Day 2, 29.06.2007

After refreshing 12 hours of sleep, I start wondering where Michael – the other intern – was, as he should have arrived at 06:30 local time. 6 hours and “some” phone calls he gets out of the cab with a, “you wouldn’t believe my last 24 hours” on his face.

After trying out Vicky’s noodles with Won Ton recipie, we hop on a bus to the office. Which was supposed to be our first day in the office turned out to be only 2 hours. After taking our workplaces - wahhooo got Internet and Skype - we are forced out of office at 5 pm. “Happy hour” – the new companies Friday-after-work-program was this week a dinner in a nearby restaurant.

Steem Pot is also a usual describtion for what we found there. A boiling pot with a spicy and a regular soup, and "all you can" eat to put in. And all you can eat doesn´t only mean as much as you want, it rather means everything a human beeing could possibly use as nutrition. Shortly after Vicky and Josephin (a draftswoman from the office) took over my plate and fed mee with what ever them pleased, I stopped asking - I just ate it. Just the cow-stomach turned out to be a little weird. The only thing I was actually affraid of, was the chineese fellow who guzzled his crab with such a joy that literally "die Fetzen flogen", without leaving anybody uncovered with stains on the whole table, and probably also the next. Sorry for not taking pictures, but I was actually worrying for my camera.

Later that evening the heavenly spiced soup turned out to be astonishingly digestible for a human stomach and after a while I fell a sleep, realizing to have finally arrived in Singapore!