Mad spur of the moment thinking . . . what if I headed back to Taipei for my four day hols? Okay, need to bring Miss SO, she’s Thai, can she get a visa on arrival?
I’m sorted, of course.
(Excuse the tardiness in asking, I should Google … . and I have, it’s just that I can’t be F’ed searching through the crappery in Chinese.
Hoping someone in this vast community would just know the answer to this one.
BTW, if the answer is positive, we’ll be holding up the bar at Bobwundaye’s on Chrissie eve. Come down say hello.
Hi HGC, I never tried the landing visa for my former Thai GF, and I imagine that is not possible. Instead, several years ago I sent a letter in advance to the ROC embassy in Bangkok stating that she was my girlfriend and asking them to expedite a tourist visa for her, mentioning my ARC info and her ID info, as well as the fact that I would be paying for all her expenses and that she would not be staying to seek employment. A tourist visa was granted for 2 weeks as requested, no problem. I hope this helps.
As I said tio my friend,
As I was always talking,
John I s’d, which was not his name
The darkness surrounds us
What can we do against it
Or else shall we, and why not?
Buy a big goddam car
Just drive he s’d
And for Chrissake watch where your goin’
Sorry, that’s the only poem I can recall in it’s entirety irregardless of state of mind. Oh, and that Li Bo, frost in front of my bed thing in Chinese.
Dragonbones, enter my free drinks zone anytime you please. That’s sound advice and akin to what I expected. As we all know, there is the said way and the other way. Such is Taiwan.
Out here in this far flung reach of the empire I sometimes feel like that Marcus Flavinius in Comrade’s signature. Why should I give a flying toss when the ROC so obviously doesn’t care about its status in the neighbourhood?
Once again Taiwanese institutionalised government racism (this time against Thais) forces a couple of thousand quid’s worth of business to Shanghai. Meaning also that I won’t be able to get full as a shuck with my mate HGC, whose initials bear a startling resemblance to a make of toilet here. You know those low-set ones which don’t actually work but are in all the best buildings? Sorry HG. I was just thinking I’ll miss seeing you driving the big white bus this Christmas.
That’s what it is, sadly. Or is there a case to make that a country in a precarious situation like Taiwan (in the face of China) needs stupid visa laws? I dunno. The upshot’s the same, I’m off to spend my loot in China. Sorry to miss you Miranda.
I do indeed know the ones you mean. What da fuck is it with those bogs? Huge low buses of things that refuse to take away your turds. They got those horrid button flush things that force you to stand bowed over facing your former contents and watch as they idly spin around the bowl before going nowhere. What’s that? The turd rinse cycle? Is there another button? They must have been designed by some mad Jap fetishist.
However, I must remember to maintain some presence of mind and keep an eye out for my initials next time I’m in town and praying to the porcelain princess.
Shanghai was brilliant. Okay, it could’ve been better if I was wall to wall wiv mates at Carnegies or Bob’s, but for my first trip back to that city in nearly 14 years I was profoundly impressed. The biggest change? Optimism. People in Shanghai are optimistic about the future. That is in stark contrast to what I hear in HK or on these boards.
Reminds me of what I loved about Taiwan when I first went there . . . things were moving so fast in a yet more amazingly positive direction . . .
So what is the deal with getting a visa? Are they going to do what they did to Wolves Man and just tell her to “piss off we don’t want your filthy kind here?”* Surely something can be done?
“unless the triads bring you in, in which case we’ll turn a blind eye”
Nah, didn’t try, for now. She has a 12 month multiple entry to China picked up here in HK. I couldn’t be arsed fooling with the folks in that Lippo fake embassy/travel agency thingee so Shanghai it was . . and good it was too.
I presume the response to a Thai trying from HK would be the usual bureaucratic crappery possibly with additional local bigotry thrown in for good measure. HK people (in general, of course) consider Thais, Filipinos and Indonesians untermensch - a human sub-species strangely reserved for cleaning the house, looking after the kids and whoring. But I’ll find that out another time.
