While waiting at Bangkok International airport...

I have to admit: Its hard to keep a blog and treat it like a diary!

Now it must be said that the last week I really had little til no opportunity to write/type in the weblog. Extra sorry for that because so much has happened since my last entry!!

This might become a rather long entry, so I wil try to cut it into nice easy pieces with each part their own heading, haha...because if I make a seperate entry for each, then you'l read it most likely the other way round.
Wel never mind, its just me doing dificult, or easy.... just depends from your point of vieuw ;-)

To Udon Thani

From the 20th til the 23th Kik and I went to his hometown near Udon Thani, in North East Thailand. What they cal 'near' I discovered, we would say: at the other side of the country....it was a god 2 hours drive from the Udon Thani Airport to the hometown, roughly The Hague - Groningen, or The Hague - Kleef/Germany haha
Well, when we arrived we were picked up by his family, all in all I counted 10 people and got worried that he might have a real large family (though he never said it would be large). To my surprise there was only one pick-up truck with 4 aircon seats indoors and a open space in the back form goods. NO worry, Kik's father and his uncle with a baby went into the truck, Kik as well, and I was given the frontseat next to the driver, Kik's father. And the remaining7? In the open back space of the pick-up truck, with our lugage....and in the burning sun......outsite the airport, not more then one kilometer, we stopped at a busstop and another guy got in the back....Kik's brother Kukei, who left Phuket a couple of days before and went to Udon by bus ( he rather then me, but it must also be an experience, well, maybe one day for the fun of it......).

When we arrived in Kik's hometown, we were welcomed by his grandfather and mother and neighbours and remaining family.

If you like to know more about my Udon visit, just ask me to tell or write you the stories:
_ welcomingparty
- Fathers birthday (50!)
- visiting the farm of 40 rai (more then 60.000 square meters)
- the Isan Festival (140 people on stage)
- the welcoming ceremony in family/ engagement
- buying a husband??
-Mac (and not the comp!! or the hamburger joint)

You see, way too much to quickly type down here. And then I only named general headlines, because there are more things one could tell about those 3 days in Isans Udon Thani!

A principal agreement reached for taking over....

And indeed, after negotiations, which have gone one for weeks, I reached, to my big surprise within half an hour an agreement with the owner of the building and bar, etc. to lease the whole building for 3 years, starting in november 2008.
Ofcourse I wil not disclose any details here for all to read...but am happy to say that it now also includes the penthouse of the owner, so it is now really the whole building. At present it listens to the name "The Orchid Lounge".
When we'll take over in november we'll change some things immidiatly and some will grow into the new formula Kik and I would like to start, try out ;-)
Wel, one thing is certain, we'll run a really little gay boutique hotel of no more then 3 rooms. Kik and I will take up residence on the topfloor, named penthouse, which really is luxurious and wel provided (sauna, jacuzzi, big shower, big walk inn closet, airco all around, european kitchen, two terraces.well...it will do nicely for the comming years though all in all its not as big as I am used to these last years, haha....but then: how often do we actually expect to spend time there?)
And downstairs we have a nice big bar(space) with terrace. neighbour is the famous gay Paradise cabaret My Way.

Also around this subject I can make subheadings you can ask me to talk about or write, when you meet me, or mail me...
about concept idears, interior, limited outsite changes, food, drinks, hospitality, etc. Be curious and we can easily fil another evening of interestingh talk with a nice glass of wine and when cold enough, next to an open fire ;-)

Leaving Holland while going there?

Is a subject I wil now face and be working on for the next 9 months...a hell of a job, and wil have to wait and see how that will develop, but in a way its easy. After having made the choice to marry Kik, that would be the consequence, because Kik can not life in Holland , not with his background, and at least not the coming years at least! And when you marry you do not want to life seperat lives, at leat not me !! ;-)
So, another nut to crack when home!

Farewell party.... Goodby....See you again!!

It is really touching when one is given a farewell party, which is celebrated like a birthday party with gifts, flowers, and all that!
Friends from all over Patong turned up, to a party which was organised as a surprise (which it was, and for sure the way it was done!)
It was very hart not to cry now and then, but I managed ;-)
Kik was ever so wonderfull, caring, attentive, and all that.

The idear of having to miss him for the next months, really hurts....and as I could clearly notice, specially the next day when we were going to be seperated, he as well.
Originaly he wanted to bring me to airport, but then he backed out and asked to say good by at our house. He didn't want to cry and also didn't wanted me to cry....but also prefered not to see me go in public because I could see in his face he really had to fight his tears, as I had to......so it was most likely best to have the goodbye done at home and not at Phuket airport.

It hurts to let go of someone one loves and have been living with for the last 3 months, gotten engaged with, etc...and starting a business together as well.....while so much to do and then one needs to leave the country.
Can't wait to get back!!