between the meetings

this morning i saw from my window a battle ship floating steadily on the sea. the thai gulf. i thought it was quite an unusual sight. because normally when i wake up just before sunrise, and sitting on my bed or on the chair - alone in the balcony, drinking cold milo, i might expect to find fishermen's boats on the waters or airplanes in the sky. but today it was a naval force. maybe it was a smaller frigate, a cruiser, floating slowly behind the lines of coconut trees that surround the swimming pools.

i realised then that perhaps the security measures have been intensified to protect this yearly gathering from unwanted surprises and uninvited guests. i know that good news may come and go as they please. we are but a transit place for them. we hardly know any new press release is to be published from the sky.

hmm... today i also sense a form of de déjà-vu.

i'm with the same good fellows with whom i worked a year ago in the city of lion. arranging similar occasions for different persons. high level, top level, both.

but i know now what i didn't then. that's why i feel somehow more prepared to expect things that are closer to reality now. i must make sure the time and the venue are available for the bilateral talks. and don't forget the material too.

from here, with warm thoughts of cha am, phetchaburi, and hua hin, prachuap khiri khan.