Let me be the first to congratulate you, Khall. Happy to hear it. Tell us more.

One problem solved, one to go . . . Allow me to help and be of service. All I need is your phone number. Men's rooms usually have message boards for interested gentlemen seeking female companionship. I could post for you if you'd like?

Thanks Tippy... I think? Job is full-time in LOS, happy about that!

But I will pass on your other offer of assistance... I think I have it all under control!

Psssst........... I got my job back everybody and it's bigger and better than before :D

HAPPY, HAPPY, JOY, JOY!!!!!!!!!!!

As for men: life's like a box of chocolates and I have plenty of those in the fridge.... (hey, if ya laugh at life. what do you have left?)

WOW, Khall

I am so happy for you....How on earth did you manage that?....going away weekends ...family over with you... Partying......

CONGRATULATIONS

LaoPo

Let me be the first to congratulate you, Khall. Happy to hear it. Tell us more.

One problem solved, one to go . . . Allow me to help and be of service. All I need is your phone number. Men's rooms usually have message boards for interested gentlemen seeking female companionship. I could post for you if you'd like?

Thanks Tippy... I think? Job is full-time in LOS, happy about that!

But I will pass on your other offer of assistance... I think I have it all under control!

Well, be sure that if you ever lose control again you can always obtain sage advice free of charge from the Bedlam Boys. Simply provide the bf's bio and we'll tell you what disastrous outcomes you might expect from a long term, intimate relationship with your prospect. You may find that ultimately no one is right for you, so best prepare for a continued life of loneliness and forlorn as a spinstress.

On the serious side, what manly qualities constitute your ideal white (?) knight in shining armour? If you could create the galoot, er, Mr. Right of your dreams straight out of your imagination and plop him at your feet what would he be like? What does a man have to do to make you swoon and cause your eyelids to flutter?

I'm sure we'll pick up this conversation when we see each other at seonai's barbecue extravaganza.

Well done Khall expect a drink from you in July if things are bigger/better career wise.

Khall, go for Algerian-French, have no doubts !

although the most easiest alternative would be - to marry some Thai man ......

We need to talk Khall.........

We need to talk Khall.........

Oh really, why is that? I find the guys to be more subjective.... that's why I asked them in the first instance! I hope to think they are my brothers, right guys?!!!

We need to talk Khall.........

Oh really, why is that? I find the guys to be more subjective.... that's why I asked them in the first instance! I hope to think they are my brothers, right guys?!!!

That's right, sis. Glad you see us as brothers and I feel honoured. I've always wanted a much older sister.

And if we can look out for you we certainly will.

We need to talk Khall.........

Oh really, why is that? I find the guys to be more subjective.... that's why I asked them in the first instance! I hope to think they are my brothers, right guys?!!!

That's right, sis. Glad you see us as brothers and I feel honoured. I've always wanted a much older sister.

And if we can look out for you we certainly will.

Thanks Tippy..... but, if you need a MUCH older sister, sorry but I can't help you. No hard feelings honey, I'm just not ready for that!

We need to talk Khall.........

Oh really, why is that? I find the guys to be more subjective.... that's why I asked them in the first instance! I hope to think they are my brothers, right guys?!!!

That's right, sis. Glad you see us as brothers and I feel honoured. I've always wanted a much older sister.

And if we can look out for you we certainly will.

Thanks Tippy..... but, if you need a MUCH older sister, sorry but I can't help you. No hard feelings honey, I'm just not ready for that!

Dam_n, Khall, and I was just about to ask you for some money. Sisters always have money in their purses and are good for it, too.

So is this turning into a - Seonai's no good as a friend thread then? Thanks Khall

So is this turning into a - Seonai's no good as a friend thread then? Thanks Khall

You know I love you dear.... will tell all on my visit !

Khall, me too

And now we expect pictures of that...

Hhhhhmmmmmm

Just 'cos I haven't heard from my friend in a week or so and am a bit concerned, I thought I'd do a quick recent search on his native country......

Inquiry into missing Algerians urged

Sunday 03 April 2005, 20:53 Makka Time, 17:53 GMT

Six thousand disappeared from towns and cities in the conflict

Algerian human-rights groups have called for an independent investigation into the detentions and disappearances of more than 6000 civilians by the security forces during the 1990s.

They rejected a much-awaited report this week by a government commission which laid the blame on agents acting individually during a war on rebels.

"Unfortunately there is no political will to search for the truth. These disappearances were not isolated incidents," National Association of the Families of the Disappeared (ANFD) president, Lila Iril, said.

"We want an independent commission with all the powers at its disposal to be able to call on anyone for questioning, even the highest authorities," she said.

More than 6000 civilians, which the commission said were wrongly suspected of having ties to rebels, are feared dead.

Report slammed

Human-rights groups said the controversial report handed to President Abd al-Aziz Butaflika was flawed, as the government appointed commission headed by lawyer Faruq Kasintini had no legal power to carry out an in-depth inquiry or bring anyone to court.

The Algerian civil war killed over

150,000 people during the 1990s

Algeria plunged into near civil war when armed anti-government groups unleashed a holy war after the army cancelled legislative elections in 1992 that the radical Islamic Salvation Front (FIS) was set to win.

The army feared an Iranian-style revolution.

Authorities estimate that 150,000 people died during the following uprising. Violence has sharply fallen in recent years.

Talking publicly about the disappeared and who may be responsible has long been taboo in Algeria, a country with a strong military past which is in the process of building its own democracy.

No comment

The authorities have not commented on the report.

Kasintini acknowledged that he had failed to obtain the name of any security force member implicated, saying local authorities had told his commission those interrogated were later released.

"Unfortunately there is no political will to search for the truth. These disappearances were not isolated incidents"

Lila Iril,

President,

National Association of the Families of the Disappeared

Human-rights groups said this would make it difficult to bring anyone to court.

The 12-month investigation is part of Butaflika's national reconciliation plan to unite a country torn apart by the Muslim uprising.

It comes before an expected general amnesty for rebels still fighting and security forces members accused of criminal acts.

"We do not have another alternative to bring an end to insecurity and to achieve a reconciliation that the majority of the Algerians would like to see come true," Butaflika said in comments published in the newspaper al-Mujahid on Sunday.

I sincerely hope that it's not due to the accompanying article, Khall. No joking on this topic. I trust that he's O.K. Do let us know, though.

Khall, it's relatively quiet in Algeria now.

Don't worry too much (as I did...remember )....Did he leave the island?

Here's a link about Algeria:

Not exactly a holiday country...

http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbo...os/ag.html#Govt

LaoPo

Just in case anyone was worried..... this is Khall and I in typical pose on an evening out !

The one in the red is a TV member too. Guess who?

BTW Khall, I'd go for that guy who treks around Tibet if I was you

Too small pic! =)

BTW Khall, I'd go for that guy who treks around Tibet if I was you

Who, Brad Pitt? Think he's taken already.

so what happened? post has been going for ages - did you stay single??

Our li'l sis is still a spinster. Ah, what a waste of beauty!!!

Ah, what a waste of beauty!!!

really????

Come to the Bedlam Bash at my bar later this year and you can all line up to propose to Khall

you can all line up to propose to Khall

No thanks.

Come to the Bedlam Bash at my bar later this year and you can all line up to propose to Khall

If I were unattached that might be a grand idea...

Ok my ears are burning.... what's going on here?

An update....

.... found my friend - who was meant to call me from BKK, but didn't - he is in China! If friends let their friends know where they are then they wouldn't need to worry .... right?

As for being single - that is what I choose. Thankyou for your concern over my wasted beauty, Tippy bro

Sir Burr - I know you are happily domesticated so of course you have no need to propose to me. Thankyou for the millions of Cherry Ripe bars you kindly brought me from OZ. I will never forget that!

BritM- I feel all shy now!

Seonai- the Tibet man was actually a self-absorbed German and nothing like the Brad Pitt character that Sir Burr was referring to. However, I'm sure Brad would not mind sharing me with Angelina!!!!

to be continued..........

An update....

.... found my friend - who was meant to call me from BKK, but didn't - he is in China! If friends let their friends know where they are then they wouldn't need to worry .... right?

Not scampy by any chance?