18 minutes ago, Isaan sailor said:

Good wine, music, sailing, friends and living with a wonderful Isaan girl.

How long togehter?

(just curious how long they stay wonderful) 

Do not think too much about things happening in the world.

Just act sensible and responsible and get on with your life.

Life is now drink it while it is still fizzing

Get up in the morning  have a coffee look at the news headlines 

Off to the Macro get the morning rolls 

Catch up on the E-Mails 

Out in the afternoon for my daily exercise walk

Enjoy a good dinner in the evening 

Life is good 

Keep yourself fit or at least in reasonable shape and enjoy each day ???? 

 

19 hours ago, BritManToo said:

Eating the mince pies I just made ... covered in squirty cream.

 

Drinking my homemade lemonade from my lemon trees, and eating my homemade apple pie, with ice cream.

 

8 minutes ago, Expat68 said:

Do not think too much about things happening in the world.

Just act sensible and responsible and get on with your life.

Life is now drink it while it is still fizzing

I think what makes a good life, is when you do not have to do anything, and you do things that feels good, give you a interesting day, and you do not feel stuck somewhere. I have met some expats who are stuck in the village and 100% depending on the wife and her family. Little or no network around them, and the few they rely on, useally only meet up for drinks. 

 

Also not only depending on the situation in Thailand, and have enough so if something happens in near future, it is possible to relocate, either from the village and inside Thailand, or able to leave Thailand and relocate somewhere else. 

 

However I like living boring, taking care of animals, my motorbikes, our little farm, our trips around in Thaialnd, still hitting the gym for lifting and boxing, diving, kayaking, hiking, and food experiences. But still boring in the long run for some reasons. 

 

Have also a nice Isan lady who treat me good as one mentioned before here. It is give and take, and try to do the best for each other. Without here, I would have moved on, and possible to a new destination somewhere. 

15 hours ago, KannikaP said:

Kinnel, that Robertson's Mincemeat is expensive on Lazada, Bht  300 -400. That's over a  poorly octopus!

But only one a year I guess.

 

Waitrose mincemeat was about 250 Baht in Central last week.

 

12 hours ago, JustAnotherHun said:

Nice corner. When I get my bike I want got to Petchabun. Some crazy roads there ????

The roads on Koh Chang are the craziest i've ever seen. 

20 hours ago, BritManToo said:

Eating the mince pies I just made ... covered in squirty cream.

 

 

We have a winner

5-10 years form now. Hopefully never getting on an airplane again and no more covid-19 tests.

 

20 hours ago, BritManToo said:

Eating the mince pies I just made ... covered in squirty cream.

 

But can ya'll smell them...

looks great.

8 minutes ago, theoldgit said:

 

Waitrose mincemeat was about 250 Baht in Central last week.

 

I'm intrigued, what is that? Yes I can read, but what kind of meat is that?

What do I have to look forward to? A long slow painful death.

2 minutes ago, EVENKEEL said:

I'm intrigued, what is that? Yes I can read, but what kind of meat is that?

 

It's the sweet filling for Mince Pies, the Waitrose equivilant of the Robertson Mincemeat posted by @BritManToo

I look forward to the pain killers and anti inflammatories kicking in every day, these aches and pains keep getting worse- so I don't think much of getting older. ????

3 minutes ago, clivebaxter said:

I look forward to the pain killers and anti inflammatories kicking in every day, these aches and pains keep getting worse- so I don't think much of getting older. ????

Have you tried changing your diets, drinking, or anything else that can give a relief? Also moving your body, training is proven to help many with mobility problems and pain. Hard work but for most it can be done to improve life and life quality. 

 

If I sit down and do nothing, skip the gym for a month, the pain in my joints starts, and if I eat chicken, drink to much to often inflamation starts in my body, so I had to take a grip on my life and change many things to improve and finely get on top of everything. 

 

It is a boring life,  but a good life

 

 

1 hour ago, pagallim said:

Look great.   Home made food such as this always seem to taste better.   Some crumpets I made for the first time yesterday.

PM me the recipe please. I tried but not enough holes in them. Can't beat a Crumpet with many holes!

19 hours ago, Jingthing said:

What's work?

You remember if you force yourself.

It's that annoying habit of waking up too early, shaving/showering (ugh), climbing into a car and competing with too many others to arrive safely (or not) at a place you don't want to be, with people you don't want to see, performing a task that is probably devoid of any satisfaction and that you don't want to do. In return for this we earn the right to repeat each day ad infinitum until we die.

 

Then....... we wake up one day, realize there's more to life, and walk away to find something more rewarding. Some of us find it some don't.

 

Don't fret though because you have found it and it's natural to suppress traumatic events in your past life.

 

We few, we lucky, we who escaped and don't look back.

Christmas......

 

21 hours ago, 1FinickyOne said:

what do you look forward to? 

More of the same without the work.

 

It will take a some time before I will retire. Obviously then I won't "work" anymore. But apart from that I imagine that my life won't change much.

More or less my whole (working) life I made sure that it is not all about work. Time for coffee, time for extended lunch breaks, working not too late to have time to go out. If possible don't work on weekends, etc.

Obviously I also had some times in my life where I had to work a lot and sometimes it was stressful. But I made sure that is not "normal".

I think it is sad when some people, or maybe many, work (hard) all their life because they dream about enjoying their retirement. Why wait so long?

If I die today and I have a minute or two to think about my life then I can think about all the fun and good time and I don't have to think about what I would have done when I retire. Because I did that already long before my retirement. 

    I look forward to being able to travel internationally again--there are lots of places I would like to visit for the first time.  In the meantime, I look forward to every day, happy I am alive and in relatively good health, with a partner to enjoy going through the day with.  This beautiful morning I am sitting by the pool with my coffee, checking the news, easing into my day.  Life is good.

waking up to another day..which one day will not happen..be grateful for the life i have .. but most important that big smiling face of my 4 year old son ...lifes good 

After death

re-encarnation occurs in 7-10 days.

Hope to learn guitar next life.

Cars, motorbikes, racing both of those death traps. Lazy beach afternoons. Spending time with my gorgeous wife. Hopefully sone works travel again in the next 18 to 24 months 

1 hour ago, RocketDog said:

You remember if you force yourself.

It's that annoying habit of waking up too early, shaving/showering (ugh), climbing into a car and competing with too many others to arrive safely (or not) at a place you don't want to be, with people you don't want to see, performing a task that is probably devoid of any satisfaction and that you don't want to do. In return for this we earn the right to repeat each day ad infinitum until we die.

I do believe that I was lucky in my working life, because I enjoyed most of it, from the learning experiences gained from an electrical engineering apprenticeship, which allowed me to travel overseas to work on oil installations, which is always exciting and sometimes dangerous work, and very well paid.

 

When I gave that up I got into sales management and started in a management position in Rank Xerox and enjoyed managing and coaching my team to successes.

 

Over to New Zealand, and becoming Director of Sales and Establishment Marketing for American Express NZ was a brilliant job and brought so many benefits with it – – sales conferences in Hawaii, Singapore, New Caledonia and trips to the Cook Islands, Australia and so on, and being able to have a practice game of tennis with Steffi Graf, sailing the America's Cup Challenger yacht around Auckland Harbour and much, much more, and it was probably the best job of my life.

 

I moved on to become Chief Manager in a major New Zealand bank and launched an extremely successful sales through service program which was even acclaimed by the Banking Ombudsman! 

 

Then on to setting up an investment programme for the same bank and building our funds up to just under $2 billion before I left. It was this last part that caused me a huge amount of stress and a medical condition which could have killed me, and I had to make a huge change in my life, so I retired at the age of 55 and moved here.

 

I guess what I'm trying to say is that work wasn't all drudgery for me, and for the most part I enjoyed the travel, challenges, colleague and customer interfaces, as well as the chance to experience new things, even as far as being a personal guest (and friend) of the then Prime Minister of NZ on several occasions!

 

Back to the subject at hand, and the two do tie in, because from having a mostly successful, challenging and exciting working life, I've now come down to nothing to keep the grey matter working, and I can't find anything here that stimulates my one remaining brain cell, hence my post about – – "waking up" and about looking for wine.

 

On the upside, I have learnt how to relax, and even now that becomes difficult to do, but I am having a lot of practice at it!!

4 hours ago, HappyExpat57 said:

"The Boys" has another season in 2022, and Amazon reports they also have season 4 in the works.

So you think I would want to watch a show called The Boys? 

Life after death is my only option. Wish I could be more optimistic. ????

2 hours ago, Pedrogaz said:

What do I have to look forward to? A long slow painful death.

Do you want to elaborate?

 

2 hours ago, Pedrogaz said:

What do I have to look forward to? A long slow painful death.

"That's the icing on the cake," said Pollyanna.

 

3 hours ago, Hummin said:

How long togehter?

(just curious how long they stay wonderful) 

8 years and lucky.  Choose carefully cause it’s a huge investment, and you need both pre-nups and leases for your security and peace of mind.  Of course, it helps to have a bit of money, too.

7 minutes ago, Isaan sailor said:

8 years and lucky.  Choose carefully cause it’s a huge investment, and you need both pre-nups and leases for your security and peace of mind.  Of course, it helps to have a bit of money, too.

5 years here, and getting better for every year! Do you wai correct to the right people at the right time? Ref another tread?