Taipei

Landed in Taipei around lunchtime. Only staying to tomorrow evening when it's time to go to Hong Kong, but at least there are some time to prepare for tomorrows meetings. Also managed to have dinner in Taipei 101.

Posted at 04:00AM Mar 31, 2008 by Tobias Karlsson in Travels  | 

Meeting Dan in Singapore

Dan and me during transfer at Changi Airport in Singapore


A funny thing happened this week. I was going on a roadshow to Taipei, Hong Kong and Kuala Lumpur and Dan was going to Singapore and we realized that my transfer to Taipei landed at the same time. So, we managed to get a quick coffee together before I had to board my onwards flight to Taipei. The world is small when you meet your Swedish friends in Singapore instead of Stockholm.

Posted at 04:00AM Mar 31, 2008 by Tobias Karlsson in Travels  | 

Gokulas Housewarming

Gokulas apartment


Gokula (new colleague) has now arrived in Dubai and moved in to his apartment so it's time for a housewarming party.

Posted at 04:00AM Mar 23, 2008 by Tobias Karlsson in Living  | 

Onwards to Kuala Lumpur

View over KLCC from the hotel room at Hilton Sentral




Petronas Towers




All this flying between different timezones takes it's toll


Spent the whole week in KL working. I really like KL, first of all, it's a real city which isn't what you can say about Dubai. A part from that people are nice and the climate is much nicer than Dubai. I have been quite a lot in KL and other areas in Malaysia, mainly for vacations over the years but also a number of times for work over the last years. I can warmly recommend going to Malaysia.

Posted at 04:00AM Mar 16, 2008 by Tobias Karlsson in General  | 

Another Brunch at Jumeirah Beach

Gathered for Dubai's favorite Friday happening


Back from Dhaka it was time to spend two days in Dubai before heading towards Kuala Lumpur. Since we had some new visitors to Dubai it was time for Dubai's favorite Friday happening, the brunch.

This time we went back to a old favorite, Jumeirah Beach Hotel which wasn't as good experience as before, the food is still excellent but there was a general lack of service which isn't what you're used for there, especially not with those prices.

Posted at 04:00AM Mar 14, 2008 by Tobias Karlsson in General  | 

Back to Bangladesh

Not the best work environment


It's time to go back to Bangladesh for the third time to hold a series of customer workshop. Last time I was there I ended up staying a extra day due to a faulty airplane. This time I'm supposed to be there for 4 days together with Magnus. We also decided not to stay inside central Dhaka which can be fairly busy (especially the traffic is crazy). So, this time we went for Radisson SAS which is located between our office and the customers office.

Posted at 04:00AM Mar 03, 2008 by Tobias Karlsson in Travels  | 

Going back to Dubai

Leaving office


Time to leave for the airport to go back to Dubai.

Posted at 04:00AM Feb 15, 2008 by Tobias Karlsson in Travels  | 

Botswana

Botswana map at the immigration




Haas consult...and beef farm?




Need a haircut?




The biggest insect I've seen


Today we went to Gabarone in Botswana. However, since there where no air line tickets available we had to drive there which was a four hour drive. I'm not to disappointed though since it gave me a chance to see something else besides Johannesburg. I must say that South Africa is a extremely beautiful country and even though we didn't see any wild animals besides some baboons that where sitting on the fencing next to the road you really would like to go on a regular safari to see more of the nature.

Johannesburg is actually situated 1800m above sea level so the landscape is really nice and the climate is not as warm as you might think.

Posted at 04:00AM Feb 13, 2008 by Tobias Karlsson in Travels  | 

Second trip to South Africa

Again, a different view on bringing guns to work




Nelson Mandela square in Sandton, one of the few "safe" places...




Example of game you can eat at Butcher Shop and Grill




And a small encouragement in the restaurant


Time for another trip to Johannesburg. This time a number of customer meetings was planned and as I realized last time, Johannesburg has a lot of security problems so you basically don't move around as a visitor without knowing where to go. However, the hotel is next door to Nelson Mandela square in Sandton which is considered safe so we could at least go out to get a good meal of local game in the evening.

Posted at 04:00AM Feb 11, 2008 by Tobias Karlsson in Travels  | 

Last hunt 2007-08

Hunting in the morning




About to leave back to Dubai in the afternoon


Since I'm leaving back to Dubai today I tried to get as much as possible done. So at six o'clock I got on the train to Norrköping where my brother picked me up to go hunting. Even though most of the animals are out of season you can still hunt wild bore, hare and foxes. Unfortunately we didn't get anything but at least we had a nice day. At two o'clock my brother gave me a ride back to Norrköping so that I could get the train back to Stockholm again and then directly jump on Arlanda expressen out to Arlanda where I was flying back to Dubai over Munich. On the way back to Stockholm the snow started falling and when I finally got on the flight there had fallen quite a bit of snow.

So, getting up at five, going 250 km for some hunting and nature, back to Stockholm to continue to Dubai and landing in 25 degrees heat 24 hours after getting up this morning I was a bit tired, but at least I used the time to the fullest.

Posted at 04:00AM Feb 02, 2008 by Tobias Karlsson in Hunting  |