tomahawk

As i posted many times before on forum I highly recommend Maripaun Salon and Thai traditional massage on Maejo Road. I go there regularly and has cured my herniated disk and shoulder pain. They have many couples also who come regularly for oil massage and have done so myself and it was lovely. They have 4 masseuses who are all professional and the owner Marisa does not go for any happy ending type stuff and some people even bring their kids. I think maybe half the customers are women.

Maripaun is on Maejo Road 6.5 kms from Meechok Plaza and Rimping market. Head towards Maejo University and take u-turn at 2nd traffic light from Meechok intersection. There is a Wawee coffee shop right next to salon and signs out front.

Oil massage is 250 baht per hour. Phone numbers are 0852849118 and 0848832469. It is a good idea to make an appointment. They are closed Mondays.

Being an American Indian, I naturally love canoeing also and looked for one here and so far only place I find that makes them is in Phuket, which is a long way from Chiang Mai of course. In CM you can rent kayaks for 100 baht. However I did find some websites of places that sell sea kayaks, including the place in Phuket with canoes.

There is a massage school at Faham Village which sells all kinds of massage equipment. They might have what you are looking for. I know you say you prefer western massage, but as I have reported on forum on other massage threads therapeutic massage at Maripaun Salon and Thai Traditional Massage on Maejo Road virtually cured pain from both rotator cuff shoulder injury and herniated disks.

When I met my wife here I was over 240 pounds and since then wife tells me what attracted her to me was my size. Since then I have been in hospital due to high blood pressure and on doctor's orders I lost 50 pounds. Now my wife tells me she thought I was more attractive when I was heavy, even though I am still colse to 200 pounds and far from skinny. She supports my weight control program for the health reasons, but I know she prefers me to be overweight. Point here is that it is an individual thing with Thai women as well as anywhere. Some prefer thin and some fat. Just a matter of being in the right place at the right time.

Thanks for replies. I will try your suggestions. Just ate phat krapow and so will soon see if I have recovered. I do not eat much dairy stuff but also no yogurt so I will try some and see if it helps. I think perhaps the large quantities of tea and coffee I drink could be part of problem.

I really love spicy food and have eaten all my life with very little problems. However, I have lately been eating a lot of chilis and other spicy stuff and have had upset stomach and diarrhea off and on for a few days now. I have tried to lay off spicy food somewhat for past day but still have problems. Could it be that I have lost my tolerance for spicy stuff. If you quit spicy food for awhile do you get back this tolerance. It is also possible that the problem is something else like vegetables washed in bad water or something else I ate. Has anyone else had this experiece? Thank you.

Whoever said Americans cannot take care of themselves has not been to Europe lately. If you do not want boiling water to overflow do not fill the pot up near the top. That is the first lesson for today. Tomorrow we will cover addition and subtraction and the alphabet.

Are you starving to death? Can you leave the country if you want? Yes, because this is not North Korea. Thailand is not most democratic country on earth, but no way can anyone rationally compare it to North Korea.

It is not true that you cannot get job here. I have almost same background as you and was offered jobs at two separate law firms in Bangkok. However I did not take position as it meant I would lose retirement pension, so be advised if you are on retirement pension, as is probably the case, you cannot legally work here. However you could get work permit if you do not want retirement pension. One thing you need to do though is learn Thai language. If you wish names of law firms I mentioned send me PM and I will give you the information. As for tourist police volunteer, you do not need work permit but it is of course unpaid position and is not really police work, at least not in Chiang Mai. In Pattaya perhaps it is different somewhat, but I would not get involved with this personally, but that is my own opinion and nothing against anyone who does.

Same to you and Merry Christmas to all on forum and everywhere.

No matter which type of cobra it was he should have had time to get to hospital and receive anti-venin in Pattaya. Cobra venom is fast acting but not that fast. Very few people in thailand die from snakebite these days. It does seem likely guy was probably drunk when he got bit. If he really was planning to let snake loose to bite people, then this is very much like a terrorist who blows himself up making a bomb. However i do not know if this was the case. At the very least the guy had very poor judgment.

I think curse note is good idea. where i used to live someone cup tearing up my plants and flowers, for some reason. I figured it was woman next door, because she seemed very unfriendly. But could not prove it. I made like a scarecrow thing in front yard with bamboo sticks, clothes and hats and candles and other crap. Then when moon came out I danced around the thing with a big knife yelling some jibberish., As i am an American indian, which people here think is strange anyway, this worked very well. I told neighbors I was Indian medicine man and I was calling up Spirit of The Forest to go after whoever was killing the plants. next day lady next door shows up with big plate of food. she has been friendly ever since and no one ever bothered plants again. however there is also a down side to this as ever since that day the Thai neighbors look at me funny and my wife is nervous that spirit really showed up and lives in the house, even though I told her it was all an act I made up and never even heard of this spirit.

Thank you for the many intelligent and rational answers. I think you have solved problem as wife is happy with these suggestions, such as the tree and chimes and mirrors and also about the philosophy regarding the whole issue. I agree perhaps court would not enforce rermoving spirit house but as other member states I did sign agreement to not put up house so I should honor it. In all other areas landlord has been very agreeable and fair. Although I really do not understand his religious beliefs fact is it is his house until paid off so I will have to work with it. I understand wife as I am native American and understand belief in spirits and such, so I respect her wishes but it seems all parties are satisfied and thank you very much.

Perhaps moveable house is the answer. Landlord says he does not want spirit house because if he takes house back Thai people will not move house as it is bad luck. However I read that house can be moved if it is relocated to wat or placed under banyan tree. I do not understand this in a way because this muban is almost entirely Thai Buddhist people so it is unlikely any future buyers would be Christian. Apparently landlord has belief like the Jewish people mentioned in previous posting that spirit house will bring bad luck or anger God or something. I am not such a religious person , but I am Christian and I think perhaps God is more tolerant than many of his followers. All I know is this whole business seems to be an aggravating and unneccessary complication.

Thank you for advice. many good ideas and am not sure yet which one to follow. Problem is although I think perhaps legally could still build spirit house, seller has been very cordial and agreeable about payments and other issues so I do not want to create bad feelings. However I think perhaps if I agree to remove house in case of default, he would be agreeable to this.

Some people on forum obviously have no idea what the U.S. Dept. of State does. It is just an opportunity to bash the USA. But I dare anyone to come on forum and tell how their country, whatever it is, has done more for the world or has not done anything wrong. I am sure there will be silence about this as the fact is with all its faults and mistakes there is no country better. And Russia is worse than US in every way imaginable.

I know this is not really about Buddhism, but I thought someone here could help. I bought house from farang and his Thai wife. Naturally it is really in his wife's name and now my wife's, but you know how it goes. Anyway I agreed to pay every month until house is paid up, and signed contract. In contract it says that no spirit house can be built on property until it is fully paid off, which is in 14 years. While this is nothing to me, of course my wife is somewhat confused and upset about this. Landlord will not allow spirit house because if he has to reclaim house, he wdoes not want spirit house as it is against his own religious beliefs. His wife is also Christian. My question is , is there some way to keep spirits out of house without spirit house, according to the Tahi customs and beliefs.

I support extrajudicial executions and target killings, in certain cases. Actually whoever did these particular ones, if I meet them, I will buy them a beer.

I worked in prison in NY for 25 years and 15 years as lieutenant. During that time I was chief of investigations for 8 years and watch commander for 7 as well as riot squad commander, so I know something of prison. However I am no expert on Thai prisons, and only know what I read. I will say though that in 25 years I met thousands of inmates and perhaps there was 1 who I thought did not belong there. To actually get to the point of doing state time in NY you either have to do something really heavy, like murder, or have been convicted of numerous previous offenses. Which usually means there were other crimes which guy did not get caught. I think there are plenty of people who should be in prison, but aren't. Not so many the other way around.

I have been involved in several prison riots in NY and was the comander of the riot squad for 8 years, and never heard of riot cauased by confiscated cell phones. They were contraband and all the inmates knew it and took it for granted it would be confiscated and they would be locked up if they were caught with one, which was very rare. The big problem was getting the employees from bringing them into the prison, as they were not allowed to do this either. First time a guard or employee was caught doing this was usually 3 month suspension. Second time they got fired. One time I fogot i had it i n my pocket and I was talking to the captain when it rang. Luckily he cut me a break that time. As for transferring prisoners, this is standard procedure following a riot. The main participants get shipped off around the state, or in this case the country, and if found guilty of being involved get locked in cell a long time. This is Thailand though so I dont know what happens next. Perhaps they will jst take them out and shoot them. I often wished we could have done that back in NY, actually.

North Korea has reportedly been supplying Burma with technology for Burma to eventually produce nuclear weapons. They do not have them yet. But this is as you say very bad news.

Strange thing about this is I went to balloon festival at MaeJo University and upon leaving thousands of people were jammed together on narrow walkway. I was thinking then it would not take much to start a stampede and many people would die. In fact a bridge did collapse and many people fell in water, but I do not think anyone was injured. farang I know that was there complained it was poor planning by organizers of event, but I said at least it was less likely Asian people would stampede, as they are more patient and used to being in mobs. It turns out sadly that I was wrong. However, not to defend Cambodian police, but I was head of riot squad in US and I can tell you once a crowd like this goes out of control, not much police can do to stop it quickly. Still, using water cannons on electric wires is pretty stupid. The fault largely lies with those who organized the event, in my opinion.

Why don't you give it a rest, Sergi. Russians have been murdering civilians in Chechnya, Georgia, afghanistan and half the world since forever. There is no way you can have any credibility complaining about war crimes and atrocities of US. As for Victor Bout. He is totally innocent right? I think probably he won all his millions of dollars in the lottery, which he will donate to orphans and greenpeace. Communism is dead and USSR is finished. Get over it.

Why don't you give it a rest, Sergi. Russians have been murdering civilians in Chechnya, Georgia, afghanistan and half the world since forever. There is no way you can have any credibility complaining about war crimes and atrocities of US. As for Victor Bout. He is totally innocent right? I think probably he won all his millions of dollars in the lottery, which he will donate to orphans and greenpeace. Communism is dead and USSR is finished. Get over it.

Thank you very much prothaiepat.