Day 1, 28.06.2007

After arriving one hour late while I had an appointment with Vicky, the secretary of Geoconsult Asia Singapore - my employer - we finally met in my “tiny” apartment. This tiny apartment turned out to be quite a nice two storey flat with a huge living and dining room and to be situated on the “waterfront”. Unfortunately not the Pacific Ocean as one might have assumed, but the Bedok Resort Lake. So 30-34 degrees outside, aircon only in the bedrooms, that cries for a cooling jump to the lake. Yeeah, would so, if it wasn´t forbidden as almost everything here in the city of Fines. But still it´s a good place to live in a place with “4over” inhabitants. So running in the green should be possible – at least around 5 to 6 am.
Right after letting me put my stuff in the bed room, Vicky took me to a local supermarket to buy some groceries. A while later and packed with stuff like fish, prawns, instant noodles, soya and oyster sauce, we are back at the flat, and within seconds gone again to find the public transport way to work. Astonishingly smart ticketing systems blow away that middle age paper-stamp thing back home. Touchless cards you could also use for shopping in the sevenelevens make life much easier. When arrived in the 17th floor of the Shaw Tower on Beachroad in “Bugis” I meet the 10 people counting staff I’m going to work with in the next month. Senior Engineers from Swiss, China and Austria as well as CAD-drawers from Singapore and the Phillies. I’m actually a little afraid to work with (if not compete), this 20 year old wiz kids from china ;-). So much for that day – hope you stay tuned!