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6 hours on here a day ?😲😲 You could do a full work shift in the ASEAN office and get paid !

Norway,?? Be boring wouldn't it with the cold 🥶 weather? Try Philippines

Your right I stupidly booked it for a month on Airbnb It was too long in one place. And too far from Pattaya everytime jumping in baht buses in the heat etc

Do you keep.itnin the safe?

What a selfish lot you all are !!! I started this thread because I was practically imprisoned in a small oven room in The View Talay 2B in Jomtien and not one ounce of sympathy or empathy I think nearly 6 weeks of this walking up going to that overpriced cafe run by a German guy and his staff ,sitting next to walking frames Warren and his drunk mates Please ! I got out

Try walking from Pattaya to Jomtien up the hill....walking is great , in fact a few times I took my luggage 🧳 bag with me to create more exercise

I'm sick of you talking about your "toys" ...Ducati etc I don't need any of that to be happy I bought my 50 baht t shirts at that doi Bukhao markets I don't need Nike shirts , motorbikes ,Ducati cars , boats etc

Mopping floors is great exercise. My forearms are powerful built I have a exercise type job I love my job

So your still working for the $$$ I feel sorry for you I don't have to go to work tonight at 11pm if I don't want...I have enough money to retire ...oh well poor Ralfy up at 5am ready to work ....

True to a point. But I'm extremely poor and I still read books ,go for walks ,go to second hand markets

The tolerance Respect cultural diversity workshop which goes for 8 hours in the day teaches us workers to see things as ... beautiful ,men kissing ,lesbian etc

No free time? Ralf your having a laugh 🤣 right. Your on this forum everyday at 7am Bangkok time !

Recently I wrote about how I was swimming in a pool in Pattaya at the Arcadia Beach resort Three young children swam near me , I saw a large Scottish lady approach me and basically told me to go Into another pool.on the other side ,I apologised and left In fact she was telling all makes even in the banana chairs nearby and I doubt anyone had a problem with it Now please let me get into this I have worked for a Government department now for 30 years Next week as part of our yearly training I'm due to go for the Cultural respect diversity tolerance training course This is where we must learn to give people of the Muslim faith tolerance where they must be given breaks to pray Even gay people colleugiwho passionately kiss 💋,I observed this in the workplace last Monday night where I saw 2 male nurses passionately kiss each other and people commented it was "beautiful" I am observing a lot of workers from the arabic Pakistani background who some may not have the tolerance to accept their cultural differences,for eg a worker from Pakistan who is a cleaner likes to shout out to people in his way "Move brother ,move out my way "!!! I immediately smile and think it's beautiful Another couple of indian background cleaners in my workplace constantly have the earpiece phone to their ear talking away to whoever in India and we must tolerate that and smile because this is indian culture nowadays to have a earpiece Please attend these workshops if you can to learn respect

Because different parts of society may not agree with it and you could offend them eg people of the Muslim religion I had to apologise recently to a big english lady whose young kids were swimming near me in the Arcadia beach resort . She came over to me to tell me I must move over to the other pool as it's not appropriate for a older man to be near her children. Unfortunately they swam near me first and kept swimming near me , but I immediately apologised to her and left the pool and one must be careful not to offend others

What cubicle number?🏳️‍🌈👨‍❤️‍👨 Jim there is no need in this day and age to be homophobic Look I admit I actually saw 2 guys tongue kissing recently at a bus stop in Australia and passionate and I did have homophobic thoughts but please listen to the data Thankyou Jim

Gottfrid....I watched them all drinking in the View Talay at Jomtien at 8am on a beautiful morning drinking beer by the pool. I had the condo room overlooking the pool , I watched at the window every morning them drinking alcohol You must stop 🛑 alcohol immediately This is the curse of all evil according I believe the bible? and please don't quote me but I believe it is

What made you bored at that time? Lack of normal routine?

I thought it was Frank Sinatra? WINE WOMEN & SONG 🍷

It wasn't a good decision Now you have NO property to go back to ???

Whats that saying and please in all your fine wisdom please correct me And who said it ? WINE WOMEN & SONG

You can't afford to leave ???? This is why I think it's better NOT to sell all your assests in farangland KEEP your house there !!!

Wow ! 😲 😮 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏 Congratulations and respect to you Sir 👏

Absolutely! Times have changed,some live in the past ....this forum is for all South East Asia I have calmed down a lot and not angry as much about this

Why only Thailand? What about expats in the Philippines, Cambodia,Vietnam ? They not worthy ? Isn't this the ASEAN forum for ALL South East Asia expats? Discrimination Bob !! I'm angry today about this

I actually met a guy in Pattaya who told me he retired from the UK civil service at 55 and regretted it ,said he wished he had gone to 65 All this media hype about retiring ,like we should ! Did you regret retiring? Is there anything wrong with someone who doesn't retire say at 60 or even 65? I'm thinking of just working and taking 2 X trips a year to Asia instead of retiring Many countries have now no set retirement age Do any of you still WORK past 60? Are you happy to WORK?