December 6, 2014 johncohn Leave a comment

Woke early and worked for a bit.. then left for Inchon airport with plenty of time.. I thought . I’d allowed 3.5 hours including the one hour to the airport. and I still had to run for my plane due to the long lines everywhere at the airport.

The trip to Kazakhstan was only 7 hours, whihc felt pretty short at this point. i worked the whole way and actually could have used mor time to catch u for the crazy week

it was gettign dark as we flew in to Almaty.. it was still light enough to see it’s amazing setting !

Almost got ripped off getting a cab to the hotel.. but it worked out.. .I checked in.. then walked through the slush to a nearby mall and had food court sushi by myself.. instant homesickness !

now i gotta sleep. I keep falling asleep at the keyboard. More tomorrow !

Nite all, nite sam

-me

Friday night – Gangnam style

December 5, 2014 johncohn Leave a comment

Finally.. a near ly full nights sleep. Had the magic potion of orange juice and grape juice to give me super powers for the day

Walked out of the hotel this morning and realized that i was in Gangnam.. home of Gagnam style.. i did the dance on the street as all tourist are required to do

I had a day of very good meetings here at IBM Korea. What an amazing group of people. I got to talk to a bunch of the technical people here and they are so smart and creative. I gave a talk on reinvention… which was fun to do..

then a great lunch with KY , JT and Veena

then meetings with a great team all afternoon. we have been workign on complimentary projects and it was so good to synch up. I’m relaly lookign forward to workign witht his team in the futre..

aroud 5:30 Veena and YungJin came up to say goodye.. we’ve all worked so hard this week.. it was a little sad saying goodbye to them both

We worked until about 7:30 .. then 5 of us went to a great Korean/Japanese fusion place..

now I’m full, sleepy and exhausted.. time for sleep. more tomorrow hen i can think !

thanks for everything korea !

-jc

Thursday night – lonnnnnnnng day !

December 4, 2014 johncohn Leave a comment

Another long day in the city that never seems to sleep. After about 3.5 hours of sleep last night I was up at a meeting this morning at 7, then an hour drive in to work. It went well today which was gratifying.. hard work with good friends and a cool project .. can’t ask for much more than that..

Most of the team is heading out tomorrow (or already today) , so we took advantage to have dinner together ..which was great . YunJin found s a really authentic Korean place..

i think these noodles were made out of beans of some sort.

these were some kind of savory pancakes

here’s a plate of tentacles

and some very dressed up tofu

shrimp balls maybe ? something like that..

soup that tastes like Maltomeal

monkfish -ish stuff

yummy shiso leaf in vinegar

salty oyster thing

rice cake and oranges

heading outside ( I think its like 12 degrees F out)

good bye freinds.. hope to see you soon !

OK.. falling asleep as I type. More tomorrow

nite all. nite sam

-me

Wednesday night late – industrious

December 3, 2014 johncohn Leave a comment

2:40 AM and I’m just getting back from work.. its an hour each way from the hotel to the work site.. and it’s all Seoul.. I need to get soem sleep.. but first I must say that I am in awe of this country and it’s people. They are so industrious.. hard working, so smart and very. very disciplined..

i must sleep now.
more tomorrow.. ! wish us luck !

nite all -nite sam
-me

heres theview from the workout room this morning