Life in Penang
#61
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Re: Life in Penang
Blimey guys, isn't it expat women that are supposed to be bitter and twisted?
Let's have a bit of balance here. I know plenty of mixed marriages in Asia, very successful ones. I know caucasian men married to educated career women, married to ex-maids, married to ex-hookers - the lot.
Not everyone is out to rip you off but, if you meet a bar girl who loves you long time and soon introduces you to her "brother" who needs some money for xyz, just exercise some caution, eh?
Let's have a bit of balance here. I know plenty of mixed marriages in Asia, very successful ones. I know caucasian men married to educated career women, married to ex-maids, married to ex-hookers - the lot.
Not everyone is out to rip you off but, if you meet a bar girl who loves you long time and soon introduces you to her "brother" who needs some money for xyz, just exercise some caution, eh?
You just have to be realistic and dont try to pretend your a hugh heffner and go showing off your young bit of skirt to your old mates hehehehehe
#62
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Re: Life in Penang
Right, got to go now, off to the supermarket
#63
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Re: Life in Penang
Seriously, like everywhere, there's good gals, bad gals, educated gals, uneducated gals - even here on Phuket. I chat with girls on both sides of the bar - though you don't get too much of a scintillating conversation with some of the ones behind the bar, but some of the older guys need an ego-feed and go ga-ga over them (up to them really). The other side of the bar, you can find what I would call normal Thai women - business owners, educated workers. It's like anywhere really - just a bit top heavy on the uneducated ones unfortunately.
Anyway, we're getting right off topic again. And where the hell's Legless - he's not on a visa run is he?
Anyway, we're getting right off topic again. And where the hell's Legless - he's not on a visa run is he?
#64
Re: Life in Penang
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some expat living in asia decides to set up a book about an interesting subject and sell them at $10 a pop and live a bums life on donations from gullible people the way the website is set out just looks dumb and everybody has had a bad experience with a partner thats just life well im afraid i just think its a big scam for some bum living it up somewhere ?
$10.00
Availability: Usually ships in 2-3 business days.
some expat living in asia decides to set up a book about an interesting subject and sell them at $10 a pop and live a bums life on donations from gullible people the way the website is set out just looks dumb and everybody has had a bad experience with a partner thats just life well im afraid i just think its a big scam for some bum living it up somewhere ?
#65
Re: Life in Penang
Seriously, like everywhere, there's good gals, bad gals, educated gals, uneducated gals - even here on Phuket. I chat with girls on both sides of the bar - though you don't get too much of a scintillating conversation with some of the ones behind the bar, but some of the older guys need an ego-feed and go ga-ga over them (up to them really). The other side of the bar, you can find what I would call normal Thai women - business owners, educated workers. It's like anywhere really - just a bit top heavy on the uneducated ones unfortunately.
Anyway, we're getting right off topic again. And where the hell's Legless - he's not on a visa run is he?
Anyway, we're getting right off topic again. And where the hell's Legless - he's not on a visa run is he?
I am leaving for Laos tomorrow so I shall not be posting for about 4 days after today
#66
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Re: Life in Penang
Safe travels, Legless.
#67
Re: Life in Penang
You may have a point there. May be legless can come out and reject the idea of this being a scam.
But as you say we've all had a bad experience with life. To be honest my own is worse than his. But I've tried to put it behind me and don't really call myself a fool for what has not been my fault.
Why should I call myself a fool when some devious girl has cheated me? I'd rather call her a cheat. On the contrary, I should be proud of myself for having been a decent citizen of this world .... and that's why I can't understand why "legless" calls himself a fool?
But as you say we've all had a bad experience with life. To be honest my own is worse than his. But I've tried to put it behind me and don't really call myself a fool for what has not been my fault.
Why should I call myself a fool when some devious girl has cheated me? I'd rather call her a cheat. On the contrary, I should be proud of myself for having been a decent citizen of this world .... and that's why I can't understand why "legless" calls himself a fool?
#69
Re: Life in Penang
The best way to get to know people properly in any country is to have a good knowledge of their language and pretend that you don’t understand it and just listen to conversations. That is exactly what I now do in Thailand and I have learned a lot about these people!!!
We are digressing away from the main point of this thread now, so would anyone like to know anything about Penang before I go to Vientiane?
We are digressing away from the main point of this thread now, so would anyone like to know anything about Penang before I go to Vientiane?
#71
Re: Life in Penang
I call it 'the financial trap', I just have enough money to survive and go for a visa as required, I do not have enough money for anything else, including moving. Everything that I own in the world is in my room in Bangkok and even though it is not a lot, just computer and clothes, it will cost me to move it.
#72
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Re: Life in Penang
I call it 'the financial trap', I just have enough money to survive and go for a visa as required, I do not have enough money for anything else, including moving. Everything that I own in the world is in my room in Bangkok and even though it is not a lot, just computer and clothes, it will cost me to move it.
#73
Re: Life in Penang
It is like a bedsit and I live here because this is the cheapest that I can find, I even cook in it. There are no other foreigners around here, I am the only one, so I just stay in my room and work on my computer and websites, a recluse!
#74
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Re: Life in Penang
Why dont you go back to the UK and live and be with friends and family ?