Reginald Prewster

May 2024 the last visit because I lost the taste of beer and spirits (including 30 Kg Bodyweight 😃). In July this year I went 40 Kilometer to a German Restaurant in Kranuan with a cold beer in my mind, as I arrived and saw the beer bottles on the table I was off it. My pub visits in Thailand It was a bit like same people and same flat stories all along. Let me call them Expat gossip (not ment to be offending) I love to have random sudden topics, as once a whole group of farangs started over hours a conversation about fishing hooks and bait riggings. I mean like the day, when just the right crowd pops up in the same place, which is actually most of the time missing in the expat pubs all over Thailand. This strange (but benefilcial) loss of interest started as we moved 2020 to Isaan where we bought 21 rai rice fields and converted them into a permaculture farm. Wifey and I are simply too happy now to leave this place more than really neccessary. In Pattaya I was out once a week and while working abroad I sure made it twice or triple a week, maybe it's all said and drunk....

I checked (manually not visually) the condition of a pile of empty stingless Bee hives and got stung in the fingertip. The pain is far worse than stepping on a Lego brick. First 5 hrs searing pain like you dipped your finger tip in molten plastic and you feel that you want to cool it with water just to repeat the pain level at start. After 5-6 hrs it changes to: Knock youself with a hammer on the finger and the next morning try to bend or squeeze your finger but be aware that the resulting sensation goes continously for another 15 to 20 hrs. The stingless bee hive or never judge a book by its cover..

Nice healthy plant. No space for it? Thailand got international approval for export baobab fruits and products and the import value was 157 M USD last year. Beside I have 50 on my farm I found after 3 years a bag with 50 seeds in an old outside cupboard which the termites ground to flour. 50 potted 47 came up. The seeds are as tough as the trees themselfes. Our oldest tree is 5 years and yesterday we spotted it's developing 3 flowers. Very fast grower as well.. Wifey hugging her favorite Baobab which was to that time 3 1/2 years old, meanwhile the trunk is 30% thicker.

Good ones in and bad ones out, making no difference between outlaw gangs and misbehaving individual foreiners, truly a good job done here. I wish Europe would be going straight forward like this..

After decades tax free income I have now to pay tax in Taiwan and there is no comearound. The Thai tax office couldn't help me as I thought I will gladly pay the Thai tax rather than the Taiwanese. Money gets sent from Scotland (recruiter) to Thailand but still I am considered a residential Tax payer in Taiwan. In my case Thai Tax could have saved me 14%...

Vetiver grass to stabilize the soil and as ground cover and erosion control we use around our lake Arachis Pintoi (Pinto Peanut) which starts slow but once established it make up to 2 sqm in 6 month. Tolerates about anything inclusive heavy grasing, draught, flood, sun and shade. Here one plant 5 month old on a south side hill in full sun. Seeds are expensive and not easy to germinate but once you have a plant its easy to propagate by 2" to 4" cuttings. As said as more you cut as better it spreads. Got lovely little yellow flowers and is a nitrogen fixer...

I came 2002 and chose Pattaya because it was easy for me to reach my jobs around the world within 36 hrs. Cool is also that you get a lot of things like Cheese, Hams, Western Food (Name it you get it)... Regarding good European Restaurants you could be sure that some of the owners worked that extra bit on quality to stand the hard competition. As Freelancer a certain industry grew in Asia and I was right in the proximity, got great Contracts using Pattaya. Mostly paying 3000 - 15000 Baht I could invite and fly in the HR Manager or Boss for the job inteview and drag him into a Pardise (All Asians love Walking Street) You pickle them in Beer and Booze and spend a coin (around 30000 incl Barfine and Girl or two) where you could show you are "expensive" Every contract was signed the next morning without hesitation. On the other hand I met my wife there running a Pa Tong Ko chart in Soi Nern Plub Wan. She was a farmer's daughter and I came from Coutryside Germany and I stayed in Pattaya Darkside never went to the redlight area without my customers or friends visiting me from Europe My wife and I knew one day we will turn our back to Pattaya and return back to our roots. Now living in Isaan I must admit that Pattaya was not right for me and I should have moved way earlier into Isaan which I consider the real Thailand. I say: Pattaya you can only love or hate and in my deepest feeling I always hated it, because the Moo Baan houses limit your activities if you love Farming. Citylife is pure stress and other reasons involving too many broken or dumb Farangs like once some Baloonchasers that spoiled the entire Buffet during my 50th B-day Party... Western Food and Groceries are now also in Abundance available in Khon Kaen, my best two Farang friends died in Pattaya so I have nothing left over there. Missing Pattaya I must give a 100% "No" -but I cannot say that I didn't learn in Pattaya everything you need to know to live in Thailand. Many farangs I could watch and say "so not" THAT is not retirement and the ones that were an example moved also Countryside or in the outside regions of Pattaya.

Flipping pay slips? Certainly not. The intellectual nutritional value of your topics tells me enough and puts in my mind that Bukowsky's barfly goes into defense mode.. Never pay more rope out as you can pull in again, especially when the dead man's end is secured around your belly. It will drag you over board.. back to topic, speaking Thai and if it is only a little, is well appreciated by Thais and agreeable not by Thai hookers.. That's said I am out..

My nativ language is Plattdeutsch A lingo from the 14th century spoken along the coast lines between Novgorod, Lubeck, Hamburg, Stockholm, London, and Lisboa so the ship owners could trade without dictionary (Hanse aera) Based is this language on old German, Frisian, Scadinavian Languages centuries before German as Motherlanguage came then at School to it as Plattdeutsch was for Farmers and not appreciated... English during 42 years working abroad, 57 Countries in total and so I developed my own accent I like. People with a basic school education understand me well all over the world.. Some talking pillows in countries I have been longer working added Spanish (Castellano), Dutch and Thai to it. You see Bob, you are no match for me... but if it brightens your day go on, I am alone on my work site and killing time, as all are in the holidays, whilst pocketing a fantastic day rate.. If you want to make money you can even do it with this forum like I do. Here a free tipp from me: Log out and find a job. ...and why I edited this text see below

I imagine you have relpied this in a Thai manner with a big laugh and both sides were laughing loud out... I am lucky that either my wife or our 34 years old house maid (a real house maid with the heart on the right spot - meaning on her tongue) will correct me immediately. They also give me a strong reminder when a "krub" fits in and instead of using (in Isaan common) a "krub" as "Yes" a "Krapom" as "Yes" from time to time works real wonder and you are a highly respected Farang with very good manners... It is also a honor for them to call you "Lung" (Uncle) then you can be sure you are part of the community.. A joke from a Farang goes miles and for years: I went once with 12 Villagers fishing for Snakeheads. As we passed a paddock with 4 Buffalos I shouted: "Sawasdee krub Chao Luk" (Hello Children of the World) I have never seen 12 Thais breaking out in tears and couldn't stop laughing and as they just caught their breath again, I asked why the were laughing. My wife calls me "Quay" (Buffalo) many times when I do something wrong... Even the tractor driver stopped incapable to drive further.

Unfortunately I was in taiwan working and my wife had to sort it. I left her with this because as she told me "her" ear pod were available I doubted it and as she has sent me a received message with a 0059 country code my alarm bells went off big time. But she wouldn't listen so she had to spoon out the sour soup... Thats why I not blame Lazada in any way, they apologized that the order was cancelled and then somehow leaked into hands on scammers. Money back (as a coupon) is more than fair in this case..

Yes, I am. I totally agree if you say compared to me you cannot think further than over the plate you eat from. Can't be everyone so gifted than myself and your posts tell me you ain't any near to it.. Comprende?

Go to any countryside in Europe and visit a small village. You will be watched with a good distance and it takes long that they locals approach you. Beside endless gossip is going on about you and behind your back. I live in a very small farm village between Khon Kaen and Kalasin. They are Farmers there and very welcoming especially when you speak Thai (meanwhile after 22 years of living I speak fluent) Off course you have to adapt to the culture and join the community events like Village or temple festivals. 4 weeks ago I had to visit even a village 15 kilometer away because this is the village of one of my farm workers. We represent our farm with a table were Ice creams are handed out, others make food, cakes and so on.. (all free) The festivity went till 11 into the next morning and while my wife and house maid went with the village ladies I was never alone went from group to group not less drunk than any other man around me (Incl Eldest, Major, some from the Land department but also many other villagers...) Speaking (real) Thai makes you a welcome part of the community.

I ordered many things from Lazada incl life plants and almost all deliveries were satisfying. Once an order for ear pots from bose was cancelled and my wife received phone calls afterwards that these pods were now available. As she received the delivery those were useless and cheap original copies. It is a bit of a hassle to fight with the bot for complaints and how to get contact to a real life person but as she managed to find this, the money was returned in no time

That's on the spot and I guess you have a well established Thai community around you as so do I. Some of the answers here lets me stipulate, that here are many that pretend to make a real living in Thailand. thinking to know the real Thai culture, but their replies show clearly that these are actually not the brightest candles on the birthday cake. They will stay outsiders for the rest of their lives...