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Kaoboi Bebobp

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  1. Tomorrow's March 12. You mean April. The National Songkran Festival runs April 1 to 21, with events here and there in Thailand. The official Songkran water festival runs April 11-15, at least in Bangkok.
  2. A decently dressed Indian guy came down the escalator at Phrom Phong BTS Station in front of Em Quartier Mall, Bangkok. Asked if I speak English. He pressed his internal start button and went straight into his pitch, showing me his -- not sure if it's called a colostomy bag if it's used to collect urine. Yeah, yuck. Drama button 2 gets pressed and the tears started to flow. Then and there I knew the game was on. "No. Bye." The nerve these bums have. I have also gotten the "you have a lucky face" pitch in years past.
  3. Nope. Whether you entered on a 30-day single entry or 90-day multi-entry visa, you must leave. During the previous 30-day-only visa period, agents were offering one-day border runs to Cambodia for about 1 million VND or more. As for an agent-obtained visa within the country, do so at your own risk.
  4. Posted in the last 24 hours on Voice of Vietnam and on VN Express. Is Vietnam waking up to the nearby tourism competition? These are good looking proposals. Now, if VN would only get going and stop talking. The remainders of the articles at the links are largely background stuff. From Voice of Vietnam: Vietnam to offer long-stay visas to attract visitors from high-end markets From VN Express: Vietnam considers visa exemption for nationals of wealthy countries
  5. I will only reply to this once because it is way off topic. Campbell has presented hundreds of studies all these years, with all the sources and links. Read the medical study summarized and linked by Campbell, which is my only reason for posting this so that it might help folks.
  6. This might be helpful. I was treated for prostate cancer (Gleason of 7) back in 2014 (age 60) by Dr. Sakpisid Nawasiri at Bangkok Hospital. They used Image Modulated Radio Therapy (IMRT). The machine was a Swedish Electa, which circled my body through 7 different positions. There were a total of 35 fractions (treatments): 25 aimed at surrounding tissue such as lymph nodes and 10 at the prostate. In other words, 7 weeks. For the next 2 years, I had quarterly physical checks and blood tests. My lowest PSA was 0.6, and averaged in the 1.xx for years. During that period I utterly changed my lifestyle so to give my immune system a better chance. I still do so to this very day, getting good sleep and some light exercise and keep my metabolic health up-to-date. FYI: Last year, Dr. John Campbell, PhD, posted this study on his channel (3 million subscribers): "Circulating vitamin D level and mortality in prostate cancer patients: a dose–response meta-analysis." In summary, higher dosages of Vit D seem to have a very positive protective effect on those who already had prostate cancer. You can read his entire script below his YouTube video and/or watch the 16 min vid. Vitamin D and prostate cancer
  7. Not quite sure what you mean by "after" immigration. After airline check-in, you go upstairs to Security, then downstairs to Passport Control. Here you do not get in line for the IOs but go straight to the corner desk to buy your Re-entry Permit (single or multi), then get in line to get your departure stamp. This is at Suvarnabhumi.
  8. A good source of info are the forum pages of Cambodia Expats Online. I have read lots of griping about how more expensive Phnom Penh is these days: supermarkets because a fair bit of food imports are directly from Thailand; eateries are now running $5 to $10 a meal; hostess bar girls asking $50 to $100; 50 cent beers are double that now; cigs cheaper though; there's no city transit still so it's all by tuktuk or tiny golf cart-like Passapps (like Grab); streets after midnight are rather dangerous due to bag/phone snatches (even in daytime), drunk driving in extreme ("foreigners" -- guess?); and apartments for residents are rocketing upwards of $400 to $600/month. Long-stay visas are a breeze if you're old enough 55 and up. Tourist e-visa is $35 online, get a letter and show it at airport and then at arrival you get a small stamp. You can also get an Ordinary visa on arrival and extend for 3, 6 or 12 months. Latter is about $290. And last, I like the friendly Khmer people who also seem to pick up English reasonably well. Anyway, check out CEO.
  9. It is a real thing. I just got a new passport (Canada). Also got my old one back. Inside the old one is a fresh stamp certifying the new passport and new passport number is for one and the same person. My embassy did it for me automatically because they know Immigration will ask for certification of the new one.
  10. I sat through the last few minutes of the MSNBC interview with Biden on YT and then on Phox: The prez gets up, shakes Wallace's hand and walks off, stage right. Totally natural ending. Nothing happened. No wonder there was nothing to report -- unless you're Phox. What a NON-event.
  11. Interesting that no one reported this. Maybe it was not worth it. I never watch Phox. I just automatically wanted to confirm the prez's comments with another print source. And I can't stand TV interviews.
  12. The Associated Press report on the Biden interview makes no mention of the alleged presidential incident. So I can only guess the Phox report is right on form, a complete fabrication. No other news pages confirm Phox fantasy, including NBC News. Zero. Biden talks Supreme Court and Russia but also media and McCain in rare network interview
  13. Thanks very much for the reply. It just hit me that this is a 6-month-old thread. I asked a similar question on a recent fresh thread. Must get more sleep! LOL
  14. That's good to know. I moved into Centrepoint Condo (behind Big C Extra on Klang) before the pandemic and lasted 2 weeks . A real shame. My unit was on the side facing away from the 3rd Rd noise makers yet pounding music reverberated off other condos (I'm guessing) and woke me up many times, even during a ferocious rain storm. I'd think about moving back if the Thai clubs have really turned the music down. So is it really much better now? Thanks.
  15. A Friday, May 19 video, on the David Strachan Pattaya channel, shows Tree Town and Made in Thailand after 9:30 pm at about 10% capacity, New Plaza a bit better at 15-20% capacity but sois 7 and 8 about 5-10% and shockingly, soi 6 at 5%, the latter based on the dozens of girls strutting their stuff outside, the odd single male inside and a tiny handful of male pedestrians.
  16. Ubon Joe toiled here with unmatchable knowledge, boundless energy and exemplary grace. There will be none like him again, I believe. Thank you so much, Joe.
  17. I wonder what the number of homicides are this year so far, compared to previous years. Seems like there are a lot more than I remember, based on the number of stories we see here and in the local press. Lots of gun violence, many stabbings and now poisonings. I think the government, such as it is, has a lot of work to do to reverse the tide. It seems especially easy to obtain guns via social media ads and probably even easier via the usual criminal networks. A girl I know was the side victim of a shooting murder up country. Miraculously, despite being shot in the face, she survived after much surgery and recovery.
  18. Did a little research regarding how come Russian pig meat ends up in foreign markets, particularly in Cambodia. Turns out Russia exports thousands of tonnes of pig meat to Vietnam as the country's hog farms have suffered from several years of the deadly African swine fever. I guess starving Putinian troops don't get first dibs. Or maybe a recent shipment got purloined by a Cambodian.
  19. Thank you very much for the speedy reply. I will pass on your information.
  20. An acquaintance is arriving in May and wants to know whether this product, which is very new on the market, has arrived in Thailand. It has been approved by the US and UK and is said to be very expensive. So he's hoping to get a better deal. @Sheryl I know nothing about this product. I have a feeling this won't be sold in Thailand for a long time. But I said I would ask anyway.
  21. Gone downhill then. I've been considering moving back to Pattaya/Jomtien, after moving to Bangkok 4-5 years ago. Figured one of the bonuses was the ease of dealing with Jomtien Immigration compared to Chang Wattana. This has been a dose of reality. At least the agent fees are lower than Bangkok's.
  22. Watching this thread. I lived off Noen Plub Wan for a few years, before and during the Big Dig at Klang and Suk. I was about half a klick beyond the railway bypass road, around Lucky Time Bar. Internet service was variable, to be kind, all along that road. I'm considering moving back and will be very keen on getting any tips on internet providers. Yes indeed, last year. AIS to acquire stakes in two internet service providers
  23. I suppose those stalls are a steady source of revenue for the police. Business must be booming because I've seen so many Thais and some foreigners vaping around corners, here, there and everywhere.
  24. I switched to Vietnam Airlines a few years ago for my semi-regular BKK to SGN flights. Vietjet was always late, every time I checked in there was no gate assigned yet, there was little to no communication with gate passengers, and their cheapest fares typically do not include even one checked bag. Problem is, as just experienced, the fare hike was two levels up just to get checked luggage included, which put the fare well above the VN Air fare. And last, Vietjet seat room was economical, to say the least.
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