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I do not know. That is what a lawyer told me. I know 'nuffing'.

I believe a Will in Thailand has to be in Thai to be legal / be of any use. My Will is in Thai and the lawyers provide a copy of the draft in English. (One post immediately above suggested a Will in English would do .. I have read that it wont and OHM confirmed this).

Yesterday I signed/completed my Will using a law firm called OHM. They are in Naklua. Easy-ish to find as they are in the BOLT App and on internet. Well ..you can get close to the correct place ... but they have no sign saying OHM. It is confusing. But if you see a shop front saying visa appllications etc done .. that will be them. (I thought OHM was the initials of the company but it is the name or nickname of the owner .. but OHM Naklua search will find them .. they have a different name too but I will leave that there) Mine was a very simple Will. No property .. just cash in bank and some valueable personal effects They charged 5,000 baht and in the future will charge my son 30,000 to be executers to get the cash from the bank for him. As there is a fair amount of money in my bank it would be crazy not to do a Will and let Kasikorn have it and I was happy with OHM's charge / future charge. They are very helpful, friendly and efficient in person. One strange-ish thing they told me was about why they put my copy (and did same thing to their copy) of the Will in an envelope which was sealed up with substantial tape and the seal signed many times by me. It is because if the beneficiaries see the will it is void by Thai Law. I was going to send my son a copy but hey ho. I better not. Just told him I have done a will and joked it was going to be donated to a retirement home for ex Go Go dancers. The envelope has a huge label in Thai which says I assume, it is my Will and only to be open by authorised legal type people. So there you go ...

I have not read every post in this topic so forgive me if the following has been discussed. In my experience any branch can provide a letter that proves you have an account with Kasikonrn. BUT ... only the main branch can provide a letter that itemises 12 international imports (65,000 baht income minimum) I know this for certain as 2 years ago I attempted to get a letter from my normal branch in the correct format. They said no .. go to main branch. That is the one in Central Road. Immigration were not very helpful the first year, not explaining what exactly was wrong but told me eventually. I guess they want me to use an agent. Last year I thought I was being clever and just get the letter from the Jomtien branch. They gave me a print out of incomings and outgoings from my account. I was not convinced but it might have changed I thought ... as they near Jomtien Immigration and I thought must do many such letters .. I took it to try renew my retirement extension. (Jomtien branch easier to get to than the main branch). But no. They (Immigration) just want the 12 international imports listed and rejected this format for second year. Durrrrrr I should have freaking learnt. I went to the main branch again and got the info in the correct format and they confirmed they were the only branch that can list International incomings (and not all the account ins and outs). Confusion reigns a bit even after you get to the main branch. As not all employees know anything about it. You need the desk far right as you enter. Well that was the desk last 2 years but things change, I guess. I have thought it very strange there was no other chat room chatter about this .. till now I have not seen any .. if indeed the problem is as in my case.

Excuse my muppetry ... but because of the upheaval of moving condo, and problems here and in the UK that have occupied my mind ..... I have totally lost track about how now to get a covid booster(s) in Pattaya. (Free or paid). I assume Royal Garden programme in this thread is finished. The search engine on here not getting me far, sorry if info is in a thread I cant find. (I had 2 Pfizer last year).

I was confused reading that the new UK passports are blue. Because ... I only received a new one a few days ago ... and considered it to be black. I had to get it and look again. I am looking at it now. Its black. A very very trivial thing .. but I was a tiny bit curious. I dont care .. but why is mine different ? Was my thought. So I asked Mr Google and read that many consider that there new colour to be black. Not just me. So you may hear from confused old codgers like me saying they are black. ????

Yeah your right. Apologies for being a stoooopid irriot. In 2012 when I renewed I saw it was more than 10 years and assumed it was credit from the unexpired passport validity. I have just given it proper thought / calculation for the first time in 10 years. ???? Durrrrrrr. I did not think overly much ... sorry.

My passport has about a year before it expires and I am going to renew it soon. Probably after my next 90 day report in April. My cunning plan .. is to use a passport renewal agent in Pattaya to deliver it to Bangkok and collect it. Any recommendations which one ? As I read that it is taking about 3 months .... I am wondering how I would do a 90 day report if the passport is still away. (Yep ... I am already fussing/worrying .... over getting it back in time !$#@%)!. I always go in person to Jomtien. Those doing online, dont show their passport .. maybe I need to get on the report on Line system ? Oh what fun that seems. Tried it a few times without success. Also .. I guess I go to Jomtien Immigration and they transfer visa stamps etc to the new passport. (My old passport was actually valid 12 years. I renewed it 2 years early in the UK .. and was very surprised to have got the 2 years added to the new passport).

Good idea. Maybe you should send him the route numbers as an introduction. He reads video comments.. I drove Pattaya to Chang Mai and it was easy .. 10 hours by car but only about 3 intersections / changes of road numbers. But it was years ago. I watched 2 of his videos and wanted to throttle him. I was out of order calling him a moron etc. But the swing-om-meter is swinging now towards that he is a crazy love- able rogue. He has learnt his lesson he says about filming in and into bars. I gotta admit toooooo .. he always has a smile on his face .. chuckles away all the time ... even after a fight and being abused by many in Soi Pothole. ????????????

I found his road trip to Hua Hin very funny. Well except the bit a fellow motorbiker he had for a time, travelled closely with, in a traffic jam .. was much much later seen dead in a body bag after an accident. The upset Vlogger said he recognised the bike lieing near the body. Captain Chaos had a new SatNav app on his phone .. it took him the wrong way along dual carriageway many times. He was going round the same route for a long time ... round a big loop. Cue much cursing and swearing. He just carried on .. the wrong way (on the hard shoulder) ... with trucks passing very close, that were going in the right direction. Mucho F words. Unbelievable. He said normally in Thailand, he justs asks people for directions. Not 1 mention of using a map. (You just get on say route 7, then look for next route number. He did not have a map or know the route numbers). On the outskirts of Bangkok he kept going the wrong way. Eventually he asked someone, for directions to Hua Hin. The guy started to give them but then pointed out a bus going to Hua Hin and told the Vlogger to follow it. Which he did for a long way. But it was very often in a stationary traffic jam. So he had to abandon that idea. He is scared going over high bridges. No idea why his panic got me laughing. I am not sure how he got to Hua Hin, not knowing the road numbers or having a map. The SatNav app had stopped working. I had skipped forward a boring bit of him eating in a rest area and he suddenly was in Hua Hin. Sorry ... this is off topic but it is a very funny video. I am hooked now .... I should get a life / and need therapy. His videos are funny. I guess because he is a bit crazy. ????????

I watched the video again .. well I skimped through it trying to get a screenshot of when he was filming quite a while INSIDE a bar .. to show the resulting screen dump ( blurring faces ) on here. But I either missed it or he has edited it out. Hey Ho. I am surprised You Tube allow all the swearing on his videos. F word and C word common. I swear but dont tape it and post it on You Tube. He was taking a chance video-ing a group of lady boys. His childish laughter was not at the LBs but could have been misconstrued (?) and he get mashed. The level of his immature stupidity was shown in another video when he walked into Soi 9 Police Station with his cam on a stick filming. He was very surprised to be soon told not to film. Bless. The bit earlier when he was nabbed for no helmet riding his bike, in WS ... when the Policeman rode away with the vloggers keys .. made me laugh. The vlogger to be fair was very confused ... but reasonably laid back. I would have probably been a bit more of a drama queen. I am not sure his filming outside Jomtien immigration with/interviewing an agent was very discreet. The agent was Indian and the crazy vlogger was saying no need to have the right documents, just see this guy and gave his contact details. Huge queue of those doing it correctly in background. At the end he said .. the agent has just gone off on the back of a Policeman's bike (if I heard it right). I guess these arrangement not exactly a big secret. He did say later on that video he should maybe stop vlogging in red light areas. Eureka .. the penny has dropped. He is off now I believe on a small motorbike, heading to Chaing Mai. What could possibly go wrong. I think he should rename himself Captain Chaos

To be fair to the chap who got confrontational with the immature vlogging moron .... 1) The Vlogger actually walked INSIDE repeat INSIDE and up and down the whole length of one bar nearby that had a live band. He went close up to the band .. within a few feet and panned round the whole bar .. customers and some girls looking aghast. He did order a beer as he entered but him sitting and drinking it was cut out or he was not served. 2) The vlogger then walked up Soi Pothole. Many many girls were getting annoyed he was pointing the camera in their faces and rear ends. They were the bait girls outside the bars. He also pointed the camera into the bars. 3). As he passed the guy who he later had a ruck with .. the bar owner asked him to not film his bar and customers. 4) The vlogger shouted obscenities at him. Then continued up the Soi pissing off more people. 5) He turned round and was immaturely saying he was going back to <deleted> off the guy again and went out his way to point it at the bar owner and the bar.. The vlogger was looking for trouble and got it. 6) Unbeluevably after the 'fight' .. just pushing and shoving .. its hard to tell from the camera moving vigorously .. the vlogger was childishly giggling like a moron as he walked away that he was really happy he got a good video to post. He had not a clue filming INSIDE of red light bars was a problem. No empathy or wisdom. 7) Other farang and Thai girls were shouting at the vlogger idiot as he walked up and back in the Soi. He managed to <deleted> dozens if not hundreds of people in 10 minutes. Walking into any bar with a camera is just bad manners ... let alone naughty bars full of skimpily dressed girls. The bar owner was maybe protective of girls and customers throughout the street that the Vlogger was filming and pissing them off. ???? I repeat .. he was walking into bars and filming. I saw the entire video but I read its been deleted now. But many on here are saying he was in the right. Durrrrrrrrrrr

Not getting a Re-entry permit is certainly a huge pain/inconvenience. I knew this .. so more incredulous I forgot on one occasion. Whilst waiting for an ordered meal at BKK (waiting for our flight) I remembered. Cue girly (on my part), serious panic and fluster. Rushed the meal .. and then rushed a long way back to passport control. (Try rushing a Thai girl from food. Ha ha). l got it sorted. But was not easy to find where I had to go and time consuming. But the memory of my huge panic is still very vivid. The Thai girl I was with did not understand why I so flustered. My only excuse is I do not travel out often. I was very lucky that I realised when I had just enough time to sort. I would not risk leaving it to do at the airport unless you live a large distance from an immigration office. I live a 10 bhat bus ride from one so stupid of me not to have done it in advance.

I dont wanna thread ferk tooooo much but a big problem with Santander bank for us Expats is that they dont have email contactability. So not suitable if you are going to move abroad. But my main point is, it is not a Thai bank oddity to close unused accounts after 2 years. It happens with UK banks too. And no doubt in many countrys. Thai bashers take note. You got to phone Santander and go through multi option phone extensions to end up with a recent uninterested school leaver ( by sound of voice and empathy ) and get zero proffesionalism. My fault in a way .. I was too polite. I should have asked for a manager. I was thinking my son visiting my UK branch with a wad of documents and letters would get it sorted. With email, a record of their incompetence would exist. I got £90k in that account I cant access. I cant open an account with another UK bank remotely (I never go back) but if I ever get my OTP sorted a big chunk of that will be moved to my Halifax account on day 1. Halifax can be contacted by email and seem interested in solving any problem. Other good banks are available. ($miley)

It is not a Thailand bank querk to make accounts not used, dormant and unaccessable. I had 2 banks in the UK declare my accounts dormant after 2 years of inactivity. I guess they assume the account holder may have died. Must happen hugely. They held savings .. the point of savings being you SAVE the money till needed not spend the money .. was my point to them. I no longer add money as I am retired, I said. I naively thought logging in to the internet accounts often was registering usage .. and was counting as them being active. Durrrrrr ! Amongst other things they were my funds for medical emergencies. I did not like them being unaccessible. Halifax restored accessability after one phone call and answering security questions. Very polite. Very helpful. Santander were and still are a nightmare. 4 long distant phone calls .. plus my son going into the local branch 4 times on my behalf ... have only partially resolved the problem. He even showed them letters they had sent to my home address about the problem .. the address the account is connected with. They restored the account as active. Eventually. BUT I had lost my mobile phone a few years back. They have my old number. They wont change my number on their system. The people I have spoken to are suspicious. Despite me passing the security questions. I need that changed for the OTP system of entering a code to move funds. I wont bore tooooo much re the many phone converstions I had but my last try ended with them saying they cannot change the phone number. IT guys had to do it. They would phone my new number. But never heard from them. Gave up. Thus I cannot use the account that has tens of thousands of pounds in. Been like that for a year. I dont need to use it .. but now send £5 a month into my UK savings accounts from my day to day account. Writing this has concentrated my mind. I am going to write to UK Finance Authority (or whatever they are called) and copy in Santander bank recorded delivery. Then if not resolved after a couple of months I am sure I am going to have a further phone call to them .. ask for a manager and totally lose it. Hey Ho.

If the meet was in a bar in Pattaya ... I imagine very often, the future wife's very romantic first words would have been ...... "Do you want Long Time or Short Time ?"

This is an old thread .. but I assume me posting will put it in latest postings list. Any one got an update if vax for shingles available in Thailand yet ? I am going to email a few hospitals, (after my covid vax had time to settle (uh?). ) .... to ask. I have had 4 bouts of it in about 2 years. One was without the telltale horrendous rash and made me very ill. Mr Google confirms shingles without the rash not uncommon .. and the most 'worstest'

I never thought of that. Your right. He is probably one of those who gets a kick out of people taking it serious when he is talking rollocks / making it up. The trouble being that normal people dont see the fun in being infantile and a smartarse. He probably got an erection when reading we thought he was being serious. Oh well ... he took me in. (I am so young and innocent). So your erection well deserved, sir. Enjoy. Mind you ... I only read the OP heading and peoples postings. Durrrrrrrr. So I blame the posters for being taken in.. ($mileee).

I can sort of understand the OP deciding on that life style. But why preach / brag / crow about it to others. And want people do the same same. Just do your own thing .. not preach. To be fair I guess forums read to view opposite thinking, so its entertaining to be preached at ..... errrrrr I think. (Im veggie for 50 plus years .. never preached about it but some do). If I had never married .... and later never gone near bar girls I would be very well off now. So celibacy very good for your wealth. But we owe it to ourselves to find as much pleasure / fun as we can. Its never pleasant at the end. Often very very unpleasant. On a death bed I can imagine someone thinking ... I wish I had ferked more girls. But cant imagine any one thinking ... jeez that cutie from Sexy Girls Go-Go .. I regret that one ... and all the other girls and fun times. I was so stupid. Wish I had just watched TV every night. Or I regret them girlfriends / wife nights of intimacy and passion, if non monger.

Have you got her LINE ? I just wanna ask her how things are with her family etc. (I wonder ... if they going cheap now) .

If it helps any one get prepared for same same .... I went yesterday (10th). 11.00. About 100 in queue. But not long before I was second jabbed. Thus I had to go to the usual area to chill/be monitored for a reaction/wait for vax certificate. It was full. I reckon 150 people ... so we were directed to an adjacent area. My slip had a time on as before on vax 1 as the time your observation time over (as I understand it). That 30 minute time went by ... and I noticed many people were getting restless. A few complaining. A number of russians and others got very vocal. My frustration was the amplified calling of numbers not clear where we were. After 1 hour I thought I must have missed my number called. But no. People vaxed after me were called and got the certificate. One guy vaxed at same time had got his paperwork after 1 hour. A further 1 hour later I was still there waiting. Numbers way passed my number (some 50 plus more) were being called. So in total I waited about 2 hours after my vaxing to get the paperwork. Most of us were just confused what was happening. Eventually I asked the guy on the microphone what the delay was. We only had to wait 30 mins for paperwork vax 1. He was being hassled so I left him alone, for a long time. I was curious what the problem was ... was their computer crashed or something (to produce the paperwork). He looked annoyed as I approached thinking I was gonna be another whinger. He said no .. we just very busy today. Hard to believe as they seemed to be handing out certificates in batches of about 6 only every 10 minutes. 60 an hour when they had hundreds waiting. It was no hardship to wait 2 hours for the paperwork. It was just confusing and a worry you have been forgotten. Well .... except many others in same boat, cursing and swearing and sighing in frustration. So if your going next week take something to read. And chill if long wait. There did not seem any queue to be vaxed after about 13.00. But then you would have to join the hold up in the vaxed waiting area.

It will be as in one of those scannable patterny thingys. They could scan it at the mall / bar / gogo / etc entrance. It instantly checks a central database if expatvac etc etc. Random checks by Police or immigration when you do 90 day might start. Takes a second. The app is already downloadable from all good app stores and no doubt some Thai gov site soon. It already shows your vax record when you download it now. (If you were vaxed in the Expatvac programme). No smart phone ? ... you will have to print it and have a hard copy. It wont be a simple easily forged slip of paper. The app I am guessing when scanned .... will show name of holder what vaxed they had and when and what colour knickers the nurse was wearing. Ok .. it may require further evidence it is yours. Your passport or id being carried is already the current law. But I agree your probably get away with it. But its 20,000 baht fine for not wearing a mast. Good luck with what happens to you if you forge a vax certificate and get caught. If the authorities realise there is a maket in false vax certificates they will get very vigilant. People on here and in real life already bragging they going to get a forged cerficate. It wont be a big secret. Dont brag too much. Your get reported. Good luck to those caught selling forged cerficates too. Once one is caught and gets serious jail time the rest will think twice. If you do your own forgery you better make it good. A crowded jail cell awaits.

I believe the theory is something like .. numbers an example. Scenario 1 20 vaxed people in a restuarant at same time. Unlucky for them one has covid and it spreads to others. They only get mildly sick. Like a cold. Dont need hospital bed. Importantly they re not so infectious (the experts say .. not me or the government). There is some risk but keeping restuarants shut causing finacial hardship so calculated risk. Scenario 2 20 people in a restuarant. Unvaxed people among them. Unlucky for them one has covid and it spreads to one or more of unvaxed. They in turn become very infectious. Take up hospital beds possibly and also spread it to family, in other restuarants on baht buses etc etc etc. Unvaxed people very infectious if D variant. Vaxed only mildly infectious. Despite financial hardship risk on opening to ALL vaxed or not is not considered worth it. Thats the theory most health experts and government going by. (Not my theory).

Is it not possible the batches are deep frozen but bottled and get their expiry date and label just before dispatch to be used. Actually its on the documentation not the bottle. Thus once out the deep freezer the vax will ALWAYS have a short time period into the future. And never for months or years to come. Nothing to do with batches going out of date. The logistics nowadays are amazing. They can track individual doses round the planet. Its all planned. Much the same as a letter I post .. I can track where it is on the planet. Put another way ...it is possible that EVERY SINGLE dose (out the freezer) has a short time before expiry. With likely a huge safety margin. Probably many weeks under the safe usage period of time. I repeat ... the expiry date is on the documentation not the bottle so its only the documentation that gets the time tracking. Nothing to do with USA dumping doses soon out of date. But hey ho ... believe the daft conspiracy theory about it being old vaccine if you prefer to live endlessly being ungrateful and cynical.

I agree. Potentially a 100 percent "tax" on any money / property I have. My son very aware of that making him "homeless" / getting nothing. 100 percent 'tax' with no £500,000 threshold so devestating. Hey ho. Best I not think tooooooooo much. My son may have a nice house for life or nothing. I guess if oldies are just frail its manageable at home .. here or in UK. When an oldies mind goes care is gonna get expensive.