Get up at 6am,
eat some muesli
drink some home-made kaffir milk
shower
make my salad for lunch and stick it in a billy-can
6.30am, cycle 7Km to school
at school, relax, have a coffee, check my lessons
9am, start my lessons for KG and primary kids (I teach about 4 50-minute lessons a day)
11am eat my lunch
4pm, all finished cycle home via the supermarket to buy food for the evening and next day's lunch
evening, relax, watch films, news, TD, have some red wine, fish and keffir milk
9pm go to bed, watch more TV, doze, wake up in the night to watch more TV....
Weekends, I either cycle round the lakes in Naypyidaw (20 Km), go to the gym or swimming pool, ride my dirt-bike to Shan State hills, Inle Lake etc.
Count my savings, gamble on crypto etc
Groping women when you're old is fine - everyone thinks you're senile
^You forgot groping women. lol.
What the heck is a billy-can?
i usually wake up around 7.30.
i get up and walk to the balcony and appreciate the location and the view down the coast as i come to life.
next, i check e-mails and the stock market and then scan the online uk newspapers.
around 8.am mrs t. surfaces and we make breakfast together, strong coffee, some toast with honey or jam, and some fruit.
we eat on the balcony and natter away for a while.
then its back to the laptop for an hour with the newspapers and some forum nonsense before heading down to either the gym or the pool for 40 minutes or so of exercise.
this is followed by some chat with whoever is around at the gym or the pool. sometimes mrs.t joins me, sometimes she doesnt.
i walk back up 12 flights of stairs to the apartment, then shower and thoughts turn to lunch and how to spend the afternoon.
lunch is usually noodles or a curry over rice at a local foodstall, and the afternoons could turn to anything.
our time is our own to spend how we want. often we will drive out into the countryside in the afternoon, with no destination in mind, but its quite pretty around here and we both enjoy getting away from urban concrete and noise at least three or four times a week. we usually return with fruit and veg purchased from roadside vendors or small markets.
sometimes mrs. t will cook in the evening, but we often eat out , sometimes with friends, sometimes just the two of us, sometimes in a local thai restaurant, and when i have an insatiable craving for falang food we will get pizzas or steak, a couple of times a month i gorge myself on macdonalds or burger king, sometimes we drive into hua hin for a walk around and a bite, sometimes we just slouch out at home and turn on the tv and fight for the remote. i may read a book on my kindle or play my computer at chess for an hour or so if the tv is boring, but there are s interesting travel documentaries and news programmes on the newer thai tv cable channels.
retirement is wonderful, not being ruled by the clock remarkably liberating and empowering.
generally life is very good and i consider myself very very lucky.
Last edited by taxexile; 12-02-2018 at 05:39 PM.
Usually surrounded in activities that are associated with alcohol...
Well done Simon!
And Tax has it sorted.
Get a part time job teaching English at a local school.
Will keep you busy and you'll find it highly rewarding.
AN EXCELLENT POINT , SOMTAM !!!
I binn thinking about that a lot .
I was doing some work for the Commonwealth War Graves Commission and I loved it but it came to a natural end . I was asked to take on an area and in particular one church . I knew the church . I've driven past it 2000 times . It has a tiny quaint churchyard with requisite spooky headstones at the front .
What I hadn't realised was that there is a HUGE churchyard at the back .
The Mission ( if I accepted it and I did ) was to search for personnel who died in military combat and are not recorded .
You see - particularly in the Great War - there were many families who were so distraught at losing their son , brother , husband , father that they wanted nothing more to do with England or Army or the King . They wanted their loved one back and they did not want a Military burial .
They buried them in their own family graves.
My job was to find them , get the information and photograph the grave .
It was believed there were 18 such people in this Churchyard . 9 of them had military headstones so I had to find the others .
By the time I had finished I had found 53 !!!
In this one Churchyard .
When I wasn't doing that work I was definitely wasting a lot of time . Found I was watching ' Bargain Hunt ' at lunchtime - which has to be as useless as going to Homepro just to walk around like a sad old git . So it's a question I put to myself now . what do I do ANYWAY between 11 and 5 ?
One thing though sommy , I live an hour from London . 20 minutes from Windsor and a river and swans . I don't go to these places much any more . But I CAN .
Whereas in Korat ........ I cannot .
I can drive to Dover in 2 hours and get a boat to Belgium .... which I do . Then wander on to Germany . Missy wants me to buy a pickup and I honestly don't know where I'd go in it apart from Big C and Global House .
It's a good question .
I'm mulling on it .
Wasp
Last edited by Wasp; 12-02-2018 at 08:21 PM.
I should add,
I get hot women occasionaly at my convenience
I spend all wishing my luck would improve so I can escape the monkey house I currently reside in. Completely sick of the long winters and random summer weather too.
Monday- Friday:
Wake up around 6
Morning ablutions
Breakfast: cereal, youghurt,fruit, boiled eggs and black coffee
7:45: My driver picks me up and takes me to work-hiso,innit?
Check lesson plans, tidy my activity room if need be, make sure I have all materials ready to go- fail to prepare, prepare to fail
I teach 4-5 lessons a day to mostly well behaved and eager first graders
Sack of work around 4 and hit the gym 4 nights a week or an hour or so
Head home, order food in or cook- open a beer, movies, internet or just hang with friends.
Book Club once a month
Dinner and drinks every Friday
Sat-Sun:
Wake when I want
Fry up
gym or hiking
Might make lesson materials if needed
Take a nap
Dinner and drinks
Something like this:What the heck is a billy-can?
Very popular way in Myanmar to carry your lunch. I put my salad in one tin, then fruit in another and round it off with a huge sniff of cocaine in the top container.
Sounds pretty similar to my life.. haha. I don't get a driver to work..either taxi/walk or bike when it is warm out. Work all day with a big break in the afternoon. Get home by 4 or 5pm. More free time lately as last semester I was doing private tutoring three times a week after school. Now, I go out for drinks/dinner once or twice with friends.. cook or order in whenever I feel like it. Weekends, I do/see who/what I want. Being free is a great life for me.
Thanks JPPR .
You're right I can do whatever I want - but I can't .
I'm adventurous enough but fishing in the local ponds , playing Snooker on an uneven table and wandering around Big C are not cutting it for me.
I love the History stuff ........ The History of Issan doesn't score .
I DID have two condos and you're absolutely right . They are not homes . They are just bedrooms .
Biggest problem for me is this idea that if you marry then you marry the whole family . Who never leave .
I HATE it when a Thai drives in on a moatybike , walks straight to the fridge and takes anything that takes their fancy !!!
They do that .
And all the local Thais like me heaps but they keep talking to me in Thai even when we've told them a thousand times that I don't speak Thai .
This all sounds whiney but it's not .
You're all helpful sounding boards and I appreciate it .
Wasp
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