bkkperson

contact the thai embassy nearest to you and they will do it for you....

ill be interested to know if they will charge you 1000baht(or equavalent)for a new one like they do in Bangers

Nana BTS? About 4 minutes.

Nana Plaza? I have no idea. I havent been there for a couple of years. Ten minutes, maybe.

Hmm interesting it takes you 6 mins to walk from BTS to Nana Plaza..thats a tad unfit ain it

Use pointasia.com it use's the same imagary as google earth but its in thai

Then it seems mostly likely that 'stop n search' tea money will go up

Like you said, it is always refreshing with an open discussion about sensitive things. I feel that I have to apologize a little bit for my aggressive style in my post above. I wrote it late last night, and I wass tired as h_ell.

Hmm....a chemist getting ratty as he was up to late and tired as hel_l maybe he should be staying off the pills and applying a bit of group anger managment theropy.....hmm very interesting..will take note

Who the F$%k is Adam???

do i know him..does he know me..does he know its his birthday and everyone from TV is invited with his mum footing the bill??

Is snowflake hot??? Is tatler posh? and why is Adams mum the only one posting where is the other halfs posts!!!!

Ill keep me eye on this one

i know what your saying taxout (thanks for the advice by the way) its just i really dont have the cash to splash out on these and had 1 not fell out yesterday i would have put it on the back burner....

The crowns have defo gone bad as not only is there a gap but also some of the gum has literally burnt away and exposing some of the pin (on 2 of the) but the dentist said that was because i was brushing to much so im gonna have to have a skint month and get fixed..

Okay what about a compromise and maybe going semi precious is there a big difference between non and semi, and then the difference between semi and full precious

Unless of course there are dentisit anybody knows of that allows you to pay monthly like credit!!

I would check to see if your d drive is NTFS if it isnt' then convert it by opening up a command prompt and typing convert d:\fs:ntfs that will convert from fat to NTFS then just give your self the only permission on the drive itself....

mcdonalds, or Mike's MouthWatering Meals,

hmm... i would defo pressure them or if you really wanna be there mybe checkout other plces..iv had a few mates who have had baby's and all of them who have wanted to have been their when it's been delivered...

My miisus is about 4months off that problem but ill be sure to ask when the time comes..thanks

Well thats two actors gone in less than a week.... who's next???

Who was the other one?

im also a tad confused, when you say you viewed web pages as thumbs does that mean that you actually downloaded the pages for off-line viewing or are you talking bout your favourites??

The only way you woul be able to view anything as a thumbnail is to actually have the file on your PC or in your Temp Internet files chache

Interesting point. How old are these singleroom dwellers? I'm 43 for the record.

As for living like a lord, well two points. No, I didnt live like a lord all my life. On the contrary.. . I'm a council house boy from way back.

And second point - I barely live like a lord now. I live in a two bedroom condo in a nice building. Hardly like a lord; more like a normal westerner would live either here or back home.

And that, of course, is just my point.[/quote

If you was a council house boy from way back then you will appreciate people are living by there means...bear in mind that your 55k per month rent is probably as much as some people are getting in there wages each month and as i said before why should people have to pay x amount for there rent when they are just as comfortable living in a room with a balconony..

Just for the record, i would very much doubt that a westerner back home would class living in a 2 bedroom condo as 'the norm', thats the type of thing you do in your 30's, you would have thought that by the time you get into your 40's you would have moved onto bigger and better things, i mean it must be cramp in their with the family!!

I went to the dentist yesterday and was quoted 8 for non and 12, 14 and 15 for precious..to be honest my budget can only allow for 8, are the non precious really that bad?? Will they last me a few years..the last ones i had were NHS so they were obviously the bottom end and they lasted 15 years!!!

By the way just for my own clarification apart from the obvious and it falling out..how do you know when a crown goes bad??? and 2nd the dentist told me that the pins i have will be okay to use again..is that wise after already being in 15 years

Thanks

Hi,

Iv been needing to go to the dentist for a while now as the 2 crowns iv got have been on there last legs for some time and 30 mins ago the inevitable happened, can anybody recommend a adequate but cheap dentist as funds are very tight, im gonna need some very intensive work done so it does need to be cheap..

Nice 1

Getting to the border:

How much time would it take to travel from Nong Khai Railway station to the border?

Is there transportation from the railway station to the border and what does it cost?

Getting from the border to the Embassy:

What about transportation from the border to the Thai embassy? (approx. costs?)

At the Thai embassy in Vientiane:

Visa applications can be submitted till what time at the embassy?

What is the passport/visa pick-up time?

Is it ALWAYS "next day" passport pick-up? (consider to book my return trip in advance)

Thanks again

it takes 5 minutes via tuk-tuk at 30 baht to get to the border and they will be waiting for you when your train comes..

try and get 35 US dollars before you get to the Laos border as there rate is crap..

Once through it will cost around 200baht for your own taxi straight to the embassy who take apps up til 12(make sure you have 2 photos and a photocopy of passport to save time)

You can pick up your passport after 1 and before 3 the next day...(they do drop offs morning and pickups in afternoon)

and will safely be back in time for the 6.15 from Nong Khai back to Bkk

Also everywhere there takes baht and gives change in kip so change up all your money into 100baht notes that way you wont get kip you dont need

hope this helps

With respect, living in a 30 sqm room with no hot water is as close to being on skid row as you can get. No hot water? How on earth do you shower?

The world industrialised 230 years ago. As a result, many nations became relatively rich and their citizens got to enjoy the benefits of living in multi-room homes with hot and cold running water, plumbing, sanitation etc.

I'm assuming you once lived in a home with hot water, so I'll repeat my question. Why does it feel so good to be going backwards?

Noone is going to convince me that living in a room barely bigger than a prison cell with no hot water is a sign that a person's life is heading in the right direction .. . .

Bendixmate come on have a word... Stop seeing the fact that a living in a 30sqm room is going backwards, im a thinkin in your head a 5k room is just a complete crap hole, in some cases that is true but not in all, the fact that the rooms have cold water is nothing to do with taking a step back in fact it's just the opposite, as far as your beef with cold water goes well why not 90% of thai's shower in cold water so why if a western person is doing it then is it a step back..and sanitation..ha ha..no you have got me there everybody who rents a place under 10k has to cr@p in the bucket they provide!!!

There is also 1 small point you are missing in all this is that people who work over here don't get paid the same as they do in UK or USA or wherever so therefore the extra money saved from living in a more than adequate 30sqm room is more money to do other things with..

God bless ya if you ever have to go out of the city and see real Thailand, you wont be able to buy your hand cream their..

Here's a thought to those who so proudly live in 30 sqm meter one room apartments with no hot water etc - did you live like that back in the old country?

I hardly think its 3rd world conditions living in a 30 sqm room with a big balcony, something that would cost you well over 1500 back in London, its a tad different living here than it is back in the Uk, for one thing you would hopefully think that you've finally come out of your own ass, clearly something you haven't learnt yet!!

I pay 2500 for a place 5 mins from Pra Khanong Station all in all it cost me 3k including water and electric, oky i only have cold water and on a cold morning it is a tad cold but i have a big nice room with a balcony about half the size of the room, i got it when i was planning on moving back to blighty for a bit and wanted somewhere for the missus to be able to afford while i was gone, as it happens i found a job so didnt need to go back, but to be honest its just as good as some of the places i have paid 10k for and for once i have found a pad where they dont rip me off with my electric(one month i was charged 87 baht)

As far as I know there are 2 prices....

(1) One for the 1.1.2 phone that cannot be unlocked. Users must use a cut sim card to use their iphone. These phones are about Bt21k.

What is a cut sim card??? as this might apply to my blackberry which i cant unlock

Ow....

then i would consider just going yourself..it really is very very easy....there has been many threads regarding how to do it but incase you cant be bothered to search this is how...

Just get train from BKK to Nong Khai then tuk tuk to border then taxi from otherside of border straight to embassy,drop passport off, then go get a room for one night, pick passport back up in the afternoon then taxi straight to border,train back to BKK

Very very easy

jacks golf on the corner of suk soi 12, about 6000 baht but they dont go vientiane they go somewhere nearer..takes about 2 days

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Don't be so sensitive! I think he meant the sauna is not very clean.

No No i dont think the OP is being sensetive, i would have read it the same.... exactly as it says

Strange people on TV

hmm now i think about it your right polecat...

Instead of banning smoking in the pubs they should just ban the non-smokers from the pubs!!!

Yeah yeah much better

have you looked at doing a firmware upgrade using nokia firmware updater..that may help if they have a newer one