who are you behind that avatar?

[Ace of Pop]

Im Portuguese who learned English form Real Brits from like T.A in the sixties, the generation that didnt get handouts, hence the P.C Lot find my poor spelling and love of Bernard Manning and Enok Powill offensive. .... Em ALL..

[ozsamurai]

[animatic]

Came here for a job offer in early '95, did it, was offered a better one,

A few days later met the current Mrs. and we are into our 9th year together.

2 years on, I created a company and that gives me freedom to be here,

and work when I want to with out worries.

Still have 2 friends met that first week here, each with more than 20 years here.

Sent from my iPad using Thaivisa Connect Thailand

Edited June 30, 2014 by animatic

[NeverSure]

Lost my way in 1987 and have not found it since. Not sure how to though I wish I could. Now closing in on 50. Hope I don't live too long. It does not get easier for me anyway!

That's too long man. It's never too late to get help and find your way.

Best to you.

[Naam]

And you still cannot spell forty

Ok, now you, write "forty" in your second language. Or is English your second language?

"forty"

"for tea"

[I Like Thai]

So says the member named "Smurkster" with the profile data:

• AgeAge Unknown
• BirthdayBirthday Unknown
• Gender Not Telling

Best answer to OP so far + +

I am 28, my birthday is September 30th and I am a male....was that so hard? I don't really see how giving your age and why you came to Thailand as giving up your ability to remain anonymous.. I would have gladly filled out that portion, I just never thought to, if you want to know something you can ask, I have nothing to hide behind....

I might not tell you my first and last name or my address, but I never asked that as part of the question

Make up your mind, you have a different age below

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/703719-testing-waters-for-restaurant-in-nongbualamphu/

Posted 2014-02-12 10:50:49

yes and I was thinking the equipment doesn't need to be high tech, as you said a burner and an oven ( I already have two ovens in my place, I can just use the other) PLUS, I own the unit in the building that I want to start the restaurant in (well, of course it's my wife, but regardless). I also understand that in order to really have any success, you have to get some Thai customers too, which is something that the pizza restaurant Pinocchio is surprisingly good at capturing. In terms of what had been mentioned early about the need to really put in hard work in order to make it succeed (isn't that the credo with everything in life?), I'm still really young (25) so I have the energy to work on this and make it viable and sustainable from present to future,

[simon43]

I have my genuine photograph and contact details on my profile.

So do I

Why did I come to Thailand? I contracted Aspergillosis (fungal spores in my lungs), as a result of working long hours in a damp, unheated and basement office in London. This debilitating illness was sending my health seriously in the wrong direction. My doctor advised that my health would substantially improve if I moved to a hot climate.

So in 2002 I relocated to Phuket and voila! - my health substantially improved.

The clean air of Phuket seems just right for me. Whenever I go and teach in Yangon or Laos, the cooler climate means that my lung illness starts to return and I have to 'retreat' back to Phuket.

Can't argue with that Living in north Phuket just minutes from the beach, karaoke bars is my kind of life!!

Sin

[Smurkster]

28 is the right age, was nothing but a typo....that I didn't notice....my mind is made up, last time I checked I was 28...

Edited June 30, 2014 by Smurkster

[ALFREDO]

So says the member named "Smurkster" with the profile data:

• AgeAge Unknown
• BirthdayBirthday Unknown
• Gender Not Telling

You beat me to it! I was just about to check the OP's profile. Basically he/she is asking everyone to publish details without offering anything about him/herself.

In a previous topic started by him he does say that he lives in Nongbualamphu, is 25 years old and married to a Thai girl.

"married to a Thai girl" in Thailand, does not surprise me.

[muckwallet]

More like married to his right hand.

[Kudel]

And you still cannot spell forty

It was a typo,aah yes TEFL people the joke of the expat community in Thailand .Met a lot of those <deleted> in my time in Thailand.

[Smurkster]

More like married to his right hand.

Yes.....I married my right hand...did you take into account that maybe I am a lefty?

Edited June 30, 2014 by Smurkster

[ALFREDO]

For those who make it to the TV Lounge gig in Bangkok on July 4, will you introduce yourselves using forum name or would that leed to fighting?

Have to introduce myself visiting that Bar to get my discount on drinks, therefore, will never come without my two friends, "Smith and Wesson"

[duanebigsby]

And you still cannot spell forty

It was a typo,aah yes TEFL people the joke of the expat community in Thailand .Met a lot of those <deleted> in my time in Thailand.

Ahhh ....yeah... always room for a cheap shot against English teachers. why is teaching such a bad thing here?

[NeverSure]

I am your worst nightmare. I grew up on a real, very rural, Western US ranch.

To understand me, you need to ride a horse in government timber for 3 days straight and never see another person, road, or building.

Sleep on the ground knowing there are black bears and cougars in the neighborhood because you saw some that day.

Keep your rifle in your sleeping bag so it doesn't freeze.

Wake up when it's so cold you roll over and light the fire you made the night before, so you'll have some heat when you get out of your sleeping bag.

Look for stray cattle and herd them and drive them. Give them a bait of grain at night so they'll stick around. Go find them in the morning if they slip away. They won't go far.

And do it all alone when you're 15 years old.

Yeah ..... we called it camping in Oz

Yeah right. In Oz you, your horse and two pack animals would be dropped off at 5,000 feet elevation, and you'd ride 3 miles and climb another 4,000 feet following deer trails. You'd wake up and it would be 30 F below zero. (62 F below freezing.) That temp is common in the winter.

When you made a big bunch of peanut butter sandwiches for energy for your trip, you'd poke a hole in the middle of them so that after they froze you could still put a stick through them and hold them over the fire to thaw them enough you could eat them.

You called it camping. We called it hard work.

[ALFREDO]

Lost my way in 1987 and have not found it since. Not sure how to though I wish I could. Now closing in on 50. Hope I don't live too long. It does not get easier for me anyway!

Was a bit surprised, could not remember to have written that, but I could have,

describing "my way" only the year figures are a bit different. .

Edited June 30, 2014 by ALFREDO

[ALFREDO]

And you still cannot spell forty

Ok, now you, write "forty" in your second language. Or is English your second language?

"forty"

"for tea"

Good

=Naam= where is your avatar?

[ALFREDO]

I am 28, my birthday is September 30th

Make up your mind, you have a different age below

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/703719-testing-waters-for-restaurant-in-nongbualamphu/

Posted 2014-02-12 10:50:49

I'm still really young (25)

He ages just very quickly, in time-lapse.

[Smurkster]

I am 28, my birthday is September 30th

Make up your mind, you have a different age below

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/703719-testing-waters-for-restaurant-in-nongbualamphu/

Posted 2014-02-12 10:50:49

I'm still really young (25)

He ages just very quickly, in time-lapse.

yes, that's what happens when you go to the moon and back I guess

[Kerryd]

And you still cannot spell forty

Ok, now you, write "forty" in your second language. Or is English your second language?

"forty"

"for tea"

"4 tea"

"4-ty"

"Fore !(ty)"

[balo]

I arrived Thailand for the first time when I turned 40 and I'm still in my 40's, so been here for a few years .

I escaped the cold weather and left an angry bird behind. I think it was a Norwegian blue...

Edited June 30, 2014 by balo

[Oziex1]

I arrived Thailand for the first time when I turned 40 and I'm still in my 40's, so been here for a few years .

I escaped the cold weather and left an angry bird behind. I think it was a Norwegian blue...

Norwegian Blue, beautiful plumage.

[SDM0712]

And you still cannot spell forty

ATTENTION, grammar police watching.............

Spell check must be faulty

[SDM0712]

I arrived Thailand for the first time when I turned 40 and I'm still in my 40's, so been here for a few years .

I escaped the cold weather and left an angry bird behind. I think it was a Norwegian blue...

Hello Miss, was it pining for the fiords ?

SDM

[neverdie]

The OP sounds like a cheeky young whipper snapper.

Here's a picture of me when I first arrived into Bangkok, way back then.

Back when only important people like me flew in planes, the riffraff were still riding in ships. Ahh the good old days.

As for my age, I can't remember, but. you can count on one thing you little swine, you should call me 'Sir' and make way as approach as I'm occasionally known for lashing out at people

[watso63]

Fought against commies and muslims for most of my life. Was retired through injuries sustained due to service. Life in the UK is pants and there were too many people that I would gladly bayonet for fun. Blair ruined my country and encouraged the old enemy to populate the cities and let the EU take over. Things were pretty desperate and after watching my dad die I figured out life is too short and British women make good mothers but rubbish wives. Came on holiday with my brother and his Thai wife to Thailand. Salvation, binned everything thing I had in the UK and I am now living and loving it here. Love hot and spicy food, hence the Naga Chilli jar.

[Kudel]

And you still cannot spell forty

It was a typo,aah yes TEFL people the joke of the expat community in Thailand .Met a lot of those <deleted> in my time in Thailand.

Ahhh ....yeah... always room for a cheap shot against English teachers. why is teaching such a bad thing here?

I have nothing against bonafide teachers,but most of the lot calling themself a " teacher" wouldn't be allowed near a classroom in a hundred years in my home country.

[pgrahmm]

That's us in the picture....live in the CM area.....discovered Thailand over 5-6 years ago and after coming back one time to see if it was for real and had loved it ever since.......originally from the US - retired early at 57 after spending the last 20+ years before raising a daughter as a single Dad from 3 months of age - unfortunately at the height of her promise and great things taking place in her life she perished in an automobile accident at the age of 26.....anyone that has raised a child exclusively as a single parent knows it's a full time + job leaving quite literally zero time for self if you're serious about doing things right.....

So now it's me/us and my new life......

Edited July 2, 2014 by pgrahmm

[transam]

And you still cannot spell forty

It was a typo,aah yes TEFL people the joke of the expat community in Thailand .Met a lot of those <deleted> in my time in Thailand.

Ahhh ....yeah... always room for a cheap shot against English teachers. why is teaching such a bad thing here?

I have nothing against bonafide teachers,but most of the lot calling themself a " teacher" wouldn't be allowed near a classroom in a hundred years in my home country.

This ain't your home country...........

[Kudel]

And you still cannot spell forty

It was a typo,aah yes TEFL people the joke of the expat community in Thailand .Met a lot of those <deleted> in my time in Thailand.

Ahhh ....yeah... always room for a cheap shot against English teachers. why is teaching such a bad thing here?

I have nothing against bonafide teachers,but most of the lot calling themself a " teacher" wouldn't be allowed near a classroom in a hundred years in my home country.

This ain't your home country...........

It ain't your home country either Einstein.