A blog series about my in-country assignment to Makassar for IBM Corporate Service Corp. Follow along https://www-146.ibm.com/corporateservicecorps/ #ibmcsc #teamindonesia3 We are on house arrest. For two days. Per IBM Security’s advised, we need to stay in the hotel for our safety and security. There had been demonstrations in Jakarta and Makassar, and students are participating […]
A blog series about my in-country assignment to Makassar for IBM Corporate Service Corp. Follow along https://www-146.ibm.com/corporateservicecorps/ #ibmcsc #teamindonesia3 Work from Hotel. That was our status yesterday, and I guess it would be the same for today. ABV advised us to stay in the hotel because of the demonstrations happening around the city (due to […]
A blog series about my in-country assignment to Makassar for IBM Corporate Service Corp. Follow along http://www.ibm.com/ibm/responsibility/corporateservicecorps/ I can’t believe I am still up at this hour. I had coffee (and shrimp, squid and Gado Gado) from Red Bowl where Cheryl and I “worked”. We worked on the presentation for tomorrow and sort of organize […]
I learned new words/phrases last night. But they are not the ones which you can use in daily conversation. I don’t want to share the things and the phrases my team and I learned last night. I would rather that you learn it from the locals than in my blog. 😉 Anyway, we had Japanese […]
A blog series about my in-country assignment to Makassar for IBM Corporate Service Corp. Follow along http://www.ibm.com/ibm/responsibility/corporateservicecorps/ Bon Jovi. The Beatles. Pink. Oasis. Katy Perry. We had them last night. We did Karaoke! I did Karaoke! Although it is pretty popular in the Philippines (think Red Box), I am not really into it, but I […]
A blog series about my in-country assignment to Makassar for IBM Corporate Service Corp. Follow along http://www.ibm.com/ibm/responsibility/corporateservicecorps/ Pizza! That’s what we had last night, after almost a week of eating Indonesian Food. My tongue is literally on fire! It was a productive day yesterday, I think. We had a meeting with the Vice President of […]
Blog written on 3/11/2012 at Hotel Kempinski, Jakarta, Indonesia Follow along at http://www.ibm.com/ibm/responsibility/corporateservicecorps/ Kiki, the security head in Indonesia and the rest of the IBM Indonesia team welcomed us all with a warm smile. So this is how a client feels when visiting the local IBM office – or probably, they are just warm […]
Blog written on 3/11/2012 at Hotel Kempinski, Jakarta, Indonesia Follow along at http://www.ibm.com/ibm/responsibility/corporateservicecorps/ A lot. A lot has happened today. This is our last night in Hotel Kempinski and no one wants to leave the place. I suddenly dreamed of being an Expat who always stays in luxurious hotels and do business; but then again, […]
If you are passing through the Commonwealth Avenue, you cannot miss the new Human Nature store near the Caltex Gas Station. It is strategically built in that place with the goal of coming up with something beautiful in a place/road that is not even considered a business or industrial spot (but even called the deadly […]
Ok, it’s been four days, and I still hear the nice blending sound of voices of the cast of Mama Mia! Mamma Mia, here I go again.. My my, how can I resist you. Mamma Mia, does it show again.. My my, just how much I’ve missed you I know the last show had been […]
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