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Japan. This is what my wife, a certified Thai cousine cook is serving to Japanese salary men. 120 meals week days, lunch time. The price is about (now) 6 US dollars or 10 AUS dollars. Even tom yum kung is is included. She is one of 3 cooks in the establisment. At work, since 2013, shifts, working from home we were exchanging what we eat over weekends. Other team members were envious that I have a Thai restaurant coming to my desk.

“Madness is something rare in individuals — but in groups, parties, peoples, and ages, it is the rule.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche

A tectonic change. Since 2003, Thai Government has raised mandatory school attendance from grade 6 to grade 9. That might have had (and probably is having ) a big impact on helpless uneducated girls that have had gained more of education under that law. And then go even further with schooling. I beleive, that Thai goverment action has had a great impact. With 9 years of school , the girls are not left to clean the fish at fish tin factories. My wife was one of them, 6 years of school. Cleaning fish at a Rayong factory. Propelled her through education, Ramkhaeng University, Thai Princess handing her UNI diploma, The Faculty of Economics, 4 years, full time. Can't even remember how many, hundreds and hundreds, lessons I gave her in maths, mathematical statistics, integrals and differential equations. The people arond her are her villagers, even camping one night, just to be there. When I had my first Thai woman, 1999, if she has a daughter, the kid would now be 25 years old. Hard to imagine that the child (now a young woman) would have taken the bars way. Sure, there will always be prostitutes from up country, but as many reports say - less and less of them. Nothing like the abundance of the year 2000 or before. Now, many do not even go with customers, according to web sites.

You may be right, me wrong. I beleive I remember that girl face from years ago. You win.

True, that is where the decomissioned machine is. Short runway, 80km from Sydney Kingsford Smith Airport, only 25 tons of fuel used to fly and park her there. VH-OJA B747, took me from Sydney to Los Angeles 2 or 3 times. Even have a model at my desk, exactly VH-OJA. The thrid picture, even the custos of the museum did not know what that unusual fitting is for. Myself, a former airplane mechanic and a fan of civil aviation, explained to him, it is to fit a 5th engine to deliver to a place where no spare engines are available (like Fiji). People like me before University, were and are doing that. If the readers of this post can undersand that.

The picture was real, just trolling for fun.

How about this? No shit from the net, my wife. Many men would love to fuck her. If you would, it is a drop in the Ocean. Thousands of Japanese come around, to fuck her. Strangely, she spoke only to those 60+ years old. To bring their wifes to the party. We made 3 porn movies in our privacy.

Looks like Cambodia image.Never been there, no intention to step into that country, ever. The girll, top, is a known porn model.

Loved that. True, only 2 ladies, when I won a voucher during some meeting, as a prize. 2003. Used it. It was (deceased) Marc venue. Puzzling it is, Thai is renowned for prostitution but nothing that really puts them on the World porn map. His staff, were working there for 5-7-8 years. No entry after 9pm, no drunks.

Travelling from Khon Kaen to Korat...peaceful Isan landscape. And then, maybe 30km before Korat, this. The airplane, registered as HS-TEH, Airbus A330 that skid the runway coming from Guangzou (China). September 8th, 2013. Written off. Been on that very plane from Nagoya to Bangkok, 2011. Someone got paid to drag it out, reconstituded it at this Isan field, now entertainment area with lots of parking and a cluster of small restaurants attached. My 4th time there.

On a Thai Airways flight TG645, Nagoya - Bangkok, watched a serial (2 episodes x 2 hours) of King Naresuan. That prompted me to go to Phitsanulok (where King Naresuan was born), track his battles against Burman invasion. Went to Asia Books, and other video shops, nobody had those very episodes with English subtitle. "Only Thai Airways have that" they said. My Thai wife has a remote recollection of King Naresuan. Even asked me why do I want to know such things and details.

Mr Trump is laughing at the World. It is going to be his way. Chinese know, 5,000 years old civilisation with 2 bad centuries, 95% of people are fools. Just don't let them vote.

THAI resuming flights to USA in 2025. "Thailand plans to resume direct flights to the United States by early 2025, contingent on regaining a Category 1 safety rating from the FAA. Thai Airways, which is expanding its fleet and recovering from financial challenges, aims to relaunch U.S. routes"

Pattaya, Terminal 21, December 23. 2018. Who is this? Google "Lady Dee", 1997, Drahomira Juzova. Had I not been with my family, I would have asked her for an autograph. Saw her movies before she got tatooed. Yes, if Thai with 65 million people do not have enough prostitutes, even a small ally as Chech Republic (11 million people) comes to the rescue. Yes, high season. She was doing porn there, saw some teasers afterwards.

In Bangkok, there is everywhere, fried rice with Isan saussages. The saussages, sour and chilli, chopped, not in abundance but noticable in the meal, always liked that.

Thai driving license. I have a valid Japanese license, Intrenational too. Japanese Road and Traffic Authority just asked for my Australian driving license and issued me with a Japanese one, with no any exam. Just converted it and no P-plate. My wife, she has Thai driving license since 2006, told me - as you are already a driver, for 40 years, either wait all day or pay 5,000 THB and get a Thai one. On the spot.

When I was 5 years old, learned the numbers, I could make a phone call, unaided. The degeneration of the human kind came with iPhones, Android. Driving with my daughter and her friend, asked them to type in the phone number of some museum, which exists 100 years. They typed in and said - unknown place and address. What they did, they typed in a post code number, unaware it is not a phone number. They did not know what the format of a phone number is. They have never made a phone call in their lives.

We found them (the saussages) in a Thai food shop in Japan. Frozen, passed all the rigorous imported meat checks. Four different flavours from diffrent Thai Isan localities. The price was like 300 THB per pack. The nominal owner of the shop is a Japanese oldie. When my wife asked questions, he put her (mobile) to talk to his Thai wife. He was just minding the shop. I enjoyed the saussages, knowing nothing bad would happen if the saussages were allowed in Japan.

If you are using Windows, just did it today (December 7. 2024). It took 11 hours, home DELL desktop. Internet is super fast where I am. To get to 5% took 5 hours. To get from 15% to 30% it took 4 hours. From 30% to the end another 2 hours. I could delay it but the PC became slow and I did not need it this Saturday day time. Now appears to be faster. What Microsoft actually did, most of that I don't need. Banned kernel interactions with anyone and added more devices that can be upgraded (like Acer and other small brands). No way IT departments of companies would allow that. What they do, they download the upgrade, test it, then push what has to be done (no local download of the upgrade) , limiting the time to 1 hour max.

Well, "Anything goes", no drama.

Thanks, Stick. I will check arround when next time in Thai. It is fair to assume, the account would be open where they have connections, not my choice (the bank, vicinity). Then, the account is mine, no mediators. It is a serious amount of money, 800,000 THB deposit. Appears, it is not a blatant law breaking, if it is possible for someone to do that for me, even for a fee. Wherever the branch where the account was open, for anything serious, it has to be sorted out with that particular branch. I don't mind going from BKK to Pattaya if it has to be there. My wife, after years of not using her ATM card (her account is used to pay electricity and water for our condo, automatic, peanuts as we are rarely there). She once needed to withdraw some small money, errored with her PIN 3 times, the card got swallowed by the ATM. She had to go to the very branch where the account was open (a shopping mall Rama 4, Khlong Toey) to retreive it.

Nobody made it. My daughter (then 16) playing Led Zeppelin Whole Lotta Love got critics. Sure, a short practice but she made it. Posted in here. How many of you living in Thai can have your kids appreciate our Western culture and music? We may like their culture but they have to respect ours. Asked my daugther, would she ever return to Japan or Thai? She said - never. Remain in Australia.

Fantastic. The girl playingt has sometning related to you? Or, just something dragged from the net?

Isan saussages, love them. From Khon Kaen to Korat, stalls along the road. In a good restaurant, they are delicious (Si Saket hotel restaurant). They come as an entree meal, the 2nd picture. I would not buy them from the road stall, would not eat them from there. 15 balls for 100 THB. My wife said the saussages have to be grilled. But, stiil, the road seller has a mask, from the road fumes and dust, the mercahandise does not have it. Those Isan saussages, come in 6 different flavors. Si Saket. We buy them in Japan when we encounter them, 300THB, frozen, export from Thai certified.

I have no such acquaintances. My colleagues, some directors at our global company office in Bangkok, have left and I have no track of them. To acquire such a confident, may take me forever, if ever, even if I get a doctor or dentist or lawyer, they would have to have known me for more than a year, formally and atop of that, be willing to vouch for me. Can't do it. Even if I could, how could I ask someone in that respect to vouch for a visa runner (that is what I would have to be in Thai for over one year). The banks were firm: Immigration have their rules, we, the bankers, have ours. Show me your passport with visa other than 60 days stay. That is probably where those "THAI VISA" agencies saw their business opportunity. It would be OK if the agencies could, somehow, open a bank account for me to deposit 800K THB into it. No, the account they open (or somehow make it legal) is theirs. True, they say I will never have to deposit 800K THB. If I can open my own account, once I have the retirement visa through your agency stamped? You can, we are here to deal with 3 months reporting, renewal of visa, 20,000 THB a year. You may find it comfortable.