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<deleted>!!! I didn't pay too much attention to the google search. yes I overpaid with my own mistake.
http://www.evisa-cambodia.net was the one I used. well serves me right for not paying to much attention.
can't cancel too late.
I just did the same thing. Emailed them at [email protected] for a refund and the email was returned as undeliverable. Telephoned my bank to reverse the charge and was told they could do nothing about it. Emails and telephone call all within 10 minutes of submitting the application when I realised my mistake. Just another scam but really my own stupid fault.
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Thida is a Thaksin paid stooge
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Thanks for the replies. Sounds like my best option is a visit to the Embassy here in BKK. I so dislike waiting in long queues particularly at airports.
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Would someone in the know please guide me here? Am I to assume that you cannot arrive at Saigon without either an embassy issued visa in your passport or a visa approval letter. I cannot just turn up, fill in the Application form add photos and pay the $USD45 for a 30 day tourist visa.
Depends on your nationality
Thanks for the reply. My bad for not saying that I have an Australian Passport. Can I just turn up and ask for a 30 day tourist visa?
Should I need a VOA Approval letter http://cheapvietnamvisa.net say they can get one for USD8 whereas all they others I looked at wanted USD20. Is there something I am missing here? 2000 baht if I get it at the Vietnam Embassy in BKK; USD45 (~1400 baht) at Saigon.
TIA
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Would someone in the know please guide me here? Am I to assume that you cannot arrive at Saigon without either an embassy issued visa in your passport or a visa approval letter. I cannot just turn up, fill in the Application form add photos and pay the $USD45 for a 30 day tourist visa.
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I purchased my stone in Oz when I was there in May. It came with an aluminium spatula (pizza peel). The lot only cost me $10 from a kitchen shop. It pays to look around, if you have the time as I found a huge variance in price for the same thing. BBQ Galore was $40. Ouch!
A very easy trick I found about is to use parchment paper (baking paper). Roll out your dough on the paper as you can get it really thin if that is what you like, add whatever, then transfer the paper and the pizza to the stone. The exposed paper usually burns but the paper under the pizza is fine. I get a really crisp base. -
Does anyone know where I can buy termite treated bamboo poles in BKK? I am looking for poles approx 6 metres long and 6.5 cm in diameter.
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Why did not the BIB make Ratchaprasong a tear gas zone in the red shirt rally of 2010? Oh wait, my mistake. The BIB are red shirt card carrying members.
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Lest we forget
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Absolutely, Lest We Forget the ultimate sacrifice so many made so that we and our families enjoy the freedom we have today.
When I was in Canberra back in the 90's one of the places I visited was the Australian War Museum. That visit brought home the sacrifice those soldiers made so I could live in a free country.
Since then I have held the unwavering belief that all teenagers while still in school should make a compulsory visit to the War Museum to educate/understand why and how they have the freedom they take for granted. That goes for all nationalities living in Oz.
If you don't have the patience to watch that video, it goes for some time you should watch this at the very least.
Remembrance Day is also very British and I salute them for their sacrifice.
They shall grow not old,
As we that are left grow old,
Age shall not weary them,
Nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun,
And in the morning
We will remember them.
The Ode came from 'For the Fallen', a poem by the English poet and writer Laurence Binyon and was published in London in The Winnowing Fan: Poems on the Great War in 1914. The verse which became the League Ode was already used in association with commemoration services in Australia in 1921.
For the Fallen
With proud thanksgiving, a mother for her children,
England mourns for her dead across the sea.
Flash of her flesh they were, spirit of her spirit,
Fallen in the cause of the free.
Solemn the drums thrill: Death august and royal
Sings sorrow up into immortal spheres.
There is music in the midst of desolation
And a glory that shines upon our tears.
They went with songs to the battle, they were young,
Straight of limb, true of eye, steady and aglow.
They were staunch to the end against odds uncounted,
They fell with their faces to the foe.
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.
my thanks to Wikipedia for the complete poem.
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Jataporn is criminal and belongs in Jail ………. forever
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Nothing happened ... other than rain at Rachadamnoen ...
and plebtard
You are welcome to translate the photo caption on her page Let's hope that Super Typhoon Haiyan saves some of its fury for the bought-and-paid-for 'demonstrators' doing the bidding of the Super Rich Elite on Rachadamnoen and elsewhere.
Here we go again. Another PTP stooge attempting to convince us that the decent Thais protesting against the foulest of legislation are driven onto the streets with the payment of a few hundred baht.
Sorry but you picked the wrong fight.
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The 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month, Remembrance Day. My heart is filled with sorrow for those people who willingly gave their lives so that I may live in relative freedom.
I am an Aussie and damn proud of it. A visit to the National War Museum in Canberra should be compulsory for all school kids just so they can learn where there freedom comes from.Lest We Forget.-
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A war of chess is underway. The decent people of Thailand have won the first battle. PTP will have other battles already well planned. The ultimate goal is to allow Thaksin back into Thailand as a free man and to reclaim his corrupt billions of baht along with an ongoing steady stream of corrupt money. He doesn't give one iota about the average decent law abiding Thai.
Many of my Thai friends talk openly about Thaksin's ultimate desire to overthrow the Monarchy and install himself as President of a Thai Republic. They also talk that Thaksin's elimination (read execution) would be a good/best outcome for Thailand. Think of other despots (Robert Mugabe, Kim Jongil, Omar Hassan Al-Bashir, Muammar Al-Qaddafu, Hosni Mubarak) and there can be no argument that Thaksin is a despot.The outpouring of resistance against these so-called amnesty bills by ordinary decent Thais of all political persuasions is the only weapon they have and it is a mighty weapon. Public protest has worked in the past in other countries. Decent Thais want to be rid of Thaksin and corruption.The war has just begun.-
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The money involved in this is astounding.
Two of my neighbours are paid 2000THB per day to attend this fiasco in BKK. 2000thb!!!!!!!
Wonder how many would show up if no money was paid and they went because they BELIEVED in this cause?
Many of my friends including my wife have attended this rally, one lady I know goes every day. No one has ever been paid a single satang. Back up your statement with some proof. Of course you can't. This is not Thaksin buying a demonstration and then buying an election. These people who are protesting are genuinely concerned that Thailand will be totally trashed by the PTP if this bill becomes law. These protestors love their country and they protest because they do not want to see their country become the centre of legalised corruption and the laughing stock of the rest of the world.
Has any other country ever legislated to forgive corrupt people? 25,000 pus cases of corruption just disappear. Majority shareholding in Government enterprises is changed so a guilty corrupt Thaksin can profit from his illegal activity. Murder, inciting riots will no longer be a crime.Regardless of political persuasion all criminals should face trial and if found guilty go to jail. A pie in the sky dream for decent Thais.One friend I was talking to on Sunday was in total despair, she kept saying 'what has happened to my country'.Somtam, go back into your PTP sponsored hole and leave decent people to attempt to protect their country. Your attempt at propaganda is a joke.-
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Want 10 billion baht, cost of cream 4 billion baht actual work cost 6 billion baht
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Certainly would agree with that
Under what criteria ??
totster
I'll bet you the moon that traffic never entered the equation.
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There is a woman in the Singapore Embassy who is a real bitch. She checks applications before you lodge them and if she can find any thing she doesn't like you are sent packing regardless of whether or not you have the correct documents. I have been in that Embassy and seen her throw out several people because she didn't like their documentation. One american said he had an outbound ticket and he offered to show it to her on his phone. Not good enough, she wanted it on paper.
I haven't had a problem because I have applied for several Non-B visas and had all the correct paperwork. My advice for what's worth is stay clear of Singapore, especially for Tourist Visas. -
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Maybe if the BIB enforced the road rules instead of ignoring them, unless it's to their own benefit of course, traffic flow 'might' get better. Scycronization of traffic lights would help. Waiting at a red light for 180 seconds then getting a green for 30 seconds, <deleted> gives? Anyone who has driven in BKK for any length of time knows that a light going green for 120 seconds hits a red light 200 metres up the road saying I'm not turning red for another 120 seconds. Plain stupidity!
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Sounds like the Police General made a recent trip to Singapore. Next he will be advocating a 10 year COE (for those who don't know it is a piece of paper called Certificate of Entitlement which you have to purchase by auction before you can buy a new car). After 10 years you either get a new COE or scrap the car. Singapore is one of the top vehicle exporting countries in the world yet it doesn't manufacture a single vehicle. Many owners of quality vehicles in good condition buy a second COE.
These inspections here are a farce, pay a few baht and in a couple of minutes you have your bit of paper to re-register your claptrap. The BIB are just not interested, maybe they haven't worked out how to extort money from the owners.One way that a lot of these dangerous vehicles, including buses, could be put off the road is if there was a compulsory insurance, maybe third part property levied on every vehicle and the premium increased as the vehicle got older, say starting at 10 years. -
Perhaps slightly off topic, but I just wanted to issue a warning about yet another scam: tilapia being sold as "red snapper" and barramundi being sold as "sea bass." Both are crap fish, IMHO, farm raised disgusting fish (fed every possible thing that you can think of that is revolting). You see these two fishes everywhere in Thailand now. The scam is big business. Buyer beware. Yes, before you say it, I am aware that barramundi is sometimes called "sea bass" in Asia, but it is not the saltwater sea bass that most of us like. If you want authentic red snapper and authentic sea bass, you have to pick it out yourself and take it to the kitchen and watch them cook it, otherwise, they will likely make a switch to one of the crap species.
What you say about barramundi/sea bass is sorta right. Barramundi is known as Asian Sea Bass, often shortened to Sea Bass outside of Oz. The fish you see in Thailand are actually the same fish (Lates calcarifer). There is a very simple reason why there is such a variance in quality. A lot of sea bass/Barra grown here are grown in fresh water and that often gives them a bland even muddy flavour. The best flavour comes from fish gown entirely in the sea. Some freshwater farmers will finish off the growing cycle in the sea in an attempt to rid the fish of the bland/muddy flavour.
Obviously the best barra of all are wild caught.
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The writer has made the fatal mistake of thinking that thais know the difference between bicycles and motor bikes.
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Twenty-five provinces - mostly in the North, Northeast and East of the country - remain flooded, though the situation is improving, says the Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation.This is Thai talk for move all your belongings upstairs, order in sand bags, make sure your pumps are working etc etc.
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According to his estimation, the day off on the 30th December could generate 10,000 million baht spending, considering each of 2 million tourists to spend 5,000 baht per day in costs like accommodation and food.Would tourists spend more because there is a pub hol? Or does he mean that Thai's will become tourists and spend Bt5k a day?-
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What about consensus about corruption?
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Not true. Khanchanaburi, go to the Death Railway Museum and environs and you will not find even a cigarette butt on the ground. Go for a walk, a long walk if you have the energy and you will find no rubbish. Plenty of rubbish bins and signs asking you not to litter. Asking for respect works for all nationalities.