Africanteacher

Three Little birds. : Bob Marley.

Awesome track!

This Card reminds me of some 'Kung-<deleted> Fighting' song I used to hear some years back.

I'm still worried about the braces she left on my penis..... Doc says I may have to live with them. Wifey says they tickle her fanny. I'm just worried that my fling will think I'm Hip-Hop to the core coz of the bling.

''......Am I The illest Doing This? hel_l Yeah

I Am Fresher Than The Prince Of Bel Air

And Og Is What U Smell

Here Smoke The Biggest, Dont Worry I Brought A Spare

They Say Im At Tha Top But Im All Most There

And When I Get, I Will Sit Dont Worry I Brought A Chair ...''

Lil Wayne's Rap in Bow Wow's Corners.

Lil Wayne managed 8Nominations in the grammies. He was even competing against himself in one category.

I'm not a big fan or rap music as such, but I sat down and listened to that boy's music and saw some good poetry.

To Lil Wayne, Mad Respect

''...I love finger-f@kin you

All of a sudden I'm hearing thunder when you're bursting up''

Tupac Shakur talking about his love for his gun! 'Me and Ma girlfriend'

Sorry there Hawk Up 2000 Peace.

Slight mix-up in here.

Peace again....

Thai mothers.

All your kids came back home from school today?

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I've got some news for you. Most Thai mothers live outside Pattaya. Also, most Thai mothers take care of their kids and are wonderful loving moms.

You of course didn't get the point, but you're excused.

African Teacher. Hawkup2000 was not answering you . He was refering to an offensive post I removed.

Sorry for any confusion.

No worries, Sir. I got it wrong there and I'm sorry if I came out somewhat harsh. Peace

Thailand should complain about Angelina's treatment of Jennifer Aniston.

AMEN!

Thai mothers.

All your kids came back home from school today?

I've got some news for you. Most Thai mothers live outside Pattaya. Also, most Thai mothers take care of their kids and are wonderful loving moms.

You of course didn't get the point, but you're excused.

FYI I loathe that P-City you mentioned.

So Thai women make sure you've got your kids with you. Jolie may just flash cash on your faces and adopt them..... She did so in Malawi when she went on a UNHCR 'mission' too.

To be honest, I have no problem with Thailand giving her a 'stern warning'. Keep off Thai policies, Pritti-Jolie

I have noticed this as well. It occurs to me that most students here (Thailand) are more comfortable with writing short phrases and words than speaking. Perhaps because they make too many mistakes are more often than not corrected over and over that they almost give up. Considering M4s are adolescents, there's a likely possibility that they're at home being in charge of what they know and working on their own. Word-search and puzzles are their favourites. Perhaps they're fed up with the foreign teacher at the front speaking words they barely understand?

Where I come from, sometimes when the 'rapist' is caught in action, the police are never involved. It's in such times that I feel no mercy for 'rapists' being burnt to death after their genitals are fried right before their eyes. But then again one can never know the story behind the circumstances that led to the 'rape' and so 'mob-justice' (as it's referred) is never justice at all.

On the other hand it would serve as an example and caution to men not to be found alone in the company of underage girls.

Perhaps ....PERHAPS , Thailand could just learn from this?

Any chance it might be showing in BKK one time soon?

Uh,i don't know who you married,but my wife?NO CHANCE.Not all expats are here for the sleaze... You would be amazed how many decent farangs live here.

Decent is good and I totally respect decent people like you. So many innocent people however, die not knowing what hit them. It's the reality of HIV/AIDS in the third world.

I mentioned 'accident' in my previous post about condoms breaking. People acquire HIV/AIDS by accident too, you know. It's not just the immoral that fall victim to the condition.

And no, thanks, I ain't married. I still like my Vaseline

I have had a feeling for some time that a lot of these unauthorised withdrwals from Thai banks are inside jobs, if I ever have a Thai bank account it will not have an ATM card associated with it, I just don't trust them.

Absolutely correct:

Then just last week, spurious withdrawals of 1000/2000/5000 Baht had been made and were shown updated in the passbook.

Opinions and suggestions welcome!

If he went buying anything using his card, then that's where the hitch lies. I had an a/c with SCB. Used my ATM to purchase some drinks in a pub. The next day my statement read 20,000 Baht less. Lucky for me I was broke at that time and needed to pay for a flight when I received the shock. So I ran to the bank, they asked me what I had purchased the previous day, and asked for the receipts. When they ran the ATM, it showed that I had used 20K at the very Pub where I had spent 1,200 Baht only.

I got the money back after 3weeks That's just coz I was lucky and had my previous night's receipt.

Burmese? Yeah, right!

Amazing how it's so easy to blame the Burmese immigrants. Shame on the article , so ready to point out nationalities just to stir issues. Shame!

So sad about the girl though. Really sad

Thai mothers.

All your kids came back home from school today?

''....my manager recently made me aware of some of our bank's clients who passed away and their money in the accounts have not yet been claimed for several years......''

No different from ''....enlarge your penis, quick quick..''

You only get duped if you're greedy and impatient to be rich.

[q/uote]

Ever heard of condoms breaking?

-Ever heard of cars?

-Ever heard of cars crashing?

Ever heard of accidents? Even your wife can transmit that virus to you when the condom breaks. Accident.

This topic's moving quite fast ! And where the heck is the video for goodness' sake?!?

Where's the vid?

Where's the Freakin Vid?

WHERE'S THE FREAKIN VID Y'ALL?!!!

I was fed up with my students referring to 'Wednesday' as 'Wen-day', 'Tuesday' as 'Too-day' and 'Thursday' as 'Thur-day'.

I started a classroom drill of writing the letter 'S' on the board every time they walked into my classroom. Then we played games on Days of the week.

I had a tendency of underlining the '-ce' in 'rice', 'ice' 'nice'.. until my learners got the pronunciation right.

There's a student whose name is 'Ice'. I would pretend I forgot her name every time I felt like reminding the rest. They would all say 'ICE' and not 'EYE'. I sometimes would make fun of the way she couldn't pronounce her name well. I'm proud to say lots has changed.

Now my students say 'ThurSday', 'WedneSday' and can pronounce 'ICE' correctly.

Three Little Birds -Bob Marley

Holy Family (Phra Vistuthiwong) School in Lam Lukka Pathumthani, about 20 mins from Don Mueang.

Lovely environment to work in. The staff and students are awesome. The school is run pretty well.

So presumably, this news means an end to the possibility of extending the Skytrain to Don Meuang.............Bugger!!!

I feel your pain. I feel your pain.

I've always used Don Mueang for domestic flights. Now going all the way to Suvarnabhumi is gonna make my taxi ride longer and more expensive. Tsk Tsk

Hello,

Me and my thai boyfriend ended up in a quite difficult visa situation with the UK embassy despite the fact that we always have told them nothing but the truth. Here is the situation we are currently in:

I am from Austria, 30 years old and I came to Thailand for a career break - I met my current boyfriend and we fell in love and travelled together in South East Asia (Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam) for about 4 months and then after that I stayed until 10th of november 2008 with his family in Ban Fa which is a bit outside of Bangkok. Altogether I stayed in South East Asia with my boyfriend over 7 months (I came to Thailand 23.03.08 and left 10.11.08). I decided that I want to go back to work in Europe. I am quite experienced and have worked in some european countries already - furthermore i have a degree and a very good professional CV. It is not difficult for me to find a well paid job and I got soon a job offer from a company with offices in London. As I liked this offer, the company and overall also the UK I decided to accept this offer and go from Thailand directly to the UK and take my boyfriend with me. Please note I never was exposed to embassies and visa problems before in my life and I thought we just bring all information requested and tell the truth and we get the visa. I was terribly wrong...

First application: category tourist visa

First we applied for a tourist visa and i was the sponsor. As I am austrian and my country part of the european union I have the right to life and work in the UK without any paperwork needed. So I can be my boyfriends sponsor. We had a private health insurance for my boyfriend in place, I sent them my signed working contract that clearly stated that i have a good salary to take care about myself and my boyfriend, a letter of my austrian bank telling about my savings and funds along with a reference that I am a financially trustworthy person, my personal CV that states that I am a highly skilled individual, Bookings of hotel (as we planned to start for searching for flat once the UK), sponsorship letter that explained the whole situation, bank statements of my boyfriend showing 40.000 baht on his bank account, my own bank statements for one year, my passport copy, copy of my boyfriends ID card, flight reservation for my boyfriend (incl. return ticket).

-> we got refused (big shock) - the reason: we could not proof that our relationship is genuine. Here we made a mistake as I was during the first application in Bangkok I went with my boyfriend to the application center and thought I can talk to them and give reference in person. At the application center we found out that I cannot enter with him and the employees there also did not tell my boyfriend go home and get some pictures to proof your relationship otherwise it will get refused. Furthermore - it was my idea - I wrote in the sponsor letter that i want my boyfriend to visit a language school... We found out that this is not possible with a visiting visa - this was again my mistake as i just thought what is wrong with that when he is using his time learning English in a professional language course. Also we applied for 6 months as this is the maximum duration that they give for a visiting visa. So the main reason they refused was that we forgot to put pictures to proof our relationship and also they didnt like the fact that we said that my boyfriend would like to do a language course there.

Second application: category visiting visa

After the first application we just thought alright we just forgot some things - especially the fact that we did not proof our relationship properly was mainly due to the fact that we dont doubt our relationship ourselves so never could think that others may doubt it. That may sound naive but if you dont plan any illegal things you dont think this could happen as you are completely honest. So we put all the pictures we had (from 4 different countries where we travelled to) including my passport stamps that are exactly identical with my boyfriend ones as we travelled together. I already was in England by that time - and we also added some emails. We also wrote that we did not know about the fact that on a visiting visa you cannot do a private language course and excused ourselves for that.

-> we got refused again (!!!!). They said that still they are not sure about our relationship furthermore that they dont believe that he wont do a language course in the UK and overall that he has no family ties and no job in Thailand so he wont come back. Also they requested previous passport copies. We said in our application that he had another passport before but we dont have the passport anymore. That now they pointed out as well. Overall you just could see they dont want to give visa no matter how much papers we bring...

I was quite shocked to be honest because we never intended to commit any crime or violate UK laws! I consulted shortly in UK a lawyer for immigration and he told me that I have to be in the UK for 6 months before i can get somebody on a visiting visa to the UK and also my boyfriend needs to have a job. And even if I would marry him this could mean he wont get a spousal visa... Another lawyer told me that UK is always refusing visiting visas when they suspect that a couple would live together in the UK. I am confused but one thing I can say we never lied and were always honest. Yes my boyfriend is without work and we said that! But I have enough money so were is the problem?

Anyway so we said alright lets take it slowly and you prepare for taking some courses in the meantime and to proof that you come back we try to get a visiting visa over christmas/new year to austria. Additionally i really wanted to see him and show him my country!!! Currently my boyfriend has an entrance exam for the Bangkok Oriental thai chef programme which lasts 3 months so he wont be able to come to UK before June...

As I am not resident of my country anymore my sister guaranteed as a sponsor for my boyfriend so that he gets a Schengen visa to Austria - reason was that we want to see each other over Christmas and that I want to introduce him to my family we wanted a visa from 19.12 - 05.01. I took holiday from work we applied gave them ALL papers needed including complete guarantee of my sister (she did that in front of the austrian police authorities, a guarantee if my boyfriend does not go back she is paying for everything). We explained austrian embassy the whole case... Result we did not get visa - just a letter asking for further information as they suspect my boyfriend does not come back from austria and causes costs to the austrian state. It is nearly unbelievable even my own countrie acting so terrible. We have brought all papers and I could not see my boyfriend in Austria - took holidays and they tell us now after the time we wanted the visa for already has gone by that they want more information before they finally come to a decision if they give a visa or not. Well it is too late anyway but now we have to get that fixed to avoid a third refused stamp in my boyfriends passport!!!! Additionally if I would have known that they make problems too I would have spend my holidays in Thailand!

As you can understand we are extremely confused, demotivated and insecure. I want to consult a immigration specialist to make sure the next steps are perfect. Also I plan to marry my boyfriend in April when i go to Bangkok but I am not sure possibly british authorities keep their stance towards us... I really would like to get some feedback on my case as I personally think we get treaten very unfair... Yes i have more money as my boyfriend and yes I have a degree and he does not but finally that is my private decision. That we wont fall back on UK benefits I can guarantee as I always could take care very well about myself.

I feel really discrimanted and I need to find answers and ways that my boyfriend gets the visas needed so that he can live with me. The best would be of course if we get a UK visa if not and we are married we also should be able to get a visa for Austria and then in Austria apply for EU family member visa for my boyfriend then he can go to the UK anyway if my own country makes problems the last chance i have is to relocate to Germany (I am German countrymanager but based in UK and could go there workwise) and try to get visa for this country...

I really need some advise, some ideas some thoughts as soon as possible as I want to organise things properly and I really miss my boyfriend and dont enjoy it to be now alone here in the UK!!!

Lorelei30

Sorry about your tight situation. You are not the first. Take heart.

I'm wondering why you wouldn't get a good job in this beautiful country and live happily ever after with your boyfriend.....

Marry your boyfriend as soon as he steps into Europe. ('',) Your chances of maintaining him there would have been higher.

As it is, your boyfriend doesn't have favourable qualifications to be productive in the UK and this could be a major setback especially considering he is male....

Just my advice. All the best.

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