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From last night, a few snaps of the night time action around the mookata, food and market places next to Nirun. And around the corner the GC's Sign shop on 3rd Rd

Similar in style to Las Vegas Bar is the new Space of Billabong (map link). Mentioned in another post were the music bars in Tree Town. Be aware that while the bands at the back may be good, they ruin it for themselves by competing for customers based on volume. What you end up with is a mishmash of noise assaulting your ears no matter which bar you choose to sit in.

Thanks for the laughs. Looked this one up "Speaking of which, where else in the world would a construction company build a new road and leave an existing electricity pole standing slap bang in the middle of one of the carriageways. Well, it’s there to be seen in Najomtien, where this road is actually now in use. This one you really couldn’t make up." and sure enough, not that I doubted you... Construction cockup leaves utility pole in the middle of Najomtien road

Spotted a Here car collection photo data on this morning's ride. Perhaps somewhere down the line I'll appear on someone's car navigation system that uses their mapping/photo data.

18k, that's steep. Maneerat is 12.5k with no reentry. Of course if you're living up country, you're agent options are limited and they'll charge what they think they can get. The online 90 day report system has been greatly improved over the last couple of years. Now takes me less than a minute to do the report.

Just received my rejection notice for my online 90 day report. For first-time requests of a 90-day notification in each country visit, in-person presentation at the immigration office is required. It would be nice if they had a provision for long stayers that return to their address of record that would allow use of the online system when returning from a trip. Since I'm now within the window of getting my extension to stay done, I'll just have Maneerat do both at the same time. On a side note: I used Maneerat recently for a Resident Certificate which they sent to immigrati

I agree with the title of this video. Unreal how good AI has gotten.

Paid a visit to a secluded waterfall outside of Pattaya this morning. It's north of the intersection of Huai Yai Rd and Hwy 331 (map link with more photos of the waterfall). It's a great spot to escape the crowds of Pattaya and chill. Quite often you'll have the falls to yourself as it's only accessible via two wheels or two feet.

When they first put down the new road surface it looked pretty good. But as is par for the course here, the shoddy workmanship and poor quality of the materials used is already becoming apparent. There are some chunks of the road surface missing farther north. And instead of concrete rings around the manholes they used tarmac which is already breaking apart on quite a few of the manholes.

The last paint job on Beach Rd lasted nine month before they ripped it up. Let's see how long this paint job lasts.

I saw a couple of agents while there shepherding their customers through the simple process of renewing a license. There was no queue jumping using the agent, which I was happy to see. So that means all they got for the 3500B - 5000B paid was an expensive chauffeur for the ride out there and back.

Finished the process of renewing my five year license today. Here's the steps I went through from booking an appointment to receiving my new licenses, car and motorbike. Appointment Booking It's strange the Bang Lamung DLT office, one of the busiest, still uses a spiral notebook and pen for booking appointments. But as they're not on the online DLT Smart Queue yet, you have to drive out to the office (map link) and make your appointment in person. From central Pattaya it's about 40 min RT to spend five minutes to book an appointment. In my case the appointment was for one week late

More chaos than usual this morning at Khaos Korners. Typical of Thai planning, after they had taken the no longer needed utility pole down, the traffic police showed up to clear the traffic backup the work caused.

^^^ For those that don't have Photoshop, such as myself, Photoroom has an online free Magic Eraser. Probably not as easy to use as Photoshop's tool, but the price is right. https://www.photoroom.com/tools/remove-object-from-photo

Good to see you found the temple.