Sunday lounging

Location: Sheraton Grande Sukhumvit, Bangkok

Data /Time: Sunday 2nd December, 10:41AM

Another sunny day in the steamy Bangkok. Trying to make small talk with room service as they try to clean my room (I take advantage of the fact that room gets cleaned twice a day - things stay where they fall... yess... most people will have no trouble believing that one) - and basically doing anything and everything that postpones me doing process maps and thinking about work in general.

Have already done shopping on strawberrynet, done some packing, bought subscription to 2007 ballet season, answered emails and even (gasp) hung some of my clothes up. Now updating my blog as this, again, postpones process mapping for a little while.

Sigh.

I gave up on small talk and wild gesticulation and gone back to pondering what I need to say to get a flat white coffee (this time I got a large pot of black coffee - close but not quite).

Had some success yesterday with Anna's wedding present. Thoroughly regretted my moment of stupidity when I promised a Thai fertility statue (I don't think there are fertility deities in buddhism... it's just Buddha...). Anyway, managed to get a non-buddha statue that could potentially be a fertility statue if you are drunk and squint. Most stutues here are either wood (bad for quarantine matters) or bronze (farken heavy). So it's a bonus that I managed to find one that I can check into luggage and can even lift without assistance. *clap clap for me*

I guess I should really do some work. I'll try to motivate myself - finish 3 process maps that I need to email out tomorrow morning and I can go shopping.... I think another reason I find work distasteful is that one of my client counterparts keeps referring to me as "lovely Olga" and it is freaking me out (as if...!). Eww. Quadriple Eww. In fact, ewww to the power of infinity. I already feel like i need to shower.

Sigh

Process maps, here I come. The Master of THai Commercial Banking Process Maps yay... Really, I'm one step away from Master of the Universe...