I had a meeting in Bangkok on a Thursday and a presentation to make in Hong Kong on Monday so I decided that rather than flying all the way back to Tokyo and then having to leave again right away Monday morning I would just laze my way from Thailand to Hong Kong this weekend.

Saturday morning was nice in Bangkok. I swam in the Westin pool and then made my way to the airport. I hadn't check the flight time on my e-ticket, so got there late and had to wait at the airport to take the afternoon flight. That was OK. I got some time to sit in the lounge and write an article for the company magazine. No distractions! And I ate at an outside beer garden where I ordered a minced duck salad, some special egg and noodle dish and some stir fried pork.

Today I have been cleaning up my emails and decided to inaugurate my blog. This is it. I will gradually learn how to put more interesting stuff on it, but for the meantime this is good enough.

Maybe I'll use it as a way to show pictures I take as I fly around Asia to my friends.

It'll be an interesting way to keep track of my travels too.

Here goes my first posting. I'll attach a picture of the folks in Bangkok from the Thailand, Jakarta, Malaysia, Singapore and Philippines stock exchanges.

Oops! Blogger just told me I can't post pictures. Why not? [Blog added uploading pictures at the end of June, so I can now do it!]