Couple days ago i went to immigration to get my first stamp of ED visa. It was easy to see that military has tightened it’s grip about visa and now it’s more difficult to abuse system. I went to first desk, handed my papers to officer and paid visa fee. Officer checked that all papers were there and right, then she handed my passport back to me and showed next line of desks. Next officer checked my passport and make some notes and stamp. Normally this was enough but now she showed me a open door and said ”next to room…” Now this is place where things start to go interesting if you already have been in Thailand several years with ED visa status. I had to go private room and there was one officer behind the desk. Naturally because this was my first time there, she just looked my passport and signed it, but IF you have several stamps in passport, now this is the place where you actually start to speak thai, and if you thai is still ”sawadee khrap” level, you probably find yourself in big trouble. For now on you actually have to go to school and learn thai, not just use school as a automatic visa machine.
Also when i went to school to get my papers for immigration few days earlier, girl behind the desk looked little bit scared and she whisper to me that ”can you come back tomorrow, immigration is here to check papers…”
So, for all… keep you things legal and do as law says, it’s new order here now…
I was in Walking Street to take some pics for our new Teppis Hellsinki Photography Facebook account and i have to tell that i haven’t seen so many police ever in WS before. If i say that there was minimum 30 police + God knows how many tourist police, so you surely feel safe there. You must be fool if you try to steal something from tourists. However when i was leaving, some thai guy came to me and said very loud voice ”marihuana, cocaine…” and there was about 7 police about 10 meters away. Now he really wanted to go monkey house, or then he was undercover police himself. My money goes for later choice.
Finally i got green book on my name for motorbike, so now everything is ok and hoping happy miles ahead. Bike has worked like a dream and i couldn’t be more happy about my choice. Also Sonya seem to like it, even when she complain for time to time that it’s too heavy, yet she still want to drive it. Actually she uses her own Click so rarely that standing weeks unused was totally drained Click’s battery and it couldn’t be saved anymore. Ok, it was old battery anyway so we had to change it, but as they say ”use it or lose it…” seem to be true. At least with motorbike battery.
School will start at next wednesday, so finally i have something ”official” to do and hopefully i can change my daily rhythm back to ”normal”. Basically only thing what i miss from my old life is normal daily rhythm. That you MUST wake up in morning and go to work. Now i haven’t woke up before midday in several months. It kind of sucks to lose half of day to sleeping, but what you can do if you go to sleep about 4-5 a.m. I have high hopes about school…