Miri Office

This is the FMC office in Miri. My office is the one right below the FMC logo. There are normally 3-4 people in the office and rotating service personnel use it when they're in town. Before I got there, the office didn't have a refrigerator or microwave - those issues are both resolved. This is quite a change from the Customer Support building in Houston. Click the picture to see more of the fine details.

Back in Miri, Malaysia

I'm back in Miri now after 30+ hours of flying. I flew a Singapore Airlines flight direct from LA to Singapore which is considered to be an "executive economy" class flight. 40% of the seats are removed to add more fuel for the 18+ hours of flying. This also makes economy class seats much nicer.

I'm staying at the Marriott Hotel until the house is ready and my furniture arrives. Kim, Jaek, and Chloe (Kim's Yorkie) will all come over after the wedding. I cant wait for them to get here.

The hotel has a very nice outdoor pool and I swam laps this morning. It's great to know that I can swim outside year round here. I start work in the Miri office tomorrow.

This is a picture from my hotel balcony.

Piasau Boat Club

This is picture of the back of the Piasau Boat Club (http://www.piasauboatclub.com/) that Kim and I will join in Miri. It was created by Shell and Petronas (state-owned oil company) for their employees.

Trip to Malaysia

I have accepted an expat assignment in Miri, Malayisa and will be moving there in early February 2008. I will return to Houston in May to get married to my beautiful fiance Kim. Over the Thanksgiving break, Kim and I traveled to Malaysia to look around and hopefully find a house (which we did). The following posts capture some of the highlights of the trip.

This is Miri from our hotel.