Monday, August 10, 2009

Hotel shop owner


The printed flyer that he had distributed in the hotel spoke about "jewllery made to your reguiremnts", "re-sizine", "unwandet gold" and "Free pick-un service from hotels-see for representetiye".

I got into a conversation with him and he told me how difficult business was for him as the tour guides in the hotel warned their tourists that he overcharged. It just was not fair! He asked me for advice on how to improve his sales. I suggested that he would give discount on his prices and that he would paint a big discount message on his window.

He then told me, with an aggrieved expression on his face, that the tour guides would then most probably tell the tourists that he was only giving fake discounts because he had first rose the price. I rhetorically asked him: "But this is what you are going to do, no?" For a second he looked caught, tried to keep up his aggrieved expression and then started smirking.




Thursday, August 06, 2009

Follow the leader


Sitting at the hotel's poolside and reading "The Fountainhead" by Ayn Rand while the crowd, encouraged by the animation team, is dancing and singing around the pool at this music:

Follow the leader, leader, leader... Follow the leader.
Follow the leader, leader, leader... Follow the leader.
Left...right...left...right
Follow the leader, leader, leader... Follow the leader.



Monday, July 27, 2009

Monday, June 15, 2009

Famous last words



No one is truly dead until forgotten!
But who was it again that said that?




Thursday, May 14, 2009

Oh irony (omen? amen? out?)



The house next to ours is being thrown down. Notwithstanding all the shaking and trembling this causes to our house, we only had one picture falling to the ground and shatter...


our wedding picture.



Saturday, April 04, 2009

Last steps to solitude


the knowledge
not outspoken
yet
a final hesitation
and then
and then



Sunday, March 22, 2009

Thank you but no thank you.


I am done being a draught horse
just as a matter of course.



Saturday, March 07, 2009