Travelling to Ho Chi Minh

Towards the end of 2010, my company have put up a 'travel ban' for all its employees to cut spending / reduce cost.

This is a yearly affair which will take place in most of the year, if not every year in my company. Under the travel ban, travelling will only be approved for those cases which you will sign a contract / secure a sales with the customer. Included in the scope of 'travel ban' are all meetings and trainings. All those activities are frozen.

As 2011 comes, the ban in partially lifted and travelling for the purpose of meeting customer and for site survey is then allowed. Hence, tomorrow, I will be travelling to Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam for a customer site visit.

The flight is at 0900 hrs and it will take about 2 hours to reach. The day will be packed with activities as I have appointments at the moment I clear the customs and immigrations.

The are meeting schedules for the next few days before flying back again on Friday morning flight at 11 am.

Then, my holidays will start and one of the highlight of the weekend is to welcome my fiancée back from the US after 10 months.

Really looking forward for that.

Scaling Mount Kinabalu

Just before Christmas in 2010, one of my friend send me an e-mail telling me that his office colleague wants to organize a trip to climb Mount Kinabalu in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia.

The best time to hike this mountain is in March and April and they group plan to go on the 20th of March 2011.

I have been doing some reading on this climb and sounds interesting. The peak of the climb is to see the sunrise and the highest peak is at 4,095m known as the Low's Peak.

So from now onwards, whenever the weather permits, I will go for jogging to physically prepare myself for this climb. When I first started, I can barely complete one round without stopping, but now, I can do one and a half round non stop and I plan to improve it to 2 rounds and so on to build my stamina for this climb and also for my own health.

This will be a great trip and lets see how it goes. Will definitely update more when I come back after the climb.