Neeranam

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The Johnny Cash one? Is it good Jocky? I'll try to download it. Can you recommend any frank Z? I don't know him, although I used to listen to him years ago when wasted round at my mate's hoose.

Od ton อคทน

I hear this word all the time when I'm speaking with Thai people who are having problems with drugs and alcohol. I thought I knew what it meant but am a bit confused now.

I thought it meant to be patient or tolerant, as I know od jai อดใจ

Could it mean something like "avoid" or "abstain"?

Potato - tee derm.

Not exactly my type of music, but ok, good to listen for something new.

I just finished "Johnathan Livingston Seagul" a truly great book.

I picked it up at one of the BTS stations.

I used to read those Aesop ones, which were ok. They had a little dictionary at the back. They had the English too on the same page, but not translated very well.

They were only 12 baht!

Watch. It is trying to copy the typical US series, but it is quite good. Some of the "lakhon lang kao" I don't like. I have just put a stop to my little girl watching that "pee lok" one every night. They talk about ghosts all the time at school an the last thing I want is her watching ghost series all eveing too.

AS the UK flag is the same colours as the Thai one, this is why the Thais love the Union Jack so much. Amazing that most of them think this is the English flag, which it is not. I asked a girl once, who was wearing a "God save the queen Sex Pistols t-shirt" why she was wearing a t-shirt which was offensive to my queen. Of course she hadn't a clue.

Anyone know, how do I paste a photo here?

Can you imagine if it were the other way around and a similar t-shirt was being sold in the UK! Imagine the uproar, there would be war.

To age does not matter, but by taking on matters you will age.

It was not clear

if families of Thai victims would also get free flights and accommodation.

It wasn't clear because they have absolutely no intention of doing it, it's to promote tourism in Thailand!

No, I don't but used to when I came off the booze, and continued for over a year, every day.

I don't have a problem with any substance anymore.

Nicotine 

Just to inform earlier posters, Xanax/alprazolam is not a benzodiazepine, although Klonopin/clonazepam is, but Klonopin is used as an anticonvulsant, not an anxiolytic. (In English, it's used to stop seizures, not stop anxiety attacks) Xanax is also highly addictive, because it, too, alters brain chemistry in a pleasurable way.

Don't be fooled by what doctors in Thailand say, or elsewhere that Xanax is not a benzo. IT IS, and the worst one due to it's short half-life. A nightmare of a drug.

Last week the inventor of this drug died. How many lives has he ruined with valium and company. Bastard!

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You can always fake love, but you can never fake lust.

I disagree, why?

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Love comes from the heart and therefore the soul. Eyes are the window to the soul. It's all in the eyes! ph34r.gif

The soul is not in the heart, it's about 1" behind the forehead, between the eyes! Don't

believe half of what you hear, and none of what you see.

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Ohh, beautiful baby, I was very lonely till I met you on sunday.

My passion’s never-ending and I’ll love you till tuesday

My fav. Bowie song!

Says who Neeranam? I didn't say the heart IS the soul.

My guru tells me the heart and soul are connected.

How would you explain heart transplant recipients experiencing flashes of the former lives of their donors? (scientific fact!) 

I agree the heart and soul are connected. The soul is situated in the hypothalamus part of the brain. Scientists can pinpoint this. It has been proved scientifically that the soul is metaphysical. When the body dies the soul goes elsewhere, it does not remain in the heart. Out of body experiences? The only way I could explain the "scientific fact' of the transplant patient would be that the soul of the dead person comes back into the body of the person with a new heart.

But I don't know!

I spoke to a guy who leant money to Isaan workers going to the middle east. he leant them 200,000 B and they paid him back 20% a month, which is the norm. Takes them about 2 years to pay him back and then they get there 3rd year wages to themselves. He makes a ###### of a lot of money, obviously.

QUOTE(Neeranam @ 2005-09-30 10:40:55)

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You can always fake love, but you can never fake lust.

I disagree, why?

*

Love comes from the heart and therefore the soul. Eyes are the window to the soul. It's all in the eyes! ph34r.gif

believe half of what you hear, and none of what you see.

Ohh, beautiful baby, I was very lonely till I met you on sunday.

My passion’s never-ending and I’ll love you till tuesday

My fav. Bowie song!

Not sure, but I know as a couple of mates who have been here for 25 years told me. Not sure if it was a 'fuul' office, but i know they used to go there to get their re-entry permits.

The middle way is very important, I believe. Balance in all situations.

I do some work with doctors treating alcoholism and drug addiction. Last week, some of them told me that their treatment centre is quiet at the moment due to it being "Khao Pansaa" or Buddhist lent. They say that mext month is the busiest time of the year due to lent being over with hundreds of alcoholics using that as an excuse to stop drinking, many going to the temple. When they get out, they go to the other extreme. Many of them drink, go to the treatment cntre to dry out, drink, go to the temple, drink and can't understand what is going on. Buddhism, or any religion for that matter can't sober up these people, from what I've experienced and heard. We have a group now, using a 12 step programme who have been sober for over a year. This programme incorporates meditation and prayer in one of it's steps.

Last year I was there in Oct/Nov and it's amazing the guys who have just come out the temple to drink straight away after saying they would never ever touch it again. The other large group are teachers, due to the October holiday, and soldiers and policemen. When speaking to these guys, there life has consisted of partying,treatment, and monasteries. Unfortunately many of these guys think that their religion alone can save them.

Sometimes you just have to walk away.

You sure do , Jesse.

"It was football time, apple time, harvest time, hunying timeschool time. Footsteps quickened. it was exciting to be in transition. It seemed more like the beginning of something than like the end of it" - Paul Gruchow

Some days seem filled with the exciting energy of change. They are like walking on a bridge from one time period to the next. Today feels like this in Khon Kaen where the schools are out, end of "Buddhist lent" is soon, rainy seasone ending close.

As I experience the circle of seasons outside me, I am grateful for the ongoing flow of change within.

Listen and learn about Loso here:

www.ethaimusic.com/archives/loso.php

Learn Thai too, there are English translations here, but not very good ones.

Buy a mp3, it's a lot cheaper and takes less time. Only 150 baht in Khon kaen.

I am presumably still registered with my old doctor, although I haven't seen her for 6 years. When I go home this xmas maybe I should take my kid to the doc and register her, then for subsequent visits she would be covered. Is this cheating the system? She is a British citizen. If I get sick and go to the doc, am I cheating the system as I don't live there anymore?

I wonder if I should get all my teeth done too. Only joking tax.

That's great news for me, living in KK!

They are so thoughtful those immigration people in Nong Kai.

The wasted trips I've had up to NK have been a pain in the butt.

Of course the closed the one they used to have here - I wonder why?

Thanks Chownah, good advice.

I think that starting to learn and practise Buddhism is similar in ways to addiction recovery. We look at our own pain and admit our difficulties in life. I'm sure it isn't easy. The great irony of beginning the process of recovery is that only in surrender do we begin to grow. It's sometimes hard to see how the powerlessness/nihilism and pain could be a blessing, yet it's through the recognition of the problem that we begin to find the solution. Once I think I know it all, I I stop learning and growing. This could be the cause of my failure to learn much from Bhuddist meditation before. I guess we are all beginners.

I am a bit concerned, as an addict, that i can get attached to the pleasure of meditation.

This will end in a feeling of loss, I'm sure. I hope I don't try to use it as a place to hide from the real world.

right now I'm reading about the 4 Noble truths, which is maybe a good place to start. Also I'm reading about the middle way. Many addicts/alkies led a life of extremes, as I believe the Buddha did. This middle way is very important for me.

Start sooner than later, thanks for the tip

tyre tracks

stinky

Khon Kaen is for me the best place to live in Thailand by a long way.

There is an international school but I can't recall it's name, but it has a really good reputation.

Check out Khonkaen.com and ask there.

Noone deserves this kind of crime, and I wish the gentleman a speedy recovery.

A lesson should be learned. I used to go to Pat Pong about 10-13 years ago and got drugged by myself often. I used to wake up in the morning in locked go-go bars or hotel rooms with all my money gone. Did I deserve it, maybe, but I eventually learned my lesson- don't go! It is not wise to threaten a local with a pool queue, however much he deserves it - I had a stay in hospital for that one.

I went a couple of years ago and it was a much more violent place - maybe I could just see it for what it was. The scum of Bangkok(and upcountry) work and hussle around there.