Doing nothing, efficiently
My passport is expiring in April, and so I spent all morning at the Thai Consulate in Tokyo waiting and waiting and waiting. It was crowded as hell with what seemed like all the Thai people in Tokyo and more, all wanting to do something or another at the exact section I needed to go to.
Or course, there’s only one section for Thai people, the other being for Japanese people who want to spend the retirement years on a beach in Phuket. That was far less packed, which is saying a lot.
So I wait forever, and I have to get them to fill out the form for me in Thai, because while I can read and write Thai, I pretty dismal at it and it’s not worth additional stress to save a 200yen form-filling fee. At least they didn’t stare at me with one eyebrow raised and go, “How can you be Thai and not speak Thai?” It doesn’t piss me off, it just makes me deeply embarassed. I was born and grew up in a different country, okay? But then when I go back home I have to explain why I’m not really Malaysian. Headache. Blaim the Thai father and Indonesian mother for meeting and getting married in Penang :P
So I gotta wait all day. Bleh! I thought this would take one hour, tops! Not to mention, yah gotta wait outside. It’s 5C outside. It’s cold. There isn’t enough time during their lunch hour for me to go back to the office, so instead I’m sitting on a bench in the fancy Meguro Station building, and I’ve checked out foodcourt and the import grocery and cafe and bakery… goddammit, don’t they have anything other than food stores?! Oh yes, found bookstore. Bought 3 manga on a whim. Would wander HMV but I’m too sleepy. Maybe I’ll hunt for a shelve at MUJI. Gee, I should be working, but not working is actually too much fun.
I did make a long phone call to the office asking the engineering guys to carry on with their work. So there.
PS, Mai Otome is seriously starting to suck. I’m talking about Arika’s little, um, conflict of interest. Bleh. More Fate! More Rin! More Archer! Saber! Saber! Rin!
