November 2006
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(21st November 2006)
As a wise person pointed out, I wrote the last entry while in the future. It is now the future, though it's almost over, and on the actual November 21st, I traversed Bangkok using two feet, two express-boats and about six Skytrains. Skytrains are clean and efficient and cheap (about 30 p per single journey) and mean that much of Bangkok is intersected ...
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(20th November 2006)
At the EGV Grand cinema in the Siam Discovery Center, unusual things happen. For 500 baht, or £8, you pass through swishy automatic doors into a club class lounge, where waiters and waitresses will lead you to a table appointed with plush chairs and, on their knees, ask what you will have to drink. Beer? ...
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(19th November 2006)
It was my birthday yesterday. But as it was Scott's birthday the day before, and as he was flying back to Australia most inconveniently on the afternoon of my birthday, we celebrated the night before at a riverside restaurant called In Love where the waiter was camper than camp and the food was as good ...
(16th November 2006)
Day one of the conference - and the reason I have paid a considerable amount of money to be in Bangkok - and I overslept. The opening event began at 8.45. At 8.05 I was still asleep. By 8.15 I was washed and fed and in the shuttle bus taking the ten minute trip past the manmade lake and some scrubland to the vastness that ...