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If they don't have in stores, they may have in their warehouse. If not, they can order worldwide. They have never failed to find a copy of the books I order. It can take a month for an import. 

8 hours ago, Speedo1968 said:

OP - could you please give me the email address you used ?

I used to have monthly updates of books from them sent to my old email address, I advised them of my new address but heard nothing more from them.
Like you I enjoy old books which are often not in stock

• Online Fulfilment Centre
  E-mail:[email protected] +662 610 9500 ext. 118, 119 and 120
  Operation Hours: 10.00am - 6.45pm
  (Monday to Friday, except Public Holidays)

Send them the order by e-mail. They will accept it. I've done it many times because I usually buy very rare books that are not in stock. 

I don't think there is.

I had multiple errors on my App info and I contacted both my first two hospitals and they said they could do nothing. I contacted the relevant Ministry through my work's admin staff since I received the jabs via work, and there was no response. 

When I went for the booster the hospital was then able to correct all the mistakes. I suspect the hospitals have a brief period of access to the database only. So I'd rush to contact them in person, but I doubt they can help. I would pursue trying to contact the Ministry but I have no details how to do that. 

6 hours ago, ubonjoe said:

Online reporting can be done form about 14 days to the report date.

For mailed in reports you can mail them within 15 days or but the need to be received 7 days before your report date. Bangkok immigration is the only office that wants them mailed 14 before but they will process them if received by the 7 days.

So I could mail in a report and then before they receive it attempt to do it online? (What happens to the duplication?) 

@ubonjoe Am I right in thinking the online will not work unless within 14 days of the end of the 90 days but if by post must reach them before 14 days?

...If so, then there is never a way for me to check if it now works, since I always prefer mail to traveling to Chaengwattana area. Right? 

I'd say three alternatives. Your limitations are that you live in a non-Finance Tier 1 country so many finance companies, especially in Europe, will be reluctant to handle your money. The problem is money laundering risks. 

But there is hope! Thanks to the Web 2.0 revolution there has been a huge increase in FinTech. There are always risks but the examples I give are only well regarded companies... but still do your own due diligence.  Three suggestions:

1. Move money to Singapore. Put it in a FinTech company based there. And invest in a package designed for you (a computer follows an algorithm of investments to match your exact risk tolerance, i.e. very low) or else choose different ETF options. 4-5% should be pretty easy. Example company: "Endowus". 

2. Invest in FinTech in Thailand which allows non- Thai investors and allows investments in non- Thai companies. These are very rare but at least one FinTech arrived last year. This will offer the same as Singapore but I suspect it will be worse tax implications and obviously Thai regulation is not up to Singapore standards.  Example: "StashAway". 

3. Buy the stable cryptocoin USDC (it is backed by US dollars and is the second largest US dollar crypto after USDT) and gain "interest" on it by lending it back to the seller. The interest is around 8% but this can be increased by gaining high VIP membership. The FinTech is Zipmex. This is the highest risk but still seems pretty secure. The USDC has a giant market cap and Zipmex are a multinational. 

All of these could be opened within a day or so! And all could be done without walking out your front door. Just download the apps. Be ready with your passport, a recent bank statement to prove address and Dee account/Kasikorn App to shift the money to Singapore if you choose that option. 

You are very lucky. The options for expats used to be abysmal. They would often tie their savings to insurance company operated funds which performed poorly. 

There was a puritan flair up in the early 2000s including a sudden crackdown on magic mushrooms in the early 2000s.

At that time, both Japan and the UK fully criminalized them after years of ambiguity; Japan allowed the sale of dry mushrooms but not the consumption and the UK allowed the possession of wet mushrooms but not their storage. 

Since magic mushrooms are laughably safe (far safer than marijuana) it has always amazed me. Luckily, the low-information-voter "soccer moms" who supported these crackdowns because "who will think of the children!?" are fading out of history.

It is still surprising to see a military junta para-democracy go along with a liberalisation. 

Bangkok is not good with keeping to some basic conventions on inner city station names. Besides the rule of not giving them near- identical names, they also fail with the rule of not giving the same location two different names ("Sukhumvit MRT" and "Asoke BTS").

I like intense tastes and I drink black (no sugar, no milk).

Best cheap is Moccona Select. I buy it by the bagful. 

For quality, Robert Timms Smooth (available at Foodland and Villa). Imported from Australia.

For a burnt taste, UCC Sumiyaki. Imported from Japan. 

Forbes magazine points to research of the anti-COVID effect of CBDs, although the article fails to describe the amount, exact type or method for it to be effective. But it suggests it can even prevent COVID. 

Although HSBC did close down their consumer banking arm, there are (or were a couple of years ago) two ATMs on the ground floor of their HQ, south of Lumpini Park. 

Fascinatingly, there is actually an App. It is called 'Police i lert u' and it does have a way to report a crime. I have the App but never used.

It even has an emergency real-time facility to chat with officers, and a way to upload photos and documents. You press an emergency icon, the police are alerted, and your phone sends your GPS digits to the officers.

I've noticed I'm logged out, so I'd be in big trouble if there was an emergency. 

I had difficulties too. It turned out they had got my birthday wrong and my passport expiry date. This prevented the App route or ATM route from working. Ended up waiting at the bank for 2 hours (they're crowded) to get it fixed. 

Ring them again and tell them your personal info again and they'll say if there's a mistake on their side. These mistakes had existed for years but I never noticed because the info was never used by the bank. 

Amusingly, once you get the booster (the 3rd shot), the printout sheet for the government database has a new blank yet ominous "4th shot" row ready to be completed. I suppose I'll look at June 2022 for that. 

I also discovered, that the hospital staff can now -- finally-- correct errors in the database. My passport no. was confused with my social security no. . I had tried to get this corrected without success several months ago. 

I sent by post this time (as online has stopped working for me since July). 

When should I start worrying that I haven't heard back?.... 

Imax Paragon is the only analogue Imax in Thailand. But since around November 2019 onwards, there is a roughly 0.3 second audio lag. 

To my amazement, even some native English speakers don't notice it, but to me, it is extremely annoying. Lots of Thais have complained about it. I found the only way to watch the movie was by staring away from the person speaking; obviously this is not an ideal premium experience. You can do this yourself at home: download GOM player (or other decent players), set up the audio to lag by 0.3 and see if you can handle it or if you kick the TV screen. 

According to the staff, this is a known problem which will require a specialist engineer flown in. But because of COVID travel restrictions they said it was currently (as of early November) not possible. 

Has anyone with good eyesight, good hearing and of sound mind, noticed if it has now been corrected? 

Listening to that, it is rather rare and a pleasant treat.

That skit is around Advanced-Beginner level but she's speaking a little slow so it needs to be adjusted to 1.5x speed on YouTube settings to be more realistic.

It's a shame she gives the explanation beforehand in English. It's crucial to pick up from the Thai, the gist of the skit.  

All in all, very good of her.

32 minutes ago, Sheryl said:

I have been making reports online for myself with no difficulty for years. However I now get the dreaded "see immigration in your province" message. I left the country in July and returned in September with COE. I can only surmise that when I entered they either failed to enter the information into the main database, or made an error in something when they entered it such that the system now cannot find me based on entry date and TM card no. ? The site is not down, as under "check status" I can easily call up all my past reports. Also don't think it is a browser issue for same reason.

 

Anyone else who entered on a COE have this problem?

Nurse Sheryl,

July was the exact time in between the error occurring and the manual rectifications started to occur. So although it might be the process of entering the country that caused you problems, it seems more likely that any data change/omission in July-ish screwed things up....

... and as I've found out, it makes no difference if you manually complete 90 days: your data remains stubbornly pre-July on the system. The only way it updates is after a visa extension or some other big update. 

I'd be interested to know if you re- enter the country in a month or two whether that will resolve it. 

You have to distinguish enforcing it from it being on the books. The enforcement began in earnest around 2006. Hopefully another user will recall the exact year.

For the first time ever in 10+ years I did the mail option. It seems to be more relaxed now (I'm sure they used to require posting the original passport). And they told me at Mong Thani to ignore the +7days requirement (even Day 0 was ok). 

The online is messed up since my extension (as it is for loads of other people) back in July.

My question: does the mail option resolve the database issues in the same way that completing the form at Chaeng Wattana whilst doing an extension (though not at Mong Thani) seems to do? Or am I doomed to mail extensions until July 2022?

My App shows a 120+ days "overstay" now.

I just joined around 3 weeks ago. Since the change of Thai money laundering regulations ('know your customer') in September the requirements have become extremely onerous. But having said that, I was able to do it entirely online by scanning and sending a large number of documents. I was not sent any card, just something by e-mail as acceptance by Dee.

And all indicators suggest their database is still wrong with my info.. Their app places me as "overstay", despite me already attending in person after the database failed back in July.

I want to do the post option but only if the online definitely fails in by Day 0. My understanding is they now allow a 0 Day post (I think it used to require +14 days). What's the actual position on this?

The very process of creating the Wordlist (for Anki etc) creates memory of the words. Don't jump this step.

•Only add words you personally read or hear or a friend suggests.

•Never add words "by reverse" (looking up in a Native to Thai language dictionary) because you'll learn rare/outdated/unused words or words with a certain nuance lost without context (i.e. only use a Thai-Eng dictionary, not a Eng-Thai dictionary for adding words).