Business Travel - Turin, Rotterdam & Dubai

My last post for this year, looking back it has been a productive year for me. Happy new year everyone!

Turin is just beautiful with Alps in the background.


Dubai again, this time I brought my mom along since she's never been to Dubai before.

Also while working in Rotterdam, my wife joined me to explore Amsterdam.

SAP Conference in Singapore

Attended SAP conference in Singapore last week. It was pretty informative and encouraging to see the future direction of SAP. Also took some time to bring the family to Universal Studios at Sentosa Island. It was really a fun day.

Dubai 2nd Visit & Knee Surgery

A very busy time indeed for me. Before my scheduled knee surgery, need to oversee first my project in Dubai. Took this opportunity to bring my family over especially for Ramadhan experiences. As for my knee surgery, I decided to go ahead to fix my knee permanently. I got my ACL in 2005 and compounded the injury recently with bucket handle. So it's better to fix this while I'm still young. The surgery went smoothly albeit the recovery process will take some time. But looking forward to be normal again :).

At Dubai Marina

Nice Burj Al Arab view from Souk Medinat Jumeirah

Recovering....

Business Trip to Dubai

My first assignment and a maiden visit to Dubai. A very modern city and a little bit expensive overall. But it was great to see Dubai diversifying their economy beyond oil. PLI Middle East operation is based in Dubai but the entity is reporting to South Africa office. I am responsible to setup and evaluate ERP system to support Middle East operation. Definitely need to be here again to oversee the implementation stage later.

View from Burj Khalifa park

Burj Khalifa - It's really tall!

Burj Al Arab - The sixth star hotel

View from PLI office

Cuti-cuti Malaysia 2015

We went to the north, beautiful Langkawi island & to the south, Legoland at Johor Bahru.

Tokyo, Japan 2014

We had a brief  family holiday in Tokyo visiting interesting places like Tokyo City, Hakone, Mt Fuji & Disneyland. We had a great fun indeed.The thing I impressed the most was how efficient the Japanese is from punctuality, cleanliness to advanced infrastructure. I've been to many places around the world but Tokyo is certainly another level from efficiency perspective. While this trip might be brief, but I've learned a lot!

Disneyland!

Hakone

 Mt Fuji

Tokyo City Scenery from Tokyo Tower

 Tokyo Tower

Houston & New York City 2014

While working in Houston, I took the opportunity to travel around. And we went to New York with United Airlines, 3 hours flight from Houston.

NASA Space Center in Houston

9/11 Memorial WTC

Around Central Park

At the top of Empire State Building

Madison Square Garden

Manhattan Skyline

Statue of Liberty

Times Square

Wall Street

Business Workshop at Houston

It is my first visit to Texas State and Houston is my destination. There is a big HP campus here in Houston and my meeting will be held here for a week. It was long flight and I took Korean Air with 1 transit at Seoul. I spent the weekend by visiting downtown Houston, here are some pics taken:

HP Houston Campus

Houston Center

USA & Texas Flag

Green Initiative in Downtown

Islamic Da'wah Center

Old Market Square

Selfie with Houston Skyscrapers in background

Houston Downton

Germany & Italy 2013

Arrived at Frankfurt and spent some days waiting my wife for her business trip.

 

One of the best country to travel by car, Italy...so scenic.

Leaning Tower of Pisa

Historical Rome

Romantic Venice

Milan - City of Fashion

And a visit to San Siro for Champions League match between AC Milan & Ajax Amsterdam

Frankfurt at night

Am in Frankfurt now, just about 3 weeks before Christmas. Such a beautiful scenery at night.