joe84330

I'm just going to scratch my head and wonder which beer bar everyone owns and is now complaining about.

charcoal lumps provide a home for all the illegal undocumented non visa having microbes that are a necessary part of any good organic soil.

just don't use any from after the fires that thai's start using plastic bottles. the ash left over from the fire (without plastic) is necessary for root development and flowering. also swimming pools but this is the gardening forum. everybody comments on how thick and green my lawn is, due in large part to my super secret ash mixed with seaweed water recipe that gets sprayed on every couple of weeks.

egrets will eat all of the fish in your pond, if you have one. i don't have any ponds but i do have egrets in my yard every day eating the small red millipedes and other creepy crawlies. i like these birds, slow and stealthy in the lawn and they don't bother anything i want. can't say the same for the mynas.

Thatw a sprobsbly just for the birth certificate, not for a legitimization of the children. (although stranger things have been known to happen in Thailand).

when stranger things stop happening here, i'm going to reconsider my domicile

Thanks. Clearly the Embassy is not open on Saturday so it looks like a weekend over there and collect Monday afternoon.

Guess I will park at Nong Khai and walk across and then get a taxi or a bus to Vientianne.

there will be literally hundreds of people waiting there to take you across and beyond for a very modest fee

The little market opposite Twins in Maenam has the guns and the gas....I think, definitely guns and pellets

ok then, where do i find these twins? i have enough pellets and co2 to last me through 2012!

For information on how to legitimize a child look here:

http://www.thaivisa....ts-as-a-father/

thanks for that link, very informative. i really had no idea what is considered legitimate, i just nodded my head and signed papers when they were born. just asked my gf to show me all of the documents, incl those from the amphur, and my name is already written in thai on them and they state that i am, in fact, the father of my children.

Where is Ban Saket?

Find Carmen sandiego and you will have found saket

South side. Near the waterfalls and big furniture shop. Lots of road destruction going on there now.

Going to be funny watching their reaction to a dozen foreigners wandering into their shop today all asking for guns

The 10 baht shop at the rear of the Ban Saket market in Ban Saket sells the guns and the gas canisters.

on my way!

are you talking about co2 cartridges? i've got dozens but i'm not selling them, sorry. there used to be an active airsoft club here on samui, in maenam near the atv place in maenam. you might try asking the guy that sells toys in the main floor kiosk at big c, near where they put new cars on display. he's always got air soft guns and toy pistols for sale, glass bb's etc. also try the shooting range, opposite makro.

if you do find some co2 here on samui please let me know, i'd be a lot less tight with mine if knew there were others available.

If you continue with your job and your Non-B, if you loose your job you can apply for a 60 day extension because of your Thai family and during that time, either find another job and apply for another extension based on employment or apply for an extension based on marriage. As long as you are working, I see no benefit to changing from employment extension to marriage. It actually would require more paperwork by both you and immigration.

ah, had forgotten about extensions based on family. was actually just speaking with my friend here who is working on a non O and he says while it wasn't a problem to get a WP with his non O, if he wanted to continue working after the visa and WP expire, he would need then to switch to non B.

in that case it appears as though there really isn't any benefit in my particular case to switching. thanks all for the replies.

thanks for the replies. while my visa is expiring, i already do have a work permit that is good for another ten months. i also have a friend here who is on a non 0 with a work permit, this is what got me thinking about it. not married, for the record.

well i have years worth of totally legit jobs and tax returns. unless i'm mistaken, i believe i can have a work permit while on a non O.

of course i'd like to think i'd stay employed at the same place for the next three years but i am more concerned about having spent the last six years here without even beginning to qualify for the PR. i have to leave for penang in the next few days, that's why this question popped up.

if i was on a non O visa and my job status changes, would the same rules applying to non B visa holders with a one year extension apply? in other words wouldi i be forced to leave and obtain a new visa or due to non O status, would my one year extension remain intact?

given that i've been here for 6 years, have children born here and i intend to stay here (eventually looking for PR), would it make more sense for me to switch from a non b visa to non o?

in particular, the only reason i haven't qualified or applied for PR is the 3 consecutive one year extensions. ignoring how ignorant that particular requirement is, it seems that the non O would be a better choice because then in the unfortunate event that my job status changes, i wouldn't be forced to leave immediately and seek out a new visa and my quest for three consecutive extensions would continue.

what am i missing?

samui airport immigration does collect overstay, ftr. i have a friend that paid probably 6 months worth of overstay (20k plus 500thb tip) before his flight to malaysia.

never heard of an embassy or consulate being open on Saturdays.

Does the car have it's own passport? Am sure it needs more than just the ownership book.

kota baru comes to mind. it's open on either saturday or sunday due to the muslim work week.

I never give anyone of any nationality any space to drive the wrong way in lamai. Lofl at don't try that with a Thai. Bullshit.

Perhaps it's a sign Joe. Look around if there is any loafs of bread.

funny, because there is bread in my yard. helps me when i'm hunting with my blowgun!

Oh dear , are you going to feed the multitude?

my family is multitude enough!

btw, i just went to look at the neighbors "pond"

it's a bowl water feature on a pedastal. i think that fish was headed in the right direction...

Perhaps it's a sign Joe. Look around if there is any loafs of bread.

funny, because there is bread in my yard. helps me when i'm hunting with my blowgun!

mystery solved, the land owner who lives opposite us had made and stocked a new small pond in his yard last week. new to us, we didn't even know it was there. why his son didn't mention it last night when i found the fish and asked him about it is beyond me.

the fish still would have walked about 100m across grass, sand and pavement to get here. i'm impressed!

There must be a small pond near you. They have been known to travel over a kilometre.

It certainly didn't come out of the sea.

So......l.either it has come from a small pond that you are unaware of, or, it dropped out of a bucket.

Take your choice.

well, when there is heavy rain, a temporary brackish pond does form about 500m from here.

i'm assuming that catfish have not developed cement wall climbing skills though, and that beach sand is not conducive to their trek. the bucket idea is even less likely.

beady eyes and whiskers

well i live on the beach in the northwest. no side cars, and no other ponds for him to have migrated from. he's within 30m of the gulf.

seriously. please explain how a catfish ended up in a puddle in my driveway. have photos but we are about to bag him and take him to the temple.