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went to KSK a few weeks ago - nothing in sneaks, they had 1 pair hickers in size 13 , we all had a good laugh at how narow it was

Just to double check - was this at the sports section of Central Department Store, or was it Sports World, the shop/store on the third floor? Sports World has a larger selection.

If you were happy with Kitcha, why not continue going there? At first happy with the low prices, me and the wife had less than impressive results from Kitcha, the fillings we had done there cracked and started to leak, and my wife had to redo hers at Ram where she has dental insurance, and I redid mine at Grace. Not pleasant, as they had to go quite deep.

Grace, to me, is a mixed bag. While the dentists I have seemed very professional and the overall service is efficient and pleasant, I do think that they charge extra for the 'experience' as well. I am also wondering a bit about their diagnosis telling me I should have all 4 wisdom teeth removed... that was 2 years ago now, I opted not to have them removed, and have not had any problems whatsoever since. It's possible I'm just postponing the inevitable, though.

Still, Kitcha didn't do it for us as explained. So I am also on the lookout for an affordable but reliable place. If I don't find one, I guess I'll keep going to Grace.

Would be a very big mistake to do something that makes you want to vomit for any reason.

What happens after the child is born and becomes the center of your wife's world? Did you take up with her for yourself, or so that she can have a child at your expense?

No brainer to me. Don't, or you'll be thinking "why did I do that stupid thing" when it's too late. Can't sell a child if you don't like the result.

Also, there is more risk to have a genetic defect if a parent is old.

Unlike in the country you left behind, there really are "plenty of fish in the sea" in Thailand if she won't accept your wishes.

"Also, there is more risk to have a genetic defect if a parent is old."

I'm not sure, but I thought that the age of the Mother increased the risk, not the Father

When it comes to the risk of bipolar disorder and schizophrenia, the father's age is a factor:

http://news.bbc.co.u...lth/7591513.stm

http://news.bbc.co.u...lth/1273505.stm

So, where do you go to learn how to generate idiomatic Thai?

Idiomatic language is learned by listening and reading, and then parroting, the structures you get from native speakers. It can not be learned through the application of grammatical rules. You listen and copy, and use trial and error, gradually arriving at something that increasingly starts to resemble idiomatic Thai.

This is how we learn our mother tongue, too. Typical one-, two- or three-year-olds have little conscious idea about grammar, but parrot what they hear and adjust for feedback until they arrive at something that is a comprehensible version of their mother tongue. Through this process, general grammatical rules are (sub-consciously, for most people) extracted.

Interesting stuff. This is the sort of explanation that you don't get from any Thai language book that I've looked at. Thanks to all.

BTW, my wife is an attorney. I'm encouraging her to write with precision. That may explain why she spelled out โทรศัพท์, but it doesn't explain why she left out all those pronouns. In reality, I think she was just giving me some reading practice. So far, it's been a good lesson.

Yes, she was giving you reading practice - also, to use as many pronouns as in English creates a somewhat unnatural or 'super-explicit' feel, as if you're talking to a kid or really want to emphasize your relation with the other person - here, she's not writing a legal document, she's just asking an everyday question.

The elliptical way of writing is more idiomatic; I am guessing your wife simply wanted to let you know how Thais would normally communicate this sort of thing rather than give you a sentence tailored for 'farang understanding'.

Mole is 100% on point - it should definitely be an understood 'you' pronoun after the second 'hai', and not a 'me'.

It's an antihistamine = Not so easy to put simply... Histamine performs many different functions in the body, mainly to do with the immune response and allergies, but regulates or affects many other functions, too. Histamine is excreted continuously when we are awake; in fact, it is a regulator of wakefulness (which is why suppressing histamines causes drowsiness), smooth muscle, sugar synthesis in the brain, learning, memory, curiosity, circadian rhythm. A whole mixed bag of functions, in other words. You'll need to do some of your own studying if you want to understand histamine and antagonism of histamine better.

and calcium channel blocker = 'a channel' in this case is a protein located in a cell membrane. Channels in the cell membrane are shaped to only let through certain ions, in this case calcium ions. When the channel is blocked, ions are not allowed through. The effect of calcium channel blockers is to relax smooth muscle, causing vasodilation (enlargement of blood vessels), which means the heart has to work less to pump blood through the body due to the reduced pressure, so the end result is increased circulation of blood and less load on the heart.

reduces the uptake of serotonin and dopamine serotonin and dopamine are neurotransmitters, i.e. substances involved in the communication between nerve cells. Popularly, serotonin is associated with happiness/well-being (but reality is significantly more complex than that), and dopamine with motor function and motivation/the reward system/risk taking.

I don't know if this answers your actual question though. To simplify why I said I would be careful with Stugeron: the substance just seems to affect too many systems at once. Maybe it actually was a good solution for your particular condition though. I just don't think it sounds like a good solution for insomnia in general.

Almost none of the shops who sell fish oil seem to keep it cold? Don't any of you wonder or worry about that?

Rancid fish oil is quite detrimental to your health, and it is fairly common with bottles of rancid fish oil on the shelves (based on a large Norwegian study). Transport and storage through the tropics would seem to me to be a bad idea.

My doctor did recommend a drug STUGEROM for another illness but i found this one knocked me out for a long sleep very quick and have some CRAZY dreams...which i never do.

And strange because normally sleeping pills dont work so good for me.

You can buy over the counter, but because the old chinese guy put them in a plastic bag i am still not really sure what i did get or what its supposed to be for...amazing Thailand

The active substance in Stugeron is called Cinnarizine, it's an antihistamine and calcium channel blocker. It is mainly used to treat nausea. It also reduces the uptake of serotonin and dopamine. Sounds like something you would not want to take unless absolutely necessary, especially if you have had symptoms of depression or reduced motor function.

Seeing a doctor is the best idea so far.

Otherwise, for sleep issues I'd recommend physical exercise early in the day (but not in the evening) as a first resort. Depending on what type of sleep issues, I'd also look into relaxation practices of some sort (meditation, yoga, qi gong etc.). Milk and bananas are mildly sedative, too.

Melatonin works, it's what the body produces naturally to set your circadian rhythm to rest mode, but when taking it as a supplement, you want to experiment with dosage. If you take too much, you'll wake up still feeling drowsy and disoriented, also, some people get extremely vivid dreams on melatonin - this may or may not be pleasant depending on the nature of the dreams. One whole pill is not necessarily the best amount.

I have just been stopped on my bike (at a road block in town)....the reason being I turned left on a red light!? Anyone had that excuse before? Given a ticket and he kept my licence, so no way out of the fine.

Got a ticket for not having my turn signal on while turning left (on a red light) the other day. Cop didn't say anything about turning on the red light; only not having the lights on. Happend while turning left on to Thapae from Chang Klan. The cop said there was a sign posted. I've never seen it before. Yup, took my license too. Doesn't say how much the ticket is but I never pay more than 100 THB for any ticket.

Turning left onto Thapae from Changklan Rd you say. It would seem that prior to your turn, you were also braving the wrong direction on a one way street... Are you sure you have your streets sorted out?

Is the problem because the picture of Buddha was on a toilet or is it because they used it at all ?.I don't see what the difference is between this and tourists buying little Buddha statues or pictures in downtown Bangkok and bringing them home to decorate whatever room they wish with them.My mother has two praying Buddhas on her mantelpiece.Is that wrong ?

The difference is that while decorating with Buddha images is not appreciated by most Buddhists either, at least it is not associated with bodily excrement.

In the first case, you reduce what is intended as an object to help contemplation and practice of the dharma to a lifestyle or home decoration object, i.e. in a sense taking away its intended purpose.

In the second case, to many people, associating something that they see as sacred with bodily excrement, is akin to making it, or associating it with, the ugly and profane. I.e. a sort of insult.

I don't necessarily agree myself; like others have suggested, my perception is that the Buddha placed no importance at all on symbols since what he taught is related to going beyond cultural and personal conditioning and beyond the world of form to see ultimate reality, but I still understand their sentiment and would not deliberately offend them.

That being said, I think in apologizing unreservedly and removing the cubicles, the company did what they could to fix their mistake, and that should be the end of the matter.

Go through the names in the transgender person protest group and see if somebody is a shareholder in Index Living Mall.

(9) Male: รับน่ะ Answer it, ok. (presumably talking about a phone call)

(10) Male: แปป Hang on a sec.

(11) Male: ทำไมไม่รับล่ะ Why aren't you picking up?

(12) Female: viber เดะจ๊ะ Is it a Viber call (Viber is a smartphone app for IP telephony).

(13) Male: เออ Yes.

(14) Female: line รับไม่ได้ I can't take calls in LINE (another smartphone app)

(15) Female: ตกลงจะโทมาบ่อ Are you going to call then?

(16) Female: ข่อยจาได้รอ Then I'll wait.

(17) Male: ไว้วันหลังน่ะครับ ที่รัก We'll do it another day - ok, darling?

(18) Female: บาย Bye.

(19) Male: อย่างอลสิ Don't sulk.

(20) Female: ป่าว ทำไรก็ไปทำเหอะ I'm not. Do whatever you need to do.

(21) Male: ครับ Ok.

Maximum Sound on Chang Khlan Road (located across the road from the entrance to soi Chiang Mai Land) does not specialize in keyboards, but they can order specific products for you. I have used them several times to buy microphones and guitar effect pedals, and a friend of mine is a regular customer of theirs; he buys electronic drum modules and other percussion related products from them.

Their service is way above average, and from our experience, their pricing tends to be very competitive, too.

Random ones, I admit I could put more effort into it, but it's not a priority. Once of those things. However I did once go to a temple in Korat which is famous for being a place to send the alcoholic father in law etc, which have controversial but highly effective techniques which include making their guests vomit regularly.. the "abbot" there is well known, I forget the name (am useless with names) and I had a conversation with him.

But I think, if one has to go and find one out and go to such lengths to research their specialisation or reputation then one is no longer talking about monks, but rather academics.

I was asking because my experience of just chatting with random monks have also tended to be much like any random encounter, pleasant chats, but nothing that blew my mind in any way. After somebody pointed it out to me (and I hate the fact that I needed it to be pointed out), it became obvious that the robes don't really reveal anything about a person's skills or insights, that on some subtler level I think I assumed they would.

When discussing insight meditation practice with a monk who is respected as a master of insight meditation, I received quite a few valuable pointers, but we did not have a long discussion as the line outside his 'office' was exceedingly long. And our conversation only concerned dhamma practice and nothing else.

Sabaijai, and anyone else, who has met and discussed something with an "insightful" monk, would you please mind sharing what was discussed and why you enjoyed it?

I am genuinely interested. Its the kind of experience I would like to have myself but have repeatedly failed. Perhaps it is me!

What monks have you chatted with? Did you first try to find somebody who is known or respected for a particular reason and then tried to chat about their area of expertise, or did you just try a few random ones?

China's highest-grossing domestic film ever is about Thailand. More specifically, Chiang Mai. Discuss.

http://movieline.com/2013/01/03/lost-in-thailand-review-variety/

To be honest:

Is there any non-Thai writer who has written about Thailand or has been based in Thailand in the past 20 years that is actually worth reading? That is, except for the 'Hey, he's been at Soi Cowboy and somebody taught him 3 words of Thai and now he presents them in his book in a cringeworthy transcription as if they were some sort of esoteric knowledge' factor?

Here's the topics for expressing what you're grateful for in your life. I've found it good practice for me, maybe you will find it so, too. No other restrictions on the topic, jokes are cool.

Today I'm grateful for these things:

- Having done 9 hours of driving in heavy traffic without experiencing a single accident

- My family being in good health and putting up with my quirks

- Getting an invitation to a birthday party by a friend next week

- Being in Thailand instead of in a cold hell-hole somewhere in the Northern Hemisphere

- The exceptional sunset Chiang Mai had today

- Having a job

- The kick-arse Korean dinner I just ingested

and you?

Hopefully the current haze means that the burning has started unusually early, and therefore it might stop earlier than usual, too... rains would be very welcome.

Thanks Crossy. I tried that at first but it didn't seem to work, for some reason I am not sure of.

However, I've got a working setup now, and it's much faster than before. Turns out that the problem was the ASUS was set to Static IP connections only, and the phone I tried to connect from was trying to get DHCP.

Once I changed the setting on the phone to Static IPs, it is now working! So I'm a happy camper.

First, please bear with me, as my understanding of networking is spotty and limited.

I have a 3mbps ADSL connection (Hinet) from CAT. It comes with a Zyxel router/modem, which is capable enough. But it has no wireless functionality.

So, a couple of years ago, to get wireless access for smartphones at home, I connected my D-Link wireless router/modem to the Zyxel router/modem. This setup worked. But the wireless signal is not very strong, and the speed was very low when I applied wireless security. It seems that the security was too taxing for the router to handle, but I don't want to run a network without it. I made do, as I wasn't completely dependent on the strength or speed of wireless.

But now I have a live-in guest and the situation is a bit different. So I went ahead and bought an ASUS RT-N66U wireless router, since it has generally received very good reviews on international sites.

And I'm trying to set it up. But not having much luck, so far. The setup guide wants me to let the new ASUS router handle the routing, and also the WAN connection. But will CAT be happy with that, i.e. does anyone know whether they will accept a new MAC address and router that distributes the connection to other devices?

I was thinking they might make a fuss about it. Maybe I'm wrong.

Anyway, to avoid any such problems I thought I'd use the same type of setup as I had with the D-Link, where the Zyxel still handles the WAN side, and the ASUS would only serve the local wireless network. My thinking is, the ASUS should have much more processing power to handle it, and it ought to be faster than the D-Link.

But it doesn't seem to be working. The ASUS seems to assign IPs in a different subnet (169.254.X.X) than the main one (192.168.1.X), and I cannot find a page to specify the subnet for DHCP allocation in the ASUS router settings.

Any ideas?

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One of the reasons Thailand was so attractive to me was the food, both how good it tasted and was for me, but I'd like to add that one of the most popular, the balls in noodles soup, be they be pork, fish etc., are binded with borax which is quite dangerous to eat.

how are the younger siblings of ta (maternal grandfather) and ya (paternal grandmother) addressed?

This may well not be valid for people in other parts of Thailand, and you may already have an answer to this one, but I'm throwing it in all the same: In our mueang family, both older and younger siblings of my son's maternal grandmother refer to themselves as and are referred to as 'ta [nickname]' and 'yaay [nickname]'.