Send Off
Thursday, 17 August 2006
We sent one of our team members home tonight, as he’s due to go to China next week for another engagement…. So we’ll be down to 4, not inclusive of our managers of course…. We held a farewell dinner for him at Chicken King, with dessert at Andersen’s Ice Cream….. hehe, we forced our 2 drivers, Mirren and Jahangir to join us…..
Fast food joints in Bangladesh are a little bit different from the ones back home….. well, it looks the same, smells the same….. but the prices are sky high, for the locals here anyway….. you can get cheaper alternatives elsewhere, so it was no surprise that the type of people you find patronising these places are of the higher educated and more privileged….. So it was quite a treat for Mirren and Jahangir to join us, they were very shy at first before settling in….
We reckon if you're a Bangladeshi, this is the place you’d bring your girlfriend to, just to impress her…. Of course it wont impress our girls much if we were to take them out to KFC or McDonalds on our first date…. But we saw many couples, we observed the couple next to our table was just moving closer and closer to his girl, his arm over her chair, while he kept on positioning himself closer, till their legs were nearly touching…..
Foodwise, it was just like what you’d get back home, for just one night, we felt as if we were back home again…. We had 2 pieces of fried chicken each, with some fries and coleslaw…. 2 of us were adventurous enough to order mango juice, a drink which we wouldn’t find back home….. it was a mixture of young mangoes,and other local spices….. it wasn’t for the faint hearted, and the 2 of them eventually only took a little sip before abandoning it…. Even Jahangir could not stomach the drink….. but it proved not to be a problem for Mirren, but being the tough guy that he is, why am I not surprised….
Danish nougat….. that’s the ice cream flavour that I picked, together with Belgian Chocolate at Anderson's Ice Cream…. Everyone had a cone to go with their ice cream, though our Senior Manager decided to go for the ice cream milkshake…..
2 hours later, it was time to send LLW off, he was happily dressed in his t-shirts, shorts and cap, looking like a school kid with his backpack….. it was sad to see him go, one of us commented its like he got voted off our little reality show…. In another 2 days, 2 more team members will leave for home…. As for me, its another 7 more days till I get on that plane, and I just can’t wait!!!!
We sent one of our team members home tonight, as he’s due to go to China next week for another engagement…. So we’ll be down to 4, not inclusive of our managers of course…. We held a farewell dinner for him at Chicken King, with dessert at Andersen’s Ice Cream….. hehe, we forced our 2 drivers, Mirren and Jahangir to join us…..
Fast food joints in Bangladesh are a little bit different from the ones back home….. well, it looks the same, smells the same….. but the prices are sky high, for the locals here anyway….. you can get cheaper alternatives elsewhere, so it was no surprise that the type of people you find patronising these places are of the higher educated and more privileged….. So it was quite a treat for Mirren and Jahangir to join us, they were very shy at first before settling in….
We reckon if you're a Bangladeshi, this is the place you’d bring your girlfriend to, just to impress her…. Of course it wont impress our girls much if we were to take them out to KFC or McDonalds on our first date…. But we saw many couples, we observed the couple next to our table was just moving closer and closer to his girl, his arm over her chair, while he kept on positioning himself closer, till their legs were nearly touching…..
Foodwise, it was just like what you’d get back home, for just one night, we felt as if we were back home again…. We had 2 pieces of fried chicken each, with some fries and coleslaw…. 2 of us were adventurous enough to order mango juice, a drink which we wouldn’t find back home….. it was a mixture of young mangoes,and other local spices….. it wasn’t for the faint hearted, and the 2 of them eventually only took a little sip before abandoning it…. Even Jahangir could not stomach the drink….. but it proved not to be a problem for Mirren, but being the tough guy that he is, why am I not surprised….
Danish nougat….. that’s the ice cream flavour that I picked, together with Belgian Chocolate at Anderson's Ice Cream…. Everyone had a cone to go with their ice cream, though our Senior Manager decided to go for the ice cream milkshake…..
2 hours later, it was time to send LLW off, he was happily dressed in his t-shirts, shorts and cap, looking like a school kid with his backpack….. it was sad to see him go, one of us commented its like he got voted off our little reality show…. In another 2 days, 2 more team members will leave for home…. As for me, its another 7 more days till I get on that plane, and I just can’t wait!!!!
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