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Broeno

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  1. I'm applying at Chiang Mai. I'm into the process of applying as I went there on 21 Dec 15 and got a NON-O stamp in my passport with Admitted 21 Dec 2015 Until 19 Mar 2016. But I was advised that I need to come back on 19 Feb and show more documents such as an up-to-date financial statement.

    If you are applying for an "extension of stay based on retirement" (it is not a visa ) you will need 800,000 Bht in a Thai bank or an income of 65,000Bht/month evidenced by your Embassy. It is also possible to meet the financial requirement by combining money in the bank with certified income to total 800,000 Bht.

    And it is accepted in English at CM immigration.

  2. I would not be arsed over the 1,000bt, it would have ended up a lot cheaper if you paid the 1,000. You got the samples for free are you expecting every thing free Man.

    The package was received last Wednesday, which they immediately detained the because they falsely claimed it needed all the registration nonsense. So add all the other fees plus 5 days in the warehouse because of the 4 day weekend. Then I had to run around and figure out how to register with Customs, which I didn't need to do in actuality. That was a UPS lie. I contacted the FDA once I suspected that this was all a bag of lies and they confirmed it. That took about a week in total. 2 days since then. In total 100 USD.

    I was never given the option to pay the only 1284 baht plus the other non-warehouse bullshit fees, UPS automatically put it in the warehouse based on false pretenses, saying I needed all this registration and that they would do the registration themselves if I paid the fees. The thing is, there was no registration I need to do with customs and the FDA. It was all a bag of lies.

    Spend another 100USD and sew them.

  3. One month ago we moved to a new house in Chiang Mai. Because the garden was not taking care of for a long time, we started planting many new. A man living around the corner passed by and start talking to my Thai wife. She told him that we also would like to plant flower of paradise. He told her that he recently give may away and has only a few left in his garden. I was so surprised when he showed up a few days later. He digged out his last flowers of paradise and give them to us. Next to that he in invited us in his house.

  4. Coming from Nakon Sawan, back to Chiang Mai on my CBR. Light traffic, so I'm doing 135 or so. Slowly get overtaken by a pick up with about a dozen people in the back, all dressed like they just came from a wedding or something. As they pass me, the driver smiles and holds up his can of Chang Beer. About 15 kilometers up the road, where they were doing repaving, I saw them again, but had to slow down to 20kph. Truck off the road in a ditch, overturned, bodies laying all over the place. So sad, and so totally unnecessary.

    The driver already predicted the disaster by holding up his can of Chang.

  5. It's clear you broke the law. Let's not forget it's a hypocrit law as in so many countrys. You are alowed to smoke tobacco and drink alcoholintill you drop dead. Weed Was a tradition in Thailand. They even got famous in the sixties for their Thai sticks.

    In the past weed and also hashish was common to smoke in Asia and Africa. It even was the only relieve for asmatic people.

    Now these days there are many countries that allow you to use it on perscription in case of chronical pain.

    I have some experience with that. I had four spinal hernias where even morfine did not help, but yes weed did. It is not addictive.

    I am telling this to let you know the other side of drugs. As they already said in the sixties "one joint a day, keeps the doctor away"

  6. Chacun à son goût and it is as silly to argue about taste as it is to try and impose one's taste on others... In this way beer may well be compared to religion... and I am an atheist! Lots of great brews available around the world but even the ones considered inferiour by many still find their afocinados. Czech beer is top notch and Czechs are world champions in drinking beer, but apart from the two most famous Czech brands it is little known outside the country. German beer is good and has somewhat more variety, along with a strict self imposed quality rule. Again, most German beers are not available outside Germany, and in Thailand you may find not more than maybe a dozen different German beers - not necessarily all the best available and by the time they find the consumer in Thailand not any more the freshest either. Wherever I travel I like to drink the local brew, and so far I have always found something to please my tastebuds - usually better than expensive imported "not so fresh" stuff. I only ever got sick twice from inferior quality "local" beer, once in Holland and once in the US - when I had beer from 2 of the world's largest and most famous breweries....

    I prefer beer for religion.

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