After spending a few days in Korea with customer again, i returned to home for mum is having some problems on her neck due to the high blood pressure medicine she took. She could not straighten her neck and seek a few doctors help before her blood pressure can be lowered. It is a scare for me as i know she always have high blood pressure, and not seeing her for the past few weeks adds to my worries.
When i see her doing fine after medication , i feel relieved, old folks like her can get into serious trouble easily because of their physical is no longer as strong as before.
I took the chance to recover my hectic schedules , i have not been sleeping well before my Mexico trip, and right after Mexico it is Korea again. I spent most of my time flying between places, and i began to feel my bones are in pain after sitting for too long. Long working hours , short sleeping hours , hectic life. I am exhausted.
I watched the tv show last night on the theme of "Born on same year and same date" from Channel U, a young couple in 20s are soaked in love totally and reminded me in the past when piggy and i were just met each other, and now i have become too career minded to care for him, and he is busy with his work too. I have become so independent that i do not need others in my life for a long period of time , i do not know if this is good or bad. I can do many things on my own in a day, but at the end of the day , when i finally collapsed on my bed in my Shanghai apartment , i just miss the pig.
Darby
2008年8月28日星期四
2008年8月18日星期一
Photos from Mexico
As promised , pictures from Mexico Guadarajala.
Cottons hanging in sky
Round patterns on fields
View from El Tapatio Balcony
My Spanish Villa
Tlaquepaque
Beautiful sad looking sculptures, wish i can bring them home
Crosses
Woman in the Wind
Blue and wooden doors at Tlaquepaque
Night scene from villa to Guadarajala
Cottons hanging in sky
Round patterns on fields
View from El Tapatio Balcony
My Spanish Villa
Tlaquepaque
Beautiful sad looking sculptures, wish i can bring them home
Crosses
Woman in the Wind
Blue and wooden doors at Tlaquepaque
Night scene from villa to Guadarajala
2008年8月5日星期二
Going back to SH tomorrow
I had a long day again today, my second last day of work in Mexico. It started with a 3 party concall involving our customer which lasted 2 hrs and was then followed by an interview of 3 candidates for Mexico rep post. I went for lunch at 1.30pm, cleared tonnes of emails i have received since my laptop was not able to access the net in the past 1 week and then went back to the hotel room to prepare for another concall from 8 pm to 11 pm. My stomach began to feel uncomfortable at 10 pm. I finished the concall as soon as I could and rushed to a restaurant in the hotel and ordered a chicken breast stuffed with mango for dinner. It was good. Perhaps i was too hungry. I sat in the restaurant and the view through the glass wall was really beautiful. The million dots of light at night from the houses on flat land looked just like stars to me who is at the hill top. I never thought that Mexico can be this romantic, and the pig is not here.
I will have a long concall tomorrow morning. After that, i will go to the airport directly. This time i will fly from Guadarajala to Mexico City to Holland to Shanghai, another 24 hours on flight. I began to feel my back is aching again.
Darby
I will have a long concall tomorrow morning. After that, i will go to the airport directly. This time i will fly from Guadarajala to Mexico City to Holland to Shanghai, another 24 hours on flight. I began to feel my back is aching again.
Darby
2008年8月4日星期一
Como Esta ?
I am now in Guadarajala in a resort hotel located on a hill. Guadarajala is a city on a mountain which means it has a cool climate. I have spent a week in Monterrey Mexico and it is hot as hell at 40 deg C, but Guadarajala is a cool 26 deg C.
The journey only become more pleasant when i took the small jet from Monterrey to Guadarajala. I had a long week with long working hrs and slept only for 3 hrs every day in Monterrey. While suffering from jetlag, feeling sleepy at days and not being able to get into sleep mode at night, i still have to meet the customer's management in a meeting room with an agenda that is filled with heated arguments and negotiations. The discussion reached a stalemate finally on Friday, two days before i am due to leave Guadarajala on Sunday and I activated my manager and directors to bring the negotiation to their level for the next meeting. I finally get longer hours of sleep on Saturday night, although i still worked for 8 hrs on Saturday.
Not longer than a minute after the plane departed from the airport to Guadarajala, i can see from the window, the green mountains and rivers below and white clouds hanging in the air like cotton. After leaving the airport, i headed to the hotel immediately. I was really shocked to find that the hotel is like a huge Spanish villa when my cab driver reached the hotel. It is located on a hill that offers a great view of the city. After entering the room, i was overwhelmed by the size of the room and its interior deco and wondered if the company had booked a wrong hotel for me. I have not stayed in a hotel room this big and offers a balcony view of the hill. Check out Hotel El Tapatio if you come to Guadarajala.
After settling down, i took a ride by hotel transport to the art market town nearby, Tlaquepaque. I used to think that Mexico is boring when i was in Monterrey. But my impression was completely reversed when I reached Tlaquepaque, a small town like Ubud in Bali Island that sells fantastic art piece by Mexico aborigines, and littered with good restaurants. Tourists were walking slowly and Spanish is heard everywhere, and i guess i am the only Asian in this town. I bought a painting by Mexican aborigines for 4 USD and 2 red indians head scuplture for 3 USD. I controlled myself hard to avoid getting into a shopping spree as Mexican art is really beautiful. They have tiger heads made of tiny colorful beads planted into clay, beautifully painted cross with jesus christ and without, Mexican peasants paintings and sculptures. I bought an Eiffel Tower in Paris Charles de Gaule Airpot for 10 USD , and i will transfer in Holland airport on Tuesday. I better control myself to avoid bursting my luggage. But i took tonnes of photos of this beautiful town, their doors and buildings are really unique and very mediterranean.
Mexican ppl are a mixture of Spanish, French, Red Indians, etc and most of them are beautiful looking ppl like other Latin Americans, and stunningly goodlooking young boys and girls can be found everywhere. The tv shows always show half naked hunks, swim suit babes like a beauty pageant contest. But it is really a Catholic country where no porn is allowed, no abortions, so the tv is quite boring for a hotel, hehehe. Although born as beautiful people, they always turn themselves into a pig after 30 years due to their large intake of foods and high calories cuisine. The men and ladies older than 30 are always plump and 30% of the ppl is obese.
That's all for today and i hope piggy is doing fine as there is no mail and call from him for a week already.
Darby
The journey only become more pleasant when i took the small jet from Monterrey to Guadarajala. I had a long week with long working hrs and slept only for 3 hrs every day in Monterrey. While suffering from jetlag, feeling sleepy at days and not being able to get into sleep mode at night, i still have to meet the customer's management in a meeting room with an agenda that is filled with heated arguments and negotiations. The discussion reached a stalemate finally on Friday, two days before i am due to leave Guadarajala on Sunday and I activated my manager and directors to bring the negotiation to their level for the next meeting. I finally get longer hours of sleep on Saturday night, although i still worked for 8 hrs on Saturday.
Not longer than a minute after the plane departed from the airport to Guadarajala, i can see from the window, the green mountains and rivers below and white clouds hanging in the air like cotton. After leaving the airport, i headed to the hotel immediately. I was really shocked to find that the hotel is like a huge Spanish villa when my cab driver reached the hotel. It is located on a hill that offers a great view of the city. After entering the room, i was overwhelmed by the size of the room and its interior deco and wondered if the company had booked a wrong hotel for me. I have not stayed in a hotel room this big and offers a balcony view of the hill. Check out Hotel El Tapatio if you come to Guadarajala.
After settling down, i took a ride by hotel transport to the art market town nearby, Tlaquepaque. I used to think that Mexico is boring when i was in Monterrey. But my impression was completely reversed when I reached Tlaquepaque, a small town like Ubud in Bali Island that sells fantastic art piece by Mexico aborigines, and littered with good restaurants. Tourists were walking slowly and Spanish is heard everywhere, and i guess i am the only Asian in this town. I bought a painting by Mexican aborigines for 4 USD and 2 red indians head scuplture for 3 USD. I controlled myself hard to avoid getting into a shopping spree as Mexican art is really beautiful. They have tiger heads made of tiny colorful beads planted into clay, beautifully painted cross with jesus christ and without, Mexican peasants paintings and sculptures. I bought an Eiffel Tower in Paris Charles de Gaule Airpot for 10 USD , and i will transfer in Holland airport on Tuesday. I better control myself to avoid bursting my luggage. But i took tonnes of photos of this beautiful town, their doors and buildings are really unique and very mediterranean.
Mexican ppl are a mixture of Spanish, French, Red Indians, etc and most of them are beautiful looking ppl like other Latin Americans, and stunningly goodlooking young boys and girls can be found everywhere. The tv shows always show half naked hunks, swim suit babes like a beauty pageant contest. But it is really a Catholic country where no porn is allowed, no abortions, so the tv is quite boring for a hotel, hehehe. Although born as beautiful people, they always turn themselves into a pig after 30 years due to their large intake of foods and high calories cuisine. The men and ladies older than 30 are always plump and 30% of the ppl is obese.
That's all for today and i hope piggy is doing fine as there is no mail and call from him for a week already.
Darby
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