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Up on the 23rd floor this time - going up in the world.

Wind and Rain here this moring

Dissapointed by the Shangri-La on Sentosa Island. Room was damp and dated, reminded my of a 1960’s granny flat for some reason. Noise air con and low water pressure. Nice beach though!

Sigh. No sign of the missing bags. The tracking website still says that they’re searching for them. I’ve had to do a new shirt run to the local M&S so I’m sorted for the rest of the week.

First hotel of the week is Raffles the Plaza. Only here for a single night though, then off to the Shangri-La
 
View over the swimming pools.

Oh bugger, BA have lost two out of the three bags that I checked in. Luckily the bag that made it had all the stuff I need for the first week, but my entire wardrobe and assorted crap are in the other bags.

Heathrow had some kind of issue, and we’ve heard reports that 20,000 bags got miss-routed. The ground crew in SG were helpful and dished out emergency cash.
BA: Do you have any clothes?
Me: No.
BA: Did you fly word-traveller?
Me: No, Business class.
BA: Here’s SG$150 (approx 50 quid) and a lost baggage tracking number. We’ll ship the bags to your hotel.
They expect the bags to be on the next flight over, so it should all be good again in 24 hours.

Of course, I have to make things difficult for myself, and instead of going straight to MY I have to spend a week in Singapore first. Don’t get me wrong, I love SG, but the week is hectic with Mon-Tue in the office, Wed-Thur off site in a conference and back in the office again on Fri. A large drinking session with the fellow Ex-Pats on Friday evening means that I’ll take Sat to recover and fly to MY on Sunday. All this changing of location means that I need to switch hotels 3 time during the week and that will mean dragging all my baggage (containing 9months worth of crap) with me each time.

So, I’m moving to Malaysia for at least nine months on an assignment with work.

This has resulted in much termoil, wailing and gnashing of teeth.

Of course I’ll miss people when I’m gone, but I’ll miss Kate most of all.

I wasn’t the only one leaving the UK office, both Nicki and Bridget were also on their way to new jobs (good luck girls!) so a joint leaving do in the local bar was held. About 50 people made it - lovely to see everyone before jetting off. Photos on Flickr