The past week was cool because some of my co-workers from Europe and Asia are in town. As you may know, I work with people all over the world, but I usually only correspond with them via instant messages, email or maybe on the phone, so this face-to-face (F2F) as we call it, is very cool. It has been fun getting to know them, telling them about American culture and learning theirs.

I know the guys from Singapore the best so I’ve mostly hung out with them. One thing I’ve learned is that in Singapore it is very hard to buy a car. You have to win the chance to buy a car in a lottery type system and then the cars are very expensive. So they are inthralled with our cars! One of the guys has a car and paid the equivalent of $40,000 for a Mitsubishi Colt, which they don’t sell here but from the picture it looks about like a 4 door Civic hatchback. His Mitsubishi is a 1.4 liter 4 cylinder, so when I showed him my 3.0 liter V6 he was in shock! They said, “I’ve never seen a number this high before!” That was fun. They’ve also bought a lot of DVDs that are banned in Singapore due to censorship. It’s a pretty strict country.

It’s been really neat getting to know them better over the last week and a half. Maybe someday I’ll get to take a business trip there! Last Sunday my boss Mike had a BBQ at his house. We introduced them to Shiner, Texas Hold ‘Em and BBQ. I’m not sure they totally understood Hold ‘Em but it was a great time. Here is a photo we took by the pool and a link to other photos in my gallery.