Newly Recruited Oktoberfest Azubi! Prost!

One good thing about my job is that you get to travel around the world, to visit the city that you always dream of and to the city that you’d never thought of visiting even for a holiday, but at least you get to see it once – Been There! Done That!

And the best thing is when you are doing a project in a city with good festive going on. This is the best time to visit Munich because of the Oktoberfest. Millions of visitor flew in from all over the world to join the Bavarians to get pissed together. Everybody is in their best ‘drunken’ mode and all dress up for the festive season.

I had my first taste of Oktoberfest last night. We were invited by the hotel team to join them in the evening. So after we finished work at 7:30pm, we arrived at the Oktoberfest at 8:00pm. First, I was overwhelmed when I arrived at the location. It was ‘people mountain people sea’ on a weekday night already. Secondly, I never saw so many drunken people in my life (which eventually I was one of them at the end of the night). There were a lot of activities going on like a big funfair and there were 12 big tents at the location. Each tent can accommodates 10,000 drunken people - singing and dancing on the their bench, holding their 1 liter glass of beer in their hand. The empty glass was very heavy and the waitress can hold at least 12 glasses in their hand. There was a big band playing different kind of music and everybody is enjoying a good time there.

Because we didn’t have dinner, so after 2 glasses of beer, I was already very drunk. Luckily the fest finished at 11pm, otherwise, I’d pass out somewhere on the floor. By that time, 95% of the crowds were completed wasted. Some of the festive goers were already there since the tent open at 11am!

It was a good night fun and I’m still hangover when I’m writing this. We are going back this weekend with more people and this time, we will prepare for the event :)

October Fest In Munich

Finished Vienna and was in Mainz for a week. Now I'm in Munich for the next 3 weeks. We are going to October Fest next weekend. Supposedly today but I wasn't feeling very well, so decided we go next weekend since there will be a couple more team mates joining us.

Went out to town yesterday and it was pretty crowded. It was amazing to see people dressing up for the October Fest and drunken people walking around in the city (at noon time already).

Getting Cold....

The weather is getting cold here now.

So far, this project has been very good. I'm working with quite a fun team this time. A lot of laughter and jokes, that makes a project a lot easier. However, I'm working on night shift again for this project. The night shift is quite ok. It's a lot easier than the day shift. But then, it is hard to stay awake the whole night and I'm too old for this now (need my regular 'handsome' sleep) and it is hard to sleep through the day.

Anyway, I'm quite looking forward to my next project in German because my German team mate is going to take me to the October Fest!! (Need to train up that......drinking more beers!)

Stalking Madonna In Vienna

Yes. She is coming to Vienna for her Sticky & Sweet concert. However, I'll miss her concert date by couple of days because I will be already left from Vienna to Germany. What a shame! I really want to catch her in concert.... somewhere..... somehow........

So instead of that, maybe I should find out where she is staying and invite her for a couple of tea :) in the nice Vienna city.

On The Road Again

Well, I'm on the road again and this time is for another 3 months. My last trip have been quite good because I managed to catch Kylie in concert in London. Then I was in UAE (which was really hot and humid) and Hurghada (in a big nice resort). Somehow I was quite homesick during my last trip and it was hard to update my blog because of the internet connection in Middle East.

Anyway, after that trip, I was back in Singapore for a week and my team mates were stopping over the weekend, so we did have a nice weekend in Singapore.

One week in Singapore was not enough, because I've run a lot of errands and catching up with all my friends. Luckily they all managed to make time for me.

So, I'm on the road again. Will be in Vienna for 2 weeks and off to Germany for a month, then Shanghai for a month. I'll be returning home end of November (if my schedule remain the same).

On The Road Again...

Yes..I'm on the road again. Will be traveling quite intensively for the next couple of weeks. Currently in Abu Dhabi for almost to a week plus. The above pic is actually the hotel I'm staying in at the moment but unfortunately I haven't got anytime to enjoy any of the facilities yet :(

Abu Dhabi is so damn hot! I felt like I'm in a big sauna room (except everybody still in their cloths) everytime I step out of the air-con building.

Next stop is London this weekend for a week, then back here again for a week and then off to Egypt for 2 weeks before heading home end of August.

So, probably won't be able to update anything much (also...everything is blocked in UAE, so hard to access to anything), but will definitely try my best.

B'day In Beijing!

Yes! I’m officially OLDER again today. Can’t believe it has been another year since my last ‘Older Year’. Unfortunately, this year there is not big party (like last year) as I’m in Beijing working my butt off at the moment (still working today and tomorrow). I guess this is the first time I’m celebrating my B’day outside of Singapore since I was 21 (before 21, was in M'sia). It’s a whole new experience. Luckily, we managed to have a nice dinner and had a few drinks together with my team mates last night. Hopefully, I can get out of work earlier today and continue with my B’day celebration.