Wednesday, December 05, 2007
It's a Small World After All
After getting home from San Francisco Sunday night I had a message from someone on Fridae.com that said, "I was out at a dance club last night, and I saw a guy that looks like you! :)" Well, there's a reason for that...it was me! He lives in SF and was at Badlands, where I was with my friend Paulo. He really thought it was someone who looked like me, only shorter. Hmmmm. Not quite as odd as what happened last January in Dallas, but still...
Also in the small world category...on Thursday, my last night in Hawaii, I had a post-meeting meeting with people from my office who were flying home that night. I figured that would totally screw up my last night, and indeed it wrecked my chance to see Fritz again. As luck would have it, though, I was able to meet up later with Kester, whom I'd met on Fridae. Kester is a very nice, very sweet guy from Singapore who goes to school in Hawaii. Anyway, over coffee, as we were sharing tales, I decided to toss out the names of the few guys I know in Singapore to see if he knows them. Sure enough, he knows my friend Allan...I texted Allan as we were at Starbucks, telling him I was having coffee with someone he knows...and of course, it was morning in SG so he got it and texted back right away, and it was all a little surreal.
Kester's very cool. Glad we got to meet.
In San Francisco i finally got to meet Ben from Fridae...we'd hoped to meet when i was there in March, but alas, he was in Egypt. Damn the luck. And then i got to hang out on Saturday with the aforementioned Paulo, which involved shopping, lunch, shopping, dinner, drinks at Badlands and, if the stores were still open, there would have been more shopping (he helped me pick out a cute corduroy jacket from H&M). I really appreciated him taking the whole day to spend with me, that was very nice.
Overall, Hawaii was a great trip, San Francisco was much fun, but I don't mind the fact that I'm not scheduled for a work trip again until early February!
Also in the small world category...on Thursday, my last night in Hawaii, I had a post-meeting meeting with people from my office who were flying home that night. I figured that would totally screw up my last night, and indeed it wrecked my chance to see Fritz again. As luck would have it, though, I was able to meet up later with Kester, whom I'd met on Fridae. Kester is a very nice, very sweet guy from Singapore who goes to school in Hawaii. Anyway, over coffee, as we were sharing tales, I decided to toss out the names of the few guys I know in Singapore to see if he knows them. Sure enough, he knows my friend Allan...I texted Allan as we were at Starbucks, telling him I was having coffee with someone he knows...and of course, it was morning in SG so he got it and texted back right away, and it was all a little surreal.
Kester's very cool. Glad we got to meet.
In San Francisco i finally got to meet Ben from Fridae...we'd hoped to meet when i was there in March, but alas, he was in Egypt. Damn the luck. And then i got to hang out on Saturday with the aforementioned Paulo, which involved shopping, lunch, shopping, dinner, drinks at Badlands and, if the stores were still open, there would have been more shopping (he helped me pick out a cute corduroy jacket from H&M). I really appreciated him taking the whole day to spend with me, that was very nice.
Overall, Hawaii was a great trip, San Francisco was much fun, but I don't mind the fact that I'm not scheduled for a work trip again until early February!
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