billd766

Thanks for the info guys.

I don't know who my wife has talked about for drilling but I do know where we live is mostly dirt and rock and not claystone so it should be OK.

The problem is then when she gets an idea in her head it is very difficult to shift it.

I will be back in a couple of months and I will try to arrangr a meeting with some drillers at home and see if that works or perhaps go to the local Amphur and check with them.

Cheers Bill

Can anyone help me?

I live a fair way out of the local village up in the hills and the government water supply is somewhat erratic to non existant in the dry season and I need to drill a borehole.

The problem is that I am working in Pakistan and my wife and her friend tell me that the government has passed a law banning borehole drilling completely due to fears of subsidence.

Unfortunately as I am unable to read Thai I cannot find any information to say that this is true or not so I am limited to Google etc searches in English, not that I don't believe her, but up where we live the only local government people we see are the trash men.

Can anyone confirm if this is true or does it mean we need to get a licence to drill?

cheers

 

WHOO-OOOOO!!!!!

She had her short interview this morning, asked her a few questions about me, visa granted!!!!!

Happy as a pig in sh$t...

Waiting for travel agents to confirm dates for coming to pick her up!!!

A big list of THANK YOU's will follow.

 

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I am happy that it has worked out for you and your lady. hopefully now you will be able to relax together and the rest will follow as it should.

Hello Billd766,

I must have missed your post in the confusion I faced back end of last year.

I note that PSISAT now have an English version of the webpage. You said that you were going to install one of their rigs. How is it?

How come no monthly payments. Is it all Free To Air channels? In which case no movies?

Peter

Are digital satellite TV installations available in HH area? I would like something capable of an English news channel, the odd sports and movie channels.

Information on availability, recommended retailers and satellite providers will be welcomed.

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Hi Peter

Try this company.

The website is in Thai but the main phone number is in English and they do speak English at the head office.

You may also recognise the HH area code and bypass the main office.

I am going to get their service put in sometime next year. From what I have seen of the brochure the service is very good and it is around 17,500 Bt for one 2mt dish, one decoder and the service with no monthly rentals. If you have more than one TV or you need a different dish the cost varies.

Hope that this helps.

Here is the web address

http://www.psisat.com/index.php

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At this time we still have not installed PSISat as there were more pressing things to do around the farm but it is still on my list.

As far as I know there are around 250 channels that you can access and also there are no monthly payments but most of them are free to air but I have not looked since last year. Perhaps the website can tell you.

I am working in Pakistan at the moment and my wife seems happy enough with 3 1/2 Thai channels. Maybe later this year.

I voted for Big C as it is only 125 km away from where I live. However in BKK I use Villa at Sukhumvit 33 and the supermarket at the mall next to Seacon Square (can't remember the name). Their deli section is very good though a little expensive.

Which farang will be brave enough to make a complaint to the Prime Minister, giving all his contact details?

Not me!

Isn't the prime minister who made this suggestion public, at least a little bit knowledgeable about telecommunications in Thailand?

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Actually no he has no real idea of how the systems work as do most people. However he is a good manager in the same way Bill Gates of Microsoft is. To be very successful and very rich you need to hire the best people to run your business, pay them well and simply reap the profits.

My problem is that if I went to the south I would not be permitted to use my mobile according to the government as the registered owner is my wife (and it is on the AIS system).

I have had a Thai partner for 2 years, she has a visa for the UK and later this year we are getting married in the UK.

What rights do I get married to a Thai.

Is it easier for me to stay long term in Thailand etc.

look forward to your replies

Chesterboy

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Chesterboy

I had a Thai partner for 7 years and she came to the UK 5 years ago to marry me. It was the second best thing I have done in my life. The first was to divorce my first (UK) wife and the third best thing is our son who is now 8 months old.

It is easier for you to stay long term in Thailand provided that you meet the rules for income etc.

I share all my income with my Thai wife and yes I do realise that should we divorce she will still own the land and property that we share and it would then not be so easy for me to stay in Thailand.

However it was my choice to do so and my wife never forced me to marry her, any support that I give to her family is our choice,. I have never paid a dowry nor do I give my wife all of my money. We share what we have and if it all finished tomorrow I would still think that it was the best thing that ever happened to me.

There are some doomsayers on this forum but remember the choice you make is for the two of you and nobody here will be looking at you or living your life.

Go with what your heart feels and live your life together.

About a year ago I was involved in the planning of a WiFi network in Thailand starting in Bangkok which would have made available a very large bandwith to anyone who had a window in their house/apartment. At the customer end all that was required was a small panel antenna and a power point for the receiver which you could connect ito your computer.

It never got off the ground as it required the National Telecomms Committee of Thailand to have given the go ahead for the frequencies involved.

It would have given any one who used the service ADSL quality at a reasonable price which may also have had something to do with it.

Unfortunately the government had dissolved the previous committee a couple of years before due to "irregularities" shall we say, and as far as I know it has not been reconstituted. Without this authority you cannot start up any telecomms service such as AIS, DTAC or Orange etc.

However the existing operators are OK.

My wife won't eat Buffalo meat, most other types of meat but not Buffalo, and she is not a country girl born and bred.

I bought diving equipment and can claim 7k baht tax return at Dong Muang airport when leaving LOS later this month. But I will return for diving and don't need to carry that heavy stuff back and forth. Weight problem for luggage....

Anyone can clarify me the exact procedure at the airport?

Do I Need to show the goods?

I could give the stuff at the airport to a friend staying in LOS.

Thanks for help

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Hi Jef

To claim your VAT back you HAVE to export the items because if you leave the items in country you are not entitled to claim the tax back.

To claim your VAT back you must first show the items at the VAT refund desk at the check in side of the airport where you will be given a form to claim the refund. You then pass through immigration, passport control etc to the air side of the terminal and go to the VAT refund counter there, give them the form and you will get your VAT back.

If you don't go to the counter before check in you cannot come back through and start again once you are on the other side.

I forgot the first step and did not get 1,500 Baht back. My fault and nobody elses.

The reason for that first step is to confirm that you have the items with you and to give you a chance to pack them in your case if you so wish.

I wish you and your girlfriend all the best and I hope that this will work out for you both.

I think it depends on the appearance of said lady.

in what way exactly ?

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a snake tatoo from neck to ankle perhaps

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Lets be honest many guys on here don't know the difference between what a decent and non-decent lady looks like.

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Perhaps I could lean on your vast experience to explain the difference to me. Most of the Thai people I have met in the last 12 years in Thailand look decent to me, from the lady and man who work in hotels and sweep the streets to the som tam lady and the people in the shops and villages. Perhaps I need new glasses.

Also in that time I have never had any problems booking into hotels in Thailand with my girlfriend/wife.

I have been looking for this software for a long time anf the best software map I have come up with in Thailand is Map Magic which is a very good product and available in most good software stores and also some good bookshops. Unfortunately they have no plans yet to introduce GPS mapping, at least this year.

I use a Garmin III gps and Garmin dont have any good maps of Thailand either.

If you find any can you let me know?

Cheers billd766

I use my laptop and a GPRS connection using AIS in Thailand and Ufone here in Pakistan. Because I don't have access to a landline at home I bought a program called Mail Express Pro which turns my laptop into a server so I don't need anything like CS Loxinfo etc and I can access the Internet and emails etc anywhere in the world I can get

get a GPRS link.

PS I am the "other" on your poll

Maybe its the farang factor. My wife will not let me buy anything in Thailand. The locals see me and the price goes up. 

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I agree with you Colin.

Though I can buy stuff in the local village where they know me or at places where prices are listed such as supermarkets my wife won't even let me go with her to let me buy bigger items. Don't blame her really.

Another excellent source of building/construction information from electricity to well-digging etc. in Thailand check HERE .

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Hi Boon Mee

I have just looked at the website and signed up as well.

Not much yet but the site will grow I am sure.

Thanks

Stupidity.

The voice of experience.

If I may add my share to this thread.

I have known my wife since I first came to Thailand in 1993 to work. I met her in a bar and we were together for a couple of months. I left Thailand to work elsewhere for a year and kept in vague contact then I returned and we got together again. We stayed together for about 4 years during which time I realised that I loved her more than my wife in the UK. I divorced my UK wife of 20 odd years and was free to marry my Thai girl. However in all the time we were and have been together she never asked me to marry her. I on the other hand did ask her and she agreed. We have been married for 5 years and 1 day and I love her more now than I did before. I only love one person more than my wife and that is our son who will be 1 year old in August.

She has supported me in good times and in bad times and even during the months I went a bit loopy.

She is 21 years younger than me and I dont feel ashamed or worried about that and neither does she.

She is a good cook and a mother and my best friend. If I have any complaints about her it is the fact that she will not teach my to speak Thai.

If I could have my life all over again the one thing I would change would be meeting her earlier than I did.

My answer to the OP question?

Because I love her very much.

Hi BS

I made only one comment on your previous thread and I will only make one on this thread. Please try to be patient. Just over 5 years ago I went with my Fiancee as she wasthen to get a fiancee visa for her and after the initial (normal) unpleasantness from the embassy official my fiancee was told to wait about a month for an interview and at that stage it was approved. We went there with all the paper work etc and I had arranged the wedding etc but they took little notice of the dates and did their own thing.

I can understand your girlfriends apprehension in going to the embassy on her own as the British staff there are not generally known for their kindness and generosity.

Would it be possible for your your girlfriend to go with another perhaps older Thai friend who can speak good English and who has already gone through the experience. That would help her a lot as she would not be on her own and very nervous. I know my wife was but she went with an older friend who spoke good english and was married to an American.

I have asked Buddha to help you both at this time, something that sometimes works when my wife asks for me.

Trust your heart and try not to listen to the doomsayers too much. If it will happen then it will.

Billd766

Like to see here do mine like that its only 6 inch wide but 50m deep!!

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I'll take a picture tomorrow and post it The good thing about Phuket is, it's all dirt - easy to dig wells. The bad thing about Phuket is, it's all dirt - they dig the f***ing mountains away to sell the dirt to people building houses (to raise the level of the land so you can look down on every one else's houses, and not get flooded when it rains).

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I have some pictures on my laptop and I will try to post one of them of the land where I live. It is mostly hills and people generally build close to the frontage road. The land is nostly dirt but there a few rocks as well. Nobody digs the dirt away but every year there are a lot of fires set in the hills where people do a slash and burn to clear land to farm.

It is silly really as they have no way to get water up there to grow crops.

Having seen you place I recon you would have to drill, and its not that cheap. It might be the land office you have to go to, I'll ask the misses and get back to you.

Give me a bell when your back might pop up.

Cheers RC

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Thanks RC, I may pop in on the way up around the end of June if the wifes car still loves me. ###### thing broke down 4 times on the last trip.

All the Thais looking at me while I pushed it along Sukhumvit road by On Nut BTS. Only 1 guy pushing his own barrow and a couple of motorcycle taxi drivers helped me.

Buddha helped as well as he got me into BKK about 5 hours before I flew back to Pakistan.

Cheers

My wife uses a wok and so do I.

Cheaper, easier and multi purpose.

Thanks for the info guys.

I will either get her to go to the amphur or to come with me when I get back from Pakistan in a couple of months. The problem with that is that my Thai is nowhere near good enough to follow that conversation so I will have to rely on her.

I dont mind how deep I have to go as I only intend to use the water when there is no main supply.

I am working in Pakistan supervising the building of mobile phone towers for Telenor and I went to one site today and the water table is only 1 metre below the surface. Tricky really as we need a pit about 5 metres deep. Still that will be the contractors problem.

I live in Klong Lan near the Mae Wong National Park and like a lot of people we are suffering from a shortage of water. I have asked my wife to find a company to drill a borehole for us as we have only had water from the main piped supply for less than 2 months this year.

Does anybody know of a company around the Khampaeng Phet / Nakhon Sawan area who can find water and drill a borehole?

My wife has a small problem with this as she tells me that the government has banned this sort of thing as it causes problems with subsidence if too much water is drawn, and that the government will be responsibile for providing an alternative water source.

At this time they cannot even provide the primary source for more than 9 months of the year and as a result we have to buy water by the tanker load.

Personally I think that she is not correct in what she says but unfortunately I am working out of the country and only get back for a week or so every 3 months.