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05-20-2013
, 06:53 AM
Kardnel, last time i travelled to thailand, i just packed 27" LG monitor to my 23kg case together with my clothes etc and they didnt ask me to pay any tax etc. I would just suggest buying another case and just pack it in it. Another way is to buy on ebay similiar monitor, dont know your situation but packing in the case among clothes should work fine
05-20-2013
, 07:38 AM
05-21-2013
, 05:19 AM
05-21-2013
, 06:27 AM
The air in BKK is quite ****ty. There's so much traffic around here, a bunch of factories around and the heat and humidity usually just make things worse. Needless to say BKK is one of the worst places in the world in terms of air quality. Barring the nation of China.
There are few things that you can do though. Most of you are poker players who spent most of your time in your own condo either sleeping or grinding away.
I recently added HEPA filters to all my aircon units and I have 1 aircon running 24/7 creating a positive atmospheric pressure inside the house. So air is leaking out of the house rather than coming in. I also bought a **** ton of plants based on the recommendations of this TED video. I also added the other plants that NASA uses to purify the air in their gay space stations. So basically I spent most of my time in a clean or at least reasonable clean air environment.
A last step I took was wearing a R95 or P99 mask whenever I go into traffic on my bike.
I'm quite asthmatic and had trouble breathing even before I came to BKK. I must say that after 6 months of trying to breath clean air I have no asthma symptoms at all anymore. I also do better when I tried out the treadmill again.
Heres my filter that I just cleaned today after 4.5 months. Usually these filters are up for replacement every 6-9 months. The white part is double folded where no air came through and what it looked like before I put it in.
You can buy all plants at the Chatuchak market and it's fairly inexpensive. I paid around 120-160 baht for a Peace Lilly and 50 baht for a simple snake plant. You need to haggle hard here otherwise you'll pay double. I took home 50 plants for 8k baht. Of which 38 are currently still alive. I'm a bad owner I guess. You can simply show pictures on your smart phone or take a print out and the people selling the plants will instantly know. Here's my bedroom jungle
You can rent a pick up truck for 800b a day. There are people who will bring u there and back for 1k baht.
The HEPA aircon filters are hard to come by. You'll have to get them from outside of Thailand. But Big C's and Homepros have a 3M filtrette that comes in a red box. It filters around 95% of particulates smaller than 0.3 micron. HEPA is 99.95% afaik. The 3m filtrettes are 200b a roll or something and can easily be put over 2-3 aircon units. Just add a layer to the current filter. This may increase your electricity bill at the of month slightly as your aircon becomes less efficient.
You can buy R95 masks at most Big C's and Home Pro's. Probably at other places too. They are 120 Baht each and last 8 hours in traffic. You can also buy n95 masks which cost 40 baht each and last much longer. However, they are also much less effective for traffic pollution.
Just some info other than PE trying to troll while treating his appendix gf horribly.
There are few things that you can do though. Most of you are poker players who spent most of your time in your own condo either sleeping or grinding away.
I recently added HEPA filters to all my aircon units and I have 1 aircon running 24/7 creating a positive atmospheric pressure inside the house. So air is leaking out of the house rather than coming in. I also bought a **** ton of plants based on the recommendations of this TED video. I also added the other plants that NASA uses to purify the air in their gay space stations. So basically I spent most of my time in a clean or at least reasonable clean air environment.
A last step I took was wearing a R95 or P99 mask whenever I go into traffic on my bike.
I'm quite asthmatic and had trouble breathing even before I came to BKK. I must say that after 6 months of trying to breath clean air I have no asthma symptoms at all anymore. I also do better when I tried out the treadmill again.
Heres my filter that I just cleaned today after 4.5 months. Usually these filters are up for replacement every 6-9 months. The white part is double folded where no air came through and what it looked like before I put it in.
You can buy all plants at the Chatuchak market and it's fairly inexpensive. I paid around 120-160 baht for a Peace Lilly and 50 baht for a simple snake plant. You need to haggle hard here otherwise you'll pay double. I took home 50 plants for 8k baht. Of which 38 are currently still alive. I'm a bad owner I guess. You can simply show pictures on your smart phone or take a print out and the people selling the plants will instantly know. Here's my bedroom jungle
You can rent a pick up truck for 800b a day. There are people who will bring u there and back for 1k baht.
The HEPA aircon filters are hard to come by. You'll have to get them from outside of Thailand. But Big C's and Homepros have a 3M filtrette that comes in a red box. It filters around 95% of particulates smaller than 0.3 micron. HEPA is 99.95% afaik. The 3m filtrettes are 200b a roll or something and can easily be put over 2-3 aircon units. Just add a layer to the current filter. This may increase your electricity bill at the of month slightly as your aircon becomes less efficient.
You can buy R95 masks at most Big C's and Home Pro's. Probably at other places too. They are 120 Baht each and last 8 hours in traffic. You can also buy n95 masks which cost 40 baht each and last much longer. However, they are also much less effective for traffic pollution.
Just some info other than PE trying to troll while treating his appendix gf horribly.
