As you’ve already been told, you can apply for a Covid extension and if you don’t get it, they will give you a 7 day denial stamp.
You have to ask Malaysian immigration if a denial stamp is considered a valid visa for them.
If not, check if they will accept a visa from Cambodia. If India gets a visa on arrival from Cambodia and Malaysia accepts that then you could spend 1-2 days there and use that to travel to Malaysia.
That brand they sell all over Thailand. I could only find one seller with good quality whey protein powder without artificial sweeteners or colors and it was expensive.
Check with your airline. I’ve been hassled at checkin when having a return flight that was more than 6 months in the future (having a 6 month visa) but after explaining I can extend it in Thailand to 9 months, they made a phone call to someone and let me on the flight.
Also the Thai embassy who issued the visa didn’t say anything about the date of the return flight although they seem to be a lot more picky now.
By the original meaning of that term (Being strongly aligned with NATO and the US against the Soviet Bloc) or the more modern meaning which relates to its human development index, Thailand is not a first world nation.
Filipinos being more westernized is part of their mindset.
I don’t think the infrastructure plays that much into it though as Laos has even worse infrastructure and doesn’t have anywhere near the culture of moving abroad that the Philippines does.
Same with Myanmar, Vietnam and even Cambodia.
A lot of the Cambodian and Vietnamese immigrants to other countries were a result of the Vietnam war and Pol Pot and not due to a long term tradition of expatriation.
I’ve never really heard Thais express feelings one way or another about Thais living in another country.
I suppose if a particular Thai wants to move to another country they probably see those who already are in a positive light.
I find most Thais don’t really want to leave Thailand. Some will say they want to but most aren’t really serious about it and have no idea what they’re in for if they do.
Most have a very unrealistic idea of what living in another country is like as their only real reference is movies and TV shows.
I did know one Thai girl who was absolutely chomping at the bit to leave Thailand.
She married a guy from Liverpool really just to move there. I told her she wouldn’t like it but she didn’t care.
Four years later and all she says now is once she gets her UK passport she’s leaving “this shit country” (her words) and moving back to Thailand.
Had to say I told her so.
By contrast I find Filipinos far more eager to move to places like the US and actually be serious about it, not just saying they’d like to move as a casual passing thought.
