Today I received an email from the Big Boss, the one who’s emails sends a shiver down my spine. Anyways, She said and I quote

Nick, please note your expertise for Visa online and certification (BASE I and II) needed for XXXX. Please arrange schedule accordingly.

Wow. I am an expert. I never knew that. Put a smile on my face. Its nice when you get an encouraging word to start your day. Anyways, XXXX is a project I am not really involve in but they are flying me there for a few days cos I am the “Company Expert” Wow. Gotta love that.

Oh…I decided to XXXX out the project name due to my NDA. I can’t imagine anybody I work for actually reads my blog, but you never know.

Update : Me going to be in Bangladesh from Feb 12 - Feb 16. This is gonna be one interesting Valentines Day

Update: Was just invited to the Bank’s Annual dinner tomorrow. That should be interesting. Its held in the Melia Hotel Hanoi. Will take tons of pictures

Just when I thought I heard every cheesy techno dance song in the world, the world shocked me with a new level of cheese. Ladies and Gentlemen, this morning I heard a techno dance version of (Are you ready for this)…”Are You Sleeping”. You know the song I am talking about. The Nursery rhyme. For those of you who are totally confused, It goes like this :

Really! I was shocked, appalled, traumatized even. And Just when I thought Techno could not stoop any lower, guess what Song was remixed into it next? It was the infamous “Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star”. In my mind I thought surely this was a kids CD that my cabbie was playing, but the next song remixed into the melody was “Come On Baby Light My Fire”.

Saturday Night was a pretty dull one at the Summerset West Lake, but thank God for HBO which provided me with “The Sum Of All Fears”. I love Tom Clancy! I have just recently finish reading “Clear and Present Danger” and after reading the book I had to go buy the VCD of the movie to watch it again. Some stories are better of as books than movies.

Sunday looks like a slow day at work. I was expecting a particular test file to arrive, but alas, It is not here. I may just leave after lunch if it does not arrive by then.

More latter.

Sometimes I really don’t have any interesting things to say in the Blog, but I know If I stop blogging, I may never start again. So In an attempt to make my mundane life sound exhilarating I will try and use as many thrilling adjectives as humanly possible.

I awoke this morning, to the familiar piercing sound of my hand phone alarm at 5:30 am. I quickly hit the snooze button, and dozed off until my second alarm (The trusty wrist watch) went off reminding me that I had to wake up sooner or later. I jumped into the shower, and hit my turned on the steaming hot water which almost instantly gave me a inebriating tingle down my spine. hahaha….Okok..enough of that. I then watched the Simpsons and Whose Line is it anyway before finally acknowledging the fact that I had to go to work. I put on my shoes, locked the door, and I took the elevator down to the lobby (I pay such attention to details). The cute receptionist was on duty and with my most charming smile, I whispered “Can you call me a cab”. She replied “Excuse Me?”. To which I realized whispering was not the way to go, so I turned on my Macho Male voice and said “Can you call me a Taxi?”. She smiled and I knew the deed was done.

Todays Taxi was one of the more luxurious cars, the Nissan Sentra, which has nice leather seats and they come with Cabbies that speak English. For some strange and unusual reason, the street that leads to the city was totally crowded. It took us 20 minutes just to drive out of the main road leading to the city. There was this incident when a lady on a bicycle almost rammed into the passenger side of the Cab. She was not paying attention as she was going downhill and I could see in her face the shock when her breaks on her bike were not functioning as well as she wanted them to. She slam her feet down and did an emergency break, and inches from where the car was, she managed to regain control. Such drama, such action, Move away the Fast and the Furious, enter The Biker Chick from Hanoi.

45 Minutes and 56,000 Dong later, I reached my desired destination and here I am sitting on the server room floor blogging it down for your reading pleasure. I better get some E-Props for the effort I took! Reward me! Reward me! I deserve it! haha

I watched the Movie “Alive” yesterday on HBO, and for those of you not familiar with that Tale, its an account of a South African Rugby team who were on a charted flight when they crashed in the Andes. Stranded there for 70 Days, they wer forced to eat the flesh of the dead for food. A story which genuinely made me ponder on realize that my life ain’t all that bad.

Oh…Birthday Shout Outs. Its Angie Looh’s Birthday. Happy Birthday Angie!!

Thats it for me for now. More Later.