Nick33

Wear a hat - it works as an early warning system.

Lipstick on a pig...

Thank you for your replies and I have tried to delete through the path you advocate but I cannot! I just want to delete past unwanted content and stop the need to buy more space. May I offer my Line id 33riverside so you can pm me

Can any Mac user pls tell me how I can delete content on my iCloud from my multiple Apple devices pls?

always look on the bright side of life...

I shop at Villa Market because they stock products that I cannot source at other supermarkets. Can't say I pay that much attention to the prices of individual items but it hasn't struck me that they are much different to the others. The service is good, staff are helpful and polite and they even offer free delivery.

I sold my car today to another farang and he tells me that the info that he has is that we have to go together to the Dept of Motor Transport to re register the car in to his name. Is that so? If so can anyone tell me where the nearest Dept of Motor Transport is to Thong Lor? Thank you to all for info received.

I only have one page left in my passport.

Can someone please advise me how I go about getting a new passport in Bangkok as a long term resident here please. Thank you.

I know what you are saying and would agree in normal circumstances but I assure you that by logging into my Google gmail account with the laptop it somehow took off all my emails from the laptop and off the Internet server. I have logged in on other computers and in an Internet shop and my past email's have been deleted. I have even tried to contact gmail to see if there is anyway that they can reinstate the email's lost to no avail. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. If no one can visit my home in Buriram could someone in the know please visit my computer remotely through Teamviewer in an attempt to put my computer back in some kind of order. Any assistance would be appreciated.

Mario

Thank you for your suggestions but I really have tried everything that I am capable of. I work from XP Windows. I tried the system restore process but it stated that system restore was turned off. I have now turned it on (like closing the gate after the bull has run).

Also I have tried to access my gmail from an Internet shop but there is nothing left there. At the bottom left hand corner it gave a single figure %. They state that as I took a netbook with me and tried to log in with that it whilst there I took all my gmails off the Internet and put them onto the netbook. Unfortunately that only had limited memory and has only therefore retained the last 40 email's (out of 6000 plus)!

It is a legit repair shop but as you know TiT and they said that the fault on the computer wiped everything off it and distanced themselves from any responsibility. They couldn't even find my Outlook Express which I have subsequently found and reinstalled but that only has some of my sent items on it.

When I picked up my computer the first time it was like they had put someone else's content back on my computer - all programmes that I do not use or recognise. I asked them to restore all my data and they spent three days playing with it but finally gave it back empty. They did not make a charge but I almost feel violated and totally lost with nothing left.

Next frequent the expat drinking holes to find the local "expat/expert".

Nick33

Before you go to the drinking holes, let's try a few things first. What operating system do you have? Windows or Mac? If Windows, is it Windows 7, Vista, XP? Can you go to "start", then search for "system restore". This procedure is designed to take your computer back to a previous date, i.e. before you took it in for "repair".

Would doubt that your email has been deleted on the "internet", have you tried to access from another computer, say at an Internet Cafe or such? Do your email addresses work from there?

If the repair people have "crashed" your computer...memories and everything, they'd be responsible for fixing what they did. Was it a legit repair shop? Did you get any manuals with the computer that would help with trouble shooting problems?

Try a few things first, then if nothing works I can perhaps get you pointed in the right direction for proper repair.

Can someone assist me please? I have absolutely no idea when it comes to computers and recently took my laptop into a repair shop as it was playing up. Somehow in affecting the repair they lost everything on my computer - all documents, Outlook Express (diary, contacts, email's), Skype, photos - indeed everything on C and D drives of the computer. Even my gmail was deleted and lost from the Internet? and guess what I had no backup to any of it so I am completely up the Swanee! Is there anyone in Buriram or surrounds that would be willing to help me, come to my house, set up my 3 email addresses and my printer and make sure that it has a weekly back up system so that next time something goes wrong I would have at least some back up of all my efforts. I would be eternally grateful and I am sure that I could repay the debt in some way. Hoping to hear from a Good Samaritan soon.

I am applying for a non immigration B visa so that the company I am going to work for can apply for a work permit for me.

Could someone please clarify exactly what documents that I need to take with me to get the visa. Thanking you in advance for your time and info. Regards

Could someone please confirm that I can get a Non Immigrant B Visa (working) from the Thai Consulate in Savanneket? If so how much it costs?

Also I want to drive my own car across next time so could someone inform me what documents I need to obtain and from where to take my fully paid for Nissan Frontier over?

Thanking you in advance for your time and kind attention.

Regards

Nick

Greetings to all. Would someone like to advise me on the situation with regards to ATV's (All Terrain Vehicles) and the law in Thailand? Recently I have seen quite a few on the roads in Buriram ridden by Thai people and they have no number plate and so therefore I assumes pay no road tax and or insurance. I recently spoke to a young Thai lady driving one in Buriram and she said that she drives it every day in the town but has not been stopped by the police. The model I am looking at is the KONIK RT150ST-A a 150cc one gear bike that whilst not built for speed can certainly cover the ground and it would seem all terrains. My concern is that being a farang if I was to drive the quad around town that I would be a prime suspect to be stopped and booked accordingly by the authorities. I just wondered whether anybody else had ridden one on the public roads and could enlighten me before I proceed with the purchase. Thanks to all those with helpful advice.

Can someone put me right please? I recently went down to KL to apply to the Thai Embassy there for a Non Immigrant B Visa so that I could apply for a work permit in Thailand. When I came back my lawyers pointed out that the Thai Embassy there had granted me a single entry Non Immigrant B Visa whereas all the paperwork that they had supplied me with stated that I needed a multi entry.

They asked me a further 3800B and sent my passport back to the authorities here in Bangkok whereupon I was granted a multi entry visa headed Non Imm on top of an oblong box with the necessary stamps and under place of issue Bangkok. The valid date however states 5 June 2011 (i.e. in 3 months) and the lawyer told me that I still have to report my address and whereabouts and also that I have to show 800,000B in a bank on deposit. Forgive me but I thought that as now my retirement visa had been changed to a Non Immigrant B Working Visa that I no longer needed to keep the 800,000B on retention in a bank for the previous 3 months before each report date? Have I got it wrong or have I misunderstood my lawyers? Do I still need to have the money on deposit as well as work here for a living? Confused from Hua Hin!

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I might be interested in those boots. I used to own them in Holland and used them for heavy abb exercises. I must say you have to be carefull not to tire yourself too much else you can never get up again.

You might prefer the tables... hand upsidedown safely - i had one in UK but sold it when i moved to chiang mai -great things that have many benefits - not only the obvious one for easing back trouble. Some people also see grey hair return some of its colour (they say). I'll definitly get one if possible and set up in my spare bedroom.

I would want them to do abdominal exercise. Not as an inverter. The problem is that in holland it was possible to get back up on my pullup device.. the one i own now is a bit different.

Aussiebebe - I read with interest your comment on Inversion tables and the fact that you can get them at the big shopping malls in Bangkok. Could you be more specific as to where and how much the tables cost? I had one in the UK called a Back Rest where you locked your ankles in and reached back and it hung you from your ankles using gravity and your weight to lengthen the spine. I would like to get one over here but thought that I would have to resort to getting one mail order. I hope that you can help and thank you for your assistance in advance.

Maybe I haven't understood correctly, but the Sports departments in all the major Bangkok shopping malls, the Centrals, Central World, Paragon etc sell Inversion Tables (15,000baht) where you can hang upside down and Inversion boots (4000baht), to hang from a pull-up bar. Is that what you are looking for? They allow you to invert yourself and help your back so are they Back Inverters?

I have read the only previous posting which covered taking a car registered in the UK into Cambodia. One reply said he could the other said he couldn't and that was in 2008. I and three friends are thinking of taking a car bought and registered in Thailand into Cambodia and then doing a tour of the country. The first and most obvious question is - is it safe? If it is what documents do we need besides the registration document and the owners driving licence?

We are also looking to enter the country through Kap Cheong just south of Prasat, Surin - has anyone travelled that route recently? If we cannot take the car can you get a taxi from the border to Phaang, Samrong, Chongkal, Kralanh then down to Siam Reap and if so how much should we expect to pay? We would then like to take the lakes down Tonle Sap to Phnom Penh - has anyone done that or is it better to stick to a taxi?

If we can take the car, which we would prefer, how safe is it to drive around and tour the country? We are more concerned with trouble that we may get from the police or the authorities than roving bands of Cambodians.

We would then like either by car or taxi to head south for the beaches and spend sometime on the coast re entering Thailand heading for Trat.

Any advice or guidance would be much appreciated.

I have read the last entry where someone said that he wanted to take a UK registered car into Cambodia. One reply said he could the other said he couldn't. I and three friends are considering doing a tour of Cambodia and we are thinking of entering from Thailand via Kap Choeng just south of Prasat and Surin in Isan. Does anyone know it whether:

1. it is safe to take a car purchased in Thailand and registered in the drivers name into Cambodia as long as you have the book and 2. has anyone entered recently through that boder control and what is the road like going south to Phaang, Samrong, Chongkal and then Kralanh and if we cannot take the car can we get a taxi down there and how much? Sorry to be full of questions - if we cannot drive we want to travel down to Siam Reap perhaps downriver on the Tonle Sap to Phnom Penh.

If it is safe to take our own car the idea is to travel around the country and exit along the coastline back into Thailand to Trat. Thanks in advance for your time and info.

Looks as if the guy got out of his car and was harassing the red-shirt. Who knows? That clip doesn't show what was happening to cause it.

Perhaps he was shouting his disapproval of the reds or something of the sort. But the red clearly ran over and attacked him. That is in no way justifiable.

Typical Thailand - two blokes fighting and the interested crowd circling round videoing it and taking pictures making absolutely no effort at all to stop the two silly men from fighting in the street. It's a good job that one of them wasn't a foreigner as the big brave crowd would have started kicking and hitting the nasty foreigner and then running away in case they got hit back. The police would then have arrested the foreign trouble maker regardless of who was actually guilty of any misdemeanour and we would all be reading about foreign thugs attacking lovely peaceful Thai people.

Bangkok has a red light district! It must be staffed and run by naughty foreigners as we know that Thais would never have anything to do with anything naughty, disrespectful and against the law like this!