Pacific Rort

I intend to meet this high achiever tomorrow and rate him myself.

If he cannot handle being put through his paces,  I am not above appealing.

For the record, Mr Tung:

• I, too, was working in an industrious-but-friendly manner at the Pacific Place building last month.
  

• I, too, like flowers.
  

• I, too, am the sort of person who would accept a silver Logie.
  

• I have never even seen you on the front desk, much less being nice to anyone.
  

NFAR

Pedestrian tip of the day

This from the Hilton mini guide to Hanoi:

"When crossing the road, walk slowly at a constant pace. Do not change pace or turn back."

It works.

Driving tip of the day

Do not ever, under any circumstances, hesitate to pull out into oncoming traffic. 

Say my name, say my name.

Nearly everyone in Vietnam has a first, middle and family name and, in keeping with the language, they are all single syllables. Vietnamese names are written in reverse order as well, eg Nguyen Long Quoc's first name is Quoc. 

I've been set up in the intranet with my name backwards.

So today I received a phone call which began:

"Hello? May I please speak with Murrell?"

-- Umm ... Murrell speaking.

Followed by an email which began:

"Dear Joe, Stephen, Jessica and Orgill ..."

Happy my surname is not Hogg. Or Cockburn,