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Well they certainly wouldn't have found a brain!

Sorry Sheryl, should have added the website for D-limonene:- https://www.wellnessresources.com/supplements/d-limonene

I was using Life Extension d-limonene back then, but found it hard to get hold of a little later on, so I bought Jarrow Formula d-limonene, and that's my standby at the moment although sadly it is now out of date! Just doing a bit of research online and noticed that there is a 1000 mg d-limonene capsule from Wellness Resources which will be my go-to if I need it again.

Unfortunately I did develop Barrett's oesophagus after a few years of GERD and it was the main reason for me quitting my stressful job and moving to Phuket. Stress, worry and rushed eating habits all contributed, but with the help of a great Dr in NZ, I was able to overcome it and omeprazole helped, as did triazolam, which reduced my anxiety and also enabled me to get some sleep. If you have a hiatal hernia, then you will almost always be at risk of GERD, unfortunately, however pleased to see that PPIs have helped you along, as has watching the diet. I will post this here, despite the fact there may be some scepticism, however this particular capsule worked wonders for me, and when my NZ doctor did my last gastroscopy he was totally surprised to find out that my Barrett's oesophagus had healed/disappeared. So surprised that he took down the name of this capsule and recommended it to a friend whose GERD was proving problematic! I got onto some capsules called d-limonene, and they can be found on the Internet, and it's also worth doing a bit of background research on it, because others have found a benefit in taking it. I still keep some in the fridge, just in case I get a flareup, which is rare, and I then decide whether to take an omeprazole or d-limonene! Both of which do work for me.

Is this the one where the "grandpa" goes into a bar of some description and starts to dance, but his shorts are a little too short and his low hanging testicles (not real ones I will add) are dangling out the bottom of his shorts, much to the amusement/amazement of some of the customers?

Oh, and not forgetting some scenes late on in the movie which were reminiscent of the ending of, "2001 – A Space Odyssey"!!

Something I forgot to mention, is that in the very same shop I came across a 2 L cardboard cask, labelled, "Cooking Wine" and it was a South African red wine from "The Old Town" producers, so being intrigued, I looked at the cask. Nowhere on it could I see any details about the wine, grape varieties, alcohol content and suchlike, because I was intrigued at something being labelled "Cooking Wine", this especially as what little description was on the side of the cask, did state that consumers would enjoy its "drinkability" – – this from a cooking wine?? At about 350 baht for 2 L, it wasn't expensive, but something like this shows that there is a huge "nonsense" regarding wines produced here and also imported to Thailand. It is either a cooking wine or a drinking wine, and if it wasn't a good quality enough wine to drink, then you certainly shouldn't cook with it, and that leads onto the Montclair type plastic containers where the producer seems to have "inadvertently" left off the fact that it is a fruit wine! Later, I checked online about the "Cooking Wine" and it is indeed a fruit wine. It seems that despite Thailand trying to lift its game with regards to many things, it still falls short on the "correct" labelling and "policing" of something simple like wine, but then again perhaps it helps the "rich and powerful" get away with implementing their own rules.

Have just watched "Moonfall" and it was a "switch off your mind, enjoy the computer-generated effects ride, forget the unlikely plotline and anything else pertaining to a script", and you have a perfect Roland Emmerich movie. It borrows from "Independence Day", "Prometheus" and just about any movie of that ilk and bundles aspects of them together for a totally unbelievable scenario, but given all that, mindless enjoyment. PS. And it stars Halle Berry who is absolutely gorgeous IMO!!!

Quadriderm cured mine...recommended by a dermatologist.

I did mention it in a post some while back and thought it was a good movie. Now onto something completely different!!........I downloaded and watched the four episodes of, "Murder in the Valleys" as it was recommended by somebody a short while ago, and I enjoyed it, and rather than it being like your average everyday doco (it was a true story), it played out more like a suspense/mystery thriller. In fact you couldn't have made this stuff up it as was full of twists and turns, putting different potential suspects in the spotlight. Now here is a question for anybody who has seen it (and I won't give anything away); – do you think that the right person was jailed for the crime??

Good idea to wake up the topic again schlog, and your post reminded me that I had seen a Cote du Rhone (Gentilhomme by Ogier) and I meant to buy it when I was perusing some other wines in the shop called Promphan , but I was distracted and forgot!!!! I had tried it last year and I thought it was very good and have always liked the wines from Ogier (especially the Cote Rotie) having visited the vineyard many years ago, and as I recall this one was about 590 baht a bottle, so not over-the-top, and I will get down there and buy a few bottles now that you have mentioned it!!!

I'm not trying to sugarcoat anything, however I did mention in a previous post that a friend of mine who had been rejected for his retirement extension, even though he had the money in the bank, presumably because it was in a term deposit, was told by an IO officer that he could use an agent to obtain his extension. He did this, and the stamp in his passport was an official one from the local immigration office. I had used the money in the bank plus regular monthly deposits previously, however for some reason unbeknownst to me, the agent became very irate and said that I wasn't to do it like this again??? That's why I was considering this other route, even though I do have the full 800 K in the bank at the moment.

It was a suggestion made in good faith JetsetBkk, as I thought that previous posts in ThaiVisa would be archived somehow/somewhere?? Perhaps someone like UbonJoe or Charlie H, who are much more knowledgeable than I am with regards to the workings of the forum, would know where to/how to look?

There are quite a few bars like this on a "main" road in Patong, and they are nowhere near the "nightlife entertainment area" of Bangla Road, and on a walk or drive to the local Makro, one will encounter such places!

In the paragraph which you posted UJ, "if an authorised competent officer is of the opinion that the alien has legitimate reason for staying in the kingdom of Thailand.........an authorised competent officer can view it for further consideration". So it would appear that this is the loophole which the agents are using, if indeed it is from the same immigration order? Looking back into the annals of aseannow would probably uncover the same subject, or possibly going back into Thai Visa records??

i have suffered all that has been discribed above for over 46yrs.the doctor put me on ZOTON lansoprozole which changed my life. The poster above has a good point Batty, because if I recall correctly, the regimen they they prescribed me the first time round didn't work and that included omeprazole and two antibiotics, clarithromycin and amoxicillin. The clarithromycin caused me quite a bit of stomach discomfort, so the medications were changed to metronidazole and tetracycline, along with lansoprazole, and they seemed to do the trick. The funny thing is that I had been taking omeprazole for quite some time, and when this cleared up, whenever I got a flareup of reflux (extremely rare now) I would pop an omeprazole, which did the trick?

I will post this a second time although it has been posted before:- This has been covered time and time again on forums like this and there are the two schools of thought, which I won't go into now, however, on one particular thread a poster was able to post part of the "rules and regulations" regarding the 800 K funds in the bank, and the paragraph read something like this, "the senior immigration officer at any immigration office has the discretion to grant an extension of stay based on retirement, without proof of funds being provided" (or words to that effect). This is actually written into the code of practice/rules and regulations and is therefore not illegal.

What with all of the furore over Will Smith's actions at the Oscars, I decided to take a look at his list of movies and was tempted to watch "I Legend" again, but settled for one I had never seen before, called "Enemy of the State", and am so glad I did because it was a very good movie indeed. I had watched, "I Robot" a couple of months ago and also enjoyed that and in the main, I am a fan of his, but am not too sure about wanting to watch "King Richard" for some reason?

Indeed he is doing just that LLF, with no success so far.

Just to put the record straight for you.........my motorbike doesn't have tinted windows, although my car does, and I sometimes walk by and can catch some of the banter going on, and it's not the sort that I would want to engage in. My world prior to coming here was a lot different to that of the potbellied, beer swilling bogans, so I have nothing in common with them, neither am I a big beer drinker, going out about once a week to catch up with a few select friends and that's about it. I generally don't like what I see, so I stay away from them and the beer bars they visit. Like some others on here I choose my company carefully, and to quote a line from a Bruce Hornsby song: "That's just the way it is"...........(for me). So to quote the thread heading of, "How are you with people", I would say 'very choosy with whom I associate', and I like it that way.

Indeed I do, and I was there last night for the grand opening of the "Blue Beach Bar and Restaurant" and it was a huge success. Every table was occupied (more or less) and the restaurant was working well to get the food out on time, and I enjoyed another Thai meal along with a few glasses of red wine and good company. There was a Thai sax player who provided the background music, along with backup tracks which were played in order to give him a rest, and I have to say he was very good. It is an excellent venue and one that I shall be making my "regular" now that my Italian restaurant has gone, and not only that, the vista is fabulous, the service is great and I know the owner and her partner, so there is nothing else I could wish for. I met up with a few friends and a little later in the evening we ventured up Bangla, firstly to Soi Freedom, where there was not much going on, then on to the Blue Lotus Café, which on Friday was deserted, but last night had a few customers sitting outside, which did brighten the place up a bit. Then on to Soi Sea Dragon, before eventually being ushered onto a table (with stools) outside of the Tiger complex, not really where I wanted to go, but we were tired of walking up and down and being unable to make up our minds, so we just plonked ourselves down there and ordered a drink. It gave me a chance to catch up with an Australian mate of mine who has come over for a few months, because we were able to converse (no loud music) and he was ruing the fact that he couldn't find a "good" Thai woman who would be willing to accompany him on some travels in Thailand, all paid for, and he is a decent, good-looking guy, so I thought it would be an easy thing, but obviously not, and as I said to him, I doubt very much whether he would find what he's looking for in Bangla and its confines! Away from Bangla and looking out of my window this morning at the heavy rain, which flooded the part of Nanai Road that I could see, and I could also see someone wading through it and the water was up to their knees! Obviously the enormous gratings which were put in further up Nanai, over new and enormous drainage pipes, aren't working (again), and not only does this seem to have been a huge failure, it presents a danger to those folks driving their scooters around, but then again TIT and this is only to be expected here with the lack of experienced planners/engineers with any common sense.

Not quite sure what you're getting at with your post, however if you read it carefully you will find that I "don't go"!! I was merely mentioning that when I drive past, I see these individuals, who travel halfway round the world to sit at a bar at 10:30 AM, wondering why they do it, and how come they all look about the same shape, and with the same unnerving lack of "dress sense", and to me that's cringeworthy. Nothing more and nothing less.

I was a bit of an extrovert when I was younger and was often called "the life and soul of the party", and I loved telling jokes and being the centre of attention. But that was then – – – now I have changed, because I much prefer a less crowded "venue", whether it be a bar or a restaurant and would just as soon sit in a bar or restaurant on my own, watching the world go by. That being said, I only go out to the nightlife in the evening once per week, and certainly don't drink during the daytime. I cringe when I go by a bar here at say 10:30 AM, and see the potbellied, wifebeater-T-shirt wearing farangs plonked on their stools, and wonder why they travel so far, just to sit at a bar and drink beer. I used to have to attend many functions in my business life, sometimes where I had to do presentations, and mix with the business folk afterwards, although it was part of my role, later in life did become a little arduous, so I suppose the change from then until now was gradual, but certainly prefer my own company now, with the occasional night out to catch up with a visiting friend and/or to have a meal somewhere.

Jim, this has been covered time and time again on forums like this and there are the two schools of thought, which I won't go into now, however, on one particular thread a poster was able to post part of the "rules and regulations" regarding the 800 K funds in the bank, and the paragraph read something like this, "the senior immigration officer at any immigration office has the discretion to grant an extension of stay based on retirement, without proof of funds being provided" (or words to that effect). This is actually written into the code of practice/rules and regulations and is therefore not illegal. A friend in my town has just used the local immigration office to do exactly this, and paid the agent the asked amount of 22,000 baht, and will be doing his own 90 day reports at the local office. The ironic thing about it is that he has over 800 K baht in an account, but the immigration officer refused to accept it because it was in a long-term savings account, whereas they had accepted it in the past – – go figure. He was actually given a phone number by another immigration officer, followed that up and now he has his retirement extension Visa done for him by an agent, and I'm thinking of doing exactly the same.......

Quote: "Many tv series are a product of their times, and only of their times". In the main I have to agree with this statement, and I doubt whether I could watch anything again like "Starsky and Hutch", although the occasional old movie strikes a chord. And on the subject of movies, last night I watched the latest film by Kenneth Branagh, "Death on the Nile" and it was about as enthralling as a plate of cold soup; no suspense, no thrills, no intrigue and nothing to recommend it IMO. Such a shame as I was looking forward to a good evening's entertainment!