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I thought a colleague was "whistling while he worked" a few months ago. Turned ouy to be that Samsung message tone one now hears everywhere. Irritating.

Has anybody ever heard of a passenger getting an insurance claim out of a Bangkok taxi?

I have been in a taxi accident where we got T-boned by an old Hi-So lady in a black Suv.

Sitting on the kerb with a banged up knee watching the Thais scream bloody murder at each other all I could make out was "farang, farang farang". Fearing a fleecing I decided to hobble way before the police showed up.

259 baht at ToysRUs. Made a nice little afternoon of it riding free shuttle from Amora. No other riders coming or going. (Thai couple with luggage got on at LeMeridien then got off at ShangriLa with just Wai for the driver, which was unexpected). The complex

did seem quite empty other than the tech job fair in building 2. A goat ranch had some cute kids on display outside. 20 baht to feed some kind of vegetable matter. Dukes had a few tables occupied, pretty poor for a Friday at 13:00. Sad to see food court closed, so nice sandwich at Ragu. It really is an attractive shopping plaza and I would be willing to go more often long as they keep the shuttle service available..

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Not sure how you would be able get back to arrival immigration from the departure side of the airport. Even if you were able to do it and were caught you would be in big trouble.

Book a flight. Exit at swampy. Then change your mind. You will be sent through immigration where you can use the automated gates.

Should work.

If you change your mind or the flight is cancelled they will cancel you departure stamp. They will not stamp you back into the country.

Missed this post by Ubonjoe, so ignore my previous suggestion. Guess you are going to have to suffer through one more flight or take the ferry to Lankawi.

We frequently have passengers on our airline who decide not to fly for whatever reason ( meeting cancelled, too late to make connecting flight, fight with spouse) become actually sick, dawdle in duty free shops or lounge and miss boarding cutoff, etc. Some get denied for being too drunk. Unless another flight that day is available they all get escorted back through immigration. The agents don't even care unless you have checked bags as this often causes delays when checked bags must be located and offloaded.

I personally missed a few flights flying standby. In BKK I think they just stamped me in again. In Japan it was a 2 hour process getting the exit stamp "cancelled".

So buy a Royal Silk Full Flex return fare somewhere international last flight of day, drink some free beers in the lounge and go take a nap somewhere. When you miss your flight you can be escorted down to arrival level. Then cancel your booking. The cancellation fee is 500 baht but I don't know if that would be a full or partial cancellation.

Looking for a stockist of the floating foam toys known as pool noddles, in ChiangMai,

Other than and a few perfect 15kt north wind days in January not enough consistency.

The only other time there seems to be any wind here seems to be associated with downpours and thunderstorms.

A pub, a chippy, and a decent Indian takeaway.

All can be found on Scunthorpe High Street.

Darren, you need to be more specific about your situation, especially about what documents/proof you really have.

First, are/were you married or not with the person ?

Second, whose name are the properties in ? Does a chanote exit ? if not, what land title class is it ?

Third, what documentation do you have? What is the exact written form of the promises made to you? Is it a paper letter, an email or an SMS, chat message ???

You say "they drew up and sent you a formal agreement to be signed" - well, has it been signed, and do you have it?

Can you prove you paid off the bank debt, for example through receipts or bank transfers?

I have had quite a few recommendations for lawyers both here and especially via PMs so I'm happy to answer your questions:

First, are/were you married or not with the person ? No. Dated for 2 years and lived together engaged for 1 year

Second, whose names are the properties in ? Does a chanote exit ? if not, what land title class is it ? One property (house) is a Chanote (in her name), the other is small piece of land that can only be transferred as Chanote (in her name) in about 5 years.

Third, what documentation do you have? Emails still on Gmail servers that she cannot deny came from her, stating she will return ALL my properties because she knows how hard I worked to earn the money.

Formal agreement. It was not signed because I was not in Thailand when she sent it to me. However I have witnesses that knew this agreement was put into action because they mediated it. She had 3 properties of mine at the time and she transferred the first one on the list to a nominee. I was then told I had to pay off the debt, which I did. After the debt was paid, she refused to transfer any more properties.

The excuses she gives for keeping the remaining properties is that she lost face in the community because everyone knows she lived with a man outside of marriage OR I promised her parents Sin Sot money and gold and that after we had lived together, it was the same as being married and therefore I had to pay Sin Sot anyway. Of course neither of these claims has any legal basis.

It sounds as if you may have a chance under a fair magistrate recovering control of one or more of your assets.

Though generally valid as long as they are reasonable, equitable and conscionable the reason oral contracts are looked on warily is that they are always difficult to enforce. eMails and the testimony of third parties is evidence, but how can a court look upon these land parcels as being transferable to alien control, which is never valid. You admitted to cohabitation under a promise to wed. This may be held as valid legal claim to one or more of your assets in compensation.

Is she open to a mediated settlement, perhaps for the payment of an additional gratuity?

This is the room, the start of it all

No portrait so fine, only sheets on the walls
I've seen the nights, filled with bloodsports and pain
And the bodies obtained, the bodies obtained

Where will it end?
Where will it end?
Where will it end?
Where will it end?

These are your friends from childhood through youth
Who goaded you on, demanded full proof
Withdrawal pain is hard, it can do you right in
So distorted and thin, distorted and thin

Where will it end?
Where will it end?
Where will it end?
Where will it end?

This is the car at the edge of the road
There's nothing disturbed, all the windows are closed
I guess you were right when we talked in the heat
There's no room for the weak, no room for the weak

Where will it end?
Where will it end?
Where will it end?
Where will it end?

This is the room, the start of it all
Through childhood, through youth, I remember it all
Oh, I've seen the nights filled with bloodsport and pain
And the bodies obtained, the bodies obtained, the bodies obtained

Where will it end?
Where will it end?
Where will it end?
Where will it end?

Another troll....yawn

Here is the reported metar at the time of the incident.

If I got my Condo Chanote and perhaps a 3BB bill would any other docment be required? I'm thinking of getting a drivers' license, eventually

(ID Photos, Letter from Juristic person, Consular attestation of passport validity, Health certificate, vaccination records, etc.)

Owen Wison in an action thriller? I'll wait for Zoolander 2.

(He'd did crash and burn on a spaceship in Armageddon).

Bt100? Classic.

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In your could opinion could you have received the extension at Nonthaburi on Friday for a backhander, despite the "new law"?

One big scam in my opinion.

Arrived to Chiang Mai airport last night at 10pm and wanted to use that new service.

Went to Shuttle Bus stop. Schedule is right there, next bus should leave at 10:30 pm. Bus is scheduled every 30 min, with last one at 3:30am. It was 10:20 at that moment.

Bus was waitng. No customers around, just driver. Driver insisted me to pay 300 baht for the ride, and he will go only with me. I said no, I want to go with the scheduled bus, and pay 40 baht for the ride, as it is advertised in the local news.

Driver laughed. Said if bus is not full, he will not go.

Then chinese couple came. Driver told them the same story. They accepted to pay 300 baht. Bus left with them only. So how the hell they can get the bus full if they do like that ?

It was 10:25pm. I was waiting until 10:40pm for possible scheduled bus, but nothing came.

Left with the taxi for 120 baht to Nimman.

So my question is : is it driver scamming ? Or this is normal policy when low number of customers ? I guess this is new service and people at the airport have no idea about this shuttle bus, plus it was late night time (bus still busy airport time).

I didn't have a good feeling about it, especially knowing that taxi is 120 baht.

Does not take long for the extortion and corruption to begin does it?

^ Yes, pool party is a great way for kids to get something of Songkran without having to take them downtown. Older kids tend to love going downtown but for the very young ones it's often a bit too much, not to mention that it's not exactly relaxing for parents as you always have to watch them to make sure they don't jump into traffic, into the moat or get bumped into in crowds.

Anyway there are lots of ways to celebrate Songkran that don't involve doing what I was doing yesterday (I shot some video. ) and to each his own.

For the people who enjoy the party though, there is this.

Note that there is also the religious aspect, and I'll get some of that this morning.

Did Lucky Bar sell alcohol from 14:00-17:00 or did the authorities enforce their Fatwa?

Those fat blue ones will detach your retina easily. I wear safety glasses.

Pugilism is savage, an abomination that should be banned in any decent society.

Billions to watch two elite freaks dance around each other, forgetting countless aspirants who paid the price of brain injury, and poverty.

Don't forget the millions in the PI living in squalor unimaginable. Manny Pacquiao. What a human being.

5 5 5

The only way to ensure the future of wild tigers is to protect their habitat. Period. These attractions should all be banned.

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Who are we to say how to improve Songkran.

It's Thailand's new year celebrations, let Thai people celebrate it how they want.

Can you imagine if Thai people started asking "what can be done to improve Christmas?" - that would go down well.

If Thai people want to get drunk and then get behind the wheel of a pickup with 20+ other people in the vehicle then so be it.

The perceived 'problems' with Songkran are not exclusive to this particular time of year. Hundreds of people will die on the roads in this 7 day period but Thailand has dangerous roads all year round, with the authorities seemingly not interested in making them any safer.

Like a post says above, 90% of people with have a great and enjoyable time at Songkran, with the small minority spoiling it for everyone else.

Here is what should be done with "Christmas ". Limit it every to every 4 years like the Olympics, which should be abolished anyway.

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If this is of any interest; my thread from last about my experience at Rajavej

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/722850-rajavej-full-health-check-my-experience/

These "Full Health Checks" are a subject of some controversy in medical circles.

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/a8f65560-c263-11dd-a350-000077b07658.html#axzz3X9CmGoXY

Are you normally resident in the UK? Do you have GP? If so I would recommend would sticking

with the NHS recommended checks and avoid unnecessary medical costs here unless you feel unwell.

Sorry, that article was from 2008 and anyone who isn't registered with the FT website isn't able to read it. If someone hasn't had a Full Health Check before then it's a good idea to have one. I'm surprised with how many British people haven't had a complete health screen ever and have had a lifetime of seeing a doctor only to have symptoms treated.

Sorry I posted the same link in the old thread eyecatcher quoted, where I also participated. 2008 was the year I got my unnecessary Executive Health Check at Bumrungrad.

The one where I was given a grave and wholly inaccurate diagnosis which led to 2 years of CT scans and thousands $USD in out-of-pocket expense, insurance hassles, and stress.

I'm not saying don't get a check-up or avoid doctors. Best thing is to develop a relationship with a GP and follow her advice.

If this is of any interest; my thread from last about my experience at Rajavej

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/722850-rajavej-full-health-check-my-experience/

These "Full Health Checks" are a subject of some controversy in medical circles.

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/a8f65560-c263-11dd-a350-000077b07658.html#axzz3X9CmGoXY

Are you normally resident in the UK? Do you have GP? If so I would recommend would sticking

with the NHS recommended checks and avoid unnecessary medical costs here unless you feel unwell.