Dubai Metro

We had a company Chinese New Year lunch at a fancy seafood restaurant the other week including sharkfin soup, abalone, crabs, lobster and lots of other stuff. Need I say "very nice"? The tally ended up on a neat $175 a head which equals 2 months of hawker lunches!!! Next day we had the now traditional happy hour at work meaning free drinks and food. Christine is commuting to HK and Jo to Dubai at the moment so we have plenty of tax free articles despite the ridiculously low quotas in singapore (1l beer, 1l wine, 1l spirit).
This was all together a well needed break from Dubai Metro work and combined with the weekend cinemas and chilling out in shopping malls and late suppers it was all in all a very nice weekend.
Those days seem like a happy utopia when I look back -I was still luckily unaware of Dubai Metro change of scope and a new high-rise development in Dubai (where else??). The problem is that Jo who's been responsible for the metro (and handing work to me...) will now take the lion's share on the skyscraper (which by the way is fairly prestigious...) hence leaving the metro to: (u guessed it)
-me, myself and I!
Bo told me "I have to give you this project so I can start paying you more" which I have no objections at all to.
Our new employee in Bangkok will be coming down soon to help us with calculations and somebody made a joke about letting him -Steve- stay in our well airconned server room instead of a hotel -much cheaper! However, Bo interjected that the server room had been reserved for me, and any resources I needed like sleeping bag, Red Bull (Vodka Red Bull yay), software etc would be given to me.

So what do I do when Im not working? hmmmm






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eehh?? not work?



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-AH! Like going to the ambassador's huge residence for bbq and networking with other YP's while drinking wine -all on the expense of unsuspecting swedish tax payers. Tax Refund wheeyyy!

Apart from that, the only thrilling thing that's happened is my hand phone dying, but it doesn't matter since i bought a new one the same day (before i realised it had died)...