thai’ing it up: a recap of first two ‘coffee meets’

it’s an incredibly exciting and utterly fantastic feeling to find out that hey! you’re not the only local person reading demi-god slash planning guru russell davies’s website. upon coming across a lonely email in my ultra new gmail account from another thai reader of russell’s site was born the bangkok version of coffee morning .

image by oak

the first one ever was held at coffee world on nana and was attended by three planners: myself, pikk and oak. it was scheduled at an insane 8am, we quickly localised the idea of coffee morning, and changed it to “something like coffee morning, but let’s do it over dinner”. oak summarised it here.

image by oak

the second meeting was held at the food loft in central chidlom and had a record (so far) number of turnouts. again there was myself, pikk and oak with the addition of two dentsu planners: tee+ and jay, and a qualitative researcher–aon. the great thing about all the attendees is that we’re all about the same age and in similar stages of our careers and not too seasoned in planning yet. we also came to a conclusion that the idea of “coffee morning”… well the idea of “anything morning” isn’t well-suited for us thais and agreed to meet in the evenings after work. oak summarised the second meeting inclusive of pictures here.

somehow when we scheduled the third meeting, we forgot about dinner and decided just to have evening drinks instead at a fantastic bar slash furniture store called shades of retro.

i like that. straight to the point. we do have the third highest drinking rate in asia behind japan and korea.

represent.