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I know, and you know, and everybody else knows And still they don't dare to name the place

Yes, definitely. Last year, I thought I might need a MRI of the shoulder. Went to Bumrungrad, a 2-minutes consultation with the orthopedic doctor was enough. 1500 B Shoulder is fine

Has the calculation of 7 days changed?

Even in a fire they don't dare to name the place, very impressed indeed. I understand, lives of customers are worth much less than the profit of this family.

Our BigC sells 10 for 499 baht, that would save you some money I will measure them but they look ok

Did they offer you some loin cloth for the lower half?

The "genes" are a lame excuse for doing nothing. Or taking pills, good for the pharmaceutical industry. Hard physical work is not always the same as healthy exercise (which is bringing your heart rate up a lot, but has time of rest, too). But the main problem for Westerners doing physical work in the last 50 years or so is the terrible diet, beer and sausages come to mind. And overeating. Easy to see that many of them are fat - even they always worked hard. Fat tissue has only a few narrow arteries, the heart has to press the blood through there very forcefully, so fat tissue helps to get high blood pressure. Most Westerners forgot completely how a healthy (not fat) human does look like (look at Obama). People hate changing their diet, it's up to them. Like a smoker is free to cut 10 or 20 years from his life. People find all kinds of excuses not to change anything - genes are the best one. If you want to read up on nutrition google "mediterranean diet", "Japanese food", "ultraprocessed food" and follow the poster @BigStar. All this is not the Gospel, but a good start. There are many other reasons for high blood pressure (a modern one is PM 2.5 - unfortunately it's not hocus pocus), and maybe Obama has high blood pressure (I don't know), but these are the most important ones, and the ones I myself can change. I don't give a $hit about my genes, I cannot change them anyway. I am interested in the things I can do.

I have seen on the website of at least one consulate that they wanted in writing you are allowed to work remotely. Logic would dictate that, but bureaucrats usually don't follow logic. Of course, many HR would never say this in writing. Which, BTW, might hurt you in the end. WFH from your apartment 25km from your office, in the same jurisdiction (state and country) is not the same as working from a third world BRICS country. Labour laws? Data protection? Social security, health insurance, accident insurance, unemployment benefits? Taxes? HR doesn't want to deal with the Thai DTA (and maybe 25 others) - and in case of conflict they will just pretend you were never allowed to work from Thailand. A girl from SF, working from home during the pandemic, moved to her bf in Vancouver. Her employer told her to come back to the US or terminate the employment.

Good point. So if you apply as a digital nomad, make sure portfolio/ employment contract are recent. Not a good idea to just go to Vientiane for 3 days. Fly home, stay there 3 months, find work as dignom, come back with DTV - that would be plausible.

That's to fight the brain drain. Only smart Thais returning get the tax break. Fortunately, they didn't realize that the same effect could be had by kicking out the farang.

My next post will have a footnote for Kannika: ประชด

But your heart and arteries are not. Before trying amlodipine (starting with a low dose) 2 life style modifications should be tried: Exercise. Go to a gym, 3 times a week for an hour, get really exhausted. The other days, move: swim, walk, dance. Elevators and escalators are poison. Doing this for 3-6 months, you will be surprised that your heart rate has gone down (a sign of increased fitness), blood pressure has gone down (but probably not so much as your heart rate) and you feel more energetic. Diet. The less you eat, the lower your blood pressure. Fasting lowers the blood pressure very quickly, but, of course, this is not a solution. You have to find a middle way.

You are absolutely correct. It can replace many "human endeavours" because these "endeavours" are just "sweet nothing in a way that seems intelligent on the surface". For example, all of marketing. Lots of resumes and business presentations. The whole "en$hitification" of the internet. This is what ChatGPT has copied, no wonder it sounds like an MBA.

Exactly.

For heavens sake, I know later foreigners could get them, too. And some places always vaccinated foreigners. I even know a rich farang who used his connections to get one of the first (free) vaccines, reserved for the slum dwellers of Khlong Toey Doesn't change anything.

You remember (covid) vaccines for Thais only? I can't think of anything much more disgusting than this. Thais found it obvious and quite ok. It told people a lot about Thais. But those who live here don't want to acknowledge how hostile their environment is. BTW quite a few farang have gotten those 190k

This may be the case in Scotland (I am not from Liverpool, so how would I know) It is not like that in all countries (the US extradited Ghosn's liberators to Japan, Thailand not long ago extradited a Thai to the US for a traffic accident, Germany's second biggest party plans to deport millions of Germans they don't like)

Good reason not to use them. I need a dentist, not a dazzler

And that's still way down, that was what I was trying to tell you

You do realize that many people fly home quite often, e.g. during the rainy season? I, for example, bought a little general purpose tanker from a buddy in O&G, 70,000 barrels, that should be enought to fuel my 70s gas guzzler for the next winter.

Have a good PT evaluate your gait/walking technique and your shoes. Also, learn some back strengthening exercises and stretching exercises, e.g on YT "Brad and Bob", better off course if you find a PT or trainer to teach you

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/30/business/japan-thailand-cars.html https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/30/business/chinese-electric-vehicles-thailand.html

It's true that tourist numbers are not much less than 2019. But receipts from tourism are a lot less than 2019 (I am not going do dig for the statistics, but it was in the magnitude of 30%). So one could say individual spending is lower.

I don't want to discourage you. But if you would have been able to change your "eating habits" you wouldn't have needed Ozempic in the first place. Hopefully, you are an exception to the rule.

Yes. But in your private metal box you will be stuck for hours, no end in sight. In BTS, at least you know how long it's going to last.