RedDragon64

A bit late to the discussion, but I had a Urolift Procedure done last year and the results were great. It's supposed to be the most minimally invasive and risk of prostate treatments (even though it involves putting staples in your prostate). Surgery took less than an hour, and I was only on a catheter for a few hours after that. I was having a bit if urgency/incontinence on the first day, and I was pissing razor blades for the first 2 days after surgery, but then felt completely normal after that. I was able to stop taking my meds right away too. I think I waited a month before trying sex, but it was fine as well. It's now been 18 months and everything is great down there.

Great pics! Brings back a lot of memories. Singapore is great for walking around in if you can handle the heat and humidity. It's amazing how fast the place changes too. You get familiar with an area then go back there 2 years later and it is completely different. More to explore I guess.

"My poor bro in Australia struggles with pain,and can’t for the life of him understand why it’s not legal in Aussie." My understanding is that it is now legal in Australia, but they have only just gotten to the point where you can access it by prescription. I've managed to order some 100% CBD / 0% THC online from overseas twice now and it got delivered to me. I assume I am taking a chance on it getting stopped in customs though.

We eat a mix of fresh and frozen. Having a freezer helps because we can stock up when there is a good sale, or we get a lot more produce than we can use in a short time.

I just came across this thread and I am interested to see what observations/advice people are offering, so thanks for posting. I'm no expert, but I've been trading stocks for ~25 years. My wisdom is limited but simple (based on my own experiences). I got burned during the .com crash but I recognized that the downturn was also a good time to invest in blue chips because it was a no-brainer that they would recover most of their losses eventually (which they did). Unfortunately I didn't have any money to invest at the time because I had lost so much in the .com burn. In 2007/8 I was hearing a lot about how the US housing market was in trouble and that it should impact the overall investment market. I had money to invest at that time but was uncertain where to put it so I just had it sitting in a 7% term deposit until I could figure out what to do with it. I was as surprised as anybody when the market quickly melted down in 2008, but I didn't get burned because I wasn't in it at the time. I was no investment genius... it was simply because I wasn't in play at the time. Luckily I could take what I had observed from the .com crash and apply it. I looked for some blue chip opportunities and invested in companies I was familiar with based on my expectation that they would recover from the crash rather than failing. Emerson Electric, and Johnston Controls were my primary investments and I made 20-30% return in just a few months in 2009. Unfortunately those "wins" made me a bit overconfident in my ability to find winners so I also started playing in alternative energy stocks (mostly solar). I won't mention any specific names because I don't want to steer anybody into risky stocks. That market turned out to be a lot more volatile than I was expecting so I made a lot of big losses in addition to a lot of big wins. I did come out ahead overall, but some of my lessons were a bit embarrassing in hindsight. I did get a bit lucky in that one of my solar stocks paid back massively over a few months in 2013 which made up for most of my losses and put me in a good position for the next opportunity. The energy market took a downturn in 2015 so I recognized that as another opportunity to invest in blue chips. In this case my strategy was on dividends in addition to share price increase so after comparing BP/ExxonMobil/Shell I settled on RDS.A stocks to play for the long term. I've made good returns on the share price increase, and continue to get the quarterly dividends. I'm getting closer to retirement now so my risk appetite and willingness to play in volatile stocks is much lower. I'm mostly riding on the profits I've made and the dividends I am continuing to collect. So my limited success isn't really due to a brilliant strategy or extensive experience. It mostly comes down to recognizing the obvious fact that blue chip stocks recover from market downturns so they make a good opportunity if you didn't get burned by the market downturn.

Thanks mate... glad to be here. I mostly travel from Singapore so I usually fly TG, or SQ

Hi Everyone. I've been traveling to Thailand for both business and pleasure for ~20 years.