Sunday dinner at Sirocco

Granted the view is exceptional and still breathtaking no matter how many times you have seen it, but I have to say the food given its price is rather disappointing. Im not saying its bad....but ordering its tuna steak tonight reminded me of the much better one I had at Bacchus some weeks back with Jochen. Was excellent there and for about one third the price. OK well I suppose you pay for the view.....

and the jazz? I have to say the excellent experience at the Bamboo Bar, Oriental is not one that can easily be matched.

and ofcourse as someone pointed out to me....the company also matters :)

Read between the lines and you will realise there is a common denominator in these 2 events (dinner at Bacchus, and jazz at Oriental).

Pickle Factory

yet another one of my favorite hangouts closing down :(

Id have taken quite a few friends over for either Thai food, some nice pizza and one of the best cake places in town!!! and now its no more :(

I went there yesterday with Alec, only to find that the laid back little restuarant-bar with a nice swimming pool outside has now been converted into a home office ....oh well....what am I gonna do now....sighhhhhhh

we ended up going to the Water Bar at Soi Rang nam instead

The pickled factory....

Presentation at Bangkok University

So I was invited to speak at a Communication class /seminar at Bangkok University. When I was first approached I wasnt sure if to feel flattered or to feel old :p see Id like to think that I havent been out of uni that long myself...but to suddenly get invited to speak there...hmmmm

anyhow...so the day finally arrived. Didnt have much time to prepare as there seemed to be a million other things to do. Luckily the topic was about events management...something Ive been doing for quite a number of years. To add an edge to the discussion I focused on how events management can be used as a tool to affect policy change. Powerpoints etc are available...but Id rather leave that for upload on the work website. lets keep this blog non academic :P (not that theres anything really academic about the presentation. although there was background discussion on the work of Friedrich Naumann Foundation, and the underlying liberal values, and also some broad overview of economic freedom and how it can benefit the poor.

end of the day??? I got a nice gift (think its a pen...yet to open it) AND a bouquet of roses. sighhhh how sweet. with such sweet gestures from the university and the students I guess they could convince me to go back to that Graduate school talk that the lecturer was starting to mention. (will be a tougher crowd though I imagine...but maybe I get a bigger bouquet) :)

Symphony in the Park

Last Sunday (28th Jan) went out to the Symphony in the park concert at Lumpini park with Chris (the American one, friend of Dylan and Laurent). The music was quite good, with a Japanese conductor that has a very pleasant and funny style :) Chris was very well organised (and thoughtful) and came prepared with a nice picnic food.
pleasantly enough, since that morning a strange turn of temperature had taken place....with quite chilly breeze in bangkok. by evening the temp was still cooler than the average bangkok days, so it was really nice to be out in the open park, listening to the likes of Beethoven and Mozart. the only thing that was missing when looking up at the open sky were the stars! I guess with the number of buildings and lights around bangkok...that will take a hugeeee turn of events to see the sky lit up with stars :)