Narratio

Well, another set of Ladies Day's and Nauryz have been and gone. Ladies day is one of those Soviet era customs that will not go away. Every single female on the site gets given bunches of flowers and small pressies then takes a half day off. Now I'm all in favour of this, as it makes the ladies in question smile a lot.

I spent 11 years working in Saudi where all our admins and paper pushers were Indian men called Naidu or Ravi. This past decade I've been in the ex-USSR where there are women and girls everywhere. It's a truly joyful experience that so few men understand. To just be in an office where they walk past. The soft perfumes, higher pitched voices. Until you've been in an all male enviroment, (and no the military don't count, been there, done that) you'll never get it. RAH was right. They're why men fight. The reason we get up in the morning.

Currently I'm in week 7 of a supposed 4 week shift. Looks like it'll go up to 10 maybe 11 weeks before I get home. My younger daughter Amanda turned 7 when I was home in February. She's since made a TV advert for some housing estate near Bangkok and is doing a second kids fashion show at a mall near Minburi where we live. Apparently a TV dude has approached her to appear in a kids TV show. One of those singing, dancing things where adults dress in funny monster suits. Barney on a bad day in Thailand... UGH! So she's gone and done the screen test (or whatever) and they loved her. And in 2 weeks time she'll be spending her Friday afternoons in a TV studio with a bunch of kids filming stuff to be shown the next day. Oh yeah, she makes money on the deal. Gets $100 per show.

Happiness is a beloved and loving child.