Maestro in Asia

[doc]

Yea, read that. A little radiation never hurt anybody. Hell, it will clean your plumbing. Might also kill that shit growing on your feet!

[Maestro]

Lake Tahoe looks spectacular, what a wonderful life. You guys are like the Frankensteins

[Maestro]

OK. Put it off long enough time to write. THE CONCLUSION OF MAESTRO IN ASIA JULY 2012.

for those of you who dont know(not sure if i wrote about it in this thread) the last few months have been very stressful for me and ive been struggling with anxiety. after travelling to cambodia, thailand and finally vietnam i arrived back in malaysia march 30.

Long story short, I overstayed my visa, i miscalculated and ended up going 7 days past my 90 day visa in Malaysia, where i have been living for a year and a half. on the seventh day i rested...just jk, i found out, freaked out, jumped on the first train to SG and arrived 5am the next day making it 8 days overstay. Basically, they processed me, interrogated me, threw me in JAIL(a small shitty cell with 1 indonesian and 2 burmese workers, 1 squat toilet, no beds, or blankets or pillows or anything besides dirt and cold cement. was in there for a bit then they interrogated me again and after that i remained in the cell for the next day and a half.

eventually they released me, but i was told that i would be allowed to enter singapore to renew my visa, the guy i was dealing with told me to go to singapore and fly back to KL, but not to come back through johor bahru(train station) i said why? he said we might not be here and they might give me problems...

i paid a fine and an officer escorted me out, he still had my passport in his hands while walking me out. we get to talkin and he asks me "why arent you going to kuala lumpur?" i said "because your boss said i can go to singapore to renew my visa first" he says "no cannot" i said " what do you mean no cannot he just told me i could" "no cannot" he says

i say, "WHY NOT" he says "because your blacklisted from Malaysia" i said "WHAT? what u talkin about he just told me etc etc"

basically i demanded to be taken back to his boss to straighten it out.

i go back the guy tells me "yes your blacklisted"

i said "why didnt you tell me that before? if i fly into KL they will arrest me again, why did you tell me to fly into KL?"

he says " yes probably will arrest but you can try"

from this its no point continuing as u can all see where this is going, i found out i was blacklisted for 1 year and was to be deported immediately. the stupidity or actually just cold indifference or spitefulness of these people is astounding, i hate MALAYS so much i cant even believe it right now. i never liked MALAYS(not MALAYSIANS, MALAYS) and now i just downright fucking hate them all. all the anti malay sentiment i experienced in malaysia i never fully understood untill that moment.

that being said malaysia is still a nice country, the food is great(not malay mostly chinese and indian) its cheap and has many beautiful things, unfortunately it is being destroyed by malays, but so be it, i dont live there anymore.

ontop of all this i proposed to my gf, were engaged now but ive no idea whats going to happen in the future or how or what is going on with anything. right now i just wanna get a job and stay busy and not think about all this shit, because honestly the only reason i spent so much time in malaysia was because of my gf, if it werent for her i would have spent a few months with doc in thailand bangin and getting fat and would have left a long long time ago, shes really special to me and im crushed by all of this, cant believe how severe they were.

been in singapore for a week will be here till next wednesday, had mandy come out for 4 days this week and shes coming back for the next 5 days on friday.

dunno what im leaving out or what from the story just wrote all that off the top of my head and i have to shit ate a half a roast duck yesterday and like 4 cheese danish from ion mall and it sounds like it wants to get out.

ill continue this by saying living here in asia for a year and a half has been nothing short of amazing. All the culture i experienced first hand cant compare to something you read in a book or hear about from someone like me. you gotta really get in and get involved with these people intimately to have a clue at understanding them(if you care). ive been through alot, made a few good friends, had alot of great experiences, alot of bad ones. lots of ups and downs, saw amazing things and just ingeneral had a much more amazing journey then i ever could have concieved on my own. so that being said it was worth all the sacrifice. for years i dabbled in this type of work and that type, should have gone to school during those years but what u gonna do those years have there own special little stories... but yknow coming here for a trip like this is something ive been dreaming about since i was 15, back then it was all shaolin monk, shave the head eat a bowl of rice nad become godlike. later it shifted into going to thailand for the muay thai and beach and crazy freaks, after all that time still not making it over here because of things ive written about in this thread and others i finally made it out here and my idea was to travel and train and visit richard and just have a good time experiencing a different world, well i had no idea how much that dream would really come true, its hard to write about all the experiences ive had because there are just to many, learning so much is overwhelming when i reflect on it but to me it came gradually so it all kind of just worked into me naturally.

as for the malay hate i expressed above honestly its not founded in some my sole experience good or bad, i cant blame them for what happened as its their law and their country, so not really blaming them for that, the only thing i blame them for is not being as corrupt as usual and not giving me a chance to bribe them which i what i wanted to do and what pretty much every malaysian and singaporean and last night some guys from brunnai told me i should do, NO DUH. but the opportunity didnt present itself or i was jus to stupid to not pick up on it either way it was a harrowing experience none the less.

with that i gotta go shit, so as dramatic as that all was i can do nothing but look back and smile, i had an amazing trip, once again and due entirely to the people(like richard and vanessa and rich jr) who made it so special. to my friends in malaysia and elsewhere ill be forever in their debt and will never be the same again.

[Uwe]

Welcome back my Friend!

[doc]

i would have spent a few months with doc in thailand bangin and getting fat

I'm glad that I've provided the opportunity for the worthwhile things in life. Though I can't remember you "banging and getting fat" in Phuket. I must have missed that part.

Somehow, as I sit here and look back on the long life of this website, I really don't think that this story has come to a conclusion. No doubt, more to come....

[Maestro]

things i would have done if not for mandy

and i remember getting pretty fat last time...

last day here mandys leaving in a few hours, she woke up burning up i was scared but gave her some med and broke the fever, now shes getting ready for lunch and im about to print my ticket, will report back when im safe state side.

and thakns uwe, its a bittersweet return home

[Maestro]

back in the states, been back since wednesday afternoon, was a decent flight, flew Qantas most of the way on their airbus was a great flight very comfy and all that, and on british airways from london to newark i got upgraded to business class somehow and had a great trip but not as nice as qantas, still would rather have not spent 1300 usd on the ticket....

been back for a bit but i have no car or anything right now gota go spend a bunch of money getting everything in order, no job either. back to reality i guess, been very busy here trying to help my mom clean her house which is terrible. also catching up a bit with my fam and stuff and whatever just been busy

ill write about the B.S. immigration morons put me through in Newark, no to say i dont appreciate the border control or whatever but they really are morons espcially the first guy i dealed with, ill write about that later.

been coming to the library everyday to talk to mandy cause no internet at my house, mom is switching to at&t and direct tv or whatever so shits all fucked up there, lots going on here its like hwen u come back its a idfferent world cant describe how much things have changed with everyone its crazy

so the thread isnt over yet i suppose will write more just now dont feel like it

[Uwe]

You are back in one piece and thats important. Everything else will solve itself eventually.

[doc]

You want to see how fucked up it is back here in the states? Just watch the news....

Between the nightmarish political antics, the crime and the murders, Asia is starting to look good again.

Welcome back. Don't get too fat.

[Maestro]

been really busy, mom is renovating her house, and im helping her with alot. spent a week in pennsylvania visiting my grandparents and later my aunt, had a great time, everything has been pretty good, eating alot more here the portions are huge and everything is cheap as hell i signed up for the gym ause it was only a dollar to join lol and 10 bucks a month, but i gotta start going cause i just ate half a gallon of ice cream for breakfast and this seems to be the trend for me here, been eating lots of junk food and lots of food in general.

been talking to mandy everyday, she seems to think if i burn my passport and get a new one i might be able to get back into malaysia cause what some friend of hers told her, i told her it wasnt worth going back to jail.

not quite sure what im going to do here now that the big dream has been full filled even though i do miss asia its really nice here the fresh air and trees and stuff are great its nice not to be in a city everyday. basically gotta get a job or two would be great asap and start straightening things out here.

i hope everything is cool with everyone else, ill come back on here more now that i got internet now before i didnt have access unless i was at the library or if i found a wifi, so its easier now for me to get on here

anyway, glad to be back kinda, would be alot better with mandy here but still nice just to drive my car and be back where most people speak english

[doc]

Hey, not sure if this is helpful, now that you've been banished from Malaysia. But soon they're changing their visa requirements. Might be easy to go to Thailand (where you're beloved) and then just easily go across the border to see your honey.

http://pattaya-times.com/a7817-asean-community-abolishes-duty-taxes-and-visas-approves-foreign-majority-business-ownership

Pattaya times is not exactly what I'd call a reliable source of information, but, hey, it might happen.

[Maestro]

I think it will happen eventually, if they're serious anyway. But 2015 is quite a ways away and not applicable to me I hope...

anyway life sucks again, got a job but now they jerkin me around not sure whats going on, Mandy is freaking out says shes depressed and cries everyday and cant focus on studies and thinks she will fail her exams. If she fails she has to repeat a year and we're screwed, that would be one shitty year...

[doc]

One reason why I'm starting to miss Thailand:

http://www.8newsnow.com/story/19314944/breaking-news-person-shot-at-dairy-queen-on

And the followup is comical (read the comments)

http://www.8newsnow.com/story/19324112/breaking-news-coroner-ids-dairy-queen-robbery-suspect

It's getting wild here in Vegas....

[Maestro]

bong paking the wong weapon lol...

i dunno which is worse the robber or the clerk who was carrying a gun working at DQ... good old vegas lol

[Maestro]

guess i should update this, mandy failed her exams both of em, now she has to repeat a year, classes start in a few weeks i think.........

im working at a different job then when i first got back but the plastic gloves are making me have allergic reaction, twice now ive been to the hospital and twice ive been on prednisone doesnt look like im gonna las there as i cant be having fucking allergic reactiosn to shit even though the bullshit plastic gloves ive worn a thousand times in the past apparently i leave and come back and ive developed some damn allergy

besidse that im looking to enroll in school for the spring semester, got everything done for the college besides my immunization records which i have but i might have to get blood work done to prove to them its still ok...which i think is retarded because who the fuck gets immunization for measels mumps and rubella more then once in their fucking life.....

that and the IRS tomorrow to settle all the bullshit taxes so i can apply for financial aid, otherwise ill have to find a way to pay for the spring semester out of pocket and that would suck because i apparently cant even keep a job without some hazard befalling me...

what else, oh and now apparently in connecticut at least the X-ray tech program or Radiography program no longer is a 2 year deal, now they require an associates as of 2015, so now I'm not sure but it sounds like Im looking at 4 years of school... which may or may not be a bad thing, i think it blows cause i could have done 2 years easy and started working and kept going to school to get more credits but now it might be 4 years before i can even apply for any fucking thing and its just shitty i dunno what im gonna do but all i can do is enroll in this college and do as much as i can, i have no great passion to be a fucking radiographer but i have no idea what else to do and its just a shitty deal all around

so im not stoked about the situation, plus everything else considered and im broke and living at home its just all alot of shit all at once and its all just shitty lol

so theres an update, hopefully in 4-5 months ill have a better report....