tutsiwarrior

Bernardo Bertolucci died recently and I've been watching some of his stuff that I have in my collection, Last Tango and Il Conformista...just downloaded 1900 (1976) that I hadn't seen before with De Niro, Burt Lancaster and Gerard Depardieu...funny how all these films are so unalike each other (except for the cinematography by Vittorio Storaro) when most great directors have a recognizable signature...

worth having a look...

is Hua Hin in immigration district 3? I was told last year at my district 3 IO in Suphanburi that the affidavit signature for marriage extensions required MFA signature verification but not for retirement...has anyone from Ayutthaya or Suphanburi had to mess with this foolishness recently for a retirement extension application?

lotsa bad news about Hua Hin IO recently...

Criterion has just released a compendium of Ingmar Bergman films in commemoration of his 100th birthday and I thought to have a look at the copy of Wild strawberries that I have on my external hard disk...the coffin scene has haunted me for many years and I am now approaching the same age as the professor in the film...images of hearses on dusty streets in Bolivia in the bright cloudless andean sunlight with a gaggle of grieving campesinos straggling behind...

but that was a few days ago and I've been too drunk to watch it...

cristo redentor (christ the redeemer) is the famous statue that sits above Rio de Janeiro...good music on acid...

12 hours ago, elviajero said:

The 3 month seasoning rule applies to combining income and cash in the bank too.

I'm doing the combo income/bank deposit method next month and thought about doing it early, extension expiry date 20 Dec and maybe go in for the new application 10 Dec and the seasoning date is 19 Sept...am I likely to get rejected?

I'll be switching from a marriage to a retirement extension, any reports of any problems under the new regime using the combo method? there shouldn't be under the last police order which is still effective...

1 hour ago, bannork said:

I would guess this is one of tutsi's favourites regarding Bonnie, though old Zimmerman wrote the tune.

No doubt it's played loudly on his headphones as he saunters into the grocery shop and makes eyes at the slinkiest piece of tail behind the counter.

 

nah, no headphones as I like hearing the little gasps when I complement them on their anatomy and make lewd suggestions about how I'd like to take my investigations further...

tutsi's imagination runs wild...the chinese shop mistress turns her lovely white face up to me and sez  'you old pervert, you know that if I wasn't happily married to the owner of this shop with two lovely children that you could easily have your way with me...'

now ol' Bonnie is a California gal and always leads her own band and she'd simply smash her strat over me heid (ouch) and have done with it...

and for my sins my love was taken from me...

I'm a big fan of Bonnie and Emmylou...

gai/kai, cooked chicken breast omelette with the usual household sauces and spices...but difficult to describe...

gai/kai burrito with available flat bread...squawk, squat and then roll it all up and eat it...

'would you like naam prik, senor?...'

2 hours ago, mogandave said:

I like miso soup when I’m out of water to drink...

hey...'you don't miss yer water until yer miso soup runs dry...' fergit the cornflakes fer breakfast and have some miso soup with yer morning coffee instead...it gives you a whole new way of looking at the day...

45 minutes ago, wayned said:

Where is the miso paste located in your Makro?  I've looked in the one in Nakhon Sawan but have not found it.  If it's there and was a snake it would probably have bitten me before I saw it.

look in the refrigerated cabinet that's got the cold soft noodles and the thai 'sausage'...it is very easy to miss and the last time I was dismayed as I thought that makro had 'discontinued' the miso...I had approached a staff person and asked in my broken thai and they weren't no help...and then I met up with the step daughter and she noticed my distress and I told her about the missing miso...she then marched up to the makro staff guy and demanded to know where the miso was and I was then immediately directed to the location, right at the end of the cabinet...if it woulda been a snake it woulda bit me as I looked there twice...it's in a clear plastic bag, light brown in color with japanese characters...

the marinated tofu noodle stir fry with eggplant and cabbage turned out OK...had some and went to bed with plenty of leftovers in the fridge...tasted OK cold just pickin' at it outta the storage container...and then this morning I heated up water in the kettle for my daily dose of miso soup (1 kilo bags of miso paste at makro) and remembered the leftover noodle and veg stir fry...hauled it outta the fridge and added a hefty dollop to the dissolved miso paste and covered with more hot water...very nice...

gotta remember the miso when ye go to makro, goes well with just about everything but most times I just have it alone...makes my alcohol tortured insides all lovely jubbly...

the step daughter looks over my shoulder and sez 'looks like aahaan jipun...' 'yeah, it's called miso and is very nice, have some...' and then she crinkles her nose so as to say 'if falangs eat it then it must not be suitable for thais...'

and I know that she likes my pizza and ribs but won't admit it...little wastrel...

51 minutes ago, Michaelaway said:

sure, the result might taste like shit but yew were gonna toss the stuff out anyway... classic.

 

Julia was my heroine...her cooking show on TV was a weekly event at my house 30 years ago...

'and here we have a nice looking whole chicken...but it needs further preparation, so what are we gonna do?' and then she picks up a cleaver and shouts 'WHAM' on impact...fantastic and she was also from my home town Pasadena, California...

cleanin' out the fridge and found some firm, unpackaged tofu from the talaat, baby chinese cabbage and the usual local eggplant/aubergine and the tofu was about to go off, the stuff only lasts about 2 days when you buy it, good and fresh with no preservatives...

rinsed off the tofu and then whipped up a tofu marinade

https://simpleveganblog.com/easy-marinated-tofu/

and bunged it in the fridge for use later...

now gettin' ready to stir fry the marinated tofu in onion, garlic and fresh ginger then add the chopped eggplant until it wilts a bit...meanwhile cook a package of egg noodles drain and rinse...

now we know that with stir fried noodle dishes you need a noodle sauce which in this case will be substituted by the tofu marinade...after the eggplant wilts a bit add the cooked noodles and the chopped cabbage and then add the reserved tofu marinade and toss a bit...steam until the cabbage has slightly wilted...no need to add anything extra as the marinade which is a mixture of the usual household cooking sauces and spices has already got all that you need...

nice to have all the usual cooking sauces on hand; oyster sauce, soy sauce, fish sauce, rice vinegar, various oils including sesame oil, mirin, etc...then when you clean out the fridge you got everything to hand, only limited by yer imagination...

sure, the result might taste like shit but yew were gonna toss the stuff out anyway...

tutsi, youse bettah watch out or soon you be slippin' into darkness...

2 hours ago, RuamRudy said:

Blur - Tender

 

 

this is considerable as the ensemble are not 'performing'...the video reveals that they are consumed by the music which is basically a chant...and when viewing you begin to chant as well...

I was never into Blur or Damon Albarn as I associated them with Oasis and 'brit pop' that had no merit at all except for some slick pop videos...

a very nice tune...and with the choir a very definite american inflexion...sorta like at the end they hadta unwind themselves from the groove...

14 hours ago, Slaps said:

 

 

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Alive

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sounds like they brought Phil Spector outta retirement with some new material...with nice lyrics and a great voice...

3 hours ago, bannork said:

Saturday night's looming. Time to crank up.

 

'toss that bottle of vodka over here and turn it up'...150kph in the Isuzu crew cab 'say man, that was some nice shit that you scored tonight...'

and that stinkin' Big Joke thinks that he's gonna mess wid us...

rock on...

I returned the document to the SSA in Wilkes - Barre registered mail from Thailand on 04 July and then got a second notice dated 04 Oct from the SSA...I returned the second notice EMS and tracked it and then saved a screen shot of the EMS tracking record in the event of any more SSA BS...

and yeah...the charge for sending a one page document EMS from Thailand to Wilkes - Barre is ridiculous...the SSA and Thailand Post EMS puttin' on the squeeze from both directions...'you better get that document to us tout suite as we demand or we're gonna cut off yer money, goddamit...'

that pisses me off...why can't they at least be more polite? they sound like school yard bullies waitin' to kick my ass after school...

there is someone that knows about Paradise and being hurled therefrom with a present conflagration or a previous one...

“Him the Almighty Power 
Hurled headlong flaming from the ethereal sky, 
With hideous ruin and combustion, down 
To bottomless perdition ; there to dwell 
In adamantine chains and penal fire, 
Who durst defy the Omnipotent to arms.”

join tutsi down below in adamantine chains and penal fire, omnipotence never impressed me none...there is a daily poetry recitation on Radio 3, I believe before the news summary in the morning...

a class mate who I admired had caught wind of tutsi's latest scandal in Cochabamba in 1967 and turned her huge gorgeous eyes on me and cleared her throat...'tutsi, please answer one thing for me truthfully...do you believe in God? (crees en Dios?)' when all I wanted to do was to discuss Victor Hugo with her as she was reading Les Miserables at the time...

she could've been a presenter on Radio 3...

whoooah Nellie! the present location of the Thai Embassy is far away from the place that I went to in 2010 to seek assistance in getting a thai police report for purposes of obtaining a temp VN resident permit...the old place was in the diplomatic area not far from Uncle Ho's mausoleum...

from the map it should be easy to find, near the Hanoi Towers which is a big landmark (big high rise) on Ha Bai Trung, just around the corner and down the street...the infamous Hanoi Hilton prison (now a museum) is close by as well...if yer staying in the old town it's a pleasant stroll on leafy streets...good european eats and outdoor cafes on Ha Bai Trung...I stayed at the Melia Hanoi just down the street during TET in 2011, 4 star and not cheap but luxurious accommodation (oh, the beds and the bed linen) with a fantastic breakfast buffet...

btw some years later I was with a girlfriend (I'm sure that I've mentioned this before on this thread) and I had just put on Beethoven's 'Missa Solemnis' and we soon found ourselves copulating in my bedroom closet on top of some boots after having started in civilized fashion on the sofa in the living room where the stereo was...

so that with regard to the bolivian episode and Beatles/Frank Sinatra we can say that sexual passion is in direct proportion to various musical crescendoes...or inversely with dope and dancing and sexual ritualism...young people are foolish but they are simply confused and need to maintain 'face' with regard to their peers...my bolivian girlfriend simply extended her arm and said 'come with me...'

'Kyrie!...'

44 minutes ago, bannork said:

How could you jig a jig jig to 'Strangers in the Night' compared to 'Dr Robert' from 'Revolver'?

No wonder you were permanently damaged.

How's it going with the Vietnamese wife of the local grocery shop owner. Are you still fluttering eyelids across the counter as she slides another packet of cigarettes over?

 

b.b.but Dr Robert from Revolver was one of the songs she complained about...well, it was her bedroom and her record player so I didn't have much choice...she lived in a 150 y.o house just off the Prado in Cochabamba with her 3 brothers (all 10 years older than me, she was the baby sister and they were extremely protective) and her mother and there was ornamental iron latticework preventing escape from the windows...'I know this sounds stupid but what if one of yer brothers comes home and finds us?' 'leave the worryin' to me tuts and take yer pants off...' she was a modern girl...

the corner shop wife is chinese and apparently she's exhibited too much enthusiasm in reply to my compliments and is now distant which is a drag...her engaging smile and cute butt in tight jeans was reason enough to visit the shop even if I didn't need vodka and ciggies...a young shop girl glowers and sez 'and what's wrong with me tutsi?' 'there ain't nothin' wrong wid you sweetheart but yer boss lady's backside has got just a little bit more contour, ye know what I mean?'