By all means, this post should come before the one on Kuala Lumpur... But anyway.
21st of May was a public holiday in Chile so we (Benoit, Stefi, Carlos and myself) took a 4 day week-end in Mendoza. 2 nights in the bus allowed us to enjoy the full 4 days there, although been woken up in the middle of the night and stand for one hour in the cold at the immigration desk was not the most fun part!
Mendoza is a great city! I loved it!! Very peaceful, lined up with trees all around, there is plenty of nice areas to walk around, a few parks very well maintained, especially the biggest one which is supposedly the biggest park in all South America! And yes big it is! And very enjoyable for that is.
The program was roughly the following: city tour on foot, horse back riding in an incredible setting, surrounded by the mountains, BBQs, our first real Paragliding flight!! and some quiet time in the parks :-)
The people in Mendoza are very friendly, the weather was perfect and it's not difficult to imagine living a peaceful life around there. I'll be back!
some photos:
Sunday, June 21, 2009
Saturday, June 20, 2009
Kuala Lumpur
Call it fate or whatever you like... but it's kind of a funny coincidence that being now in Chile since more than a year I have the opportunity to work for a Malaysian operator (namely Packet 1) that won a license to implement a WiMAX Network in Chile. Since we (Alcatel-Lucent) are their supplier in Malaysia, we are in a good position to also become their supplier for Chile.
Thanks to this project, I spent the last 3 weeks in Malaysia (minus almost 4 days to go and come back) where we went to hold the final clarifications and negociations.
It was a LOT of work packed in a short time because there is a deadline for completion of phase 1 of the project for October 2009. Which means they need to find the supplier, negotiate and sign a contract in a record time.
Which also means I also didn't have any free time when I was there...
I still managed to see some former colleagues, some local friends, go Climb at camp5 2 days in a row, eat some nice local food, go for a nice massage and even Jam with my former band buddies!! :-) That was really cool guys!
I couldn't do all I wanted and see all the friends I planned too but anyway it was excellent to be back to Malaysia for a few weeks.
One thing I didn't remember is how hot and humid this country is! It's insane!!
I'm now back in Chile (since this morning) and catching up on my blog!
Thanks to this project, I spent the last 3 weeks in Malaysia (minus almost 4 days to go and come back) where we went to hold the final clarifications and negociations.
It was a LOT of work packed in a short time because there is a deadline for completion of phase 1 of the project for October 2009. Which means they need to find the supplier, negotiate and sign a contract in a record time.
Which also means I also didn't have any free time when I was there...
I still managed to see some former colleagues, some local friends, go Climb at camp5 2 days in a row, eat some nice local food, go for a nice massage and even Jam with my former band buddies!! :-) That was really cool guys!
I couldn't do all I wanted and see all the friends I planned too but anyway it was excellent to be back to Malaysia for a few weeks.
One thing I didn't remember is how hot and humid this country is! It's insane!!
I'm now back in Chile (since this morning) and catching up on my blog!
5th meeting of BellyDance lovers in Chile
suprised by the title?
unless you know that my friend Taryn is a Bellydance teacher and dancer. It's been a long time I wanted to go to see a show but somehow it seems that I was never there at the right time. Before that I only got to see her student graduation ceremony in a Restaurant in Santiago's Bellavista neighborhood.
So that time I was invited and I went to the 5th meeting of bellydancing lovers in Chile, with a special guest from Argentina, namely Shanan.
I took the most of the occasion to try my birthday gift, an external flash for my camera. Unfortunately the batteries died quickly so I was stuck with the tiny integrated flash at the end, but it still did a fairly good job so I won't complain (it was my fault anyway!). Although I'm not especially into Arabic music the show was really entertaining, with lots of different groups of dancers, with different styles of dancing and of clothing.
You can enjoy some photos of the show below:
unless you know that my friend Taryn is a Bellydance teacher and dancer. It's been a long time I wanted to go to see a show but somehow it seems that I was never there at the right time. Before that I only got to see her student graduation ceremony in a Restaurant in Santiago's Bellavista neighborhood.
So that time I was invited and I went to the 5th meeting of bellydancing lovers in Chile, with a special guest from Argentina, namely Shanan.
I took the most of the occasion to try my birthday gift, an external flash for my camera. Unfortunately the batteries died quickly so I was stuck with the tiny integrated flash at the end, but it still did a fairly good job so I won't complain (it was my fault anyway!). Although I'm not especially into Arabic music the show was really entertaining, with lots of different groups of dancers, with different styles of dancing and of clothing.
You can enjoy some photos of the show below:
Week-end in Quintay
May 10th (yes we're getting closer...) was Vincent G.'s Birthday.
He decided to celebrate that on the beach, or rather, close to the beach and rented a house in Quintay for the week-end. The program was roughly as follows: friends, drinks, food, BBQ, party, presents, relax, sea view, music and more drinks and food!
Some people came on Friday evening, others on Saturday and some others joined the party on Sunday. We spent a really nice time there, enjoying the quietness of the area, the really great view from the house over the sea with breathtaking colors at sunset (check out the photos), ice cold water (only for the 2 courageous ones...), huge pieces of meat amongst others.
Enjoy the photos!
He decided to celebrate that on the beach, or rather, close to the beach and rented a house in Quintay for the week-end. The program was roughly as follows: friends, drinks, food, BBQ, party, presents, relax, sea view, music and more drinks and food!
Some people came on Friday evening, others on Saturday and some others joined the party on Sunday. We spent a really nice time there, enjoying the quietness of the area, the really great view from the house over the sea with breathtaking colors at sunset (check out the photos), ice cold water (only for the 2 courageous ones...), huge pieces of meat amongst others.
Enjoy the photos!
Climbing in La Serena
10th of April was a public holiday in Chile, which means we had a 3 day week-end. We took the opportunity to go spend the long week-end to La Serena, a coastal city about 500kms North of Santiago. The idea was to go there for a climbing week-end, and more specifically a Bouldering one. This means small to medium size rocks about 5m high, no ropes for security, only a mattress on the floor and our friends to catch us when we fall. But generally speaking we don't get to climb very high as most "problems" as we call a climbing route are rather short but with difficult moves (at least for me!).
We enjoyed great weather, nice company, really good food (thanks to your parents Andres), free accomodation (thanks again Andres) and of course nice climbing :-)
The only less cool point was all the traffic jam on our way back.... but even with that it was an excellent week-end!
Some photos (a lot actually...)
We enjoyed great weather, nice company, really good food (thanks to your parents Andres), free accomodation (thanks again Andres) and of course nice climbing :-)
The only less cool point was all the traffic jam on our way back.... but even with that it was an excellent week-end!
Some photos (a lot actually...)
Santana Concert
Oh gosh! I know I was sort of late in my posting on this blog, but didn't realize I was that late!
Quick update with some photos... I'll try to update more regularly from now on. I think one of the things I need to do is change the layout because I don't really like the one I'm currently using but I didn't find one that really better suited me.
Anyway... End of February (yes, that's how late I am!) I went to a concert of Santana with a couple of friends (Vincent & Caro). Since I wanted to enjoy the concert from up close, I bought myself a VIP seat :-) I actually landed next to a really voluminous guy at row 15 from the stage and couldn't sit comfortably since he was all over me...
Never mind, as soon as the first guitar stroke was heard I jumped out of my seat and moved closer to the stage... up to the third row where I could enjoy the whole show.
And it was really worth it! I hope I could play like that when I'm 60!!
Well actually I wish I could do that now! The concert was awesome. VIP seating really is nice. Makes u feel like you're in a small concert room
few pix taken with my iphone
Quick update with some photos... I'll try to update more regularly from now on. I think one of the things I need to do is change the layout because I don't really like the one I'm currently using but I didn't find one that really better suited me.
Anyway... End of February (yes, that's how late I am!) I went to a concert of Santana with a couple of friends (Vincent & Caro). Since I wanted to enjoy the concert from up close, I bought myself a VIP seat :-) I actually landed next to a really voluminous guy at row 15 from the stage and couldn't sit comfortably since he was all over me...
Never mind, as soon as the first guitar stroke was heard I jumped out of my seat and moved closer to the stage... up to the third row where I could enjoy the whole show.
And it was really worth it! I hope I could play like that when I'm 60!!
Well actually I wish I could do that now! The concert was awesome. VIP seating really is nice. Makes u feel like you're in a small concert room
few pix taken with my iphone
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