waldpyk

Normally my wife wont read but when we went to Holland we bought 2 Thai books at the airport. She finished both of them quite quickly. To this day i still wonder if Holland was that boring or the books that good.

In general i don't see her reading that much, she reads a lot on the internet when planning trips for clients. But these were the only 2 novels i have ever seen her read.

I think in general Thais read less then foreigners. I also don't read as much anymore unless im on a holiday. Not counting of course all the articles and books i normally read to keep my knowledge in my field of work up to date. I prefer to read novels on holidays at other times i have enough other nice things to do.

So it might just be that they have a lot of other things to do.

like what

just curious

how many aspiring pigfarmers have any , yes any , prior farmer experience "at home"

we have

1. peak oil

2.commodities exploding , yes exploding

please check price of copper iron wheat ect.

3.banking crisis : no only sub prime but also and more the CDO's

the economy is shaking and on the way out

how anyone can think it will pass like " oke i pay 100 $ more and thats it" , beats me

the tourist industy like we know it will be over in 2 max 5 years

sure there will be tourists like there were tourists in 18 century florence and rome

the industry will be gone the beach almost empty

i hope to enjoy while it lasts

move now , today

change pounds to euro's

and ofcourse don;t even touch dollars

If the guy finds a few months of happiness and it costs him 6,000 Baht a month for that happiness, who are you to try to tell him otherwise ?

At least he is happy at the moment, you could actually read a few of the threads on Thai related forums like this one and see all the miserable bitter unhappy Farangs in Thailand, how on earth you can get good advice from this lot heaven knows, look how happy they are!! Always bleedin' moaning. If they knew how to be happy, they wouldn't be so bleedin miserable would they?

So for 6000 per month his happiness is cheap. ( Hardly a kings ransom is it )

Leave the guy alone, he will not thank you for interfering, he is probably big enough to make his own decisions in life, so let it be.

Last thing you wanna do is listen to all the ' Experts' here, including me.

Let him be.

If the guy finds a few months of happiness and it costs him 6,000 Baht a month for that happiness, who are you to try to tell him otherwise ?

At least he is happy at the moment, you could actually read a few of the threads on Thai related forums like this one and see all the miserable bitter unhappy Farangs in Thailand, how on earth you can get good advice from this lot heaven knows, look how happy they are!! Always bleedin' moaning. If they knew how to be happy, they wouldn't be so bleedin miserable would they?

So for 6000 per month his happiness is cheap. ( Hardly a kings ransom is it )

Leave the guy alone, he will not thank you for interfering, he is probably big enough to make his own decisions in life, so let it be.

Last thing you wanna do is listen to all the ' Experts' here, including me.

Let him be.

sure we're superior

sure we can smile or laugh about superstition ( and 9x% is superstition yes)

but you , have you ever felt or seen the unkown , been goose fleshed

been paralysed , pissed your pants ?

if not these posts here are oke , for amusement, nothing wrong with that

foam on the waves of the internet

but if you have , please share

i do not dare , i'm a bit of a coward

afraid to be cut down

tsjoener

In some circles ( i doubt if that's correct english) there is a lot of talk about the growing of Jatropha curcas. The seeds are used - after crushing and refining ) to make biodiesel. In Africa more than 100.000 acres are already planted by one firm D1 oils.

Jatropha can grow well in semi-arid soils and does not compete so much with growing foodstuff .

D1oils recently announced a jv with BP

anybody knows about persons who have some experience with this crop or know places where it's planted ?

thanks.

i still stand by my first post here (maiden speech)

although it was not appreciated and stopped by the moderater

did you try " minrin " it's a hormon you normally make at nighttime to minimize urine-production

i have seen good results

alas . too often questions are asked on TV without enough information about the personal situation

that said i would rather invest in other precious metals like platinum ed.

but buying a small amount in gold coins - 1/4 and 1/2 ounce , not the 1/1 - is not investing but wisdom

if you don't like the word wisdom change it for insurance

by small amount i mean anything between 2 and 5 thousand euro

less has no purpose , more creates his/her? own risk

maybe a bit heavy siamsquare but it triggers something

look at the number and timing of the responses

a good and visually strong story

ah. jas you'r good

like a hot knife through the b....butter

i like that

no , i do not see it as an empty threat , it,s more a warning or better a reminder

"don't overstep our line , we have got you by the balls"

sure dumping part of the dollars would hurt , but it would hurt the us economy and the

confidence in the dollar even more

no need to do it just a small reminder to their us-partner

can you make your question a bit more specific

now it's like : what about life

sure there are pay-packetges that are difficult to resist

everybody has his\her price . money or otherwise

still i agree with britmaveric : something dark and dangerous is growing (there)

but "only" 15 months so maybe home before the storm

You can also try regular intake of things like wheatgrass and barleygrass. You can buy them in powdered form and if you take them 2 or 3 times a day they can help reduce cholesterol. Of course this is not scientifically backed up but has been known to help a good many people.

well actually there is

Am journal clinical nutricion 1999 : an article by Bourdon c.s

and Arndt in Cereal foods world : the future of barley 2005

mobi you said : "..it dependss on what you want out of life etc "

no , it depends on what you have ,

and hopefully what you have , is enough for what you need

sure bendix ,hundreds of views

but i missed yours

although i agree with you more or less , i take exception of your 10 years claim

within 2 years the trend will be clear

no bendix , i expect more from you ..

oke the baht gains , the "birds" fly up ( no not good english i know ) sure there's a disturbance...

the question is what's causing this disturbance

recover against the baht ? or the euro ? or the yuan ?

predictions about the future in ten years

and not a word about PEAK OIL and the effects on the economy

it's unbelievebly

anyway if i'm a nut and mentally impaired and nothing will happen within two years i will be happy

and smiling in the los sun

yes i feel happy in thailand , that's why i'm worried

oke a had a stiff cognac and some wine , still..

in this forum or in tf i have read nothing about the impact of the coming crisis in the availability of oil

correct about PEAK OIL

i am certain it has a profound impact upon the economy but also on the price of air-tickets

to say nothing of the numbers of tourists coming to thailand

my first post in this forum was cut/stopped , with friends , if i bring up this subject , i'm just "tolerated"

anyway i had to try a second time

after this i shut up , truly

"every young thai girl has an agenda.." ..

..and you don't ?