Just spent nearly the whole day trying to get electricity switched back on at the townhouse I recently bought. The lekkie was cut off as the previous owner did not pay the outstanding bill. I went to the lekkie office. Was told I needed a 'yellow book' from the Tesaban. Got to the Tesaban and they insisted I had to give up the yellow book I already had, (which I use for my current home) before I got a new one. After counting to ten several times, visiting the lekkie co office 4 times and having made what seemed like 100 photo copies of every piece of official paper I have, it was sort of sorted out after about 6 hours. Well I have to tell you an amusing part of my visit to the Tesaban. They prepared an paper in English which is supposed to clarify instructions on how to obain a house book. He are the instructions as written, (note no full stops or commas):
1 Take your passport to go to recognise in primary from embassy or consul your country at to be attached in Thailand and provided that document not English language a translate Thailand language's document must receive guarantee by embassy or consul anyhow reason embassy or consul your country only can canfirm rightousness's document and to understand in the Thai language right means translate.
2. Owner's document take the master copy, document and Thai version go to ask to present a petition by oneself or have book to hand over power someone to be in progress replace.
I kid you not I read this twice and thought I had gone mad!
If you are going to live here then you should make some effort to learn the local language, i would imagine that their attempt at English is far better than your skill in Thai.
Mocking local office workers for following procedures is hardly clever.
shakin' boxcar joe wrote:If you are going to live here then you should make some effort to learn the local language, i would imagine that their attempt at English is far better than your skill in Thai.
Mocking local office workers for following procedures is hardly clever.
Having a bad day SBJ? Hope you get over your SOH by-pass soon!
In the meantime here's some medicine to cheer you up:
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It was so mad it actually cheered me up and took my mind off the burocracy for a while! I found it very funny, particularly as I thought at first it was just me! It is a hand out they give to Ferangs to clarify things! Maybe they r takin' the p'!
shakin' boxcar joe wrote:If you are going to live here then you should make some effort to learn the local language, i would imagine that their attempt at English is far better than your skill in Thai.
Mocking local office workers for following procedures is hardly clever.
So to summarise.
Find house. Pay money to buy or pay money fo a period of rental, learn to speak, read and write Thai fluently and then apply to have you electricity switched on.
Sounds simple to me.
Your are not a one legged retired postman by any chance are you?
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I was whatching a parade once all the school kids dressed up parading through town follow by the boys in brown with a large banner which read
Hua Hin tourist police HERE TO SIVE YOU.
Before you buy anything the most importent thing you need is
1 Twenty five reams of paper (about the size of a medium tree)
2 Computer and scanner
3 Now scan everything you own ten times scan yourself ten times sign everything.
4 A doctors certifacate that says you are not dead.
THank god for threads like this, lovely wee storey Jockey, and pageys comment - BRILLIANT! We should get the translation retranslated back to thai and see what it ends up saying then.
