I bought one of AIS air card but I have not tried it yet since connecting the AIS to the USB with TrueMove connect mess up the connection. The truemove software finds the AIS stick and it just mess up everything.

Alright I haven't done any research but if anyone knows about the 1 year non immigrant type '0' uk visas? I heard they were trying to make them much tougher to obtain.

Maybe just BS but if someone could tell me.

As in last 2 times I got one it was a case of sending a form with money and getting visa next few days no questions asked.

not BS. can't get one anymore without a legit reason

Yeh I tried to get one in October from Hull and they denied it. I've had two before from there also

I'm in bangkok for like 14 hours (830pm-11am) in 2 days. How far is airport from downtown? Should i just book something next to the airport or is it accessible enough to stay downtown and go out for the night? anything good to do near the airpot?

ORLY...

damn thats annoying and its put a spanner in the works.

Wonder what a legit reason is now. I'm gonna have to look on website.

From their website

Hmmmm...

Who wants to start a fake charity, work to have it recognized officially as 'registered charity' by whatever Thai govt agency, and then churn "O" visas in the same way that Edu visas are churned?

Profit?

couldnt get Truemove to work anywhere in thailand. AIS 3G was ok, only cut of 4 times in 5 months

Anyone recently researched the various 3G options? What should I get?
I want 3G stick that works anywhere in Thailand with high download limit (preferably unlimited). Not too concerned about price if plan is fully specked.

I have truemove h prepaid which is quite fast, up to 4.5mbps according to various Speedtest.

Ran out of balance and put in my old ikool prepaid (tot reseller), and it got me 4.6mbps while before it never got any higher than 0.6.. Will test it again over the course of today if they keep up the speed, they are much cheaper and also you can just top up from their homepage.

Bkk fwiw

6.04 just seconds ago, they are on fire lol

Five hours in the airport in Singapore.... any suggestions to brighten this Visa run?

(They won't let me book the later flight which gives me 90 minutes there. Is that not enough time to walk off one plane and on to another at that airport? Anyone ever book those close times separately and risk it?)

maybe:
http://www.asianescorts.com/escorts/city_sg_singapore

lol

I wonder are those ladies knowledgeable about Sinaaporean history and culture. Maybe they could enlighten as they brighten my day.

I wonder how would they call out to an airport toilet?

If I'm not mistaken it was this site or a site like this that was on the Singapore news for being busted..

Interested in potentially moving to Thailand from Canada. I'm a Canadian citizen graduating from University in May. I'm looking to grind full time and heard Thailand is a good time, as well hoping to make use of the favorable currency exchange and ideally build bankroll. What's the currency exchange like with USD-baht? Are the banks hard to deal with? Say I got money wired to my Canadian account, would it be difficult to access in say Bangkok? What does is cost to live there? Does anybody play basketball? What's the poker community like? Do people speak English? Is it troublesome to grind online there? What sort of taxes would I have to pay if grinding online was my only source of income? I smoke marijuana regularly, are laws super strict on that? Information would be much appreciated. Thanks

Dude all the info is here, don't be lazy read the thread.

sounds like you're mostly interested in BKK, so i'm not gonna be a super help, but i'll do my best:

access to your money in a CA bank account should be fine. withdrawal fees are going to be outrageous, probably. back when US players could play, the best way to access funds was Schwab account. now US players have funds wired from pokersites to their thai bank account.

the thread has a *lot* of information on the costs of staying here, but the breakdown is pretty simple. you can get a lot more value for your money in many areas, pretty much any area that involves manual labor. (maids, cooks, massage, prostitutes, medical care) and for the size and variety of a big city, BKK is a good value. the same is true of the beach areas. but if living cheaply is your goal, assuming cost of living is similar in CA to US, you're not making that great a move.

move here for the women, or the weather, or the culture, food, adventure, poker community. moving here to cut down your costs is rarely that good of an idea.

dunno if bkk guys still play basketball, but i will point out that phuket guys play 2-3 tiems a week. we also play 2 days of beach volleyball a week (at a private club, not on the beach) 2 days of football (not american football) a week. and there are various spearfishing/squash/tennis/badmitton/ping pong activities as well.

also, the phuket 2+2 super 6 (6 man football) team won it's first league match 11-0 yesterday. AFAIK no poker community is as diverse and prolific in it's sports as the phuket community.

the airport does a free city bus tour if stopover more than 4 hours. that was 3 years ago so you would need to double check they still do it but i would assume they do.

still do it.

http://www.etour-singapore.com/free-singapore-tour.html

I don't know how you can say it's not significantly cheaper.

- Going out for beers and some food in Canada is $30 at minimum, it's maybe half that in Thailand (500 baht is reasonable for some decent food and a few beers), and just as good if not better.
- Renting a halfway decent apartment in Canada is $800 / mo at minimum, you can get a better apartment in BKK for about $500-$600 / mo.
- Local food, taxis, transit, massages, etc, all way cheaper than in Canada

I would say you're saving at least 33% (more if you're not in BKK) for the same quality of living amenities, but a much higher quality of life. You can live quite well on $2K a month, in Canada you'd be in poverty with that income.

I lived in Ko phangan quite nicely for about 1500$ a month. Nice house, motorbike, at least 3 times a day dinners outside the house, massages, party, training and relaxing. Good times..

Yeah.. it's definitely cheap to live in Thailand, don't understand the other poster's comments at all

i don't think rutang was saying things are the same price, quite the opposite

i think what he meant was that overall you will still use the same amount of money, it just goes to different things. i think that is true for many of us here?

though the original poster didn't really say he was looking to live cheaply(or use less money than back home) either