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[quote name='Jamie-nangrong' date='11 October 2009 - 11:15 AM' timestamp='1255234514' post='222I've heard so many conflicting comments. What is the proper legal options? I am not following what you are trying to ask. Conflicting comments about what? Legal options about what? If you can be specific we may be able to help you.

I think it all depends on your point of view. Many prefer renting to ownership for just that reason. I prefer ownership. I planned my retirement for years before actually retiring. My home is fully paid, so I don't have to worry about paying rent each month. The value of my home has tripled over the years and in my neighborhood the homes readily sell when they go on the market. I can also lease out my home if I ever want to move elsewhere and can have that additional income. I was lucky. I was able to fully pay off my home while the exchange rate was still 45 to the US dollar.

I don't know. I've only tried it with fresh strawberries. I suppose you could try it with frozen strawberries. Maybe you will like it that way, but I think fresh is probably much better. Also, I think I should mention that Kate would always use whole strawberries when she made the pie herself. She never sliced them. She also sweetened the whipped cream, but only slightly because the pie itself is very sweet.

Kate Langston is a true southern belle from the southern Georgia area in the USA. She gave me this simple recipe many years ago and people love it when I make it. Ingredients: 1 pie shell fresh strawberries, enough to fill the pie shell and extra for garnishing. 3 cups water whipped cream 3 tablespoons strawberry jello 1 cup sugar 2 tablespoons corn starch Fill a pie shell with fresh strawberries, whole, sliced, or a combination of whole and sliced. mix the sugar and jello together in a pot with 2 and a half cups of water and bring to a rolling boil. mix the cornstarch with the remaining water and slowly add to the boiling mixture, stirring constantly, until the mixture thickens. Let the thickened mixture cool enough so that it won't cook the fresh strawberries, then pour the mixture over the strawberries until the pie shell is filled. Refrigerate the pie. Just before serving, cover the pie with whipped cream and garnish with the remaining strawberries. I've tried this with other fruits and mixtures of various fruits, with appropriately flavored jellos. Those come out well too, but Kate's original strawberry pie recipe is my favorite.

Yes, thank you. That's it! It's one of my favorites too. Now, thanks to you, I can try making my own. A good thing about Thai recipes is that all the ingredients are readily available at any Thai market.

I like the way it tastes, but I only remember reading about an odorless durian. I don't remember anything being said about the taste of it changing.

Lvdkeyes, I think you wrote that you had taken a Thai cooking course. I'm not sure of the name of it, but many times I have had a chicken soup in Thai restaurants that I think is coconut based and I really like it. It looks similar to chicken soup in milk to me. Do you know what I am referring to? Do you have a recipe for it?

Two years ago Thailand released a supposedly odorless durian to Thai growers. It will take several years before the fruits reach the markets because it takes young durian trees 7 to 20 years before they start producing fruit.

The only restriction would be that the entries must occur prior to the expiration date of the visa. Once the expiration date is reached, any unused entries become null and void.

Also, if you hold a Thai bank account you can add to your time at an ATM or online banking.

Yes, sticky rice is eaten with fingers. It almost has to be. Sticky rice is balled up and eaten, which would be difficult to do with utensils. We eat certain food with fingers too. If I eat a sandwich, a piece of fried chicken, spare ribs, etc. I pick it up. I don't use utensils. Pizza seems to be optional. Some people use utensils and some pick it up. We sometimes even refer to some foods as finger food and finger sandwiches.

They use utensils.

That is correct. You can file the report up to a week in advance if you wish with no problems, so they're not going to accept the fact that their office was closed that day as an excuse. They will tell you it was your responsibility to file the report on time and if you did not, even though the office was closed on the due date, to them it is still your fault. Even if they agree with you that you had no way of knowing the office would be closed that day and you showed up on the date the form told you to show up, they'll still fine you if you're late.

Thank you. They all look great! I will try them all. I've never heard of smoked paprika. Is that available somewhere in Bangkok or Pattaya that you know of?

I have a friend who taught English in a private school in Pattaya. He is a licensed, experienced teacher and was not required to take a TEFL course. He was paid 25,000 baht per month. He was required to have a work permit, but the school got it for him.

Lvdkeyes, do you have a good recipe for paella?

It really seems to be at the whim of the immigration officer with whom you speak. Some people were allowed to do it if they had just arrived in Thailand and some were not.If you get your retirement visa in your own country, before coming to Thailand, you can get the visa without even holding a Thai bank account. But you will be required to hold a Thai bank account before you renew the visa.

Or lack of same. I wonder what he thought would prevent kids who want buy liquor from simply buying it the day before or on their way to school in the morning. I wonder why the rule did not provide for adults being able to buy liquor when they wish and if there is any question about the age of the customer, just require them to show ID.Kids are cunning. If they really want liquor they'll find a way to get it, with or without such restrictions.

So there is no confusion, you have a choice. Yes you can get the retirement visa if you have 800,000 baht in a Thai bank account. The money has to have been in the account for a minimum of three months.If you do not have 800,000 baht you can still get the retirement visa by getting a Proof of Income statement from your embassy. With that it will not matter how much you have in your Thai bank account, but you are required to have a valid Thai bank account. With both the 800,000 baht or the Proof of Income options you are also required to produce a letter from the bank, although I have heard that some immigration offices do not require the letter. Most banks charge 100 or 200 baht for the letter. You simply tell the bank you need the letter for immigration. The bank will know what you need. If your immigration office requires the letter it must be less than one week old. Also, you will have to show an updated passbook for your bank account. It is best to update the passbook on the same day you apply for the visa.

There is a common oxymoron used by a great many foreigners in Thailand. "Thai logic." There is so much that makes no apparent sense to us. The examples posted in this thread are only a few on a very long list. Many of us who reside in Thailand gave up long ago trying to understand why they do these things the way they do, but if you are going to be in Thailand for any appreciable length of time you better get used to it. I no longer get frustrated by any of it. I just laugh, shrug my shoulders, and accept Thailand for the way it is.I will give you another Thai logic example and I challenge you to figure it out. I don't know if this applies to all of Thailand, but in Pattaya you can buy liquor whenever you wish, but you cannot buy liquor between 2pm and 5pm. I don't even try to understand these things anymore.

Yesterday I did just that. I own a car and was at my dealership for service. While I was there I spoke to the young lady who originally sold the car to me and told her I understand that now foreigners can get financing. She said yes, foreigners can get financing, but they have to put 50% down on the vehicle.

As crazy as this sounds, many well-meaning foreigners were stopped from voluntarily trying to help after the Phuket tsunami. Why? They didn't have a work permit. It makes no sense of any kind, but that really happened.

I don't remember the name either, but I think it's the best place in Pattaya to go for seafood. In the evening they set up tables on the walkway next to the beach and you not only get very good food at very reasonable prices, but you also get a beautiful panoramic view of of the Jomtien Beach.

The current site of the airport was originally used by the Gala Amusement Park, owned by the Steinway family. It was razed and transformed in 1929 into a 105-acre private flying field. The airport was originally named Glenn H. Curtiss Airport after the pioneer Long Island aviator, and later called North Beach Airport.The initiative to develop the airport for commercial flights began with a verbal outburst by New York mayor Fiorello La Guardia (in office from 1934 to 1945) upon the arrival of his TWA flight at Newark — the only commercial airport serving the New York City region at the time — as his ticket said "New York". He demanded to be taken to New York, and ordered the plane to be flown to Brooklyn's Floyd Bennett Field, giving an impromptu press conference to reporters along the way. At that time, he urged New Yorkers to support a new airport within their city. American Airlines accepted La Guardia's offer to start a pilot program of scheduled flights to Floyd Bennett, although the program failed after several months because of Newark's relative proximity to Manhattan. La Guardia went as far as to offer police escorts to airport limousines, in an attempt to get American Airlines to continue operating the pilot program. During the Floyd Bennett experiment, La Guardia and American executives began an alternative plan to build a new airport in Queens, where it could take advantage of the new Queens-Midtown Tunnel to Manhattan. The existing North Beach Airport was an obvious location, but much too small for the sort of airport that was being planned. With backing and assistance from the WPA, construction began in 1937.[8] Building on the site required moving landfill from Rikers Island, then a garbage dump, onto a metal reinforcing framework. The framework below the airport still causes magnetic interference on the compasses of outgoing aircraft: signs on the airfield warn pilots about the problem.[9] Because of American's pivotal role in the development of the airport, La Guardia gave the airline extra real estate during the airport's first year of operation, including four hangars (an unprecedented amount of space at the time) and a large office space that would be turned into the world's first airline lounge, the LaGuardia Admirals Club. The airport was dedicated on October 15, 1939, as the New York Municipal Airport, and opened for business on that December 2. It cost New York City $23 million to turn the tiny North Beach Airport into a 550-acre (2.2 km2) modern facility. Not everyone was as enthusiastic as LaGuardia about the project, some regarded it as a $40-million boondoggle. But the public was fascinated by the very idea of air travel, and thousands traveled to the airport, paid the dime fee, and watched the airliners take off and land. Two years later these fees and their associated parking had already provided $285,000, and other non-travel related incomes (food, etc.) were another $650,000 a year. The airport was soon a huge financial success. Newark Airport began renovations, but could not keep up with the new Queens airport, which Time called, "the most pretentious land and seaplane base in the world." Even before the project was completed, La Guardia had won commitments from the 5 largest airlines (Pan American Airways, American, United, Eastern Air Lines and Transcontinental & Western Air) that they would begin using the new field as soon as it opened.[10] The airport was used during World War II as a training facility for aviation technicians and as a logistics field. Newspaper accounts alternately referred to the airfield as New York Municipal Airport and LaGuardia Field until the modern name was officially applied when the airport moved to Port of New York Authority control under a lease with New York City on June 1, 1947. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaGuardia_Airport

For those of you who have an interest in this subject, you might want to look at this web site. When in Thailand you might want to visit the region. Several videos are also on the web site. http://www.worldwildlife.org/who/media/press/2009/WWFPresitem13787.html