Timberwolf

@icewlf, @hirondelle The main reason for that is because the first time I saw the word Phuket, I thought you pronounced it Fuket, lol. I've had a laugh at that for about 13 years now, so when hiro suggested Fukery, I thought it would be funny to name it Phukerie.

LOL, no, it's 7:45 am here right now. LOL.

@Songmistress, @Ren, @Lightningfall, I'm going to go check the cache settings now.

One thing on mobile I noticed was that it looks like I've been signed out, but when I go into a thread, it allows me to post. I haven't had a chance to look in the AdminCP yet, but I'm working on it.

@LightningfallI have found some cool emotes, but I can't find the ones we used to have. I'll keep looking though.

You guys are funny.

Thank you all, I'll have a look when I'm on my computer later.

Pounces, hugs and licks Great to have you back @Redly! Missed you!

Pounces, hugs and licks So glad you made it back. We've miss you as well.

Pounces hugs and licks Welcome back brother!

LOL, you don't happen to have the old emotes? LOL

So, as some of you may know, I love hockey. I've actually recently started playing shinny (pick up) hockey here in Bangkok. We also have 2 leagues here. One of which I do that Admin for, the Siam Hockey League (SHL), and the other, I hope to play for next year, the Bangkok Ice Hockey League (BIHL). When it comes to the NHL, I have three (3) teams that I like: Minnesota Wild Winnipeg Jets New York Rangers I also have two (2) teams that I just hate. One stems from an old NHL rivalry, and the other, is just well, if you know anything about the NHL, you might understand. Chicago Blackhawks - old rivalry Dallas Stars - moved from Minnesota to Dallas and kept our name. What about you? Let me know.

Yes, we sure as hell did miss it. A few people followed us over to the Northlands Blog, but I was never really happy with it, and the forum on it was terrible, and I just didn't like posting in there. There was just something about this place. @hirondelleand I loved it so much. I'll write a blog post about it sometime. Love you all!

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Is my Air

Welcome back home. We're so glad that you decided to come back. We have missed you something fierce. If you're new here, that's awesome! We're so happy to have you here! Feel free to post here and let us know if you've changed your name, who you are, where you're from, all the interesting little bits you want to share. I'll start..... I'm Timberwolf, T-wolf, Wolf, Dom. I'm originally from Minnesota, but I've lived all over the U.S., I've lived in Chiang Mai, Thailand, and right now, I'm living in Bangkok, Thailand with my Air, The Goddess, @hirondelle. We are looking forward to hearing all about you and spending time with you.

I remember this fondly. Where did you find it???

Pounces, hugs and licks Long time no chat! I've missed you! Things are going good. I'm working full time, I do admin duties for a local hockey league, a whole of things to go with that, lol, I'm podcasting, I do video news for the local hockey league, I just started taichi again, and really enjoyed it, and I've started playing hockey again (after 28 years!!). What's up with you??

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Well, the past few days have kind of been hard couple of days. It all started on Saturday. Something happened while I was at work, and I had such a strong desire, want, need, craving for a smoke! I almost walked out of work, walked down to the local 7-11 and bought a pack. It was so strong, I couldn't believe it. I'd yet to be hit so hard with such a craving for a smoke since we've quit. It was rough. But I didn't go out and buy any cigarettes. I grit my teeth and worked through it, but damn it was hard on Saturday! Sunday...? Well, Sunday was fine, lol. I didn't have any issues on Sunday and didn't have any cravings for a smoke, so I thought I was safe. And to make things even nicer, lol, @hirondelle and I went for our weekly foot massage. OMG! If you haven't had a foot massage by somebody who is really good at them, you have just got to try and find yourself some place that does them! Freaking hell! We get them once a week and they just wash away the weeks stress and worries. And they usually knock me out for about 30 minutes for the hour that we get them. They are awesome! Then Monday hit. Monday wasn't too bad. But for some reason, I was just having minor cravings for a smoke. I don't know why, but time to time throughout the day, I just kind of wanted a smoke. But don't worry sports fans; I didn't have one on Monday. They weren't that bad. Tuesday and damn did Tuesday freaking hit! I was at work, and having a good day, getting a lot of work done on the curriculum they are having me re-write. I originally wrote the curriculum for the kid's classes with one course book covering 100 hours, which gives myself and my fellow teachers plenty of time to get through the course book, prepare the kids for up and coming tests, for the teachers to work with the kids doing portfolios and the like. Well, my bosses felt that it would be better if we went through two course books in 100 hours. Now this cuts down a lot on what the teachers can do, they just have to quickly teach the book, which is OK, but it doesn't really give the teacher a lot of time to really focus on what the students need other than making sure the know enough to move on to the next section of the book. Then after running this curriculum as they wanted it for about 6 months, they decided to change their mind and go back to what I had said they should do, which was run one course book over 100 hours, and they also want to introduce story time for the little, little kids, and reading time for the older kids, which I think is a great idea. Also, before the end of the year, I wrote the curriculum for a camp that we were running for the beginning of the year, which I'm sure you will remember, Around The World In 10 Days. It was a great camp, and I had a lot of fun, and I taught the majority of the classes for the two weeks that it was running. After I was about 75% done with the curriculum, they decided that what I had done was to mature for the kids, so I had to pare down what I had and get a lot of other activities and put a lot of different things together, so it took me a lot long than it should have to write this curriculum, and now is where the problems start. I got my pay here yesterday, Tuesday, and one of my bosses, Dang, said that I don't get paid for curriculum work (1) because I taught the class and (2) because I was claiming too many hours for writing it. Talk about setting me over the edge. I kept my cool, but damn did I really want a cigarette after that. They still haven't paid me for this time, but we were supposed to have a meeting about it on Thursday, because I normally teach on Monday and Wednesdays. Now it's Wednesday, and I was supposed to go to a class about 2 hours out from center Bangkok so I didn't have to go into the office, but the class canceled today, so I went into the office. I went into the office at 12 like I do when I'm not teaching. And the owner of the company didn't come in until about 30 minutes before I left, and she didn't even come in and say hi to me or anything. And my other boss, Dang, didn't even come in today. So we didn't have the meeting today about it. And the owner told me that she couldn't have the meeting tomorrow because she is busy, but we can have the meeting on Friday. This is fine by me. Last night, Tuesday, I made a decision, and this morning when I woke up, I felt so much better about things. No matter what they decide, I come out for the better. See, when we moved back to Bangkok, I really wanted to work for this company, because they were always good to me when I worked for them before. I knew I would probably be making less then I could probably earn, but working for a good company it's sometimes worth it. So the decision that I made, with @hirondelle's support, is simply this. They can give me a pay raise and I won't add any curriculum work or placement testing or any non-teaching work to my pay claim, and if I work more than 70 hours in a month, they will pay me the regular teaching hour pay for anything over those 70 hours. Or, I can go back to being a part time teacher, and not worry about any curriculum or anything like that, and they can just pay me by the hour for my teaching, and I can look around at other schools and get my own private students and make more in the end. So I'm not too worried. And the good news is a two parter, lol. Over this whole time and no matter how much I wanted a cigarette, I didn't have one, which makes me feel good. I didn't have any cravings at all today! Oh, and when I was in today, I finished the Starter, Movers, Flyers curriculum that they asked for, and only worked on it for about 15 hours total, which should make them happy, lol. And, I was a nice guy and emailed it to them, so they have it no matter what decision they make on Friday. Thanks for listening to me ramble along. Always Remember: If you always follow what your heart says, you can never go down the wrong path.

So yesterday I finished another class. The class was at a place called Aurecon. Aurecon is a company the has engineers and drafters for buildings and such. The class was Pre-Intermediate level. Now the book we used, wasn't actually the correct book to use in my opinion. We used a book called Market Leader, which is a great book for people in marketing. And not really what these students needed. Now don't get me wrong, the students learned from the book and they did get something out of it, but that book is more for students of marketing, lol, not engineers. In my opinion, they book that would have worked better is a book called English 365, just because it combines the different aspects of Business English and General English. Meh, lol, it wasn't my decision, lol. Any way, the class was great. The students were a lot of fun. And it was about the class size that I love teaching. When all the students were there, which never happened, there were 17 students. The least amount of students that I had was about 10. So over all it was great! I'm not a big fan of the smaller class sizes, but those are the kinds of classes that my company like to use, but it's no big deal. I can teach all sizes of classes and ages, lol. Well as you can see from the pictures that are attached to this blog post, they were a great group. Unfortunately, not everybody was there on the last day so I could get a picture of everybody. Here is the class list of the ones that came to class, at least part of the time, lol. Aon, Amnuay, Donut, Ton, Nart, Kee, Jue, Pong, Took, Sao, Sit, Thong, Piak(2), Gigx, Art , Piak(1). They were a such a great class, that on the last day, they got a cake for us! Talk about awesome!! Well, I'll stop boring you with my teaching, lol. Always remember: Always listen to your heart. Not anybody else's. Their heart doesn't know you!

So @hirondelle told me around Christmastime that she wanted to buy my next tattoo for me for my birthday. So I finally got some free time, and put together an image that I was very happy with. When you look the gallery pictures for this blog post, it will be the one titled original. They are great! The lady that did the samurai on my right arm is the same lady that did my new tattoo. Her name is Poo. Her husband, Leck New York, does the big back and body pieces. They both are amazing artists. Now we went in on Tuesday to our tattoo shop by the name of Sak Lai Tattoo Studio. Poo too the image and said she was going to turn the outer circle more into a brush stroke, because she new the idea I was going for. I think she did a great job with that. Now to describe my tattoo. The outer circle is called a Zen Circle. It means a lot of different things to a lot of different people. To me it represents that nothing is perfect. Which to me is life. You just do the best you can, which again is life. The inner image, you all know, it's a Yin and Yang. To me this represents the two sides to everything. You have to look at both sides, listen to both sides and you can't have one with out the other... in my opinion. Well, that's about it. Hope you all like it.

For the last 2 weeks, I've been teaching a special class. Well, what my work calls a camp actually. It was a lot fun. I had a class of twelve 5 year olds. Every day of the class they learned a little bit about a different countries. Day 1: Orientation, Make passports, Make photo albums Day 2: Went to United Kingdom Day 3: Went to New Zealand Day 4: Went to Australia Day 5: Went to United States Day 6: Went to Canada Day 7: Went to China Day 8: Went to South Korea Day 9: Went to Japan Day 10: Back to Thailand It was a lot of fun! The kids were great. On the last day, we gave them certificates for completing the camp (see photos). For the first week, I started each day, doing 3 hours every morning with the kids, then they would go to lunch, and I would work on things for the teacher in the afternoon and the afternoons later in the week. then off to my normal classes to teach in the evening. We had one teacher that did Monday and Tuesday afternoon, and the kids loved him, and he loves the kids, but his normal teaching work took him away for the rest of the week, so they hired another teacher to cover him the rest of the course. Well, as it worked out, he is a shit teacher with kids. What he wants is to teach University Students. Oh, and he would prefer to only teach the University students that are girls. Funny how that is. But hey, at least the kids knew he was a shit teacher. The only problem with this, is that then I had to teach the second week in the afternoons on Tuesday, Thursday and Friday. So on Tuesday, I taught from 9am to 3pm, then I had to hightail it to my evening class and teach them 4pm to 6pm, and I had to do that again on Thursday. I was freaking beat! But like I said, I loved it.