Pseacraft

Having worked in the Middle East for the last 4 years straight and many other times off and on during the past 2 decades I would not advise anyone from any Southeast Asian country to work in the middle east unless they really like to be treated like a whore or a slave and may be get paid once in a while.  Big problem in the UAE is employers not paying their staff for months at a time.  The government is "trying" to fix this but even then their methods seem questionable.  Even now I am very discouraged that one of my friends is in the USA on an internship program which sounded pretty shady to me.  She is have a rough time making ends meet as the promised weekly working hours was "guaranteed" to be a minimum 40 hours...she has been there for several months and is yet to break 30 hours a week.  

The phrase buyer beware applies to the job market too apparently.

My wife saw 10 fire balls and she has never seen them in her 30 years.  She did say the drive back to Nong Khai was a royal SOB with 6 lanes of traffic on the two lane road!

Dang, i wish I knew before that they were doing VOA for everyone on a test basis.  I just missed the chance to go see Bagan with my Burmese girl.  Dang!  I'll have to watch for it to resume, which I hope it does!!!!  So difficult to get a Tourist visa when the closest embassy is in KSA.