Things you do now you didnt before ?

[Benmart]

love cooking but hated cooking sweets. maybe I should get some advise on this .

I hate eating sweet things, but I would love to make perfect cakes, if I would have the time.

Did a double choc cake today, its only 20 mins prep 40 minutes cooking job done ! No time at all really.

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Did a couple of cakes in my rice cooker following recipes on line. They turned out great and were gone in days.

[HeijoshinCool]

Trying a little gardening, probably won't each much of it since I've used far too many chemicals.

-Took a silver jewellery one day course making thingys out of silver in clay (new technology)

-Signed up for a 6 day leather course which I'll attend after a wee holiday

-Purchased some lab equipment as I want to learn how to calorie count food (I'll be back asking for suggestions)

-Got to level 154 on Candy Crush with a little help from a 9 year old

And........I've spent far too much time on the Internet.

Hmmm. Takes that long, does it?

[CharlieH]

Trying a little gardening, probably won't each much of it since I've used far too many chemicals.

-Took a silver jewellery one day course making thingys out of silver in clay (new technology)

-Signed up for a 6 day leather course which I'll attend after a wee holiday

-Purchased some lab equipment as I want to learn how to calorie count food (I'll be back asking for suggestions)

-Got to level 154 on Candy Crush with a little help from a 9 year old

And........I've spent far too much time on the Internet.

Hmmm. Takes that long, does it?

SShhh thats what he told the wife, and he needs to get the full benefit...lol

[thailiketoo]

I talk with my eyebrows and point with my mouth. When I want you to come here I wave goodbye.

[Travel2003]

Drinking foreign beer.

[David48]

Did a double choc cake today, its only 20 mins prep 40 minutes cooking job done ! No time at all really.

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Did a couple of cakes in my rice cooker following recipes on line. They turned out great and were gone in days.

Nothing so fancy as an oven at the FarmHouse and nothing goes in the rice cooker except ... ummm ... rice ... and we have two going constantly.

However ... the crew did make a good fist of it in the microwave ...

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[khunPer]

Tech-dance

[David48]

Ride around on the postie bike ... I was the cameraman.

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[dotpoom]

After buying a house here and having it remodeled I learned how to use all those electric tools (watching the workmen) that I had been brainwashed at home into believing that I shouldn't touch without doing some sort of course or other. I also learned about building stone walls, tiling etc.,. It's a fantastic feeling when you know you can take care of most of the building jobs around the house. At the moment I am cutting granite for table and stool tops for the garden outside. I have tons of ideas for improving the outside that I wouldn't have bothered about if I couldn't do it myself. These days I am a busy happy chappy. No time for an "idle" mind.

And I learned to get back on a motorbike after 40 years away from one. Between all that and taking holidays every 5 or 6 weeks with my wife in the pick-up...packed up with the ice-box, picnic gas, (for a fry-up in the salahs-gazebos (bus shelters) along the way and sometimes the bicycles or motorbike.

Indeed I have learned a lot since coming to Thailand 11 years ago.

[smooth expat]

Eat rice everyday.

[johnmarhall]

relaxing on a beach

[wolf5370]

I really enjoyed some of the points made by #6 until the bit about wifey beeing back in the UK......While you are in Thailand?

At the risk of being told to mind my own business...are they your biological kids? If yes why are you not educating them in the UK?

yes biological (not androids ). They initially went to private school in the UK from 2years old. Then private school here, but were going backwards ("learning" stuff they learned years before).

I have two degrees, under and post grad, teaching experience in the UK and here up to university level. I am only in my early 40s and earn from assets abroad - my wife travels and works in the UK on contracts, and comes home between - she has an elderly relative there that she adores. I am able to teach them here legally and well. they study full UK curriculum (IGSCE and GCSE), follow UK school schedules - and are doing very well. We have friends locally and relatives too, they socialise with both kids and adults. There is nothing they are missing as to education - and better than they would be getting from a standard UK education, let alone a Thai one. They will be going home for their A Levels (sixth form college) as they wish to go on to British Universities - will decide nearer the time how this is handled logistically (we have family in the UK still of course, and my wife could always take a few contracts and stay there with them - or we may decide to move home for a couple of years - no idea as yet).

Thailand is our home, we like it here. We don't like the education system here (even at so called good schools) - so we make the best out of both worlds. Better than me sitting in a bar all day bored stupid! And I have actually learned quite a lot teaching them subjects that I have had to learn (or update myself with) as I go - e.g. Latin, which was new to me (I took French and German instead). They get professional lessons for music and Thai - though they have to practice both at home (piano and classical guitar - and reading Thai books). Currently awaiting (next week) a batch of text book from the UK for next year

Edited November 2, 2013 by wolf5370

[super22k]

I have learned to eat spicy food and keep my hand on my wallet when I walk through a market. Bye the way,I am so glad you have told me what a Bum gun is. Ive been brushing my teeth with it.

[Bikkii]

Have a lot more casual sex in varied hotel rooms cause I don't want or trust them to come to my house.

Mostly non-bar girls too.

[wooloomooloo]

I have two degrees, under and post grad, teaching experience in the UK and here up to university level.

I hope you've reminded your kids on the merits of good paragraph construction.

[wolf5370]

I have two degrees, under and post grad, teaching experience in the UK and here up to university level.

I hope you've reminded your kids on the merits of good paragraph construction.

I teach them that, yes. I also teach them that they should not use contractions in written text unless it forms part of speech. One good thing about being a teacher is that you do not have to do as you teach - I have passed my exams and do not need to impress anyone anymore.

I shall also remind them about the need to ignore pedantic fools and self appointed grammar police when on informal forums. Oh, I seem to have done something else differently that I teach.

By the way, there are paragraphs, just no extra line feed between them - but I am sure you noticed that.

[wooloomooloo]

Thanks, this is easier on my eyes.

[wooloomooloo]

I'm going to learn how to ride a motorbike on our next visit in a few weeks.

This is something that I think I may never do in the UK but I would like to attain Thai motorbike licence.

My wife's none too happy but I am going to do this.

[Bikkii]

I have two degrees, under and post grad, teaching experience in the UK and here up to university level.

I hope you've reminded your kids on the merits of good paragraph construction.

I teach them that, yes. I also teach them that they should not use contractions in written text unless it forms part of speech. One good thing about being a teacher is that you do not have to do as you teach - I have passed my exams and do not need to impress anyone anymore.

I shall also remind them about the need to ignore pedantic fools and self appointed grammar police when on informal forums. Oh, I seem to have done something else differently that I teach.

By the way, there are paragraphs, just no extra line feed between them - but I am sure you noticed that.

I may be an illiterate Plebeian but to me I see one sentence (badly constructed at that).

To construde there may be an essay out of five words makes me feel a lot better learning Thai where I thought their language and placement was totally f@@ked up!

[jacko45k]

I have learned that grown up men after a life of hard work in the west who retire to Thailand have finally found out how to wipe/spray their bum without mommys help after a dump,already 3 topics running about this.

Life in Thailand must really be boring for some people,and apparently for some posters civilizations have been built and destroyed because of toiletpaper <deleted>..

Well if one is going to live here, one needs to have empathy with the local ways.

And not being able to clean your own ass until you have lived here 28 years is the Thai male way.

[IsaanUSA]

Eating with a spoon and fork.

[pigeonjake]

taking care of these every day im at home,

my life has chaged so so much,

all for the better i might add,

[flyingdoc]

I think a diving course too, plus growing more vegetables in some super local soil!

[wolf5370]

I have two degrees, under and post grad, teaching experience in the UK and here up to university level.

I hope you've reminded your kids on the merits of good paragraph construction.

I teach them that, yes. I also teach them that they should not use contractions in written text unless it forms part of speech. One good thing about being a teacher is that you do not have to do as you teach - I have passed my exams and do not need to impress anyone anymore.

I shall also remind them about the need to ignore pedantic fools and self appointed grammar police when on informal forums. Oh, I seem to have done something else differently that I teach.

By the way, there are paragraphs, just no extra line feed between them - but I am sure you noticed that.

I may be an illiterate Plebeian but to me I see one sentence (badly constructed at that).

To construde there may be an essay out of five words makes me feel a lot better learning Thai where I thought their language and placement was totally f@@ked up!

You see one sentence because that was all he decided to pull from a longer post (i.e. out of context edited post - which, incidentally, is against forum rules). The original post was an answer to a direct question posed to me as to why I home school here rather than send my kids to the UK. The grammar was far from great, but then I was not trying to pass an English test; I was trying to accurately answer the question. The implication was that because my grammar was less than perfect, that I am a poor teacher. The post was not unreadable, there were no spelling mistakes, and the grammar was passable (though I agree not perfect) - it was merely a weak response from a self appointed grammar policeman - their ilk frequent this and other forums across the net, and are almost as annoying and pointless as trolls.

Edited November 4, 2013 by wolf5370

[GinBoy2]

Oh this is sounding all Girly, but I too got all into baking. Bread, cookies, pastries, my gift to myself was my Tao Op (oven). So now with my increased estrogen levels exposed, I'm putting my pinny back on and returning to the kitchen!

[geronimo]

I now have a deep appreciation of nature.

[smokie36]

Trying a little gardening, probably won't each much of it since I've used far too many chemicals.

-Took a silver jewellery one day course making thingys out of silver in clay (new technology)

-Signed up for a 6 day leather course which I'll attend after a wee holiday

-Purchased some lab equipment as I want to learn how to calorie count food (I'll be back asking for suggestions)

-Got to level 154 on Candy Crush with a little help from a 9 year old

And........I've spent far too much time on the Internet.

I'm kicking ass on battle pirates.

[jvs]

I am more into gardening and becoming self sufficient and actually enjoy life now!

Edited November 4, 2013 by jvs

[Gnasher328]

Yup, the dreaded 'grammar police'. Why the hell should we have to be degree educated to contribute to a forum? Think I'd rather be an ill educated pleb if that's the way the intelligentsia get their kicks.

And that's not even starting on touchscreen typos.

[GinBoy2]

taking care of these every day im at home,

my life has chaged so so much,

all for the better i might add,

Very cool picture bro

Disclaimer: Sorry if the sentence structure, syntax or use of American slang offends, is objectionable, or in any other way hard on the reading eyes!

Edited November 5, 2013 by GinBoy2