simon43

Maybe she enjoyed 'golden showers' during her marriage to him....

This is like 'me and my diary' ???? Dear diary Well, I'm fully recovered from my pneumonia and keen to get back to Myanmar. I was offered no less than 5 jobs at international/private schools in Myanmar, 3 in Yangon, 1 in Naypyitaw and 1 in Mandalay. I've accepted the job in Mandalay (I was a teacher in that city some 5 years ago). I hope to relocate in about 2 weeks from now, as soon as I can get the visa.

Be afraid.... be very afraid!

There is a risk that the model will be returned to Myanmar, since they raised the red notice. As she has stated, she would be at risk of jail time should that happen...

These are antifungals, used to treat Aspergillosis (fungus spores in your lungs). I have these wonderful spores for about 25 years... I usually have no need to take these medications - eating healthily, exercise and the hot climate keeps the nasty spores at bay. But I will shortly to return to work in Myanmar, where it can be difficult to obtain genuine medicines. I'd like to take a few month's supply of voriconazole with me, just in case. I am in Samui right now, but the local pharmacy refuses to order this OTC medication (they suffer from an illness called laziness) Is there an online pharmacy in Thailand which can supply it? I don't want to order from overseas because the delivery time will be too long. Thanks.

Am I still allowed to use the word 'lard-buckets'? Or is that considered not PC nowadays? (I've been out of the UK for 20 years and consider using the phrase "My, you're a bit of a lard-bucket" with foreign tourists that I meet in Samui - I need to use this phrase with almost every Western woman that I meet) Note - no full-stop used

Who said it did? The Andaman Sea is a region of the Indian Ocean.

Kites ruining the beautiful scenery? What an absolute plonker!!

and... it's part of the Indian Ocean.

[quote] ...Pattaya is for those wanting a night lifeand like the bar scene, [/quote] It is also very suitable for those who do not seek a nightlife/bar scene ???? . I recently lived in Pattaya, (and also some 12 years ago). I can't remember ever setting foot in a bar in Pattaya, yet I still somehow managed to have a great time !

I guess one reason why such shoddy building construction is allowed in Thailand is for the simple fact that the country doesn't lie on any large tectonic plate fault-line. The chance of a large earthquake is very small. Here's a link to the USGS live earthquake map: https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/?extent=-13.93907,63.10153&extent=43.0571,169.88864

If you check the Myanmar evisa website - https://evisa.moip.gov.mm/ it mentions that due to Covid restrictions, foreigners (other than Thai or Myanmar) can only enter the country by air to Yangon or Mandalay. It's a temporary restriction, so hopefully you can use Ranong in the future.

And now (just for a moment), not even me! I was teaching in Yangon, but got struck down with pneumonia. I'm resting in Samui, and hope to return to Myanmar as soon as I have fully recovered. I passed my teaching job to another 'old hand' Myanmar teacher, so now I need to find a new job in Myanmar (which isn't always easy). It's actually a bit of a crazy scenario. I earn more money teaching online than I do teaching in-class at an international school. But I'm keen to do both (in-class during the day and online in the evening/weekends). I found the internet connectivity from Myanmar 'acceptable' for online classes, (not the fastest, not the slowest connection, but OK).

[quote] ... she was definitely marriage material [/quote] Er... sure? Hooker in a bar? I made that mistake with ex #2, and I'm sure that I wasn't the only guy in Thailand to make that mistake.

[quote] The creature that did the biting was 3.5 meters long and undernourished. [/quote] Well, if I were undernourished, I might also feel like taking a bite out of something....

I posted many years ago how my mad ex would try to decipher the markings on the back of toads as numbers. Therefore, one night, I went into our garden, caught a big toad, and wrote some numbers on its back with indelible black marker pen.. The whoops of joy the next day after she found the toad the next day were only tempered the following day after she didn't win! Mad bat!!

Saskatchewan? Now that IS in the middle of nowhere! ????

I'm still a DXer! I guess I'm stuck in a timewarp, but getting the same radio station over the internet is just too easy for this techie! ???? Shortwave listening still has an important role to play in some countries. I remember living in my Yangon (Lamadaw) old apartment in 2012 and going to sleep listening to the sound of the BBC World Service interval signal as the Burmese guy downstairs listened in on his old radio to the news in English.

When I departed from Swampy airport a few weeks ago, my taxi driver dropped me at the VIP parking spot and then I had to walk across the red zebra crossing to the terminal. There is a 'lollipop' man who holds up his hand to stop the traffic. He did so and the cars stopped and I started to wheel my trolley and luggage across the zebra crossing. A 'Do you know who I am' guy in a white Merc didn't want to stop and drove across the zebra crossing, narrowly missing hitting me. Now I'm a Brit and was always taught that everyone must stop at a zebra crossing. So no way was I letting him get away with this. As he drove across the crossing, I rammed my heavy luggage trolley into the side of his nice car, scratching and denting it, which shouting in Thai at the same time 'Stop!', (thus attracting everyone's attention). As he slowed down to park, I ran after the car and pulled open the driver's door, shouting at him and asking in Thai if he was blind. Of course the guy is furious that some foreigner dared to challenge him, but he seemed too fat to get out of the car. I beckoned him to look at the red crossing and shouted again in Thai that it's the law that he must stop. All this was great entertainment for everyone, and I guess that I was lucky that he wasn't carrying a gun. But it does infuriate me when car drivers see a person crossing and speed up! Anyway, trolley cart 1 : white Merc 0 and he has a repair bill ???? (I disappeared into the terminal before his passengers got out of the car to slap me!)

Much happier now! Much, much less stress to deal with (no greedy wives, no fussy customers, no dealing with useless maintenance workers etc). I walked away from all that stress years ago. Now I do everything on my terms and spend my income how I want (my ex-families hate me!)

In the case of my niece, I was stuck in Laos because of Covid restrictions. When I finally managed to get back to Thailand, my niece asked me to visit her and mentioned that she was a bit thin. When I saw her, I knew that I was looking at someone who was going to die soon. Her weight was about 24 Kg, but despite getting her into hospital and on medication, she was too far gone to recover. I don't blame myself at all for not being there earlier when she could have been saved, that's how the cookie crumbles. I can't understand why her family did nothing as she wasted away before their eyes, but they told me that it was karma. Her time was coming and therefore they should not try to avoid this event. Buddhism is a strange belief.... TB is much more prevalent in south-east Asia than some people imagine. My ex had it (and recovered), her brother had it (and recovered).

I still use my shortwave radio every day! Granted that it's my ham radio transceiver, but the receiver part covers all the shortwave broadcast bands, and there are still many interesting stations and world music to listen to.

Indeed, one motto of an educational venture that I established yonks ago is "A little extra goes a long way". For example, the full-colour, illustrated bilingual (English/Burmese) story books that I buy for school kids in Myanmar cost a mere $1 USD each! The local translation of the English language science text books that are used by high school grades at government schools cost just $3 USD (500 pages seemingly written on rice paper!). It's a very small amount, but can make a big difference to someone's life. I personally don't have many material goods. No house, no car, no motorbike, no savings, no share portfolio, no rich uncle etc - just my computer and ham radio gear. Were I to receive a windfall or increase in my monthly income, I wouldn't spend it on myself, because I'm very with what I have already ????

He needs to sell a lot of 1 baht necklaces to fund worldwide travel these days...

I sometimes think of my old dad, who died about 13 years ago. We were never close, but I respect him for his values. More recent, I think every day about my 18 year old Thai niece who died in my arms from TB just 3 months ago. I am comforted by considering her passing from a Buddhist perspective, in that she has moved on to another life. I have a photo on my table of her just a few days before she died, when I carried her into a local restaurant and she ate some moo gata with me. It's a good memory ????