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taking lessons from Putin in finding historical artefacts

53 minutes ago, wgdanson said:

Can you ADD a small deposit to a FIXED Deposit Account?

looking at the kasikorn website, you can deposit from 1000 Baht

https://www.kasikornbank.com/en/personal/Account/Pages/fixed.aspx

just a reminder for anyone doing renewals at Surin Kap Choeng Immigration to make sure you get your Fixed (Term Deposit) Account book updated. A couple of people were caught out and had to go to Prasat to update it. You would logically think that you cannot do an update until the finish date of the fixed deposit, which is correct, but by opening a new deposit into the current fixed account book it then updates the balance for the whole book. Of course, make sure the total amount is the same in the bank letter. It is worthwhile checking the details of the bank letter, as 2 times i have found that the account number has not been typed incorrectly (one number short).

As usual, everyone was very friendly there (except one guy bordering on antagonistic, which my gf said he was probably having his period!). The head officer explained that they are now being very careful with documents as HQ is checking everything; basically they are running scared.

BTW the road through Kap Choeng is being upgraded, besides being muddy the road sign for immi has been removed so i overshot it.

21 minutes ago, webfact said:

new export markets for durian, besides China, fearing that there may be a glut of the fruit

for durian i don't see oversupply as a problem. Usually it's gone in 30 seconds, many times i've been with Chinese friends that basically inhale it when they see it.

7 hours ago, ballpoint said:

 

And this is what the cars in the OP look like without the camouflage.

 

 

it would be interesting to know what is under the hood of those Thai Mazda 3 test cars; hopefully they are running the new skyactiv-x engines.

https://www.mazda.com/en/innovation/mazda-stories/engineers/skyactiv-x/

don't know why that are camouflaging them, as they have been released in most countries around the world for a couple of months now (mostly with the skyactive-g engine).

Sleep walking maybe? Very sad.

can also recommend Pattaya Garage, they do a great job.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Pattaya+Garage/@12.9639319,100.9093105,15z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0x35c813a619053220!8m2!3d12.9639319!4d100.9093105

44 minutes ago, webfact said:

“So I took out my phone, a Huawei P9 Lite, and recorded it.”

Expecting a free upgrade from Huawei are we?!

Looks like military fighters doing close formation aerobatics.

2 hours ago, VocalNeal said:

 

Hence my query. If it has a nice well known 4v engine then one can get some trick bits and start a project. 

If it is simply a get the job done Chinese lump then not for me. I''ll make do with Vespa or shell out for a Scomadi, Not.

 

The "passion of Italy" remark makes me laugh. It is like buying a can of processed tomatoes with an Italian flag on the can. On closer examination "Made in China" Which of course is the largest supplier of tomatoes and tomato paste.

a bit like buying a new MG these days

42 minutes ago, webfact said:

Prayut and most people at the event did not wear facemasks

probably just holding his breath, a pity he didn't hold it a bit longer.

1911 Cottin & Desgouttes Grand Prix Racer

4 cylinder, 10.5 Litre, 60 HP

was owned by a friend of my father's and used at the start of the Chitty Chitty Bang Bang movie for the race scene

1956 Maserati A6G Zagato Coupé