So I didn't sleep well last night. I was up at 5 AM wide awake and still not used to the time difference. That gave me time to check out the work out area before work. I was full of energy so why not. 6 AM rolled around and I ran 7K because everything here is metric. I'm going to guess it was close to what I usually run because I was sweating profusely. Anyway, I finished then finally got to hit up the breakfast buffet. It wasn't bad, but it wasn't as good as it had been built up. Chocolate banana waffle should taste better than this I thought. Am I am waffle snob? Sure...but the coffee was pretty good. These guys have the best papaya and mangos I've ever had. Well worth the 24 hours to get here. I finished off and my driver took me to the office. It didn't take long, only 15 minutes which was surprising since these guys have worse traffic than we do in Chicago. Speaking of which, I know I've mentioned this previously, but these guys really don't care about traffic laws. How do you pull off a 3 lane change at a stop light in front of all of the lanes? I saw this morning. Buses are the king of the road here. They'll take your lane whenever they like and will pollute the air quicker than you can say 'Radmanovic'.
Okay, just arrived at the office and there is a guard with a sawed off shotgun at the front door. I feel safe. Up to the 30th floor, where apparently no one told them I was arriving today. Gravy. I finally get my badge and figure out that I shouldn't get to the office at 8 AM. It doesn't work that way here. Everyone starts showing up at niner here and they work late. I win some points since I brought a bunch of candy for the team. A feeding frenzy ensues...four bags of candy are gone within 30 minutes. There are 10 people on my team that I've never met and it's nice to finally meet all of the people that I have indirect contact with on a daily basis.
Around noon everyone starts getting loud...lunchtime. All of the leads on the team go out for a team lunch. Me, Ram, Sean, Nick, and Jona go to a Spanish restaurant called Uno Mas for lunch. They have good paella and I get to see lettuce for the first time here and it's great because everything is fried here. We take a two hour lunch and talk about what we need to accomplish while I'm here. Jona (the testing lead) doesn't say more than four words the whole time we're there. She's shy, but we keep harassing her and she comes out of her shell. The rest of the afternoon goes slow since I'm exhausted which means its time for drinky...
Alfred, Elison, and I go to the Dusit Hotel for big beersk. We go there and we all get the bottomless beers. You can get bottomless beers for 350 pesos ($8) here from 5:30 - 9:00. Yeah I think this will be worth it. I end up having 2 liters of beer in the few hours we're there and I have something I think is weird to eat. I had whole fried shrimp. Whole fried shrimp with the head, legs, tail and shell on. The first couple I couldn't do it. There's no way they de-turd these things. Then I tried it. It just tastes like fried. It came with this delicious spicy vinegar dip that takes any remnance of flavor away. We stayed there until 9 and then I went back to the hotel and got on a call for work at 10. I don't think anyone noticed...
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