jak2002003

Get the oranges from the market. 

Chuck the tree and plant some nice flowers. 

48 minutes ago, JeffersLos said:

First to hospital.

 

Then to home?

 

To serve his sentence there, under medical and corrections supervision, of course?

With added comforts.. And free to leave the house like an open prison. 

All went well at the immigration office. 

IThey updated the TM30 with no questions asked. 

After that did my 90 day report. 

America these days does not seem any different sometimes to some radical strick Muslim country. 

So much homophobia and racism there. 

It's not what the American dream was supposed to be.

Why can't people just be nice to each other and accept differences in opinions...we are not all the same and never will be.  

7 hours ago, BillStrangeOgre said:

It's been over a month for me trying to deal with a messed up sleep pattern. I'm awake all night then finally get off to sleep around 6am and in bed until midday!

Alcohol doesn't work for me. As soon as I stop I got back to the previous sleep pattern. I took some strong sleeping tablets here last time I was here which I bought over the counter but can't remember the name or the pharmacy! ????

Set your alarm.  Force yourself to get up at 7am and not sleep during the day. 

After 3 or 4 days your body clock will be back to normal. 

Sleeping pills are not the answer or healthy either. No need for them.

1 hour ago, CMBob said:

When I had to do the update, I was erroneously told to go to the Immigration office at Central Festival to get that done.....and, of course, when I got there, they said "no way, you can only do the TM30 stuff at the back office behind the main Immigration office."  But, while there, I did the 90-day report which they handled without any issue (they didn't give a hoot about the TM30 problem).

So....I'd bet a few baht you can do your 90-day at either office and the drive-in deal at the main office would obviously be the fastest; however, to be able to do the online 90-day reports in the future, you're going to need to do the so-called "update" of your TM30 at the office next to the copy joint.  Good luck.

 

Haha

 Thanks. I will try the drive through first. 

I'll let you know what happens..

6 minutes ago, CMBob said:

It's hit or miss.  In last 18 months, I've stayed at hotels elsewhere in Thailand who filed the usual TM 30's for me.  Twice there was no issue in continuing to file online 90-day reports but a third time I had the same thing happen to me (online 90-day rejected because of different address on file).  I filed my 90-day in person (no issue with that) and afterwards went to the TM30 office (adjacent to copy shop at rear of main Immigration building) and they "updated" the TM30 for me without charge or issue.  I took several documents with me but they really didn't care to see any of those when I told them what happened.

 

Strangely, I've also flown out of the country 3 times in the last 18 months and returned to Thailand and those trips caused no disruption in my ability to file online 90-day reports.  Simple reason for that is hotels outside of Thailand don't file TM30's here (i.e., Immigration had to clue I left and returned....although they could have figured it out by the new entry dates I inserted in the online 90-day reports).

Thanks for that info. 

Maybe if I do the 90 day form in person at the drive through it will work..or would the officer see on his computer it's already been rejected...and get me into more bother? 

The annoying thing is we are leaving the country in 3 weeks time.  

Are they enforcing the TM30 rules again in Chiang Mai Immigration? 

We always do new TM30 if we leave and return to the country and our house here in CM. 

But it's been OK to go stay at a hotel in the city or other province and then come back to our house without doing a new one.. We used to but the immigration officer actually told us that was not needed. 

But this time we had one night away at a hotel and now we have had our 90 day report regected for the reason our last address was at the hotel. 

Now are we going to have to pay the fine for not doing a TM30? 

26 minutes ago, JonnyF said:

I never stated he was a Muslim. Could have been a Christian. Could have been an escaped convict. Could have been anyone who doesn't like trans ideology. They haven't released any details of the killer. Often this happens when their identity is a bit, ummm, awkward shall we say.

 

If he was a MAGA hat wearing redneck in dungarees, driving a Cadillac Deville draped in the confederate flag I dare say we'd have heard all about it by now. 

 

Either way, whether he was Muslim or not is irrelevant. My point was that if you wish to display a flag that is offensive to millions of people, some of which may be extremists, it's possible that a confrontation will ensue. 

What... A flag like the American flag for instance.? 

4 minutes ago, OneMoreFarang said:

I am surprised that that is something like women's chess.

Playing chess is all about the brain. This would only make sense if women and men would have considerable different IQs. As far as I know that is not the case.

Agree. Seems totally sexist to me. 

2 hours ago, GinBoy2 said:

Nothing racist about pointing out the obvious.

 

Of course there are cases of animal abuse in other countries, but I'd suggest they are the exception

 

Thai's view of 'pets' is on the whole totally different to most western views

Wrong. Sorry, do some research.  See how many dogs and cats un American are destroyed each year due to owners dumping them or not wanting them. 

Look at animal hoarding cases too.

It's not unique to Thailand.. 

All the posters on here saying its a Thai thing. That's so stupid and just racist. 

Go look at animal rescue videos on you tube to see all the cases like the OP of animal hoarders in America, UK and other countries....as well as puppy mills etc. 

9 hours ago, MrMuddle said:

Sorry my lungs are not good, pond is 4 feet deep. Needs to be emptied, and cleaned weekly.

You don't need good lungs. It would be really unhygienic to suck up pond water lol

Simply sink a length of hose or tube into the water....submerge it so there is no air left in the tube, then put your thumb or a bung on one end and keep the other end in the water. 

Lower the end below the water level outside you pond and then take you thumb off that end.  The water will then syphon out. 

9 hours ago, MrMuddle said:

Sorry my lungs are not good, pond is 4 feet deep. Needs to be emptied, and cleaned weekly.

Why are you emptying it weekly?! 

That must be a huge waste of water. 

You should have a filter for a fancy koi / goldfish pond then the pond never needs emptying. 

If its for food fish they are hardy and don't need a filter if the pond is big and natural (mud bottom). 

I've never heard of anyone emptying a pond ever week. A pond gets a natural balance of bacteria that live in the silt and on aquatic plants, rocks etc.  Cleaning it will destroy this balance. 

Never. And is usually Thai males that I hang out drinking with in the village. They are usually just drink and having fun...and making more Thai cultural faux pas thank I could ever do lol. 

Where are you located? 

Are there no Home Pro shops or Pond and fancy fish shops? 

If you are out in the sticks maybe as a rice farmer if you can rent one of his water pumps that they use for fields? 

3 hours ago, OneMoreFarang said:

No

 

The reason I know is that I often buy cooked eggs from a Kao Ka Moo vendor at the fresh market before they put the eggs into Kao Ka Moo. I eat the eggs together with Khanom Chin and the eggs are exactly like jak2002003 describes. 

 

(The picture is from the internet, the eggs I buy and eat look exactly like in the picture)

 

Yes. They are not boiled eggs.  

They may be duck eggs.... But I tried to soft boil eggs from my ducks and they trun out the same as chicken eggs. 

These other eggs are almost like jelly. 

Maybe you are right about them getting cooked very slowly.

Those soft eggs that you get on the side of the Khaw Kaa Moo (slow cooked pork leg with rice). 

They are a bit translucent and a bit like soft jelly texture...with the yolk thick. 

I am going back to the UK soon and want to make them for myself. 

7 hours ago, ezzra said:

You're luck you don't have the Asian Koel bird screaming in your ear 24/7, enough to send you mad and i have a neighbour who's keeping one in a cage.

You should report that to the police. It's illegal to have keep them. 

7 minutes ago, ratcatcher said:

The gauge of the railway tracks in China and Laos is Standard Gauge, in Thailand and Malaysia, the gauge is metre gauge. Where or how will the trains be compatible?

Shhhh... They have not thought about that yet. ????