Asia, here I come (back)

DervProf

Orpheo wrote: »

Exit stage left.

The first Rush album I bought (on cassette !).

DervProf

bendix wrote: »

Sibley can kiss my a**e. Real expats don't mix with white trash expats like him ;-)

Careful, he may take you up (pun intended) on the offer.

Pete111

Sibley wrote: »

Whats a real expat?

Oh I get it. Instead of enjoying yourself being with sexy girls, staying in nice hotels and having a great circle of friends it's better to walk around thinking you are really clever and try to make a life with a Thai family who secretly hate you and will fleece you of all everything you own.

Good luck with your job anyway.

Ouch! There's only one way to settle this...

FIIIIIIIGHT!!!!




(Good luck with everything Bendix - assume you will still be popping onto MSE from time to time?)

kabayiri

Good luck in the future Bendix. Thailand is a fabulous country with genuinely nice people.

(We will try to sort out good ol' Blighty for you in your absence)

Sibley

Ouch! There's only one way to settle this...

FIIIIIIIGHT!!!!

I actually resent his comments today. We have just sent a lot of our own time and money organizing something at the Pattaya orphanage. I'd like to ask Mr Perfect what he contributes to his precious Thai high society

chewmylegoff

Could this be a lovers' tiff? Is bendix really sibley's beau, 'ting-tong'? I'm intrigued.

FTBFun

Not sure I agree with some of the reasons, but best of luck anyway.

bendix

Sibley wrote: »

Whats a real expat?

Oh I get it. Instead of enjoying yourself being with sexy girls, staying in nice hotels and having a great circle of friends it's better to walk around thinking you are really clever and try to make a life with a Thai family who secretly hate you and will fleece you of all everything you own.

Good luck with your job anyway.

We've discussed this before. My wife has no family - she was orphaned very young, so there is noone to hate me. Thankfully (and unlike your wife) she never needed to work as a prostitute because she educated herself and now has a couple of businesses. I have no need to support her or anyone else.

Nice work on the Pattaya orphanage.

You ask me what I do. I paid to build a school in my wife's home village. We named it after her mother, who died when she was six years old. Oh, and I have paid the salaries of the school's two teachers for the past five years, as well as worked with sporting goods and IT companies to arrange free equipment (including computers) for the school which is currently giving 27 kids an education they wouldn't otherwise have had, without travelling 40km to the nearest town.

I also finance an annual scholarship for the best boy and girl student in that school to continue their education elsewhere.

It's the small thing that count, don't you think?

bendix

Out,_Vile_Jelly wrote: »

Isn't it fair to say that Hong Kong is an attractive place to work now because of its British influenced past- high English language skills, good education etc. I'm sure you wouldn't be so enthusiastic about going to work in rural SE Asia, or are planning on swapping your British/EU passport for a Chinese one.

I love Britain. I love the fact that its institutions in their purest form have influenced places like Hong Kong.

I just mourn for the fact that Britain is no longer like that. In fact, HK is more British now than Britain, a place where traditional British values like thrift, reward for hard work, a savings culture and a sense of individiual responsibility are prevalent, rather like the values that made British great before we dumbed it all down and got 'nice'.

PS . have worked in SEA - Thailand, Cambodia, Manila, Jakarta. LOVED it!

purch

I just mourn for the fact that Britain is no longer like that. In fact, HK is more British now than Britain, a place where traditional British values like thrift, reward for hard work, a savings culture and a sense of individiual responsibility are prevalent, rather like the values that made British great before we dumbed it all down and got 'nice'.

Yes, but the most important question is .............

"Can you get the money out of your HK pension so you can buy a new big screen TV" :eek:



P.S. Good luck. You always seem less "Victor Meldrewish" after a trip to Asia, so it pretty clear where your heart lay