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Actually, quite correct.

10 months Doctors cleared me for everything. I have been swimming all my life, not competitive, but for fun. I have never felt exhausted from swimming. That's why I feel it's just splashing about. There is a Japanese guy at our condo who seems to do HIIT swimming. He looks very fit. I will try to copy him.

Can you still get his name? Thx

You missed his first thread where he explicitly stated this?

KK looks terrible, the ugliest place i know in Thailand. People however are great. Thats why I have spent there maybe more time than anywhere else in Thailand. One big advantage of KK is their well functioning network of public transport, even with a map. But, someone who finds Central great, obviously has a different world view from mine, and certainly won't find said map. PS just discovered another poster wrote similar things, should have read the whole thread before writing

Had a fracture of a knee a while ago, so now i cannot jog (walking is ok), doctor advises against cycling (i thought that's good for the knees, but when i try it hurts). Physical therapist recommended swimming, but how can splashing around in the water make me break a sweat? I have been swimming all my life, but never got exhausted like i get from interval training. I heard about Nordic walking (never understood what that is), but we are not in Scandinavia here... Any ideas?

Kwonitoy and Dr Tom probably pay PEA/MEA rate. You pay 8B, which is almost double. This is legal, very normal (one poster pays 7B, he is a lucky guy) and probably also reasonable (the reasons why this is reasonable are explained by some posters in another thread about this subject). The consumption is all from the a/c. And these look terribly old to me. Crossy will know better. 7 years ago I rented a place with big antique a/c like this. 45 sqm, 6000 B for electricity. A friend of mine has about 60sqm, old a/c. MEA rate. Easily runs up 4000 or 5000B. Ask some lo-so Thais, factory workers or prostitutes, the kind of people who live in 1-room apartments, about electricity bills. You will hear many horror stories. Old a/c, 8B: electric is often higher then rent. You are probably not taken advantage of. If you want it cheaper rent a condo where you pay MEA rate. BTW living in a hiso area but complaining about electricity?

I have done this before, and a friend of mine about 2 years ago. No problems, no stamp, no fine.

Per capita income in these statistics has nothing to do with real living standards. For many years, Singapore had a per capita incomes much higher than rich Western European countries. But if you really went to Singapore, it was very obvious not a rich country. Bad people said this was all black money from Indonesia, but who would believe such a thing? Ireland has recently been another example. Very high in the statistics of per capita income. But in reality it's not one of the richest country of Western Europe. The reason here is transfer pricing and other financial shenanigans of multinationals, who for tax reasons want to have their profits counted in Ireland (remember Apple?). Of course, hardly any Irish has seen any of this money. Its not generated in Ireland and not spent in Ireland - and only this is real living standard.

Bangkok Hospital used to send their cases there. They now have their own psychiatric ward, but it is more geared towards foreigners.

Yes. But real tourists don't want to see the real Thailand. They want to see a tourist attraction.

Actually, recently a study was published saying that Vit D isn't good for anything. Something many people suspected all along. NYT reported about 4 weeks ago, sorry, i don't have time to search. Supposedly the first really good study. The NYT also explained how Vit D is big business (selling, testing).

Are you being sarcastic or optimistic?

Dentists often give prophylactic antibiotics, not only in Thailand. Whether this is always necessary is sometimes debatable. After pulling 4 wisdom teeth it doesn't sound unreasonable. BTW the existence of a "course " of antibiotics that has to be finished is a myth. Different situations require different duration of antibiotic treatment

That's what she says, and what she told the police. Kind of similar to OP's story, isn't it? Many Thai women know that they can file a police report and claim all kinds of things about their ex. How many do this actually? Do police take them serious? No idea.

Sure, if you don't talk you don't know. From the people i know, i sometimes get the feeling those who still haven't had Covid are becoming a minority. In reality, it's maybe 50-50. Which is, incidentally, the result of this poll. (I am just kidding. We all know covid doesn't exist :))

Manarom Same order of magnitude as Bumrungrad, like Sheryl said.

No, Thai doesn't have tenses. I tried to explain that. What you write is Thai, forced into the corset of Latin grammar. Ja and kamlang are useful to make things clear, but they are not necessary. In English you MUST say "Yesterday i WENT out with friends", otherwise its incorrect. In Thai this is not necessary. Meuawan pai tiao kap peuan is fine. Dai and laew are often interpreted as past tense by English speakers. But they're not, see this example. BTW try to leave away pronouns as often as possible (it's very often possible). If you coughing and sneezing and say "mai sabai", you don't have to say it's you who is sick. And if you ask your girlfriend "mai sabai mai?" it is understood you ask about her. Never use "pom" with your girlfriend, anyway, that's rude (pom expresses distance)

Some quotes from Google: I am looking, but I cannot see When you can’t see things around you clearly, .... "You looking at me but I'm looking through you. I see the blood in ... " Verb compound action + success: mong + hen Another one you here often is fang mai luleuang "(I/you/he) don't understand (what was said)" = hear (the sound) but doesn't (succeed and) know Ha mai jeu "cannot find" = search and don't encounter

Experience, on various occasions. Also, he is recommended by other Thai pulmonologists, good ones.

Wrong question. Thai verbs don't have a system of tenses, like indoeuropean languages have. You don't have to change the verb "eat" to something like "ate" just because it happened in the past. (You don't have to change it either just because something will happen in the future - so, no, "will eat" is not necessarily ja gin, it's just gin). Of course, Thais will still express when something happened. There is a difference between "I am sick" and "I was sick". The easiest way is to tell the time, usually with an adverb: Today I am sick - Yesterday I was sick. Wanni mai sabai - Meuwan mai sabai. Note, that only the adverb changed, there is nothing like the change from "am" to "was". (Pronouns are usually omitted, no need to say "I")

Try Dr Yongyudh https://www.bumrungrad.com/en/doctors/Yongyudh-Ploysongsang

Thx for the compliment. Unfortunately, in many occasions Americans could tell after just one sentence I was a foreigner. ???? But this is really only one personal experience. As to Thailand, I didn't say they like it. I said they care. And both your experience and OP show this. Some posters think, Thais don't care what foreigners think or say. That's not true. They care. If their views are the same as yours, they are especially happy, because you as an outsider confirmed their views. If not, they are especially angry, that's what you experienced. Having said all this, I certainly wouldn't have done what the German guy did.

BTW ftp's post shows clearly that Thais care a lot about foreigners' opinions. The reactions to this German guy show this too. In places that are not completely globalized (like Pattaya, NYC, Singapore) people care about the opinion of outsiders. I once was interviewed by the Philadelphia Inquirer about some very minor local stuff. There were plenty of Americans they could have interviewed, but they printed the comments of me and of my Korean girlfriend.

No one suggested anything like that. I was treated on the merits of our case, by the fellow protesters, by the police (I learned the word "state troopers"), by the people supporting the government policy.