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Shat.....past tense

Now I know a lot of TV posters are worried about the pollution, heat, and dare I say Songkran but there are bigger global challenges ahead and at least one local property developer has risen to the challenge when advertising as follows:

"Gym, home Spa, steam room, personal floatation tank, entertainment/club room, maids accommodation, Thai kitchen and Nuclear fallout shelter/3rd bedroom."

Now admittedly with a starting price of 47 million I do think that you should get a third bedroom AND a nuclear fall out shelter, but hey that's just me.

See link below.

http://perfecthomes.co.th/property/possibly-secure-development-chiang-mai/

You might feel a bit shat off if you were out having a 250 baht oily when the bomb was dropped though but at least you might have a happy ending.

Loss?

I just got home after arriving at CNX at 12.55 on a domestic from DMK and sailed through. Probably the quickest walk through I have had. Did not notice any queues or heightened security at all.

The popular Expats that populate the bars for years whether in the morning or evening or both, have lived 5, 10, 15 years or more still speak 100 words of Thai, can't read it. These are the people who should not be criticizing Thais as they took no effort to understand them or their culture. They should be ashamed but they are not, and that tells you more about them than anything. Ask an Expat what his girlfriend's name is? Yes her full real name, 90% couldn't tell you, What her real name it's Lek.

This type of post speaks more about you than "them".... oh and I bet some even were CARGO SHORTS with puffy pockets !

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I'm still trying desperately to work out what part of Hawaiian Pizza and Large Leo is Thai culture.

Surely if one is expecting to work in an expat or tourist environ then you would expect staff to speak the 100 words of English not patrons do an impromptu Thai language course. What is the Thai word for "pizza" anyway....my bad, apparently it's "pizza".

Then I move on to how many full names of Bar staff I know, and fail the standard again. Mind you I do not know the full name of all the staff at my local 7/11, petrol station, post office, bank etc but we do recognise each other, greet each other cordially with a smile, exchange pleasantries with each other.

Not knowing or caring to know a language does not excuse bad manners on the part of patrons OR staff. One would think it rudimentary for anyone in the hospitality industry to have relatively consistently good manners and hopefully overall demeanour.

I would not put up with a sh#tty attitude elsewhere so why put up with it there...it's not on the TAT promotion plan is it?

Been gone about three years now.....but still miss Blinky Bill.

Like Ian Forbes mentioned earlier Blinky too lived life large but tragically passed away far too early.

Not sure you could rely that the nicer ones had "owners", as posted most have been bought cheap had a quick fashionable "update" and then put back on the market for a few hundred thousand more than bought. Something you could do yourself with time etc but the acid thing here is that they are are now the best house in the worse street. Theses and Sr are flipped quickly on cosmetics for a sizeable mark up that you could not do on a lot of other condos because of their initial price point and potential end market.

These places capitalise on someone not having enough money to get a decent place and then producing this flashy bargain in compared to what they never could have afforded in the first place....so it seems a good deal...but in the end the complex is not convenient, is a dump, and is a long way from gentrification still.

I do not think the calibre of Thai owners there give a rats about updating. The place is a low rental or temporary residence for Thais not an investment or lifestyle ideal.

Personally I would give them a big miss. There has, as you have pointed out been a fair few places jazzed up rather than refurbished per se. In the end you can polish a turd but it is still a turd. There are a lot newer and nicer places on the market (including location wise), to me these are cheap places being "flipped" at a premium to the lower end of the faring market. Same for some refits at SR. condo as well.

If you could afford not to stay there....you would'nt stay there.

Edit...do a forum search as these places have been mentioned a few times as "investments" and the like.

And yet we have Khaosod yesterday (and several other newspapers and social media pages praising a German tourist who has come here on holidays for the last six years (and this time brought tools) who has been gardening, cleaning phone boxes, clearing rubbish off the side of the road......and gaining a lot of praise for it.

I always looked at "work" (paid, paid in kind, or otherwise) as being something where you were not taking the job of a Thai, or being volunteered in such a way (through a series of people or placements) that took the potential for creation of a job of a Thai. Also of course it should be incidental to the purpose of your main visa not your major purpose. This the way that a lot of western immigration authorities look at it.....Having said that TIT.

On another thread now we have NancyL giving a three hour presentation on Lessons Learned at the End of Life....associated with Lannacarenet and this too seems ok.

http://www.khaosod.co.th/view_newsonline.php?newsid=TVRReU5Ea3hOemcwTWc9PQ==&sectionid=

Nice and relevant piece by Channel 4 on Chinese in Thailand for CNY and issues for Thais/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONZ6CAUPW3g

And for the visual amongst us...the video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z02a-516tOs

Not a place I frequent I can assure you

I'm still trying to work out how drunk you would have to be to fall into that place when there are better alternatives within falling distance.

It really has to be the worse bar on the strip....by far.....Its so bad it makes everything that Bettlejuice says about Loi Kroh have credibility

The bars in LoiKroh are mostly harmless by comparison, as said before, don't use check bins.

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.Warning. . . An Aussie had $200 stolen from his wallet in a massage at the top of LoiKroh yesterday.

. . . .he says he went to sleep........Silly man didn't contact the Police.

I've got a mate who's had his pocket picked four times last year, admittedly when slightly tiddly, and the only thing he could find in common from all the nights was a visit to a bar beginning with an M and ending in an A.

I'll leave you to work it out, lest the bad news bears jump all over me for being libellous.

One of those LB bars in the shed of shame. near the ring (so to speak).

Methinks you would be wrong here...Only one that springs to my mind as The M@@@@a Bar which is down the other end of Loi Kroh from your joint (nearest moat)......and seems to have the same flag as yours festooned...It is a grotty place and the women (not girls) not much better. You would have to be more than half cut to go in there in the first place.

Winnie...the article suggested this was somewhere near CMU. Am not overly familiar with that area myself and even less so at night....

http://www.cm108.com/bbb/index.php?act=ST&f=2&t=4658

More Police Stop related than Police Loi Kroh Stop related.....but gotta love the T shirt of this fella captured on a CM108 report today....and he's even Thai .

The Australian Authorities have also been active in prostitution raids in SEA.

Any evidence of this in relation to CM let alone Thailand, come to think of it SE Asia in general in the last say five years. I really would be interested in examples of which authority (AFP, AUSAID, IMMIetc) and how many involved given jurisdiction and budget. Having an AFP officer tag along as an invited guest on a in country raid as you put it is hardly being "active".

Also Australian agencies concern themselves largely with trafficking not prostitution per se or even forms of cultural debt bondage in places like Thailand, China and India.

Sex trafficking particularly of children may get the PR and NGO dollars but does not help the conditions of indentured crew on Thai fishing vessels or some farms, and certainly not helping the tens of thousands of Rohingya that are trafficked and die into and through Thailand....along with fishing probably the most lucrative and corrupt endeavour.

For Commonwealth Departments there is a list of authorised persons that is quite lengthy (in regards to Statutory Declarations). Perhaps it would be easier if posters indicated what profession was authorised to certify documents relevant to what they are seeking as it can vary. There maybe one at a local hotel or backpackers or bar

Australian registered Pharmacists, Nurses, Police Officers, certain ADF members, and members of bodies such as Chartered Accountants of Australia can all sign Stat Decs for the Commonwealth even when in CM on holidays. I have had most of my documents in Chiang Mai certified by a "Permanent employee of the Commonwealth" who resides in CM here for several months each year for Centrelink, Immigration, ATO, and DVA paperwork with no problems for the last six years. I just save the stuff up or pre plan as best I can as to when I know he is about.

Ps...edit I imagine the Hon Consul could sign if he falls within one of these specified person categories and not solely as a result of being an honorary consul (stat dec wise anyway). Certifying true copies may be different.

http://www.ag.gov.au/Publications/Pages/Statutorydeclarationsignatorylist.aspx

The only similarity between the U.S. Constitution, and Police and Prostitution in Chiang Mai is a tenuous link to the adage"In God we trust". altered locally for BIB and prostitues to "In God we trust, everybody else pays cash".

The police just caught him yesterday.

Photo credit: Sansai Gazette.

Another faring working without an appropriate visa. will they never learn.

I think you have to separate duty form moving household goods...two different things.

REQUIREMENTS FOR CHANGING OF RESIDENCE

• Nonresidents: Nonresidents may import the used/secondhand household effects acquired abroad tax and duty free if such household effects accompanied them in the change of residence and they are qualified under the criteria listed below:
• Nonresidents resuming residents in Thailand must be granted a non-immigrant quota as shown in a passport or a Nonresident Identification Card; or
• Nonresidents granted to work in Thailand are regarded as resuming residents in Thailand provided they have a one-year non-immigrant visa issued by the Immigration Department. In case where the non-immigrant visa has not yet been granted, either of the following documents may be accepted:
  • The letter from the Immigration Department certifying that the nonresidents shall be granted an annual temporary stay in Thailand; or
  • The work permit from the Department of Labor to work in Thailand for at least one year.
• Nonresidents entering Thailand as an expert, specialist, or under a contract of government agencies are required to present the letter from relevant agencies certifying that such nonresidents are granted a non-immigrant visa issued by the Immigration Department and shall work in Thailand not less than one year.

http://www.customs.go.th/wps/wcm/connect/custen/individuals/importing+used+or+secondhand+household+effects/importingusedsecondhandhouseholdeffects+

What we need for up to real time verifiable information as well as personal amusement is a live camera feed from immigration