Tee-hee, I really have been enjoying myself. I am surprised how busy I have been these last few days. Or, should I say, since J went away? Today I only left the hotel to quickly check on things at the customer's site. No real work done, just making sure things were still alright after the launch party last Friday. Seems my Siebel colleagues found a small bug in our environment and asked me to check on a upgrade or patch for it. Not to worry: my good friend CSH copied all the latest versions of the software for me last week. Thanks to him, my library is always up-to-date. Tomorrow we'll install it on our development environment and see if it fixes whatever problem the Siebel guys have encountered.

In the evening, after I left the site, I returned to the hotel, sat down by the pool with Bung and had a coffee while we waited for Ooh. We were planning to go dancing. I must confess dancing is not really my cup but I was willing to give it a try just because a new acquaintance arrived last night to Bangkok and wanted to go partying. She's from Turkey and we met over the internet. Quite an interesting lady. Beautiful and talkative, she has been in lots of places and says she travels a lot in her line of work, so she has got heaps of stories to tell. We went to pick her up at her hotel but she was way too tired to go out, so we just had some tea, listened to some jazz music and talked. We'll go out tomorrow, not a problem. I was trying my best not to startle the poor thing with tons of question I wanted to ask. I don't know much about her country, her culture and her people, so I was curious. She said it was ok, but at a certain point I could not ask anymore, for I felt she was beginning to get uncomfortable for being the centre of attention. She probably had questions she wanted to ask too, but I'm afraid I never gave her chance. How rude of me... :o(

Saa called me. Sounded like she wanted to go out and do something, but I was on my way to meet the EY, the Turkish girl, so I politely declined. I told her I would go see her tomorrow and take the opportunity to give her the pictures we took in our last meeting. When we hung up, she called Meow and Meow called me moments later. She too wanted to go out tomorrow and join Saa and me. I bought some incense from her and she will hand it to Saa so I can pick it up.

So, tomorrow I will have another busy day. I’ll wake up early, exercise before hitting the shower, as usual, go to the customer’s site, work until around 5pm or 6pm, stop by the Regent Hotel to meet Saa, have a drink there, go back to my hotel for a shower, meet Bung and Ooh and than go for dinner and dance with EY. Wow! I haven’t had so much activity since… Gee, I don’t even remember!!!

In time: I do not know how the hotel people managed, but the music actually stopped! (sighs in relief)