Broadband internet in Thailand

If there was one thing I could change in Thailand, guess what it would be? Language barrier? Nope. Some cultural difference? No. The number one on my list would be: the internet. I get asked quite often by different people, how’s the internet here. I usually describe some of the problems I’m facing, and then […]

Chilli attack

BBC NEWS | UK | England | London | Burning chilli sparks terror fear
Police closed off three roads and evacuated homes following the alert. Specialist crews broke down the door to the Thai Cottage restaurant at 1900 BST on Monday where they discovered the source - a 9lb pot of chillies. […]

Lunch

I haven’t really had much time to relax since the start of the relocation a couple of weeks ago. I’ve been doing lots of shopping, setting up stuff, fighting with my internet connection, checking alternative ISP’s and market data feeds etc. etc. But in he midst of that I try to improve the quality of […]

An update and random observations

I’ve now been in Bangkok for about 5 days. I spent most of my time just unpacking, buying lots of stuff and arranging the apartment. The new office chair and desk are arriving today and with that I’ll be done with setting the place up. It’s taken a lot less time than usual to get […]

Au revoir Singapore

2 hours till the landlord comes over and I’m officially moved out and left Singapore, for the 3rd time in a decade. I’m now 99.99% packed ;-) I got rid of tons of things which I either didn’t use or were too old or I couldn’t care about. After all this de-cluttering and scaling down […]

Trading Full-Time

A bit of an update on the events of the past few weeks. This is going to be a long and relatively incoherent and mushy post. So be warned.
Not too long ago, about early July, I decided to take the risk and go full-time trading. Just to make things a bit more ‘interesting’ I also […]

Random thoughts

I took a longer break today and went to the dentist for my regular check-up and cleaning. I picked a different dentist this time from my usual one here just to add some variety and do a bit of price / services comparison. I’ll get to that in a bit but before that, I arrived […]

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