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Got a message from my doctor to contact the surgery. Called them and the girl said,oh yes it is about the flu vaccination!!. I said what about the covid one????. Oh yes we have that too. Here's me waiting to hear about the covid one and they tell me the flu one is available. Fair suck of the sav!. Can I get the covid one?. Oh yes sure. Blow me over with a feather. So going in Tuesday. It is the Astra one,(probably made by General Motors), but better than nothing. Would rather have the Pfizer. A 48 year old woman died a week after having the Astra. So the chances are about 1 in 400,000 of having blood clots. I will chance it.

I have read a few questions asked by mongers. I felt like starting with complex facts but I realize that the travelers' worries are pretty down to earth and that the answers are all pretty basic. Before answering a few questions, I would give just an advise : remember how you felt the first time you went to the LOS. Did you really feel comfortable ? How did you react when you first saw Thai alphasyllabary characters ? You needn't feel more stressed than that. Maybe some people imagine a country with rice fields and tropical forests destroyed by war battles. Just think about it : the last battle too place in 1975, 30 years after the end of WWII. Do you think that Europe was still suffering from war in 1990 ? Whatever your worries maybe, just that you're going to a second Thailand. Little by little, you will find differences and depending on the country you come from, you will feel more or less comfortable. You will adapt to differences and hopefully find advantages. Here is the first question I found : First, you had a positive reflex keeping your habit to take some of your home money since it remains an easy currency to change. I also agree with the idea of traveling with an ATM card or two. I actually found a solution to get 2 credit cards for free and I bring some euros in my bagage. (Euros are well kept in bagage safe and I keep them for my safety). You will ATMs in most of the cities you will visit. So you needn't bring USD with you and you'd loose money in double change. Regarding ATMs, you have to take into account an important difference with Thailand. In many ATMs the maximum amount you can withdraw is 2 million VND (write VND and no one will laugh about it). 2 million VND is not much : less than 90 US$, 70 £ or 80 €. When I discovered that during my first trip, I took the habit of with drawing 2 million VND each time I would find an ATM operated by a different bank. Guess what. After searching, I found banks ATMs with maximum withdrawal increased to 3 or even 4 or 5 million VND. What I usually do is to keep an amount of about 10 million VND till my last week, then I spend my remaining money. I found ATMs with higher maximum withdrawal in SGN airport (HCMC). They are easy to find in international airports, you'll find them just after the bagage claim. Just a personal point of view. I know that some people prefer to travel with a lot of cash in their bagage. I don't. I know that banks bill fees, but bank services cost money and they bring safety. I see these guys as bank cheap charlies. I prefer to save on bar fines and keep my money safe. Another point you mentioned is about US$. I seldom saw prices given in US$ in Vietnam. It happened once in Hanoi in a travel agency when purchasing a trip to Ha Long bay and one more time in the south when purchasing a train ticket to HCMC. I got so much used in asking prices in VND that I don't find US$ natural. I usually reply "in euro please !" but Vietnamese people are not really used to Euros. I don't know why some business give prices in US$. Maybe their Russian customers feel they are important businessmen using dollars. I'm also suspicious. I wonder if they don't use US$ to give figures you will find low compared with VNDs and prices that you can't compare with their competitors. If you feel embarrassed with big numbers, start thinking in Kdong, not in VND. 1 K = 1,000 VND . It's much more easier to handle money. If you want to exchange currency, please be advised I had found an excellent rate at Techcombank Pasteur in HCMC. I didn't want to withdraw 2 MVND and I feared fixed rate fees. So I took a 50 € bill and changed it. I kept 500 K VND when coming back. VND is no longer a monkey money. More than one year ago, I counted that 1 € worthed 27 KVND. 2 months ago, that was 25 K VND.

They're back!!

There is no third wave, nor was there a second wave. Because of increased and unnessessarly testing eyeryone they artifically increase the infection rate. The Flu 2017/2019 was much more lethal the this corona bullshit and nobody cared.. There must be a deeper agenda behind it. Texas and Florida lifted all Corona restictions. What happened? Nothimg! They're well withinn the infection rate of the other states with lockwn and face masks. Don't believe me, check yourself . https://usafacts.org/visualizations/coronavirus-covid-19-spread-map/state/texas

Sorry, could not stand the guys accent!!!

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Good to hear you are getting sorted Woodie.

Maybe not a joke but he was a lucky guy! What puzzles me is the seemingly nonreaction from other drivers. Nobody is doing anything! 868406599_Thisiswhatamiraclelookslike1.mp4

Hello everyone. On Sunday Night April 18th , Emmy's Bar will have a live stream at 10 p.m. thai time. Theme kittens Costume Choice Come and have fun with us. I will post livestream on my personal Facebook page as follows. - My Facebook https://www.facebook.com/tutu.wattanasiri -Page facebook Emmy's bar https://www.facebook.com/Emmybarladyboy Website : LBR (Here) If you want support us You can give ladydriink for us. Only € 3.5 or 120 Baht for 1 drink Pay at this link http://paypal.me/KattyRoomforRent or My Paypal = tutubas85@gmail.com Thank you very much for support us See you Emmy and the kittens.

If you chose to view the video on Youtube you would have seen this comment by the person who posted the clip: Not exactly a positive view of the story, unless you think he/she meant otherwise. I am not saying it was not fair reporting, I was commenting on the original poster's comment.

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Starting Sunday, Pattaya 7/11s must close by 11 PM. Just got home from drinking beer outside my favorite 7/11 with tables and chairs.

April 16th is Kim Mỹ Nữ's birthday. KMN will organize a party at B.O.M. bar tonight.

Unlike 'Seven' and 'BBG' I've never had my finger on the pulse of 'pop' culture. However it was Christmas 1994 and I was having a break from Thailand and taking my jollies in Cuba. Wandering the streets of Havana one night I was drawn to an abandoned department store. Following the music that emanated I entered - the place was heaving with people 'groovin' and 'dancin'. A makeshift bar and a couple of large barrels dispensing white rum. The music came from a cassette player wired up to large speakers. I had heard a fair bit of Cuban music whilst mooching around the city - but when the 'DJ' (?) played one particular track the whole crowd was up on its feet and doing a sort of 'formation' dance - a bit like the 'Hokey Cokey' I thought ! I'd never seen or heard anything like it. I tried to capture the tune in my head as I heard it a few times during my stay. In one hotel bar the 'white' girls danced to it - but they couldn't cut it like the 'black' girls. (I was a quite surprised by the 'race divide here). It wasn't till a few years later watching a movie that I heard the song again and checked the credits that I found out it was 'Macarena' a world wide hit - unknown to me. # I see todays news that Raul Castro is retiring.

April 15th : Bé Mi's birthday (Lâm Bé Vy / Tuyêt Mi)