November 2007 archive

How this came to be

Saturday, 24 Nov 2007 | Journal

When i was in Holland earlier this year, Kim told me she might go to Malaysia for a conference and we agreed we would try to somehow meet up if she did.

The conference had been booked a long time ago and the plan was she would fly up to bangkok for 1 or 2 days. It turned out the conference was not in Kuala Lumpur (KL) but in some tropical resort on Borneo. Great, but that made it somewhat expensive to fly them up. At about 800 euro total, I figured 1 or 2 days was not a great return on investment as full AMS-BKK tickets are not much more expensive. So we decided to go for budget airlines (that can’t be trusted to make connecting flights) and meet in the middle, in Kuala Lumpur. For the Europeans out there, this is like somebody from Amsterdam and somebody from Greece meeting in Barcelona for a coffee.

And thats how this came about. I flew down from bangkok to Kuala Lumpur and she flew up from Kota Kinabalu. And we spent the afternoon together.

Go and come back?

Wednesday, 21 Nov 2007 | Journal

When I moved I already knew I was going to do a lot more traveling than I was used to. Since I started working, this traveling has actually mostly been for work, but a personal trip is coming up - very quickly all of a sudden!

Kim is in Malaysia for a conference and has Given with her. And although originally she was going to come up to Bangkok for 2 days, those tickets were so expensive that we’re meeting one another in Malaysia. She is flying up from Borneo to Kuala Lumpur and I am flying down from Bangkok. We’re going to spend the afternoon together and then depart in opposite directions again! A strange rendez-vous, but how often do we get a chance to see each other!?

Air Asia (oh dear) would again (sigh) not accept my creditcard and so I had to call them. The (Thai) girl on the phone asked me “go and come back” (thats Thai-English for “return ticket”) “on one day??”. Yes indeed madam!

I’m excited to see them!