Comments on: A day with redtape https://glendalarke.com/2010/06/day-with-redtape/ Sat, 13 Mar 2021 10:28:58 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 By: Glenda Larke https://glendalarke.com/2010/06/day-with-redtape/#comment-19707 Mon, 14 Jun 2010 17:48:37 +0000 #comment-19707 Hisham – it makes me sad when I read things like your comment. People should feel comfortable in their own land. Yet in my street alone – a very short street – 4 unmarried Muslim girls from different families have left to live permanently overseas. Basically because as unmarried professionals in their late teens and 20s, they did not feel comfortable leading the life of single professional women – doctor, architect, scientist, in business. They are all Malays. One of them even decided age 14 that this was not the place for her!

This is so sad. It's not a question of getting money abroad. It's a feeling that you cannot have certain opinions without society crushing you … It's the feeling of professional frustration too.

]]> By: Hisham https://glendalarke.com/2010/06/day-with-redtape/#comment-19706 Sat, 12 Jun 2010 19:58:07 +0000 #comment-19706 The last part of your post reminds me of why I will never want to settle down in my own country, Malaysia. For some reason, I felt quite touched by that part. Malaysia is a jealous country that finds so many ways to keep people feeling unwelcome, except when they want your money (not that it is the only country in the world that is like this).

As a Malaysian who has done a bit of traveling myself, I hope you settle down wherever you are welcome and happy. At this point, I don't think Malaysia is the place.

]]> By: Glenda Larke https://glendalarke.com/2010/06/day-with-redtape/#comment-19705 Thu, 10 Jun 2010 17:50:18 +0000 #comment-19705 Hey guys, stop tempting me…

Hmm. Maybe I won't come home after Worldcon??

]]> By: Unknown https://glendalarke.com/2010/06/day-with-redtape/#comment-19704 Thu, 10 Jun 2010 17:25:34 +0000 #comment-19704 So is Adelaide, with the added advantage of cramming absolutely everything that's going to happen in the year into a month and a half, so there's no distractions for the rest of the year 😀

]]> By: Joanna https://glendalarke.com/2010/06/day-with-redtape/#comment-19703 Thu, 10 Jun 2010 08:37:41 +0000 #comment-19703 Queensland is always nice….

]]> By: Anonymous https://glendalarke.com/2010/06/day-with-redtape/#comment-19702 Wed, 09 Jun 2010 20:53:36 +0000 #comment-19702 That's governments for you. You'll always be welcome back here.

Mit.

]]> By: Jo https://glendalarke.com/2010/06/day-with-redtape/#comment-19701 Wed, 09 Jun 2010 05:52:24 +0000 #comment-19701 Bloody governments, bit like the problems we had emigrating although once here, we didn't have to renew or anything and after three years became Canadian citizens anyway.

]]> By: Helen V. https://glendalarke.com/2010/06/day-with-redtape/#comment-19700 Wed, 09 Jun 2010 03:38:36 +0000 #comment-19700 A very short sighted policy I'd say.

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