BangkokBaksida

To Thai women, it's not the length that matters. It's how much you pay them.

I worked in Ho Chi Minh City from 2015 to the end of 2021, at which time I fled the country to avoid getting vaccinated. During my time in Vietnam, I visited Dalat a dozen times, Nha Trang four or five times, and Danang three times. They are all highly livable places. Should the world ever normalize again, I would consider retiring in Vietnam, basing myself in the lovely beach city of Nha Trang, but then spending the three or four months of the year when Dalat's weather is at its best in that city. (November through February). The rest of the year in Dalat is quite rainy. It's just a relatively short/cheap bus ride from Nha Trang to Dalat - about four hours or so - so it's not necessary to fly. Danang is also a wonderful city - a good sized city right on the sea, so you have the beach life there, along with all of the amenities of city life. And the cost of living there is quite low. The airport is right in the city and you can fly to pretty much everywhere in Vietnam (and a few destinations abroad) directly from there. Finally, the Vietnamese are quite welcoming towards Westerners, which can even be seen in the word they call us: "Om tay" - which means "Mr. Westerner". It has a totally different feel to it from "farang".

I had a similar problem with my old HP ZBook laptop, which I had bought second-hand in Vietnam a few years ago when I was living there: It suddenly started getting VERY hot. I first took it to a repair shop at Seacon Square, and they replaced some little foam pads inside of it - for 800 baht. I'm pretty sure I paid the special farang price for that. Unfortunately that didn't help much at all. Then I bought an aluminum rack (originally meant to be a dish drying rack - from HomePro - which happened to be the perfect size) to elevate the laptop from my table, and that seems to have solved the problem. The battery also just died, so I will follow the recommendations here - and try to find a replacement battery at Fortune Town. Or maybe I'll just use it without a battery, as I only ever use that one at home. Finally, my seven-year-old work laptop recently started acting up on me, so I bought a lovely Fujitsu laptop that weighs well under a kilo. I had seen it at the Emporium for around 50,000 baht, and it was love at first sight. (It is made in Japan, and I trust Japanese quality. And it's just so unbelievably light - about half the weight of most laptops.) The deal was sealed when I found it on Lazada for just under 40,000 baht during their recent anniversary sale, and I couldn't be more pleased with it: https://www.lazada.co.th/products/i3273787395-s12164887105.html

So you think it's better form to suggest that this young man died from drug use, on the basis that "stars are well known for drug abuse"? Talk about grasping for straws. And you accuse me of spouting incoherent nonsense? Ha.

This is PRECISELY the right time to ask this question. And I think we all know why a man of that young age would die so suddenly and unexpectedly. But many of us don't want to admit the obvious - because we're in the same boat.