Week 2 - Pattaya Survivors

 

Lunch at the mall food court near IBM

This weekend is here and I haven’t posted any news from last weekend or the work week.   We had a lot of fun excursions last weekend including visits to a disco, beauty pageant, and a short boat trip to the nearby island of Koh Larn for some beach time.  The people are wonderful here, very warm and welcoming.  The beach was beautiful and you can certainly see why the world flocks to resorts in this part of the world.

Some Google searching found St. Nikolaus Roman Catholic Church in Pattaya.   After a late night, I managed to awaken at 7:45am for 8:30am English mass.  3 km away which meant I had to figure a way to get there quickly.  Motorcycle taxi to the rescue!  Pretty cool way to travel to mass, including the driving against traffic in the opposite lane to get ahead of traffic at a stop light. 

Back to business on Sunday sifting through all the data we gathered in the first week.  Our project is to advise two organizations on strategy.  We worked this week between the office set up at our Holiday Inn and the local IBM branch office near the Port of Laem Chabang.  The local IBM team has been outstanding in their support to our work.  I especially appreciate Jackree because he laughs at my jokes.  We had a productive week which started with some storming but we’re ending up with a nice deliverable.  Ahead are some more weekend excursion fun and briefing our findings and conclusions to the City and Port.

Having a wonderful time here but I do miss my family and my Homeland.  

Koh Larn beach

St. Nikolaus RC Church

Look what I found! Just wanted coffee?

Jackree (far left) enjoying some Preis-induced levity at the office.