As I woke up on Sunday and peeped out of the window of my room, there was a street in front and a view of Pacific on the right side. First thing to do was to pull out my camera and take some shots of the place.
As I spent time again walking along the shore, as it was still time for 10:00 AM meeting with our consultants for this CSC - Pyxera Global. At about 09:05 as per my watch, get a call from Pyxera that teams are waiting. Was surprised and when I reached there, see all are set. It was later I got to know that DST change was supposed to be today and my clock automatically changed the time, but govt had announced on Feb 19th that DST changeover would be deferred to end of April, but softwares and other items did not get patched in time.
Anyways, back to the meeting location joined by Team members, Pyxera team and Piera from IBM Chile for #ibmcsc Chile. When we started our meeting in morning, got a brief on addressing issues, key contact points and things to consider while doing our work as well as considerations while moving around city, who in security to be informed etc.
As part of this session, we also ended up using markers and chart papers to draw key events which influenced us to be here, providing us with with more interesting facts about each other.
This introduction was followed by a guided tour of the township, going through ATM locations, Money Exchange counters, shops, grocery stores, laundry and finally ended at a point for our lunch. Team lunch was a Chilean fare with some difficulties for vegetarians as cuisines in this part of the world do not have the same definition of what is Veg. Gayathri had issues selecting her food, and for others it was more a matter of language.
Post lunch and grocery shopping we headed back to the hotels to reassemble at 07:00 PM in the restaurant on 8th floor, for our overdue welcome drink - A Chilean Pisco. Every one enjoyed view and the drink followed by a quick dinner. One thing to note in this part is portions of meals are pretty big, whatever you try. Now, its time to retire to bed. Chao!
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| Early Morning - View from the Hotel Room |
As I spent time again walking along the shore, as it was still time for 10:00 AM meeting with our consultants for this CSC - Pyxera Global. At about 09:05 as per my watch, get a call from Pyxera that teams are waiting. Was surprised and when I reached there, see all are set. It was later I got to know that DST change was supposed to be today and my clock automatically changed the time, but govt had announced on Feb 19th that DST changeover would be deferred to end of April, but softwares and other items did not get patched in time.
Anyways, back to the meeting location joined by Team members, Pyxera team and Piera from IBM Chile for #ibmcsc Chile. When we started our meeting in morning, got a brief on addressing issues, key contact points and things to consider while doing our work as well as considerations while moving around city, who in security to be informed etc.
As part of this session, we also ended up using markers and chart papers to draw key events which influenced us to be here, providing us with with more interesting facts about each other.
This introduction was followed by a guided tour of the township, going through ATM locations, Money Exchange counters, shops, grocery stores, laundry and finally ended at a point for our lunch. Team lunch was a Chilean fare with some difficulties for vegetarians as cuisines in this part of the world do not have the same definition of what is Veg. Gayathri had issues selecting her food, and for others it was more a matter of language.
Post lunch and grocery shopping we headed back to the hotels to reassemble at 07:00 PM in the restaurant on 8th floor, for our overdue welcome drink - A Chilean Pisco. Every one enjoyed view and the drink followed by a quick dinner. One thing to note in this part is portions of meals are pretty big, whatever you try. Now, its time to retire to bed. Chao!
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| View from the Restaurant at Hotel |
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| Chilean Pisco |
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