1st post from Irvine CA
This trip was quite last minute. I was asked in Feb 2009 if I can go to US for one month. I turned down giving the situation that I am committed to serve 2-3 times a month on sunday at church and being only person in Singapore I have to settle my bills on time or find someone to help me pay while I am not in Singapore. Nevertheless I end up having chicken pox 2 weeks and finally I am going for 2 weeks and I am now in Irvine, CA since 15th March.
All my 4 other colleagues were at US office but they all left early than planned I did not meet any of them except my dotted line boss who was here with me 2 days before he fly back to Singapore. As I have not converted my Malaysian driving license I could not move about freely as I wish. But fortunately I am not as bored and lonely as I thought being only person here from Singapore IT and no car.
I bought Begawan Solo for my IT colleagues in US. I distributed it to them and I was surprised this time everyone was happy to see me and many of them came to look for me at my room and chat with me. Its like really long time friends everyone excited about the ERP upgrade project and seeing me. In fact my dept only has 5 female staff but 4 are analysts. In my track (OM) 3 of us are female and we worked together in this fit / gap to go through the list of enhancements vs new features in PSFT 9.0.
First few days I am so badly affected by timezone difference I slept just 3 hours a day. But 2 nights ago I managed to sleep 7 hours straight. But today I kind of slept 4 hours and then wake up and try to do other stuff seeing I have 3-4 hours more before preparing for work.
I am going to post another blog entry about what I did.
spoke at : 4:22 AM