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One of the common things to do is to use conditioner instead of shampoo to wash your hair, as often as needed, even daily. This doesn't strip the oils from the hair like shampoo does, but it still cleans off things like smoke, smog, and dirt. This is particularly effective with curly hair, which is always in need of more conditioning. Fine hair, and wavy hair can use a weekly wash with real shampoo in addition to the daily wash with conditioner. I did this for months, and it works very well. The part I didn't like was the need to rinse my hair with water every day to get it to curl properly. It was LONG, and took the better part of the day to dry.

Having lived in the Philippines for 4 years, and in Thailand for 3, I think the OP is deluded if he believes that living in Thailand is going to be different from living in the Philippines. I would suggest he consider Malaysia instead.

I also want to warn the OP that the dependent extension of stay for his wife based on his retirement extension of stay is an iffy thing. Shortly before I got mine it wasn't being issued at all, and a return to that policy is always possible. Immigration law in Thailand is whatever the local immigration officers say it is.

But why all this talk of flights to KL to get visas? We entered on tourist visas, and made a quick and inexpensive border run to Laos for our non-immigrant O visas.

To run OS 9 you need an older Mac with a PowerPC processor. To run the current version of OS X, Snow Leopard, you need a newer Mac with an Intel processor.

The good news is that Snow Leopard will run something called Rosetta, which is an OS9 emulator, allowing PowerPC applications to run on an Intel Mac with OS X installed. So go ahead and buy the shiny new Mac. When you need that database, you will be able to access it. Just remember that emulation does slow down the app, but today's Macs are so fast it hardly matters. My husband plays an ancient game, Maelstrom, on his new Mac Pro. The first time he tried to run it he got a message telling him it was an OS9 game, and would he like to install Rosetta to run it? He clicked okay and has been playing happily since.

So no need to get fancy with dual operating systems. It will Just Work.

Oh, man, the artichoke flavor ruled! Sorry to see it go.

Now that we are back in the US we can't get Nana pasta sauce. Sweetie tried some Prego and Muir Glen organic, but after the Nana sauce both were unacceptable. He's decided his only option is to make his own spaghetti sauce. His experiments will begin soon.

The secret to a happy relationshi lies in just 2 words

" YES DEAR "

You are so right, H2oDunc! Mr Sabai needs to learn that phrase soon!

Does the sink have a U-trap, Sheryl? That's the place in the drain line where it goes down, and then back up about 4 inches, forming a U. Water remains in the U at all times, blocking the smelly gases from the septic tank from coming out the drain entry. My "Western" kitchen in Thailand lacked this small bit of plumbing genius, and my sink was eternally stinky. It shouldn't be too hard to create one out of that flexible plastic hose used so often in plumbing here.

I actually did the math on a Barbie doll when I was a kid, because she looked so absurd to me. If you assume she is 5'6" tall, she measures 40-22-34. Yes, sbk, they have changed the Barbie doll's figure to something a bit less mind-boggling. It's a good thing. The bad part is the clothes you had for your Barbie doll won't fit your daughter's Barbie doll.

ChefHeat... I'm stealing your pie crust recipe for my pasties!

On a side note.. Have you seen rutabaga for sale in Thailand or know the Thai word for them? I make Cornish pasties that were perfected by Finnish Miners in Upper Michigan and the recipe calls for them.

Are you willing to post your recipe? A good pastie recipe is hard to find, and the recipe from the copper country is the one I want. One that's nice and moist and doesn't need any gravy.

I just went down to the local Amway distribution center and signed up to be an IBO. My sponsor is some Thai lady who happened to be there at the time. I just wanted to be able to buy the product at reasonable cost. It cost something like 100 baht to sign up. Amway has a Thai website you could visit if you can read Thai, and I do believe you can even sign up there.

I wish the full line of products was available here, but it's not. I really wanted some of their liquid scouring powder goop for my bathroom.

Oh, yum. Those look delicious!!!!! I'm glad it turned out well for you, and I'm sure you'll be doing it again soon.

And if you can't find stevia you can get sucralose, AKA Splenda in the US. It's what I use in my morning coffee. It's made by Fitne, comes in little packets in a small green box. Read it to make sure it's sucralose and not saccharine, it says in English on the front of the box.

I have been suprised I live on a jungled mountain so no near bakeries, I brought a breadmaker from Uk and all the necessitties but somehow it will not make good bread here with local or imported ingredients anyone any ideas

It may help to add both gluten and dough conditioner to your breadmaker bread. What kind of bread are you trying to make? White? Whole wheat? Rye? It makes a difference.

The real truth, though, is that bread machines always result in a loaf inferior to hand made bread. Bread is NOT HARD to make by hand. Try my single-loaf recipe:

1/2 cup milk

1/2 cup hot water plus 1/8 cup (or 2 Tablespoons) hot water

2 tablespoons oil

2 tablespoons sugar

3/4 teaspoon salt

1 tablespoon yeast

3 cups flour

1. Put everything but the flour into a very large bowl, stir it well, and let it sit for a few minutes. You should see the yeast growing.

2. Add the flour, one cup at a time, mixing very thoroughly after each addition.

3. Turn out the ball of dough onto a well-floured surface and knead for about 10 minutes, or until the loaf fights back when you try to fold it. You will probably need to sprinkle more flour over it to make it less sticky as you knead. To knead, squash the ball, pushing it away a little bit, then fold it in half toward you. Squash it again, then turn it 1/4 rotation, or 90 degrees, And repeat. And repeat. And repeat.

4. Wash and dry that big bowl quickly. Grease it with oil, and put the ball of dough back into it. Turn the ball of dough over so both sides are greased. Put a slightly damp clean dishtowel over the pan. Let it rise about an hour, or until doubled in bulk.

5. Butter a loaf pan very generously. Punch down the dough in the bowl. Turn the dough out onto a clean surface and continue to squash it, attempting to get all air bubbles in it squashed. Shape it into a rectangle as wide as your loaf pan and 1 1/2 times as long. Roll it up toward you, sealing each rotation to the dough below/in front of it. Put your hands on the top edges of the dough, and pull the top down over the sides to make a smooth edge on each end. Put the dough into the loaf pan.

6. Preheat the oven to about 175˚C or 350˚F. Cover the loaf pan with the damp dishtowel and let the bread rise in the loaf pan for about 30 minutes, or until nicely above the top of the pan.

7. Bake for about 40 minutes. It will sound hollow when tapped on the bottom if it is done. Place it on a rack to cool, and if you like a soft crust brush butter on the crust.

You don't look Thai. Korea?

Definitely not Korean. Cheekbones not prominent enough, face too classically oval where the Korean face is has more width compared to length. Perhaps Chinese Thai?

Is the hypertension med "Azor" (amlodipine and olmesartan in combo) available in Thailand?

I don't know if a combination is available, but you can get the olmesartan medoxomil for sure. It's called Olmetec here. I expect the amlopidine to be available, as it's a fairly standard med and not as new as olmesartan.

Extradition is needed to transfer an alleged criminal between the jurisdictions of two different law enforcement agencies. Thailand to Australia, or California to Kentucky, for example. But the FBI can move somebody in their custody between states without extradition. Doesn't Interpol have international jurisdiction, just as the FBI has national jurisdiction in the US? If there were Interpol warrants, then they could indeed have simply apprehended him and bundled him off to face trial in Sri Lanka. He will be charged and all that once there.

One more point: with bread, the more you play with the dough the better it gets. With piecrust, the less handling the better. Handling it too much makes tough piecrust. Roll it out just once, and work with it even if it's all lopsided.

Ah, so now it's the transfats, not the aflatoxin, as the reason to avoid eating peanut butter? I think you lost the original argument, and are now grasping at straws for reasons to support not eating peanut butter.

All of our a/c units (not underpowered for the rooms) also work as dehumidifiers by merely changing the mode to the droplet of water. A/c units do dehumidify some on the a/c setting, but when the issue is more humidity than temperature, say on a muggy but not too warm evening, the a/c kicks off before the room is comfortably dry. That's when the dehumidify setting does the trick.

There is so little soybean oil it isn't really even listed as an ingredient, but simply says "may contain soybean oil" for those who may be allergic to soy. It also doesn't say hydrogenated soybean oil, which means that it isn't hydrogenated. I've been eating unrefrigerated peanut butter for almost 55 years now. Given the usual 20-year delay in cancer development, I'd have had it by now if peanut butter was carcinogenic. You can believe the sky is falling, but please don't try to convince other people.

Central department store in pattaya sells it. I got some products there. It is quite expensive though compared to US prices. I love clinique products!

I've switched to Oriental Princess while I am here; I cannot believe the price difference between Clinique here and in the US. The special gift with travel size products and the small bag is free with a $30 purchase in the US, not the $100+ purchase required here.

Yes if you want to sell to Falang I would drop the name "Nana" as it has a connotation of a certain plaza. I used to work in advertising so if you need help with a name drop me a pm. Good luck.

Why do you assume the connotation is bad? It's certainly not likely to offend a great many male expats, and might even be considered a positive connotation. It certainly doesn't bother me; the Nana hotel is our first choice when we visit BKK.

Certainly depends on the peanut butter. If it remains true to the idea of 'peanut butter' - real peanut butter - peanuts and salt....most definitely is perishable. As most of the populations that take a invented product considered to be peanut butter - based on emulsifiers, synthetic and toxic agents, artificial colouring, and all those good things that modern developed cultures consume - has a room temperature shelf-life of a hundred years, because there is nothing real to go off.

Okay, from the ingredients on the Skippy jar in my unrefrigerated cabinet: Peanuts, sugar, salt, soybean oil. Just which one of these substances do you object to? Peanut butter is one of the few mass market convenience foods that doesn't have a lot of additives. You don't have to refrigerate peanuts, sugar, salt, or oil; why would you need to refrigerate a combination of those? Also note that the label on the jar does not say it needs to be refrigerated. Products requiring refrigeration are labelled as such, perhaps in small letters someplace, but it's on there.

That's not a medical website. This is: National Institute of Health

So that you don't have to click and read, it says that peanuts and peanut butter are safe. It mentions the extra testing done regularly on peanuts and peanut butter to ensure that any contamination with aflatoxin is minimal. It can't be eliminated because it is naturally occurring on the peanuts, as well as on walnuts, pecans, corn, and wheat. You gonna stop eating those as well because they too will have some negligible level of contamination?

Peanut butter should be refrigerated after opening. It produces some kind of cancer causing chemical otherwise.

Please specify just how unrefrigerated peanut butter can generate a carcinogen from the ingredients present, and provide a link to a reputable medical site stating so.

Peanut better is peanuts, oil, salt, and sometimes a bit of sugar. I've never put it in the refrigerator in my life, nor did my mother or grandmother. It doesn't spoil as far as I have ever noticed. "Natural" peanut butters are sometimes better kept in the refrigerator because the oil rises and separates out if you don't stir it very thoroughly every day. Then they are impossible to spread without tearing up the bread, though.

I think its more a combination of juices from the ingredients mixing together to form a toxin...when the breakdown temperature is reached.

Tell me, do bacteria play any role in this disease theory of yours?