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  Move along, nothing to see here!
I got a Line message from the condo office. She send pictures and it looks like it is my new computer screen. BRAND NEW! Bought it on the 25th of June and on the 29th the screen is burning.  My new computer screen had burnt to garbage
 My new computer screen had burnt to garbage
 My new computer screen had burnt to garbage
 The sprinkler have filled my room with water
The sprinkler at released and extinguished the fire. My condo have wood floor and the floor was filled with water and I´m worried about the wood. The staff at the condo managed to clear the water and I called Maid Delivery and they will send maids on Monday to help clear out the condo. Two of my friends went to check the condo on Sunday and they will have a look. And Maid Delivery will send Maids and they will start with 3 days. I have told them to clear the room where the fire had started. The will also take out my curtains and bed sheets and dry clean it. My friend and the condo manager had taken care of my oriental carpets and they will clean them in the shop not far away from the condo. I don´t care much about the carpets, only 2 Persian Kiman carpets that I really don´t want to lose. Good if they can save the Pakistani carpets, but the 2 Persian are the important. But I will see if they have been successful when they are ready with the carpet  20,000 Baht to clean the carpets
 My friend come to have a look
Maid Delivery have removed everything for dry cleaning and my carpets was in the carpet shop. The wood floor looks OK, but I´m more worried about water under the floor. There had been a representative from the insurance company.  Maid Delivery is making progress
 Only thing remaining to do, remove the furniture
Monday 8th of July 2019 and I have a chance to go home to have a look at the condo. The service boat was on the anchorage at 7 o´clock in the morning and the car will for me when I arrive to the jetty in Map Ta Put. We left Rita a few minutes after 7 and we expect it to take about 45 minutes to reach Map Ta Put. We stopped at a Thai tanker to pick up 4 of their crew members before we continued to the jetty in Map Ta Put. Arriving to Map Ta Put and the driver came to greet me. I asked him to stop at the mini mart up the road from the jetty. I filled up the back seat with MAX and we were soon on our way. ETA to my condo 11 o´clock and I will also have lunch with my friend. I need to buy some stuff at HomePro and some other things to bring back on board. Too early to do some shopping in Rayong and I will have to do it in Bangkok. Empty high ways and we were hauling arse towards Bangkok.  Full speed towards Bangkok
 Reaching Bangkok and the traffic come to full stop
 Reaching Bangkok and the traffic come to full stop
I was home around 11 o´clock and I spent about two hours in my condo before going back to Map Ta Put. I had brought my camera equipment so I can keep an eye on the equipmetn and I hope they can start work in the condo while I am on board. We removed the desk and shelfs and it ended up in the garbage. I was in contact with a company that AXA Insurance had recommended on the way back to Map Ta Put and they will come to have a look. Very little damage from the fire, nothing, just fresh paint, but the water! The floor looked very nice but I could hear that there was water under the wood. So we will have to remove all the wood, about 150m2 of 25mm thick teak wood. They are working with a floor company and to put new wood is 4 weeks and to put something they call engineered wood will take 7 days. But the wood floor was the pride of my condo so I will most likely go back to wood. I have cancelled my safari and bird watching tour to Tanzania and Ethiopia in September / October. I still hope I will be able to go, but I will have to see how it turns out inmy condo. But it will safe me 15000 US Dollar to skip my adventure in Africa. So maybe go for the Engineered Wood and finish in 7 days and take off to Africa. The Engineered wood looks good on picture, off course it does, and it is 3mm real wood on top of some other wood board. I got an information catalog from Double Floor and you can study the catalog HERE. Back in Rayong and I went for Japanese dinner with my driver. I had been there before and the food is good. I was back on board around 6 o´clock in the evening and I had brought my camera equipment so they can start to work in the condo any time. I ordered whiskey and chocolate from TOPS online and I sent it to the office at my condo. The staff had really been doing a good job and without them it would have ended with a disaster. I got a video from the condo office via line, a video from my condo when they fire had been extinguished with the sprinkler. It was not so nice to watch the video. The amount of water the sprinkler had delivered, I was really happy that the fire had started during the day time. Imagine if it had started at 2 o´clock in the morning. BOOM! We would have filled my condo and the condo below me with water. We started to play lotto, Loading Master, Captain and our Time Keeper and I. I sent in a few numbers on lime and we have to pay 84 Baht each per week and we are playing for 10 weeks. We won about 270 Baht first week, around 70 Baht each and I was not so very happy. I decided that we need more luck and our Time Keeper is an expert in Thai magic. Our Loading Master is also in to Thai magic so we really have high hopes to win big this time.
 Tea time
Loading Master in Map Ta Put
Our Time Keeper is very worried about out lottery. He don´t know how he will get his lottery money from Sweden to Thailand. He say that it can be trouble to send 10 million from Sweden to Thailand. And he is on about it every day asking me how we can send the money to Thailand. I told him that he could travel to Sweden and bring back the money in cash. And it didn´t become any better when I decided to buy some “good luck magic” Now he was convinced that we would win BILLIONS of Baht. And this will be a huge problem for him. Our Loading Master told him that he could use his account, no problem.  Our Time Keeper polish and clean my new magic
 Our Time Keeper polish and clean my new magic
 Our Time Keeper polish and clean my new magic
 Our Time Keeper polish and clean my new magic
 My lottery magic is ready
 “LOTTO” magic
My new “LOTTO” magic
My new “LOTTO” magic
My new “LOTTO” magic
My new “LOTTO” magic
My new “LOTTO” magic
My new “LOTTO” magic
 Monk riding around on an elephant helping people
Monk riding around on an elephant helping people
My new “LOTTO” magic
 We always have a lot of Little Terns looking for fish in our wake arriving and departing from Map Ta Put. And as I have been home to get my camera equipment I tried my luck when we left Map Ta Put. Very hard to get them on picture as they are very small and quick.   Little Tern / นกนางนวลแกลบเล็ก - 20 February 2016 - Map Ta Put port entrance
 Little Tern / นกนางนวลแกลบเล็ก - 20 February 2016 - Map Ta Put port entrance
Mama Boat Service had brought Mango, Bananas and MAX for me when we were anchored and when I had finished my old stock I ripped open one of the cases. I discovered that it was MAX raspberry and I was not happy. I gave one of the cases to our Pump Man and I asked our Time Keeper to take a picture and send to “MAMA” so we´re not running in to the same unpleasantly in the future.  MAX Raspberry
Then we realised that “MAMA” would not take it seriously if it was all smiles on the picture and we took a proper picture showing how upset and angry we were. Add plenty of disappointment on that and we will for sure only get the real thing in the future.  Not happy
End of August and we were surprised, we got a few days on the anchorage and our Time Keeper left for home for a few days, he will be back on the 21 August and we will leave on the 22 early morning. We will be in Bongkot 06:00 on the 23rd. He had missed us and he was very happy to come back on board. And he brought all my parcels with stuff I had bought on line, snus and some “e” stuff New Dorco razors as I have given up on Gillette after their stupid commercial. The Dorco razor turned out to be much better and cheaper than Gillette. Good quality and a good feel to the handle. I also got snus and a parcel from Heavens Gift in Singapore.  Parcels for me at the Agent office
 New magic
 New magic
He also brought back a souvenir, a new magic with Shiva and Ganesha so if I don´t win the lottery now I don´t know what it takes. Our Time Keeper spent the evening in my room showing the “crazy” exercise and I got a new instruction video. +++++++++++++++
Thursday 29th of August 2019 and Double Floor started to remove my floor. They will remove the floor and then it will dry for 10 days or so. They will remove the plywood and replace it with the termite SMART BOARD. The handy man had taken a few pictures that the Condo Manager went to me via Line.
 Removing the floor
 Removing the floor
 Removing the floor
 Removing the floor
 Removing the floor
Replacing the floor will set me back by 827,000 Baht and then I will have to see how much the insurance company will refund. Took them almost a week to remove the floor and they will start to install the SMART BOARD on the 16th of September and by then I will be home.  Almost ready having removed the floor
 Almost ready having removed the floor
 Almost ready having removed the floor
 Almost ready having removed the floor
 Almost ready having removed the floor
 Almost ready having removed the floor
 Almost ready having removed the floor
Loading at Bongkot and we leave on Friday 6th of September. Saturday and it will be my last Saturday on board and I made some spaghetti sauce “Skåne Style” for lunch. All paper work ready  for arrival to Map Ta Put in the evening was ready so I had time to do some cooking. Starting by chopping onions and our Cook had made minced meat yesterday so this was ready. Our Time Keeper disturbed me by coming to take pictures every now and then.
  Time for lunch
 Time for lunch
My reliever came on board just after 2 o´clock in the morning of the 12th of September. He came with one of the pilot boats when we were going in for discharging at Map Ta Put. No allowed to go ashore at the TTT jetty. Before it was OK to go ashore. But some years ago and a ship had have crew ashore. The crew had complained about bad smell on the jetty and after that they are not allowed to come ashore. So my reliever had to come by boat and I will sign off at the anchorage after discharging. I will be back at the dry dock in Singapore and we expect to be there in the beginning of October. So I have time to attend a Maersk Tanker Seminar in Copenhagen between 30 Sep to 2 Oct.  Our Time Keeper not happy when I go home
 Down in the service boat
 Our luggage coming down
 Leaving Rita behind
 Best picture
We left Rita just before dinner so I was quite hungry when we stepped ashore. And we had to wait for the driver, as usual. I went to pay for my Pepsi MAX. And our Time Keeper on board had sent kisses to “MAMA” running the shop and boat service. We had expected to use her boat service but no anchoring. So I will pay for the drinks today and she will send the drinks next time she pass Rita on the anchorage. We had to wait for almost an hour for the driver to come pick us up, well, the service  have nothing but deteriorated since they changed Agent. The previous Agent was always keeping TOP NOTCH service.
Anyway, we left Map Ta Put and we asked the driver to stop at a Burger King place and we learned that it was some 35km from the pier. We were hauling arse towards Bangkok and I was very hungry by the time we reached Burger King I threw myself out of the car as soon as we had parked. I busted through the doors and I asked for a strawberry shake “HUGE SIZE” first thing. Then I ordered two of the biggest looking burgers on the menu. No fries or soda.  Reaching Burger King
    The shake was good
 My burgers are ready
I took my shake and we went to a table to wait for our food. The brought my burgers and they were for sure not looking as they did on the menu. Huge gorgeous looking burgers on the menu but when I removed the wrapping it was some very tired looking burgers that popped up. I did not even finish both burgers. We left and I made a mental note to never come back to Burger King again. Well, maybe for a shake.
My choice for the evening
Can´t say that I felt very good when we left Burger King but I was not hungry. I was home around 10 thirty and I went straight to bed as I will be busy tomorrow. I need to go see them at Double Floor between Sukhumvit Soi 72 and 74 and as it is Saturday they close at 12 o´clock. I stopped to get a haircut on the way to Double Floor so I was looking like a proper tw#t arriving to their show room. I stopped at Soi 49 to see a carpenter when I was ready at Double Floor and they will come have a look in the afternoon. They will do the painting and new desk for me.
Looking like a proper tw#t
 Pepsi MAX coming on board
Our Time Keeper is updating me with pictures from Map Ta Put anchorage. My MAX has been delivered and they will wait for me so I have a little something in the dry dock in Singapore. If we go to the dry dock, buyers on board to have a look at the ship, and if they buy the ship dry dock will be cancelled. Monday and I need to go to the bank and get money for my new floor. I stopped at Via Vai for Spaghetti Salmon after the bank and I started to transfer money to Double Floor while eating  spaghetti and drinking Earl Grey tea.
Double Floor have started with the SMART BOARDs when I´m back home from the bank. They have to put boards before they put in the wood floor. They expect it to take 2 days for the SMART BOARD. Next week and they will install the desk and shelves and I have asked Double Floor to make the wood floor ready in the small storage room beginning of next week.  New SMART BOARD in my bed room
 New SMART BOARD in my bed room
 Putting new SMART BOARD in my guest room
 Painting the storage room
I spent quite a lot of money buying new stuff and a new mattress that will be delivered next week. Thursday and Friday and they will paint the storage room. The ceiling will be painted when the  floor is ready. We completed the electric work on the Thursday and when they left it was knocking on the door, the Painters had arrived.
So it is busy days and not much boxing, 3 times only before I left for a whale watching trip with Wild Encounter Thailand. But I need all the exercise I can get and I take every opportunity so as soon as there are no work going on in my room I take a taxi to Chaiyasit Muay Thai Gym for a session Muay Thai with ปีศาจแดง ก.กุมานนท์, Red Devil. I will fly to Copenhagen for a seminar so I will  hopefully have a few more opportunities before I leave on the 26th September. My flight to Addis Ababa is on the 18th of October so if they cancel the dry dock there will plenty opportunities for more boxing. And I will pick up YOGA again.
 At Chaiyasit Muay Thai Gym
ปีศาจแดง ก.กุมานนท์, Red Devil
I take the opportunity to update my IT Centre and we open the ceiling and we draw LAN cables to all the rooms so I have full strength WIFI in the whole apartment. I have one router but the apartment is too big to get WIFI in the whole apartment. So new LAN cables are installed and I will have AIS to come here to install a new router, the old one was destroyed in the fire. I will get NOKIA WIFI extenders from AIS and I will have a Technician to come and install everything.  Pulling new LAN cables in my apartment
Friday and I was off to have my third boxing session. My friend was here to remove a cabinet and I will ride with him back to Chaiyasit Muay Thai Gym. We were about to leave when the painters arrived, I exploded, they should have been here at 9 o´clock in order to finish the painting before Monday when they will install the desk and shelves.  - DUCK OFF!!!!!!!!!
I was really angry, I´m not a painter, but I understand that you have to paint more than one time when you paint white paint. Not this people, they were ready. Fer ducks sake, one day and the paint was already falling off.  New paint falling off
The Painters left and we left to deliver the cabinet to my friend´s house and from there we will go to Chaiyasit Muay Thai Gym. We leave Sukhumvit and we reach my friend´s house an hour later. I took the opportunity to decorate my friend´s house with the super magic and holy flags I bought in Nepal. And I hope that this will give us some well needed luck.  Decorating my friend´s house
 Decorating my friend´s house
On the way back to the gym, well, we decide to go eat at Sweeter Day. We had a bit of debate in the car. I had my friend to decide and he told me to decide. - No, up to you! - OK, let´s go to the gym I was a wee bit disappointed with this. So I asked our other friend, he was hungry and we ended up on Sweeter Day. We took a table and we ordered Earl Grey tea first thing. I ordered one of their Nutella thing and two sandwiches.  At Sweeter Day
 Earl Grey tea
      My Nutella thing
 My Nutella thing
Of course, a huge setback for my diet. Back home and I paid the handy men at the condo to paint my storage room or we would miss the opportunity to install the desk on Monday. They will put the floor in the storage room on Tuesday so I just have enough time to put in my stuff before leaving for Copenhagen and the Maersk seminar next week. I see a delivery truck outside 7 when I come back home and I go to see if it is my MAX coming. I have ordered 3 cases of MAX to bring for my bird watching in Ethiopia. I bring back one case and I will pick up the remaining 2 cases tomorrow.  Delivering MAX to 7
 7 fully stocked again
 First of my 3 cases of MAX
 Handy men painting the storage room
The handy men at the condo painted my storage room in the evening so now I hope they come to put in the desk on Monday. And I can fill up the room on Tuesday when they are ready with the floor. They expect the apartment to be ready end of October. First weekend off the ship and no one come to work in my room. So I have booked a whale watching trip with Wild Encounter Thailand so it will be bird and whale watching on Saturday. Click HERE to see if I am lucky with the birds and whales.      
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