the whole week was packed with workshop, discussion, daily work, team dinner, team event, chatting, snapping pictures :-)
we have to juggle our daily tasks and the workshop. lots of things were discussed and brainstormed. truthfully speaking i was and still am a little bit disappointed with some of the outcome (which i'm still struggling to console myself..). Nevertheless, we did have productive sessions which we could hardly accomplish over teleconference. monday was ended with a nice team dinner at an italian restaurant while on tuesday, the day was longer for us as the big boss tried to complete the 1-1 session till almost 8pm. well, 8pm didn't sound so late for some of us in Malaysia, but it surely did for the dutch (at least for S// dutch). for them, 5pm is just nice, 6pm is a little bit too much and any later is definitely too much! even the shops and malls are closed by 6pm. only restaurants and grocery stores are still open till late night.
from left: dave, jerrel, me, tony, hans (the boss), madeline, ralf (the big boss), jesse, rendell
on wednesday, the first half of the day was spent at the office finishing our tasks. by noon, we were already out for our team event. hans planned a trip to see the Batavia ship in a place called Lalystad, after nobody except myself voted for water rafting at an indoor stadium, and a visit to Carlsberg was cancelled out of respect for myself, the only muslim in the team. Anyway, seeing the ship was nice but i would definitely appreciate it more given a better temperature. i almost couldn't feel my fingers and my face was numb! later that evening, we had our dinner at a restaurant nearby. since they didn't have english version menu, so hans and jerrel became our translator. perhaps i should consider attending dutch class before my next trip :-)
ps: HERE for more pictures.
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