function in society. This person clearly needs help.

Does anyone know if it's possible to get a work permit on a retirement visa? If not, then is it possible to switch to a non b at the local immigration office or does one have to leave the country and go to a Thai embassy? The person in question is 59 years old, so she should be able to get the non b. Would she have problems getting one next year when she's 60?

Thanks for any information about this.

He got his new work permit while on a one week extention and has since been to Mae Sai twice now. You say he didn't get a visa at Mae Sai; he was worried that he has been working illegally on a tourist visa and was also concerned that his new work permit had been nullified also.

If he gets ll the paperwork can he get a Non B in Thailand?

A guy I know has changed jobs and his B visa was cancelled by his old employer. He was able to get a one week extension. He found a new job and got a new work permit. Unfortunately, his new employer couldn't get all of the documents to get his B visa extended for the year so he had to go to Mae Sai for a border run and now has a tourist visa. He is getting ready to go to Loas to get a new B visa. However, after reading the info on this site about getting a B visa it seems that the employer gives a letter requesting a B visa so they can obtain a work permit. Is his work permit still valid? Should he not tell the Thai embassy about the permit and just get the visa and then carry on like nothing happened?

Thanks to everyone for the help

Does anyone know if the B40,000 must be earned but one parent or can it be through joint salaries e.g. B25,000 + B15,000?

I didn't know the 400,000 in the bank was still an option. If it is, how long does the money need to stay in the account?

Your wife can get a monthly tax receipt from the Tax Office.

Your money is fine, just go to the Embassy and get a letter confirming +40,000 baht per month.

Others in here will give you more advice

Sounds good, but do I need to show the money coming over for several months first or just the first time? If the original source of the money is from my family and not through salary or inverstment is that ok too?

To get the type O visa on the basis of having a Thai child I believe you need B40,000 per month from either parent.

Would simply having the funds sent every month from U.K. be sufficient for the British embassy to give me a confirmation letter?

Alternatively, what proof would my wife need to show? Probably paying income tax on B40,000 per month. Does this mean that we would have to wait until the end of this year to pay her taxes or can she register a business now and delare that she earns B40,000 per month?

Please advise.

I'll be travelling to Britain in a couple of months with my one year old daughter who has two passports. If I accompany her in the short Thai queue will they stamp my passport at that counter or will I have to queue again for the foreign counter? Has anyone done this? Her Thai mother, my wife, is travelling with us. I just thought I'd try to on!

It seems that everything comes from China these days: Electrical items, clothes, poisons, etc. But everything from China is the lowest quality and a waste of money in my opinion as it's guaranteed to break at aroung 12 months (if you're lucky). My personal motto:

Is it made in China? No thanks!

Chiang Mai tops for human security, Bangkok and Phuket worst

Suwinai said the human-security score was calculated using comprehensive criteria, including the ratios of hospital beds/doctors to the population, student/teacher ratio, household income, employment rate, crime rate, divorce rate, population density, telephone and Internet access, and election turnout.

Good ratios my eye...

Plenty of doctors in CM but very few good ones. I recently broke my collar bone and had to wait over 24 hours for the specialist to come from another hospital.

50 students to one teacher.

CM has the lowest salaries for foreign teachers.

There's always a dozen applicants for every job.

Crime rate may seem good to a farang but ask a Thai and you'll hear some real horror stories.

I live in CM's outskirts and we waited two years to get a telephone line. We had to buy someone's number. Internet took a further six months.

Election turn outs are good because of all the vote buying. My mother in law made B200 at the last election.

CM has plenty of things going for it but like any city it has it's problems and faults.

not sure about farang or all. The car remains in the Finance companies name until you have paid all the $$. upon completion, can transfer to ur name.

Thanks. The dealer didn't make that point clear. He said "farang mai dai". Somebody else has confirmed what you've said.

Firstly, apologies if this has been covered in a previous thread.

I went to my local Toyota dealer yesterday to enquire about a Vios. As I was putting down at least B200,000 I didn't need anyone to guarantee the finance. Great! Not quite. He said that as I was a farang I couldn't register the car in my name until it had been paid for in full.

Has anyone bought a new car on finance and registered it in their name right from the off?

If you have a look at the translation of the Thai Highway Laws you'll see that it is in fact legal to drive the wrong way down a road. Somewhere on this site (can't remember where) is a link to the translation. It's worth having a look at as it has other crazy rules like if you're indicating to turn left and an oncoming vehicle is indication to turn right into the same road he has right of way.

Anyone know where I can buy a tank?

Being loaded on booze really does cause so many accidents, but if the locals could drive properly in the first place then there would be fewer accidents all year round. Just the little things like looking left when you pull out in the path of oncoming traffic, tailgating the vehicle in front when you know you'll never be able to stop in time and the overtaking of the vehicle in front when you can see an oncoming vehicle. The Ministry of Transport needs to rethink the Thai Driving Test. It's just like the school exams in government schools: no one must fail. Only this test will determine whether people die or not. How many learner driver with "L" plates have you ever seen here? Drive through some cones and reverse your car and you get your licence.

Policemen are some of the worse drivers here. What chance have we got if the police perform dangerous manouvers themselves and also turn a blind eye to other traffic offenders (they would be classed as offenders in U.K.)

The ability to copy others is one of the strongest attributes of Thai people. So, why not copy the British of American system of the teaching and testing of driving. Yes, it's going to be expensive, but you'll be investing in lives.

O.K. That clarifies things rather well. I've worked and paid taxes for quite a few years, but I'm between jobs at the moment and was forced to do a boarder hop and i'm not on a tourist 30 days visa. I was trying to find the simplest method, but 21 days just isn't it. Either Penang or Vientine, I think.

Thanks.

It has been suggested to me that I can go from a tourist visa to a non immigrant B through a new teaching job without leaving the country. Apparently I can do this in Bangkok. Can anyone confirm this or is my source mistaken?

Thailand doesn't have any trees? are you sure about that 'teacherofwoe'?

Trees suitable for making furniture.

You are aware that 75% of the trees were cut down and not replanted, aren't you? Most wood comes from immature trees which is why most furniture that's made from wood is made from small pieces. If you want something made from a large piece of wood, you need to pay through the nose as it's probably imported. The rich go to places like Pai and buy old teak houses, dismantle them and take them back to Bangkok. I've been scouring Chiang Mai for a decent piece of hardwood for ages. No joy.

One of the best manners to deal with this issue is to get the word around more and more in all you home countries so that more people would boycott coming to Thailand and also try to persuade more and more people from either investing here or even putting in their money in any funds with a vested commercial interest in Thailand, the more the words get around , the effects will start to follow and changes will have to happen. Also, all the foreigners should get more united in their causes.

A romantic notion. Read the news threads about how tourists get beaten up, mugged, raped and murdered. What are our governments doing about this? I think potential visitors to LOS need to know these facts before two tier pricing.

But what happens when the tourists arrive as green as grass. "Ohhh, it's so cheap here, isn't it?" I went mental at my mum who was visiting. She had a hair cut and manicure which came to B200 or so. She gave them B700 because it cost more than that in England. I went crazy when she told me. There are thousands of green tourists that just reaffirm the notion that Thais have which is that we are sheep waiting to be sheered. "Money must grow on trees in the west".

talking, listening to the radio (bbc4), watching tv or videos are more important than scholl, where there is more gramma, writing and reading.

Just a well you are not teaching anybody English....."scholl" and "gramma"....but then again LondonThai !!...cockney...cant speak English any way....LOL.... ....think you should watch a bit more bbc 4, TV and video...

Hold on! How do you know he's a cockney? London is a bloody big place mate. A cockney is from the east end and is born to the sound of Bow bells. Do some research before you start using vocabulary that you don't know the meaning of. That way you won't look like a wally.

P.S. I'm a cockney as is my father. I have an M.A. and he has a PhD. Alrigh me ol mukka?

Racism is a word they don't like to use on this forum. I recently posted about a racist policeman. I had lots of replys from the politically correct. I then cut and pasted the dictionary definition of racism onto the thread but some genius decided it was offensive and deleted it. How the dictionary can be offensive I don't know.

Anyway, if you want to pay the same price as Thais when you go to places that have two tier pricing (displayed) then get a Thai driving licence. Mine has paid for itself many times.

Here's a story you might like:

My friend from the U.S got married to an Issan girl. We all had to go to Issan for the wedding;what a drag. I went into a store and asked the price of something (I spoke in Thai) and was told B800. The next day I sent my wife who's from Chiang Mai into the store and she was quoted B400. The day after that my friend's wife who is from Issan got a qoute for B200 which was eventually cut down to B180. So, even Thais can get screwed by other Thais.

I bought a king size bed this week from Ban Maa made from real wood (o.k. box wood) which I had delivered for free because I told them not to varnish it. I rubbed it down and stained it myself and it look fantastic. The bed was B3,000 and the varnish and sand paper came to less than B1,000. A great looking wooden bed that will last for years and years for less than B4,000. You go to Index or SB and pay B10,000+ for a bed and in a few years the vaneer will be peeling off.