Tony, have a great trip up north. My wife is from Phrae which you may pass thru on your way to Chiang Mai. There are a lot of golf courses on your route, so I’m looking forward to seeing some of them on your trip. Travel safe. Oh, and your gift you bought for Pui was excellent!
When i started watching your videos i wasnt sure about Pui...but you know what I approve 😂 she seems very attentive and loving in her way. I think their culture takes getting used to for an American.. Two weeks is a long time...i hope for her sake you get back sooner....great video. By the way Im from upstate N.Y...Im thinking of booking a ticket mid October...cant decide if i wanna go and stay in Pattaya where ive never been or Philippines where ive been 4-5 times and am familiar with...only probably coming for 2 1/2-:3 weeks this time
Hi I am Monty, just come across your vlog. I am happy that you are enjoying the simple family life in Isan. Just over 2 yrs ago...i did exactly the same thing. Living in UDON THANI at this moment and will start to build in Nakhon Phanom in November this year. My partners aunty and uncle live in SN and we have had dinner in the same restaurant (was called an italian restaurant at the time) was also very expensive and had the same amount of people eating there as you did....hahahaha. We travel to SN regularly and would love to catchup whenever you guys are free. I am an Aussie....wanting to have the simple life also. We look about the same vintage and hope to have and develop a nice group of people to hangout occasionally. Take care.....great content! cheers! monty
@@amaninsiam Man, that cake looks beautiful! As a new subscriber (USA), suggest you put up some Playlists when you get time. I like to watch, say, 12 or 14 videos non-stop. From bed. Don't have to get up to change anything. Might help your channel. Or even more or all of them. It's easy for a viewer to go back to where he/she stopped in going through an automatic playlist. I could watch 6 tonight, 8 tomorrow night, etc. [Also, please keep the volume as LOUD as possible. Vloggers don't realize that we who are ill are watching from across the room, in bed, with the fan on. We can always turn it DOWN. We can't turn it UP, when max settings are already on yt and the computer.] Thanks.
Why don't you go interview with him, Mate? Love to hear the Aussie stories. What career? What led you to choose Thailand? How do you describe rural Thai life? What have you done about the language difficulties? How have your Aussie taxes worked out? How about your interactions with Thai Immigration and the bureaucracy? So many questions that would help people in a straightforward vid? What Aussie products do you miss in Thailand? You could easily do a 2-hour video of priceless personal experience.
@@amaninsiam Tony, on the bread or buns. One favor I'll pass on is a bread machine. They are not as complicated as you'd think and don't take much space either. A Brit expat friend of mine "in the boonies" (rural Thailand) introduced me to them. He made a special homemade rye bread at Christmas for us. My God, it was delicious and not obtainable anywhere in the whole province. It's now one of my best kitchen appliances ever. You can make a hobby of trying to find special flours to use in it. I'm sure Thailand has some very good ones; you just have to find them (or use online orders today, which we couldn't do back then). Believe me, fresh hot bread AT YOUR HOUSE is a real treat! You need a jar of live yeast and that C Store probably has it.
Mosquitos can be, I'm blessed with a sour taste so they mostly leave me alone. Pui gets eaten up. I put a magnetic screen on our bedroom door so that eliminated 95 percent of the mosquitos.
@@amaninsiam They see me and say "Oh a buffet!" I don't have any problem with the bites though. A couple scratches and it goes away later that day. My Wife though itches for hours. Then scratches them until they turn into bruises! Crazy!
My wife is Japanese and we live in Japan and Thailand. The not talking about some subjects is also a common thing in Japan. My wife will just stop talking sometimes and I have learned to just let it go to avoid bad vibes. Seems you have also learned to just smile and let things go. For sure not the American way. But as the saying goes - "When in Rome". ---- One thing it could be is some sort of superstition and not voicing it out loud will make it go less likely to happen or something. -- Also regarding money, my wife pays all the bills and spends all the money and just makes my life perfect. We run multiple companies together and I get a salary into my own bank that I can use to buy my own stuff. It just works fine for me. I trust my wife 10000% and we have 2 kids.
@@robertturner216 Thais buy gold because it’s like currency they can easily convert to cash and rise in value with price of gold girls get their boyfriends to buy chains because they going to sale it soon as he’s on the plane. While the boyfriends think they left something to remember him
The steak house might be expensive for Thailand. One steak would have cost that much here in the US (at a nice steak house like that). Of course you probably know that already, unless you haven't been back here in quite a while.
Pui, appreciates and loves you. Keep cherishing her and you chose well in her.
Thank you, I will
I see your command of the Thai language is great.
Tony, have a great trip up north. My wife is from Phrae which you may pass thru on your way to Chiang Mai. There are a lot of golf courses on your route, so I’m looking forward to seeing some of them on your trip. Travel safe.
Oh, and your gift you bought for Pui was excellent!
23:47 thai gold is 23 karat, not 18.
When i started watching your videos i wasnt sure about Pui...but you know what I approve 😂 she seems very attentive and loving in her way. I think their culture takes getting used to for an American.. Two weeks is a long time...i hope for her sake you get back sooner....great video. By the way Im from upstate N.Y...Im thinking of booking a ticket mid October...cant decide if i wanna go and stay in Pattaya where ive never been or Philippines where ive been 4-5 times and am familiar with...only probably coming for 2 1/2-:3 weeks this time
Hi I am Monty, just come across your vlog. I am happy that you are enjoying the simple family life in Isan. Just over 2 yrs ago...i did exactly the same thing. Living in UDON THANI at this moment and will start to build in Nakhon Phanom in November this year. My partners aunty and uncle live in SN and we have had dinner in the same restaurant (was called an italian restaurant at the time) was also very expensive and had the same amount of people eating there as you did....hahahaha.
We travel to SN regularly and would love to catchup whenever you guys are free. I am an Aussie....wanting to have the simple life also. We look about the same vintage and hope to have and develop a nice group of people to hangout occasionally. Take care.....great content!
cheers!
monty
Sounds good Monty, stay in touch. Let's do it.
@@amaninsiam Man, that cake looks beautiful! As a new subscriber (USA), suggest you put up some Playlists when you get time. I like to watch, say, 12 or 14 videos non-stop. From bed. Don't have to get up to change anything. Might help your channel. Or even more or all of them. It's easy for a viewer to go back to where he/she stopped in going through an automatic playlist. I could watch 6 tonight, 8 tomorrow night, etc. [Also, please keep the volume as LOUD as possible. Vloggers don't realize that we who are ill are watching from across the room, in bed, with the fan on. We can always turn it DOWN. We can't turn it UP, when max settings are already on yt and the computer.] Thanks.
@@amaninsiam I like the LONG videos. One hour or more, when you can, please. Gracias.
Why don't you go interview with him, Mate? Love to hear the Aussie stories. What career? What led you to choose Thailand? How do you describe rural Thai life? What have you done about the language difficulties? How have your Aussie taxes worked out? How about your interactions with Thai Immigration and the bureaucracy? So many questions that would help people in a straightforward vid? What Aussie products do you miss in Thailand? You could easily do a 2-hour video of priceless personal experience.
@@amaninsiam Tony, on the bread or buns. One favor I'll pass on is a bread machine. They are not as complicated as you'd think and don't take much space either. A Brit expat friend of mine "in the boonies" (rural Thailand) introduced me to them. He made a special homemade rye bread at Christmas for us. My God, it was delicious and not obtainable anywhere in the whole province. It's now one of my best kitchen appliances ever. You can make a hobby of trying to find special flours to use in it. I'm sure Thailand has some very good ones; you just have to find them (or use online orders today, which we couldn't do back then). Believe me, fresh hot bread AT YOUR HOUSE is a real treat! You need a jar of live yeast and that C Store probably has it.
LOVE banana cake, bread. Love the rain too, but looks like mosquito heaven. Is it a problem?
Mosquitos can be, I'm blessed with a sour taste so they mostly leave me alone. Pui gets eaten up. I put a magnetic screen on our bedroom door so that eliminated 95 percent of the mosquitos.
@@amaninsiam They see me and say "Oh a buffet!" I don't have any problem with the bites though. A couple scratches and it goes away later that day. My Wife though itches for hours. Then scratches them until they turn into bruises! Crazy!
Thanks for sharing your life in Thailand. Dan in Edmonto ,Alberta Canada😂
Thanks for watching!
Thai ladies look at big wallets not big bellies
My wife is Japanese and we live in Japan and Thailand. The not talking about some subjects is also a common thing in Japan. My wife will just stop talking sometimes and I have learned to just let it go to avoid bad vibes. Seems you have also learned to just smile and let things go. For sure not the American way. But as the saying goes - "When in Rome". ---- One thing it could be is some sort of superstition and not voicing it out loud will make it go less likely to happen or something. -- Also regarding money, my wife pays all the bills and spends all the money and just makes my life perfect. We run multiple companies together and I get a salary into my own bank that I can use to buy my own stuff. It just works fine for me. I trust my wife 10000% and we have 2 kids.
Tony she didn’t loose that necklace. It worked you bought a new one
I agree 100% No way in hell she lost the first one!
@@robertturner216 Thais buy gold because it’s like currency they can easily convert to cash and rise in value with price of gold girls get their boyfriends to buy chains because they going to sale it soon as he’s on the plane. While the boyfriends think they left something to remember him
The steak house might be expensive for Thailand. One steak would have cost that much here in the US (at a nice steak house like that). Of course you probably know that already, unless you haven't been back here in quite a while.
Very true!
I had a one baht gold ring back in the 70s, It was always bending. Too soft, think it was 24 c.
Low body count with a verified history 😆