Sunday, August 11, 2019

190811 Baht continues to strengthen

Chinese devaluation of the yen had no impact. Thai reducing lending rates also made no difference

Talk of increasing tourism to 30% of GDP sounds like a wet dream
สกลนคร Sakon Nakhon

With a win today Sakon FC would propell to 7th place

Sakon Nakhon FC sank one rung back down to 9th place yesterday without even playing.

Surin temporarily took over that spot (8th) with a 3-1 win over Kalasin yesterday

Today Sakon FC hosts Yasothon.  A Sakon FC win would propel the team  to 7th place.
Win over Yasothon has been done before 
June 1, 2013
Recent five games Sakon FC got better

Friday, August 9, 2019

TM30, the dust has not settled yet

There is a petition drive underway by expats.  I don't hold much hope out for that.
Bureaucracy always wins, even when it makes little sense.
Best option is to find the simplest way of doing it. Thai immigration online services

Have not seen any deadlines when everyone will have to have a TM30 on file.  Did my  90 day report just a week ago, no mention of the TM30 requirement at that time.

Article below by Richard Barrow  (Facebook link) 
Been reading Mr Barrow articles on and off since the day I got my first internet connection in Thailand. His website is well worth following


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Thursday, August 8, 2019

Sakon City Waterfront now a hospital parking lot

You can scroll in either direction and consider yourself lucky if you find a parking space.
Where there is no car parked you will find a vendor parked

Lake water level continues to drop
A dam building project  near the park has been underway
Red flags probably mark shallow water 
You would not want to swim in the water due to liver flukes
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They seem to like Rock n Roll

Spotted some cows along the road. A bird perched on one of them.
Made a u-turn to get a closer look.
Intriguing was that the cows looked up and came toward me. I had my stereo reasonably loud playing 60's and 70's rock




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Wednesday, August 7, 2019

New Governor

Facebook Link
Mr. Monsit Phaisan, Thanawat, Inspector General, Ministry of Interior Is the governor of Sakon Nakhon

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Monday, August 5, 2019

Obviously it all can't be true, or can it?

Earlier this week weather services sounded the alarm of an impending storm.

I wrote  Weather alert 🌩🌤🌦🌩 MAYBE
From my observations I figured it to be unlikely.  That storm passed far to the north. Remnants of that storm may rain on Northern Thailand  in the coming days
Some clouds and occasional sprinkles here and there over the next coming days.

Sakon Nakhon Hospital emergency has been moved to the new buildings at the lakeside entrance. Drove by there the other day and the huge parking lot was near capacity.  Could have been open ceremonies?

Regarding recent bomb incidents in Bangkok: Don't believe early reports. Seen reports of one up to 9 different bombs. Seen reports were RED's are accused. Seen reports were teenagers are involved. Obviously it all can't be true, or can it?

When I talk Crap I mean crap. Recently the lid to a cleaning product got flushed down the toilet. Tried a toilet snake, garden hose, nothing worked.  Was ready to demolish the toilet and buy a new one.  Worker patiently chiseled away the grout, removed  the wedged in lid and saved me a bundle of money in the process 











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190804 Sakon FC winning streak continues, advances one rung in the standings

One significant change to the starting lineup was the replacement of  13 Aekkachai with 9 Dacha.
I call it significant because Dacha scored both goals of this game



17:50 Dacha enters the field
18:30 Dacha scores
(times shown are the minute markers of the first video)
less than a minute after entering the field

Saturday, August 3, 2019

190802 Game Time Confusion at the FC

A letter informing the league of the time change is dated 18 July.  It was first posted on Facebook Thursday evening around 9 pm.


A number of posts appeared listing the Sakon Nakhon team playing on Saturday, rather than Sunday.
Even the Sport channel SMMSPORT had listed a Saturday game.

Checked with a team coach who messaged me back indicating the game is Sunday. The team left on their 6 to 7 hour bus ride on Friday

190731 host Sakon FC 2 Surin City 1