A True Lesson on Diversity

I am now sitting in an office in Lieden, Holland with a Belgium speaking disco funk lovin technician since they do not have any space for visiting auditors. Meanwhile, in the background, my young technican friend is listening to Dr. Dre /Mariah Carey remix of “What’s love”. At the same time, he is speaking Dutch with his Hollandish friend in which they are talking about going to a Spanish Tex Mex Restrauant later this evening in dowtown Rotterdamn. Meanwhile, I am reading a French document that has been translated into English for my audit of my Belgium based company. Oh yeah, I forgot to mention, this morning, I met a Bangaledesh Indian man that speaks 6 launguages and an Asian woman who is in charge of the IT Security department who has adopted 4 different nationalities of kids.

Ok, this may seem very hard to believe but it is absolutely true. I couldn’t help but sit here and laugh inside at how sometimes our American stereotypes of what is “normal” is so different from the rest of the world. I just wanted to share this thought. See you when I get back, God willing.

By the way, I’m going to watch a huge soccer (football) match tonight at a “American Sports Bar” that apparently serves Miller Light HAHA……”It wasn’t me” by Shaggy just came on the radio.

TIME flies

Well, as many bloggers come to find out, it is hard keeping up with a blog.  I am writing as part of my assignement for my managing IT class for IT-503 for my MBA.  However, my plan is to truly keep up with this thing from now on.  Here’s an update since the last time I wrote.  FIRST and foremost, I got married to the love of my life, Arlinda, in October 2008.  It was an amazing wedding, but honestly, the more I think about it, it could’ve just been a piece of cake, a priest, and Arlinda and I and I would’ve been satisfied.  As luck would have it, Arlinda’s family is huge and we have a lot of friends on our side so we had over 300 + people at our wedding.   After that we went on a honeymoon to Fiji for 2 weeks (thanks mom and dad) and have been living the dream since. 

In other news, the U.S has elected the first African American president, very historic moments in history.  On a very bad note, the US economy continues to be in ruins and there is no end in sight.  Other than that, same old news, different days.  Is it just me or does time LITERALLY fly by nowadays? Is it possible for time to actually go by quicker than it did years ago? Now that is something to ponder. “Cheers” as they say in FIJI.