I use k-bank and I had to apply for their web shopping card on their internet banking site to be able to make online transactions.

Speaking of banks AEON banks are the only banks that I know of that wont charge you 150bhat to use the machines, for people who dont have thai bank accounts. there is one in terminal 21, which is next too the Asoke BTS.

ps, guess ill go smart

Good to know about the Ed visa the news article was from Pattaya about 18months ago and even mentioned shutting down language schools who had a repeated fail rate for students from the schools. Good to know it is not being enforced just another crack down announced that never happens.

K-bank denied me , i was quite surprised because i read that a lot of people had success with K-bank. KTB bank was the 2nd bank i went to and it worked. I will look into a web shopping card, good looks.

btw i do have a KTB shop smart card which it says is a debit card

has anyone had to use "Verified by Visa" for certain thai debit cards?

Anyone tried a deposit from neteller to kasikorn or Bank of Ayudhya through memberwire option?

9 months you say ?
I only receive 3 months/extension (1900 THB)

You will always find a way to explain yourself but from personal experience when you live here and speak thai it makes it so much easier.
Especially when they are talking and don't know you understand them ;-)

how long is the bus ride to laos? do you guys stay there over night or just head right back? assuming its a lot shorter ride from chiang mei than bangkok/pattaya

also if you would get depressed in a small apt like the one elbow showed just add some more tables to your grinding so you dont have time to think of how depressed u are

you guys know anything about chiang rai?

Yeah i tried to get this going with bangkok bank and got a txt code to my phone and it still didnt work.

Yeah i was hearing about this too. I know a few people on this kind of ED visa and noone has had any hassles. But yeah head to believe the thai government would go out their way to boot out farrang.

im from germany, im living in thailand since about 1 year, and actually at the moment all farang friends i had are gone, i have only thai friends, but now i could need a new farang friend for some crazy action. so im looking for somebody new!
im looking for somebody who is living in central bkk, you should be around my age (25) should like thai girls and should not be shy

would be useful if you can speak thai, because most girls i have dont speak english, but its not really necessary

cliffs for the next action:
i have a girl who wants to have sex with me (33, did never have sex with farang, want to try)
i live little bit outside of bkk, she lives a little bit far away from me
we meet at your room, i dont tell her that its your room
when she is at your room i try to talk her into a threesome

if somebody is interested add me on skype: elbarto132

If anyone is interested in teaching and would like to live in issan i heard they were looking for 9 english teachers in the schools in Mukdahan. Muk is right on the lao border.
Pretty sure you don't need teaching qualifications if you are from any native english speaking country.

If any1 is interested let me know and i can make inquiries. School has started already but i doubt very much they were filled. There must have been some kind of pressure to get farrang english teachers in the schools in the mukdahan area because i was approached by the school at my village and the next village to teach there. I don't have any teaching qualifications either.

The most expensive condos i found in Muk were someting like 6k per month and it's so cheap to live but obv it's nothing like bangkok or anywhere esle touristy so most people wouldn't like it unless you have friends or gf or can speak fluent thai

im sure both of these have been asked and answered a hundred times in here but can anyone point me to some good informative posts on what banks are best, easiest to get, and how the whole depositing to poker sites works over there?

also are some sites blocked in thailand?

chiang rai just over 2 hours drive from chiang mai. then another couple of hours to myanmar border

mukdahan on the lao border is 10 hours from mochit bus station(depending on your bus driver)

Pay the extra cpl of hundred baht for the vip bus. And don't sit downstairs unless u like cockroaches and other nice bugs crawling over you and your stuff lol

You can either stay in mukdahan and go to immigration and stamp ur passport or get the bus to lao savanvegas casino in savannakhet. You have to book the vip bus at the casino tent at immigration.

If any1 is planning on doin this after hit me up and i can drive to the casino in lao. It's only 5 minutes from the border but i have to pay 1500 baht to immigration.

Problem with the casino is they dont have poker.

If any1 is wanting to know more about the teaching thing or getting to savanvegas add me on skype. matthew.griffiths

yeah 9 months. i think it's in phuket only they give this long directly