Getting Things Done October 29, 2007
Posted by Martin in : Thailand , 1 comment so farThe past 7 days have perhaps been the most productive I've experienced in Thailand.
I've always claimed that it is impossible to do more than two things in one day over here. Any task seems to take half a day of ones time or half a day of ones energy but, despite spending our evenings exhausted, Tik and I are delighted that we've worked productively through our to-do lists.
It's been 5 months since Tik and I decided to purchase our own apartment. We've had frustrations and delays with every bank we approached but we were determined to have moved in before November 1st.
Last Monday we at last got something in writing from the bank and now wer've cleared out bottleneck we've really gained some momentum. Here's how our last week panned out …
Book Review: Monster, Jonathan Kellerman October 16, 2007
Posted by Martin in : Book Reviews , add a comment
It's rare that I give up on a book completely but my pleasure rfom this rubbish came from the exhileration I felt closing it for good, about 1/3 of the way through.
The book I guess tries to be a psychological thriller about a madman who mubled crypic details about current murders whilst he's locked up in an asylum but after a few hundred pages I found myself skipping sentences at a time when Kellerman just over did his descriptions of every mundane object, person or emotion. A little later I found myself skipping entire paragraphs until it dawned on me that I really wasn't enjoying the book at all.
My Rating: 2/10
I'm currently reading "As The Crow Flies" by Jeffrey Archer and am really enjoying it. When I finish I'll review it here.
UOB Bank Do Not Keep Their Word! October 16, 2007
Posted by Martin in : Rants , 1 comment so farDespite the best of plan and precautions we found ourselves at the mercy of UOB bank today after deciding to work with them for our mortgage.
Their credit scoring is based on income minus expenses each month and we were told that to get a 4 million baht mortgage we would need to pay 330,000 baht (appox $9600) to pay off Tik's loan for her car.
I was a little skeptical that things would go smoothly so I suggested to Tik that we visit the bank and pay off the car loan there and then so that we could leave that day with a written mortgage agreement. I imagined how, after emptying our accounts to pay off the car, we may hear of a complication that would delay or prevent us getting the mortgage in time.
The Website I Dreamt Of Making October 8, 2007
Posted by Martin in : Creative / Humour , add a commentOne of my biggest grievances online is with people who confuse the words 'lose' and 'loose'.
This week I was planning to buy myself a domain name to teach people how not to look so damn illiterate and I noticed many of the domains I wanted were taken.
I decided to check them out and found this site which seems to have beaten me to it.
Please forward this site to your friends as it deserves some publicity.