7 July 2017. Natalie had arranged for us to meet her friend at the Facebook Headquarters in Palo Alto, so needless to say, I was pretty damn excited. We had only gone to see the Like sign on 1 Hacker Way, but by meeting Stuart, we’d be given inside access to the Facebook campus. Obviously,…
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San Francisco Day 6: Piers, Trams, and The Matrix
6 July 2017. A year prior to this trip, I had sent Natalie an article on Facebook about a lunch time market in the city. It turned out to be the Ferry Building – one of the most famous landmarks in San Francisco with the sea-facing “Port of San Francisco” writing that I had seen…
San Francisco Day 5: Painted Ladies, a Winding Road, and the Golden Gate
5 July 2017. There were a lot of sights I needed to see while visiting San Francisco and it was a beautiful day to be outside. After grabbing coffee from the local Starbucks, Natalie and I went straight downtown. Our first stop: Alamo Square to see the Painted Ladies. A common misconception is that the…
San Francisco Day 4: My First 4th
4 July 2017. American Independence Day. There is definitely something special about being in a country on the day of one of the biggest celebrations of the year. For everyone else, it’s “the 4th of July”, but for Americans, it’s simply known as “the 4th”. I loved taking a short stroll in Natalie’s back yard…
San Francisco Day 3: Palo Alto, Facebook, and the Marriot
3 July 2017. Natalie’s home is basically a stone’s throw away from Silicon Valley, the southern part of the Bay Area. It was the second day she was going to spoil me because she had rescheduled the nail appointment she had on the Saturday so that we could go together. I had no idea where…
2017: An Epic Year in Pictures
Wow has this been an eventful year. From getting a certification to walking on a glacier to making lifelong friends, I have so much to write about. Many of us tend to focus on the bad but there was so much good this year. Here are what I considered to be the main highlights of…
Day 2 in San Francisco: Fireworks and Alfredo’s ‘famous’ city tour
2 July 2017. I don’t need to say which big holiday was around the corner, and it was so evident everywhere I went with Natalie and Alfredo. Almost every house had the American flag hoisted outside, and there were placards advertising where to get fireworks on every street corner. Before I even begin writing about…
Journey to San Francisco
I can’t actually put into words just how excited I was for this trip. I had never been to the Western Hemisphere before and considering all the trips I’ve done to Europe, it was about time. On the evening of 30 June, I boarded the full Lufthansa Flight 9545 to Frankfurt. Call me crazy but…
2017: Filling in more pieces of the puzzle
I think this is going to be a very important year for me. The project I’ve been working on for a 3rd year now is (hopefully) about to come to an end. In less than 2 months we can talk about things other than the project which I know everyone in my company is looking…