BlogHide Resteemsjack.russelle (76)in music • 3 days agoa pretty awesome Asia life-hack for people that travel back and forth a lotWhen I first moved to Thailand, smartphones and the associated apps that come along with it were not so much a part of people's lives. Smartphones existed, sure, but the companies hadn't really…jack.russelle (76)in life • 9 days agoLiving in Thailand, 5 years laterI first moved to Thailand at the advisement of a friend who was working here who thought I would really like it. This all came about because I had just graduated from college and wasn't very…jack.russelle (76)in love • 12 days agoValentine's Day in Thailand: a far less taxing affairI recall when I live in USA that February 14th was a day that I kind of loathed when I was in a relationship. Commercialism in that country dictates that the man is obligated to spend a ton of…jack.russelle (76)in thailand • 16 days agoFormer miss Russia held in prison in Thailand for minor offenseI know that there must be much more to this story than the police are telling us but from what information we have available to us this seems like a very harsh treatment for a minor offense. As…jack.russelle (76)in teaching • 20 days agoMaking serious bank working over Lunar New Year in ESLWe get a few days off from teaching in person in the ESL field because of Lunar New Year and a lot of the people that I work with take this time to go and get drunk for 4 days in a row. Since I…jack.russelle (76)in thailand • 26 days agoNew long-term visa in Thailand is filled with paperwork and loopholesI can't say I am particularly surprised about this because almost every long-term visa that this country has ever offered for non working purposes has ended in failure or used by so few people that…jack.russelle (76)in thailand • last monthMarijuana is legal in Thailand yet some people are dumb enough to still get arrested over itI don't really do any drugs nor to I imbibe in the prolific use of alcohol. I'm not claiming some sort of moral high ground or anything, I just don't really like to be off my head a lot of the…jack.russelle (76)in thailand • last monthThe Chiang Mai smoke season is a blemish on this otherwise wonderful cityImagine a place that is filled with natural beauty and a relatively laid-back way of life. Imagine that this place enjoys much more bearable temperatures than most of the rest of the country that…jack.russelle (76)in thailand • last monthScammers in Thailand: Sometimes they are the foreignersI recall when I first got here that I was approached by so many people with various propositions, many of which were easily identified as scams and several scams that I was actually victimized by.…jack.russelle (76)in thailand • 2 months agoIf you move to Chiang Mai, check out the suburbs instead of the city centerChiang Mai is one of the most popular areas for expats to live in Thailand. There are 3 major areas that this is the case: Phuket, Chiang Mai, and of course, Bangkok. I think that for most…jack.russelle (76)in asean • 2 months agoTourists base-jump from a building in Bangkok and the police are pissedThe reason why I am showcasing this isn't because the base jumping was stupid or anything, people do stuff like this all over the world and when I was in Krabi once, a guy base jumped from the top…jack.russelle (76)in life • 2 months agoHappy New Year from Thailand!I can't believe it's been this many years that I have lived in Thailand. It was supposed to just be a year or two but this country has made me fall in love with it and now I hope that I never have…jack.russelle (76)in linux • 2 months agoTrying my hand at Linux Mint for the first timeI've been getting increasingly frustrated with Windows over the past few years. When Win10 came out for free and we no longer had to pirate it, at first I was excited but then I remembered that…jack.russelle (76)in police • 2 months agoFraudulent call center bust showcases the uselessness of Thai sim-card restrictionsIt wasn't that long ago that if you wanted a new simcard for you phone you simply walked into any tens of thousands of different stores and just did so. Malls in bigger cities would have long…jack.russelle (76)in thailand • 2 months agoYet another foreigner scammed by a bar girl for a ton of money in PattayaI can't understand the mindset of a person that comes to Thailand's red-light areas, which are well-known all around the world, and somehow believes that some woman or girl that they meet there…jack.russelle (76)in tron • 3 months agoAccessing your Steemit-based Tron rewardsFor a while there we were getting TRX rewards along for our activities inside of Steemit and I think a lot of people, including me, were only accessing or just looking at these rewards inside of the…jack.russelle (76)in thailand • 3 months agoPeople are trying, and failing, to smuggle weed out of ThailandI think it is only a matter of time before the various people that desperately want cannibus to be illegal take a jab at pointing the finger at this sort of pitfall that comes with the legalization…jack.russelle (76)in thailand • 3 months agoMistake? ? ? Thai police put offender's real passport information on public forumI don't know how private you are about your sensitive documents but I am really private about my own. There is a lot of bad stuff that someone can do to your identity if they have your passport…jack.russelle (76)in travel • 3 months agoCorruption exposed in Pattaya, police do nothing about itI don't spend a lot of time in Pattaya because I think it is an exhibition of all the bad things about this country. People that don't live here have this impression that this entire country is…jack.russelle (76)in travel • 4 months agoForeigners behaving badly in Pattaya... A new low for my memoryThis country is wonderful but if you have never been here before to see what Thailand has to offer it wouldn't surprise me if you had the impression that this country is a place for drunken…
