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Question for all those who work in the Oil & Gas Industry, who solves your IT problems at your work / your projects either on land or sea, is that done by locals, your own company or is it outsourced to an external company?

I work now 15 years in Thailand, Indonesia and Singapore at various industries (from hazardous waste landfills to the Hotel & Golf Industry) and I would like to move to the Oil & Gas Industry as a career change (besides financial also for technical reasons). Would appreciate it if you can share your experience here so maybe I can learn from it and know how to move to that direction. Thanks for sharing your story.

Use the firewall of Windows, Avast Antivirus and MalwareBytes Anti-Malware - all free of charge.

Agree, the following situations will not change in the next 100 years, if you invest in Thailand you know that:

- flooding will happen every year, dispite the fact that the govenrment will tell you not to worry

- police will bribe you, red light, speeding, car to heigh and add more yourself

- visa rules will change each year

- political situation will change but wich country not?

I see Thailand as a "stable instability"

I agree, overstay of more than 90 days - banned for life from Thailand (family or no family here!)

What is the problem with that?

I stay away from firework as far as possible, two times burning paper in my eyes - not interested anymore.

@ Pib - 100% correct.

After I received my Credit Card and used is for several years, no questions are asked anymore. Not even a salary is neccesary anymore - very strange - but that is what I found out.

Not received any salary on my UOB account for 5 years BUT still have my credit card and can use it without any problems, just make sure you pay your cc and that's is.

When I do my 90 days, I fill in all the fields, write in a way that other people can also read it, put TB 100 in my passport and hand over my passport and form to the officer.

He looks at me, we smile at each other and 5 minutes later I am on my way back home again, never a problem so far and both me and the officer are happy.

When I see / hear all those problems over and over again (overstay / passport expired / forms not filled in correctly / NOT understanding the rules etc etc ) it's not strange that so many officers get frustrated and angry with some people.

Be polite, dress correctly, behave yourself and smile, keep in mind THEY make the rules NOT you and if you don't like that, don't stay here and go home or elsewhere...

I think there is still a report from Dutch engineers with recommendations how to manage water somewhere in their office, we do it already for hundred of years and with success - just go and have a look!

Would make sense to do the whole conversation in Thai at Immigration Office as well...

I'm fine with that, but I'm actually learning Chinese. Should I demand a chat in Mandarin for my next ED extension? Perhaps the Muay Thai students can throw a few drop kicks in the immigration office. Not sure what the cooking students will do, but somtam boobala always goes down well with the immigration officers.

Serious though, I fully agree that some students (and language schools) are abusing the system.

Simon

Extension of Visa denied: The officer only understands Cantonese.

I think this is more related to "wrong counter"

For those interested, I have a private teacher, 30 hours = TB 10.000 | 2 hours per week, lessons at my house.

Thai language is all about the way you pronounce it, it's all about tones and - that is my personal opinion - you can't learn that at school with 10, 20 students.

I remember the story of a young guy who also had a ED-Visa and went to immigration for an extension, officer asked his name and age in Thai and he had no idea what the officer was asking, extension denied!

In my opinion this whole ED visa is just one big scam - people only use it to stay in Thailand, that's it (yes there will be some exceptions....)

Would make sense to do the whole conversation in Thai at Immigration Office as well, you want to learn Thai anyway correct?

Second year, paperwork in Thai as well, prove that you are here to learn Thai, just test them.

Just my few satang.

Makloey, I am not that adventurous with phones but will think about your option next time I have problems.

At least he DONATES something, what have YOU donated so far?

Agree that it was not smart, but we not talk about that now.

Sh.t, just booked my holiday for three weeks to have a look at these shows.

If I cancel my holiday, will the hotel give me a refund?

Spend a lot of time on the beach and see a lot of people only looking at their TAB / iPad or mobile, so I switched off GPRS on my mobile now.

If I go to the beach now, can only use it as a telephone, great!

Have you ever tried to study online at http://www.coursera.com

Any error message? Do you get an IP-number yes / no?

Why everybody wants a mortgage, why not just pay cash.

Update from Hua Hin - Soi 102, life back to normal again - most water is gone now.

I use Avast Antivirus & MalwareBytes Antimalware (both free)

Thanks Clear Sky for the link, will use it next time but unfortunately I brought my mobile to the Samsung Service Centre already and they only installed Android, so now I lost all my programs and some data :-(

Hawker9000, still do not fully understand what happened and why my mobile only rebooted all the time after I installed the Gmail update, never had any problems before with my mobile.

Summary: the last day of your visa you make one last more visa-run so you get 12 + 3 = 15 months

Brought my telephone back to the Samsung Service Centre and they installed the OS again, so now I have a brand 'new' Samsung Nexus mobile phone with an old OS and no applications :-(

Updated OS to latest version (including GMail app) and still in progress to reinstall all my other apps again one by one - what a nightmare and I even don't know WHY the update of the Gmail app completely f*cked-up my phone.

As I wrote, can't access the phone as it is ONLY rebooting all the time...

Entrance is TB 50 / person BUT for all attractions you have to pay separately which can be costly if you have a family with children.