Finally, after x2 16hours plane rides and 3 days of -2degrees weather, I'm back in 'real' sunny Singapore. It was by far the most mentally tiring and at-times, physically tiring business trip I have ever been on.
Cancelled flights due to bad weather, more cancelled flights due to airport closures, long hours walking around the airport terminals trying to get alternative flights, getting desperate enough to consider making 5hour long drives on ice-covered mountainous roads just to get to SAN ANTONIO. You name it, we thought about it.
Well, it all turned out well in the end...in fact very well. The entire meeting went on smoothly - and as I would have expected, you walk out of these annual kick-off meetings feeling totally recharged, energised and ready to conquer everything that stands in your way. Well, maybe it's just a handfull of us who feels that way, but what the heck. The best thing was to put faces to names of the great people you've been working with the past year over email and tele-conferences.
Thinking back, it was quite nice actually getting stuck in LA for over a day with the rest of my team. Like I said to them that morning, misery loves company. It would certainly have been different if we were stuck there alone but with 7 miserable souls in there together, it was quite nice spending the time cracking occasional silly jokes, passing each other pathetic looks and feeling sorry for one another.
Oh well, I'm back now in hot humid Singapore.....had wanted to just dash off the plane to get back into the heat but then i got sick of the heat after just an hour.
It's hot India next week, so there will be plenty of opportunities to bake.
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