The Beginning

Month : Mid - September
Location : SIA Training Centre, Singapore
Main Actors : Roy Felix, Neil Edric
Special Mentions : Kristy and Fenny (Roy's back-up)
Side Role : Stef (through messenger) and Jon-Erik (background)

Tick, tock, tick, tock ............
Another deary afternoon.
Slouched in my seat, had finished lunch and was waiting for the clock to strike 5:00 pm so could leave for the day. Just a few days remained for me to leave SIA after two and half years of toil and misery. Ok ok it was not all that bad. We did have the long lunch hours, movie sessions, coming in at 10+ every morning and managing to leave most days by 4 in the evening. But still, listening to users bitching all the time..... it was time to get out !!!

Next to me, Roy is upright in his seat, busy at work on his laptop. Markets shares, e-newspaper, chatting with friends online , these were the things that kept Roy engaged. As for all the clients work, that was handled by our new hire Jon-Erik (thanks dude, we know we worked you like a dog, but we will put that down to fresher training :P).

Now we did have a couple of bank holidays hitting us in November, coupled with the weekend, made it a perfect time to take a vacation. So where .... hmmm ??

Apparently the first bank holiday Roy was off to hometown, Medan, so that kinda ruled out that long weekend. (Small background - The dude is loaded with green , remember i did mention the share investments, so he keeps on flying to Medan whenever he can :P ) . So that left only the next bank holiday.... that too it fell on a wednesday , so probably need to take 2 days mc (medical certificate) and make it a 5 days vacation. Oh, yes you read right , who in their right mind would want to waste vacation days, when a doctors note for 2 days of r & r is just as useful. hahahaha

Well we started discussing prossible locations - Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam .... hmmm so many choices.
"We'll See" (one of the many catch phrases of the trip),
"Well since there is still 2 months", we decided to defer the discussion to a later date. Roy returns back to his daunting tasks of keeping up with all the happening around the world ;) , and me back to staring blankly into my laptop with music blaring into my eardrums (Courtesy white Iphone 3G - oh how i miss thee .... another story, another time)

A few mins pass , when Roy turns and says "USA?"
Neil "Huh?!"
Roy "Stef is asking if we would like to go to US in November?"
Neil "Uhmm ... Okay :D"

And that my dear friends was how long it took for us to decide to go for a US trip. In the coming few days we had 2 beautiful ladies join us - Kristy and Fenny.

Friendships, Love, Hate, Betrayal, Comedy of errors, Theft and all sorts of drama awaited each and everyone of us, but little did we know what was in store.......