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March 10th, 2012 I moved in to my new apartment on Monday, and tomorrow I’ll finally have Internet service (fingers crossed – I was supposed to have drinking water delivered today, but they never showed up.)
The apartment I’m leasing is a two-bedroom corner unit on the 27th floor of the building, which means:
- I now have an empty spare bedroom. Come visit. Seriously. It’s warm here.
- I no longer have to fight off swarms of mosquitoes at night.
- I get to enjoy an incredible view of the city – this is from my bedroom:
So, while I’m waiting for the technicians from the ISP to show up, you just go head on over to Kayak and start comparing fares …
March 2nd, 2012 It’s a lot less intriguing once you actually have to go through the process yourself. Mainly because it involves combing through apartment listings in Thai, which will give you a headache faster than anything.
Fortunately, my bilingual coworkers offered their assistance, and, after 7 weeks in Thailand, I finally have my own apartment. I’ve been fortunate to have very gracious hosts for these last two months, but it will be nice to have a place of my own where I can keep my own schedule. The building is right off of the downtown subway line and just two stops away from the office, which will make my morning and evening commutes considerably shorter. I’ll be moving in over the weekend, so I’ll try to post some pics ASAP.
February 13th, 2012 I realize that I haven’t been posting very much yet. Until I get into my own apartment, my routine is somewhat constricted, but that will hopefully change soon.
Like many developing countries, Thailand exhibits a large economic separation between its upper and lower classes but little physical separation, with multimillion-dollar high-rises sprouting up right next to slums. It’s somewhat depressing to see these giant towers and malls go up so quickly when so much of the population will only see them from the exterior. Developer countries certainly have class problems of their own, so don’t think that we are blameless either.
Compare the street market near the office building where I work to the shopping mall downtown. They both sell Hermes and Prada, just at very different price levels.
January 20th, 2012 Or, The One Where I Got to Do Something Tourist-y for Work
As an analyst, most of what I do for work will never be posted to my blog. Once in a while, though, I get to do something outside of my standard job duties that is worthy of mention here, and today happened to be one of those days.
We had some associates in town from Taiwan, so we took them to see one of our distributor-operated facilities, which happened to also be a short distance from the Grand Palace. To give you an idea of what traffic is like here, even when it isn’t rush hour, it took us an hour to drive the 10 miles from the downtown office to the facility.
After touring the facility, we went to the Grand Palace, where I got to act as a chaperon/marker (i.e. Follow/Look for the tall white guy.) I managed to snap a few shots with my phone — I’ll go back later with a real camera, but these are still more interesting than spreadsheets, right?
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