Aberdeen Business Trip: 5 - 12 Jul 2010

The trip to Aberdeen is indeed fulfilling. Was thankful of the opportunity to meet great colleagues from all over the world, knowing that the leadership team have great inspirations to want to make a difference. Learning the articulated mission, vision, market drivers, key customer valued propositions and detailed road map to lead the organization to the stipulated goals.

Even though the plane journey and jet lag were horrible, but the trip is worthwhile as a whole. Even though we only have 2 days for R&R.

Check out some of the pics taken:

we rented a car from Inverness to drive to Loch Ness area to visit the Urquhart castle. Din manage to catch the 'Loch Ness Monster' as depicted in the legend though.. it was nonetheless a new driving experience in a country with narrow roads, many bends, speed cameras, roundabouts in a manual vehicle

reali enjoyed this eating along the street experience. this restaurant is situated in the midway of nowhere on a road...and we decided to stop the vehicle there for lunch..the result was pleasantly surprising. with good food, nice scenary. i can foresee that if i were to do the same in Singapore, i would be sweating/ sticky/ breathing in smoky air, and also fearing of being knocked down by vehicle while eating...


scotland is this big and we manage to bump onto our colleague in Aberdeen at Fort Augustus!!!!

the last visit we managed to go to is the Edinburgh castle. great preservation of the old british architecture.

the rest of the photos can be viewed via the following link:

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=181145&id=525175892&l=894c56005a

the weather is comfortably cooling, even though it's summer...temperature ranging from 15-19 degC. people there are generally nice. the drawback is that it is extremely stressful to do shopping there. by the time we finished sight seeing at close to 4pm, that leaves us only around 1.5 - 2 hrs to shop around, because it's their culture to close the shops at around 1730!!! i definitely dun haf the luxury to pick and choose.

how do we keep ourselves entertained on the weekend evenings??? below is the answer:

Germany vs Uruguay

Spain vs Holland

kinda of surprising for someone who dun usually watch soccer ya? but unfortunately, that's the best night entertainment...