12 Questions Of Life: 12 Answers in Rapid Succession, All with a Cool Intro
I’m breaking my own rule about doing single posts for a single video, but this one was a treat shooting and then editing and weirdly, I didn’t even feel like doing it; whereas, I usually do. I’m usually quite exuberant, in fact.
I mean, right up to the point I got to the 3rd shooting location (yea, three separate locations) I was feeling meh about it.
Perhaps it’s because this one was done solidly into the afternoon—it pissed rain most of yesterday, all damn night, and the first hours of the morning—and I’m now doing almost all footage shooting in the mornings…like during the walk.
Anyway, I think it turned out pretty darned great in terms of both visuals and soundness of the content—especially given my self-learning-as-I-go lack of experience.
Why the paragliding hero image up top?
Serendipity.
I went up to the windmill at the Nai Harn beach area to shoot the intro…to say what I was going to be doing…then head over to Promthep Cape for the meat & potatoes portion. But there was a guy paragliding and lots of spectators, so I did an intro-intro: 1 minute of footage; wherein, I then recorded a stylish voice over back in “the studio.”
(…I kinda get a kick out of tossing around all the terms of the trade, lols.)
Anyway, I’m pleased with it and so I’m sharing it out of order. I put out two very substantial pieces of writing very recently…
- The Secret For a Man: How To Get That Initial Positive Visceral Reaction From a Woman (3,000 Words, 43 Images, and a Video)
- Visceral Chemistry Comes First When Women Size Up Men For Romance. What Comes Next? (5,000 Words, 3 Images, and a Video)
So, it’s all okay.
The YouTube Description:
There’s a cool tool called VidIQ and one feature is that it can give you 50 video ideas every day (free version is 3 per day). They’re AI generated from its scouring of search and view data, I assume.
Anyway, I find them to be pretty damn good.
So anyway, I went out and ran through a list of a dozen of them, short answers.
The 1-min intro of the paraglider flying ridge lift was serendipitous so I give you a narrated minute of that. Here’s my own channel of my own hang-gliding videos.
One question had to do with money so I mentioned the “geoarbitrage” video I did yesterday.
00:00 Preface: Narrated Paragliding of Promthep Cape
00:59 Introduction Over a Coconut Smoothie
01:52 The Rulz!
02:25 How To BUY TIME and NOT Handle Tasks You Hate Doing?
03:01 What life advice can just duck off?
03:51 What kind of value do you want to add to life?
04:43 Why Should I Bother to Reason with Other People?
05:39 If not concerned with what others would think, what would you be doing with your life?
06:57 Why Can’t I Make Enough Money? What is Holding Me Back?
09:12 Is the best time in your life in past, present, or future?
10:13 What should you do if you’re friend-zoned?
11:45 What Unhealthy Habits Do You Need To Break Now?
12:00 What is Time Restricted Eating & How to Get Started.
12:53 What Is Your “Nobody Will Ever Believe This Story”?
13:19 Are YOU Under Strong Delusion? That you should believe a LIE?
16:04 The Wrap Up#qanda #questionsoflife #coconutsmoothie #paragliding #hanggliding #geoarbitrage #frugal #frugalliving #frugalexpat #friendzone #badadvice #goodadvice #selfish #selfishlove #timerestrictedeating #intermittentfasting #fasting #thailand #expat #phuket #rawai #naiharn #promthepcape #thaigirl #asian #asia #southeastasia
Stills of the Intro-Intro
And with that, I guess it’s time to just embed the damn thing and shut up about it, already.
…Yea, I’m still working on those custom thumbnails. I have some rudimentary tools to make them…but I absolutely refuse to do that cartoon crap with the soy-boy facial expressions so many Tubers do.
In terms of the questions and my answers, feel free to let me know in comments here or on the video which answer(s) you loved and/or hated the most, and why.
Onward then, and go support all this work.
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Hi Richard,
Really enjoying your posts and videos,
Regarding geoarbitrage thought I’d post this link from from the Daily Sceptic website.
A post by a Brit relocating to Vietnam but currently spending time in Thailand and their impressions. The mask anecdote on the internal Thai flight has a disappointing end given that they are now optional on flights.
The scotch egg reference towards the end relates to a statement a politician made in 2020 when the pubs were allowed to reopen in the UK as long as people were buying food and wearing masks on entering and moving around the premises. He was asked what would be regarded as a minimum purchase and replied “A scotch egg” (Its a boiled egg wrapped in sausage meat and deep fried in breadcrumbs).
dailysceptic.org/2022/09/30/covid-theatre-is-alive-and-well-in-thailand/
Yep, I know scotch eggs. Love ’em, and pretty much all pub food. Where I live here in Rawai, there’s lots of English/Irish/Aussie pubs so I get my frequent doses of bangers & mash, shepherds or cottage pie, minced-meat or kidney pies, and Sunday roast with yorkies and gravy.
Garden nails it in that post so I dropped 5 pounds sterling donation and a comment (still in mod queue, so pasted below).
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Greetings Mr. Garden,
Thailand expat here (nearly 3 years now, but have been a visitor since 1986). I began in Chiang Mai, then time in Isan (Si Sa Ket) to sit out wave 1 of Covid, then Pattaya/Jomtien (which isn’t like it was in the late 80s), and now Rawai / Nai Harn, Phuket, which is the southernmost tip of the island. Tons of expats here, especially UK (and plenty of Oz & Kiwi too). More of those sorts of mates now than in my American home. Nearly 2 years here, now, and I love it.
I could have been in Vietnam had my flight to Saigon not been cancelled while in the check in line 15 March, 2020. So I got “stuck” in Thailand, eventually did my retirement visa, and have made it home. Friends in Vietnam during the worst of it reported a much different experience there than I was having here.
…Which brings me to your fine piece that nails it. I’ll add that is has always been mostly theater (American spelling, there ;) since day 1. Even with the populace generally terrified—face in phones and “Cry TV” all the time for the latest piece of Very Bad News!—enforcement was mostly just show, along with the typical setting of examples necessary. But for me, generally, it was but mere inconvenience, the chief one being the shuttering of girl bars, I must say. So in answer to the edict that only “essential services” could remain open, I must always ask, “essential to WHOM?”
One need look no further than the motorcycle situation here. Thailand is among the most statistically dangerous places to use one, yet every day you would see entire families of 4 (dad, mom, 2 kids) on 125cc bikes, no helmets, all sporting masks.
There’s a helmet law here but only enforced when the police need to raise money from tourists renting motorbikes. So, you would have the hilarious spectacle of being stopped and he doesn’t care that you’re not wearing a helmet. he’s gonna write you up for not wearing a mask.
I see you’re getting some heat in comments for your failure on principles (reminds me a bit of dealing with “Randroids” over decades in these sorts of classically liberal venues). Having lived in Japan during the latter 5 years of the 80s and having travelled all over Asia during that space of time, you have identified the core thing to my mind. It’s just cultural…that face-saving propensity that extends Buddhist and other Asian contemplative customs and traditions to everyday words and deeds…beyond the Big Stuff we Westerners tend to apply the Golden Rule.
And even in that flight, it was a polite request. No Westerner could have failed to see any of the number of videos from our world where Karens and Kens are all about policing every perceived infraction of government edicts anywhere in their purview.
So, “mote in your own eye,” I’d say to that.
…I have my own personal style in deflecting that sort of thing. I usually express my lamentations, that so many pretty and handsome faces are being covered up with all these dreadful masks, and especially the smiles that is the trademark of Thailand.
Gets them [almost] every time. Especially the young lovelies at “Sewen.”
…I got wind of your post via a comment on a post at my own blog, FreeTheAnimal.com, a 19-year endeavor with over 5,000 posts, with too many from a Sceptic angle. Hope it’s not too untoward to make mention of that.
Cheers,
Richard Nikoley