It's raining, it's pouring...

in Phuket. And I'm glad. :) Makes me feel just that little bit better that all ye holiday-makers will be almost as miserable as me! muahahahhhahaha....

Just arrived for 3 days of meetings and am putting up at the Sheraton Grande Laguna. Not very grand. Room smells like a seaside chalet - ok, so it is near the sea...., cold ceramic tiles for the floor, and bed is a little squeaky. I tried booking spa sessions for tomorrow morning before the 2pm meeting, and both angsana and banyan tree are full. how wretched! Opened the wardrobe and a little black lizard scuttles out. YIKES!!!! and to make things worse, there's hardly any hot water! so i shivered my way through one of the quickest showers in my life, and thought I could look forward to some room service. Turns out the fish flakes on the mediocre mango salad taste like shredded cupboard and the satay is tough beyond words. I'm miserable.

this must be the day for bad dining experiences.

earlier this evening, sakae sushi at the airport messed up our teppenyaki orders and after waiting more than half an hour, only hubs got served, and even then part of his order didn't arrive. i couldn't wait any longer cos i had to catch my flight. but it's certainly thumbs up for sakae's service recovery - they didn't charge us for our teppenyaki sets even though we'd consumed part of it and gave us a discount on the appetisers we had.

then the inflight food on silkair was rather bad too and i couldn't stomach more than the 2 slices of crusty garlic bread, a few morsels of the "black pepper chicken" and some tomato juice.

sigh... i can't wait to get home. and i've only just arrived. :(