The land of smiles

Here I am again, in the land of smiles..

In the place where you see middle-aged men coupled with younger thai women.

In the place where the citizens honour their king.

In the place where people talk to me in Thai without realising I'm not responding.

LoL

I've travelled for the past 12 hours with very little sleep.. @_@ Who would know that flying from Perth to Bangkok/Pattaya can take up to 12 hours.. Sigh.

I see many tourists - cantonese speaking, mandarin speaking, and the typical angmohs.. Is it school holidays somewhere?

This time my room faces the sea.. quite nice :) hehe. At least I wont be coincidentally seeing "flattering" angmohs taking their morning swim :P

Honestly I feel very fortunate to be able to travel here for this project, for the 3rd time, on business class. Its not a project I'm related directly with, but only the occasional assignments. Not to mention, I am still a 1st year grad, and I'm travelling business class with many other more senior, more experienced, and more important people of the project.

Perhaps this is the last trip? I've been looking for a rotation in instrumentation recently. I better appreciate every moment of this trip. LoL

Oh Oh! a visit to changi airport is never complete without buying something from their confectionary department :D Guess what I bought? At the moment they are intended to be gifts/souvenirs for his family, but I'll be making another transit at changi on the way back! So lets hope I dont go broke >_<

And I just realised that one of my bright pink luggage locks is missing!!! T_T they were there when I picked up my luggages from the conveyor belt and I clearly remember seeing them when the driver loaded the luggages into the boot of the car. But now that the luggages are delivered to my room, they're gone!! Missing!! NO!!!!! T_T I only just bought them.. and they're meant to be a pack of four :'( where is it? Could it be in the car? Its not in the lobby :'( I shall ask him tomorrow if I see him.. with my very good english and his very good thai, we shall find out where the lock is.. sobs...

Today is the only free day I have. Tomorrow we will start work and I'm not sure what time we'll finish. On the last day, Thursday, we will be leaving Bangkok. That doesnt give me a lot of time to shop, walk and explore. I guess there isnt THAT much to shop and I've shopped many times previously. LoL. There isnt much to walk either and I dare not go far without someone else to get lost with me :P and there isnt much to explore if you're not a lonely middle aged men with money to spend on booze and girls.. Hahaha. Sigh.. I would prefer to be in Bangkok.

I suddenly hope that the days in Pattaya will go smoothly and pass quickly :P I cant wait for the after plans :D

I'm still alive!

It has been really really cold.. especially in the mornings and nights. I guess its pretty obvious lah, but still you gotta let me complain a bit. LoL.

I wear gloves when I leave the house in the morning, armed with my wool coat and boots. Once it got so cold that my feet in my boots felt cold @_@ that morning, I knew I had to start wearing thicker socks. LoL

Of course there is nothing to protect my nose. And every morning I can feel my nose freezing it almost hurts.. and then it starts to run a little. Hehehe. Ewww.. so dirty lah :P Kidding..

For people with short necks like me, I dont really need a scarf yet. The collar of my coat and my hair is good enough. Haha.

Its not too bad in the evenings. Some evenings can be warm. But by the time I leave for dinner, its cold again >_<

Somehow I have memory loss every year. I can never remember when winter started last year or when it ended. I can never remember how cold it was either. So the next year when winter comes again, I'm usually underprepared with my clothes or simply underestimate how cold it can get. Its also because I've never left the house at 7.30am every morning to get to work last time during winter.. freezing..

Been really busy lately. Sometimes I feel that I dont even have time to do my "big business" in peace and without pressure :P Sometimes I get so lazy to prepare my lunch/breakfast and end up buying them, which I prefer not to do too often. I'm really starting to wonder how come I dont have my mum to help me out >_< LoL. Useless daughter.

I actually had quite a few things to share since I last posted. But as time passed, I eventually forgot about them. Hehehe. Getting old.. yes, yes, getting lazy too :P

I'm actually leaving for another business trip to Thailand this saturday night. This time its going to be a bit different because the senior that went with me last time is not going. In a sense, I dont have a fatherly figure this trip >_< Really gotta look after myself and make sure I dont get lost in the airport again!!

Perhaps I'll have more time when I'm in thailand? Hehe. Not sure. I might be free at night or I might be busy walking the same shopping mall over and over again.. I'll get so bored I might prefer watching thai channels in the room. Haha.

I actually have a secret ^___^ but because its a secret, I'm not going to tell you lah!!

Hahhahhaa. Ok ok. I deserved to be literally slapped :P hehe.

Next time only tell you lah. Gotta sleep. Been having body aches for the past week.. yaiks! Either I'm catching a cold *touch wood* or I'm getting old or I really need to make sure I get enough sleep. I miss my carefree and long sleeps where my dad comes home for lunch and wakes me up with the bolster >_< boo hoo hoo. Working life sucks sometimes :P