Are you planning any great changes in 2018? I'm pretty set in my ways, and reasonably happy with the life I have. So no major changes for me. What about you?
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Are you planning any great changes in 2018? I'm pretty set in my ways, and reasonably happy with the life I have. So no major changes for me. What about you?
Wrong forum.
But seeing as how you backed inexplicably, I'll bite.
More Little Britain!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FafV...s_digest-vrecs
I'm sure one of our esteemed moderators will be along shortly to rectify my error.
Unless you made a spelling mistake .... that's it down to
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Tons, all starting in a few weeks.
- Move to Vientiane
- Quick and cheap Basi ceremony
- Adopt a couple kids, get them enrolled in VIS (Vientiane International School), give them lots of love, and a strong future.
- Continue to transition myself into a management / consultant role, while building a quality development team, so I don't have to type code anymore.
- Stop drinking and smoking
- If I manage to get my swimming pool at the new house, exercise multiple times a day, and lose my belly.
- Build a camp site in that village on the farmer's farm, and probably visit the village 4 or 5 times per-year during school holidays.
- Begin travelling back to Canada a couple times a year to reconnect with my family
- Get new teeth
- Uncertain, but maybe take my new mother-in-law in to live with us.
- Get my two new business ideas finally developed and launched.
- Learn some Laos language. Not much, but just enough so locals can immediately tell I'm not a tourist, so they don't try to rip me off.
- Learn how to more independant blind, mainly being able to travel around the city on my own.
What else? I think that sums it up.
As usual, delusional.
(Also a troll. You know very well that this nonsensical bullet list will simply start up the next example of your "It's all about me" syndrome. Thus hijacking Joe's thread ... though I'm certain that Joe ~ as usual ~ will give you a kiss and a pass. Just look at me, I'm doing it! :(
Getting more Trumpian by the day.)
Actually Smiles, it's people like you who derail the threads bu jumping down my throat every time I post. I simply answered the question posed by Joe.
Don't get your panies into too much of a knot, once the ball gets rolling, I highly doubt I'll have time to post here anyway.
Matt. your list of goals for the year is pure fantasy. There is no way anyone could do all that. Sorry to be harsh.
I shall continue to watch the courageous tough guy with morbid fascination.
arsenal, Smiles thinks this thread is in the wrong forum. Are you on duty right now?
Why? What's so fantasy about it? The only difficult part will be money, as the next two months are going to cost me minimum 1 million baht, but pretty sure I can pull it off, so not worried about it.
We'll all be settled in Vientiane within a couple months, and once done, it's just a typical, every day middle class family life. Well, except the gay, inter-racial, and adopted kids part. Aside from that though, just a typical family life. I'll love every minute of it, but nothing unusual or exciting.
Just waiting for my passport to show up. First application was rejected, second one was mailed about 10 days ago, so should be here in a few weeks. Day after it comes, Leo is off to Vientiane to secure a house. He already has the money sitting in his bank account for first month + 2 months deposit.
matty must think he's harry potter...
So you're a programmer who hasn't finished high school, you've gone blind and you expect to transition to be a management consultant while living in Laos, one of the most difficult places in SE Asia to get a long-term visa without paying "facilitation" fees every year. It sounds like fantasy to me
http://www.retireinasia.com/visa-req...etire-in-laos/
Yes, I'm good at what I do, plus I have 17 years of experience in online software. Already have a lead developer in plac in the UKe, and projects are commencing.
VISA is already negotiated. I'll be listed as an employee of another company in Vientiane in exchange for a donation.
Smiles, I take your point, which is why I've asked for it to be moved. Or do you mean I shouldn't have asked the question here at all?
I'm looking forward to strapping young men helping me around. I wasn't able to get one of him being tactile, but he was certainly anxious to assist the older Thai (no, it's not me in the pic). Phra Ram 9 MRT if you need the details
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CdnMitty....you’re in your 30’s right?
https://www.nidcr.nih.gov/DataStatis...ults20to64.htm
Well I’m sorry you need new teeth at just 36...do you fall into the category of older, lower income and less educated as per the above list?
Your ball...
Ohhh, that's what you meant. Yeah, my teeth are screwed. Too much whiskey and coke over the last couple decades.
Got a quote recently at KK Ram -- 300,000 baht and 6 months. I don't have 6 months, so that's waiting until Vientiane.
Can't wait to finally be able to laugh without covering my mouth, or be able to kiss Leo though. That's going to be great. :)
And let's just hope it's only my teeth. I can get new teeth, but can't get a new liver.
Matt, I'm a heavy drinker (to put it mildly). I've been told by my doctor that even 3 days a week of not drinking allows the liver to regenerate. Some weeks I can manage, others not. Just a thought for you.
I can promise I drink more than you Joe. I'm a functional alcoholic though.
You are right though, the liver is quite amazing, and regenerates itself extremely well. I've went a good 6 weeks without a drink several times in the recent past, so I know I can do it. That, and will have to quit once we get to Vientiane, especially if we want to take those kids.
Fun fact... I just learned today from my neighbor (it's winter, so all the farangs are back, and I have two farang neighbors for the time being), I guess Brad Pitt was an alcoholic as well. I never knew that before. He definitely hid it well, that's for sure.
I read somewhere that it's the reason Angelina gave him the boot.
Btw, it's not a competition to see who's the heaviest drinker. Cheers.
The President of the Unites States has gone an entire year now spewing nothing but lies, so you should be able to go a few more years with your on-going fabrications. Certainly long enough to beat off any more possible meet & greeters.
But a tiny compliment ... I won't say its not somewhat interesting.
The only two who I've "beat off" is Christian and that mouse guy, because I consider both of them sociopaths.
Newalaan and Joe cancelled on me, not the other way around.
Anyway, doesn't matter. I'll be in Vientiane in about a month anyway.
I think the Sony leaks summed Angelina up - "a minimally talented spoilt brat"
"beat off"? Really?
You started drinking heavily at 16?
I started drinking at 16. Not unusual where I grew up
Indeed NIrish - it was one of the only things at that time that made me "normal".
Can it get anymore unreal? Blind, toothless, alcoholic, smoker, coke head (is that coca-cola or cocaine), 36 yo, broke, rich, no visa, no passport, Laos boyfriend, would be foster-father, and on and on. What is next?
That's the beauty of it, francois, none of us know what's coming next.
No, I'm getting a passport this time! Got a call from the embassy today. Just have to fill out form 116, whatever the fuck that is.
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According to a Google search Form PPTC 116 is an acknowledgement by you that you may be issued a passport of limited validity. That sounds like fun. I wonder whether it will limit your ability to get visas for other countries, if so. This seems an interesting turn of events that will allow you to post many more updates in this fascinating saga
No, I looked it up already. Just means I get a 5 year passport instead of 10 years. That, and next time I need a passport, I can't use the simplified renewal application, and instead need to submit a new adult application.
That's all. No big deal.
At least the lady on the phone said I was getting a 5 year passport. Plus I'm getting something like 1260 baht back. 7280 baht for a pssport. Crazy...
CdnMitty...For the amount of aggrovation you must have caused them I think it is extremely good value for money.