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Things i don't like in Thai food? - IT'S NOT SPICY ENOUGH!!!

Seriously, the fish sauce is necessary for a good noodle soop as well as other curries and fried eggs. However, i agree that some meat dishes are not as farang friendly as they could be. I really like thai food and in the 2 years that i've been here i was consuming alot of it. (aids free).

Example, i'm ordering a beef noodle soup, but all i get is fat combined with sinews and other organic objects but not real meat. (that varies alot from noodlesoupstand to noodlesoupstand). I don't like the cheap? rice that is shining white, sticky like hel_l and soft as noodles that are boiled too long.

One thing that i will never understand is how thai people can love to eat gristle. My girlfriend always says she's born in the dog year, that's why she's so up to it (bones, gristles). But i've obsevered that it is quiete common among thai people and actually preferred over normal, clear "boring" meat

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Why are some people never happy with a fixed profit? Why must they always want bigger & better profits? Why must they have total power? Is it because they are lazy & want to lounge around while slaves do things like wipe their bums? Why, why why?

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I think the reason why you always have to increase your profit from year to year is because if you don't, you're simply out of business. Others will, standing still without profit maximization you'll slowly die out (for the most branches in a competitive market). If you don't have money to invest into new machineries, people etc. you cant compete on the market. There will always one who produces cheaper. Thats the whole point. Inflation plays a role, if you don't inrease your income, you'll have less purchasing power from year to year.

I don't know if this is a professional explanaition but this is, what i've learned in my first year at a thai university

I've got one funny story my girlfriends father told me.

A Guy was wearing this very big and heavy amulet that should always protect him from evil and bad luck.

He once jumped over a small stream, the amulet swung up and broke his nose..

I wonder what that guy might has thought, it probably was a faked one .. Must be.

Maybe you're right with the assumption that people from western countries may look to a bacherlor degree from thailand a bit "different" but isn't also the life experience counting? I mean, alot of people i know are studying in germany, living with their parents and so on.. Being away for 3-4 years for study, in a totally different culture is probably also not a bad thing. The bachelor degree is internationally recognized and credits are transferable to any other university.

I study at the international Ramkamhaeng program, called IIS. www.iis.ru.ac.th I'll start my 4th semester soon and i'm pretty satisfied with the program. Surely, it's probably not as challenging as a western university, but we have nearly only farang teachers and they say, they teach exactly the same like at their home universities.. So, i can't compare it because i never went to university back home in germany but i can say, that with a little effort you'll earn good grades and learn alot (latter depends mostly on you)

I've encountered a king kobra on a quite side of kai bae beach on koh chang. It was a young one, aprox. 2 meters, it was early in the morning. This exemplar was not agressive at all, it was slowly moving on the low tide beach. I came as close as about 2 meters, the beauty flattened her neck a bit, raised her head and turned into another direction. I took a couple of pictures. Sadly, some resort stuff "stunned" (as i got told) with some posion insect spray and threw it into the woods. I understand that a king cobra is indeed a threat but you still don't have to kill them. I really love snakes, up in the north i try to "play" with and photograph every snake i can find, as long as they are considered to be save My girlfriends dad killed a huge snake once, he thought it was a cobra that came very close to the house. It wasn't, it was a very common keelback snake. In the end i found out that it wasn't so much the obvious danger why the snake had to die, it much more was because of a very important ingredient for "tom yum nguu"

I quit smoking one year ago, however i got back to "secretly smoking" for some weeks (without letting my girlfriend know) what caused a very very serious trouble.. For a couple of months i'm clean again and i feel long time already that i never need to smoke again. I was smoking for about 6 years 20 cigaretts a day and the first some weeks after i had decided to quit were really not easy. I gained a couple of kilos what wasn't bad at all, now i look better then ever before

I want to make some suggestions that can help quitters through the first some days and weeks which are certainly the hardest. Probably nothing new (Allen Carr), but it helped me.

First of all, you have to be absolutely sure that you NEVER want to smoke again, if you think i just try it out, it won't work out for you.

Read about nicotin addiction and observe yourself how you feel when you want to smoke. You will find out that you don't feel pain or something, it's just the uncomfortable feeling that you really want to smoke. And this feeling, look at it as there would be a nicotin monster in you, that always wants to be fed. If not, it gets angry and you know how that feels. Stand over it, and say to yourself, i'm stronger than you. I won't feed you anymore. You've controlled my life, now it is mine and i will slowly slowly kill you, you will starve to death.

Don't look to other smokers and envy them, commiserate them. They have to smoke, you don't. Enjoy the feeling, because you know that normally every somker wants to quit, but they are not strong enough. You are.

Maybe it's helpful to tell friends and your family about your decision to quit, don't do it secretly. They will give you power and support you. If the go like "ha, again? You will fail, for sure! I know you.." See it as a challange and try to proove that you really can.

I know all this sounds easy, but it isn't. Don't give up even you've failed already so many times. It is worth it!

Wish you all good luck and power! It's a hard time i know, but you feel freeeeeeeee afterwards, you can really enjoy your life without cigarettes.

That was my first post by the way, hello to all of you!