2007 Starts with a Bang...

Spent an eventful and fruitful new year here in Sunnyvale... started the day with a 630 morning call...so that i can get online quick, in time for countdown in SIngapore.

No lah, not the Marina countdown....the countdown was in Jurong East....@ Cindy's Place....haha. Yep, the usual bunch of them are having a countdown....like we always did. And the host was kind enough to link me up via MSN to join in the fun!!....Though the screen was barely large enough to fit everyone.... but well... better than nothing! We had good fun catching up....and teasing one another, despite the fact that we r 8440miles away from each other.

I was meeting the LA-Vegas group of friends for dinner at Xiao Fei Yang("Little Fat Lamb"). But we had to gather at Alfred's place in Stanford 1st... and i had a big surprise there.

I met GuoSong there!! Meeting a friend in Singapore is no big deal.... Singapore is so small, you see people everywhere. But meeting a Singaporean friend here in the States is really a huge coincidence!! Especially when he is stationed in Cleaveland. He just happened to be on a 2 week vacation here in the bay area, and his girlfriend happened to be a friend of Alfred. Until now, i still marvel at the coincidence....goodness! Finally, both of us could let out our string of 'wah lau', 'AWOL', 'gan chong' and 'lors', without being misunderstood.

Dinner at Xiao Fei Yang("Little Fat Lamb") was sumptuous!! It was basically a kind of Mongolian 'Yuan Yang Huo Guo'...and they specialize in mutton.......thinly sliced mutton. Similar to the sukiyakis you meet in japanese restaurants, juz that in sukiyakis, it is beef.

And this is the LA-Vegas gang....cool bunch of guyz...


We were fortunate to have a Google intern with us and we proceeded to pay Google a visit....anyway, its juz in Mountainview.

Google... is really....quite indescribable. Its so random, and no particular style, and no fixed order, such that all their meeting rooms are furnished differently. Somewhat, i feel that it is done such to allow creative juices to flow within the company. Fruit juices, fruit, cereal, milk, yogurt, snacks, chocholates, coffee etcetc are free for all to take. They are well-stocked up, fresh, and of good quality. Its so unlike the usual 'free' stuff whereby they are usually sub-standard, or always out of stock. A good example is the yogurt. They have normal yogurt, nonfat yogurt, and even organic yogurt!! Talk about employee benefits! They also have a "Swimming Treadmill"(i dunno what u call that pool!) for staff to swim in. Basically, u can swim on the spot, and the water currents will keep u there. And FYI, lunch in the cafeteria is free for all to take here too. We were really wondering how people work here....haha...

2007 has started with a bang. Im sure its the same with Singapore. With the job market and economy boom back home, i wish everyone the best for the upcoming year. Life just gets better!