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Perhaps the most gut-wrenching music ever written, Samuel Barber's Adagio for Strings:

... and Berg's Violin Concerto

... and Webern's Concerto for Nine Instruments

For me, Schoenberg: Verklärte Nacht

In my case, my Thailand investments have done extraordinarily well. I'd prefer to transfer the THB out into a more stable currency in a more stable regime.

Just got an email from Wise announcing Auto Conversion. (It's currently on limited access, so not everyone will have it.) The email reads: "We currently support any pairing of these currencies: USD, CAD, GBP, EUR, AUD, JPY, CHF, NZD, SGD, MXN, HUF, NOK, SEK, DKK, PLN, CZK, RON, BGN, INR, BRL, THB, PKR, PHP, IDR" Great, I though. I can now transfer from THB to other currencies. Not so fast: you can only do so if you convert from another currency to THB first. So, no direct adding of THB to your account and then converting. So, totally useless, and a big disappointment.

to confess (from LEXiTRON dictionary)

Are they zebra crossings or pelican crossings?

I went to CW last week. No scan of passport on entry. This is entering from the carpark building side.

I guess now that your friend is dead you can no longer borrow them. Nice to see you here, Deputy Prime Minister Prawit.

Trying to put this in context, if one completes all three books one's roughly at the same level of someone who has studied using the Union method for 3-4 months (240-320 classroom hours). The FSI (US Foreign Service Institute which is responsible for teaching US diplomats) categorises Thai as a 4* language, requiring more than 1100 hours of study (but less than 2,200) for a native English speaker to reach speaking and reading proficiency. So, someone who's completed the three books is only a fifth of the way to achieving such proficiency. (And note that this does not include writing proficiency, which takes longer again.) I still think it's fair to say that the "Advanced" book is only beginner level. On a personal note, I spent 1200 hours in the classroom with the Union method (plus a few hundred more hours doing homework) over a year and a bit. At the end of this study it was still a massive challenge to read a short newspaper article. One could say that I'm a hopeless learner (I'm not, and have mastered several other foreign languages, including Japanese), or that the Union method is useless (it's not, but it is very old fashioned), but the reality is that learning a foreign language - particularly one so different from English - is a massive undertaking. So, well done anyone who's mastered all three of BPB's books, but you've still got a long, long way to go.

You praise this series of books and have been using them for years, yet still need further classroom study? I think that just shows that these books don't work that well. Oh, and don't be misled by the titles. The "Advanced" book is really still beginner level.

That says more about your palate than it does about Thai cuisine. (That said, there's no single such thing as "Thai cuisine". It's highly regional.)

More likely to be old Khmer, which is also used for temple tattoos. p.s. Great job interpreting the bottom part. I could only pick out a couple of words.

It's available in Thailand without prescription. Should be available at larger pharmacies over the counter. In case of difficulty, you may need to contact the Thailand distributor (B L HUA) to find out where it's being stocked locally.

What media player are you using? Try installing VLC Media Player. It's free and will play virtually everything. It's available from https://www.videolan.org/

The picture is, I believe, of /tôm yam náam khôn/, a variant of the traditional soup, invented in the 1980s which includes evaporated milk or non-dairy creamer. (The traditional soup is clear.)

Since you mention Vejthani, I'll mention a bit about my experience there: the colonoscopy was fine, but when I was presented with the bill I had a bit of a shock: it was almost double what had been quoted for the procedure since four polyps had to be removed. Part of the cost was for the use of an additional machine for the polyp removal (which I still think is odd), and part was the ludicrous price for metal staples (can't remember the correct term) - plus the charge wasn't per staple, but you had to pay for the whole box, even if the staples weren't used. I had to deal with this whilst still extremely woozy from the anaesthetic. They did find mistakes in the bill, so it came down a bit, but I was not happy with the experience. I've never gone back.

It's highly unlikely to be Thai given the complete absence of vowels. I suspect it's a simple substitution cipher using Thai consonants to represent the Roman alphabet. Frequency analysis should be enough to get you started. I'd guess that ฎ is a vowel, probably e, given its frequency.

So, the average human body is 62,000 cm³. To achieve that concentration one would require roughly 620,000 mg of the herb - 620 g. That's a very, very big pill.

Have a look at for most of your answers.

Yes, but this isn't a tourist tax. It's a tax on all foreigners, irrespective of whether they live and work here and pay Thai taxes. It's blatantly racist (though that's hardly a first for a Thai government).

Does the UK only impose the charge upon foreigners? Pretty sure that's not the case. Thailand is vilified for its blatantly racist increase.

Why is this being called an "international tourist tax" when it will be collected "from all international visitors arriving in Thailand"? (Both quotes from original article.) The reality is that it's a tax on all foreigners coming to or returning to Thailand.

You will only be able to get this at a hospital. (It's FDA category P4 meaning that it's highly restricted being a psychotropic substance.)