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writeshack

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  1. I bought an Oasis 32Gb from a Thai  distributor  through Lazada in December.  Delivery was prompt, it was new and well packaged. It has book ads but they are not that annoying. One swipe  clears them away. The seller was TMT Innovation. The cost was B7990.00 plus B38 delivery. There were others   being offered by this and other sellers. This one suited my needs.  A word about the Oasis.  I like it for the light weight, the screen size and ease of holding in my hand and the buttons, but the battery is smaller than the paperwhite I  had before.  I read for several hours a day and recharge the Oasis every night. Good luck.

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  2. No sexy pix to back me up, but I have an old 2006 Ford Ranger Wildcat 4-door 4x4 3-litre diesel pickup. Still very happy with it. Can overload with well over a tonne of rice. I did boost the stock shocks though. Really strong chassis and cab. I'd back it in a collision. Problems over the years, few: Had to replace the charger; replace a gear box driveshaft link; a B10,000  computer-gearing replacement, but the 4L light still sometimes displays when it shouldn't, which screws up the speedo etc, but eventually shuts off when I apply power. That's my biggest grumble. Not much else I can think of. A good, tough truck. I like it. Low maintenance.

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  3. This may sound simplistic given the knowledgeable advice you  get here, but I had a similar problem with Win 10 and a quad computer running i7  with a dedicated AMD graphics card.  Nothing worked, not even online help. I ended up using reimage, and I now reject graphics driver updates (Radeon in my case) and image suite updates. I run reimage occasionally, it updates the basics, and have very few problems and my computer works  well.

  4. When I retired from work here in Thailand I received a lump sum payment, not large by any means. I had the option to continue my membership by notifying them within 6 months and signing some forms, which I did. I therefore still have health cover from Sangkom. It's not very good, and mainly for admissions at member hospitals, and there's not enough of them, but better than no cover. You can stay with your current hospital. I pay 400-500 a month, it seems to vary a bit. 

  5.  That promotion you are looking at is probably a copper wire, not fibre, but it will do the job fine. Buy your own modem/router, not just a modem. The incoming line connects to it with a telephone line plug. TP-Link is a good brand and easy to set up, reasonable support. I  use a cheaper model than the one mentioned above, a TD-W8961ND. It's rated for 300Mbps, has both an ethernet plug and a wi-fi signal you can connect to in your house if within range. And where I live 3BB techs do help if you have a TP-Link modem/router. They even recommended it to me. Buy an aircard and  few gigs of 3G data a month  as a backup for when the service goes down, and it will. Good luck.

  6. Instead of complaining about the router they give you, buy your own modem-router. Easy to set up with either an ethernet connection and/or wi-fi. The wi-fi signal has a fair enough range in the house and you can always buy a signal booster/expander/extender thing if you need it. Not expensive and easy to use. I have a TP Link Wireless N ADSL2+ modem router (model TD-W8961ND), 900 baht and change at Advice. There are probably others around that are better, but it works well enough for me on 3BB.

  7. This all comes down to the health permanent secretary, Saman Futrakul, pushing his own personal policy. Seems to me he is a rampant prohibitionist, determined to get his own way by whatever means. Why should a civil servant be allowed to set extreme policy? I have no problem with Health officials advocating moderation, or even abstinence. But forcefully pushing a personal policy of prohibition is not his right as a supposed servant of the people.

  8. At Tesco the girls will at times stop an order halfway thru and then use the coupons generated on the second half. I also get coupons on a regular basis that offer close to 200 b off if I spend 1000 b. It pays to check them. Movie tickets for 60 and 80 b as well.

    I bet some people would not understand the stop and pay halfway thru an order and get mad.....I had 170b taken off just the other day.

    Agree that use the coupons half way through works well. It just depends how keen the new cashier is. Most of the time they don't bother

  9. If you really feel you MUST complain, the proper way is to go to the phooyai ban, not the kamnan or the TAO/PAO. If he feels your complaint might be justified he will then take it up with your neighbour. If you now start approaching your neighbour directly then you become the one who is causing a problem, not your neighbour. That's the way it's done. Having said that, there are chickens and roosters galore wandering around this village, and through our garden, crowing and clucking at all hours. You'll get used to it. Better than having a neighbour with a humungus great stereo who wants everyone to know it at 6am.

  10. Most definitely try and get tickets in advance of the day. It will most likely be a sell out. If it is, your only hope would be to queue early on the morning of the match and hope for cancellations, and you'd have to take whatever is on offer.

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