Dear Hillary,
I’ve just arrived from Australia on holidays and have met this rather gorgeous woman who works in Bangkok in a bank. She says she is 35, which is good for me as I’m just 30. She took the week off work, after meeting me, so she must feel like I do. I would really like to take her back to Australia after my holiday runs out in a couple of weeks, but my mates tell me there’s a problem with visas so she can’t get in. This isn’t fair if that’s the case. I got in here with a no fuss visa, so why are the Aussies so biased against Thai girls?
Visa Wanted
Dear Visa Wanted,
Talk about rushing things! Do you have some sort of terminal disease, Petal, and have to do everything today as there is no tomorrow? You’ve just got here, you’ve just met the girl of your dreams probably yesterday, or was it the day before? Now you want to take her to Australia with you, where you can both settle down and raise puppies. Pedro the Swift has nothing on you.
Now sit down and start looking at the real situation. You hardly know this woman, and if she says she is 35, then she’s probably 45 and old enough to be your mother. Why should Australia give you (her) a visa when your relationship will very quickly go sour. How do I know that? Well, relationships built on a week of passion in Thailand and then transplanted to a foreign country just don’t work, Petal. Thai women get bored and lonely very quickly when in a foreign country and away from all their kinfolk and khao tom. Enjoy your time here, but it’s a holiday romance and treat it as that. You say you are just 30 – somehow I think you are fibbing. 20 would be closer to the mark.
