" I would like to see the chief executive," Benz Narong said to the receptionist, a lady who seemed to speak endlessly on the phone.
She was dressed officially in dark blue high waist slit skirt with a white long sleeved blouse which had the Niran's logo on it.
"Hold on..." She said to the person on the other end of the line, " you said?"
"I would like to see the chief executive."
"Do you have an appointment?" She asked.
"No!"
She stared hard at Benz Narong. He wondered whether in his Zoot suit by a Chinese designer whose name he could not read,he looked unfit to meet the chief executive."Is it business or personal?" She asked again at length.
"Business."
She frowned. She flipped through something that looked like a diary and shook her head. "The whole morning is occupied. Try at two."
"But I will not need much of his time. Maybe ten minutes, that's all," I pleaded. "I have travelled all the way from a far place for this meeting," he lied.
She gave him the look you-could-as-well-have-travelled-from-mars-but-that-won't-change-anything. "Come at two," she said flatly and continued talking on the phone. Judging by the direction of her telephone conversation, it was certainly not business. Whoever was on the other end wanted a male child as a first born.
After some minutes of standing there undecided, Benz Narong heard the clink clank of high heels walking to the receptionist desk.
"Praew Malee," Analyn Agwa greeted.
The young lady first put the phone down and stared at Analyn Agwa.
"Is Miss Benjakalayani in?" She asked.
"Yes, but at the moment she is busy with the CEO discussing some matters, but you can come after ten minutes." She suggested.
Benz Narong looked at the young lady and sneered at her.
"How comes she comes after ten minutes yet me at two and I came here earlier than her?" He questioned the young lady.
"She had an appointment, plus she is among our people in the company, you are an outsider."
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Gun Chatmanee opened her windows wide. A stream of fresh air came pouring into her room. In the bluish paling half-light she pore over the sketches for her new design. She stood up and looked down at her sketches as she thought of an idea of improving them.
She only glanced at them once before she finally made up her mind and decided to finish them by the following day.
She found Analyn Agwa leaving the house as she was ascending into the living room, she was ready for work and just needed to eat breakfast. Analyn Agwa was dressed in a dark blue belted ruffled plaid mini skirt, a white tie neck ruffle trim flounce sleeve blouse and a pair of bkack daffodil high heels, she also wore the new pair of crystal blue butterfly pearl long tassels hollow earrings that Gun Chatmanee had bought for her.
Gun Chatmanee on the other hand was preparing for a meeting with Niran Chai Son,the CEO,she was formally dressed in a pair of blue butterfly charm drop earrings,a blue one shoulder viscose-blend top and a white high waist ruched wide leg trousers with a pair of blue platform high heels.
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"Where does she live?" Niran Chai Son asked, he was on the phone with his younger sister Niran Orn-a-nong.
"I will send you the address but you owe me big time, for your lover I..." Niran Chai Son hung up, Gun Chatmanee was standing in front of him, she had knocked on the door several times but he had not answered so she decided to welcome herself in.
"Hey! Hey! Hey!" Niran Orn-a-nong shouted in annoyance, she was seated in her father's living room as she enjoyed a glass of cold orange juice. She took another sip of the juice and looked at her cellphone. Her friend, Nong Yao was calling her, she had promised to meet up with her and attend a blind date for her.
"Why didn't you knock on the door?" Niran Chai Son asked Gun Chatmanee.
"I knocked several times but nobody answered me." She protested.
"Have a seat, I will get you a cold drink, which one would you like?" He asked her, he arose from his seat and walked to a small refrigerator which was just next to his bookshelf.
"Cola." Gun Chatmanee replied. Niran Chai Son was wearing the same suit he had worn when they had met, "this is fate," she thought to herself, smiling.
"Why did you come here?" He asked her. This question left Gun Chatmanee speechless, he was the one who had called her here yet he was asking her for her reason to be there.
Niran Chai Son took out a bottle of cold cola. He headed to his cabinet and took out an empty glass, he poured ice cubes in the empty glass and then poured the cola into it.
He then brought it to Gun Chatmanee.
"To discuss the matter about, the newest project at park X."
"Oh, show me your designs and explain them, then leave me to the rest."
Gun Chatmanee put the files she was holding in her hands on the desk, then opened them.
"Here I thought we could make it like a small cafeteria and supermarket where the couple can register and buy some toys or suchlike things, then after that we come to the small resting area some partially grass and the other some plastic seats. Lastly we would have the play area with fun activities to do and also hunts to go on, and strategically we would locate some vendors like ice cream and drinks, or cotton candy to provide some snacks to the couples."
"Let me ask you one question, how many activities would be present in the play area?"
"I just googled it and saw merry-go-rounds, Ferris wheel and rollercoasters will be enough.