IT Angels
Hehehe.. ppl used to call us that.. oh, maybe we just gave ourselves that name. We literally ate, work, sleep and hangout in the same place all the time in NYC. Love you
Pao pao :), I'm sure we will meet again sometime and hopefully soon.
All photos courtesy of Pao :) ..http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/paopaol2001/album?.dir=/27ffscd
Pao, Simi, Missy, Myself
Urggh... some friends are just too tall.
Simi and Missy was in my must-see-and-catchup NYC visit list. Good friends are hard to come by, will be awaiting your visits to OZ land.
Piero, Pao and Jillo
Jillo salsa's like a real latino :). Part of the reunion group. This girl is so much fun and she's now in love. Wohoooo..
Just hanging out
The reunion was suppose to happen in Malaysia last year but we conveniently forgot about that ;) since everyone was either busy holidaying somewhere else or claimed to be making a living. So here is Piero, Aaron and I on the couch and Paola taking the photo. We're missing Jill, Simi and Jan in this photo but ofcourse we managed to gossip and catchup on almost everything. Much has changed since 2004.
Then there is the Michigan crew: Colin, Sarah (who stood by the kitchen cooking or cleaning almost the entire time.. hehe) and Anca. Colin hosted Pao and I in a huge (by Manhanttan std) apt :), thank you thank you!
NYC
:) Juan and I managed to spend some alone time together. On our last night, we went to a Japanese restaurant called
Matsuri down by 16th Street between 8th-9th Avenue. The food and ambience was great.
"Paper lanterns large and small float in the restaurant's "night sky" like sacred tablets enshrining spirits."
Photo 1
I'm here in NYC :) with Juan, waiting for the rest to come. In the central park Mac store playing with all the goodies. It's raining outside so we're in here hiding. The 127W, 26th Street office has a new lift and a new building right next to it. Everything else looks almost the same. So very good to see jillo, aaron, paul paul, sarah, jennifer, dana, chris w, carly :).. but George is gone :(. Paola and Piero..we're waiting for you to come!
The great novelist
Colombia's famed nobel laureate's (
Gabriel García Márquez’s) latest book.. "
Memories of My Melancholy Whores" had me standing for 2 hours in Border's today.
"The year I turned ninety, I wanted to give myself the gift of a night of wild love with an adolescent virgin."One day I shall attempt to read all his novels in spanish.
Work travels..
I'm here sitting in my hotel room looking down at the Singapore river. The haze condition seems to have improved from yesterday. Been here 2 days now and haven't been anywhere except to get food and work. With the improved air condition today, the streets looks more inviting.
Work travel is a routine of going to the office and back to your hotel room. I love hotel rooms, the bed are always comfortable and someone does your cleaning up for you :) and the temperature of the hotel room is always the same, no one is here to turn it up or down to suit themselves.
But please (dear god: help me) allow me to finish with the installation tomorrow and get myself home so I can continue my days with no more worries until I am done with my holidays. Oh please, let October be a month of excitement and of enjoyment in companies of good friends.
Off to meet
Jean..
Diver's schedule
It goes something like this:
8.30 am- Breakfast
11.00 am- Boat Dive
1.00 pm- Lunch
2.00 pm- Boat Dive
4.00 pm- Tea time
-Hammock time-
7.00 pm- Night Dive
8.30 pm- Dinner
9.30 pm- Drink.
Midnight- Sleep
5 minutes underwater and all worries are gone.
Diving diving diving :)
2 shore dives, 2 boat dives and 1 night dive! and got my open water certification. We saw the blue spotted ray in the night dive, hermit crabs and barracuda (I missed that one). And lots of memos (clown fish), parrot fish .. ohhh :).
