Staying

Crabs for lunch. That's the treat when the girl comes home. I guess absence does make the heart grows fonder. And we had very good tim sum yesterday in Oakland, courtesy of an old golf kaki from Singapore, here with daughter and wife to look into the possibility of migrating for the sake of the kid. She's sweet, vrey pleasant smile. Just finished her PSLE. The 3/4 man was supposed to acquaint her with what schooling is like in the old US of A but being who he is, he hardly spoke a word. Oh well. Someday, he's learn to socialize. He's already better - actually heard him said "thank you, sir" to a stranger who was helpful. Picking up some American mannerism no less.

In three weeks, it will be thanksgiving and we should be heading south to Palm Springs. Hope the weather will be kind and the man and 3/4 can play some golf. Maybe we can cruise around and pop into Mexico for a look-see. I have not been able to plan anything. Work is really picking up as the processes I put in place start to kick in and Downstream is finally getting traction in the SharePoint space. It's taken me a few months but it was gratifying when on Friday, a consultant on the project team came a knocking to tell me that of all the business reps, I was the most constructive and the project team felt I had made a difference. I could tell when the project head, my former boss, asked me to help with a workshop to engage all the business reps. Me who has the least amount of experience in this whole project because I am still the new kid in the game when the others have been around some couple of years.

I hope we can get the permanent residency thing going. Gotta ask what's happening...