Into the breaches

Tuesday I’m off for Hanoi once again, albeit for a brief stint to finalize the report that was so abruptly abandoned due to some strange cosmic chain of events sending one disease after another my way. It is back to reality, and quite frankly a bit daunting.

Bangkok has been hectic, emotional, eventful and pretty damn good, with brief moments of lazing about, indulging in such activities as having (my first ever) manicure/pedicure and shopping like Paris Hilton on speed, at the favorable lower prices which the rate between the Thai and Danish currency allows us, eating whatever we wanted at whichever time we wanted.

But somehow, regardless of time spent having people serve and pamper me, (which by the way I am not sure I will ever feel quite comfortable with) time or at least my inner mechanism regulating the sense of time does not seem to have slowed down yet. My sister having to teach me to sleep in beyond eight o’clock being a sort of testimony to that.

I will have to make a strong effort to alter my mindset to work mode, rebooting to the days when community-based organisations, demand-driven approach, and multi-pronged development strategy resided in my vocabulary with ease and regularity in use.

Beyond work-related duties in Hanoi, friends, meals to be had and an atmosphere to be taken in awaits.

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