bust Posted October 21, 2019 Report Share Posted October 21, 2019 I will be in Soi 7 Beergarden from 5 - 15 January 2020 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nasiadai Posted October 23, 2019 Author Report Share Posted October 23, 2019 Coss writes: "Keep it up, I hope to one day meet you in person so we can reminisce on days gone by " In one of my last holidays in SOA I met Herrn Flashermac in the Lucky Luke Bar at Nana Plaza. One of my Thai friends - a Thai Airways captain - was with me. It is always interesting, to put faces to names. However: my knowledge of English is very limited. I find it difficult to have a reasonably meaningful conversation in a language I learned at school about 55 years ago. Some remarks about the Nana Plaza: The Nana Plaza was for me my center of the world from 1992 on for over 20 years.This NP has lost its charm, its attraction in recent years. That's why I prefer Pattaya now. It may also have something to do with my becoming old. I will spend a few days in Pattya, Jomtiem from Friday 3 January 2020 until Wednesday 8 January. More precisely: in the so-called Soi Welcome in the hotel "Happy Bou". In March I will spend about 4 weeks in Pattaya. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flashermac Posted October 24, 2019 Report Share Posted October 24, 2019 Your knowledge of English is far better than my knowledge of German. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nasiadai Posted October 24, 2019 Author Report Share Posted October 24, 2019 10 hours ago, Flashermac said: Your knowledge of English is far better than my knowledge of German. 555555555 yes, I know. It's hard for me to converse in the English language. My possibilities of expression are very limited. The situation is different when I express myself in writing in comments, reports, annotations, etc. I use dictionaries and small translation aids from the Internet. The English grammar and syntax are very simple, thank God. The only difficult rule for me is the 'paraphrasing with to do'. The grammar and syntax of the German language are probably the most complicated of all world languages. A foreigner who has a reasonably faultless command of our language has my highest recognition. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nasiadai Posted October 24, 2019 Author Report Share Posted October 24, 2019 At the moment I am preparing my holidays in SOA from January to early April 2020. My doctors - two internists and one general practitioner - have given the green light again. All examinations had a good result. Something else: In my social environment - friends, acquaintances - men die away. A friend from old childhood days - a gifted football player, later a coach - died at the age of 64. Two doctors - a paediatrician and a gynocologe - died at 62 and 75. My ex-brother-in-law died at 68. The impacts are getting closer and closer. 555555555555 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flashermac Posted October 24, 2019 Report Share Posted October 24, 2019 You never know. I have a friend whose father and grandfather both died at age 39. His father's brother did too. He was really worried when he approached 40, but that was more than 20 years ago and he's still around! Think positive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buffalo_bill Posted October 24, 2019 Report Share Posted October 24, 2019 May I respectfully introduce myself as honorable member of the most exclusive community worldwide which is the AORS ( Association of reborn sanukers). Meaning I virtually have been found dead under a table on August the 6th 2011, face dark blue and nothing working any more. A team rolled in, cut my throat open with a knife, a defibrillator started firing electric shocks and the miracle happened. After 1 week unconscious in intense care I was back on earth. Since then no trouble any more, currently enjoying my evening cigar. Conclusion: death coming this way doesn´t matter because you don´t feel anything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coss Posted October 24, 2019 Report Share Posted October 24, 2019 For giggles, I counted my near-death and death experiences, seven near-deaths, wherein I was extremely lucky, to survive. One actual death, on the hospital gurney, while they were trying to reset my fibrillating heart, with the electric megavolt machine. Two of the three attempts were successful, the one that didn't work, was the second try, giving weighty meaning, to the phrase "third time lucky" My mum reckoned I have nine lives like a cat, it would seem I'm on the last one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nasiadai Posted October 24, 2019 Author Report Share Posted October 24, 2019 Guys, let death be a final thing. It is inevitable and and comes with deadly certainty! For every living being nothing is as certain as death - literally cocksure. But man is the only living being of which we are certain that he knows it, however uncertain the time of passing away may be. I learned at school: "mors certa, hora incerta". Death is certain, but not the hour. All life stands under this almost definitory condition. You don't have to be Benjamin Franklin to realize that at least for us humans taxes and death are inevitable. And we in Germany have the highest direct taxes, the highest social security contributions, and the highest indirect taxes. But I think positiv! ----> I remember an old song of Stevie Wonder: POSITIVITY! Nasiadai – Live from Buxtetown on the Este River – 25.10.2019 - Late! 0.50 a.m. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nasiadai Posted October 27, 2019 Author Report Share Posted October 27, 2019 But I don't want to discuss and reflect on death any further. I have a three-month holiday in SOA ahead of me. I will spend roun about 5 weeks in Pattaya, in Jomtiem. The reunion with Pattaya Jomtiem will undoubtedly be a celebration. Here's my little philosophy of the festival: To celebrate feasts is human; and I believe that only we humans can celebrate feasts. Neither the palm trees on the beach of Pattaya nor the sea, nor the nightly stars, nor the deckchairs and parasols celebrate feasts. Neither the monkeys in the jungle nor a pride of lions after a successful hunt celebrate feasts; that is reserved for us humans. We feast on different occasions: we celebrate Christmas; the birth of Jesus Christ; to say welcome to a new born baby to say good wishes to people when they get married or have passed an important test or have been promoted: We human beings are - inevitably - celebrating and therefore are festive living beings. For me, the feast is a moratorium of everyday life; it is an exit from grey normality, from daily routine. So my three-month vacation is an exit from the Teutonic winter, from the solicitudes and sorrows of daily life. Live from Hamburg –17:15 - 27.10.2019 Nasiadai - Bakwahn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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