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I used to subscibe to a small book, published monthly, for I think 500B a year, which listed all flights in and out of Thailand. My subsciption has expired and Khun Wife has sold all my old copies for waste paper, so I cannot find the address to renew. Does any member here know of this guide and, could they give me an address to re-subscibe to.

Living up country, this was my only way of keeping in touch with flights in and out of the Kingdom.

A postal adress, e-mail address or phone number would be enough. Each guide had a page to fill in to subscibe. If only I could find a old guide.....

Aha says he pulling out his trusty Thailand Airline guide

Just look up

www.thailandairlinetimetable.com

and all will be revealed and it worked for me 5 minutes ago cos I checked.

I have a 12 month visa, no problems and certainly do not have to go look for a job...god forbid.

Me too.

I was lucky enough to get my visa renewed on September 10th so I should have no problem for a year. During this time I feel that things will settle down and ALL visa information will become clear.

The UK embassy only requires an "original" and not a copy of your annual income from your pension company. They will copy it and your passport details and issue you a letter the following working day.

The Immigration department requires a copy of every page in your bankbook plus the original but when I renewed my visa last month I did not have 400,000 baht in my joint account, but my pensions made up the difference.

You also require a letter from your bank confirming the amount and BTC (before the coup) it could not be more than 1 week old.

There are a lot of other documents required and if you pm me I can send you a checklist that I use.

I hope that helps you.

I bought Michelin tyres for my 4 year old pickup.

Cheap tyres are a false economy as the ONLY thing that supports your car and keeps it on the road are 4 bits of rubber called tyres and only a part of them is in contact with the road.

I have no idea if Thailand sells remoulds but look around the cheaper areas of where you live or get a local guy you can trust to buy them for you.

thanks for the info about the fact that the tyres are what keeps a car on the road

pretty much aware of that.....................................

the car will do about 100 KM's a month if that as its used to go from the house to the beach once a week. It seems pointless with a cheap runaround to spend a quarter of the cost of the car on a set of tyres or maybe thats just cos I am scottish and hate spending money

Sorry. I was under the impression you were going to use the car for more than going to the beach etc.

Sunbelt, earlier you stated I think that a combination of money in the Bank and an income/pension could satisfy the Baht 400,000.- requirement for a Marriage Visa.

This rule used to apply about 3 years ago and was stopped. For the last 2 years I have had to prove that over Baht 400,000.- was in the Bank.

I think you said that it was now at the Officer's discretion?

Has it actually been confirmed to you that a combination sum of, for example, a confirmed pension income plus a bank balance for the remainder will usually be accepted?

Sorry to labour this matter.

I was lucky enough to renew my support visa on 10 September and when I went in August I did not have 400,000 in the bank but my pensions came to more than 40,000 a month and I had no problem.

3. It's no longer possible to get a multiple entry 'O' in Asia - So every 15 months will require a trip back home.

Looks like it's time for many of us to pack our bags and go home

Hi,

I don't understand. What is the problem to someone to go every 12-15 month home to the home country and do every 3 month a trip to Laos, Malysia...? I always enjoy those trips.

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Backsida

I AM at home in Thailand. It is that other country where I was born which is foreign to me now. Apart from my son by my first marriage and a couple of friends I hane nothing to go back to or for.

This is my country now, good times and bad and I will stick around here until I die, get cremated, get my ashes dumped in the front garden and then live in the spirit house and watch over my family.

We drilled a well and installed a deep well pump since there is no water supply on the road we are building a house. The well is used for water neded on the building site.

The builder asked us where we wanted to place the water tank and second pump. (which we would need to buy as an extra)

My question is: why would I need a water tank and second pump?

The well is 20m from the house and when the tap is opened the pump delivers water from the well.

Therefore I guess the same would happen in the house if that water supply get conncected to the house or do I miss something here? Why spend an other 20k on tank and pump?

Thanks for your thoughts and wisdom....

I am by no means an expert, but I would imagine you need the tank for a back-up if you have problems with your well pump, for issues of filtration, and perhaps constant pressure. Back-up for the family fairly important, ask the poor sods in town who depend on water from the mains in Patters, what hel_l they go through with no regular supply !!

Suiging is pretty much correct about the tank for filtering and a regular supply at a constant pressure.

Although the well is only 20m from the house will you have enough pressure to get water upstairs, again at constant pressure for showes and toilets etc.

You can buy a 2,000 litre concrete storage tank for about 750 baht and a very good Mitsubishi pump will set you back another 6,000 roughly.

I live right out in the country and I have 26 storage tanks and 1 pump ( another for a spare), It sounds a lot but in the dry season we may not get government water for 2 months and the ground up here is solid rock under 1 metre of soil. Sometime we have up to 12 people staying on site and they use a lot of water.

I bought Michelin tyres for my 4 year old pickup.

Cheap tyres are a false economy as the ONLY thing that supports your car and keeps it on the road are 4 bits of rubber called tyres and only a part of them is in contact with the road.

I have no idea if Thailand sells remoulds but look around the cheaper areas of where you live or get a local guy you can trust to buy them for you.

My friends wife who lives about 100 m away has a restaurant with singers and karaoke which goes on until about 1 am but after a while it just gets to be background noise, unless it is me singing english language songs rewritten by Filipinos or Thais, with the words and music out of sync. The government speakers are further away so no problems there.

The worst noises are when my dogs are fighting with her dogs, and the pickup trucks that come around with very loud speakers. There is one guy that sells pork and ALL the dogs in the moo ban sing to him around 6 am.

I used this company and had no problems.

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I recently used JVK for a move within Bangkok. I found the rates reasonable. What are you basing your evaluation on? I would imagine that land transportation to Phnom Penh would not be the easiest thing in the world to arrange.

I am always puzzled when people say they feel farangs are no longer welcome in Thailand. Could this be some sort of transference of another issue?

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I will tell you that i am absolutely sick of living in Thailand and putting up with all the BULLSHIT from the thais. I cannot beleive the way that thais treat farang here, it is borderline criminal. I have message to caucasians in America and other countries DO NOT COME TO THAILAND IT IS A THIRD WORLD SHITHOLE.

I am sorry that you are not happy in Thailand especially as you say that your marriage is failing.

I can also understand a bit about Thai bullshit in Bangkok but I have been coming to Thailand and living here since 1993 and I don't think that any Thais that I know treat me badly.

I am married with a 2 year old son and we live 6 km from the nearest village and when I go into the village most people are pleasant to me as I am to them.

Maybe it is because I am 62 and try to speak my mangled Thai to them that they take pity on me but I don't think that Thailand is a shithole as you so clearly put it.

I have lived and worked in much worse countries than Thailand where you DON'T go down unlit roads or dark streets for safeties sake. While people were not out to actually shoot at me I wasn't happy there either whereas in Thailand I have no worries about dark streets.

Unlike you I will live the rest of my life in Thailand, die here, be cremated and dumped on the garden then live in the spirit house and watch over my family. I just hope that it will be a long time before this happens.

If I load Ubuntu will I be able to run GPRS as this is my only internet connection?

Also could somebody please tell me the name of the software to replace Word Excel etc.

My mind has gone to a blank page today.

Thanks a lot

I would sugest anyone visiting a immigration office to get a haircut/shave and dress your

best, sounds like they are targeting the farang kee nok types when it comes to "descretion"

This is what I do normally when I go to Suan Phlu to renew my (wife) support visa. Clean white shirt, long trousers, haircut shave etc.

Take my ticket and wait in the queue with all my documents plus my wife and son, smile a lot, say little and be polite.

It works for me.

I have just read on another web site that to get married in Thailand you have to be resident for 4 days, is this correct?

Please dont get married after only 4 days.

It took me about 7 years and a divorce to marry my Thai wife.

Well worth the wait though.

Last year we bought 10 rai up in the central region for 33,000 baht a rai (included 10% commission to a friend) which was man or tapioca.

It is high enough not to be flooded and has a stream running along the bottom for irrigation in the dry season.

There was also another 15 or 20 rai for sale nearer that was on offer at 45,000 baht a rai and that was planted with mango and other trees but that is a bit too expensive for what land goes for around here which is about 30,000 baht a rai.

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Maizefarmer Posted Yesterday, 2006-10-04 13:00:39

Yes - do not rush on that purchase.

It sounds on the high pice for where it is - but there are so many factors to consider.

The first thing is that 5 rai of it is close to been useless because of the Eucalyptus trees - and once cut down the soil will be in a mess, but it has trees on it, may be good for a house (because it suggests the land is higher than the land around it)

We had eucalyptus trees up one side of my wifes land which we cut down and used to build the small house and a lot of the big house. We have built a house for the workers and a fish pond on much of that land so it is not a problem for us there.

So you have 14 rai of rice land - will take you a long time to recover 770K from 14rai of rice!

It will take a long time to get your money back if that is to be your sole income but if you don't need to live from it then it is probably a good investment.

Stop sending her $$$, you are being conned

Send it to someone who really needs it, give it to a good charity, dont be a kwai

nam

About 11 years ago I used to send my girlfriend about 15,000 a month for the best part of 4 years and I never asked her what she spent it on.

Does that make me as stupid as you think I am to be conned for those 4 years?

I married her 6 years ago and we have a 2 year old son.

Now I give her nothing but we have a joint bank account both here and offshore and if she takes money out she always tells me.

Please don't tell me that there are always exceptions as that works both ways.

I think that there are more honest women in Thailand than dishonest.

I also think that there are more falangs willing to run ALL Thai women down without knowing the facts.

Support visa for my wife and son.

We go to Bangkok once a year for this and it makes a break from upcountry.

It will be nice to have a civilian PM--even if he will be answering to the military. It's an encouraging sign.

Also it is within the 2 weeks that the CDRM said they would take.

Hopefully with this as a start maybe some of the other things that they would happen will.

Page 12 of wishful thinking that the PM is going to be hurting for funds.

These funds were never meant to be stored in the LOS in the first place. Would you keep the bulk of your funds in a country that automatically taxes your interest revenue?

Like Australia ?

plus the UK and the EU.

The only reason that I am not taxed on my pitiful interest is that I live in Thailand and I have declared it to my offshore bank and the tax authorities in the UK.

Also if you live in the UK and have an offshore account the bank now has to declare it so that they can tax it.

Another nail.....

It was on the nation website under the breaking news section today.

I gave credit to the site at the bottom of my post.

I think it's great news, but seems strange that they announce this so early, I would have thought there would be other things on their mind.

I guess each ministry is busy with it's own agenda.

Maybe the interior ministry is deciding to get rid of all the stupid strict laws brought in by the Thaksin government.

Maybe we will see petrol stations open all night?

Nightclubs open later?

A generally more relaxed and fun place than it was during Thaksin's tenure?

My apologies for that error on my part. I really must clean my glasses.

I am sure that in the last couple of days there were reports from the North that bthese would be cancelled. It may have had something to do with the previous governments people in that area.#

The million baht revolving fund was not the greatest idea as was open to abuse but at least it did work, the SME I know nothing about but the 30 baht medical scheme was one of the best ideas provided that in the future it is better funded and controlled.

It depends on where you want to go in which direction.

Figure on around 2 years work as will actually go past Suk 101/1 out to uk 107 which is the other side on the Bang Na Trat highway and expressway.

If you are coming up from Suk 22/31 and want to go out to Bang Na go over to Rama 4, up to the Port upramp and onto the expressway and the same going the other way. You can get into 101/1 from 103 but that will be jammed up 22 hours a day. You can use On Nut (Suk 77) or Sri Nakharin across towards Petchburi road.

There are quite a few routes but be warned that the Thai drivers in Bangkok know them all anyway.

I use a program called Mail Express Pro which turns my laptop into its own server.

All I do then is use my AIS post paid account and I get 120 hours for 350 baht. That means I could get 170 hours on my pc for 5oo baht.

Where I live 60 km southwest of Khampaeng Phet in the Central provinces it has p1ssed down for most of the day (plus the electricity went out at midnight and finally came back at 18:00).

The stream where we sometimes get water from in the dry season is almost to the top of the banks whereas in the dry season it is normally 2 metres lower.

None of the people around here have seen it so high in years.

It is not a problem for us yet as we live on the other side of the road about 5 metres higher and it will take a lot more rain before it gets to us.

There are not that many houses that side of the road anyway so obviously local history (old wives tales) works.

I did not think that under the CDRM there were any ministries still operating let alone ones from a previous government.

Where did this information actually come from?

Was it posted anywhere?

Hi fellow thaivisa members. I'm fairly new around here. My first couple of posts highlighted my miserable existence in the uk. I am in my twenties, living in the Uk with my Thai girl. My (and hers) job is crap, poorly paid and meaningless. I've heard of well paid jobs in the middle east. I was once on my way to Thailand wia Quatar and I was sat next to a British gentleman on the plane who said he worked "pressing buttons and getting paid thousands" in the printing industry in Doha. He would rotate his time like 6 weeks there and 4 weeks in England.

The Guy in Qatar probably does get paid thousands for pressing buttons he spent a fair amount of time learning which buttons to press and he also has to accept the responibility if it all goes wrong.

I also met a man in Phuket who was working on an oil rig and again would spend his time between his job and his home - in phuket.

Again to work on an oil rig anywhere you need to get experience and spend a few years working your way up the ladder.

I would love to do something like this - even just for a couple of years. it's not just about the money either. I want the experience. And if I could do something like this and make Thailand my base or home that would be great. I am hardworking and motivated, diciplined and reliabe. I would especially like working on an oil rig - of course I would probably have to obtain a qualification.

The first thing you have to do is make up your mind what to do and then find out what qualifications you need to do it. You may have to go back to college or university to gain that and it may take a few years to do so, after which you need to find a company to employ you. You may be lucky enough to find a company who will take you on, train you and also give you the time off to get the qualifications.

I am now semi retired but I still work and earn a fair amount in the mobile phone industry but I started in 1987 and now the jobs are being taken by Filipinos, Thais, Indians, Pakistanis and the like who will work for less than I would but it is still a lot for them. Good for them I say.

I am afraid that most of the jobs that pay well are not in the places that I would want to go. Last year I was offered $13,500 a month plus flights, hotels etc in Iraq. I politely said that I would not go for less than $500,000 a month as I have a wife, a young son and I am not going to any country where the population thinks it is great fgun to shoot my a** off.

I hope that I have not dampened your enthusiasm but money for old rope is not that easy to get or everybody would try for it.

I know this forum is an excellent source of information and I'm sure there are plenty of members here that could offer advice to get going in the right direction - I would truely appreciate some information on the above. Thanks in advance guys.