So I arrived in Bangkok last night to give a seminar today, nothing too exciting to report so far, here’s some rambled garbage:

Bit of good old Chinglish at the airport, apparently the Chinese says “Various Snacks”

Hotel staff wearing 1950′s UFOs / World War 1 German helmets

Actually, I know how this is going to pan out, the strange object (the hat) was revealed very early into the plot, later during my stay the hat will develop into a key plot element, perhaps a door will be revealed to which the hat is the key, or invading aliens will be repelled by lasers shooting out of the top, or maybe I’ll knock it off when I’m drunk and throw it like a frisbee into the hotel gardens (before being pummelled to a pulp by his burly colleagues).

Draconian Bar Rules

The fact that they need a sign to remind you not to bring weapons into the bar tells me everything I need to know about Bangkok. Presumably in other bars it would be perfectly acceptable to wander in armed to the teeth, I need to find these bars, the one above was somewhat sterile..