Its been a long time since I last created an entry, and this time I'm creating it from Bangkok. This time, unlike in India, I have the luxury of (almost) 24/7 access to internet, via the glorious LAN cable made available to me at my workplace. oh, glorious modern technology! you never appreciate it until you lose it, i say.
recently, a friend ambitiously experimented with giving up her mobile phone for 2 weeks, just to see what it was like to live without the trappings of modern technology. i thought it was a fantastic experiment.. do you even remember the days when we survived without the mobile phone? meetings were planned as usual and everyone turned up on time, and there was no need to make harrassment calls to that oft-late bugger (haha, that's me.), and neither was there a need to make any last minute changes to the plan. (fickle, fickle ladies)
brave as she was to undertake such a potentially-social-crippling experiment, crazy as she was to even attempt it in the first place, she finally gave up after 2 weeks (i think). she quoted "work commitment" as the reason for the failure of her sociological-technological experiment.
anyway! coming back to the point of this post, which is to tell you where i am and what i'm doing right now. i'm in bangkok, the land of a thousand fake smiles, working with an NGO called ActionAid Thailand, which aims to fight poverty. and i quote from the action aid website "ActionAid is an international anti-poverty agency working in over 40 countries,
taking sides with poor people to end poverty and injustice together."
haha, a little too idealistic, i say, but what the hell, we need these inspirational quotes to get through the dreary of life in reality. we need a superhero. i'll bet that's why we had VR man.
its interesting how everything on my computer screen is thai. even the blogger interface is in thai. luckily, it doesn't take a lot of sense to realise that the only orange button on the blogger interface says "publish". one more interesting thing: i couldn't sleep the night before because the couple in the next room was having some loud sex at 5am in the morning. 5am in the morning! it was kind of disturbing, my room looked creepy enough (its a super-budget room at 150B/S$7 a night), and she had to creep me out even more with the incessant moaning. ugh.
still, i'm doing quite well and good, i'm feeling pretty useful around the workplace, which is a good thing, i guess. but its always nice to have someone to converse with online (since i want to make full use of my almost 24/7 internet connection), so do drop me an email if you have the time, to make my day.
alrightey. back. to. work.
i was clearing my ntu email when i found this picture of me and my colleagues at a some swanky indian restaurant that serves gujarati thali. nothing like some good old thali, there, enough to make you grow as fat as a fat cow. and damn, i've put on some damn weight.
