One Night in Bangkok and the World's your Oyster

Wise man says, Man walking through airport doors sideways, is going to Bangkok.

That's right.

I'm in Bangkok.

Living it up at The Westin (Grande Sukhumvit) for a week.

Where they have trademarked the bed they call "The Heavenly Bed" (tm) And yes, it IS heavenly, damn it.

I had North Indian food for lunch. In Thailand.

It burns! The SUN! It burns!

I got sunburnt yesterday.

I wasn't sunbathing at the beach, or even healthily jogging in the sun.

All I did was wear a shirt that exposed my neck and shoulders, a little. (Maybe I should stop wearing those low neckline shirts..)

Anyway, I then walked 100 meters in the afternoon sun (1pm) from work to Tanglin Mall to get lunch, and back. 10 minutes, maximum.

So here I am, with a fantastic lobster red sunburn.

Decisions, decisions..

Expose more skin to remain cool in the hot sun, then get sunburns?

Or cover up EVERYTHING, and preserve lily white skin, then die of suffocation?

"Maids". Tales of DESPAIR in Singapore.

Domestic helper, not 'MAIDS'.

If you keep calling them 'maids', you will keep treating them like they are below you, Singapore.

On my way to work today, again I see across the street the horrendous sight of a teenage girl (Secondary 3) on her way to school. And a few steps behind her, was her domestic helper, carrying the girl's bag and books.

Once in a while, she looked back and frowned at her domestic helper, shook her head and said something harshly.

Where do you think the young girl learned such ugly behaviour? The apple doesn't fall far from the tree, as they say.

This is a scene from one of the episodes in Six Feet Under: A little girl asks her domestic helper to help retrieve something from her room. The helper declines politely, and replies, 'I'm your domestic helper, not your legs. You go get it yourself.'

The mother of the girl, was in the same room as them. She nodded and wordlessly supported the domestic helper.

Guess how will this little girl grow up to be like?

Gracious, no doubt.

MediaCorpTV. TCS. Tales of DESPAIR in Singapore.

I don't watch TV.

Let me clarify that, I DO have a TV, I just watch DVDs or downloaded stuff on it.

On occasion, I accidentally catch a glimpse of what's on TV. And I am reminded, again, why I don't watch TV.

Why is Singapore devoid of culture or grace? Blame TCS, that's right. Blame MediaCorpTV Singapore.

DISCLAIMER - I could only take a few minutes of mindless torture before I had to regain my sanity elsewhere and change channels.

Yesterday night, for instance, a locally produced 'docu-drama' about missing children. Story of a child that has been missing since the 1970s. 'Detectives' researching the case, hypothesize maybe he was kidnapped and sold in Thailand as a slave!

Without any clues/hints/facts, a 'dream' sequence 10 minutes long of a legless begger child walking about Thailand. 10 minutes! On something that is PURE speculation.

What kind of BOGEYMAN URBAN LEGENDS are MediaCorpTV trying to scare the Singapore population with!?

A couple of nights ago, a documentary on ghosts and such in Singapore. There is apparently a tour organized by some guys, bringing people to all the hot places with ghosts and sightings.

So in an interview, the tourguide brings out an infrared temperature gun. Points it at a random place, and informs us that 'its is proven that when there is a temperature drop, it is a sign that a ghost is present'.

PROVEN! Proven??

What kind of BOGEYMAN URBAN LEGENDS are MediaCorpTV trying to scare the Singapore population with!?

Already, Singaporeans are watching MediaCorpTV's mindless shows with slack jawed amazement. (Don't believe me? Go to any food court during dinner, and see whole families shovel food down their agape mouths with eyes glued to the TVs above them.)

Argh.

SWATCH. Tales of DESPAIR in Singapore.

I have dozens Swatch watches and many beautiful Swatch Bijou rings.

But today I want to gather them and throw them all at Swatch Group S.E.A (Singapore) Pte Ltd. Hard.

For years, I am able to purchase (yes, give them money) rings that fit me from Swatch Bijou.

But with their latest Bijou range, they have decided not to bring rings in my ring size.

Huh?

That's right, according to their representative I got through their 'Customer Care Centre', they have decided not to bring in rings in my ring size as it was not popular.

Huh?

Swatch DOES produce rings in that size, right?

Yes, but its just not popular here, so there.

Huh?

So even though there have been sales of rings in my size (I know, because I bought those!), they will still NOT bring them in to Singapore?

Yes.

Fuck it.

I left my name and number with them. Surprise me, Swatch Singapore.

Service Recovery can't be that difficult to perform.

I need my ROLE PLAYING fix!

Till Dungeons and Dragons Online starts, I need to get my role-playing fix.

Somehow World of Warcraft doesn't do it for me anymore.

And suddenly I remember MUD!

MUD MUD MUD!

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A Browncoat and still proud of it!

I am in love with Alton Brown.

EDIT : Of course my true love will stll be Inara. (: