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To put it very short - even that it sounds harsh, and might be unpopular by some - if you can't afford a travel insurance, you can't afford to travel. If someone dies without insurance, get the body cremated if you cannot pay yourself to bring it home - ash is affordable to bring back - instead of opening yet another go-fund-me or like kind of contribution page; keep that option for cases where help is really needed.

11th December Samui +11 new cases Phangan +7 new cases Koh Tao, no data Source: Kohmui.com

It's not Lazada that are selling the stuff, it's a huge lot of individual merchants, using different shipping companies for delivery. Always check the sellers reliability/ratings score for shipping etc. before ordering...????

Where I live the local HomePro has a huge selection of coffee makers from domestic to semipro to pro. The domestic/semi pro machines might be too small for professional use. I have an espresso maker in the cheap end - i.e. in the 5,000 baht level - which is excellent for morning or evening coffee, but won't work for all day production. There is a link HERE to HomoPro's online shop, with numerous coffee makers, you would probably need to look at something from around 25k baht for more professional use...????

If alcohol kills Covid-virus, then probably not...

10th December Samui +10 new cases Phangan +25 new cases Koh Tao, no data Source: Kohmui.com Koh Samui today: Bopput 6. Ang Thong 4, Lipa Noi 3, Taling Ngam 1.

Yes numerous. About half the workers that were building my house were Thais, a number of workers came from Laos and one was from India. I have many Thai friends working as cook, as waiter/waitress, or even as room maid in many star resorts, for up to 15,000 baht a month. But some few that got unemployed after the Covid-lockdown didn't want to change profession - for example be quite well paid guard in a shopping mall - but rather wait until reopening, and the former profession becomes available. Some might feel that certain jobs are too low status, so they' might loose face and therefore rather don't work. The Thai unemployment rate is however relative low compared to many other countries; it's 4.3 percent in UK and 4.6 percent is USA.

What was your past jobs? Rock musician Operationel planning in a major airline Stage manager in a theater Partner in a recording studio Music publishing Partner in musical unit manufacture, i.e. cassette tapes and vinyl records Distributor of professionel audio equipment Director of a commercial radio station Disc manufacture Online publishing Are you happy you retired or do you still miss work? I couldn't see myself stop working, even when I passed 70, until a friend thought that I needed a rest, and without asking me booked a ticket for me to Bangkok, and took me down to an island in the south. A few years later I retired early at age 56, and moved down to that island in the south. I don't miss my work at all, I however still have my publishing rights, so kind of work... Did you like going to work everyday or was you glad to get out? I liked my work - all of them - and I was glad to stop, and I'm still very happy 16 years after...???? Who had a job they remained in past 30 years? Me, self-employed - or partner/owner - in music and sound business, very active from 1976 till 2006, and still active in music publishing, same company all the years, but today I'm the single owner of what little that remains. If you had that decision not to retire when you did would you have kept on working a few more years ? Do you regret retiring then? No, not at all. Continue working would be hard work to pay tax, and just have a ltiny bit for myself - I originates from the country that is number one in the whole World when it comes to taxation of it's population - so what if I has a lot more money, but I was too old to enjoy them? No. enough was enough; even that it was just enough...???? Do you ever sit in Asia wherever you are and think, I really wish I stayed with my job...? No, never. And I keep contact with my friends thanks to email, and later especially Facebook, and many of my friends wish to have a holiday in Paradise, so they come by and say hello; some of the I see more of now, than when we lived a few kilometers apart...????

I never had that dream, I must weird...????

If you don't ask, you might never know it...???? I remember restaurant Bus Stop in soi 4 Nana - perhaps it's still there - with lots of nice girls taking order and serving food. One of the girls told me, that you could have the desert dish as take away...

Sh*t happens, in the always unbearable bright light of hindsight, I should have brought my stamp collection with me, instead of selling it before I moved to LOS...???? I don't fancy fish in glass bowls, but I however understand and appreciate the gogo-bar view, but for me it's more fun to see how the girls move in night clubs than glued to a silver pole, or even dance close with them at beach parties, of course decent without any kind of touch...????

Don't buy land in Thailand before you have seen it through the different seasons - or some you trust can show you photos of the land in different seasons - especially rain season and monsoon period are important...????

Sure, and that's why the version 5.0 tin foil hat needs a wider hat-shade than the previous ones I wore... However, according to Google...

I begin to wonder how many countless things Pattaya is now going to be a hub for, perhaps the hub of hubs...

Thailand is still short of work force and need more migrant workers from neighboring countries, according to several news articles, so might be that there are plenty of jobs available, but people are not interested in those jobs...????

Great news, after this statement, it seems like digital nomads and remote workers have nothing to fear about work permit...

If you are offered 3.5 percent interest per month by a bank employee, you should be extremely suspicious, it's more than 42 percent a year, which don't fit at all with annual interest rates on loans around 10-20 percent or less; even 3.5 percent per year would be at the edge of reality during the past decade...

9th December Samui +9 new cases Phangan +11 new cases Koh Tao, no data Source: Kohmui.com

8th December Samui +5 new cases Phangan +9 new cases Koh Tao, no data Source: KoSamuiLife.com

To my knowledge "G" must still be "generation", as 3G were called "third generation". That's why I recently here in Thailand upgraded my tin foil hat to version 5.0, i.e. fifth generation...

Mining Bitcoins seems after all to an Okay business, especially if you were in mining-business in the very beginning...????

Must have been a well-paid job since she could afford a 36 million baht investment in condos and cars...????

That's why it's so important to check the land of interest both in dry season and rainy season before you buy it -and low tide and high tide in certain areas - which might be why that when you show interest, then the seller always has other interested buyer ready to sign, so hurry up if you want it...

Ops - perhaps I then better withdraw the offer I gave yesterday for the 470 million baht soapy and quite legitimate business for sale...

We also had a case in Denmark - it was by the 300kW "Kalundborg Long Wave Transmitter" - he also got fined, the story was that he actually took power from the transmitter by heating his house from it, I don't know if that part is true. it's long time ago...????