solid

After I was in the west for too long, I gained weight. BUT I could managed to cut 17kg of fat in 2 yrs!

Nothing complicated, but not easy to do: eat right, just enough, not too much, exercise both cardio and weight training.

These three support each other. Fuse them together, and you will be on fire! No lie.

And the word for it is "commitment".

IT REALLY WORKS.

yeah, a friend of mine was quoted a crazy figure for monthly memebership in True Fitness in Asoke. I cannot remember the figure but I was like in euro over 100 a month, which is 60% -100% more than high quality gyms in Ireland.

I was trying to figure out how Thai people can afford this?

Thai pay different price. And even lower if they are students. I could hack the price down to about 1,000/month. But I didn't take it coz I already had my gym in my condo. I went in there and ask for the quote from Cal WOW since I have heard it's bad in that they would try so hard to make people sign the contract. So, I went there just to see how much they were trained for that. They used all the sweet words, sent the prettiest girls to talk to me, many kind of promotions that they have (or just made it up right at that time) . It's quite entertaining.

I said no to them.

When I was in the west, the gym was really affordable. People went there and work out.

In Thailand, these gym are not only for working out IMO. Check out their locker room and so on. It's toooooo luxurious to be in a gym! Sometimes I even think that they use this as something to indicate their well being like using luxurious car, having big house etc.

I have one American friend here. She went to the gym CAL WOW and came back to me and complained that thai people there would rather talk and socialize than work out (well there were still people working out).

I laughed my a** off.

Right now I go to a gym in my condo. So it's free.

Well, I think it's bangkok!

Maybe it's because I am brown with no white and those chinese-based-bkk bstds thought I am in lower class bs.

When they started to piss me off, I just invited them to visit my hometown. That shut them up real nice.

Seems to be on top of another man - proving my point quite well.

May be worth a poll here, but are thai men broad minded and accepting enough to love a farang girl for what she is and like she wants or does the farang girl have to adapt and be accomodating to thai men and be just like a thai girl to them ?

Believe me, if they want someone like a thai girl, they won't look at a farang.

We don't look for an apple in an orange tree, do we?

I remember this Thai actor from a soap a couple of years ago:

hehe we went to the same high school. He's a couple years before me. Well, this school only accepted handsome men . (it WAS a school for guys only)

Always remember the friends episode where Joey uses a leather man bag & gets the piss taken out of him.

When I saw the thread I was gonna say exactly that! haha.

I would say... is the world ready for his manbag yet?

wow, good stuff. Thanks a lot you guys. This is so cool.

Hi,

I am kinda in dating cycles but I really have no time to check out places to bring my date to. So, I wanna hear where you guys bring your date/gf/wife to. Please tell locations, atmosphere, and approximate budget.

Or if you are a lady, you can help me by telling me the place you want your date/bf/husband brings you to.

Many thanks

I put everything on it. It makes me feel... real.

I'm taking everything easy and don't worry I'm not getting married, sending money for buffaloes etc, relax

That's priceless.

wow, that's one heck of a list.

A good wife in my book? She should be his inspiration.

Well, this relationship might go well, or might not. After all it's up to both of them. But people have no right to jump to a conclusion and judge that the relationship will be doomed.

It will work when "both" of them want it to work.

Good luck with your decision, Bellatrix.

Sheryl has given a concise and tight answer.

Sorry mate. I am Thai and I know Thai culture. But I really have no clue on what happens in their bedroom.

How could she got married with this guy in the first place if she doesn't love him?

Ongbak is awesome. They have it in English now, too.

Tears of the Black Tiger is still my favorite.

Ohh man, I have nothing left to say.

Respectfully disagree, here.

Isaan can be referred to either an area or a language which is not exactly the same but similar to Laos. And in Isaan language itself has many dialects depending on which part of Isaan.

There is not a singular Isaan language.....there are many Isaan dialects.

For instance...a central Thai will tell you someone is speaking Isaan because they dont recognise what that person is speaking...they classify it as Isaan in general but they cant specify where that person comes from in the Isaan area.

Again the Isaan area includes the Laos and Cambodian border regions...is someone who speaks Khmer less Isaan than a Laos person...NO... they all live in the Isaan region...even though they dont talk the same lingo.

Isaan is a region or an area within the Thai Kingdom....it is not a language.

I didn't say anywhere that someone who speaks Khmer is not from Isaan. You jumped to that conclusion yourself. And a Laos person (or language) is not the same as an Isaan person (or language). Isaan = northeast, not Laos.

These are fancy words for north, east, sounth, west, etc.

Isaan = northeast

Udon = north (don't get confused with Udon Thani)

Burapa = east

Prajim = west

ohh i forgot to add.

Thaksin = south

So, the correct version is farang. But falang is understandable although it does not really sound educated.

Not if you're a Thai who speaks regional Isarn and some of them are educated.

There are many educated people who don't really care how it's pronounced properly (they are just too lazy to get it right). Not only in Isaan.

So, if you wanna say falang, that's up to you. People will understand it.

Simon, you are not correct. You introduced Isaan to the discussion and so you must recognise that Isaan is not the same language as Central Thai. Isaan is very similar to Laos. In written Laos, the "r" was thrown in the dustbin a long time ago. So words like borisat in written Thai become bolisat in written Laos.

So when foreigners transliterate ฝรั่ง into falang, they are transliterating Isaan and not central Thai. I am right because I know.

Oh dear ...here we go again...

Isaan is an area not a language...within the Isaan area there are many dialects...There is no Isaan language per se. The two main languages spoken in the Isaan area are Laos and Khmer...however there are many dialects spoken.

BTW...Issan, Isaan, Isarn Esarn and Esan are all the same place.

Respectfully disagree, here.

Isaan can be referred to either an area or a language which is not exactly the same but similar to Laos. And in Isaan language itself has many dialects depending on which part of Isaan.

Simon, I have lived in the South for 18 years. Believe me, they pronounce the "r"

sbk...We have Italians here that have lived here for 30 years and still cant speak English.....your point is ???

Hi you guys, lovely farangs,

It's pronounced 'r'. I am Thai, was born and raised here in LOS.

So, the correct version is farang. But falang is understandable although it does not really sound educated.

Many times I even think that the country is run by a bunch of mafias.

OK, you might feel better if you hear this.

Some hotels in bkk don't even accept you as a customer if you are Thai. Foreigners only! I have heard this for about a year or so. This upset me so much, and so many other Thais.

So sad.

Ocerseas student fees everywhere are more than local students pay but I bet when you studied in the west, your bus fare was the same as everyone else, you paid the same as eveyone else to go to a theme park or tourist attraction & wasn't ask to pay to get off the bus?

But when I went to school in the west, all foreign students must pay at least 3 times the local ones pay for tuition fees.

I would rather pay double for the bus than pay for the "ginormous" tuition.

And what? "wasn't ask to pay to get off the bus"? I think that you totally got robbed on that.

Any how, I still think double pricing is not cool at all.

I don't know. Now I am guessing that maybe coz they assumed that farangs don't live here, so they don't pay tax. So you pay more now. I know it sounds stupid. But when I went to school in the west, all foreign students must pay at least 3 times the local ones pay for tuition fees.

I don't have any source. I am just guessing.