Sunday morning

Location: 2511, Sheraton Grande Sukhumvit, BKK

Time: 11 (ish) am

Feeling: slightly seedy, hungry, mildly stressed, a bit out of it

Friday night was rather interesting - we (as in co-workers) decided to check out the new bar that's opened downstairs at Sheraton. Made reservations etc. Unfortunately for all involved, I was the first to arrive - upon my arrival I was interrogated at the door (they didn't believe that I had a reservation), finally, they let me in and followed me around the bar as I looked for the rest of the group. No one was there, more questions - so I said, ok I'll just sit at the bar and wait for them. At which point I got told it was against bar's regulations for a female to sit at the bar. I was getting a bit narky - alone the lines of "where CAN i sit then", proceeded to stalk out of the bar and bumped into the next (male) colleague to arrive who convinced me to stay as we needed to wait for others.

So, I'm sitting there growling and they must've decided situation was not ideal - so they proceed to give us two (disgusting) cocktails for free and apologise to my (male) COLLEAGUE about the number of questions etc. I was FUMING.

Anyway, a bit later in the night - an ideal opportunity arose when the manager of the hotel walked into the bar. I proceeded to tell him my sob story - alone the lines of "Who did they think I was???" and "I've never felt like that" and "I'm just not used to such blatant discrimination". He apologised, the manager of the bar apologised and the night ended up being on the house. At which point we proceeded to drink 3-4 bottles of Veuve Clique. I felt a bit better after that.

Needless to say, this managed to get me quite beyond tipsy and the rest is a blur. I needed to take the Saturday just to recover. I don't even know how it happened. Just suddenly hit me when we got to Qbar. Sigh. So much for my resolution of not drinking that much. Well, I'll keep trying I guess.

About to go and do brunch at Sukothai.