David006

hmmm..chucks a question over the wall and goes quiet.

Yesterday I could not spell business but today I haz one.

No mate kudos and all that to find your dream lifestyle but as many suggest, do some homework!

Some basic stuff like target market and size, estimating fixed and variable costs vs revenue and margins . ...working or attending to your business 12 hours a day ain't no dream . Realistic not dream figures will, in all probability, give you a wake up call.

Evidence of my eyes and ears in Phuket suggests that all small time tourist service industry players are suffering.

Anyways good luck wherever you are...

To anyone stuck in a ruck, trying to force their plan to work:

“No U-turns” should stay retired with Thatcher. Sticking to a plan can be fatal, and worse, stupid. Business demands constant re-appraisal, willingness to recognize mistakes and insurmountable problems, and constant evolution that leads to success possibly in a way not originally planned. Success, however you define it personally, is more valuable and commendable than tenacity in keeping to a plan, no matter how well thought out. Unforeseen circumstances and changes in circumstances may thwart the best of plans. Flexibility has greater strength than rigidity. Constantly analyse alternatives. This effort will be rewarded.

Rgds

Khonwan

good thinking mate...most of what happened in my little life has been by default and for whatever reason has not worked out too bad.

Sad that we spend/spent so much time on sweating the small stuff..lost a lot along the way for sure ,like many, but still here and battling....

Maybe one day will get a chance to meet up with all you fellow sufferers....555.

If any of yous are down south Krabi way love to get blotto and we can cry on each others shoulders...I promise to put up the first half dozen cases of beer and maybe a bottle of indifferent scotch or two plus gratis food....lots of floor space and doonas available...PM me eh!

.take care me 'earties.....

Oh ! and the light of my life the wife IS a good cook! .....Makes the best BBQ pork ribs and sauce this side of the Mekong.

......

Cheers from an old fart...

d

I think that using non stick cookware isn't a good idea. The chemicals that leech outta them aren't very healthy. Instead use well seasoned cast iron cookware. A bit of soaking to aid in clean up and then the occasional reseasoning makes a better cooking instrument, that only adds a little iron to your food.

There's no evidence that Teflon causes any health issues at all, and when not subjected to excessive heat or conspiracy blogs, it's perfectly safe to use cooking implements coated with it.

soooo? is your wife or GF a good cook or not?....

<deleted> has Teflon or...got to do with it...

Chuck it in a pot/pan throw in whatever ,suck on some wine or beer or .....and .......that's the way to enjoy food ...eh?

Oops..... eating left over chicken curry tonight it seems...yum

The answer is a big yes..my dad in Canada mistook chillies for tomatoes....poor guy ....

.Have all but banned MSG in or house but pretty much everything else goes...prawns still give me the shits but just love Tamarind and garlic prawns..... worth the suffering.next morning.......

just did a bit of googling....seems that 33% of Atlantic salmon is farmed by Norway...so who knows what turns up in the stores.

Seems a lot of wild salmon is actually escaped ocean pen farmed salmon too!

If you read about salmon aquaculture on Wikipedia could put you off salmon methinks...555

http://www.marinehar...rmed_salmon.php

It is possible for farmed Chinook and Coho salmon to breed with their wild cousins. On the other hand Atlantic salmon the preferred species for farming in British Columbia cannot breed with Pacific salmon. Attempts to cross breed Atlantic and Pacific salmon in controlled laboratory experiments have not been successful. Additionally, there have been no observations of successful inter breeding in the wild.

Don't know why you would come to a conclusion that would put you off salmon. What would that be?

Don't get me wrong mate but lotsa people are paranoid about the source and/or treatment of their food products...me I eat most stuff.."up to you" the rest...

Come on guys ,all flippancy and jokes aside the only choice is Jim C the farmer..why:

He is a true expat

He knows his stuff and has helped many of us

If there is any cash involved he will, in all probability, give it to the local Isaan village kids.

He probably ain't no saint but he certainly is contributing to Thailand and it's people more than most of us ....???

Anyone care to reasonably contradict this reasoning? Doubt it.....

just did a bit of googling....seems that 33% of Atlantic salmon is farmed by Norway...so who knows what turns up in the stores.

Seems a lot of wild salmon is actually escaped ocean pen farmed salmon too!

If you read about salmon aquaculture on Wikipedia could put you off salmon methinks...555

Gotta have a name for this prestigious award !

Pullsits'er Prize maybe?

Excellent 555555 I had to put it up on FB very good!!!

Think I found this on TV but still my favourite

I knew a Brit guy some years back who was apparently here traveling under a false or different passport for similar reasons as OP.

One day he had disappeared ..... inquired after him ...."oh him ....he was arrested and deported yesterday"

amazing piety on here by some hugh!

Used to travel with an American engineer ....he would he would walk through customs with spiffs in his shirt pocket...always stayed a few metres behind him...lol

OP your priority is your son, get home & be the best Dad you can. You don't want to hear it but you really are a lucky guy, I respect you taking on being a single parent.

Brain dump everything else and don't let the crap get you down.

+1 Think someplace like Melbourne ( beat out Vancouver as worlds most livable city?) would be good..raised our twins there from 11+ to Uni.....sure there are problems but seems a better option for you...good luck mate.

We have three oscillating type ceiling fans supported by metal straps resting on suspended steel gyproc ceiling....very noisy due to the drum effect and a bitch to keep clean..... have one that crapped out...will seal hole in ceiling and stay with floor or maybe wall models as the others inevitably will go tits up....live and learn..

00500 prefix on 12call is cheap as chips (about 3 bt a minute to Canada) .....

Even the best of mechanical watches still won't beat a cheap quartz watch for accuracy.

Yes, and a 305-hp, 3.7-liter, $22,000 US V-6 Ford Mustang has a 0-60-mph time of 5.1 seconds while a flagship Rolls Royce Phantom is MUCH slower at 5.7 seconds! Somewhere, somehow, there is a difference in quality though. It's a matter of appreciating those things.

remove the Rolls regulator and void the warranty...lol

So what are you saying here?

The inference seems to be that every conductive household item should be bonded ..sound idea perhaps but a bit impractical tying together stainless steel sinks , pipes,taps, hobs, etc.?

With the price of electronics so low one wonders why all appliances do not have mandatory inbuilt LCBs like shower heaters....guess it will come.

Often thought there should be a market for a piggy back LCB plug adapter .maybe they are out there already someplace?

Never seen the replacement outlet versions here...would be a start?

All PE conductors to the earth bar, earth socket outlets 3 pin, HWS, Airconditioners, Hot plate units etc. Light fittings as required.

Bond the metallic water pipe if installed to the main earth bar ( only at one point, the pipe should enter the ground). Install a main earth and electrode or equivalent.

Install RCDs /RCBOs on all final subcircuits at the switchboard.

Isolated items of metal work are not required to be bonded. eg metallic taps, sinks, containers etc.

Ref. AS3000.

Not challenging anybody ( .....brought this issue up last year sometime if ya care to search?)...anyways as you mentioned all grounded items would be at the leakage potential.......be they taps or pipes.......your words not mine....yes?

Sorry DID mean RCD for our pedantic friends......let's not get into a pissing contest here!!.....I call 'em. GFIs....

So what are you saying here?

The inference seems to be that every conductive household item should be bonded ..sound idea perhaps but a bit impractical tying together stainless steel sinks , pipes,taps, hobs, etc.?

With the price of electronics so low one wonders why all appliances do not have mandatory inbuilt LCBs like shower heaters....guess it will come.

Often thought there should be a market for a piggy back LCB plug adapter .maybe they are out there already someplace?

Never seen the replacement outlet versions here...would be a start?

We are having a lot of these threads lately. It can be quite intimidating in some of these Asian to see the wealth. Perhaps get out into the countryside and make you feel better?

555 rather ironical that are lots of "Thai face " posts by farangs who then proceed to show off ( farang face?) I own , I do, I know, I am, I earn......."he who dies with the most toys wins".

Everybody everyplace likes to be perceived as having arrived and is successful, good looking, superior etc.....it is even in nature ..witness the peacock etc.

Unless you are in the work force or in a city "time" is of little relevance in Thailand....gave away all but one of my rat race accumulated watches to rellies..made 'em happy I guess.

Most of the time I never know what day it is.........if I do need to know the time ( has the fish arrived in market yet?)..surrounded by it... on phones , in the truck, on my screen.....

Whatever floats ya boat.....

Big noises outside last night...this morning found the remains of what looks like a Slow Loris being consumed by one of our puppies...sad!!

No smell of ozone??.......whats it smell like?....how often have you smelt ozone?

Ive smelt scotch time though....mmmm. Scotch time smells nice!

enjoy the scotch...lol

Sometimes you think you can smell lightning. Actually, what you smell is the ozone produced by lightning. (Ozone is three oxygen molecules - O3 - bound together. It breaks down into a molecule - O2 - plus an atom of free oxygen - O - that reacts with anything handy (including nerve endings in your nose.)

The electrical current and intense temperatures produced by a lightning stroke create a mini-chemical factory where ordinary oxygen (O2) and nitrogen (N2) molecules are chopped into atoms and then into ions.

Most of these atoms reform as ordinary oxygen and nitrogen, but a significant number form nitrous oxide compounds (NO, NO2, and NOx). In the 1983 Global Troposphere Experiment, aircraft sampled the air inside two cumulonimbus clouds and found that the levels of NO had risen 50-fold, from 20 to 1000 parts per trillion.

If this proves to be true of all thunderclouds, then lightning - especially cloud-to-cloud flashes closer to the stratosphere - could be a significant producer of chemicals that deplete the Earth's protective ozone layer.

bet ya wish ya never asked...

Me reading book ..wife watching TV....

.CRAAAAAAK big FLASH sort of inside house....and ..BANG ..TV still works no smell of ozone..nadda

Wife cuddles..etc "very scare" !!

<deleted>....minute later......BANG Flash anudda one maybe 100 metres off in farm..still no smell of ozone no hair up zip..strange...must be all those candles she lights and food and baht she gives to the monks.

Same thing happened when on computer alone in the house a month or so back..... ..big flash and bang behind me...checked all electrics etc...nothing..real strange.

Checked all electrics..no GFIs kicked zip....velly strange..lol

Scotch time...lol

Agree with JT not sure that the jews actually have state..looks like some god and his chosen has last word.??

]http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2011/09/201192614417586774.html

IA....exactly what I do with the trolley style...I also sewed in a piece of fishing net to stop stuff falling through ,I chuck in a tarp for small stuff or use buckets.

I have seen pretty good, well constructed wheel barrows ( as good as any Bunnings unit) in our local m and p hardware and noodle shop but decided that my back is better off with the trolley ....much more flexible too.

If ya buy one from a place that makes them I would think that you could ask 'em to weld in some L shaped tangs or somesuch to take drop in boards?

Good idea to dissemble and grease the axles and.that adjustable support leg ...mine rusted up and took half a day and six beers to fix..keep meaning to give it a coat of rust paint too...Better to mix cement in the baby bath thing as near as poss to place of use?