John's Malaysia Trip

John recently went on a trip to Malaysia as he usually does about once a year for work. He loves to travel and this trip was shorter than most. He is usually gone for 2 weeks and this trip was only one week. We're not sure if it was the short trip or the fact that he is now forty that has been so rough but he had an abnormally difficult time with jst lag this time.

It made him pretty productive for about a week becuase he would wake up at 2am ready to go. By 7pm he was crashing. During that week a lot got done on his game though.

The trip consisted mostly of training new people to his group but the reason he really loves going to Malaysia is because they have the best food in the world. He didn't take many pictures (no camera), but others took some and one was at an outdoor seafood restaurant that one of his suppliers like to take him and his group to while he is there. Its called Bali Hai and they have about 50 big aquariums of fresh fish lined up along the wall to choose from. The restaurant is right on the water. It's so close in fact that when the tsunami hit the south of Asia a few years ago the restaurant got flooded. Here's a picture of him and some people from his work group.

The island they visited is pretty small considering Intel and a bunch of other tech companies all ahve plants there. Here is a picture of the east coast of the island which is the more developed side of the island.

Here are more pictures of him in the office after a day of training.

The only drawback to the travel is that Intel no longer pays for business class and he has to travel coach, but at least he gets to fly on Singapore Air which, in his opinion, is the best airline bar none. Any other airline is a distant 2nd and all of the domestic airlines are way down toward the bottom of his list.