Week 5 & 6 Update
Trip Start
Oct 24, 2007
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Trip End
Jan 13, 2008
Hanoi,
Vietnam
Saturday, December 8, 2007
MISS ME????
Well, it has been over 2 weeks since I last wrote and that's because
there wasn't much happening relative to the first 4 weeks.
I was in the UK for 2 weeks for work. It was actually great and met all
my new colleagues, even the CEO (although I did not realize this until 5
min into the conversation)! The two weeks were definitely spent in
luxury and nice 4 or 5 star hotels, amazing meals, drinks, etc and the
best part, it was all on the company's expense. I could get used to
expensing meals and wine and beer. After being a student for 7 years,
this will definitely be a welcomed.
The first week was spent attending the company annual sales conference
so that really gave me great introduction to the company. Over the
weekend I took the train into London and met with family. My parents
were coincidentally in the London for the weekend on their way to India
and Pakistan for a month vacation. So I met up with them, which was
awesome after having not seen them for 6 weeks. Spent time with my
cousin and his friends and went for a movie (American Gangster). The
second week was spent in training and I already got my hands dirty with
making some measurements for a customer in the lab! Talk about getting
their money's worth.
Last Friday I met with another cousin of mine for a few hours and we
cruised Edgeware Road and smoked some sheesha and went for a movie - The
Golden Compass - got to get the books now so I can read them before part
2 and 3 are released in the theaters.
I flew out on Friday night to Bangkok and spent the evening and night
there just trying to kill time. Met up with Alykhan on Sunday morning at
the airport for our flight to Hanoi, Vietnam. We've been in Vietnam 5
days now and are liking it but can't help missing Thailand. For details,
you'll have to wait till next week's update.
Till then, hope you are all doing well and looking forward to the
December holidays.
See the attached picture.
Sameer
