How’s the ‘decorate’ and the ‘supervise’?
The joys of filling in customer feedback forms
4th March 2010
Should that be ‘supervision’ or ‘supervisor’? Was I supposed to rate the actual restaurant supervisor? Was I evaluating those that do the supervising as opposed to those who are supervised? Forget it. It doesn’t matter. It makes no sense whatsoever
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23rd February 2010: A dollar or two on the side
4th February 2010: Thailand? yes we went there last weekend
30th January 2010: The skytrain to nowhere
17th January 2010: Yet another list of Bangkok annoyances
8th January 2010: Thank you for calling your ISP hotline
14th December 2009: From the planet Xerox
12th May 2009: The Joys of Air Travel
14th January 2009: Five days in Hong Kong and Macau
5th January 2009: The Parrot’s Revenge
3rd October 2008: The big black hole
25th September 2008: Something’s afoot
22nd August 2008: Notes from a small island
6th August 2008: Taxi!
23rd July 2008: retail wars
2nd July 2008: Homesickness of sorts
4th June 2008: Things ain’t what they seem
22nd May 2008: Life on the ocean wave
2nd May 2008: chatting with the natives
9th December 2007: Bah humbug
2nd December 2007: Apartment-hunting
3rd November 2007: Back in civilisation
2nd October 2007: A break from Thailand
26th September 2007: A load of bankers
15th September 2007: In the pink
30th August 2007: Seen one you’ve seen them all
15th August 2007: Missionary position
25th July 2007: The Rose of the North
5th July 2007: Planning a trip
29th June 2007: VIPs and webcams
21st May 2007: Office blocks and Starbuckian
6th April 2007: May I look in your bag sir?
6th March 2007: A restaurant and an ancient village
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