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Cat Soup?

Think cute surreal anthropomorphic cats meet Salvador Dali on a potent acid trip.

Just buy anything by Hugo Boss.

"Teaching illegal fire dancing workshops in Canada with no work permit".

Next time I'll get the mounties to escort me out personally.

Two countries.

I was forcibly deported from Myanmar (the country so formerly known as Burma), in a story that I will open with and post sometime tomorrow.

I was led to the border of Canada and kicked back into the States for a less serious offense that involved teaching illegal dance workshops. No joke.

France sucks because it is full of French people - a long explanation I will get to with time. My apologies if anyone reading this is one of the non-sucky French people. I had too many run-ins with punks in France compared to anywhere else on the planet.

My life story or a short resume...

I was born in Anaheim Hills, California, United States of America to two Thai/Chinese (Cantonese) immigrants.
From there we moved to Cerritos, California - The Hague, Netherlands - Chicago, Illinois - I moved to Provo, Utah for school - Chiang Mai, Thailand - suburbs of San Francisco, California - Bangkok, Thailand - with brief transient stints on the US East Coast. As far as traveling goes, the list is too long but it spans 5 continents, the exception being Antarctica (which I plan to go to), and Africa (which I'm not sure about visiting). Cambodia was especially mentally jarring.

I have worked such jobs as YMCA front desk, loss prevention at a major electronics company, freelance writer, proofreader, freelance fire performer/dancer, survey taker following the 2004 Christmas tsunami, dance teacher, English teacher, piano teacher, violinist, massage therapist, Buddhist monk, farm labourer, psychological consultant, [redacted]/possibly illegal activities, and manual labour at a text book warehouse.

What else do you want from a life resume?

My Grandmum is getting better following her stroke.

This also deserves it's own reply:

Singapore was ranked 6th in the World Health Organization's ranking of the world's health systems in the year 2000.[1]
Singapore has a non-modified universal healthcare system where the government ensures affordability of healthcare within the public health system, largely through a system of compulsory savings, subsidies and price controls.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healthcare_in_Singapore
EDIT- part of this posted earlier ^^^

They force you to set aside a large portion of your wages for retirement and future healthcare needs.

One of the most socalised and regulated countries in the world, ranked 6th in healthcare by WHO.

So let's look at the other winners...

1: France = extremely socialist (one of universal health care largely financed by government national health insurance. In its 2000 assessment of world health care systems, the World Health Organization found that France provided the "close to best overall health care" in the world.[1])

2: Italy = 75% socalised Healthcare is provided to all citizens and residents by a mixed public-private system.

3: San Marino = highly socalist San Marino has a high standard of compulsory, state-funded healthcare and medical staff are highly qualified

4: Andorra = extremely socialist Healthcare in Andorra is provided to all employed persons and their families by the government-run social security system, CASS (Caixa Andorrana de Seguretat Social), which is funded by employer and employee contributions in respect of salaries.[47] The cost of healthcare is covered by CASS at rates of 75% for out-patient expenses such as medicines and hospital visits, 90% for hospitalisation, and 100% for work-related accidents. The remainder of the costs may be covered by private health insurance. Other residents and tourists require full private health insurance

5: Malta = Free healthcare socialism Malta has a long history of providing publicly funded health care. The first hospital recorded in the country was already functioning by 1372.[119] Today, Malta has both a public healthcare system, known as the government healthcare service, where healthcare is free at the point of delivery, and a private healthcare system.

Are you starting to notice a pattern about how successful socalised healthcare is?

Source: http://www.who.int/whr/2000/en/whr00_en.pdf
The World Health Organisation: The World Health Report (last ranked year 2000)

Which is good because apparently the various relatives' houses are haunted by spirits, thus I have heard.

Went from having no visa and two days left to leave the country to having my request for an extended visa granted for a year. Isn't it amazing what contacts and money can do?

Now I'm able to be stranded in Thailand for a year.