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xthAi76s, on 2012-04-27 22:29:54, said:

Your gf must be a pretty bad cook.  i have tried hundred of mom and pop thai food type places and all of them were disgustingly fat/oversurgared and used bad veggies/meats or were badly cooked and had no love. All those places care about is making your plate for as cheap as possible. Once you taste thai food from a good cook, yes i might agree but the average thai food available to thai people on the street is horrible and they keep eating there because its convenient for them. (trust me i know, we owned a restaurant and were the only ones spending more and taking our time to make every plate tasty and a lot of thais noticed that our food was for once edible. some of them blatantly admitted that they often skipped our place because they had to talk an extra 2meters or had to wait an extra 5mins for better food. So they notice but they dont care. Just like their political system. They notice the corruption but theyd rather watch tv soaps)

MK is great. Its boiled food. Of course the food itself has little taste thats why you have a sauce which is pretty dam_n good according to hundreds of thais and farangs i know and no one has ever said the opposite except on thaivisa.  Still tasteless with the sauce? Well then you are either a smoker or a drunk with a burnt palate. And even then you could add eggs in the mix.

Mk isnt high gastronomy but its definitely not tasteless if you're mouth isnt burnt from some dirty habits. I would only give it a 65% for taste but add to that a very cold AC, clean spots, free healthy drink, tasty fresh duck and quick service.. its a great family spot and i dont recall a single time i have been there without at least 3 other farangs.

xthAi76s, on 2012-04-27 22:29:54, said:

Your gf must be a pretty bad cook.  i have tried hundred of mom and pop thai food type places and all of them were disgustingly fat/oversurgared and used bad veggies/meats or were badly cooked and had no love. All those places care about is making your plate for as cheap as possible. Once you taste thai food from a good cook, yes i might agree but the average thai food available to thai people on the street is horrible and they keep eating there because its convenient for them.

MK is great. Its boiled food. Of course the food itself has little taste thats why you have a sauce which is pretty dam_n good according to hundreds of thais and farangs i know and no one has ever said the opposite except on thaivisa.  Still tasteless with the sauce? Well then you are either a smoker or a drunk with a burnt palate. And even then you could add eggs in the mix.

Mk isnt high gastronomy but its definitely not tasteless if you're mouth isnt burnt from some dirty habits. I would only give it a 65% for taste but add to that a very cold AC, clean spots, free healthy drink, tasty fresh duck and quick service.. its a great family spot and i dont recall a single time i have been there without at least 3 other farangs.

h90, on 2012-04-26 12:21:52, said:

Hilarious. Only a matter of time before the reds split, they'll be better off for it too. Meanwhile "Thaksin thinks, PTP obeys".

Suradit69, on 2012-04-23 11:35:35, said:

  

maipompui, on 2012-04-05 18:59:03, said:

I owned a similar model for three years before I sold it.   I never had any issues other than being very hot.   Sold it for a LED model last year.

i'm happy and content to be a simple Farang who presently lives in Thailand

hi, there. i'm selling my bike in a hurry. (i'm not an english speaker. plz understand my poor english.)

Marin muirwood 2010/ wheel 26inch/ frame 19 inch/ cromoli frame
schwalve tires/ topeak rear rack/ rear battery-working lights
cable lock/ butterfly(or touring) bar.
in good condition (i used this for bike tour from bangkok to ranong.)

the price is 6k baht (negotiable)

my airline regulation and insufficient time in thai makes me sell my bike.

if you;re interested, e-mail me. (bike will be delivered in person)

Well if 54 to 60% of the thai population (this is what I would call a majority) have no confidence in the politicans/government then maybe the country is making headway. Now if this same majority would do something about the mess that this country is in, then there may be a light at the end of the long tunnel.

As one man said "I have a dream".

Hi everyone, I do not have to introduce the Walen school, we are mostly known for teaching Thai and providing visa assistance to our students. We have a new product now, we will teach surfing!

We already have a location for a school in Phuket and will be organizing 5 day trips to learn surfing in Phuket. We will teach mostly on Kata beach. Season this year is nearly over, till the end of October, but next year we will be starting in May again. Our next trip is on the 7th till 11th of October. We have only 4 seats available so if anybody were interested please contact me on 0818201238 to book.

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2. 4 nights shared accommodation
3. 4 days of lessons, total of 12 lessons
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5. Transportation to the beach and back

There are great many reasons to learn surfing. Can you think of any?

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So I talked with Immigration today, and their story both supports and contradicts what Rien said to me.  Immigration did investigate the LICMU program because of irregularities.  They want LICMU to do a better job documenting, interviewing and tracking their students.  However, Immigration says that the reason students aren't getting visas is because the President of CMU and the Dir of LICMU aren't signing them.  All Immigration needs is letters from those two and a grade report.  Therefore, the people stopping visas are in CMU.

At this point I am very upset at CMU.  I also do not appreciate the fact that the program I signed up for is now divided into two arguing sides, while I'm left out in the cold with no money and no visa.  That's straight up bull****.  Matt made a program that won't pass muster at Immigration, and the President of CMU is not supporting us at all.  As far as I'm concerned, I don't care what the relationship between IUS and LICMU is.  CMU is responsible for this.  

As far as whether we are on overstay starting tomorrow, the Immigration guy told me that my visa, which ends in Oct, is good until then.  All this speculation is scaring me though.

We subscribe to both the Economist and the International Herald Tribune.  Hubby is somewhat affected by the situation, so he used their websites to notify them.  Thomas Fuller of the International Herald Tribune replied promptly, saying he appreciated the information and would become more interested if it appeared that other institutions besides CMU were doing this.  In his initial email, Hubby pointed out that 300 students are affected.  Maybe if all 300 emailed Mr. Fuller, he might be more willing to do a story.  Thomas Fuller seems to be resident here in Thailand and writes many stories about our "adopted" country for the publication.

Hubby hasn't heard anything back from the Economist.

Nor has he heard anything from his email to the U.S. institution where he got his Masters degree -- the same institution where the CMU president obtained his Masters and Doctorate degree and currently has a number of Thai students on their campus.  

He's contacted the American Consulate, who said he was the first to inform them of the problem early last week.  They said they'd look into it.  Has anyone had more recent contact with the American Consulate?

We've filed a "dispute form" with our credit card company.

Hubby's next move is to contact Senator Jim Webb, from Virginia, who is a Vietnam veteran and has a "special interest" in Thailand, according to the new American Consul General in her Satuday talk at CM Expats club.  Hubby is also a Vietnam vet who fell in love with Thailand during the war and he was born in Virginia (yeah, we know that connection is a long-shot).  He's also considering emailing all 120 U.S. institutions that have "partnership" relationships with CMU, whereby the Thai students come to the U.S. to study.

He's doing all this and he didn't even have an educational visa from CMU.  We're here on O-A retirement visas and Hubby wanted to be able to contribute his time to Thais.  We both had looked forward to doing extensive volunteer work in retirement and been so disappointed that we can't legally do that with our visas.  I've thrown myself into other activities, but Hubby really wanted to do volunteer work, so he joined the Cultural Exchange Progam after their presentation at the CM Expats Club meeting in May.  

So, I hope all the rest of you who are even more affected by this than us are taking similar measures to get the word out about this problem.  Please contact your embassy/consulate, your credit card company, the media and anyone or institution in your home country that may be assisting CMU students in their studies.

Once again, I'm imploring the moderators to move this back to the Chiang Mai forum.  Normally, we never look at the Visa forum.  We just want to be able to do volunteer work here in Chiang Mai "legally" and still keep our O-A retirement visas.  The loss of the CEP program is a major blow to Thai people who benefited from time given by people in the CEP program.

thaiboy999, on 2010-09-30 08:21:00, said:

70,000 at Payap? That's a lot! Walen is charging 24,960 Baht, cheaper that CMU and Payap. Those who still do not like Walen, please visit and talk to our staff, see the school, take a free class, talk to our existing students and after you will be able to make a more informed decision.

Walen School - not the cheapest but the best value
www.thaiwalen.com

RKO10, on 2010-09-29 22:04:29, said:

There were no issues with Immigration after they had gone through all attendance records and paper work supplied by IUS. They were actually quite impressed with how good a job the admin staff had done. In the end it comes down to who is making up stories. Rien told all the students immigration refuses to sign visas, you heard it yourself. Its the university that wouldnt sign the visas, even though Dr Kay offered to leave CMU but pay for all the running of the thai course until they were completed. This would have fixed all problems. Dr Kay would have been out of the university as they wanted, Students could have continued studying with visa support. Instead they lied, blamed immigration and cancelled all courses.

mrtoad, on 2010-09-26 22:50:22, said:

There seems to be a letter missing in the 4th word of your post above.  

The OP, is actually quite a funny man & I probably made up 1000 of those profile views, as i often go via that section to send someone a PM, which I normally do if I want to use a set of particular set of words or descriptions   .


I find alot of profile views because people like to check out mrs neverdie & even suspect some posters   even manipulate themselves whilst looking at her.

I've been reading TV CM forum for some 6 years now, ever since we decided to relocate to CM. At first, I found it very enlightening and helpful. I've never posted, before  it's not my thing, and I've not found I had much to contribute  about  fish and chip eateries, bars, booze, where to buy towels, the weather, etc nor wanted to get involved in discussions about Th***sin or the red shirts. Just getting on with my life...

However, as I was involved in the CMU program and very distressed,, I posted for the first time last week, and felt that TV forum had, for once these days,  brought a topic to the attention of those who really needed info. Not sure about the other new post, but mine held nothing that could be considered litiginous as far as I could note. .Now the thread is closed with all relevant practica linfo removed. Nice one, guys.

Now I note that a moderator on this thread has stated that he or she is 'suspicious' about the motives of newbies who join the forum --- how about considering that, as my post stated, there is a great deal of concern about  the disadvantaged that were being helped by the program -- the main point of my post?  It's obviously considered correct for mods to insult newbies in this way. I feel sorry for you, TV was good once, now it's a little private club with, for obvious reasons, very few active members.