From me, to you: Thanks for the memory

This blog is now going on indefinite leave, as I need a rest. I would like to thank readers for bearing with me this far.

I spend too much time working away at this blog, and not enough with my boyfriend - and I am tired of making the sacrifice.

Boyfriend Maiyuu would rather I kept writing, of course, as he doesn't want my Adsense earnings to dry up.

Regardless, I want a break. Writing this blog gives me an excuse to avoid doing what I must force myself to do in this place if I am to survive: mix with people.

If being nice to people is important in the West, it is even more so here. I look at Thais who have risen up the ladder at my workplace - the ones with the smart cellphones, who glide around social gatherings with ease where others, such as me, might feel awkward.

Some appear to do little else but network and rub shoulders with people of influence. While they are busy partying, grunts like me are left to get on with the work. Or am I being too harsh?

In any event, this decision is really about me. I need to prise the social creature back out of myself before it is too late.

In the West, the social being inside me was much better developed than he is here; in fact, in my last workplace I was a social extrovert.

Here, I have become like a shy Thai thing, which is doing me no favours, as there is always another foreigner or Thai around me who is more aggressive about going after what he wants.

The computer doesn't help, as it gives me an excuse to keep hiding myself away. We are nothing in this life without other people. I shall just have to grin and bear it.

So, here's to the new me. Knock! Knock! Are you still there?