i'm famous...

i'm staying at the same hotel as kofi annan, and they're holding the negotiation talks here. apparently, there are a lot of kenyan dignitaries hanging out, but i don't recognize anyone. so there's always a lot of reporters and cameramen hanging out outside the hotel...i like to pretend they're there for me. the whole situation makes for some interesting encounters.

- i got a call from reception asking if i knew someone from channel 4, if i had had dinner with this person, if i had ordered skewers and billed it to my room....needless to say, i'm going to look over my bill veeery carefully when i check out.

- one reporter approached me asking if i was from the chinese embassy.

- there are always a bunch of people hanging out in the lobby during the day...i think they're drivers, assistants, bodyguards...one time i was waiting for my co-worker in the lobby, and they kept on eyeing me suspiciously. it reminded me of when i was in tanzania, and all of the local staff thought that i was some martial arts expert. of course, i'm asian, after all. so i wonder if some of these bodyguards think that i'm some sort of assassin. i've already been asked how good i am at karate.

- there are rumors that kofi's room here was bugged...whoa, espionage...