Stocky

I haven't the slightest idea what you're talking about - translation please.

Last near miss we had a couple of years back, the water reached the wall below the small terrace area behind the kitchen overlooking the river. The kids and my mother-in-law were sat on the wall watching the water rise. The water came up quickly and with it a wave of creepy crawlies that swarmed up the wall and onto the terrace. Much shrieking and screaming ensued, followed by frantic brushing and spraying of Baygone.

As suggested above Tops, Lazada, Tesco, Big-C, all good, can also add Wine Connection.

15 hours ago, Rhys said:

outside of town

I assume you're talking about Trang.

55 minutes ago, SooKee said:

The Huawei devices I have used have been great (I had an E5577 and now use an E5787 but use them a lot!) and I'd never go back to a tethered phone apart from the basic / casual use.

+1

I was wondering how you were coping up at Ranode, sorry to hear you're flooded again this year.

Your story of the R408 'Dam' is very similar to what occurred when we lived in Khuan Lang, just west of Hat Yai. They didn't put in enough culverts when they upgraded the Hat Yai by-pass, so we got flooded first year we were there, road just acted as a huge dam.

They never seem to learn, though one suspects the original design included enough drains, just that when it got built, cost saving penny pinching meant, they didn't get put in.

I bought a Huawei E5787 4G Mobile WiFi earlier this year from Lazada, mainly for use when travelling, particularly when in the UK, but also as a backup Internet option here in Thailand. Just pop a data SIM in and away you go, can connect up to 10 devices, excellent battery life.

Water levels have dropped today in Hat Yai's U-Taphao river and the flood relief canals; down from Yellow flag back to Green. We've had 586mm of rain in just the last 7 days, it's been raining pretty much without let up for two weeks, and November saw double the annual monthly average rainfall of 450mm with some 920mm total.

Thankfully Hat Yai's flood mitigation measures have worked, fingers crossed we remain flood free for the rest of this monsoon season.

Well they weren't. The 'Thai-phoon' never happened, this is a different, later, weather front that's been playing havoc down south.

5 hours ago, Pib said:

Might be best to ask some neighbor's if possible which service they have and why.

Good advice, connection quality varies a lot around Thailand, what works for others might not work in your situation. So ask your neighbours, they'll have the information most appropriate for you.

1 hour ago, Surasak said:

It covers my bank assets and personal belongings in Thailand only.

Yes, I have 3 wills, one for Thailand, one Singapore and one for the UK. Provided it's made clear in the preamble that there are multiple wills and the jurisdiction of each is explained then you can set up one for each country where you have assets. Makes things much easier than having a single will covering assets in several countries. Any tax is paid in your country of domicile on the total value of all assets across all the wills. But the wills can be executed independently. 

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Used a local lawyer here in Hat Yai last year, cost was Bht14,000 for Thai and certified English translation. You need to detail everything including bank account numbers, you don't seem to be able to make a blanket statement like "I give it all to the wife", they want it detailed.

As for charging you based on the value of your estate, that's just a plain rip-off, go and find another lawyer

Not seen the sun for two days in Hat Yai, just steady rain, occasionally heavy.

19 minutes ago, GuiseppeD said:

Could of got it down to 15 cents a month had you mentioned the negative press.  

Indeed. I'm about 3/4 the way through a 2 year subscription to PureVPN, up until a few months back I was pretty happy with them, but the wheels have come off recently. Doubt I'll be renewing with PureVPN. Five year subscription! Wow, that certainly is being a hostage to fortune.

As suggested above, the scale is wrong in the rice paddy pictures you posted, I used another image. I could fart around, tidy up and add additional shadow, but it's always going to be fake, and I wasn't about to spend more than ten minutes on it. However, it does convey the idea that time passes extremely slow on some road works.

I'm not seeing any problems with the K-Bank loggin or banking website, either with Firefox 57, Chrome or Vivaldi.

That's from my TOT connection.

Not a Kasikorn problem.

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23 hours ago, Here It Is said:

Sukhumvit Soi 39, Bangkok

Wrong forum mate, about 800km wrong!

2 hours ago, jacko45k said:

Top RH corner, click on the 3 lines .. then 'Customize'.

Click and hold on the little Icon that looks like a star sitting on a box (Bookmarks Menu)..

Drag up into toolbar and drop where you would like it to be.

I then got rid of the other new one that looks like books with one leaning. Drag and drop it downward!

 

Or you can click on 'Library' the "new one that looks like books with one leaning", click on 'Bookmarks', 'Bookmarking Tools' and toggle 'Add Bookmarks Menu to Toolbar'.

16 hours ago, lungbing said:

I tried to try it but couldn't get my bookmarks to import, it said the HTML file containing the exported books from Vivaldi was empty.  (It isn't, wrong format possibly.)  So  I loaded the xmarks extension to my current browser, Vivaldi, to sync the bookmarks then tried to add  xmarks to Firefox 57.  It didn't want to know.  So I've given up on it.

I use FVD Speed Dial with EverSync, keeps my speed dial and bookmarks in sync across Firefox, Vivaldi and Chrome on Windows and Linux. Both work in Quantum.

Just updated today. Yes it's quicker, but that maybe because a lot of my extensions don't work in the new version and got disabled. Check your addons page before updating, you'll see which ones are ready for the upgrade and which ones you'll lose.

On 08/11/2017 at 1:32 PM, toolpush said:

Jakarta is far worse than Bangkok

Agreed. What's worse is you've little option but to use the roads in Jakarta, first phase of the MRT is still at least 2 years away from completion.

On 10/11/2017 at 2:38 PM, Thaiwrath said:

So it will be closed again.

Any guesses for the next re-opening date ? 

There are hundreds of gambling houses in Hat Yai, one closes another one opens. With a large Thai Chinese population and our Malaysian and Singaporean Chinese visitors there's a lot gamblers in town and a huge amount of money to be made. Pok Deng, Rummy, Mah Jong and Dominoes plus of course we've cock fighting, fish fighting and bull fighting. If that's not enough you can just bet on the football.

It's not going away anytime soon.

1 hour ago, DavisH said:

I have not read any reports that detail these impacts - it seems more like hearsay. I would have thought that an Environmental Impact Assessment was done beforehand and that these issues would have arisen then. This mine would have a lot of Thai employees as well. How many will lose their jobs?

The issue has been with blood levels of arsenic and manganese. These occur naturally in the rock, and the locally high levels are associated with the gold mineralisation. They are present in the crops grown in the soils around the deposit, and therefore enter the food chain, they would be there regardless the mine had been developed or not. 

The issue is whether blasting at the mine, and the dust associated with mining, has raised the levels of arsenic and manganese in the local population to levels that are unsafe. NGOs and activists claim it has, the government sided with the NGOs for whatever reason, the mining company argues that the levels are within levels accepted by both the WHO and comply with standards laid down in Safe Work Australia, guidelines for mining in Australia. The problem is Thailand has no clear set of levels for compliance.

In 2015 Thailand's Ministry of Industry asked for a major review of community impacts, which was done by the international mining industry consultants Behre Dolbear and paid for by the mine. That study found "low arsenic/manganese impact" and overall "no negative impact" to community health.

Meanwhile the local people living around the mine have lost their main source of employment, if anybody had bothered to ask them what they thought they would have said don't close the mine, indeed they held their own protests asking exactly that.

The government will have to pay up, they can't just renew the licence and hope it will all go away. Kingsgate have lost a years production, outstanding loans on the mine have still had to be financed, laid off workers had to be compensated and they've had to bear the costs of maintaining the mine under care and maintenance.

That there remains a considerable gold resource at Chatree means someone will mine it again at some point. If not an Australian multinational, it will be some dodgy local outfit who won't care less what environmental damage they do, and neither will the government officials taking the back handers.

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Hat Yai's had over 200mm of rain since Nov 1st, that's about half the November monthly average, it's going to be a wet month.

OK so that's what the 2nd update was all about.

I updated to 17.5 and then the new 17.5 (17.5.1) several days later, both work(ed) fine on my little H96 Pro + box (Android 6).

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