Friday, May 18, 2007

Day 4 of "Scary May '07 Work Trip"

Had a terrible time yesterday, with the travelling from Changzhou all the way to Daesan. As the trip involved a number of transfers from cab to train and back to cab, by the time I arrived at Shanghai Pudong International Airport, I was so tired that I was sighing the whole time there.

This fatigue carried on all the way through the flight and on the road from Incheon to Daesan. It did not help that I had a deadline to meet, and had to work till about 2am local time. And woke up by 6am to get ready to meet the rep from the customer.

At the customer's site, it was some waiting (in fact, i waited until late afternoon to begin my real work). Waited and slept a little. Also had some nice discussions with several of the folks here. Some of them have really good english, and I must work harder to reduce my speaking pace, as well as reduce the number of strange phrasings that I seemed ever so incline to use (there i went again). It was also nice to meet some old friends, who had turned up at the same location for the activities.

Not sure how long this scary work trip will take. Have already completed the 1st part, with Changzhou (again) visited. After the work in Daesan is up, it will be back to China, though Dalian this time. Should be exciting.