Against All Odds by R.A. Lang

Author:R.A. Lang [R.A. Lang]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781909477216
Publisher: Clink Street Publishing
Published: 2014-03-15T00:00:00+00:00

The restaurant had washbasins dotted all over the place. The general idea was to eat with your hands and make as much of a mess as you wanted. Once we had finished, the driver dropped me off at my hotel so I could catch up on some much-needed rest, due to the Chinese hospitality a couple of days before.

To help me with my permanent jetlag, I called the hotel spa and asked if Diana was available to visit my room. Shortly afterwards, little Diana entered my room to give a very professional massage. Half way through her massage she needed to wake me up to roll over and later wake me up again to tell me she’d finished! I guess I didn’t need the massage after all.

On this occasion, my return trip to Seoul was interrupted by an unplanned visit to Dubai to meet one of the suppliers we had there. Once I got off the ferry in Singapore’s Harbour Front, I had a six hour wait before my flight to Dubai on Singapore Airlines. To pass the time, I decided to pay the Raffles hotel a visit and have a Singapore Sling in their famous long bar.

The hotel is a beautiful place to walk around, and the long bar was up a couple of flights of stairs close to an elevator. Entering the bar, I could see monkey nut shells all over the floor where customers had been, as was the custom. I ordered my Singapore Sling but it was simply poured from a pre-mixed jug. I complained and asked why as I wanted to see the usual cocktail performance. I was told that they only did that for television cameras.

I arrived in Dubai the next day, and took a taxi to my pre-booked hotel. I always chose to stay in the same hotel for its comforts, convenience and large choice of restaurants. At the reception desk, a message was waiting for me from my office in Seoul, which detailed a flight to Qatar on the Wednesday. My wonderful project control manager thought it would be a good idea for me to visit the construction site in Ras Laffan because I was so close in Dubai.

With the Tuesday meeting complete, I made my way to the Mall of the Emirates, where I liked the huge restaurant on the ground floor at the base of the ski slope.

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