connda

2 hours ago, CharlieH said:

12kg is way to high for your age and starting off, I would strongly suggest you get to practice and get the correct method and "form" before you even consider that kind of weight, or you'll just end up injured.

 

Start with around 5/6kg  get comfortable with the methods, etc., lighter weight, more reps, etc is the safe way to start.

 

There are plenty of senior workouts with kettlebells on YouTube

 

I bought mine of Lazada and never had any issues.

 

Yeah - it was a "senior workout" on Youtube that suggested the 12kg kettlebell. 
Anyhow - that is another reason why I want to "handle" a set before buying.  Although I've got a lot of past experience with free-weights, I also understand my present fitness limitations. 
So finding a store with kettlebells is also about picking them up and doing some routine movements with them before buying.  I'm not interested is tearing a tendon.

3 hours ago, Wobblybob said:

Don't buy the kettlebells filled with composite materials they are about twice the size of the metal ones and look tacky.

Exactly.  I planned to buy cast-iron.

1 hour ago, jij said:

damaged? a kettle bell? seems unlikely.

 

https://www.lazada.co.th/tag/kettle-bells/?spm=a2o4m.home-th.search.d_go&q=kettle bells&catalog_redirect_tag=true

And yet?  These are from verified purchase.  I don't want to send damaged goods back to either of these outfit as it is a pain in the butt.  Been there, done that. 

So - still looking for a brick-and-mortor fitness shop in CM that sells these. 

I used to lift free weight but those days are over basically due to lack of access to a gym.  And I'm wayyyyy out of shape.

I had a friend years ago who swore by kettlebells.  I've been reading about them and they appeal to my 70+ year old body where I'm less interested in muscle mass gains and more interested in working more full-body muscles in compound movement - i.e., my sexy man days are over, I just need to get in shape again at a whole body level.

Anyway - kettlebell purchases.  I looked on both Lazada and Shopee but the reviews of the kettlebells I was interested in all indicated they arrived damaged.
So I'd rather purchase from a store.  I'm not familiar with which stores in Chiang Mai would carry them.  Has anyone seem kettlebells stocked in fitness stores and which fitness stores did you see them in.  I'm interested in a 12kg kettlebell to start with.  If anyone has advice about training with kettlebell, I'm all ears.  Thanks!

15 minutes ago, Furioso said:

I appreciate everybody's input. Ultimately, I decided to buy the Honor Pad 9 for 10,900 baht. I did a deep dive on laptops and ended up believing what a popular tech youtuber said "Laptops are designed to be sold, not used". He reviews all the laptops, finds big faults in all of them even though by now they should be awesome devices. It's just such a crapshoot, I don't feel like gambling right now. 

Buy a custom-built desktop for home use and a laptop for when your away from home.  Then you're pretty much set.

Also - although I have bought laptops with AMD processors in the past, I'm now pretty much set on using Intel-based CPUs as I run programs like "Whisper" (audio to text translation) which at this time don't work on AMD.  And I now tend to also buy computers with higher end video as well (GPU).  I don't game but I do use programs that will use GPU cycles like if you're playing with any sort of AI at the OS level as opposed to online.  It's a different world then even 5 years ago - but then again - that's Moore's Law for ya! 

On 4/25/2024 at 9:41 AM, OneMoreFarang said:

I suggest look at it in a shop - if you have the opportunity.

Type a few sentences and look how you like the keyboard.

Most new notebooks have enough performance for everyday usage (except games). The quality and feel of the keyboard and mousepad makes a difference.

If you are on a budget look if you can get a 2nd hand ThinkPad. They are mostly the best you can buy. 

I tend to agree.  I don't shell out 15K to 20K for a computer without using it first.  Laptops, when I replace them (taking about Acers FYI, previous commenters had a point) to go to a shop and use the demos machines.  That usually entails bringing along a "Live" copy of Linux and Windows on a USB drive and making sure I like what I see. 

28 minutes ago, impulse said:

 

I appreciate the updates, if only to confirm that the numbers aren't skyrocketing. 

 

And I also appreciate his updates on what's available in Thailand in the way of prevention and treatment, even if it's not something I'd go for.  Better too much information than not enough.

 

 

Then why not a dashboard giving daily/weekly updates on Dengue, TB, Malaria, influenza, STDs, AIDS, Japanese Encephalitis.  Why just Covid/Sars-Cov-2?  Think about it.

I've had Dengue.  If I get it again it could kill me.  But I don't revolve my life around worrying about Dengue and a daily/weekly basis.  So why compulsively worry about just one disease?

3 hours ago, Srikcir said:

This fleet deployed from San Diego, California in January 2024 for service in the Western Pacific. It appears Thailand was its first break from duty. A fleet commander would be very specific to the ship captains, sailors and officers as to the decorum expected on landing in Thailand for a shore break and the consequences otherwise during the long months back to US. 

I believe it's now a UCMJ offense to pay a bar-fine.  Well, you gotta get caught first.  I find it funny considering DEI and the acceptance of 150+ genders by the Pentagon that they would seek to strip a guy (or gal or whatever) of their rank, half their pay, and confinement for bonking a bar-girl/bar-guy/bar-tranny - well, if you're enlist that is.  But that's today's Navy I guess.  I sure as hell wouldn't have enlisted like I did a whole lot of decades ago in a military environment like this.  But - different times.

Today in sick-bay.  A few hundred guys getting a swab shoved up their ding-dong to test of STDs. 

If you really want to be fearful of something, then look at the Thai roads.  Your chances of getting killed on Thai roads are exponentially higher than dying of a Sars-Cov-2 infection if you are a average person in relatively good health.  I really can't understand what drives others to continue to hype Sars-Cov-2 as The Plague four years after the fact and at a time when virtually the entire world (with exceptions like pockets of people suffering from Covid Mysophobia) has gotten on with life and now accept Sars-Cov-2 for what it is - a mild, seasonal, flu-like viral infection that some people will get and most people won't.   And yet, sadly for some, Sars-Cov-2 is the "monster-under-the-bed" that is going to get you if you ever let your guard down.  What a terrible burden to carry though life. 

Caveat Emptor - Buyer Beware. 

Of course, Thailand isn't in the "first-world" category for a reason, like not having a functioning Federal Trade Commission with a Consumer Protection division that actually has teeth.  So - it's Caveat Emptor, or every man and woman for themselves. Bad guys prey, suckers pay.

100,000 THB fine is a slap on the wrist.

Jail the top hospital administrator and those responsible for rejecting the patient.  That behavior will end.  A 100K fine - that won't stop them from doing it again. 

Carry your valuables with you.  Leaving them in a hotel room is not a good idea.  The only other way around that is to place a handle lock on the exterior door.

 

I've started wearing my T-shirt with "BIDEN 2024" on the front, "TRUMP 2024" on the back, and my hat which says "TAYLOR SWIFT POTUS 2024"

I'm thinking of getting a henna ANITFA tat on my left arm and a PROUD-BOYS tat on my right just to mix it up.

Hell - might as well confuse the ideologically confused haters.  Everyone but Taylor Swift sucks anyway.  And half the people here probably thinks she sucks too.  I can appreciate her as a musician - AND as President!!!

Lord I ❤️ these stupid election seasons. 

6 hours ago, Jo77 said:

So you know nothing but you make assumptions?

I'm not planning to take them from her unless she really become dangerous for them. I'm planning on making sure they have a roof, food, education and not having a pedophile step father or something like this and not letting my kids to an irresponsible person.

Now she can be ok as long as everything is going well for her, means money, good boyfriend, etc but when she faces problems she is very selfish and quickly lose her <deleted>.

So you'd like to kidnap the children for their own protection?  My guess is that is often said by the parent seeking to rip custodial rights from other parent.  Good luck.  Stay out of jail.

If you're planning to taking your kids from their mother, well, really reflect on that action.

If the mother has actually abandoned them, then seek legal advice.

2 minutes ago, connda said:

Which has to do "what" with rising sea levels and beach front properties?

FYI -  I lived in CA for 8 years and fires up and down the state were a problem as far back as I can remember.  For me that was close to 40 years ago - back when Fairfield was becoming a bedroom community for the Bay Area.  About 20 years later that was Sacramento.  Now its Lake Tahoe.  Let's not even talk about So. Cal 💗 and San Diego.  There are millions of new homes, a total lack of new PGE infrastructure (the old stuff keeps creating fires it seems), and then an eco-warrior mindset that seems to think that if enough "wild-fires" are set (another name for arson in the name of global warming) then the state will revert to neo-feudalism and force all the pleb into 15 minute cities where they can eat bugs and "be happy."  Insurance companies are happy to oblige.  I can remember back when there was a major "hill-fire" in Oakland.  All the houses on the hill-side were toasted -except one which was built by an engineer who engineered it - not to burn.  It can be done - but there's not will to do it. 

For anyone mad enough to live in CA these day.  Sucks to be you.  I loved my time there but I'd never go back.

Let me know when the homes on Mission Beach can't get insurance because the polar ice caps are melting and nobody can sell because they can't get title insurance.

1 hour ago, soalbundy said:

Sorry it's California but Florida home insurance is doubling and tripling.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBHbUsttwa8

 

Which has to do "what" with rising sea levels and beach front properties?

FYI -  I lived in CA for 8 years and fires up and down the state were a problem as far back as I can remember.  For me that was close to 40 years ago - back when Fairfield was becoming a bedroom community for the Bay Area.  About 20 years later that was Sacramento.  Now its Lake Tahoe.  Let's not even talk about So. Cal 💗 and San Diego.  There are millions of new homes, a total lack of new PGE infrastructure (the old stuff keeps creating fires it seems), and then an eco-warrior mindset that seems to think that if enough "wild-fires" are set (another name for arson in the name of global warming) then the state will revert to neo-feudalism and force all the pleb into 15 minute cities where they can eat bugs and "be happy."  Insurance companies are happy to oblige.  I can remember back when there was a major "hill-fire" in Oakland.  All the houses on the hill-side were toasted -except one which was built by an engineer who engineered it - not to burn.  It can be done - but there's not will to do it. 

For anyone mad enough to live in CA these day.  Sucks to be you.  I loved my time there but I'd never go back.

Talk about government officials who simply can't be happy:

Feast - unhappy
Famine - unhappy

5 minutes ago, Jingthing said:

No need to walk on eggshells.

He's 60 for chrissakes.

Just be authentic.

I wouldn't ask probing questions about his sexual history though unless he starts to talk about it himself.

Exactly!