Filipinos in Thailand

If your idea of a party includes a walk on a red carpet and being photographed like a Hollywood celebrity, then you would have enjoyed the grand launching of Hotel Vista last August 28, 2009, in Soi 4, Pattaya. Hotel Vista’s owners, the Vannaying family, sure know how to give a blast of a party!

There was an endless flow of wine and cocktail drinks and the food would have passed a guest’s discriminating taste. Guests were entertained from early evening till the wee hours of the morning with a variety of activities. Highlights of the night included song performances from jazz, to pop, to ballads, and to disco, which led on to lively dancing from mostly the lovely ladies of the Filipino community.

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How many Pinoy teachers do you think are there now in Thailand? Some say around 8,000. Others have said, probably 30,000. Judging from the number of Pinoys who make visa runs to Laos or to AranyaPrathet, or the number of Pinoys you see who attend mass in churches in Bangkok alone every Sunday, probably even more.

With this growing number of Pinoy teachers coming to Thailand, one would wonder, “Is life that good in Thailand?” Well, though that remains to be seen for the hundreds who have come these past few years, it has been great for at least one Pinay who started out the same way as most Pinoys who venture out here in Thailand.

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