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Matt's Post # 99
Oh no, trust is an absolutely non-issue if that's what you're implying. I trust him 100% with my life, and never question his motivations. That's a complete non-issue.
Matt's Post # 114
I would absolutely love to be a foster parent, but don't really want it anymore. After Leo cheated on me with that farang in Bangkok, I no longer trust him 100%.
This story changes by the hour :love:
MATT:
[QUOTE=cdnmatt;238664]No, getting him permanent residency status is by no means easier. I know, I was able to get my first husband who was Hungarian approved for PR status. It took about 18 months, 6 inches of documentation, and around $8000.
You do realise Matt, that you can't get PR for an unlimited number of husbands - depending on your whims? Aren't there enough people living on the public purse in Canada, without you bringing in more? Who will it be after Leo? :rolleyes:
[QUOTE=mr giggles;238697]MATT:
No, my first husband is in Budapest. He's not allowed back in Canada, because he didn't reside there 2 out of every 5 years, effectively flushing his PR status down the toilet.
Getting Leo PR status isn't really on the table at the moment. I'll get him a visitor VISA first, so we can go visit my family, and we'll just see how to takes to Canadian society. I'm 50/50 on it, as to whether he'll like Canada, or breath a huge sigh of relief upon getting back to Asia. It's his life dream to visit Canada though, plus I want to see my family, so I'll take him. Besides, I need his eyes to travel like that.
If he does like it, we'll see about getting him enrolled at a university there, most likely in Toronto. He'll probably have to take a couple years at adult high school to get a GED, but nothing that's impossible. First though, he needs to advance his English, which we're working on.
Matt I am confused, on 15-3 you claimed to not have 72 hours to spare and that you are in your final days in Thailand. 4 days later you still seem to be in Thailand ?
No, we don't have an EXTRA 72 hours to spare. He's on the bus right now, on his way back here. I promised the house owners we'd be out by the 25th at the latest, and we still have a few preparations to make here. Maybe he can fit in a quick trip to Bangkok as I expected this Vientiane trip to last longer than it did. I think he just misses my cooking. :)
I think he got a house for 3 months up front -- 2 months deposit, 1 month rent, like I basically demanded. I really hope he didn't pay 12 months up front, because I'll be pissed.
Thinking about that, where the fuck did the house owners go? They generally reply within hours, and it's been days. Whatever, I'm all paid up and even gave them extra money for upcoming electric bill and renovations. If they don't reply and tell me what they want done with the keys, I'll just put them in the neighbor's mailbox, as they own that house too
Oh my, so this saga continues to at least the 25th. Somehow I am guessing it might even be prolonged beyond that. I am wondering if they allow internet access at the IDC.
No, it's ok. It will end in a couple hours once my husband comes back. :)
I'm just not very good at being alone in life. And I can't exactly just go out for a night on the town by myself. Tried that a few times, and random strangers just get worried about me, and bring me back home. I'm kinda like in a nice little 3 bedroom prison here.
Obviously you don't understand how these NGOs work. They will see a single Western man living with a group of kids and assume you are up to no good. They will not investigate you. They will not ask you questions. They will just assume you are guilty (in their eyes). They will then go chat to the local Lao police. The local police are the ones who will pay you a visit, or two, or three. And remember, the police don't want to be seen to be making a mistake in the eyes of the NGO
So you were “livid” cdnmatt. Now, that’s a word I associate from a bygone era and can imagine the British actor, raconteur and diarist, Kenneth Williams, in one of the 1960s Carry On films saying . . .
Ooooh . . . I was livid, absolutely livid I was!
And, to be honest, this saga of yours is turning out to be a right old carry on, so your use of the word ‘livid’ seems entirely apposite* in the circumstances.
;)
*I thought perhaps we should keep this word in the limelight whilst its originator is currently sitting on the naughty step.
Naughty Jellybean. Waving red flags to antagonise the bull. An Aberdeen Angus in this case.
:devilsh:
Oh No! You know you’re in deep doo-doo when they threaten to release the Aberdeen Angus*. In past years they released the Kraken, now they’ve upped the ante. Between you and me dear reader, I blame all this on scottish-guy, (well, you’ve got to blame someone) for this escalation in the degree of punishments ‘they’ mete out. If only he’d kept his trap shut, eh?
Now let think about this. I had better take some sensible security precautions while attending Thursday’s Sunee Plaza Meatloaf Club dinner. I’ll have to be on the lookout for any suspicious characters lurking around the food area. You never know, 'they' might attempt to put some Aberdeen Angus* in my meatloaf. You can’t be too careful these days, look what happened in sleepy Salisbury of all places!
Sorry to have gone slightly off topic cndmatt, but look on the bright side, I've bumped your topic to the top of the page.
And while on the subject of meatloaf, may I ask, have you ever cooked meatloaf for Leo from Laos? I understand from my cousins in Canada that meatloaf is a firm favourite with Canadians. So now might be the time to get Leo adjusted to the taste. Just a thought.
;)
*Aberdeen Angus a synonym for a nerve agent according to SIS at ‘the circus’ in London. [Now how’s that for being topical?]
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Originally Posted by Jelly Bean
Oops Jelly Bean, ya got it all wrong mate.
Canadians are much more sophisticated than that: we go for the exquisite 'Livid Loaf' much more often than the lower-proletarian ground beef option. See, that's what happens immediately once you start reading a cdnmatt post ... your social status has nowhere to go but down.
Soon you'll be donating large amounts to the 'Thailand Loves The Blind Society', aka 'TLTBS', also aka 'BS'. (Coincidently run by a hard-to-find farang in Khoen Kaen). Strange that.
Anyway, I see you are enjoying yourself. Carry on.
Hmm matty boy hasn't even replied today, they haven't banged him up already ?
But I'm not a single Western man. These are Leo's family members. We'll get some form of legal guardianship over them, as we'll have to in order to enroll them into school, in case of medical emergency, if they get in trouble with the police, etc. I doubt we're taking them anyway, so moot point. See what Leo feels after he gets himself and us settled into Vientiane.
Besides, there's lots of white guys in Khon Kaen wandering around with Thai kids, and nobody bats an eyelid. People just assume some guy hooked up with a Thai women who already had kids from a previous relationship. Then again, Khon Kaen isn't one huge brothel like Pattaya, so maybe that makes a difference.
Tish.
For the Moderator: Once Matt is settled in Laos will there be a new Forum called Gay Laos where he will post? Or maybe you could have one called Matt's Fantasy Island?There will be several storylines that I can predict:
- Matt makes it into Laos
- Setting up house
- Adopting the kids
- Getting a visa for Leo to visa Canada
- Leo is unfaithful again
- Getting rid of the adopted kids so Leo is free to go to Canada
Well Mr Wonders. An interesting thing. You joined this month and of your 15 posts so far 8 of them have been trolling Matt. If that's what you're selling then we're already very well stocked up on that. Thank you for calling.
After the Mod's erasing a part of Mr Wonder's ignorant, disgracefull and wind-up pedo-post (which is a good deed, in deed, on said Mods part) the voyage to Vientiane and the swimmimg across the Kong River with dogs, boyfriends, luggage, blind pills etc etc etc,(breastroke? sidestroke? butterfly?) still awaits parsing and there is still, hovering over the Board, the topic at hand.
However, the absence of true interest does begin to feel like once Cndmatt has put his big toe into said Kong River's dried up water works there is nothing else left to report on, nor be at all bothered with.
Let's just assume that the man/boy from Tuktoyaktuk is now sipping cappuccino, and downing a few 'pain au chocolat' in De Gaul's last colony in south east Asia and berating Leo for choosing the wrong rental and the wrong rental payment system in Lao: To Wit ..."Show me the Money Asshole". Or ~ a paragraph can only take so many "To Wits"). To Wit ... "Leo my dear, What a F%#&*ing LOSER you are".
Gosh, we can't have that!! Oh no!
I still don't believe that any of Cndmatt's bullshit is in fact nothing else but ... bullshit, that is.
Can anyone explain to me how a blind man reads this forum?
Screen reader. You would be surprised what blind people can do on a computer using a few simple tools. I develop a trainer for a big sandbox game, and whilst developing this trainer, I have added code that makes it compatible with a screen reader, so that blind people can actually not only play the game, but can use all the menu options the trainer provided. Pretty impressive stuff. People apparently adapt pretty well at being or getting blind.
Stevie
You forgot I mentioned exactly the same thing in my post number 138. And you gave me a like for it.
That’s the only response I got from anyone including matt, the mods, or the owner of the board.
What you need to remember is that Matts bullshit produces hits and therefore money.
That’s why the mods will never do anyhting to stop it. The owner must love it.
Just look at the length of this daft thread ....what’s it got to do with Thailand? Get it?
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Sorry for being a bit of a dick there in the previous post, but yes, as justaguy said, screen reader. For example:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFPtxCDUPqs
Something like that at least. Main difference I think is, as I'm assuming is the norm with all blind people, my screen reader is at 100% rate, so talks about 50 times faster than that.
But yeah, blind people can use the internet just fine. Some web sites are a pain depending on how extensively things like Javascript is used, but for the most part it's fine. Takes a bit of time to figure out how a site is formatted, but as long as sites use proper HTML tags, and don't go too heavy and replace every standard HTML tag with a "div" or "span", then it's really not that bad.
I would imagine it must be a bit more difficult for non software developers to browse the internet though. Knowing HTML is basically a requirement of browsing the internet blind. Knowing what the code of the page looks like is far more important than what the actual page looks like.
Matt, you have my admiration for trying to be reasonable with a bunch of people who call you a fake. I certainly couldn't be.
a steveboy was just banned for trolling Bay Thailand forum. Coincidence?
http://www.gaythailand.com/forums/to...se-boys/page-3
No idea what FSB1 is, but yes, the Nong Khai border. I've already been promised by Thai immigration I will not be detained, which was my only real worry. Just pay my 20,000 baht at the border, get blacklisted, and accept the fact I can't return to Thailand for a long time.
Then we've already obtained me a visitor VISA for Laos at their local embassy here in Khon Kaen.
Plus I have a 1 year business VISA already lined up for me in Laos. $600 USD, multiple entry, takes about 25 days, then we have to leave the country and return. I'm thinking either Gong Kong to incorporate and finally get bank accounts again from HSBC, or a trip to Siam Reap to check out the temples,
Another of those really expensive months. Can't say I'm looking forward to it. I really need to get off my ass, and start making better money.
You are extremely lucky, good to hear. FSB1=friendship bridge 1, which is the bridge at Nong Khai. Lao immigration is using the FSB abbreviation to refer to the four bridges over the Mekhong. FSB2 = Mukdahan-Savan, FSB3=Nakhom Phanom-Tha Kaek and FSB4 is the one up north.
You could have gotten the visitor visa right at FSB1, same price takes all but 10 minutes. As to leaving the country, yeah, going to use Thailand as a visa run country is out if you get blacklisted, so that will force you to fly (unless you like really really long bus trips).
Yeah, I know you can get a tourist VISA at the Laos border, but was just a little worried they may consider me an undesirable, and not allow me entry. That's why I just got one here locally, so I can tick off another one of the 1200 worries I have.
Well, Sunday is the big day. House owner in Vientiane works during the week, so wants to do it Sunday. They changed their mind though, and want 6 months upfront, but I guess no damage deposit. We talked to her, and agreed 3 months upon arrival, then a week or two later, we'll pay the remaining 3 months, once we have some time to live in the house, and ensure things like hot water and A/Cs are working, the foundation isn't fucked, the area is decent, the roof doesn't leak, electric doesn't go out because you have too many lights on, etc.
Maybe I'm just getting old and losing my sense of adventure, but this seems like a really stupid idea. I was unable to find us a ride, so Leo got tasked with the job. I was very clear that we need someone who was willing to go through the border, all the way to our new house in Vientiane.
Sure enough, he found someone willing to dump us at the Nong Khai border. For fuck sakes. Those carrier cages are about 30kg each, plus the dogs are about 30kg each. That's about 120kg of dogs. Okys all of our clothes, computers, etc. Not to mention, how do we even get the carrier cages through the border? They won't fit through those walk-through lanes as they're too big.
So now instead of finding one ride, we now need to find three. One to Nong Khai that we have, then one across the bridge, then one after the Laos border. Then for some unknown reason we're leaving at 4am. Not sure why, but whatever, let's go for it!
Not to mention, I only have one free hand. I can't walk without my stick.
Jesus christ, do we ever have a lot of crap to pack with us. I have one duffel bag of clotes, Leo will have 2 backpacks full, 3 laptops, 120kg of dogs, 1 backpack for the dogs, four large plastic bowls for the dogs, a large plastic container of dry dog food, a guitar, and who knows what else will get added.
We're actually going to walk across two borders packing all of this with us. Thank fuck I'm blind, so I won't be able to see all the weird looks coming our way.
My neighbor should be quite happy tonight though. We have two large plastic containers full of stuff for her as a gift basket.