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is this a first step to introduce Shariah Law in the same places?

Luckily I live just outside the BKK city limits

It is already a miracle that nobody who tried to help the poor Briton was not killed also from electrocution.

I learned already in primary school that before helping a person, victim of electrocution, one must cut off the power first or use insulated equipment

the domain name has been registered by a person who does not seem to be hiding :

Paul Couture

Paul Couture Co., Ltd

75/9-10 Moo 9 Pattaya 2nd Road 20260 Pattaya

+66.38414738

email:[email protected]

After the end of the world happened last May 21st (according to US Bible expert and preacher) we are all dead now but may-be we don't know : it means we are all zombies

Great stuff for a new Thai TV soap opera

If you have access to Truetelevision you can see now every Wednesday at 9 p.m. how "Cesar" The Dog Whisperer handles difficult and/or aggressive dogs (National Geographic channel)

I also was always scared to walk in streets with fiercely barking dogs but I learned a few tricks from this TV program :

a) do not look them into the eyes and put your nose in the air

try to keep your distance (walk other side of the street)

c) in my case, to comfort myself, I go out with a walking stick...just in case

Believe me it works : the dogs seem to accept that I am in charge and not them.

As I walk always in the same streets those dogs seem now to ignore me although one or two still show off with a howl

I wrote about our experience so that you could draw the conclusions yourself.

In many cases the Chairperson of the Juristic Person is part of the problem because of personal interest or complacency.

The new Condo Act of 2008 makes that the Chairperson is no longer ahonorary title....because he or she can be brought to court in case ofnegligence : in our case it was not only to handle money in a honestway but also to check that elevators undergo maintenance or that thefire alarm system (spinklers) is still in operation.

You should not only like what "Delight" suggest ....it is the ONLYsolution...and if you have assistance of a competent management companyit still will be difficult enough to correct the situation.

We had a similar situation in our condo until 3 years ago.

After more than 10 years of too relax supervision of the work done by the Condo manager, some frustrated co-owners called a EGM and elected a new "Management Board" (i.e. Board of Committee responsible for control of the management of the Condominium Juristic Person).

The new chairperson of this Board of Committee called for the "advise" of a professional management company during one month.

Then with two professionals looking daily on his fingers, the Condo manager "fled the scene".

Consequently the professional management company became the Condo manager on a long term basis.

It was quickly discovered that several million Baht went missing and that the sinking fund was also emptied.

A substantial number of co-owners had paid during years their monthly fees (based on square meters of their apartment) in cash to the Condo manager...without asking for a receipt...(true or not true?)

Some units were empty since many years and some of their owners could not be found any more and the arrears in their monthly payments were sometimes several hundred thousand Baht....

There was no more money to do essential repair work or painting of the common area..

Our co-owners were lucky to have elected a very dedicated new chairperson of the Board of Committee who pushed the professional management company all the time for action to collect arrears in the payments and eventually to go to the police station.

Also important is that the professional management company has - at its head office - a good and experienced lawyer.

It will take a few years more to correct the financial damage caused by the previous Condo manager.

There can be so many reasons...

A year ago I had this problem with my HP Pavilion Desktop PC : the HP service center in BKK told me that my Win XP operating system was corrupted.

Luckily I had a (legal) Win XP CD and indeed with a fresh install all went back to normal

We will be applying for the first (marrigae)extension next week Tuesday at Cheang Wattana.

Do they usually require this from people in Bangkok, too?

We will bring tons of pictures.

The thing is, we have little contact with the neighbors in our condo.

On top of this, we will be going on a short vacation on the following Sunday.

If you are leaving the country the mention this to the Immigration Officer : they want photocopies of your latest entry card, but if you are leaving the country after the application you will come back with another entry card number

I travel a lot (at least once a month) and always have two fast-track passes with me. If push comes to shove, one for exiting and one for re-entering the country. It has been my practice for two or three years.

I use the pass if the queues are long. Often enough, the queue is not long (you have to check the monitors, it may be long at the immigration counter area near you but short at the other one), so I really only use the passes two or three times per year. And on those occasions, I am glad about the pass and buy a new one right away.

Where do u buy these passes

OPEN FOLLOWING LINK

http://www.imagelimo.com/vip-image-limousines.php

Once you have passed immigration and Customs you are inside the country.<br>From that moment you are subject to the same regulations as any other local passengers checking in for a domestic flight.<br><br>So you will be subject to a security check before boarding the domestic flight and you can have max 10 ml of liquids in your hand bagage : they even do not allow you to pass with mineral water in a transparent plastic bottle.<br>It means you will need to put the bottle in your checked luggage.<br><br><br>

The Immigration Department cannot issue any entry visa : only extension of existing entry visa's ......<br>......and those entry visa's can only be issued by a Thai Embassy or Consulate abroad, preferably in your country of origin where they are best equipped to check any supporting documents.<br><br>

Try to read the comparisons at

http://www.gsmarena.com/

There is a shop with competent people across the street from the main entrance of BNH Hospital in Soi Convent

Here you may also find possible help here :

http://www.facebook.com/dellthaiclub?sk=app_7146470109

However if you do not speak Thai it will help to bring somebody with you who can

To get a Schengen visa without confirmed return ticket?

First of all you need to apply for this visa at the Embassy of the country of first arrival in the Schengen area.

This Embassy will be able to reply to this question.

Only the British Embassy in Bangkok can give you a answer for this complicated issue. In my country it would be a matter of providing financial guarantees but I believe the UK is much more difficult.

WHYBOTHER writes : "I hope they build the train line out to Don Mueng too. It might befaster to go out there and catch the plane to Suv rather than goingthrough Suv immigration"

Indeed a train line between Don Muang and the Suvarnabhumi airport ....has this been never considered?

Don Muang has plenty of parking space and could remove a lot of traffic coming from the northern regions trying to reach Suvarnabhumi airport.

I am living at 15 minutes from Don Muang and I still resent the idea to drive to Suvarnabhumi because I have to compete more and more with traffic jams going to the city.

From my house to the new airport should take average 50 minutes but I need to add minimum 60 minutes just in case I get stuck in traffic jams.

Rakman writes correctly : "It is very easy to "spoof" (assume an email identity) once an email address is known"

I something get e-mails from myself...which were of course not sent by me

the UK and the USA apply "jus soli" (everbody born on their soil is automatically imposed their nationality....like it or not)

most other countries apply "jus sanguinis" (you get he nationality according to the blood line / parents

During the 1960ies and early 1970ies I have seen real drama of young West European who were born on US soil about 20 years earlier....were arrested upon returning to the USA because at that time this country had compulsary military service...even if those West Europeans had already done military service in their own country they still had to do military service in the USA...and in many case were sent to fight in Vietnam

So if somebody has acquired the UK or USA nationality it makes a big difference it this is imposed by birth on him or her .....or if this a free choice made later (by naturalisation)

This Preah Vihear Temple is - if my information is correct - a Hindu Temple

Thailand is a Buddhist country as well as Cambodia

So can somebody explain to me the religious importance of this Temple (ruins)?

This is not only a problem in Pattaya.

Sound pollution is one of the worst problems I experience in Thailand. I live close to an industrial estate North of Bangkok where workers are brought and later on again picked up by many buses....which are waiting in line and then the drivers let their monster Hi-Fi players entertain at very high decibel the whole neighbourhood from as early as 6 a.m and as late as 11 p.m. If I out to complain the drivers look at me as if I am an Extra-Terrestial

Milled of grinded corn so that it becomes meal is of course from the nutritional point of view the same.

However many times the quality can become so degraded that is no longer suitable for human consumption and this explains why in the international trade of several agricultural products there is a big price difference between "human food" and "animal feed" quality.

...and we the Belgians, owners of the largest beer brewing company in the world and brewers since the days of Julius Cesar will sue the Singha Brewery if they still continue to call the stuff they brew "beer"

I have one year extension of Non Imm O visa and multiple re-entry visa within this extension period : this allows me stays up to 90 days without the need to report.

Only to-day I noticed that absent minded Immigration officer at airport gave me last week a "one month" entry (which any EU tourist can get upon arrival)

Where should I go to correct this : back to airport or to local immigration office?

Has anybody gone through same experience?

Thanks

Moskito writes

QUOTE

I like to understand, write and speak a little bit english. But whatsgoing on these times in other countrys is rediculous sometimes.

Forexample listen ThaiTV or look at Thai Magazines. Lots of English wordswhich nobody here understands.

Try to realize you have suddenly some russian or chinese words all over your language and you know what I am talking about.

UNQUOTE

Doesn't Moskito have a point?

I speak fluently five languages and still read a few more, so I have no problems.

Many times when I see Thai commercials with English words on TV or bilboard I ask my Thai wife if her 80 years old mother would understand this and of course she says "no"

On the other side there are indeed many technical English words which are known all over the world by educated people and which are very hard to translate in Asian languages : those technical terms are mostly not used in communications with the general public.

I think it is all a matter of balance.

People speaking only English cannot judge the cultural sensitivity of this problem.