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I stopped worrying about it years ago. It used to pee me off but then, I made the decision that, if everything is up to me.....I will just do whatever the hell it is I want!

If they legalised Cannibis and kratom they could make a killing on hippies and hipsters visiting. All the hippies are old and respectable now anyway, cleaned all the dirt out of their toenails. Vegan/veggie/eco friendly resorts could be opened where alcohol is discouraged and people lay around in hammocks listening to Bob Marley while drinking kratom tea and toking on a joint.....All the produce would be grown here....Sounds like a plan to me.

Those students really look like their hearts are in it........ pulling the kind of faces i did as a kid when mum took too long to take a photo and i wanted to play!!!

Damn!!! You're right!!! I thought I was onto something......maybe just 'on' something????

Hello all,

I was having a look around in a Beatles pic forum and came across something. Now, I know its not earth shattering but, humor me I am a Beatles tragic and it struck me as interesting.

Here is a picture that Lennon took of himself in, probably Middish 1967. Notice the can of spray (or whatever it is ) to his right. Now, to me and my missus it looks like its got Thai language written at the top....possibly reading something along the lines of a translation of the English word 'powder'

I may be wrong but was it really that common for Thai products to make it to England that long ago? We are talking almost 50 years ago! Have I found yet another kink in the matrix????

Cheers!

It is all down to education and Thais are not taught to think critically.

I'd say that's more to the point.

I came here in my late 20's....still here and am now in my early 40's. I have always done weight training and some kind of aerobic activity a few times a week. Ideally I try to stick to at least 4 -5 times per week. I was a big fan of the old weight training regime of 3 x 10 sets of 8 - 10 reps of any particular muscle group with a 1 - 1.5 minute rest between sets.......These days I am finding something called 'circuit training' is much more effective. Instead of sticking to one muscle group for the 3 sets in a row, I do a group of 6 - 8 exercises one after the other with very little to no rest.This really kicks my a*s and it also helps with aerobic conditioning.....and it saves time. You need to be careful how you order your exercises doing this. For example, you wouldnt do a bench press and then do bench flies directly after it, you could go from a 'pushing' to a 'pulling' exercise however. For example, bench press and the some kind of dumbbell rowing exercise. If you order your exercises in the right way you can go through the whole cycle, but its pretty tough. Obviously the weight you are using also has to come down a bit but, I am very happy with the results. I don't seem to have lost too much muscle mass and its also cut some belly fat. One cycle takes me less than 10 minutes. I do 3 cycles, after which I have had enough. I do this at night, after the suns gone down.

In regards to straight aerobic activity I have gone from jogging, to walking up and down my stairs for 30 to 45 mins. I got bored of jogging and the heat is a killer. I find going up and down stairs, sometimes one at a time, sometimes 2 at a time to give me a good workout and it also does more for strengthening the legs. I also incorporate what are called 'farmers walks' into my stair climbing. This is where I carry 2 x approx 14- 18 kg dumbbells up and down the stairs a few times as part of the routine. It gets pretty challenging, great for legs AND for wrist strength....

Anyway, thats the routine I settled on living here in the heat. Its working for me, and obviously I mix it up as much as possible. One thing I have learnt is that you need shock your body every now and again to get a boost in results. If you just do the same routine every time you get bored and your body gets used to it. Thats not what exercise is all about.

....by the way if you'd have told me about 'circuit training' when I was a bit younger I would have thought it was for pussies......no way! I highly recommend it....maybe not if you want to look like Arnie in his day, but for general looking good/feeling good its great.

Sounds about right to me.You ever run into trouble doing flies? I wrecked my shoulder long time ago doing flies...too much weight maybe?? Stayed away from them ever since. Chiang Mai has a coupla nice gyms, and the Chiang Mai Orchid hotel now has a salt water pool, ( and a new gym ) which has gotten me back into swimming a bit. All in all, I'll live, I guess. My friend ( who parties and drinks quite a bit ) says to me," you're gonna look some silly in fifty years time when you're laying in the hospital dying from....nothing!"

Never really had many injuries at all. I have done weights consistently for years but have never gone overboard. I prefer to keep the weight reasonable to make sure I have good form. I am not interested in being HUGE. I am interested in being pretty strong and pretty fit, that's enough for me. However, I do think flies are an exercise you should do with caution. I went through a phase of pushing it with them and it just ends up with you having poor form. ALL movements need to be consciously controlled from start to finish....no bouncing off your chest or using momentum....you see that kind of thing a lot.

Its a good event....great idea BUT could they have picked a worse time to hold it? 3:00 pm on FRIDAY afternoon!!!! I am glad I don't work in Bangkok and commute north home to where I live. Its going to be a car park on the road.....isnt it?

I came here in my late 20's....still here and am now in my early 40's. I have always done weight training and some kind of aerobic activity a few times a week. Ideally I try to stick to at least 4 -5 times per week. I was a big fan of the old weight training regime of 3 x 10 sets of 8 - 10 reps of any particular muscle group with a 1 - 1.5 minute rest between sets.......These days I am finding something called 'circuit training' is much more effective. Instead of sticking to one muscle group for the 3 sets in a row, I do a group of 6 - 8 exercises one after the other with very little to no rest.This really kicks my a*s and it also helps with aerobic conditioning.....and it saves time. You need to be careful how you order your exercises doing this. For example, you wouldnt do a bench press and then do bench flies directly after it, you could go from a 'pushing' to a 'pulling' exercise however. For example, bench press and the some kind of dumbbell rowing exercise. If you order your exercises in the right way you can go through the whole cycle, but its pretty tough. Obviously the weight you are using also has to come down a bit but, I am very happy with the results. I don't seem to have lost too much muscle mass and its also cut some belly fat. One cycle takes me less than 10 minutes. I do 3 cycles, after which I have had enough. I do this at night, after the suns gone down.

In regards to straight aerobic activity I have gone from jogging, to walking up and down my stairs for 30 to 45 mins. I got bored of jogging and the heat is a killer. I find going up and down stairs, sometimes one at a time, sometimes 2 at a time to give me a good workout and it also does more for strengthening the legs. I also incorporate what are called 'farmers walks' into my stair climbing. This is where I carry 2 x approx 14- 18 kg dumbbells up and down the stairs a few times as part of the routine. It gets pretty challenging, great for legs AND for wrist strength....

Anyway, thats the routine I settled on living here in the heat. Its working for me, and obviously I mix it up as much as possible. One thing I have learnt is that you need shock your body every now and again to get a boost in results. If you just do the same routine every time you get bored and your body gets used to it. Thats not what exercise is all about.

....by the way if you'd have told me about 'circuit training' when I was a bit younger I would have thought it was for pussies......no way! I highly recommend it....maybe not if you want to look like Arnie in his day, but for general looking good/feeling good its great.

They got a hit record!!!!

It is ironic, to me at least, that the once isolated, junta run, nation known as Burma or Myanmar has just concluded national elections and the NLD and Aung San Suu Kyi won in a landslide victory. Whether said victory was hollow only the coming weeks will tell.

Meanwhile here in the Kingdom of Thailand citizens are being told to shut up and conform and are being threatened.

One state passes over the mantle to a neighbor?

Speaking of which.....why has there been little to no coverage of that election on here? Am I missing something?? Am I looking in the wrong places?? Surely what is happening next door is worthy of some news items and threads??

Gosh she looks old now, Aung San Suu Kyi, much prefer Yingluck. Yes not much news, as its a bit anti military I suppose. Still Thais can feel happy that they are more superior than the Burmese having them as pets, I mean slaves, maids to do all the hardwork in the Pue Yai Ban. Poor blighters. Still hope has smiled on them this week.

I would find it quite sickening if Thaivisa is purposely NOT covering it due to some kind of twisted sycophantic kow towing.....Its major news for gods sake!......honestly....pathetic self censorship, is this what its come to?

It is ironic, to me at least, that the once isolated, junta run, nation known as Burma or Myanmar has just concluded national elections and the NLD and Aung San Suu Kyi won in a landslide victory. Whether said victory was hollow only the coming weeks will tell.

Meanwhile here in the Kingdom of Thailand citizens are being told to shut up and conform and are being threatened.

One state passes over the mantle to a neighbor?

Speaking of which.....why has there been little to no coverage of that election on here? Am I missing something?? Am I looking in the wrong places?? Surely what is happening next door is worthy of some news items and threads??

Is this the only discussion about a pretty important subject within the context of the new ASEAN reality that is just about to unfold????? I cant believe that Thaivisa doesn't have a more significant thread??? Am I missing something??? Please enlighten me.

'The learning curb'.....is what Thailand seems to have hit.....

Very happy to see the disgruntled have an effective way of making their feelings known......Living in my little village, it can sometimes feel as though no one really cares about freedoms being slowly chipped away at. I hope this is merely the start of a groundswell that will grow.......

Lets hope it offers something more than what usually comes out of this region in regard to 'news'. God help us if its another insipid Channel news Asia type program....magazine style, with 'safe' stories that pander to a mentally vacuous population that is completely unaware of the size of the filter that is being used by those in power to paint a rosy view of their world.......nothing to see here, move along. And of course, the inevitable feelgood story at the end of each bulletin......the panda that has just given birth to cute little cubs at some zoo in China

God help all those with critical thinking skills....

It will be thaivisas selective news missing touchy stories such as Koh Tao or anything to real on the political mess .

EXACTLY!!!!

Its real time....and no, that doesnt make it 'bloody useless' its makes it 'bloody free' and offers exactly the same as Excrap TV. The fact that its realtime doesnt bother me at all. I watch BBC news live on it...the rugby will be live on it.......I could even stay up till 1:00 am Thai time to watch Coronation Street if I wanted....but I choose not to. There....I just saved myself 600 Baht again this month.....

That site is a TOTAL ripoff!!! You can get pretty much EXACTLY the same channels and more here:

http://www.filmon.com/

That channel has BBC 1, BBC 2.....,ITV.....loads of movie channels and its FREE! I use it all the time and it works well. You can pay 600 Baht per month if you want!!!???

....by the way ALL the rugby world cup games are being shown on ITV..

Ok....ALL the Rugby world cup games can be watched free via:

http://www.filmon.com/htmlmain

ITV from England is showing all the games live........You need to go to the 'UK Live TV' icon and find ITV.

Happy watching!

Does anyone have any links/sites where the games can be streamed in reasonable quality.....free? I had good luck with the Ashes. My dad will be here for the World Cup and I am sure he will want to catch a few games.

Cheers.

I wonder how many back handers it'll take to get the place opened?

Why the hell are BBC STILL finding evidence at this stage??? Perhaps they should hand the investigation over to them...

180 - 185 cm???? Did he/she look that tall to you in the video? Looked more like 165 - 170 max to me.

"So we can assume Brazilian tradesmen are not good"

A highly necessary contribution to the topic of young Thai people doing something good. If my seven year old son comes home and tells me he won a drawing competition at school for his Iron Man drawing....I would of course turn around and tell him its <deleted>....because it isn't as good a picture of Iron man as I could draw.