Story of a Trailing Spouse: Nostalgia...Bangkok (1990

Monday, January 4, 2010

Nostalgia...Bangkok (1990 - 1995)

HM the King's birthday reception

Salaam,

After KL, our next destination was Bangkok, with a brief two and a half year's break at home. The flight from Brunei to the Thai capital takes only approximately about two hours. So a second time lucky for hubby to be stationed at another close and friendly Asean neighbour.

Indeed it was one of the most memorable, most outstanding and best posting we've ever had since our KL days. The fact that we had somehow exceeded our normal tenure of three years in this beautiful country attests to that.

Suffice for me to summarize here that during our more than five years of living in Bangkok, except for its infamous traffic congestion, everything else were just perfect...the Thai softness and hospitality, the friendship, the shops and the bazaars, the beautiful islands, beaches and countryside, and most of all, the authentic Thai cuisines, excellent seafood and the bountiful fruits of all kinds all year round (not to mention the more than hundred of golf courses that hubby had frequented over the years).

Nonetheless, we were also witness to a very brief period of political turbulance and instability of the early 90s, which otherwise had generally been a very peaceful, pleasant, dynamic and progressive nation.

This is a country worth visiting time and again, even as a second home, away from home.

Wassalam.