Living in Thailand Experiment: Pt 5

[TotallyOz]

Chris is a nice guy and I have known him for a few years. He seems to get along with everyone and his stories on living in Thailand are very well written and documented with photos and personal information. I suggest anything thinking of moving to the LOS read all his 5 chapters. It has a lot of great information in it.

 

http://www.sawatdee-gay-thailand.com/forum...t-5-t15175.html

[Guest laurence]

Again, too many words to digest. Five chapters? Who really cares if he flew economy or premium or business to BKK?

Just too much detail that most of us are familiar with anyway.

Any journalist knows KISS, Keep it Simple Stupid, and more people will read and understand.

[dapitt]

Again, too many words to digest. Five chapters? Who really cares if he flew economy or premium or business to BKK?

Just too much detail that most of us are familiar with anyway.

Any journalist knows KISS, Keep it Simple Stupid, and more people will read and understand.

I have decidedly the opposite view. I much appreciate the fullness of his essays. And, I appreciate his taking the time and making the effort with them.

 

He's not a journalist (I don't suppose), so therefore maybe it's not a concern if "more people will read" as you suggest. Perhaps its for a selective readership, as is the case with most posts on message boards. To each, his own.

 

[Guest laurence]

I have decidedly the opposite view.

 

You make a good point dapitt! I took it as "preaching to the choir" while there are many in cyberspace who well might want to come down to earth and enjoy the pleasures of Thailand. In which case, CHRISUK, does provide a wealth of information. Oh, ok, I was really looking for the dirt! How much spent on xxx and those kind of details.

 

[Guest]

I have decidedly the opposite view. I much appreciate the fullness of his essays. And, I appreciate his taking the time and making the effort with them.

 

He's not a journalist (I don't suppose), so therefore maybe it's not a concern if "more people will read" as you suggest. Perhaps its for a selective readership, as is the case with most posts on message boards. To each, his own.

 

The great thing about the web is that there is something for everyone. I enjoy Chris's story as he is very detailed and gives me a perspective I don't get everywhere. I really do appreciate the time and energy he takes to write all this up. It is NOT an easy task and he does it for the benefit of others in the same boat. Hell, there are some really bitter nasty queens in Pattaya and Chris seems to stay on top of that which is not easy to do at times and he is still able to produce content that is not nasty or bitter or vindictive. It is matter of fact, honest and helpful. Much like he is himself.

[ChrisUK]

Thanks GayThailand, for mentioning my report placed on another forum and providing the link to it, together with your compliments.

 

I did think long and hard about whether to spend the many hours it takes to compile the report as I know I had said most of what would be valuable to others in a similar situation in my previous reports. It is not really possible to keep a report on six months of an enjoyable visit to Thailand without it being fairly long, which also made me hesitate. However, two things convinced me to carry on; the first is a bit selfish in that I enjoy writing up my trips as a personal diary for myself to refer to and reflect upon in the future; the second is that I soon realised from the first report, part of which was inserted in the Pattayagay weekly report by PG back in late 2004, that my experiences would be of help to others. It is mainly to those who have followed my progress, experimenting with a variety of situations to find out what suits me best, that I present my report.

 

I'm neither a journalist nor a photographer, but am pleased when some of the many photos I take are able to convey the atmosphere of a scene to help my description of an event or visit, so I insert them to help the readers. I do apologise to those on dial-up connections (as I was until a month ago) as this report was a mammoth 2Mgb which I would have complained about myself.

 

You are right Laurence, in your KISS reference that the average post should be kept reasonably simple, but this one, more than the others is probably the final stage of my experiment and demonstrates how I have settled on a compromise and how I now fill the six months. Like you, I love to read the juicy bits of other people's posts, but I'm a bit of a private person, so leave that to others. Having said that, I do refer in earlier reports to how much I spent on entertainment and where, including "guests in my loom" and how often, etc., but as it mostly stays the same with me, repetition would become boring.

 

Chok dee,

 

Chris

[Guest laurence]

You are a true gentleman Chris! I sometimes like to agitate a little just to get the the posts flowing.

I admire you for having the patience to methodically work on a plan which suits your lifestyle between the UK and Thailand. Wish I was same same. But I fly over, blow my money, among other things, and fly home to recoup and recover financially.

[Guest]

I'm neither a journalist nor a photographer, but am pleased when some of the many photos I take are able to convey the atmosphere of a scene to help my description of an event or visit, so I insert them to help the readers.

 

With the Internet, we are all now journalists or photographers or can be. Just look at Ireport for CNN. I have followed your stories since the beginning and I learn from them each time. As I tend to think I know everything there is to know about everything, just to learn something new from each of your adventures is a great thing for me.