UbonEagle

She’s a stunner ???? if Vietnam won’t help I’ll grant her a visa to our spare pool room immediately lol

In suberban Ubon the local temple had a decent pack but during Covid numbers seem to have diminished noticeably…tough times and hungry mouths ? ????

anyway now as I walk my pack of 5 mongrels morning and arvo, they enjoy their little running battles with about 20 odd mutts spread across a few streets…but no street dogs all belong to a house even if most free range out on the street if they want

Some leb wannabe socialite / Insta influencer flying cattle class Jetstar ???? keeping trying knobhead

and the previous posts comment about Bankstown being “interesting” well if that includes drive by shootings and leb bikie turf wars I think you’ve pretty well nailed it ????

 No issue with it, compared to Indonesia 50USD it is very affordable, and given the hospital bills run up by uninsured travelers I kinda get it.

only tightarses like the Indians will be moaning about it ????

Been back in Ubon for 2wks and have been frequent torrential storms 

Getting up towards 300mm in total during that time 

Strongest wet season for some time here and an early kickoff too going since May as opposed to normally well into July

Yes, Covid was/is real, the early incarnations  particularly, but almost every person I know young old underlying etc all likened omicron to at worst a very bad dose of flu.

and were all the restrictions and controls, (particularly freedom of movement for people to return to their own country) imposed legitimate ?? I would say no but hindsight is a wonderful thing.

I doubt anything was done maliciously but modern day risk control (ass covering) and media hysteria were my 2 biggest gripes. 

Lol absolute hell raisers getting to 90km/hr on those little pea shooters grow up kids and get a real bike 

Another Leb bikie who thought he was smarter than the law lol enjoy the next 20yrs.

Was reported on Oz news tonight he knocked some other oz biker gangster  over there and was convicted of murder, but 2yr later miraculously downgraded to assault lol some cops in receipt of a serious brown paper bag there.

story rings a bell now

Like tropposurfer I’ve spent a lot of time in the saltwater and yes it takes a lot of experience to be completely comfortable in the ocean

still surf but these days when I beach swim I always wear some swim fins it’s good insurance 

Ha how ironic beamed live to china with its internet policing…more like to some private live steam to some CCP party pervs to get their jollies 

Like many other posters reflected it started early here in the Far East, Ubon with almost daily arvo storms thru April and May when it’s normally blistering hot.

has settled into more normal pattern now still pretty warm ~33 daily and humid with solid storms every few days and off in the distance when it doesnt

Couple of things.

Firstly, airport staffing eg immigration has nothing to do with the huge THAI check in issues last week, that is a matter solely for THAI airways and given their financial woes frankly I’m not surprised.

I flew in from Sydney on Saturday, landed at 16:30 zero queues and actually beat the luggage to the baggage claim and was upstairs checking into my 6pm domestic flight with time to spare. The queue up at Thai Smile was fairly long but thank god for the THAI gold card I was done in a few minutes.

so overall a very good experience, the immigration booth setup is new and if well staffed things should be ok going forward, also downstairs in domestic departures a significant facelift with even a nice little bar set up ????

probably said already but you dont go anywhere near Kalasin if driving BKK-UBP direct....

Thanks Sheryl and Lorry for your intel.

And yes i agree good therapy/exercise along with looking after yourself (sleep,food etc) goes a long way to managing these things, however with a few years more offshore work/travel than ain't always possible.

And given its been getting slowly worse for 10+yrs i'm not too optimistic of it fixing itself.

Hoping a treatment like this can at least be a circuit breaker, not expecting a silver bullet cure.

Cheers

Doug

Hi,

Been suffering upper back + sciatic pain for nearly 20yrs, not debilitating but annoying for sport especially.

Now over 50 it's becoming a bit more persistent unless I manage very carefully. Obviously thai massage is great and helps but still come/go OS for work so not always available.

Had CT/mri few yrs back showed issues at C4/5 likely impinging on nerve.

Has anyone had the epidural injections to neck ?  if so how did you find it and looking for doctor recommendations likely in BKK and rough cost ?

Cheers 

Doug

Wont happen, hopeless as they are they see they are being left behind by other countries now

Watched some mullet grab rider just blatantly gun across lanes during u turn today, honestly 1 slip of clutch or motor stall and he'd be a pile of ashes in an urn. Agree lots of distracted lunatics in cars and trucks, but honestly watching some of these bike riders just makes me cringe

Pretty obvious the good doctor is recycling last years data from Delta etc, pretty clear already that omicron will be very unlikely to have long term health effects as typically not lung related

Are you talking about stopping off in SIN or just transit ? if transit only i dont think it has any effect on TP conditions.

BTW you will require a negative PCR within 72hr before transiting thru SIN also.

KhunLA you present some very confusing arguments.

Is your advocating of tight border restrictions (useless as already proven, thailand's biggest outbreak triggered by illegal border crossings, mostly thais ) driven by your concern for the thai public ? yet you boast about travelling the country unvaccinated ? 

Clearly unlike many here you have no desire (or means) to leave and re-enter the country, otherwise you wouldn't be sprouting such rubbish.

Re-apply - paying particular attention to doc upload types ie JPEG and not using hotmail.

Things like hotel receipts suggest not scanning/saving but just download the receipt on your computer (usually PDF) and convert to required JPEG etc.

Also sounds like vax cert with QR code is a must, took me a while to figure out how to get that QR alone into the next box down but ended up doing screenshot on phone and attaching.

Honestly how dumb are these goons....impossible to police and will be ignored en masse

Only opportunity it will create is for a bit more graft for the BIB

1 month to ponder - reading between the lines that sounds like they know its away and trying to stop will be like ####ing in the wind 

so perhaps they are slowly coming to their senses on this

Feel for ya, the system is pretty low grade.

I did mine 2 days ago, got approved QR back in <12hrs, i paid particular attention to type of attachments ie jpeg and used my gmail and spent a lot of time working out how to get a snip of my vax cert QR into correct box...fortunately have some young tech whiz with me on nightshift lol.

BTW that was for 1wk hotel ASQ in Bangkok, getting the pre-flight PCR for transit thru Singapore will be my last hurdle to jump.