This is one of the reasons why I hate apartments. I *hate* apartments. Can you imagine that bloody neighbour I was telling you about has been playing the same loud songs all day long? It was 2 o’clock in the morning today when I first called the front desk of the hotel to complain about the noise. They could not find the apartment where the music originated from, I guess. That is assuming they even looked for it. I woke up around 10am and the music was still going (don’t this people ever sleep?). All day long they were playing some @#$% rave music. I went out for dinner, returned, it’s past 11pm and the bloody @#$% is STILL going on! What is the matter with this folks??? If I was living in a house, this would not be happening. I just can't wait to move to Denmark (oh, my lovely Denmark) where I will be living in a two story house with a fjörd in front and the woods for backyard. My closest neighbour will live at least one kilometer away. Winters will be cold but the fireplace will keep me warm. Summers will be mild and pleasant. And if I happen to die in the woods during autumn, my body will be preserved until spring when my neighbour will begin to wonder “why the crazy Brazilian guy vanished suddenly”.

Anyway, Mr. BK invited me to join him and his wife for dinner at a Mexican restaurant. Bung, Ooh, a friend of hers and Wei (another colleague from work) joined us too. Food was nice and not too expensive. We had drinks, the main course and desert. The bill was just a bit over 5000 Baht. That’s approximately one hundred US dollars. For seven adults? That is indeed cheap. Ooh’s friend, Ning, is a nice girl. It was her birthday today and the restaurant folks improvised a small birthday cake for her. I guess she liked it.

On the way back to the hotel Ooh asked me what my impressions on the girl were. I was very honest: she is nice; not as gorgeous as Am but that would be asking too much (I have to publish Am’s picture! She is really beautiful). The problem is, she lives in Chiang May. That’s good 6 hours driving up country. There’s no way I could be dating someone so far. I do not want to be flying or driving every weekend to visit anyone. If that was the case, I would have had a relationship with Kwan, who also lives in CNX and liked me a lot. Oh, well… That means she is not “the one” yet. But as I said before, I am not in a hurry. I can wait.

Something interesting happened. BK made a comment about me being happy. He said he could not remember the last time he saw me this playful and cheery. He also mentioned that, previously, whenever we met, I just wanted to have a few drinks and relax and now, there I was, enjoying myself and all relaxed without drinking at all. Bung had made the same comment on Friday night, on the launch date for our project. He said he didn’t know I was so “fun”. You know what this means, right? Yeah, you got it right. I am indeed better off without J. It saddens me to say, but it’s true. And, from the heart I say: wherever she is, whoever she hanging out with, I hope she is happy too.