milesinnz

"Webster said their travel agent managed to arrange three additional nights of accommodation in Thailand, but after that they have had to make their own arrangements".. is it really that hard to book accommodation yourself in Thailand ???

New Zealand immigration is sick and pathetic... you have to go through stupid procedures to do the online application. NZ is more like a third world country but the cost of an expensive first world country. I tried to get a visa for a Thai girl friend to visit - she has already visited me 10 years ago for 2 months. She has since been to Japan 7 times = NO VISA... so I will spend my money in Asia.. NZ is a joke of a country. An internet friend from Laos easily got a visa to visit a guy she met for only a few weeks - to Germany... absolutely no drama - I was really shocked at the difference.

She is Thai.. why is her residency or citizenship not revoked ? Western countries are really such a soft touch...

oh... do you take them intravenously or do you snort them ?

I guess you don't know that Alcohol is the most damaging drug to society ???? but then it would seem you don't care.. says a lot..

I wonder what happened to the submarine ? maybe it is a stealth submarine so we won't hear any more about it ?

i've not seen any "global outrage".. why is there no "global outrage" about the 2 MILLION Afghan refugees being thrown out of Iran - fellow Muslims.. and I read a similar number are being thrown out of Pakistan.. maybe it is because "outrage" only applies when it is a European country kicking illegal criminal immigrants out ?

"There's a specific concern regarding the discontinuation of requiring foreign arrivals to declare their Thai address on form TM.6"... Right, I have nefarious intentions, maybe some fraud, but I will put my correct address on the TM6 = Thai logic.....

Just call themselves a religion and they will be safe from any government action....

ever heard of 9/11 and Bin Laden.. ever heard of the 10 year war between Russia (USSR then) and Afghanistan. You care to explain why such events by Afghans are not seen in Russia ? Of course you will know nothing about the 2 million fellow Afghan Muslims being thrown out of Iran - do we see such events in Iran ? You clearly failed in history...

Can't wait for Thailand to boost tourism with "close ties" to North Korea....

and you can be assured we will not be told of the ethnicity nor the immigration status of these "nurses"...

The consequence of the entitled arrogance of the established Parties, who refuse to listen to the People...

I had virtually no family from when I was about 10. The story was enough to give a psychologist a full blown breakdown right in front of me. He was covering his face as he was balling his eyes out - so I quietly got up and left the room. I don't really feel that sorry for myself as I have met many people much worse of than me - and they did have family. As younger people we all need mentoring and usually that comes from psychologically healthy parents - but it does not have to be them. I regret there was no one just to give me a few hours of advice and how different my life would have been. Now at 70, I seem to spend all my time mentoring others - and here we are mostly talking adults. I support some long term prisoners in NZ - as a mentor more than anything else. The crazy thing is, when I was a teenager, all I wanted was a girlfriend. Now in my old age - I am surrounded by girls - and no, it most certainly is not for money. I even have a 7 year old Khmer daughter. She is the only person I will call my family. I choose to remain "non family" even when I get offers all the time to be part of someone's family. I have to say for all their good intentions, I do not trust them if the chips were down. I write on crime, social issues and psychology. I am constantly learning. And it has just occurred to me that western children when they become older, as in mid teens and later do tend to have unrealistic expectations of their parents. They expect their parents to be "perfect" and when they are not, they feel they have been cheated. I do see a lot of lonely people in social forums. I think they are often consumed by fear, fear of (further ?) rejection and thus so not try to reach out to people on a very personal level - which means exposing just who you are - and hence they will stay the way they are. When I am trying to teach "my prisoners" how to be heard and express themselves, and they start to do it, and I have to point out where they need to improve, I remind them that it has taken me 25 years to get the communication skills I have and for them not to expect to get there in two years. Another point I like to make is "we spend all our lives learning the lessons we need to learn, then we die and the next generation have to start all over again".. crazy eh ? but then we are only random cosmic accidents made from star dust to which we will return...

maybe he should be cremated in Thailand and have his ashes scattered where he was living out his dream ?