Week 13/14/15 - Bit of this, bit of that...

Been a bit lazy with writing the blog as been busy writing lectures as term opens the start of June and other things.

In the final week of April, there was an Industrial engineering trip, this was to discuss how to improve the quality of the courses and teaching.  It was in the neighboring province, in some a mountain resort (prob more like large hills), the place was very picturesque, even though there wasn’t any air-conditioned rooms but being that bit higher up, the weather was that slightly cooler, so not to make it unbearable.  The only problem was no wifi or phone signal!

The actual meeting was a little over my head as it was all in Thai and as I haven’t taught anything and it’s hard to give suggestions, if you are unsure of what is already in place.  Afterwards we socialized and drank over dinner.  The dinner lasted about 4 hours I think, I’m not sure where Thai people put all the food!  Did my usual and was joint last to go to bed at 2 am.  Got up at 7am and went to breakfast feeling surprising spritely, although some people wanted to take me sight seeing for 3 hours, no one else wanted to go including me so after some gentle persuasion, we headed back to the uni, even though it was only 150 km we had to stop 3 times again not sure why but seems to be a Thai thing.

(NB - haven’t lost my pro evo skills, played one of the secretaries sons and beat him 2-0 don’t think he had a shot)

Since coming back, I finally got paid (well half), me and Jui booked flights back to the UK for her graduation (3rd-16th July) and this week, we have had two more bank holiday’s, and I’ve also had my first cold since arriving, which I think I've finally shaken after 4 days.  Went to the cinema to see the Avengers, was fun to watch not much plot but more than enough action to make up for it.

Mini Rant

The one thing I won’t ever get used to is karaoke, I just don’t get the point of karaoke, I’d rather hear the songs sang professionally by the original performers.  Also, in the shopping malls they play modern songs but not sang by the correct singer, I’m not sure how many bad renditions I’ve heard of bad romance by Lady Gaga, but it’s a lot.

Will try and get back to writing more regularly now things have settled back down....