mania

Wow sad for a generally nice guy Ron Paul really made a fool of himself juggling nonsense there even the interviewer was on him like a rash, had it been a conversation with me I would have torn him apart.

Disclosure: I couldn't bear to watch more than one minute twenty he may have said very intelligent things later.

Ah yes & what books have you written that we can check your wisdom?

Have you had discussions with the likes of Greenspan & Bernanke or Presidents as RP has?

Written book with as much wisdom as he has?

Yet after in your words a minute twenty you would have torn him apart in a conversation?

Your a legend in your own mind.

Maybe you & the Japanese soapy massage owner that posts here can swap one liners?

Niyom Panich a little down the road from Airport Plaza mall is great.

Large pro shop with a good waiting room coffee shop etc.

Or you can go browse the store

I think the main reason this thread got started & pinned was not

looking for better investments abroad etc.

We have the financial forum for that.

This thread was specifically created for Thai Bank interest rates

Folks who live in Thailand full time need a Thai account if nothing else but

for their visa seasoned 400-800k THB

To that end we were always interested in local Thai Bank Rates

Watching that elevation change at turn one is deceiving on TV & looked much smaller

Yes that is part of the reason when I originally posted pics of four or five of these at Kawasaki

Chiang Mai I said it was a huge bike.

It really gave the impression of being a Battlestar Galactica type of thing

PS. I thought long and hard about you're statement....."job application over the phone"....some things you can apply for over the phone,.....but I or no one I know of,has ever heard of jobs.

You are misreading what he wrote. Which was,

and if your lucky enough to get a reply an, interview is initially a telephone call,

This is not uncommon & many HR departments in the USA also do it this way now.

Rather than interview 100 or more for a job they "Initially" do a phone pre interview

to see if you meet certain minimums

OP : Good Luck to you & your family

I keep reading in non-Thai sources that Thailand and SE Asia gold shops are out of gold. I do not believe this and wonder at the motives behind this rumour getting circulated? I posted this in the CM thread

anyone experience problems buying gold in the past week or two?

Usually when prices get low enough yes there is a shortage but not of gold jewelry

chains etc.

The shortage is of Bullion both 96.5% Thai & 99.99% or 99.999 coins

Of course depends on your order size too.

i love going to zoos,must be the youngster in me,got to admit its certinally entertainment value, at cnx imm.

You know you could turn that love of the zoo into some coin/income

Absolutely, all you need to do is beat Assist on price and you could go to the zoo so often and get paid........you would have the perfect life.............OK waiting for the work permit police.

He could do each for say 125 baht per ...gift...tip....consideration etc.

so as to not alarm the work permit police.

Competition would be good for us too as others might lower their prices to compete

with the falang zoo lovin guy

I couldn' t open Mee Tae Dai account as the local branch of bank of Ayudhya told me this account is just for Thai...so bulllshit... L&H Bank any good? This Bank have a similar account at 2,90 % and Fixed 12 months at 3,35 %

I have two MTD accounts with them & am not Thai

On L&H bank I am sure they are fine but have never seen a similar to MTD type account.

The one they have 2.8% is a stepper account

They have a 2.9% 12 month lock too.

Unless they have a non-fixed 2.9 that I have not seen?

The nice thing about the MTD accounts have always been that they are not fixed time wise

can be used for Visa extensions & are not taxed like fixed accounts. Until you reach 20k baht in one year

of interest at which time you can just move it & not be taxed anyway

i love going to zoos,must be the youngster in me,got to admit its certinally entertainment value, at cnx imm.

2nd race 2nd podium kid is doing good

It sure is.

vale.jpg

You know I think he ( VR ) could win here....Of course...

Qualifying is just a taste. Dealing with traffic

& being opportunistic in those twisty sections is going to be his thing.

Yes going to be great to watch

I checked out the Raybans while perusing the mall and it seemed that all of the frames that the various shops had on display would be quite cumbersome when wearing a motorcycle helmet.

Also agree & had forgotten about Maui Jims, good stuff too.

I has another brand that the name escapes me now which was great too.

Anyway here are some Rayban styles close to what I used on a bike before

switching to dark shield full face

With so many fully paid up gold bugs and their jewellery loving girlfriends living in Thailand I am surprised the price hasn't rocketed up immediately.

I have to say the funniest thing about all these gold threads is that they are mainly populated by paper bugs

who see gold bugs in every nook & cranny.

I see he kept up the speeds from practice into Qualifying

Going to be a good race I think.

http://www.motogp.com/en/Results+Statistics

I was just sat here thinking about the subject of visa agents and wondered how smart it is for a farang to give up responsibility for their visa affairs to a local business, even more pertinent is the question of how sensible is it for a farang to give up their passport to the owner of one of those businesses. Having never used that type of service myself I have no first hand knowledge, but I do recal the stories out of Pattaya a few years back where farangs were giving their passports to a local agent to do border runs on their behalf and the stamps were found to be fraudulent and the passport holders were held accountable, that's scary stuff.

I suppose if folks want to use those services and they've found someone they think they can trust, power to their elbow, but its'not for me I'm afraid.

What happened to....

oh well, each to their own.

Kidding aside really you are rehashing really old things that we have all been over ad nauseam

They were speaking about 90 day reports not visa extension renewals

1- None is giving up any responsibility...Period

Immigration law allows you to designate a friend etc. to do your 90 day reports

2- None is giving up their passports...Period

As many have mentioned Many times you fill out 4 TM47 forms in advance & they make a copy

of your passport

You are citing old examples of border runs not the same thing as what your now comparing to.

These are 90 day reports that folks who have 1 year extensions for some silly reason need to file .

Due to crowds & scheduling it has gotten pretty tough for many to dedicate unknown amounts of time to the task.

Others just choose not to have to at all. As you said "To each their own"

oh well, each to their own.

Anyone who gets charged THB 1,500 to do a 90 report needs their head examined or perhaps subjecting to a lie detector test, frankly I don't believe that happened.

Bit of confusion gong on here...again

Some companies charge 1000-1500 baht PER YEAR to do all your 90 day reports

meaning 4 times per year

You have not seen it mentioned many times in the 90 day thread?

Free Practices coming in very nice today.

Nice track actually with lots of turns & a nice elevation

change. Honda's look to really like this track & should make

a good race.

Pedrosa looks a lot better than he did a week ago

But Marc....looks nuts. If he keeps the rubber side down

he should do well again

There was a nice couple of FP laps with him chasing Rossi & passing him

Looking forward to this race

I tend to always use Ray Bans & have had some Oakley's but Ray Bans

always last longer & seem better quality. Not cheap but last pretty much forever

or until your tired of that style etc.

although these days I use none on the bike as I have a dark shield on the AGV K4 now

Thanks mania I was just about to ask if it was any harm to the bike if I waited abit more and put a few more extra km on the bike so I'm glad you gaved new this advice to atleast change the oil and filter

Reason being if there are any metal shavings due to break-in of some parts it is the 1st oil

change that will carry the bulk of it.

This is the period that rings & other parts are seating for the first time with the resulting

by-product waste

So yes get the filter & oil changed at least on time if not earlier

I contacted Assist Thai Visa and asked them to clear up exactly what their fee is for 90 day reporting. This is their answer:

Hi,

For our clients which use us for visa extensions our fee is 1000 baht. If you are just using us for the 90 day report the fee is 1500. The increase was due to the amount of calls and emails received from new clients in regards to 90 days.

I hope this clarifies the situation

Kind Regards

Rhys

From his answer it sounds like a quite recent fee increase. I have no problem with people also using them for extensions getting a discount.

I have visited Chiang Mai Immigration only twice for 90 day reports, and it has only taken 15-30 minutes each time from I arrived until I left. But mostly because of the uncertainty (cancelling mail in reports, whether you need a number or not changing from visit to visit, the rumour that you will have to come in the morning etc.) combined with the lack of organisation at Immigration, I find it worth it for me to pay the fee. I live in Lamphun, so the fee is not that much more than the transportation costs anyway.

If they open up for mail in reports, or establish a consistent, streamlined work process for 90 day reports, then I will probably revert to doing my own reports again.

Sophon

A bit confusing as I do not think any of us who posted using them for 90 day

use them for extensions.

I know I do not.

But may be a new policy due to the increase in clients.

It does sound like more folks use them now.

They make both a 4-into-1 and a 4-into-2 with that system- I'm getting the 4-into-1 for the weight savings, though that will leave the left side exhaust hanger empty (note in the passenger pegs have been removed in the pic- I'm keeping mine).

I kind of surprised everyone likes the Brock's better than the Graves (which I thought looked great;)).

Sure someone will come up with something more compact ( kind of surprised Brock doesn't offer them )

but until then you could run the stock ones.

I am not surprised most like the Brock it is modern GP looking

where as the large/longish carbon cans are a bit retro already

I started to ask for my choice of meats, but the woman said that all the meat was the same. So I had what appeared to be beef, which was ground.

The taco was not bad -- crispy and fresh -- but the meat had no real distinctive flavor.

The burrito was good sized, but the meat was the same and to this was added a lot of shaved carrots

What kind of taco? beef,chicken,pork?

Umm no we only have one kind....mystery meat

Then as you said to top it with carrots?