Personal Goals For 2025

[RSD1]

22 hours ago, newnative said:

Very much liked all 5 of yours and I will try to do all 5 myself, with the goal of appreciating and enjoying every day.

Thank you. Let's hope we both are successful in achieving all of these goals in 2025. 

[RSD1]

9 hours ago, save the frogs said:

that's right, introspection is not people's forte on AN.

watch out. gamma's latino boys thread will surpass your thread pretty soon. 

That is ok. It's not a topic competition. If people are interested in self exploration and participation in a topic like this then they can go ahead and join in. Otherwise they can stick to the other topics about the more usual stuff if they prefer that too.
 

What's interesting that I've noticed about a lot of the responses so far is that most people are just happy to be blessed with good health and longevity. Of course these are good goals. In my opinion, health is something that we have to continue to work on as we age via a combination of exercise, nutrition and avoiding harmful substances. Thus health can't always just be taken for granted. It's also interesting to me how our desires and objectives often change as we get older. 
 

As I'm now in a situation of greater financial security, I think back to my younger years when I didn't have the financial freedom to live life on my own terms as much as I do now. Back then I had dreams of doing a lot of adventurous things, which no longer interest me so much. Now I often find myself sitting around, asking myself what I really want to do with my time since a lot of the financial barriers have now been removed. And what I find myself often gravitating towards are the types things that I fear that, if I don't do them now, I may no longer be able to do them again at some point in the future. 
 

I guess people often refer to that as a bucket list. But I don't really have a bucket list. And a lot of the things that I want to do now are not one-and-done types of things you might even find on a bucket list. They are more of the types of things that I enjoy doing over and over again, purely for the simple pleasures one finds within them. 

[RSD1]

6 hours ago, proton said:

Stop watching annoying western Thai vloggers

Is that really a big thing? I've only ever come across a few of them and never felt inclined to watch them regularly, if more than once or twice. They all seem pretty pedestrian to me. Is there anything particularly alluring about them to begin with? This is a serious question, I'm just curious.

[RSD1]

4 hours ago, BritManToo said:

I'd prefer to have more pork pies and pasties.

I'm familiar with British pies in general, and some of them are really nice, but I don't think I've ever eaten any of those pasties. They do sound good though. Basically like a pie inside of a baked pastry dough with a meat and vegetable type filling, but more portable. Is that it?

[BritManToo]

Pasties ......... These were mince and onion.

[RSD1]

9 minutes ago, BritManToo said:

Pasties ......... These were mince and onion.

Those look really good. By mince you mean mined beef? I guess that's a traditional Cornish Pastie recipe?

 

I read that the British put other fillings in them too. I might prefer something more like the ones with ham and cheese like a toastie or with potato and egg inside. I guess you can also put other things in them like vegetables and curry. 
 

I was on the island of Santorini in Greece about 25 years ago and they had something very similar that they ate a lot of down there. The bakeries were filled with all kinds of these type types of large, fluffy pastries. The dough was a bit more flaky like a croissant and I remember they contained fillings like cheese and bacon, etc. They were really good too. 

[Keeps]

3 minutes ago, RSD1 said:

I guess that's a traditional Cornish Pastie recipe?

That is a very UNtraditional Cornish pasty recipe. Some Cornish locals get very anal about what is allowed in a pasty. A true pasty should only have small cubed beef, cubed potato and swede (I think it's called yellow turnip or something in the US) onion, salt and pepper.

 

A Cornish pasty is crimped at the side as per BMT's picture. A Devon pasty is crimped at the top. They were traditionally eaten by miners as they were robust, easy to carry and you could eat the majority of it and then throw away the crust which in parts would be covered in coal dust from holding it. 

 

The Bedforshire clanger is a similar idea but one end was savoury and the other end sweet so you had a meal all in one.

 

 

[save the frogs]

4 hours ago, scottiejohn said:

"Bob" posts here that he bonks ladyboys!

because Bob has a pair of cajones.

like that other poster who lives amidst the civil war in myanmar.

and that might be a resolution for all of us to strive for - grow a pair of cajones in 2025!

[Utalk2mutt]

1. Stay in good health.

2. Manage my time better, be more active, exercise daily.

3. Learn how to draw properly (get arty).

4. Learn to play the Saxaphone.

[RSD1]

3 hours ago, Keeps said:

That is a very UNtraditional Cornish pasty recipe. Some Cornish locals get very anal about what is allowed in a pasty. A true pasty should only have small cubed beef, cubed potato and swede (I think it's called yellow turnip or something in the US) onion, salt and pepper.

 

A Cornish pasty is crimped at the side as per BMT's picture. A Devon pasty is crimped at the top. They were traditionally eaten by miners as they were robust, easy to carry and you could eat the majority of it and then throw away the crust which in parts would be covered in coal dust from holding it. 

 

The Bedforshire clanger is a similar idea but one end was savoury and the other end sweet so you had a meal all in one.

 

 

Thank you for the education on pasties. I had never heard of them until BMT mentioned them today and then I did a bit of digging around to learn more. I was always familiar with and enjoyed the British meat pies. 30 years ago, I used to eat lunch sometimes with friends in Chequers in Soi 4. They had nice English pies and are still doing them it seems. 
 

When I first arrived in Thailand, there wasn't much international bakery stuff around though. In the Sukhumvit area, some of the best stuff was from the Landmark Hotel's pastry and bakery shop on the ground level.
 

I remember they had something called "curry puffs". From what I remember, they were these small flaky pastries with a bit of a chicken curry filling on the inside. A bit bigger than bite-sized, but they were really nice. I suspect the recipe had its origins from the UK.

 

Other than that, some of the best bread at the time was from the small bakery attached to the German restaurant in Suk Soi 20 called Bei Otto. This was at a time right before Emporium opened its doors and there wasn't much good bakery stuffs around. There you were eventually able to get some really good bread too from a bakery shop that was run on the top floor of Emporium by The Oriental Hotel.
 

 

[georgegeorgia]

18 hours ago, save the frogs said:

because Bob has a pair of cajones.

like that other poster who lives amidst the civil war in myanmar.

and that might be a resolution for all of us to strive for - grow a pair of cajones in 2025!

Yes great goal for you , but ..like anything else because YOU didn't have "cajones" in 2024 , we all should,start with yourself! 

 

[Marco100]

1) my Body . I need this Body for at least another 20 years and I need it healthy and fit . If I don’t start now it will be to late . ( 62 )

2) Travel .

Ok that's enough . For the redt I will keep leazy and procrastinate 😂😂😂

[RSD1]

The 12 real luxuries in life:

 

time 

health

a quiet mind 

slow mornings 

ability to travel 

rest without guilt 

a good night's sleep 

calm and "boring" days 

meaningful conversations 

home-cooked meals 

people you love

people who love you back

[GammaGlobulin]

a. Improve my Thai language vocabulary knowledge

 

b. Use my Thai skills to post all my Topics on TV....100-percent...in the Thai language.

[georgegeorgia]

10 hours ago, RSD1 said:

The 12 real luxuries in life:

 

time 

health

a quiet mind 

slow mornings 

ability to travel 

rest without guilt 

a good night's sleep 

calm and "boring" days 

meaningful conversations 

home-cooked meals 

people you love

people who love you back

Don't be so prejudice!

What about the ASEAN Forum ???

[ChumpChange]

2 hours ago, georgegeorgia said:

Don't be so prejudice!

What about the ASEAN Forum ???

Or what about mopping, right? Can't forget mopping!

[ChumpChange]

9 hours ago, GammaGlobulin said:

Use my Thai skills to post all my Topics on TV....100-percent...in the Thai language.

Impossible. English language forum. Violation of terms of service.

[thaibeachlovers]

On 12/31/2024 at 8:48 PM, KhunLA said:

Tell me about ... I'm really turning into a LPOS.  Actually worked up a sweat, putting air in the tires yesterday, 10 of 'em  ... 

... pedal bike

... ebike

... E scooter

... E car

 

WTF, That's just sad ... 

 

Considering when I first got here, I'd cut 1/2+ rai with a weed whacker, before buying a mower.   Then 2nd house, 2 rai of mowing, weed whacking and chain saw cutting crap.

 

Not to mention, building a cinder block storage area, 15 X 3m, along with plumbing in various 2000 L water tanks & pumps, in ground, on second floor (gravity feed), buried lines, 9 tanks in a row, 2 in ground, 2 on raised / 2nd floor.

 

Cut a damn tree down that fell onto the 'garage' with a circular saw, pre-chain saw owning   

 

Now putting air in the tires, works up a sweat 🙄

 

Yup, some of us old fellas can look back on a lifetime of hard work with pride. We didn't sit in an AC office getting a big bum, and thinking the gym was worth paying for.

 

Not so long ago I could move a few tons of dirt in a day and still stay awake at night till after midnight. Now sweeping the floor is hard work and I fall asleep 5 minutes after starting a movie in the evening. I even started watching movies in a chair, but all that happened was that I fell asleep in the chair. Even coffee doesn't keep me awake.

 

Cut a damn tree down that fell onto the 'garage' with a circular saw, pre-chain saw owning

I've done my share of mad things. I was lucky that I didn't cut my hand off, though I once tried to cut my finger off with a chain saw, still have the scars. I was lucky to get a great surgeon that managed to reconnect the tendons, and still have full function in the finger.

[thaibeachlovers]

14 hours ago, RSD1 said:

The 12 real luxuries in life:

 

time 

health

a quiet mind 

slow mornings 

ability to travel 

rest without guilt 

a good night's sleep 

calm and "boring" days 

meaningful conversations 

home-cooked meals 

people you love

people who love you back

You missed sex from your list. The greatest luxury of all.

[thaibeachlovers]

On 1/1/2025 at 3:50 AM, RSD1 said:

When I first arrived in Thailand, there wasn't much international bakery stuff around though. In the Sukhumvit area, some of the best stuff was from the Landmark Hotel's pastry and bakery shop on the ground level.

I often had coffee and cake in there, though so expensive that it fell in the "extravagance" category.

[GammaGlobulin]

4 hours ago, ChumpChange said:

Impossible. English language forum. Violation of terms of service.

 

Yah Think?

 

[RSD1]

8 hours ago, thaibeachlovers said:

You missed sex from your list. The greatest luxury of all.

Agreed. 👍🏼