My First London Journey (Sept 19 - 22, 2007)
It sounded funny if you know that I only stayed 1 night in London with 2 nights on the plane.
Similar to the previous Frankfurt journey back in July this year, I took a midnight flight from Hong Kong and arrived in the early morning. But the problem this time was that the room was not yet ready and thus I could only changed my clothes without any shower or wash-up before attending the loooong meeting in office. The 2nd difference this time was that I couldn't upgrade to business class and thus you can imagine that a tall boy like me wouldn't have good sleep on the plane.
After the real-long full day meeting, I had chance to stroll around the Oxford Street and Regent Street for an hour - which was nothing if you want to shop around! I then joined colleagues for dinner in local English pub before heading back to hotel.
The next day, I had a full English breakfast in hotel. Did some exercise by walking from hotel to underground with collleagues 'cos no taxi was around in the hotel. It gave me a good chance to try the pretty old London underground. The design of the train is pretty funny - in a round tube shape. Tall people shouldn't stand close to the doors or thei heads will be chopped off when the doors close.
After the half day meeting, colleagues had a Chinese dim sum lunch in the office. Then the Hong Kong crowd (5 people including me) and our Dubai colleague Lavina spent another 2 hours in Oxford Street and the Convent Garden area before heading back to office in which I surfed the web a bit.
That was it! A real short journey.
Similar to the previous Frankfurt journey back in July this year, I took a midnight flight from Hong Kong and arrived in the early morning. But the problem this time was that the room was not yet ready and thus I could only changed my clothes without any shower or wash-up before attending the loooong meeting in office. The 2nd difference this time was that I couldn't upgrade to business class and thus you can imagine that a tall boy like me wouldn't have good sleep on the plane.
After the real-long full day meeting, I had chance to stroll around the Oxford Street and Regent Street for an hour - which was nothing if you want to shop around! I then joined colleagues for dinner in local English pub before heading back to hotel.
The next day, I had a full English breakfast in hotel. Did some exercise by walking from hotel to underground with collleagues 'cos no taxi was around in the hotel. It gave me a good chance to try the pretty old London underground. The design of the train is pretty funny - in a round tube shape. Tall people shouldn't stand close to the doors or thei heads will be chopped off when the doors close.
After the half day meeting, colleagues had a Chinese dim sum lunch in the office. Then the Hong Kong crowd (5 people including me) and our Dubai colleague Lavina spent another 2 hours in Oxford Street and the Convent Garden area before heading back to office in which I surfed the web a bit.
That was it! A real short journey.
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The old saying "Time Flies" is very true. I couldn't imagine that one year is such a short period of time. When I sat inside the annual dinner venue this year, I could still remember that I went to Central with some E-Commerce teammates to buy Kung Fu costume for last year's annual dinner.
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