WinnieTheKhwai

Extending the 5 year license with another 5 years:

* I recommend showing up at 2:45pm on a Friday. 

* Just need old DL, passport and something that confirms your address (Work Permit or othewise)

* Don't need medical cert, don't need photo, a couple copies can be made cheaply right there at the office; the dude at the copier knows what to copy.

* My DL was expired by 2+ months already;  no prob.

* Fill in your name on a form and submit the copies.

* Very quick session to identify red, green and yellow blobs: no more reaction-time test, and you just identify the color by calling it out.

* Sit through 30-40 minutes of training video that starts at 3pm. They'll cut it short as staff want to get out of there not too long after 4 on a Friday, LOL.

* Pay 505 Baht.

* Get photo taken, then they print the new drivers license which you receive right away.

Total time taken: about an hour and a half.

Not Arab, not Chinese, not African... . ... : 

1 minute ago, observer90210 said:

 

Had it been a Thai (or an african)  having  robbed a farang, it would have ignoted the brainless white supremacist thai bashers, who must be disappointed that the thief was not "arab" , as cited...

Absolutely.  But don't worry, those guys will be back to bashing Chinese over some minor issue very soon.. 

1 hour ago, scorecard said:

 

And Reuters again post unbalanced reports, no comment on the fact that his conviction is for serious abuse of authority and no connection whatever to politics. 

You're hilarious. :D   Well done.

Good on her.  <3  Hope the snake is dead.

22 hours ago, dfdgfdfdgs said:

 

Why can't you just meet them at the same place every day?

Heh. That's like telling two kittens to be in the same place at the same time every day.  :)  But more crucially: I or the Mrs. can't be there at the same time every day due to other commitments that don't happen regularly at the same time every day.   

Then a mobile phone is a lot more convenient for everyone compared to making the kids sit for half an hour or more at the same spot, when they could be playing, reading in the library, doing homework, etc. 

19 hours ago, dingdongrb said:

So the teacher texts or calls each student? And the homework assignments can't be written on the blackboard? 

Beats me, but when the kid told us she needed LINE because of this we checked with the teacher, who said that it would be good to have, yes. 

6 hours ago, dingdongrb said:

I would like to understand exactly why a phone is needed/required for school? Can you elaborate some? I could perhaps understand a computer (laptop) but a phone....  Hmmmmmm

To communicate with the teacher.   Receive homework assignments, etc.

Also my the kids need a phone so I can find them back after a school day, at a school that's the size of the Pentagon.

That's really amazing.  Indeed it seems the only part of the economy that's super strong.

(To the point that if any Thai is doing anything else for a living that doesn't make 100K a month, and they speak passable English and/or Chinese: go do something in tourism, it's virtually as good as free money being handed out.)

I think Brits are particularly twitchy about anyone other than them.  Especially the ones ending up in Chiang Mai.  What a piece of work, the original post.. :D

On 8/23/2017 at 3:45 AM, 473geo said:

Banks are state owned are they not so actually they would be.....

Well, no.   But even if they were then that wouldn't stop them from acting against the interests of the state, the country really is *that* messed up.   Which is not a bad thing necessarily, for people with some money.

1 hour ago, Sparkles said:

Kids swim in klongs in Bangkok too, are their activities the benchmark for water quality ?

 

Next you will be telling us the water quality in the Ping is pristine.The fact is you, and the rest of us, simply dont know

Also fine in the rainy season.

( Avoid the Mae Kha Canal though.  ) 

^  Water quality in the moat, especially in the rainy season, is just fine. 

Kids swim in it a lot, they don't go to 'the ram' nearly as much as Farang coffin dodgers.

Like with so many other things concerning facts, life and everything, I'd forget about the government route.  Because typically buyers and sellers lie about the sale price, to reduce tax.  Usually they'll go for an amount that matches the government assessment, which is much lower than what land actually sells for.

Banks may have better data on this, though.  (Banks go along in lying to the government by the way, isn't it great. )

It's a moat, not a klong. 

Has been for 720 years,

Kind of a big difference in sharing a photo with your Facebook friends only, versus sharing it public..

I never share public initially, and then often a month or so later I go back through past posts and I make the vanilla ones public.  Those tend to not be bar pictures of any kind, and also not family pictures, or work. 

22 hours ago, sanemax said:

 
  >> Myeah.. have been to two of those pubs.   They're okay, and the girls definitely pretty, but.. .. .  I don't know,
  >> it's not really my thing.   I also feel like I need to behave myself more, which kind of defeats the purpose of a good night out.

 

You mean that they are normal bars , no bargirls , people just out socialising with friends and you would be sat on your own looking at them and there would be no one available to fondle ?

Yes, pretty much.   There are plenty hostesses at those pubs (Oxyde, Milk Club etc.) and they're very much there to chat/flirt with customers, but it's a more Thai scene, and Thai people don't really go to pubs by themselves, so it's not a natural place to go to when on your own. When with a group of friends though I'd consider it.   Same applies to the karaokes like any of the Ter Karaoke places (where a LOT of fondling goes on): in theory you could go by yourself and you'll be just fine if you do, but it's just more natural with some more people.

Milk Club by the way even has girls doing drinking games with dice with customers.   Ain't nobody got time for that.

1 hour ago, thaibeachlovers said:

Who needs the medical certificate for your annual visas?

No medical is required for a retirement extension in Chiang Mai, and this is a C M forum.

You don't need it for the coffin dodger visa, but it's required when you're on a work permit: the work permit extension is a requirement for your yearly visa extension and requires a basic medical certificate.   It has a test on it for syphilis, for some reason. (An easily treatable condition) 

^ That's kind of what it always looks like after major rain.   Same-same every other waterfall or rapid.

Not sure you can call it a flood if the thing that's flooded is a riverbed / waterfall.

11 hours ago, Kadilo said:

What do you fondle with, your eyes?


Sent from my iPhone using Thailand Forum - Thaivisa mobile app

Fondle My Bundle Downunder? :D

7 hours ago, hakancnx said:

John's Place, at Moon Muang rd. 

Mad Dog, at Moon Muang. 

Gecko Garden, corner Siri Donchai rd and Kampangdin rd

Jesus.. he's looking for a bar, not a retirement home.

15 hours ago, heybruce said:

Maybe similar.  I don't worry too much about the name, I just enjoy the ambience.

 

https://www.facebook.com/Milk-Club-1521228941499413/

 

https://www.facebook.com/nobarcnx/?ref=br_tf

 

https://www.facebook.com/OxidePubChiangmai/

Myeah.. have been to two of those.   They're okay, and the girls definitely pretty, but.. .. .  I don't know, it's not really my thing.   I also feel like I need to behave myself more, which kind of defeats the purpose of a good night out.

2 hours ago, happyas said:

"just think customers are pathetic losers who have to pay females to sit and talk to them "

 

That line is total nonsense.

The vast majority simply don't think that way.

I think it's somewhere in the middle; with a group of girls they're going to be joking around a bit and won't show like they care about anything.  Chicks wanting to be cool.   You can hear almost equally horrendous statements in any group of Thai women regardless of who they're married to/involved with, be it Mia Farangs or Thai husbands or a combination. 

It's not unlike men talking amongst themselves: that's not going to sound like all love & care most of the time when the topic is womenfolk.   But at home with the Mrs. they're often a lot less tough/cool. 

I think it's safe to say that in a group of bar workers, any kind of doting over Some Guy will be met with swift derision. :)  I think that's okay, allows for some venting and not taking things all that seriously. 

2 hours ago, thaibeachlovers said:

HIV? No one can prove that any of them got it working in the bar. In fact highly unlikely as most are not stupid enough to do it without a condom.

If HIV was actually a problem with bargirls, millions of farangs would be dying of AIDS back in their home countries.

Far, far more likely to catch it from the Thai boyfriend.

Does it matter where they caught it, if they did?   Anyway we're on a slight tangent already in this topic, and while a HIV debate could be refreshingly 'retro'  I don't think it'll go anywhere.   The one part in the above that I agree with is that even tabloid newspapers have giving up on scaremongering HIV, as indeed Farangs aren't dying off by the thousands after spending time with Thai women. 

Does that mean that Qatar has shelved plans for a flight to Chiang Mai?

In all of the flights listed I see a lot of Phuket, and few other places.   Soon Chiang Mai will be a small backwater again.

27 minutes ago, mogandave said:

I bet if you walked into a strip-joint in the US with a two-year-old girls woman be all over you wanting to chat as well.

Except they wouldn't let you in.  Also.. the focus seems to be on the money and only on the money.  I've been in a strip joint in a Western country just once, and from that I got the impression that being a stripper (or prostitute for that matter) is a night-job only, galvanically isolated from her real life.  

In Thailand it's ALSO a profession first and foremost, of course, but much more intertwined with her lifestyle.   I can't see a sex worker in the West readily sharing family pics or just chatting for an hour.  And imagine bringing a customer to actually meet the family..!  It's really common for people meeting a bargirl in Thailand to be spending non-work leisure time with them, or even travel back to her home village. [I know it still is, I see it on Facebook all the time.]   I think I'd have to spend really a lot of time in Western strip joints to get to that point. :)   [Cynicist's addendum: yes some money would be spent, as no Thai person can visit her family without the expectation of bringing lots of groceries and/or money, and you'd be funding some of that.  however it wouldn't be more money than you'd spent in any night out, and a lot more of an experience.  A lot more of an experience than most tourists/backpackers have, who claim to be big on 'meeting locals'.. well guess who most readily meets locals: sex tourists do. :) ]

When I was a lot younger and fresher I actively pursued that, often inviting girls to go hang out somewhere (typically a bunch of waterfalls on Doi Suthep, or Ob Khan, etc.)  And then especially for fairly new girls who had mostly seen bars since arriving in Chiang Mai, plus the occasional market or shopping mall trip.  That was a lot of fun, but I'm a bit too married for that now. 

On 8/13/2017 at 2:47 PM, mogandave said:

I think generally ladyboys do not try to trick people into going back to the room under the guise of being a real woman.

Rarely would an event line that end well.

I agree they don't.. especially while sober and thinking straight. But after they're a little drunk it becomes a really tempting thought to be able to pull a 'real man'.  It's pretty much the holy grail for trans people to be identified as a woman, and desired by 'real' men.  Or they might hint at it, but the guy likely also being more than a little intoxicated might not even hear or understand it.   

So I agree it makes far more sense to be completely transparent (heh) about it, after all it's not like there's a shortage of men who are into ladyboys, but it does actually happen.  

(Although in almost all cases: all you need to do is ask.)

16 hours ago, sanemax said:

quite a few have felang "boyfriends" back home working and sending them money regularly and plan to come over at Christmas and visit .

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I do often walk down there with a two year old and nearly ever bar , the girls want to say hello to the kid and they usually get their phones out to show me photos of their kids .  

Yes.. no argument on most having a kid somewhere.  Which is good when you also have (young) kids, it means you have another topic -parenting- to chat about.

And as for foreign 'boyfriends': I think that's 100% part of the lifestyle/profession, and not strange at all.  It even makes more sense now than it did in the past, where you can easily have a video chat with a Thai bar girl also when you're in the UK, it's dark and it's February.  Sending her a bit of money now and then out of almost any Western salary may not even be the most frivolous of expenses in one's life, and perhaps an expense that does relatively a lot of good.   So I'm all for that, and would always encourage girls not to be shy about asking.  (Ideally without lying; a lot of Westerners know very well that sending 100 Euros or whatever won't pay for her to quit bar work and they would have no expectation of that whatsoever, it's just to make life a little easier for a person they like, and can come back to see around Christmas. )   ... although.. there's always some thick jealous guy with unrealistic expectations of chastity.. his peculiar perception of life shouldn't be her problem though, and if forced to lie then so be it.. after all.. "are you here because you enjoy being here, or are you here to make money?".  

5 hours ago, amexpat said:

I've had lots of fun, great times over the years but never heard  "I really love you".

Because you're experienced and wise enough for them not to bother.   If it's a 24 year old dude just off the plane though, I bet he hears it.  (or even a person of any age who's sub-consciously looking for love.  (in all the wrong places..) )