Singapore - Hanging in Chinatown enjoying the pre-NYE activities

The year of the snake - showing up everywhere.  Lovely, yet very humid, evening in Singapore.  And the crowds were out shopping - it was like the State Fair......booth after booth of stuff and people everywhere taking it all in.

Hong Kong - the weekend

The first real weekend.  It was a very busy three weeks kicking everything off and getting everyone on the ground and settled in - and a trip to Singapore as well.
Saturday was a beautiful partly sunny day - and a wonderful evening.  Ran some much needed errands,  checked out a few spots in the neighborhood and just wandered and continued to connect the dots of how all the different streets and areas intersect and work together.
And the preparation for the New Year are now in high gear - new things popping up all over.

Hong Kong - a bit of New Years a bit of the street nearby

Hong Kong big be big, bold, beautiful and expensive - and just the opposite around the corner.  A great contrast of wonders and reality over and over again block after block.

Hong Kong - The JAMF Team is on the ground

This week we got the last few of the first wave of JAMF Pacific arrived in Hong Kong.
We are getting them settled in and anxious to have them join in the wonders of the city along with us.

Singapore - Getting ready for the New Year too...and nighttime on high

Preparations are in full force here as well for the upcoming New Year's Celebration.

A beautiful warm and windy night so we ventured up to the top of the Marina Bay Towers - amazing views and worth the price from time to time.

Hong Kong - Adam's Birthday....to be 27 again. And a night of it being a small world for me!

Okay, so Adam K, like most everyone walking the streets of Hong Kong is looking at his screen and typing all the time.  He finds it interesting how often they are all looking - I am not sure why hehe.

Being an online guy, he put out a note on an online site that it was going to be his birthday and wondered if anyone wanted to celebrate with him - smart guy to know I was not his best party buddy!

He got a couple guys that said they were in.  And it turned out a college friend of his fiancee was in town as well for the birthday evening.

We started with dinner and then met up with "new friends".

Then it got interesting.......

Three gentlemen joined us for the evening.

Adam, another one, is a great friend a Haiti Outreach - the group Eric Lecy supports in a very big way and no doubt Eric knows this guys connections to the group.  Hit one.

Steve, the fiancee's friend.  In the UST MBA program, lives in White Bear, and of course knows Jim Hansen, a great friend of mine for 30+ years from the program.  Hit two.

Taylor, from Chicago, he sits twenty feet and works everyday in HK with a great mate of mine from Sydney that I worked with on my last stint back there in the late 90s.  Scott and I got together on one of my recent trips to HK - haven't told him I am grounded here for awhile.  Won't he be surprised on Monday.  Hit three.

Who needs six degrees of separation when I can do it in one or worst case two - WOW what a crazy night of connections it turned out to be for me last night.