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Sounds like a heated body, or in a literal way of speaking ' a hot body'. I get really hot when I drink too much, and I drink more than you for long periods of time, my body heats up and I get rash on my face. I started drinking Chinese tea with ginger in it, and drink o lot of electralites but the only thing that makes me come right is having a rest for a week . Also extended periods of drinking makes me worry a lot about stupid shit, health wise. It is just too much cheap booze, Asian beer is rubbish, I bet you dont get it at home on your local beer? Ask one of the bar girls what she would suggest for drinking to bring down body heat.

I cannot believe these Thai hospitals give all patients c sections, my wife is going to have one soon and the doctor decided he was going to do C section without even examining, "oh we make him born on 22nd ,good day for budha". Makes me wonder if sticking to the hospital financial budget includes a certain amount of C sections a year. Just annoys me to creat unnecesary risk to my wife. Cant bone for quite a long time afterwards either:-(.

I have been told by my wife that if you want something like another beer or another BJ instead of saying ow eek, you so ko eek and of course krup., apparently the latter is more polite and proper Thai as such.

Seeing a young girl with a dude around 50 or 60 with big fat guts and an earing and his hair braided with coloured beeds, mid life crisis to the max.

Seeing fat yanks with their t shirt sleeves rolled up on their sholders thinking their cool, trying to suck their guts in talking about how many fights they have had, with a young girl hangin off him.

Seeing farangs ride past on a scotter with a chain key ring and a Nazi helmit on.

Hey thanks very much for the help, I'll check it out.

Well lets face it Thailand is basically a sex holiday for most, you just have to look at Pattaya and Phuket it if full of perverts and drunks, and we love it, that is the attraction, the easy way flip flops and no shirt, women every where and nice and warm.

Chinese on the other hand have a huge thing about appearance and image, they are fascinated by the western life style and secretely whish they were western. That is why they want to go to western countries, so they can go home and show they're work colleuges they're pic from the states with the cowboy hat on or near the Big ben. They dont weant to go home and show their mates a pic of them selves in a dodgy bar with bar girls or in cheap restuarant with bamboo poles holding up the roof, they want style. We like the novelty. It's like Asians want to be white, westerners want to be dark.

Oh yea for wine I just use those 20 L water battles that you get from the little truck for a few baht, dont even bother cleaning them coz clean already I use the water in those too, I never use fining chemicals or cleaning agents. When I am drinking my beer I always rinse the bottle as soon as I empty it into a jug, so I hardly ever wash them either, if it is dirty then it simply wouldnt work out.

With the 20L water bottles I dont bother with a breather and all that shit, I just cover it with glad wrap, (clear film) and prick a tiny hole in it to let the gas escape. I only use a bubble breather if I am making beer or sparkling wine.

Well I am not sure about the dates but I read from NZ embassy in Thailoand that I need to prove my adress by a bank statement or some letter with my name and addredd on it, also a current drivers licence from home or what ever if you have one, and you need to complete a medical. Pretty straight forward surprisingly.

G'day,

What is this Demijon your talking about? I make wine and beer, I have made wine out of everything you could imagine, I found the nicest one I made was jackfruit, but there is a very important trick to making jackfruit wine because it has a certain amount of natural rubber oil. Horrible shit hurts your skin gives you rash and kills the yeast but when done right it is beautifull. Mango steen wine is nice too.

Yea that sounds reasonable around my area it is aropund 40'000, At 30'000 I would think the abitlity for it to depreciate in value is next to 0%.

I dont know why it is, but I have noticed that when I and also some of my mates also have a few days on asian beer be it Singha or leo or tiger, we get the cold sweats and night mares and shakes, I never ever get it from Kiwi beer or on tap UK beer, why do you think that is any one?

Far out man that is a Kiwi dream, if you wanna sell it let me know, they got ladies and leo?

Yea there will be a chamber close to Rayong soon too, along with treatment fascitlies. Some kind of sports complex with spa and sauna gym etc and treatment chamber for divers and sports people wanting to heal injuries and build then selves up fast. I was talking to the Thai guy opening it soon. Should be interesting, all those hot old rich Thai birds going to beautify themselves in his chamber.

Why is it the dive guids fault, those who do the course are supposed to be competent to dive safe AND also ensure they're dive fascitly is safe, instead of pointing the finger at the dive operators around the place why not point it at the source of the problem...THE QUALITY OF INSTRUCTION PADI SSI instruction is a joke. That is where the problem is. Allo those instruction companies are interested in is pumping through the numbers of poorly informed trusting customers, to make more money. Most of these so called instructor have only just finished they're course them selves with only the minimum experience to get certification, which is also designed to get them through fast to make money.......Do you think if there was a diving school that failed students would get business??

Yea you can buy it in cans in some of those chinese type hard ware stores that seem to have any thing, funny thing is they call it 'fom thapay' After me doing allsorts of hand signals and drawing nunerous pictures they exclaimed with glee Fom Thapay......foam spray

I can speak enough to get by I used to live in Phuket for three years and could only say darling and how much, but since I got away from that place I found a small village where I am the only farang and my Thai just took off, I had no choice but to learn, not one person could speak english, and here I was tryting to build a boat.

Got to put your self in the deep end, only way to comunicate is in thai you will learn fast.

Just check the eyes, they should be reasonably clear, usually when they are going off they get a pink or orange milky tinge in the eyes, but if you have a Thai missus she should tell you that super market fish are never fresh, tesco carrefour and the likes, better to go down the sea front markets. With the live fish pick the ones with the darkest colours, the lighter ones have probably been in the plastic tub for some days. Shell fish ie mussels and clams should be open, yet close when you touch them, and when cooked they should open. Squid should be clear and not murky white. Hope this helps you mate, I love sea food mak mak:-)

Sorryforgot to mention about the letter, it was comfirmation that I was working in Singapore, I was working free lance for offshare based Singaore comany.

I opened one in Singapore a few years back, I had to make up a bull sh!t letter to open it, and the deposit was Sing $1000 which I was able to draw on emediatly, problem is though to send money over phone to another account not in my name I need to go to that branch to comfirm the details, Pain in the A but other wise handy. My wife doesnt know I have it either

G'day man,

I am a commercial diver, have been off shore for 6 years. My back ground was very hands on and I had an engineering mind, I am afraid to say my answer to you questions are all no, you are not too old, doesnt matter if you smoke, so long as you pass your medical, is it a good inverstment, well mate you used to be a banker??? Can you even change a car tyre? If you are handy type person, can service your own car, build a shed, poor some concrete, and weld to hold some to gether and make some thing work then yes it could be good for you. Other wise you struggle to keep work.

If you are into it enough then go for it, but it is no easy road and no easy life. It isd certainly not glamorous, divers arent like the Padi ones you meet, I would probably associate com divers with rough fishermen. Play hard and work hard. These padi dive instructers are all wanna be's who like good viz. nOnly certified to fill a bottle and change an O ring, so dont take advise from them, go to the bars and talk to people there are heaps of com divers in Pattaya. easy to find they will be the drunkest loudest ones. Ps make sure it is not a phase you are going through for a buzz, coz I assure you the novelty will wear off lol.

Good luck man.

you many Katoeys

I sense a bit of hypercondria here, that bp rate is fine especially for being unrested in a clinic after walking and being of hypercondriact nature and your age. Not to mention the amount of caffiene in your diet If your really worried about it lose the wieght, drink but dont get pissed every night, no smoking, and include heaps of Ginger in your diet, Ginger will also healp reduce colestrol.

I am always getting into situations where I am at a nice Thai families place having a beer or whiskey, Good Thai country people are just like good country people at home, makes me feel at home in my new home Thailand. I just wish my learning process of Passa Thai would be faster, da Maipen rai lean passa Thai chacha dai dui.

Well I caught my pregnant wife on the bike a couple months back, of course I went off, told never to ride it again with our baby there if she fell off even a light fall could have killed our baby, and the response was "I was only going to tesco, and I only did it once, I cant find park in car". It is not a matter of if, it is a matter of when, every Thai person has road scars. I believe if you can afford a car or have family there is no excuse to have babies on bikes of course most families cant afford cars and bikes are the family wagon, but still there is no excuse for a baby to be on them. Adults can come out a bit bruised or banged up but kids get wasted.

Us farangs are over protective in their eyes, life is cheap in Thailand. Mai pen rai???Chacha?? Mai chai untarai mak!!

This 90 day thing is not so strict now especially depending on where your passport is from, with a Kiwi passport I never have problems coming in and out well over the ninety days in 6 months, it is written in the visa info that it is ultimately up to the descretion of the imigration officer. Just go well dressed, by your self and dont go wreaking of booze and smile and be polite. AND TELL YOU YOU LIVE ANY WHERE BUT PATTAYA, they dont seem to like Pattaya farangs, dont blame them either, when Thai's say they dont likie farang they really mean the Pattaya style farang lol.