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On saturday 12/05/2007, Jason called me up to chill out with him. I met up with him at Khob Chai Der Restaurant & Bar. Then, we went to Jazzy Bricks to have cocktails. After that, we went Nana Pub to have beers and then to Don Chan Palace to have more beers.

Jason will spend time in Vientiane for a week because he has finished his project in Laos. So he will need to go back to Perth. Before doing this, he will spend another week in Thailand after Laos.

On sunday 13/05/2007, I called him up to hang out because on the next day, I will go back to work and I will not see him for a long time perhaps not for this year. We decided to meet up at Victory Gate. When I arrived at Victory Gate, I saw him talking to 2 Asian girls. At the very first moment I saw that, I thought was that the girls he might know from the clubbing last night?
But in fact, the girls just arrived Vientiane this morning. They are Thai girls from KPMG Thailand. KPMG is one of the world largest accountancy firms. They came to Laos to audit few banks because KPMG Laos does not have specialists in auditing banks.

In their team, there are about 8-9 people led by an English man, called Richie or Richard. The 2 girls' names are Jha and Da. Jha and Da came a week later than the other team members because they were busy with some work in Thailand. So, Jha and Da wanted us to guide them around town. Jason and I are gentlemen enough so we took them around town. We took them to Vietnamese Restaurant to have "Nam - Neung", "Spring rolls", and so on. Then, we went to Sisaket Temple. Then we went to play bowling at Lao-ITECC Center. Jha and Da are very good at bowling. Jason was a loser for 2 games straight. Jason had to treat us dinner.

We had dinner at a chinese dumpling restaurant in town. Their boss, Richard, and a friend, Jib, joined us the dinner. We had a great time. They all are nice people. After dinner, we decided to go to Sticky Fingers to have cocktails. While we were walking to Sticky Fingers, Jib told me that they (Richard and Jib) were worried about Jha and Da because it was their first time in Laos and they met 2 strangers (Jason and me). I understood that they have right to think that we might be a bad people. But, then every thing turned out fine. I know few people in KPMG Laos such as Grace from Myanmar, Mimi from Laos, & Nana from Laos. We pretty much know the same people. This is to prove we are not such a bad guys.

After Sticky Fingers, the KMPG Thailand people left because they had to get up early for Audit work project. It was time for me to say goodbye to Jason too because I had to take a flight on the next day. I felt sad that Jason and I would not see each other again soon. He's like a brother to me. He is a nice, kind, and humble person.

For some instances, I felt bad because I made Jason felt that I was dragged here and there by him. In fact, I am kind of a person who can do as best as I can to satisfy friends. I am sad that I made Jason felt a bit unhappy. Jason is like my brother to me. I really want to tell Jason that "he can make a decision and tell me what he wants. I'll do it". Also, I want to tell him that "If I don't say anything, it means I am happy with that. Otherwise, I'll say it out".

I just came back from my break from 1st May 2007 until 14th May 2007. As usual, when anyone is away from work for 2 weeks, there will be tonnes of work loads awaiting.

The first week on break was horribly down because it was raining almost everyday. I did not have a chance to play tennis at all but I managed to go to gym once at Sengdara Fitness Centre, considered as the best in town right now. I did not do a lot of things because of the rain.

One thing that made me very sad was "termites". On Friday 4th May 2007, my mum decided to clean up our house. What we found was millions of termites were destroying my treasures i.e. books and pictures from primary school until Australian University Foundation Year (equivalent to Grade 12 in Australia). I was shocked to my very core. I nearly collapsed because every single of them is a part of what has made me to be me nowadays. I had to burn most of them. While I was burning them, it was like I was burning half of my life. I felt my life will never be completed.

Anyway, on friday night (04/05/2007), I met up with two gentlemen (Malcom & Nic), lightning protection specialists, from PowerCom, Tasmania, Australia. I took them to Khob Chai Der Restaurant and Bar then to Sticky Fingers for cocktails. We met up with men from TIGO Laos (TIGO is a brand of mobile phone network company - it has branches in many countries). Malcom wanted to meet up with TIGO people because he wants to get a lightning protection project with TIGO Laos. Malcom said he had lightning projects with TIGO in Africa. This might be good opportunity to get business in Laos. After Sticky Fingers, Nic and I went to Xay Yo Restaurant (under the same management of Khob Chai Der Restaurant & Bar) to have few drinks with my friends. Then we went to Romeo, a popular clubbing in town. I was drunk like shit. I also vomited. I was drunk and drove a car. Wasn't it scary? This was my 2 second time of year I was drunk.

On Saturday 12th May 2007, my buddy friends and I went to Nong Seum, a place for relaxing and having meals. We went there to celebrate our 3 friends' birthdays. The 3 girls (Thieng, Van, and Douangchai) were not born on the same day but we celebrated on the same day because it was hard to time to meet up. We had grilled fish, grilled beef, spicy papaya salad, spicy long bean salad, duck soup, half cooked grilled beef salad, and Beer Lao, one of the best beers in the world. Unexpectedly, I had stomachache because of spicy salad. Fortunately, I reached toilet before the worse thing can happen . . . I just don't want to imagine.

I met up with Jason Lee on saturday and sunday.

On monday 14/05/2007, I took the company charter flight to the mine site to be back to work once again.