Stress

[SamplerDoc]

Guys I am sure we all have had stress.  Lets see what is stressing you out by posting here.  Perhaps, we can lend an ear or beer and help each other out with ideas?

Let me start.... I leave in 5 days for China (July7-Aug4) and then LOS (Aug4-11) but
1-Still no camera or proper luggage
2-China Business group I am going to work with suddenly asked me to change my plane's arrival time up 3 hours when I have had the dam ticket and flight for 6 weeks and they know it.  Hell I am flying from NYC to HKK so lets get real.  Then they add in a 2nd e-mail dated 2 days ago, If I can not I will have to stay over at the airport and bus it 2 hours north on my own the next day.  WTF is this all about and I have e-mail that says we will meet you etc....plus a contract for certain work at a certain place.  They surprise me with this crap last minute.  If they play these games or screw me I will grab my stuff and 1k landing fee and get back on that dam plane and head to LOS early ....fuck em.
 
Anyone else ever dealt with China before?

Can you tell I am both worried about this 6 month planned trip going down the crapper and stressed?

[dummy_plug]

The Chinese, especially mainlanders, will bend you over backwards and fuck you if you let em...

However, the biggest worry for you is a proper camera! The lot of us here will be waiting patiently for you to bring back pics and stories of your first adventure! C'mon, you owe it to us!

[Torurot]

HongKong is THE cheapest place in the world to buy quality D-SLR. Always a silver lining.

[SamplerDoc]

You guys only focused in on the cameras and pics?

[stogie bear]

After four years of living in my nice comfortable townhouse the landlord finally wants it back. I have to leave by October the first. I am stressed about that!

I knew this day would come one day but now that it is here I hate the thought of leaving...

[SamplerDoc]

(stogie bear @ Jul. 01 2006,11:20) After four years of living in my nice comfortable townhouse the landlord finally wants it back. I have to leave by October the first. I am stressed about that!

I knew this day would come one day but now that it is here I hate the thought of leaving...

However SB, there are lots of nice homes to choose from and many months to plan, right?

Maybe we should revisit that idea of a Forum house

[stogie bear]

I was sifting through an old website I used to run... here's something the Brits might enjoy!

Homesick? Marko has a plan
by markoinbangkok
March 2004

Miss cornish pasties and cricket? Try our ten-step plan to a better life!
Are you home sick? Do you miss Ol' Blighty? If you do try these following tips and those nostalgic feelings will come rushing back.

1 - If you're a smoker then pop into your local bar and ask for a packet of fags. When you get them take four out and break them. Then hand the girl 400 baht and say "Keep the change!"

2 - Later at about 11 'o'clock, line up three large beer Changs and drink them in about 15 minutes and go home.

Is it working? Are you feeing like you're back home with the lads? No? OK, try this...

3 - Instead of going outside and hailing a cab, stay in doors and phone the taxi company for one. This will give you hours of 'the old feeling'!

4 - The next time you date a girl here, try this. Take her to an expensive restaurant. Take her home and kiss her clumsily on the cheek and say 'Goodnight then.' Walk home and jerk off.

Hey... I'll bet by now you are wondering why you ever left, eh?

5 - Here's a good one... Tell all your chums that you are having a barbeque in your back garden on Saturday afternoon. When everyone arrives good and hungry get them all in the bathroom and turn the shower on for three hours.

6 - Next time you want to relive the memories of the last football match you went to here's what to do... (this requires a certain amount of preparation). First get roaring drunk and go to sleep. Next wake up and go straight to the fridge and start drinking again. After that go out side, punch someone as hard as you can then go to the mall and walk around the fourth floor (where the video machines are) for 90 minutes. After that, throw up onto a starnger and invite him to hit you as hard as he can.

Now, I KNOW that you are feeling maudlin about momma! But just in case you aren't here are some more helpful tips you can use to re-capture the good times...

7 - Get chummy with the local assistant manager of Big 'C' and ask him if you can stand in the meat freezer for a few hours with an umbrella after they close. Great for re-living those bar(l)my wintery afternoons.

8 - Feel like watching a great British line up of TV? Easy peasy... watch Thai TV. It's about the same. In fact it's better because you can't understand what they are saying here in LOS so you won't get so annoyed! (Don't forget your toothbrush - hilarious!)

9 - Need to get laid British style? OK... Find a really ugly Thai girl with wonky teeth who won't stop talking. (That's the hard part.) Get her so drunk that she passes out, then have at her!

10 - The last tip for expats who are feeling homesick... TRY GOING TO WORK SOBER!

[Mai-Kee]

HILARIOUS!!!!!