Mr. Goodman is a fresh graduate who just enters an intergovernmental regional organization, or in other words, a divergence of extensions of several national civil service systems. Through being directed by his director, a senior and seasoned Thai diplomat, and interacting with other related persons in some sort of international scenarios, he is able to have inside involvement in some interesting episodes, some of which are too interesting to stimulate him to record as below. Of course, all of things below are merely nonsense, and could not represent anything official or unofficial. 

Episode 1

What is Consensus?

It is agree to agree, not agree to disagree!

Episode  2

"Mr. Hao Nan, have you updated the video in the ppt?"

"Well, no... and yes."

"What?"

"Because the video you sent to me is exactly the video was played in the video I used in which leaders in the meeting were watching the video you sent to me."

"... Okay. Whatever."

Episode 3

"Thailand is very open in the region, even more open than Singapore."

"In terms of what?"

"In terms of openness!"

Episode 4

"Conflict is a small matter, while cooperation is a big matter."

"That's a nice way to put it. Can I quote this from you in my report?"

"Who said so? Is there anyone that said anything?"

Episode 5

"What is this place?"

"It's a museum for intangible cultural heritages."

"What? But everything here is tangible!"

"Yes. Everything intangible needs a tangible carrier to reflect itself."

"..."

Episode 6

"You know, it's hard to deal with those embassies."

"How come?"

"They always compete with each on work."

"What? I think that's good."

"No, I mean they compete with each other not to work."

"..."

Episode 7

"Fake news is indeed a serious problem in the Philippines. 90% of Philippine media are private. They always find negative angles of news to report against the government."

"Then how do you public media deal with news?"

"Well, of course, we cannot report against the government."

"So?"

"We find the positive angles."

Episode 8

"I was sent to Brazil for being Consonsellor Minister. Brazil is a country to which God has given everything it needs apart from the diligent people who can develop those things."

"But they do have millions of Japanese immigrants."

"Oh, no. They have been Brazilian."

"You mean?"

"I guess Japanese government even cannot recognize them for they have lost the Japanese brand of Diligence."

Episode 9

“Do you know what is the second best site for a booth in a huge Expo?”

"Well, I know probably the best one is near the gate so that people at least could see it when they walk in and out."

"Yes. And the second best site is near the toilet."

"..."

Episode 10

“More than two decades' diplomatic experience of receiving gifts gave me a special instinct."

"What's that?"

"I can assess the value of gifts before they hand gifts to me. Normally, big size gifts are less valuable than small size ones."

"斯高矣！"

Episode 11

"According to the regulation, Thai civil servant can only receive food as gifts. Anything else would be bribery."

"But some food is also expensive, right?"

"Yes, but you can eat them immediately, and definitely they would not test your shit."

"..."

Episode 12

"Actually, I did have a good idea to make this more successful. But when I proposed it for the first time, they said it was too early to discuss this."

"And then?"

"When I proposed weeks later, they said it had been too late to materialize the idea."

"What a pity!"

Episode 13

"This EXPO has been done many years, but I doubted how many people would like to participate if we just don't cover their round-trip fees and accommodation. So actually the big number of participants in the EXPO doesn't look real."

"Yea. I don't want it look real. I want it look good."

"..."

Episode 14

"China's national hatred leads China to strive and compete with Japan and some other developed countries. It's valuable hatred."

"Yea, Compared with the Chinese one, Thailand's national hatred to Myanmar and Cambodia is less valuable."

"..."

Episode 15

“I am wondering will they set the conclusions when governments hire think tanks to write reports in case unideal conclusions emerge.”

"No, no, no...normally, when they say bad words in conclusions, we just change the person."

“...”