Friday, September 12, 2008

Hurricane Ike

Hurricane Ike is coming straight at us. Houston is gonna be right in the middle of Ike's, a Cat 3 hurricane, path. Mandatory evacutions had been issued for some of the zip codes near the coastal area. We are lucky that we are not living in one of those areas.

This is definitely gonna be worse than Tropical Storm Edouard. For one, Houston Intercontinental Airport will be closed on Sat - the day YR is leaving Houston for Moscow. Ha. We are charging him for the additional day(s) that he will be staying with us until his catches the next flight out. Talk about being a good friend. heh.

Wednesday, September 10, 2008

First time....

....stayed until 1130pm in office. After three years, I finally got a taste of busy season again!

Sunday, September 07, 2008

Busy Season & Travel News

I can't wait for busy season to end!

This is my third Transfer Pricing busy season here and the worst so far. The previous two were pretty relaxed. Last year, I could even go to NYC on the long Labor Day weekend. This year, I had to stay back to work on both public hols. The group has grown quite a bit since I joined, but our client base has increased tremendously over the past couple of years which probably explains why I could be so busy now. Then again, this busy season is nothing compared to the peak periods I experienced back in Singapore. That was easily ten fold worse. In any case, busy season is gonna end next week. I am finally seeing some light at the end of this two-month-busy-season tunnel. ha.

On a side note, YR will be moving in to our apartment on Monday. He terminated his lease early thinking that he might be going out of town for training on the last week here in the US. But it turned out that the company couldn't find a venue to hold the training (trust that to happen here when the training course was planned way in advance). So now he is gonna stay with us for five nights until he leaves for Singapore with a layover of one week in Moscow.He is gonna have fun by himself in Russia without his beloved dearie who is already back in Spore.

So after Sat, I will officially have no more (Singaporean) fren left.