Being an Expat Rockstar, your profile is very attractive to many Indonesian women. There are two categories of women: the collectors who change their boyfriend as often as they change hand phones and the unlucky ones who find it really soooooooo difficult to approach the object of their desire, Mr. Prince Charming from overseas.
Good news ladies, you can now follow the guide and learn plenty of useful tips and tricks with How to Catch Mr. Bule (Bule is the word for Westerners in Indonesia).
An Indonesian woman, Erlinawati, who is married to Duncan Graham, an Australian journalist now living in New Zealand, published the book in Bahasa Indonesia several months ago.
The author, who Mr. Hubby apparently helped with her writing, aims to teach her counterparts on how to manage a relationship and end up married.
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I just want to have friends…
I just want be your friend…
I like to have alot of friends (Farang males only).
Do the above sentences ring a bell for anyone here? People who are involved in internet chat with Thai females will have definitely heard the above sayings more than a few times. What does it mean? Why are these Thai females only looking for foreign male friends? I mean, don’t they ever get out back home?
Well if you’ve come across the above phrases my friends, you’ve stumbled upon a scam. Yes, the ‘I just wanna be your friend’ scam! This scam is quite prolific on the internet and it’s also designed to drag the lonely foreign Wannabe Romeo in to deceive him.
How does it work?
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Shanghai is known for its bar scene. Unlike Beijing, Shanghai’s bars display a wide diversity of genres, prices, decors, and entertainment. The hobnobbers convene nightly along the Bund drinking brandy for $30USD a glass while the English teachers rendezvous along Hangshan Road, where cold beer can flow for as cheap as $1USD. Everything imaginable lies in between these extremes, the most intense of which are the so-called all-you-can-drink bars catering almost exclusively to expats.
One of the top bars in Shanghai’s all-you-can-drink scene is De La Coast where for 100 RMB (about $14USD) you can do your best to damage your liver amid flashing lights and endless seizure-like dance offs. A truly gifted DJ blasts perfectly mixed tunes while friendly bartenders mix an unending barrage of rail drinks. The bar is successful primarily because it attracts a steady stream of regulars.
While De La Coast may be one of the more dual-gendered bars in the area, attracting a plethora of expats and locals alike, the traditional drink-for-a-sum bars in Shanghai use blunt human-nature tactics for attracting foreign currency: pigtails, pushup bras, and stick on purple eyelashes.
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‘Stand your ground’ could be their motto. Jalan Paletehan taxi drivers in Blok M, Jakarta, belong to a very restricted category, and they don’t allow just any other colleague to enter the family.
Like the plague-stricken, the respectable Blue Bird taxis are not even allowed to operate on their territory (as a matter of fact they stand by outside the perimeter up the street).
Sitting on the car hood while chain-smoking Kretek cigarettes, the average predatory Paletehan taxi driver is out to chase his prey. The target is anyone who looks more or less like a pedestrian Bule (Indonesian word given to Western people) strolling from a point A to a point B.
Even if you clearly seem to be just going next door, they will still call out to you for a ride. Indeed, they don’t really care about your destination. Rather, what preoccupies them is how they can get as much money from you as possible.
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Intro
The Dell XPS M1330 is a slick, travel powerhouse laptop small enough to actually be used in an airplane or airport coffee house. You get most of the bells and whistles of a larger laptop without the weight and chunkiness. As always, Dell offers tons of stuff to customize your build: Bluetooth, different Wi-Fi options, as well as an expanded batter pack. Plus, it’s just so damn sexy.
Design
This to me is was the biggest factor in buying a 13.3 inch laptop. Of all the laptops I looked at (sorry I didn’t bother looking at the Macs), this was the one that stood out the most. It’s thin, the keyboard is encased in brushed aluminum, and above the keyboard is a touch sensitive row of keys for DVD playback, sound intensity manipulation, and Media Direct initialization. On the leading edge, you got dual headphone jacks, a Mic jack, and an SD media port. The disc tray is a slot load, which is a welcome change, and though this laptop comes with all the standard I/O ports (USB, IEEE and VGA), it also comes with a HDMI port. A nice surprise is that where your dummy PCI express card usually would sit there is a media remote included with your purchase.
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By far the most common question I receive from people (men) interested in moving to Panama or one of its Central American sisters is “What is the cost of living?” I´ve been in Panama for two months now and knowing that I would eventually do this piece for readers, I have paid careful attention to what it costs to operate.
I suppose I have had an advantage here because I’ve lived in several developing nations and it seems that once you can adjust to the financial aspects of one, it is that much easier in the next. People arriving here from Europe or the U.S. will immediately notice that this place is cheaper than home but it will take them some time to realize the available savings because the locals won’t necessarily give you accurate prices and will sometimes simply try to rip you off.
Whether its produce or prostitutes the two-tier pricing system is definitely in practice here for those bearing the mark of the Gringo. A good example would be a young man from Florida that came to the Miami Bar and had a few drinks with us. There were girls everywhere, all with services for sale. Eventually he took a stunning Colombian back to his room.
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Last night, Nick Gatsby, one of my Thai buddies, and myself went out to a club and ended up bringing back like ten girls to party at the ERS Penthouse in Bangkok. All started great, you know, the usual, we popped a few bottles of champagne, kicked on the music, and ordered some chow.
Everything was going smoothly; about one hour into the party I had a very cute white skinned Thai woman with fantastic, fake boobs in my room. I was on cloud nine, making out with her until… knock, knock, and knock. It was my Thai buddy “Hey bro, one of the girls frigging sliced her hand open.”
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I have compiled a list of top things for budding Wannabe Romeos to bring with them to Thailand. Please read carefully as they could save your wallet one day!
1. Contact your local vet and buy cure all pills for buffalos.
2. Get your family doctor to write a report in Thai explaining why it’s impossible for her grandmother to die ten times.
3. Job application forms. Go online to a Thai employment agency, print 516 copies of various job application forms and the next time a Thai puts their hands out for money, hand them 6, or 7 forms.
4. Surprise her and arrive in Thailand unannounced and unexpected… Knock on her door and have her introduce you to her brother. Make sure to have a certified letter from a Thai doctor explaining that sleeping with her brother is unacceptable behavior. She may as well fess up and cop to the fact that her brother is actually her Thai boyfriend.
5. Intelligence pills (in large quantities) - whenever you have the urge to say the word yes, take ten and lie down.
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