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And after you first 90 day in person, your second (and future) 90 days may still be rejected online. It's convenient when it works, but it totally sucks when it doesn't.

Nope. No previous surgery.

I've been told by numerous ophthalmologists over the years that I have very misshapen eyes (high myopia -11) and very thin retinas which make cataract surgery relatively difficult and a high risk procedure. I don't particularly want to end up blinded in order to get the necessary surgery that I'm going to need in the next couple of years in order to be able to adequately see. As such I really am looking for the best ophthalmologist (and probably a full professor at Chiang Mai University Medical Department) in Chiang Mai to do the operation. Who would that person be? @Sheryl If you have an recommendation I'd appreciate your input. Thanks.

I hear there is flooding in Chiang Mai city. Anyone know where the River Ping is coming over the banks and what roads may be closed?

This time of year? I barely use it at night. Cool the room before going to bed then turn it off. It's called acclimatizing. Live here long enough and you'll get use to the local weather conditions and adapt.

How many cars in Thailand are for sale and have clean titles - and you subject yourself to this? Your next post next month will be how your got scammed. Walk away, find a different car.

Start off your proselytization with a lie. Grand way to begin to bring "Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior" into the lives of those "pagan, idol worshiping, Buddhist heathens who are all 'damned to Hell' for sure if they aren't immediately fooled into learning English Christianity and getting dunked into the nearest river." Anyway, what's the "tell?" A Burmese man and Thai woman "teaching English" should set off the red flags. It never occurs to these self-righteous Christians that copious warnings about the evils of "deception" is at that absolute heart of their own religion - and then they use deception in an attempt to create a schism and inject doubt into the hearts and minds of young Buddhist monks - deceptive proselytization. That should be an object lesson for these "naan": Deception is amoral.

Nah - they'll just burn down American cities in "fiery but peaceful" protests ala 2020. Really - what's the difference between violent protests by the Left and violent protests by the Right? Now the Leftist main-stream media shapes the narrative. Whether that aligns with reality or not is completely irrelevant. Regardless of who wins in November (or December, or January.....if there are elections), I'll be happy to be living in rural Thailand and nowhere near America.

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Well, that's stupid. Enjoy your stay in prison before being deported.

Back to two-tiered justice. One tier for commoners, in other words, prison. Another tier for "special people," in other words parole or special prisons - like hospital penthouse suites. Dude's a "special person" with connections sooooo, parole and a hand-slap.

You're worried about the price to get a cavity fixed? Just do it.

It's not a problem unless they come and arrest you, throw you in jail, and deport you...then it's a problem. There ya go!

Ain't never gonna happen here - ever.

Both are tasteless swill that isn't worth drinking.

Now I'm getting older: I worry that my aging brain is making me feel crazy. (You too?) Nope.

Bollacks.

He from the Tuva areas of Russia and the primary form of Buddhism is one of the sects of Tibetan Buddhism.

Ex-Russian-Defense Minister, Sergei Shoigu, is a Buddhist.

How long have you lived her. That's is exactly how it works here. Grandparents often raise the children as the parent(s) go off to cities to work. You're not in the West. This country doesn't run by Western concepts of morality (thank god).

Agreed. But have you ever had a child die? I have. It gives you some closure. My daughter's urn sat in my bedroom for a few years until I was ready to intern her which I eventually did. I can't express the hole that leaves in your emotions. If you haven't been there, you wouldn't know. Yet I do hear what you're saying, and it is true. But... A sense of closure. That's about all.

Yeah, when I hear "massage therapist in Russia" I pretty much expect that gal is doing the same thing that most gals do who work "massage" in Thailand. Same same - not different.

I thought she had enough saving to renovate the home and support her parents and kids? So she has savings but they need the government to take care of the expenses for repatriating the ashes? That's a cardboard box with a couple of pounds of ash and ground bone. How do I know? I had my daughter cremated after she died at 18 years old. There is very little expense associated with repatriating ashes. So - what's really going on? Terribly tragic, but, Thais suffer tragedies every day. Road accidents in Thailand claims thousands each year and yet I don't heard that the Thai government must provide welfare assistance to families of road traffic victims. Yeah, the Thai embassy should contact the Russian government and ask for assistance to get the process of repatriation moving as well as the shipment of the ashes back to Thailand. But if a Russian had died in Thailand, would it be the Thai government's responsibility to take care of the dead Russian citizen? Nope! We hear about this all of the time when foreigners die in Thailand. So it applies the other way around as well. If you go work in another country, it's not that country's responsibility to repatriate a body if that foreigner dies while working in that country. So why does this family believe that somehow it's different for them?

That's the epitome of hyperbole. Worked to death giving massages. Get real. Wait wait wait, I know. "She was forced by Putin to massage him until she died." That would play well in the West and probably in Bangkok too.

Exactly.