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Well, it is hard to believe, but I have been overly cautious during Covid and yet, I met someone online that I thought was just remarkable and knew I had to them him. We chatted for a bit and finally I gave him, we both got tested for Covid and we met. He is perhaps the sweetest guy I have met in 20 years. He is charming, funny, caring, artistic and kind. Yes, I think I have fallen for him and he has now been with me for a while. I may be off the market in the future, but he said he is open to 3 ways if I proved to him I was not going to fall for someone else. Not sure how that is going to happen but, I'll try. He is not from Thailand BTW. He is from Africa and is stuck here until his country reopens.

I went to MedPark Hospital Bangkok yesterday for jab 1 of AstraZeneca. We left Pattaya at 9.00am and were back at 3.00pm with a stop each way. The staff at the hospital were excellent and i was only there for one hour including the rest period after the vaccination. I took my older friend to Pattaya Bangkok Hospital last week as they had AZ vaccines for existing and past patients. Similarly the process was flawless. These hospitals are very well organized for the vaccinations and the staff friendly and well trained.

Take the chance and don't look back. Most of us here are getting too old to pass on opportunities like that Don't concern yourself with being naive. That's something for the young to worry about. No matter the outcome, you won't have to regret not having trusted your feelings more.

Adopted from Cambodia at 18 months of age by his new dad in Florida, Jordan Windle will compete in Friday's 110m platform competition. From MSN / NBC He was adopted and raised by a gay dad. Now he's an Olympian and symbol for LGBTQ rights Watching Jordan Windle execute a perfect dive from the 10-meter platform — analogous to jumping headfirst from a three-story building — you’d never know he was scared of anything. “I’m afraid of heights,” he told NBC Asian America, “but I love putting on a show. Being able to fall from 10 meters and create such a little splash — the reaction is incredible.” After placing second at the Olympic trials in June, the University of Texas at Austin senior will compete in the men’s 10-meter platform preliminary at the Tokyo Olympics on Friday. The 22-year-old diver, who was adopted at 18 months old from Cambodia by a single gay American man, has spent the last 15 years preparing for this moment. Windle, who was the youngest person to ever qualify for the Olympic diving trials at age 12, has made waves in the sport since he started diving at age 7 at an aquatics summer camp in South Florida. Tim O’Brien, the son of U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Hall of Fame diving coach Ron O’Brien, immediately spotted how Windle naturally pointed his toes and positioned his shoulders behind his neck. He believed Windle could be a national champion one day. Windle went on to be a six-time junior national individual champion, a seven-time senior national champion and a two-time NCAA champion, setting a men’s platform diving record at the Big 12 Championships in 2018. Since the start of his diving career, he’s been compared to the Olympic legend and activist Greg Louganis, who is also adopted and has served as a mentor to Windle for many years. When Windle and his father co-authored the children’s book, “An Orphan No More: The True Story of a Boy,” Louganis wrote the foreword. As a transracial adoptee, Windle said, he was bullied as a child for having a gay father “and just being different in general.” A longtime ally to the LGBTQ community, Windle uses his platform to educate and encourage others to support marginalized people and was part of the “It Gets Better” anti-bullying campaign when he was younger. While millions of Americans will root for Windle as he competes this week, he’s also something of a hero in his homeland, and the first diver of Cambodian descent to compete in the Games. When Windle first returned to Cambodia in 2016 as a national champion, his arrival caused a media storm. His diving exhibition in Phnom Penh was attended by hundreds of local schoolchildren and orphans, he said, to whom he spoke via a translator. Since making the U.S. Olympic diving team, Windle said, he has seen an influx of Cambodian fans following him on social media. The Olympian plans to return to Cambodia in the future and hopes to start a nonprofit diving program in the Southeast Asian country one day. “Once I visited, it showed me that there are people out there looking for opportunity,” he said. “I can share my story and give them that opportunity to take a chance and live a great life in the future.” But for now, his focus is on enjoying the remaining days of his Olympics journey and performing the exceptional dives he’s worked toward since childhood. Continues with photos and video https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/olympics/he-was-adopted-and-raised-by-a-gay-dad-now-hes-an-olympian-and-symbol-for-lgbtq-rights/ar-AAMWl1W

Yes, as others are commenting, as you get older, life, or at least healthy life, becomes far less certain than it used to be in our youth, and similarly life's opportunities recede with each passing year. So just go-for-it and enjoy the moment, whether that moment is destined to last a week, a month, a year, or maybe many years?

Wow... Oz you are one lucky guy. Here's hoping everything works out and this is it for you guys.

Does that means he will leave once its reopen?

The following is from the email sent by MedPark Hospital to confirm my appointment. We parked in the underground hospital carpark and they sent a golf cart to take us to the vaccination entrance. If you are being dropped off at the front entrance of the hospital by a taxi, the vaccination entrance is on the right hand side of the building at ground level. It is not a large complex of buildings like some hospitals and it is a short walk to the vaccination entrance. For those who are driving to the hospital, MedPark has arranged for free 3-hour parking at the adjacent The PARQ located only 30 meters from the hospital. From The PARQ, please exit from G level by the Starbucks or KFC exit and proceed to the hospital via a short walk. Kindly note, parking at The PARQ will be closed at 20.00 hrs. Therefore, please park at the hospital if your appointment is scheduled from 17.00 hrs onwards. Please enter the Covid-19 Vaccination Entrance, an entrance directly facing The PARQ, you will be asked to present your original copy of current passport, along with your confirmation email at this point. You will be given a queue and a plastic sleeve which will be used twice during the vaccination process to prevent bacteria and cross contamination between patients, while we take your blood pressure before and after the vaccine shot. Proceed to the Registration Desk. Please keep your passport out for this as we take you through pre-vaccination steps, e.g., taking blood pressure, signing Vaccination Consent Form, etc. The vaccine will be given after the preliminary steps have been completed. You will be asked to remain under observation for 30 minutes.

Judging by the fact that soldiers have been escaping to neighbouring Bangladesh, that is probably very true. I have a dear friend who is half Thai and half Burmese. His Burmese father lives in the Shan States. For decades the central government has been fighting the rebel states which mostly border Thailand. Now my friend tells me the Shan army is calling up a lot of young men to fight the junta. As in Thailand, lads can buy their way out of army duty with what for Burmese will be an impossible amount of cash. Thankfully my friend has a job here in Thailand and has been able to send enough money to his father to buy out his younger brother and himself.

I have an appointment at MedPark Hospital on Saturday 7th August. Any tips on where to enter the Hospital for the vaccination would be appreciated.

I find all the business of "I have a right not to wear a mask and not to get vaccinated - I have my rights under the American constitution blah blah" not just childish but anti-Constitution. Didn't the one good phrase Trump say to Bob Woodward in their various discussions about Woodward's book, "It's a war." Well, in a war, does the Constitution take precedence over fighting that war? is free speech still allowed? I very much doubt it. I used to get really worked up about the non-mask wearers and the antivaxers. Now I'd rather laugh about them. If they die, I'll not mourn.

I thought it was the Temples and the food we all mainly visited for ? No ? Thats just me then ? Hmm ok.....

From Nikkei Asia TOKYO -- Central banks across the world are rushing to develop their own digital currencies in a bid to provide safe and convenient payment systems as digitalization rapidly expands to many segments of the economy. China has been testing its digital yuan in multiple cities while the European Central Bank announced last month plans to proceed with its digital euro project and launch a two-year investigation that will look into the development and impacts of a central bank digital currency (CBDC). The Southeast Asian country launched its "Bakong" digital currency in October 2020, ahead of launch plans from the world's major economies, and is currently the only live CBDC project aside from the Bahamas' Sand Dollar. Bakong was developed by the National Bank of Cambodia, with help from Japanese blockchain technology company Soramitsu, in a bid to increase the presence of its own currency, the riel, and gradually shift away from use of the U.S. dollar. NBC's director general, Chea Serey, who leads the project, told Nikkei Asia that "Bakong started sort of as a willingness to connect up the fragmented payment systems in Cambodia." Unlike cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin, CBDCs are digital forms of fiat money backed and issued by central banks. Bakong allows Cambodian citizens to pay at stores or send money through a mobile app, without the use of cash, and allows for settlements and remittances to be made in riel or U.S. dollars. Cambodia runs a dual-currency system, with the U.S. dollar widely circulating in its economy. The country's dollarization began in the 1980s and 90s, following years of civil war and unrest. Although the use of the riel has increased in terms of digital transactions since Bakong's launch, Chea Serey explains that the digital currency alone will not be able to switch Cambodia from a U.S. dollar-based economy to one based around its local currency. "There are other policies that need to be in place, like having a stable exchange rate and inflation rate, as well as [economic] growth prospects," she said. https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Markets/Currencies/Cambodia-aims-to-wean-off-US-dollar-dependence-with-digital-currency

In the second video, the sisters brother is the actor First, known for "The Shipper". https://mydramalist.com/people/19084-kanaphan-puitrakul And the other one is Up, known for the main actor in "Lovely Writer". https://mydramalist.com/people/19352-up-poompat-iam-samang There is an episode 2, KA Sunscreen Commercial:

In the first video the asian guy is Tul Pakorn, famous BL actor, at the young age of 18, known for the series Bad Romance / Together With Me and recently Manner Of Death. https://mydramalist.com/people/13078-thanasrivanitchai-pakorn

Not really. There is something in the way they drag the vowels and seem to take their time always, but I am not sure whether that is what triggers the effect.

https://www.malaymail.com/amp/news/life/2021/07/26/malaysian-olympic-swimmer-welson-sims-dashing-looks-sets-hearts-aflutter-at/1992711

OK here is another one, Ulugbek Rashitov from Usbekistan, Taekwondo Men's -68 kg.

From Japan Herald 22-year-old Japanese Yuto Horigome has become the first-ever Olympic skateboarding champion

Uber is good in the city but sometimes traffic can be crazy there. Don't be afraid to try the Metro which has a stop close to your hotel It's much more efficient for getting around CDMX and is cheap, safe, and somewhat of a cultural experience! You can even ride the Metro back to the airport.

Yes a very sweet and funny Karenyi massage young man I went to a few times, in the On Nut area, has disappeared from LINE. No more sweet emoticons from him. He is the youngest of five in his family, and I worry for his safety.