UdeBoCM
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They will admit errors, and will make changes.
Corrected: They will partly admit errors
Once, when I still was on tourist visa regime, I had a one year (!) visa stamped on my passport. I thought "how nice! they changed the rules" (as it's often the case).
Six months later I had to exit for a business abroad and went for a re-entry permit. The officer in charge was red faced and told me to go check at the airport office where I had been stamped.
There, they did admit a mistake but as I was late on my normal visa I had to pay the overstay, rounded at 20,000 bahts. ahaha! They corrected the stamp on my passport, the officer who was at fault "help" me with 2,000 bahts (thanks to the diplomatic talk of my consul), but as they rightly pointed at the back of the TM card: you have to check every 90 days for residency (which I did not know as I was still a tourist), and I had to pay 18,000 bahts anyway...
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Went to that post office the other week. Was this guard gesticulating to park my car right in front of the main entrance of the regular post office. Being well educated I did not want to oblige, so park at the car park. Did not notice the sign that is posted here, and the guard did not point it top me. I queued 15 minutes and was in a hurry, but would have known wouldn't have wasted that time queuing. Nobody else seemed to noticed it either, the English sign is inside, in the shade...
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We are already getting flights in the middle of the night. Several landed around 3-4AM the past couple nights.
All insomniacs living south of town can confirm that. I'm used to the 2 -7am flights,now I am totally confused.
Don't forget the land belong to the army. Night flights: military...
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Why watch TV when you can go streaming on your computer?! Try lemonTV. That is frombar dot com, select "other" tab and tada! here is your match (all of them) with multi choice streaming... Of course a large monitor is better than a tablet, but still why pay for a cable TV when there is so much online for free!
I can get all sports streaming through the Ace media player, from wiziwig site, but the buffering issues about 6pm onwards really cramp things in the evening.
It's true that sometime, the stream stops for a few second (or more) or is "pixeled", but there are many choices, specially when it's an important match and I always watch what I want to watch, either with lemontv or wiziwig or lshunter...
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Why watch TV when you can go streaming on your computer?! Try lemonTV. That is frombar dot com, select "other" tab and tada! here is your match (all of them) with multi choice streaming... Of course a large monitor is better than a tablet, but still why pay for a cable TV when there is so much online for free!
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After reading "Le Ministre des Moussons" (The Monsoon Minister) by Claire Keefe-Fox, about the story of Constantin Hierakis, a poor Greek boy who became King Narai Prime Minister, I thought a visit Lopburi was of utmost importance. And visiting the places where the action took place in History was really interesting. Lopburi is a small town and a very pleasant one, and except for the monkeys warriors place, I will recommend it highly.
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They have it at Rimping, but it is imported, organic and expensive. I used to get the home made stuff at the Vegetarian Council (kind of) near Airport Plaze and it was very cheap.
Thanks for your input Ulysses-seems that Rice Milk is very low on Protein and high on carbs but great for cholestorol. Seems you can make it at home but its a chore. Can you give me directions please to the place near Airport Plaza that sells it. Save me wandering around that area like a lost soul.....
I do not know how to use Google maps and am not good with directions, so take this with a grain of salt. If I remember correctly. there is a road that runs North to South from RAM Hospital straight into Airport Plaza. If you go about halfway between those two points on that road on the same side of the road as RAM Hospital, there is a sign that says something like "Vegetarian Council" with lots and lots of vegetarian cooked foods and products inside.
Good luck with figuring out who sells brown rice milk, but I did it, so you can too.
It's Santi Asoke Buddhist veg restaurant. Very inexpensive
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You don't need to buy processed soy milk from the supermarket, you are also paying for the packaging that is more expensive than the milk itself and that is also not recyclable.
Just go to the soi (not pun intended) corner and buy it from the street stall next to you (ask for nam tahoo), it's fresh and inexpensive at the current 8 bahts a bag in town, cheaper if you live in a village. But of course you can't recycle the bag either. These stalls also sell fresh cow milk and you can ask your soya milk with some gelatinous seeds (I always wonder what those really are), and even have it without sugar (mai dai sai nam tarn, please).
Almond milk not readily available around (or imported, expensive and therefore not so ethically green)
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I have a friend who is trying to export his teak trees but has no idea how to go about it.
You can't export logs. Teak has to be processed into furniture, handicrafts, etc... to be able to get an export permit
At 15 years the wood did not mature enough to produce good wood, With good soil, at the base of the trees let say you can get a diameter of max. 25 maybe 30 cm, Of this you will barely get 10 cm at the core that is good enough to be worked, the rest is sapwood, prone to insect (and termites) appetite. Of course it can be harvested to be used as shack posts or other temporary use, and you can't expect to get a good price for it.
When you plant teak, you have to bear in mind that it is not for our own profit but for your grand-children's. To get the best of teak wood it can't be cut before it reaches at least 70 years old, before that the heart is not mature/strong enough and does not last as long as older wood. At 80 years old in good environment the heart wood may reach 60-70 cm and this will be fine enough to be worked into furniture or carpentry.
So do think about future generations, plant the trees in a land that is not too closed to the village, register your plantation at amphur and ask you kids to tell their kids to cut their trees, if they wish, in their old age. They'll have a very secure retirement...
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Finally a descent winter temperature. Get the beautiful coats and jackets out! Nice not to be sweety for a while...
Hangdong, this morning 3 am: 10°C
at 6.30 am it was 8°C !
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And also perhaps time to think about a serious reform of the written Thai so that its speakers like to read it more often, not just advertisements or road directions, but books ...
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And also perhaps time to think about a serious reform of the written Thai so that its speakers like to read it more often, not just advertisements or road directions, but books ...
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[...] each machine installed at an actual branch, it reduced the need for tellers by 3 [...]
The machines also reduced losses from errors made by tellers, and reduced the very expensive teller training costs [...]
Therefore banks are considerably reducing their running costs, right? So why is it that they charge you (in France at least, it's personally the only western country where I do experience banking) a fee for i-banking?!!
Fortunately no such thing here ... Good Thai bankers who understand that encouraging their customers is by not charging them!
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Try www.underthebo.com, but it's in Chiang Mai... not as far a Bali though.
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Something else worth knowing about EMS is that they won't deliver to the Isle of Man. I tried doing it twice but both times it never left Thailand. I assume this would apply to all offshore islands.
Yes indeed, I had problems as well to New Caledonia and Tahiti. The tracking system shows that it went to Roissy airport in Paris (!!? - the other way around the globe), stayed there for a while, then came back to me un-deliverable... and without explanation. Total wasted time: three week.
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All because of Monsanto again!
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I'm wondering: if your connection was out, how could you post this topic?
Hangdong is Ok. Since 5 or 6 years that I get 3bb, it never went down, only a little slow at times, specially in the evening and most specially on saturdays.
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Postal service: SAL (non priority airmail - max 30kg). 20kg: 3310 bahts x 2 = 6620 bahts. This, to my knowledge is the cheapest way. Also you have a chance not to pay duty on arrival, if not too bulky (eye-catching to the custom officer). Not the case with DHL/FedEx. Transit time: approx. 20 days.
Good luck.
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Jim Thompson!...?
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Cannabis is an illegal drug in Thailand. It is also a potentially dangerous one. You will hear the misinformed hedonists waxing lyrical about the fact that it never hurt anyone, but they never treated psychotic or schizophrenic patients whose misery was triggered by cannabis addiction. And, smoking it is linked to carcinoma of the lungs, cvd and a number of life threatening illnesses. Misplaced sympathy for someone trafficking in drugs is mistaken, foolish and ignorant.
Crossing the street is also increasingly dangerous. So why is it not banned for the well being of humanity?!
Why not let others smoke themselves to death (and have fun on the way) if this is their choice? There is no such thing as cannabis addiction, moralist! Just a desire to take it again as one has already enjoyed it. There is no physical addiction like with, say, alcohol or heroin where you get sick if you don't get your dose.
I agree that it can cause carcinoma if used as intensively as tobacco. Bob Marley comes to my mind (300 gr a day!)
Also agree though with schizophrenia in brain developing teens or young adults who should refrain until they are already sufficiently intelligent ...
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Where is Htee Khee - Suranon? Can't find it anywhere on Google maps.
Is it the three pagodas pass?
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Sorry it's in Phayao province, Pusang district of Chiang Kham (my wife village is the first one before reaching this place!)
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Crikey, Edith Clampton has been reincarnated !!!!
Exactly what came to my mind!
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I do not smoke, but I would like to grow a few tobacco plants to spread around ther base of trees and vegetable beds as insecticide. Any idea where/how to find seeds/seedlings? I have ask local nurseries here in Chiang Mai and nobody seems to know.
If that is true and it works without any further process to produce a pesticide....then that would be a great use for tobacco plants and could be well accepted by those not wishing to kill others with their crop.
Yes that it's true. Many farmers in South India (for example, but I am sure elsewhere) spread shredded dried leaves around their fields. I have seen farmers doing that as well in Chiang Mai to protect their rice fields. I also do that and it protects my palm plantation very well, but I have to buy large sacks and that cost!
Leaves can also be left to macerate for 2-3 weeks in a tank filled with water. The water then can be sprayed around your plants...
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Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin presented with honorary doctoral degree
in World News
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Good, but secondary. They were many many good bands in that period (Bruce came after 1973-74 if am not mistaken). But, indeed Led Zep broke the mould, created a new style. Innovators and superior musicsmiths.