I have been off line for a few weeks because I came back to the USA! Yes, I resigned from Standard Chartered Bank and came back to Illinois to be the CEO of a Real Estate company.
It was a difficult choice, but at the end I believed I can accomplish more by being here in this new position as I could in Singapore. Only time will tell. In any case, I miss Singapore since I like the city, the people and the culture. I guess it would take me sometime to get fully acclimatized again to the USA.
I did not remeber how many options are in here for everything, For example, a few days ago I bought some microwavable hot dogs. The box has 3 individually packaged hot bog (a bun and a frank) and each frank is individually wrapped. The only "addition" is that each hot dog comes in a microwavable paper holder with some type of reflective material in the inside. Now that I think about it, it would have been so much cheaper to just buy a package of buns and franks and that would be it. There is no much aggregate value in these microwavable hot dogs, they are not even frozen! I guess there is always people like me that could buy such products for convinience only. Welcome to the land of choice.
Sunday, June 29, 2008
Saturday, June 7, 2008
More about Cambodia
The trip to Cambodia (ancient Indochina) was a sobering experience for me. Siem Reap is a contrasting place with absolute poverty and misery but also relatively wealthy.
We flew Singapore - Kuala Lumpur- Phnom Penn - Siem Reap. During our descend on Phnom Penn (Cambodia's capital) we flew over the Mekog River. Here are some pictures.
Monitor at Kuala Lumpur
Flying over the Gulf of Thailand, Sarah liked the clouds
Flying over the Mekog River. This is on our stop at Phnom Penn
An EVA DC-9 at Phnom Penn
A Vietnam Airlines A-320
Central Cambodia, mainly rice fields
Flooded rice fields by Siem Reap
At Siem Reap's airport, in our Malaysian Airlines 737
Sarah at our hotel
At Angkor Thom
A drawing about the Khmer Rouge regime in the landmine museum
A child in the lake. He belongs to the boat community. Most of the people are refugees from Vietnam but have no citizenship (either Cambodian or Vietnamese). They don't speak the language and since they have no papers they cannot work
This is a crocodile farm and a turist center. It is also a floating store
This little boy was begging. He is missing one arm as a result of a landmine explosion
A young mother (no more than 13 years old) and her baby
A house in the countryside
Sarah riding a horse on the country. This is the real rural area
The common way of transportation
The Dear Leaders
There is luxury in Siem Reap...
... as well as poverty
We flew Singapore - Kuala Lumpur- Phnom Penn - Siem Reap. During our descend on Phnom Penn (Cambodia's capital) we flew over the Mekog River. Here are some pictures.
Monitor at Kuala Lumpur
Flying over the Gulf of Thailand, Sarah liked the clouds
Flying over the Mekog River. This is on our stop at Phnom Penn
An EVA DC-9 at Phnom Penn
A Vietnam Airlines A-320
Central Cambodia, mainly rice fields
Flooded rice fields by Siem Reap
At Siem Reap's airport, in our Malaysian Airlines 737
Sarah at our hotel
At Angkor Thom
A drawing about the Khmer Rouge regime in the landmine museum
A child in the lake. He belongs to the boat community. Most of the people are refugees from Vietnam but have no citizenship (either Cambodian or Vietnamese). They don't speak the language and since they have no papers they cannot work
This is a crocodile farm and a turist center. It is also a floating store
This little boy was begging. He is missing one arm as a result of a landmine explosion
A young mother (no more than 13 years old) and her baby
A house in the countryside
Sarah riding a horse on the country. This is the real rural area
The common way of transportation
The Dear Leaders
There is luxury in Siem Reap...
... as well as poverty
Wednesday, June 4, 2008
Now in Phuket, Thailand
This past weekend was our last weekend trip around Asia. This time we went to the Club Med at Phuket, Thailand
Playing at Kota beach
We could not take the twins on our day trip to Phi Phi Islandas, since the ride would be rocky. The Islands are beautiful and they had been in some movies. The most famous was in James Bond and in "The Beach" with Leonardo Dicaprio.
During the speed boat ride to Phi Phi Islands
The Sea of Andaman
This is a dead sea turtle. It was enormous, about 2 meters
Danny at "The Beach"
We were in tsunami zone
I was testing if Danny could swim in deep water with his life vest because in our next stop we would be doing snorkeling at deep waters
At a bird's nest cave in a cliff of a mountain. Local people collect the bird's nests and sell them. Chinese eat it as a delicacy and it is one of the most expensive dishes in the world
Leaving the islands behind
Nohemi at a local festival
Sarah at the trapeze
Danny at the Bungee
Nohemi in a Tuk Tuk
Nohemi with Hannah and Christian at the Club Med entrance
Playing at Kota beach
We could not take the twins on our day trip to Phi Phi Islandas, since the ride would be rocky. The Islands are beautiful and they had been in some movies. The most famous was in James Bond and in "The Beach" with Leonardo Dicaprio.
During the speed boat ride to Phi Phi Islands
The Sea of Andaman
This is a dead sea turtle. It was enormous, about 2 meters
Danny at "The Beach"
We were in tsunami zone
I was testing if Danny could swim in deep water with his life vest because in our next stop we would be doing snorkeling at deep waters
At a bird's nest cave in a cliff of a mountain. Local people collect the bird's nests and sell them. Chinese eat it as a delicacy and it is one of the most expensive dishes in the world
Leaving the islands behind
Nohemi at a local festival
Sarah at the trapeze
Danny at the Bungee
Nohemi in a Tuk Tuk
Nohemi with Hannah and Christian at the Club Med entrance
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