Christmas is approaching!! Not that I have anything special planned but it means that Patrick will be here!! Yessss!! It would be awesome to meet up with him and take him around Bangkok. Wish I know a place where we can do a bit of Ceroc... but I know that it will only make me miss NZ more.
Good news tho, Mel is planning to come here. I pray that her parents would say yes.. I really miss Mel.. it would be great to hang out with her again if only for a few days. I don't know where I would take her yet but I do know some good shopping places around here. Aaah.. shopping.
Had an intervew at Gfk today. It is a company that does market research and I applied for the position of Research Executive (sounds dashing huh). It went rather well and I really hope that I get this job, if not, then I really hope it because that something better will come my way. I planned to quit uni for a while and focus on working. Doing Master straight after Bachelor have its plus and minus. It means that I don't have to get out of my "Student" mode but it means more study. It can be tiresome after a while. It was making me rather depressed and my motivation rushed out of me as soon as I look at my books/notes. Like air rushing out of deflating balloon.
Tomorrow I have another interview at Marcus Evans, "producers of global summits, strategic business conferences, congresses and corpo", fingers crossed!!
Wednesday, December 13, 2006
Wednesday, December 06, 2006
5th of December - Father's Day in Bangkok
Yesterday was the King of Thailand's birthday. There is this tradition where the thais light a candle each at 7 pm on the 5th to wish the King long life, good health, and continue to be out light in the darkness. Yesterday was the first day that I get a chance to actually travel to a place where people gather in order to carry out this tradition together as one. Man, I can tell you, it was not easy getting there. The traffic was horrible so we decided to ditch the car at my sister's boyfriend's house and grab a taxi. Along the way the taxi kept on complaining and tried to get us off and make us continue on foot (and the traffic wasn't that bad then either!). Anyway, we did continue on foot but we get a chance to walk along the most beautiful road in Bangkok. The trees by both sides of the road were decorated with lots and lots of fairy lights and the palace wall was also decorated with fairy lights and the view was just spectacular.
After much difficulties finding our way through the crowd we made a stop by the side of the road since we heard that the king and other royalties are passing this way. So we stand there and wait along with other Thais and foreigners. We were all wearing yellow shirt (which were made especially for 2006 in celebration of His Majesty's 60th year on the throne) and so yellow dominated the scene last night. After a while we started to see police cars and motorcycle and finally the royal cars.. the king actually rolled down the window and waved at the people! This is my first time in my life to see the king.. wow.. I couldn't describe the feeling..
At 7.29 pm.. we all lit our candles and sing songs to celebrate the King. We were all out of tuned but we didn't care because we were busy trying to avoid the melting wax from falling on our hands and feet and avoid burning other people hair. After that there was firework. Wow.. I really regret not having my camera there! (mom and dad took it on their trip to Chiang Mai) It was amazing and so close!!! it was like watching it in IMAX theater.
Yesterday was the King of Thailand's birthday. There is this tradition where the thais light a candle each at 7 pm on the 5th to wish the King long life, good health, and continue to be out light in the darkness. Yesterday was the first day that I get a chance to actually travel to a place where people gather in order to carry out this tradition together as one. Man, I can tell you, it was not easy getting there. The traffic was horrible so we decided to ditch the car at my sister's boyfriend's house and grab a taxi. Along the way the taxi kept on complaining and tried to get us off and make us continue on foot (and the traffic wasn't that bad then either!). Anyway, we did continue on foot but we get a chance to walk along the most beautiful road in Bangkok. The trees by both sides of the road were decorated with lots and lots of fairy lights and the palace wall was also decorated with fairy lights and the view was just spectacular.
After much difficulties finding our way through the crowd we made a stop by the side of the road since we heard that the king and other royalties are passing this way. So we stand there and wait along with other Thais and foreigners. We were all wearing yellow shirt (which were made especially for 2006 in celebration of His Majesty's 60th year on the throne) and so yellow dominated the scene last night. After a while we started to see police cars and motorcycle and finally the royal cars.. the king actually rolled down the window and waved at the people! This is my first time in my life to see the king.. wow.. I couldn't describe the feeling..
At 7.29 pm.. we all lit our candles and sing songs to celebrate the King. We were all out of tuned but we didn't care because we were busy trying to avoid the melting wax from falling on our hands and feet and avoid burning other people hair. After that there was firework. Wow.. I really regret not having my camera there! (mom and dad took it on their trip to Chiang Mai) It was amazing and so close!!! it was like watching it in IMAX theater.
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