Author: Oscar Carl Henrik

Meditation and other daily rituals

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Came across this video today. It reminded me that one of my plans for this blog was to walk about my own meditation routine and what benefits I experience from it. 

I actually learnt the basics of meditation from a book when I was about 17 years old. I have been doing it on and of since then, and my plan is to make it a daily routine just as described in this video.  

Please stay tuned for more posts on how to use meditation and other rituals to program your mind and body for more success and a happier life. 

My 11 000 ฿ monthly hotel room

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Voìla my current home at V Residence Serviced apartments.

This place is just outside Pattaya (about 20 min walk to city).

The price equals about 318 USD and lectricity and water charges are added at the end of the month. 

I appreciate staying in a calmer location and not in the middle of the center city. This has been quite a good accomodation I would say.

Still about a week to go of this “30 day rent period”, which I will use to get some more work done and also to enjoy the Thai new year and Songkran that are just beginning these days. 

A similar room for only 6500 ฿/month!? 

I talked to the lady in the reception the other night and she gave me a tip of the apartment building right next to this one. According to her there are apartments there for 6 500 ฿/month (only 189 USD!). And those apartments allegedly also include a little bit bigger balcony and better space for cooking too 🙂 But I don’t think that there’s any swimming pool included.. If I ever want to stay around here again it might be worth checking out though!

How I (try to) stay fit in Thailand

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One thing that often happens when I go to Thailand is that I get a motorcycle and then after that I don’t get so much exercise.. I also eat more sweets for some reason.. Probably because it’s cheap and available everywhere.

Somewhere along the road I look myself in the mirror though and realize I have to do something drastic. Now I have some experience on this so I now know what measures I can take to fix the situation. 

These are the typical steps:

  • I start taking the stairs instead of the elevator in the hotel
  • eat less sweets
  • let the motorcycle rest and take walks whenever I need to go somewhere within walking distance
  • take general walks exploring the neighborhood and surroundings of my hotel/apartment

Today for the second day in a row I took a walk on the smaller streets towards city center. I walked around long enough for the twilight to arrive and for the night life in slowly come to life.

Today I also had one of my favorite dishes on the way home from the “city walk”, the Wonton noodle soup which was only 45 Baht and tastes delicious.

Weekend leisure

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This week end I finally forgot about work for a while and had a great night out with my Swedish friend in Jomtien. We went out for a few beers and and had a really good time. I also took the opportunity to do some excursions
the day after to see the Big Buddha and the view point once again. Also went to central festival for some food and ice cream 🙂



Parking garage in Central Festival. Thailand, the land of smiles, but also indeed the land of motorbikes… ^^

My thoughts to Sweden

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Today for the first time in a while I decided to stop working a little bit earlier to go for a ride, take a look around, and have dinner and relax a bit in a getaway place. It was very nice and well needed and a nice break.

But later in the evening of course the news reached me of the horrible attack in Stockholm :(( Now even in the Thai news they are talking about this comparing it to attacks in London etc. It feels so surreal and one of course cannot help but feeling really sad. 

 

Proving to myself that I can work being away from home

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It’s a routine by now. It’s pretty nice with routines. It’s like a routine in a non routine situation. It’s like the nice combination of comfort and daily excitement.. If that makes any sense 🙂

My experiment over the past few weeks have been to try to get some work done. It’s like I didn’t really trust myself a 100 percent to have the discipline to handle my work decently when being on the other side of the world.

So that’s why I have really put my main focus on work and daily practicalities. It’s like I wanted to prove to myself that I could earn my living working away from home.

I have a couple of deadlines in the last few days and I took the chance of getting quite a few hours of work done. So now my confidence has grown quite a bit and I feel pretty sure that I could not only make my living working away from home, but actually develop my business as well and increase my salary over time which feels very very nice.

To me it means that I could be on the road, traveling around as long as I would want to. I guess this is really what I have been dreaming of for a long time. So it’s a really cool feeling arriving at this point. I feel so happy and grateful.

 

My typical “home cooked” dinner

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It’s true that eating out is as cheap if not cheaper than cooking at home here in Thailand.

Though going out all the time actually takes time and also gives you less control over what you are eating. So I generally prefer eating in my room or apartment, at least when I am working a lot, as I am right now.

Here’s my typical food that I cook in my current hotel room. I cook some rice in my rice cooker, I have some meat or other ready to eat addition to the rice in my fridge. I also see to it that I have some fresh vegetables and lime and things in stash to make the whole thing a bit more interesting. The food feels very natural and fresh, and it’s quite frankly very delicious. 

The rice used here is a mixed sort rice which has a brown color to it after being cooked

 

 

Dinner time

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Can’t remember what this kind of dish is called. But you boil your own food anyhow. It’s really good. Actually there’s another version where you fry it on a kind of pan in the same style, called Mokata, that is even more delicious in my opinion, but this one is close enough, and also probably more healthy.