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  1. If you are in Bangkok, go to a jail and ask. It's easier if you have a Thai friend accompany you, but you can do it by yourself. The best place to try first imo would be Bangkok Remand and Klong Prem which are next to each other, or there is also Bang Kwang. Tell them the name of the person you are there to visit. If they are not there, you will soon find out. There is an office; you can try asking there for help if they are imprisoned somewhere else. You can visit prisoners. It's been a few years since I've been to Klong Prem but I suggest you go in the morning. Prisoners get limited visits, so you don't want to go and then find someone has already visited them for the day. If you find out other people are visiting and you want to make future visits, try to work out a schedule. It's better for someone to get a few visits a week than for everyone to turn up on the same day. Make sure you have your passport with you. Have some cash so you can buy your friend any items they require from the commissary. You used to be able to deposit money to an account and pay for extra food, but I don't know if this is still the case. Years ago the Australian Embassy was very happy to give me all the info I needed on how and where to visit an Australian I knew, so you never know.
  2. There's no need to be subscribed to everything. You can usually pay a monthly sub, so a few months with Netflix, then a few months with Prime etc. etc. Work your way through what you want to watch on one service, then change to another when you're done. It would take most people a long time to watch everything of interest. Most people will find more than a couple of movies worth watching. Prime has TV series as well as movies.
  3. There are YouTube channels from foreigners living in Thailand for years, using drone footage in their videos. They even show themselves operating the drones e.g. in Thai national parks. Some epic videos, by the way. If they were doing it illegally, surely they would have been stopped long ago.
  4. I'll admit, at first I also thought 107 baht sounded too high... but as you figured out, it must be across multiple lines. If anyone wants to argue this isn't a single trip, fine, but it does say 'Single Journey card" on the BTS website 🙂
  5. Here's a link to a page from Omron Asia Pacific, regarding fake devices. It includes a contact e-mail if you have any further inquiries. https://www.omronhealthcare-ap.com/ap/events/detail/199
  6. People travel. Not everyone has reliable internet. I'll thank you if you pay for my annual subscription ... By the way, what do you pay?
  7. It could easily be the proceeds of selling a house he or his parents bought back in the eighties, in either Sydney or Melbourne. Sale prices now can easily be fifty times the original purchase price. Someone who bought shares like CBA in the nineties would also do very nicely selling now.
  8. This usually means they were fake. If you want to know for sure, check the brand name and how much you paid compared to somewhere like JIB or Amazon. If it was less than half the price of well-known retailers, you likely have your answer. While you could try using them, I'd bin them as they will never be reliable.
  9. For something available in Greater Bangkok supermarkets, Cubic is the brand I buy. About five varieties, but I mainly buy the 19 Grains loaf. When I first saw them years ago in Aeon, there were lots on display, but they can't have been very popular, as it was always 50% off with a few days until the use-by date. Nowadays, my local MaxValu only stocks a few varieties and stock levels are low.
  10. If you read the next sentence... a very well-known surname in Thailand, but you can always Google the surname if you really don't know why.
  11. Here's where you go to change things.
  12. Two hundred sounds like a lot to me. Most kids that age would struggle to do half that number these days. because most spend too much time on their screens. Here's how many, according to a recent article in the New York Post, you should be able to do at different stages of your life. 20s: 50 nonstop bodyweight squats, or 10 squats holding 40% to 50% of your body weight 30s and 40s: 50 nonstop bodyweight squats, or 10 squats holding 50% to 60% of your body weight 50s: 40 nonstop bodyweight squats, or 10 squats with 40% to 50% of your body weight 60s: 30 nonstop bodyweight squats, or 10 squats holding 30% of your body weight 70s and up: 20 nonstop bodyweight squats, or 10 squats with 20% of your body weight https://nypost.com/2025/04/30/health/how-many-squats-you-should-be-able-to-do-at-every-age/#:~:text=That said%2C Collins says a,60% of your body weight
  13. I remember watching his video about this six months ago. What happened when they found the car at a Bangkok car dealer will not really surprise anyone. It's a good video if you have the time. The third photo above is from another video about how cars get stolen and how they disappear. Worth a look.
  14. I've been prescribed it twice (0.5mg) as a sleeping pill in Thailand, including at a well-known private hospital in Bangkok a few months ago. My doctor in Australia had a similar reaction to yours when I told him.
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