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Hummin

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  1. He is the one who talk pure clear logic these days, and some would say the evil of logic! Back in the time it was fully accepted and logic to stone people out of numerous reasons, and burn witches. How far have we really come in the sense of being matures intelligent human beings? There is multiple forces pulling in all directions, and going against it, cost, just ask Petersen about that! Well, back to my own delightful reality in Isaan. Life is great, and beautiful. Have a good day
  2. Hummin posted a topic in International Food
    Need a new Moka Pot and want good quality for good value! I have no idea of good brand for good price in Thailand, but I know where I come from this is high end for a real good one. https://s.lazada.co.th/s.kyrNC
  3. Sin sod is ment to be the pay for the party, food, drinks, dresses, music, dancers and other costs involved, and the envelope money from the guests is for the couple. And from there, there is a variety of customs giving the left overs back to the couple, keeping it for safety, donation to temple for good luck, and more. Others often make foreigner pay sin sod, party, and everything else that could come to mind, but that's a scam.
  4. In our area we cant get workers now for less than 500 a day included lunch. Last project we did with fencing, 3 people 2 not even full days work 4000,- baht without lunch and energy drinks. Electricians charge way more of course, and local skilled labor workers starts at 600 if lucky to find anyone available or who are skilled at all. Larger projects is priced by unit, not by days. How is the infrastructure in Vietnam? I'm quite impressed how progressive the government have been to build massive Infrastructure from north to south, east and west and it continues as we speak non stop.
  5. Again, I guess there is a difference from a girl who worked in the "turist industry" meeting foreigners, and a young daughter with Uni education with no previous history. Meaning not married, no kids, and no other known luggage from past. I would personal never married a Hi so out of many reasons, but that's not the point here. The point is, sin sod or dowry as it is called, is a cultural phenomen in Thailand, so, either you accept it or not! Simple as that I guess wedding is off for now when this reached the social media and world news, and can hope for next generation it will create an healthy debate about sin sod, and why it should end. For many young thais it is a disaster unfortunate, and also for couples from mixed cultures obviously.
  6. Another one Tim Sharky https://youtu.be/pBUj-wT7CkE?si=gEnyP0ifQoZ4x15m
  7. The police tried to confiscate his gold and plant drugs in his apartment? Tim Sharky https://youtu.be/it2PYzDGQNs?si=IHK_-4Bm59i7uen6
  8. Harman Kardon Onyx studio 7 now to 5650,- baht! Good enough for outdoor space? Go a Harman Kardon Go Play 2 which I'm very happy with, but rigiginal batteri is dead, and the replacement doesn't last very long. https://s.lazada.co.th/s.kCCl7
  9. It wasnt to brag I posted obviously ???? I do not wear any jewelry since 2003. No rings, nothing. I do not like to wear, and my type of sports and also work made it risky to wear anything at all. My watch is a collectors item, and can if sold, live well for a year in Thailand.
  10. I wear no watch or any jewelry at all. Got one valuable watch in safe with my one baht gold chain. Never used since 2003 when bought in Dubai. I never needed any bling bling ???? Media did a great job for me to reach attraction
  11. Yesterday had a great Leg day in afternoon, long nice recovey in the bathtub. Now Chest day, triceps, and shoulders before heading to immigration to pick up my visa. 88,4 kg this morning, slow and steady, little bit down and up. 6,4kg to go and reckon with my diet and training, another 7 - 9 weeks.
  12. you can boy for x days, you can sign up for a year, and pay by month by month, and cancel anytime you want. Safety wing is one of the better, and then you have true traveller another one,
  13. Yeah, and see what happens? I invest in my life, and still a little high rent concerning my investment so far. 2000 a day for everything so far. Car, motorbikes, houses, 12 rai, animals, vegetable, fruits, fish And the good thing for every day I stay, it is getting cheaper rent, and at the end, if we still together, the land will be worth more than the investment all together. So please laugh all you can ???? I'm laughing with you ???? Remember everything is not just black and white, I'm having a great life and a great life with my wife, included her family.
  14. Most people have their heads up where sun never shines, so do not expect to many understand what you think are right or wrong! First of all, I did not marry a Uni girl, and one of The first thing I did with her mom, was to ask her, what she or the family expected from me, and that was to take good care of her daughter, 100k in show money, 3 but gold, and a piece of land 36k. We have not done the Thai traditional wedding yet, but will do next year. She already got two bath gold and land and house, and to be true, there will not be any show money either! Communication is the key
  15. Stir-fried beef curry paste with fresh picked bamboo shoots
  16. If the parents pay for the wedding and the gold, it is not that much. Ordinary village girls with university who marry Thai boys, pay now around 500 000 in sin sod. Many do not marry before they have kids, and saving together to make the marriage. It is a highly alive tradition among thais many places, and not just foreigner and Thai thing
  17. Choose your drugs with care! Ketamine I think will be my drug, but in 20 years or more, I might have changed my mind. One thing, I will not be drinking alcohol anymore, or at least not more than a few bottles of wine a month, like now. https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2019/06/25/what-is-the-most-dangerous-drug
  18. What a beautiful morning ???? 6,6 km hill walk on my treadmill easy in 65min. Stretching and a great breakfast as usually. Today I have legs, and it is going to be a blast doing Squats again. Nothing is more stimulating than Leg days. Love it
  19. My longest passion lasted for more than 20 years, and was the most complex drug I ever had to play with, and the hardest to stop completely. Base jumping was my goal since a kid, and after 20 years active in the sport/activity and even longer the passion for it, it took good two years to get it completely out of my system. Exercises is also both a passion and necessity that I haven't practiced for all my years, but I started with organized training since 6 years old, and now still a passion and a necessity to keep my body healthy and to avoid pain from a long life being active doing something that had a tear on my body. Love is another passion I had for Women since very young, food, nature, later wine and music. Depression can kill passion, where nothing look right, nothing taste good, nothing smells good, and you can see beauty, but you do not feel the beauty, you understand it intellectually but cant find the emotions for it, and therefor, how you think about things, makes the whole difference. How you exercise your body to stay fit and healthy, the sameyou have to exercise your brain to maintain the beauty and positivity around you, which fuels you with energy to manage to cultivate a passion. I cultivate myself, my needs and my wife, and try to find the balance between the healthy cultivation and the stupid unhealthy cultivation between us. Everything needs to be in balance ????
  20. Cultivate what is good for you, is always good, and smiling is one of the best practices that can be done. Well, everything have its time, going around as an lunatic smiling everywhere to everyone can be unhealthy for your social life, if practiced to much ???? Still everyone can do simple exercises that can form your brain from being negative loaded to more positive I know it works, a living proof Many good articles out there about brain plasticity, and how to rewire your brain. You cultivate negativity, you become negative, you cultivate positivity, you become positive. Together with physical exercises, it can do magic for the most stubborn negative black soul, if he want to change, and that's the key. You must want a change, to manage to change. ttps://psychcentral.com/health/rewiring-your-brain-for-positivity-with-gratitude More about https://www.google.com/search?q=brains+plasticity&oq=brains+plastici&aqs=chrome.1.69i57j0i512j0i22i30l13.8212j0j4&client=ms-android-samsung-ss&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8
  21. Are you sure your wife have done the name change already? The Ampur doesn't do them frequently, and it can be years between every time they do for every sale been done. PBT 5 Land is just a paper, that proves the holder have the right to it.
  22. All depending on location, and how its been used and cultivated. Fruit trees etc. Many villages is built on PBT 5 Land only.

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