{"id":296,"date":"2008-05-11T10:13:17","date_gmt":"2008-05-11T08:13:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/?p=296"},"modified":"2008-05-11T10:13:17","modified_gmt":"2008-05-11T08:13:17","slug":"travel-travel-and-more-travel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/travel-travel-and-more-travel\/","title":{"rendered":"Travel, travel and more travel."},"content":{"rendered":"

\"OWSunrise<\/a><\/p>\n

This amazing sunrise was taken one morning about 2 weeks ago.  It looks like the whole sky was burning and had all these shades of orange and red.<\/p>\n

\"image\"<\/a> Pity about the Stormers that only managed a draw last night but taking the weather into account I think we should take what we got and move onto the next game against the Lions.<\/p>\n

The Stormers is 4th on the log and still in the running for the semi’s. They would probably battle to get a home semi.  It would be good if the Sharks can also move up to the semi’s.<\/p>\n

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So back to the title of this post.  About a month ago I started working on a big new assignment with a company based in Johannesburg.  I am still with IBM and are working on the outsourcing deal between MTN and IBM.  This basically mean that I stay in Cape Town and work in Johannesburg.  I travel up beginning of week and then back to Cape Town towards the end of week.  I use to stay in hotels but that just got to me.  Now I use a guesthouse and go back to the same one each time and try to stay in the same room.  Now at least it feels like home away from home. <\/p>\n

The travelling in airports and airplanes  is really tiring.  We have estimated that a round trip can take anything up to 10 hours if you take into account time from home to airport, picking up car and then trip from airport to destination.  On my next trip which starts 20 May I will stay longer which mean a weekend in Gauteng.  This will be a new experience since I have not really spend leisure time in Gauteng yet, so will need to find things to do.  Anyone in the area that knows me and want to meet for coffee or drinks, just let me know and we can make a plan.<\/p>\n

Last week Thursday evening we had the Welcome event for all new IBMers that joined us from MTN.   Welcome to all the new IBMers, trust that you will enjoy your stay and work with us here at IBM.  Now some of my colleagues really let their hair down<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Next week I am off to Sun City with over 200 of my colleagues for a well deserved break and to have some fun in the sun.  Thanks to IBM GTS which had a great year last year.<\/p>\n

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