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It's been close to one week since I came back from the US trip. Training session is going to be conducted next week and I've not finished my presentation slides yet. More responsibilities are coming my way and I better watch my steps..haha!!
Anyway, it's my first trip to the US and indeed many incidents are worth mentioning. The flight was 3 hrs to Hong Kong where we waited another 3 hrs then 14 hrs to Chicago then 3 hrs of waiting again and finally another 1.5 hrs flight to Columbus. The travelling time took close to one day and the space was so small in the plane. Worst still, I dun have SQ air stewardess to serve me red wine unlike someone else.....hee!!
The weather at Ohio was indeed colder than Singapore and the food was mostly fast food plus the chinese food was not that fantastic also. The second night when I went to the nearby chinese restaurant to have my dinner, I think I must have been such a idiot. I ordered a plate of sweet and sour chicken plus a plate of bean sprout with fried rice thinking it was meant to be "Zhi Cha" in Singapore. The chicken was served with the sauce separated in a small bowl where the sauce was gotten by the table nearby and the fried rice was taken from the buffet tray too. What I had not realized is that mostly all the people are eating buffet style for USD$12 while a "carrot" like me had ordered separately for close to $15.
On wednesday, the people fron Ansty invited all of us to a restaurant for dinner. I ordered fillet and the waiter asked how ripe I want it to be. Lots of question came to my head. How ripe I want the fish to be...hmm...strange? However, not wanting to appear stupid, I ordered medium cooked as I forgotten what is fully ripe known as? (Now I knew it's called well-done) After 15 minutes, a piece of meat appeared in front of my face where it seem like steak more than fish. Funny right? How in earth did my fish change into beef instead? (2 days later, I realized from my colleague that I had order something called "Fil-lon"?) I had to swallow the meat piece by piece with a mouth of rice each time...almost want to vomit at the end of the session!!
The trip was quite free and easy with about 2.5 days of relaxation. I managed to visit Cleveland, Easton & Polaris as my colleague drove me around. Went to three factory outlet which costs me close to SGD$1,000 for shopping. Broke liao...need to eat grass already. Anyway, the clothes, shoes, luggage and basically all the things there are all very cheap.
That's all for now and hopefully, the next trip will be a better one for me.
Anyway, it's my first trip to the US and indeed many incidents are worth mentioning. The flight was 3 hrs to Hong Kong where we waited another 3 hrs then 14 hrs to Chicago then 3 hrs of waiting again and finally another 1.5 hrs flight to Columbus. The travelling time took close to one day and the space was so small in the plane. Worst still, I dun have SQ air stewardess to serve me red wine unlike someone else.....hee!!
The weather at Ohio was indeed colder than Singapore and the food was mostly fast food plus the chinese food was not that fantastic also. The second night when I went to the nearby chinese restaurant to have my dinner, I think I must have been such a idiot. I ordered a plate of sweet and sour chicken plus a plate of bean sprout with fried rice thinking it was meant to be "Zhi Cha" in Singapore. The chicken was served with the sauce separated in a small bowl where the sauce was gotten by the table nearby and the fried rice was taken from the buffet tray too. What I had not realized is that mostly all the people are eating buffet style for USD$12 while a "carrot" like me had ordered separately for close to $15.
On wednesday, the people fron Ansty invited all of us to a restaurant for dinner. I ordered fillet and the waiter asked how ripe I want it to be. Lots of question came to my head. How ripe I want the fish to be...hmm...strange? However, not wanting to appear stupid, I ordered medium cooked as I forgotten what is fully ripe known as? (Now I knew it's called well-done) After 15 minutes, a piece of meat appeared in front of my face where it seem like steak more than fish. Funny right? How in earth did my fish change into beef instead? (2 days later, I realized from my colleague that I had order something called "Fil-lon"?) I had to swallow the meat piece by piece with a mouth of rice each time...almost want to vomit at the end of the session!!
The trip was quite free and easy with about 2.5 days of relaxation. I managed to visit Cleveland, Easton & Polaris as my colleague drove me around. Went to three factory outlet which costs me close to SGD$1,000 for shopping. Broke liao...need to eat grass already. Anyway, the clothes, shoes, luggage and basically all the things there are all very cheap.
That's all for now and hopefully, the next trip will be a better one for me.
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