The last weks, I have also been busy with exploring possibilities of starting a project here in Patong which could bring Kik and me the opportunity to earn a good lving.
I believe I found just the place, on an A-location, so to speak in the gay area of Patong, Paradise Complex!
If all goes well, and al lights stay on green, as they sofar still seem to do, then it will mean the beginning of fundemental change for me and a long , old wish might get fullfilled though at a totally different location then I ever thought of, namely Thailand.
In the past I allways pictured me as a kind of innkeeper, landlord, runner of a luxury Bed and Breakfast, Grand cafe, or something like that. To play the host with the customers, talk with them , etc. while your staff is taking care of their needs, only once in a while you need to hint them on what they needed to do.
First time I had this vision was when travelling with Eric trough Somerset, with Alan and Christine. MMmm, Fireplaces blasing in an old cottage-inn... or later, whe I was in Rijswijk looking for places to live and had my eyes set on a building in front of the Old Church there. A grand cafe concept with possibilities to stay one or more nights...a small hotel annec...well gues you get the picture!
Now thats exactly the opportunity which seems to present itself on a prime location and for still a decent price and so affordable with a good ceretaintly that the investment will be earned back in full if not much more...ofcourse all will depend on good and hard work.
But now that I have decided to marry Kik, and he has said yes ofcourse, it also was clear for me that I could not live in Holland and he in Thailand. Kik has no futur in Holland, he knows that! he knows his study and background can only provide a futur when he stays in Thailand (Classical Thai Dance). And because I am not bound to Holand at the moment, my choice is made easily.....strangly enough!
I thought I would be scarred stiff by the thought, but that isn't the case.
I am scarred stif though for al the work it involves to make everything fit, time wise and otherwise.
But I appoach it now as a project, like I have mastered many before, with one big difference, now I am the one taking the risks ofcourse. But if I folow the same principals, it should be okay. As far as I know, I never lost money on the projects I did for all these other people and cities, so...hopefully now I will not either!
Kik by the way is turning into a wonderfull guardian of the possible risks involved as well.
Doing business in Thailand is very different from Europe, respectively Netherlands. So preparation is the word and one has to realise that not all will go as one had planned but will happen anyway, hehe
Tomorrow will be a crucial day again, because then I have a talk with the General Manager of the Paradise Hotel, the main stakeholder in the area I like to get involved in, to hear is reaction and if I can expect any opposition or support from the hotel in the enterprise I have in mind!
Las night I talked with another quality organisation, the Simon Cabaret, yes, kiks emplyer, and they said that they could support me and maybe even link up with my enterprise if I am able to keep my vision in tact and excecute it accordingly and that I then can expect a possible very good earning out of it all...they clearly liked the concept I am thinking off....rare for Thaialnd, respectivly Patong Phuket, but not that rare for western Europe, I have to admit.
Well, we'll see.
If the next day will be as positve as the previous ones on this matter then I'll also book a return flight to Phuket for april, but then not for 4 weeks or longer but more likely for 2 up till 3 weeks....can't afford to stay away from home again for a long time.
Also a lot need to be prepared in Holland as well, to make it al work out nicely!
But if al wil go ahead, there will be the need of signing a contract, hehe...and that can only be done in person.
So, if all the details are okay (in the contract that is) and checked and double checked by laywers, then ......
okay I start to repeat myself.
have a good day all, I am off!!
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