TPG3

Hello,

2 years ago, I started working for a company which uses Apple environment. I was very curious and excited as I never worked before with Apple products and i was told that everything is quite intuitive.

The first weeks were disappointing and I always had the feeling that I am too stupid to work "intuitively". I never understood how things work with Apple. The great gestures hidden somehere and never knew where to find them.

Asking the admin, how I can do certain tasks, his standard answer was: " This is Apple, not Windows. You can't do that with Apple".

So, after a few weeks, nothing changed. Every day at work I suffered from a lot of frustration and went back home feling stupid. Having said that, my coworkers felt the same. Only the CEO - an Apple fanboy - thought that it is much better than windows.

I didn't find any benefit from working with Apple over Windows.

I guess it doesn't matter which one you use, once you commit yourself to just do it.

For me, I didn't have such a good experience with Apple.

Oh.. I have been working in the software industry for around 23 years.

Hi OP,

in none of the posts, I read about the pace that you run.

I also didn't see (or overlooked) your height.

Running in Thailand is a totally different story compared to western countries. Running 30km on a sunday morning 5:30am is absolutely exhausting in Pattaya. But running 30km in a faster pace in Germany was a piece of cake compared to that.

My background:

I ran a few half marathons, will run the Pattaya half marathon in July and a few more and now train for the Bangkok marathon in November.

Shoes: Highly overrated unless you really have the wrong shoes/feet. But THIS, you should feel in your knees after 1km.

Food supplement: Careful with this. With normal nutrition, you should cover your needs.

Drinking: Bottled water - and green tea as it contains sugar - will help you with long runs (20km+). Short to mid runs are easily covered with bottled water.

I think you might not have adapted your pace to your physical condition and / or weather conditions. Especially pain in your thighs and calfs is a sign for that. Go the distance first (slow) and then increase the pace.

Do you have a training plan which mixes long slow runs (once a week), shorter quick sessions and maybe interval runs?

I can not give you a solution now as there are too many unknown variables.

If you have questions, get back to me with a PM

Kind regards

For me, the place is not important.

I'd rather die in the arms of the person I love.

But maybe that's just me.

I understand that we speculate all about how this happened. Reading the report "...they were both going to the same direction..." leaves me puzzled how this happened.

Every finger pointing on the one or the other part is useless as we will not find out whose fault it was. Besides that, it is useless anyway as the participants died or fled.

The only part which I really feel sad about is the irresponsibility of the the Russians. Sorry... it might be stupid. But if I cause an accident, then I have to face the consequences.

... especially at her age with some big decisions to make about university courses next year. ...

As far as I have understood Thai culture, it's not about the kids to make the decisions, but the parents to make the decisions for their kids. I doubt that she is thinking about university courses for next year, as you mentioned her unambitious approach. Maybe you should sit down together with her and her mother to discuss exactly THAT. Maybe the output will lead to the right direction and you can prepare the according steps?

Lots of people in Indonesia, so I'm sure you could have both love and a visa

That all being said, Indonesian women are perhaps the most drop-dead gorgeous women I have ever met and very sweet and easy-to-get-along-with personalities on top of that.

Totally agree.

I think it was misunderstood that one should have to marry an Indonesian girl just for the Visa.

IF you are in love with an Indonesian girl and want to marry her, it is very welcome to benefit from this new law.

I understand that Indonesia adapted their laws to modern life. Still, something we can dream of in Thailand.

I was in Indonesia many many times, not only for holiday. I still speak some basaha indonesia.

I also think that one blowing and one sucking fan is not the right way. A sucking fan will create the correct airstream. 2 Fans may interfere