Adumbration

I am very sorry for your loss. Do you have anyone to talk with? That is important right now. If not PM me and I will let you have my number if you want to chat.

This article is absolute trash. Says he is in Brisbane but then refers to the laws in Victoria not Queensland. An he is viet. Who would of thought austalasian babies where in such hot demand in Oz.

No. Put in other terms, you are asking if your wife can steal her sister's land. Your wife might have a vague case based on unjust enrichment if she has solid proof of paying for the land. But the legal costs would outweigh the price of the land.

Dying is rarely easy.

Simon. My deepest sympathies for your loss. Is that the lass that had HIV?

You are overestimating how much money you need. As I have already posted I bought the house I am currently in for 270K THB (all up the deal was the vendor paid all transfer costs and taxes). It is a nice little split level rendered brick place in a lovely flower lined dead end street with no through traffic. MY neighbors are all edlerly and lovely. No young twits on noisy motorbikes. I have to date spent about 50-60K more on renovation and extension but just on materials. All of the work myself and my GF have done, including hand mixing over 6 cubic meters of concrete. I am just starting on a new double carport at the front of the property. With the recent price increases in gal steel I am looking at around 20-25K to complete that including concreting and blocking in and rendering the side walls. My electricity bill is between 500 and 700baht every month. My water bill is between 60-80 baht each month. I have a true 6mps unlimited 12 month sim card that cost me 1120 baht. I have a FCD account with Krungsri with a sum that more than covers the 800KTHB requirement for my annual NON-o retirement extension. I am five minutes from a beautiful beach. I am three minutes from an estuary river where my boats are moored and I drive out the mouth of the river into the sea. Great fishing here...this season I caught coral trout, grouper, queenfish, barracuda, spanish mackeral, and lots of other premium table fish that I only know the Thai name for like Pla Tamad, Pla Seeum, Pla mare, etc. My friend here in the village has a shellfish farm. I buy green lipped mussles of him for 40 baht a kilo. My GF also has two farms about 5 KM from our house. I dug a bore on one and we have great water. We have planted out lots of fruit and vegies there. (Went there today on the way back from the fresh market and some <deleted> had stolen all of my ripe mullberries..) If you have 100K aud that is more than enough to recreate my lifestyle. The key however is that I speak fluent Thai. I used to be a big deal. I have three degrees and I am a qualified tradesman as well. I once worked for the then Prime Minister's family and I have completed projects for some of the largest companies in the world. But that was another life...and one I am grateful to be rid off. Now I have a new and very little life, but it brings me a great deal of joy.

Or paddle out on your surf board in a 7 meter Indonesian swell. That is my plan.

What brings you joy. Focus on that. I spend my life in, on, or under the ocean. I surf, I dive, I spearfish, I hang out with fishermen. I eat food I catch or grow myself. I live in a house that I paid 270K thai baht for. I used to have three houses in Phuket, four motorbikes and two cars. Sold all of that. To much time and effort wasted on things that don't matter. I am I currently renovating my house, have added a new five star bathroom and a second bathroom outback. I have also made a covered roof garden at the rear of the house. Does working on my house bring me joy. No not a lot...but it brings my long time GF a lot of joy and that is why I do it. I have just bougt a new fishing boat and am currently designing and building my own hookah compressor. Today I fed a sea eagle a fish by hand and bought some huge ocean king prawns straight from the boat of one of my village friends for 250 a kilo. Tonight I had roast chicken with potato, pumpkin, sweet potatoe and home made gravy. I had dragon fruit and roasted peanuts for dessert. Life is what you make it. As I have posted on other threads my monthly budget is about 5K THB. Focus on the things that bring you joy. And edit from your life everything that does not.

I don't drink. And never speak to expats in a bar.

Hmm looks like I was right. Elon downramping and now that the double bottom is in he is going to clean up.

I have been here a very long time. Back when they started tightening up all the tourist visas, there were lots of comments like those from @Jingthing and @ThailandRyan. People were saying things like they will never do it because look at all the visa run businesses and businesses at the border crossing that will go bust overnight. Guess what, they did it anyway. If you want to post a throw away comment that it will never happen, please take care to explain to me why it won't.

Yeah how the <deleted> do they monitor volumne. The BSDs would be trading anonymously. Do all crypto exchanges have to declare their volumnes?

Your thoughts please.

I hold a polar opposite view to you. Crypto as an alternative asset class is here to stay. Because of the low barriers to entry there is a lot of noise in the space. A major correction like this is very healthy because it is sorting the wheat from the chaff. I started this thread because I am very interested in where the bottom is...because I will be buying lots of chaff. The same is happening in other sectors of the equity market right now as well. Speccy lithium and rare earth miners are getting hammered along with speccy tech and biotech.

This is a very important point. I have traded Thai derivative warrants on the SET now for 15 years. I have no faith whatsoever in the integrity of the reporting of the underlying equities. Corruption is absolutely pervasive and there are few, if any, repurcussions for liars. Crypto is a new asset class. It has it own specific risks but also unique opportunities. People that invest in crypto using the same mindset as equities...or any other asset class for that matter will fail.

I grew up dirt poor in a housing commission suburb. My mother died of cancer when I was 15 and just prior to that my father ran off with the next door neighbor's wife (the <deleted> just died in March). I started my consultancy with nothing more than a second hand laptop and and nokia phone bought on lay away. I could not even afford business cards when I kicked off. I retired at 45.

I use shopee and lazada a lot also. I only ever use the websites. I refuse to download their apps. Most of the free shipping offers are only available to buying via the app. It is a sneaky ploy to get punters to download the app and open themselve up to spam.

You really do not want to go down that rabbit hole with me.

Why are you trying to sell me BHP. Or are you biased because you hold it. Yes BHP is different from IVZ. By the way, back in the real world I had a consultancy and the last project I completed before retiring was for BHP.

Anyway. You are the guy in the hole, not the one standing next to it.

I have never worked for a fund, bank or the like. But I did have my own investment company in Australia for over 30 years. I traded actively. I recall my highest turnover for one year was circa 16.2 million. I am currently entirely in cash including my super. I plan to move heavily into the crytpo space. And this is a significant opportunity. I am interested in where the bottom lies, as a fundie you will know that that is a nebulous question at best, but it is a topic worth debating. I think a question that needs to also be raised is what percentage of this current correction in crypto is panic selling and what percentage is paid downramping in the attempt to create more significant opportunities for the manipulators. Is that cynical enough for you?

Clearly you have had little to do with mining exploration.

No the timing (early Saturday morning) was not desperation, it was planned. They hoped to catch the market sleeping when they offloaded the huge volumes that smashed the 20K resistance level. And yes I agree with you it was orchestrated and did not happen by chance. We should also not overlook the fact that it might also be paid downrampers in the house.

Why? I worked in mining most of my life as well. By the way. The definition holds equally true for tech companies.

Bitcoin is an asset class. Equities are another. You clearly have no idea about either.