Everyone from work is staying at the same hotel so that messages, travel warnings, etc., can be distributed quickly and easily. This sounds great in theory, but didn’t work so well in practice. I went out to Greenhills with Pau and Jing to celebrate Pau’s birthday. We caught a movie and ate at a very interesting Arabic restaurant – did you know the wait staff calls all patrons “your majesty”? – the next day we were out and about doing some shopping and just generally spending time roaming around the city. Apparently we were supposed to be sitting safe in the hotel during this time. On Sunday evening I received a notice that it was now safe to go out in the city and we could return to work. Unfortunately, I’d never received anything that said I wasn’t supposed to leave the hotel on previous days. I don’t think the fault lies with the company, as I’m learning of an increasing trend of messages not being delivered in the hotel. Twice Drew has called and they have either refused to connect him to my room due to the time of day he’s calling (middle of the night here, which of course means I’m awake – we sleep during the day) and any messages he leaves with the front desk aren’t being received. At least I have a cell phone now and can call him myself. No more reliance on reception desk operators who appear to enjoy dictating to whom we can speak and when.

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