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Expats, where are you for Christmas?

  • 25-12-2012 08:46AM
    #1
    [Deleted User]
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    I'm sitting in a cafe on a break from work in Hanoi. Get two days of for new years though and two weeks in Feb so not too bad.


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  • #2
    Mr. Manager
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,139 ✭✭✭✭Mr. Manager


    Sitting in the office in Malta :(

    Beats what I'd be doing in Ireland for sure!


  • #3
    Micky Dolenz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 44,079 ✭✭✭✭Micky Dolenz


    I came back to the mother land.


  • #4
    bohsman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,881 ✭✭✭bohsman


    In work, in Malta. Nice and warm out at least.


  • #5
    Gosub
    Closed Accounts Posts: 874 ✭✭✭Gosub


    Spain, and it's sh¡te!

    Making plans to return to the Ould Sod for good. I know, I know.... why? Because it's my country and it needs me my soul needs it.


  • #6
    mfceiling
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,252 ✭✭✭✭mfceiling


    Cereal Rapist wrote: »
    Sitting in the office in Malta :(

    Beats what I'd be doing in Ireland for sure!
    bohsman wrote: »
    In work, in Malta. Nice and warm out at least.

    You two could meet up.........it would be like an episode of noel edmonds christmas show.


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  • #7
    Mr. Manager
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,139 ✭✭✭✭Mr. Manager


    mfceiling wrote: »
    You two could meet up.........it would be like an episode of noel edmonds christmas show.

    We did meet up funnily enough. He's sitting beside me in the office.

    And I'll probably see him later too when I go home seeing as he's my housemate :P


  • #8
    Micky Dolenz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 44,079 ✭✭✭✭Micky Dolenz


    How romantic.


  • #9
    kneemos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,609 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    I was never called Pat.


  • #10
    the keen edge
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,533 ✭✭✭the keen edge


    mfceiling wrote: »
    You two could meet up.........it would be like an episode of noel edmonds christmas show.
    Cereal Rapist wrote: »
    We did meet up funnily enough. He's sitting beside me in the office.

    And I'll probably see him later too when I go home seeing as he's my housemate :P

    Wow that was quick. So much for taking it slow.


  • #11
    squod
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,702 ✭✭✭squod


    Deleted User wrote: »
    I'm sitting in a cafe on a break from work in Hanoi. Get two days of for new years though and two weeks in Feb so not too bad.

    ''Working'' in Hanoi ?


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  • #12
    swimming in a sea
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 937 ✭✭✭swimming in a sea


    Pyongyang, working as a Kim Jong-un body double.


  • #13
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 18,046 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    squod wrote: »
    ''Working'' in Hanoi ?

    Ya.


  • #14
    yermandan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,070 ✭✭✭yermandan


    Happy Christmas to you all


  • #15
    Where To
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,455 ✭✭✭Where To


    yermandan wrote: »
    Happy Christmas to you all
    Are you in the Egyptian denial or the Sudanese denial?


  • #16
    sheikhnguyen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 100 ✭✭sheikhnguyen


    Deleted User wrote: »
    I'm sitting in a cafe on a break from work in Hanoi. Get two days of for new years though and two weeks in Feb so not too bad.

    Been there done that, gowan down the R&R for a few with the best crowd in town. i myself am in the mountains of South Korea at present with a belly full of wine. Merry Christmas one and all.


  • #17
    coolbeans
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,199 ✭✭✭coolbeans


    What's the difference between an expat and an emigrant?


  • #18
    Mr Burgess
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10 ✭Mr Burgess


    Makati City, Manila.


  • #19
    squod
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,702 ✭✭✭squod


    coolbeans wrote: »
    What's the difference between an expat and an emigrant?

    50% more wages.


  • #20
    biko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,060 ✭✭✭✭biko


    coolbeans wrote: »
    What's the difference between an expat and an emigrant?
    Only Irish can be ex-Pats.


  • #21
    was.deevey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,213 ✭✭✭was.deevey


    Makati City, Manila.

    Snap :)


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  • #22
    Sunnyisland
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,562 ✭✭✭✭Sunnyisland


    North side of Dublin :-)


  • #23
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 18,046 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    sheikhnguyen wrote: »
    Been there done that, gowan down the R&R for a few with the best crowd in town. i myself am in the mountains of South Korea at present with a belly full of wine. Merry Christmas one and all.

    Ah it's moved and I haven't made it to the new one yet.. Meetin a few for bia hoi in a while
    It's no wine but it works.

    Merry Christmas.


  • #24
    El Horseboxo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,354 ✭✭✭El Horseboxo


    Only of Irish descent but in Oklahoma away from 'home'.


  • #25
    Pugins
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 196 ✭✭Pugins


    In a land down under


  • #26
    JohnCleary
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,211 ✭✭✭✭JohnCleary


    I was sitting on a beach on Koh Phangan last Christmas day, with a bottle of Buckfast by my side (I sh1te you not) - Wasn't working though, was just lining the stomach for the full moon party that night :pac:


  • #27
    FearDark
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,425 ✭✭✭FearDark


    New Zealand... sunburnt to death.


  • #28
    Auldloon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,242 ✭✭✭Auldloon


    Merry Christmas exiles! I'm in scotland where I live but heading to South Africa tomorrow on hols yippee:)


  • #29
    Oranage2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,129 ✭✭✭✭Oranage2


    Lying in bed with 2 blankets fully dressed with 2 jumpers on, a body warmer, jeans and a pair of gloves with a candle and a book beside me for when the power cuts in a hotel with wifi in Kathmandu.


  • #30
    msg11
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,572 ✭✭✭msg11


    Ex-Patrick..


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  • #31
    dd972
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,563 ✭✭✭dd972


    coolbeans wrote: »
    What's the difference between an expat and an emigrant?

    maybe one day in the future expats and immigrants will just be human beings residing where they want on the land mass of their choice, your consciousness in your head is the real you, you are not your birthplace or the nation state jurisdiction you randomly happened to be born in.


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