Cats, feline and early closure….
I have never seen so many cats before. Every house I pass by, at least 2 or 3 cats would be hanging out by the porch. Every building I pass by, I see about 4 or more.
What is this place? Cat central? Though not all of them are cute and cuddly and for the most part they’re rather mangy and weary of humans or at least strangers.
So far I haven’t gone anyway except work and back, though I can offer you this time. If you ever find yourself changing for Euro, DO NOT LET THEM GIVE YOU BIG DENOMINATIONS! Especially the Euro 500 because no one will ever accept them! I had to get it changed to smaller denominations at a bank! Else I would have been short on funds.
Another thing you should be aware about Cyprus is that they close early. At about 7:30pm, most shops are already closed so if you have plans to do anything, you’re out of luck. Only a few places would remain open especially eateries which makes sense. But I was hoping to check out the night life and sadly, unless I plan to go clubbing, I’m out of luck!
Currently in Dubai (Updated!)
Sorry folks, I left my card reader in checked in luggage so all I have for now is this low-res shot from my handphone. I'll update this entry later with more details about Dubai Airport. For now Sheepy here will keep you entertained. (Update: There are now more photos! Click on more!
I’m right now in Dubai for a 2 hour transit to Cyprus and this airport is HUGE! If I didn’t know otherwise I swear this airport occupies a few zip codes between where it begins and where it ends! The weather here is really nice and I wish I could go outside to take some shots but a last I’m only transferring so no such luck. Maybe I’ll plan my next personal vacation to come here again ^_^
I’m off to Cyprus.
As you may remember, I recently had to cancel all my plans to Bangkok for this year’s motorshow due to training at work. What I didn’t mentioned was that the company would be sending me to Cyprus for it so it wasn’t all gloom and doom then but I didn’t mention that fact because I’ve had incident where at the last minute it would get cancel is favor of cost cutting measure and managers’ went instead (lousy assholes).
But even if that had happened, I could have reverted back to my Bangkok plans because I’m still unable to get any refund for my plan tickets and the hotel would be easy to book again. Anyway, to keep a long story short, the trip will be for 2 weeks and everything is paid for (for once!) and I still have the weekends to myself. The whole thing is just about right, not too long and not too short.
Originally it would have been a five week training course but the company just revamped the training plan to reduce the duration. Hopefully they didn’t just try to jam pack the whole thing into a longer day but instead streamlined the training material or removed the irrelevant stuff.
Am I excited? Yes. Am I worried? Yes. Will I have fun, I sure as hell will try! Hopefully, I’ll be able to have some sort of Internet connection at least since the company are rather strict with their proxy servers. I can’t even go into gmail using the company Internet connection here! And since we all use the same proxy servers at all the branches, Internet updates from me might be forthcoming or at least deferred until a proper Internet connection can be obtained.
So what’s the gear line up this time? Since it’s for 2 weeks, I opt for:
- D700 with 17-35mm, 50mm, 70-300mm (going for a more balance run this time.)
- Konica Minolta CLE with 28mm, 40mm, 90mm (and it’s still lighter than one of my Nikon lenses XD)
- 22 rolls of film and lots of SD cards
and when will I be flying off? By the time you read this I would have flown off already, so yeah this is a post dated entry 
. I’ll let you guys know how this part of the trip turned out.
You didn’t think I wouldn’t give this trip a name now would you? Of course I will, I don’t see any other reason NOT to so without further ado, Operation Aphrodite. There is a reason for that name
Undesirable turn of events
NOOOOOOOOOOOO!
I do try to make an update when possible but recently I have been busy with work. So to answer the question, yes I’m still alive.
What is it about with this entry? What tragic event has befallen me this time? Well nothing serious actually but because of my new work, I would have to miss this year’s annual trip to Bangkok International Motor Show with Rojak Studio to attend company training at the end of this month. This training is essential to my work and cannot be defer……this was my reaction….
Alright enough melodrama! Sadly the company would not reimburse my flight tickets to Bangkok nor would Airasia entertain any request for even a partial refund of my money. Oh woe is me. I guess that’s how the cookie crumbles.
So that only leaves me with Super GT and AFA this year. After those I can consider the year over already,.
So yeah. Boring crappy shit.
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