If you're ever living in Bangkok, you'll always be amazed at the level of customer service they provide, dependent on the company.

True Visions is one of the local cable providers here in Thailand.

Since my first application last year, all I had to do was send a callback request online, and true to form, the customer service personnel called at exactly the time I stated, and within an hour after the call... the True Visions technician arrived at my premises to install!

A year on, about 3 days ago, I've been having problems getting a signal. So, I naturally called CS (Customer service) to get the help I need.

CS Personnel speaks good English and very professional in 'diagnosing' the problem source. As I have suspected, they also identified the dish to be the main culprit.

Anyway, they made an appointment for a technician to fix the problem. But before the call ended, CS Personnel gave me a password to remember! Why?

To ensure 'proper' security measures, the technician who will arrive, have to provide me the password I was given. Cool! :-)

Ok, ok... so what? Well, in my 20 years in another country... I've yet to experience such great service as this...on top of that, it was fixed within 10 minutes!

Serendipity.

That's a great description of Bangkok. I love it!

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What's up with these people? Mind you, I seem to notice that you're likely to see a man (no matter of race, nationality or 'class') pick on their nose more often in public rather than a woman.

I had to write something about this, because I just cringe at the sight of them doing so!

You see them in the skytrain, on the road, the restaurant and the sidewalk.

I know everyone does this, I do so, too... but I just can't bear doing that in public. I'd rather do that in the washroom of a public place or in my own home. For that matter, when I am at home, I still go to the bathroom to 'clean' my nose then wash my hands!

I mean, I see these people digging their noses, and they don't even wipe their finger into a tissue or 'Wet Ones' tissue. Eck!

After that, what do they do? They hold the hand rail (in a skytrain), or even shake the hands of people they're probably going to meet afterwards! Oh my!

What a nasty habit!

Oh well... that goes along with spitting...exactly the same nasty habit that men like doing. Eck!

Mind you, some women do spit anywhere, too.

Like in Shanghai, my husband relayed this story to me. He was staying in a 5-star hotel in Shanghai on business. So, one night, while waiting for his colleagues in the lobby of the hotel, he noticed a very beautiful, tall Chinese lady walk into the hotel lobby, dressed elegantly. She drew the attention of many men in the hotel. But... about five minutes later, while she seemed to be waiting to meet with someone, she just suddenly spat! And for goodness sake... she spat onto the carpet in the lobby of the hotel! Eck!!! How uncouth and unhygenic!

Wouldn't it be nice if people were just more considerate in matters of this nature?

I'd surely appreciate it, if there were less spitting and nose digging, in public.

Well, in the end, it's just my honest opinion.

Well, It's cloudy today, a definite promise of heavy rain over Bangkok.

I finished my Thai Class at 12.15 pm and yet I couldn't go home straight, since I am also waiting to collect my jeans, which I sent for alterations.

It's quite a facinating idea to see alot of 'mobile' alteration shops here. These are women with their old-fashioned singer sewing machine strategically placed along street corners or situated along side streets.

It must be a booming business, and they're so cheap! To alter the length of a trouser you only pay 20.00 Baht! If I went to the alteration shop inside Emporium Shopping Complex, it will cost me 200.00 Baht for the same thing!

Anyway, while I waited, I decided to go across from the building I was in,  The Glas Haus Bldg. There's a quaint Italian Restaurant called 'Pizza Aroy'.

I went inside to have a drink and review my Thai Lanaguage notes.

Well, within 5 minutes...an Italian man came up to me to chat (he's the owner, as it turns out)... Anyway, he started by asking if I were studying Thai, then, of course, asked me where I'm from, etc...

Ok, so he started to chat me up...what I find incredible about it, is not so mainly on the fact that he is... it's the fact that this seems to happen to me, more often than not.

I mean... it's not that I'm implying anything more than it should...I'm just saying that, I tend to meet people that seems to open up and tell me their whole life story within 5 mintues!

And they don't have to be men. I experience this with women, too. Like 3 weeks ago, I went into another restaurant, a Filipino restaurant. I met the owners (a married couple). Next thing I know... they're relating to me how they are so disappointed in their daughter-in-law! I mean I have no idea who they're even talking about!

So...it makes me wonder, if I make these people tell me about their life or do I just attract people who like to talk about themselves? Another common factor is that I meet them in a restuarant. They could either be the owner, or an employee, or the musician.

Hmmmm...