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Lots of interesting places to stop and admire around Pattaya. Once such is the new Wat going up on the Wat Samakkhi Pracharam grounds located on the NE end of Huai Chak Nok lake. Shots of the existing buildings on the Wat grounds. And Huai Chak Nok has more water in it than I've seen in the last four or five years.

What a great write up on the trials and tribulations of what goes on behind the curtain. Mr. Google sure has made investigating problems a lot quicker and easier, and good on you frostfire for giving back to the online community with searchable issues and how you overcame them.

Internet providers are asking foreigners to pay 12 months in advance for service. Easy way around that, if you have a TGF, get her to sign the service contract then you can pay month to month. If you end service before the contract is up you'll be on the hook for the cost of the router, and possibly the remaining months of the service contract. Since you're only here for a relatively short period of time each year, suggest looking into 4G data plans. I have one with AIS that costs 99B/week for 2GB/week. Speed is great too. 20ms ping, 30 Mbps/DL, 26 Mbps/UL.

I'm a fan of Johnny too. A grade three teacher is giving a lesson on nutrition, and she decides to ask her students what they had for breakfast. To add a spelling component, she asks the students to also spell their answers. Susan puts up her hand and says she had an egg, 'E-G-G.' 'Very good,' says the teacher. Peter says he had toast 'T-O-A-S-T.' 'Excellent.' Johnny has his hand up, and the teacher reluctantly calls on him. 'I had fuck all,' he says, 'F-U-C-K A-L-L.' The teacher is mortified and scolds Johnny for his rude answer. Later, when the lesson turns to geography, she asks

If there were a vote, I'd vote to stay with the current version of the forum software. Not worth the time, effort and hair pulling to upgrade, IMHO. Edited to add: Would Phil at Le Pub be willing to accept cash donations for the board?

I like the idea of linking PT to a business. A positive for the business as the forum would be a good promotional tool, and a positive for the BM's as the business could serve as a gathering spot for BM's. And thank you frostfire for helping to keep the forum going.

Fixed it for you.

It's part of the Chinese New Year celebrations, along with lighting off boat loads of firecrackers in the morning. Next CNY is 5 Feb.

Good summary of what to expect and what's needed. Matches my experience and Pattaya Pete's who posted his experience in this thread, Thai driver's licence renewal in Pattaya - The complete guide.

I've been going midweek, mid-afternoon to avoid the lines and crowds. Although in the last couple of years that is becoming a less effective strategy due to the increase in the number of people requiring immigration services. And even more so in the last six months with the enforcement of the TM30 reporting. Wonder how long it will be before immigration makes a move to larger quarters.

Finally, online reporting worked for me, although not anywhere close to getting approved as fast as you experienced. My 90 day report is due 14 Feb. Made the online application on 2 Feb. Checked every couple of days since then and status always showed pending. Figured I'd have to bite the bullet and make a trip to the office tomorrow, but lucky me, the email just arrived stating "Notification 90 days is Approved". Side note: When making the online application I kept getting the useless popup error message that my application wasn't accepted. Finally dawned on me that as a Yank I was en

Have a look at Bang Lamung Exercise Park - Bike Path

Could very well be they're getting ready to gouge the Chinese during the Chinese New Year next week. Remember this scene from two years ago?

I used to always put my visa number where asked for, until one trip back last year the officer kindly told me it's the re-entry permit number that should go there. On previous trips back the officer must have been correcting the number w/o telling me. Millions of travelers must have made the same mistake over the years. Shame they didn't take the opportunity with the redesigned form to make it clearer what is required.

I've called True in the past during the day and have got the English voice prompt menu option. For whatever reason, last night it was a different type of voice prompt system with the option to get English by saying "confirm". First time I've encountered that voice prompt menu. I did try calling back a couple of times when the first attempt at saying confirm failed, but on several of the call back attempts I didn't get the option for English. Think it was the fourth attempt at calling back that I again got the English option, but when that failed for second time I went with the flow and dealt w

My experience too, and as recent as last night. Not sure what True was doing with their system in Pattaya, but my service and a friend of mine who lives a couple of km's away experienced an outage that began mid-afternoon yesterday. Not a problem for me as I just switched over to using 4G. What was a bit unusual is yesterday's outage lasted longer than the usual hour or two. In fact when I came back from an evening of entertainment around 10 pm I found the internet was still down. I then gave True a call, listened to the message that if I wanted an English speaking operator to say "con

Depending on your usage requirements, you might find 4G sufficient.

Betadine is an antiseptic, not an antibiotic. It'll kill germs, but an antibiotic will help a wound heal faster. The ointment also helps to keep the wound "moist" as it heals, which is great when the wound is in the area of a joint. One the ingredients in the triple antibiotic is bacitracin, which can be bought in Thailand. Problem is I don't find it nearly as effective as a triple antibiotic.

Using Chrome I see the following displayed for about a second, but then the redirect to Agoda happens successfully.

I've never been able to find a source for triple antibiotic ointment in Thailand. In a tropical climate it's a must have for treating cuts and abrasions to prevent infection and speed healing.

I'm happy to report the spelling police finally stopped by and got somchai sorted. 99 posts on the road, knock one down, kick it around, 98 posts on the road...

I looked into using TransferWise and for some reason the fee for USD is almost double the fee for GBP or AUD. Not sure why that is, but for me the ACH transfer to NYC branch of Bangkok Bank has the lowest fees.

Buddha forbid they should ever listen to a farang. The arrogance of the Thai truly amaze me sometimes. Great pics Idefix.

Another good one is FastStone Resizer.

When booking at the resort I had asked them if they wanted me to book direct due to the number of rooms I needed. They said to use Agoda, probably b/c it's saves them having to have an in house reservation system. In this case though, Agoda's system is shit for handling multi room bookings unless the property happens to have enough room types in one category for the number of rooms one wishes to reserve. That not being the case I had to book each of the five rooms as a separate reservation, which made the reservation process take five times longer.