US trip in Philadelphia

It was quite excited to participate the MD&M East 2012 in Philadelphia in US. Because it was a trip totally sponsor by company and I can explore more using my tiny eyes.

It was the second time I represent AML to setup a booth in MD&M show. Be honestly the show was quite similar to me between MD&M West and MD&M East, it was all about manufacturing and components in medical device industry. I have tried to classify their categories and what they were trying promote, but it was something like when you open a book and trying to finish it within 3 days. You can only remember the theme what the author going to tell you but you never remember the exact story on chapter 9. So most of the time I just enjoyed the atmosphere around the convention centre and tried my best to attract more visitors to visit our booth. Hopefully I can contribute something back on this trip and gain more credit in front of my managers.

The show was started from 10am to 4pm everyday. It was an easy show I can't believe how relax they are working in US even though everyone saying now is in recession. As an easy-going mouse of course we left at 4pm everyday. It only took 10mins by taxi from convention centre to Hotel. So normally me and my colleagues will seize the time to change our clothes immedately and walked around the city in Philadelphia downtown. Definitely it was a very nice city where located a lot of traditional buildings. During the time we walked around the city, you could see a lot of sporty teenagers jogging across the street even it was just about 5pm. Once again it told us that they deserved recession!

Actually 2/3 of this trip I was stayed in US and the other 1/3 I will go to Ottawa in Canada to visit one of my key customer Abbott Lab. At the beginning I didn't have any feeling on it but once the airplane landed on Ottawa, I can feel Canada! I can feel there is a place I spent 5 F years for studying F Engineering! I can feel a lot of F lazy Canadian around this F lazy land! I can't imagine I will back to this land. It was all about fate.

Although the schedule is very tight, all the activities along this trip was very successful. Although my last presentation in Ottawa I felt obviously not so good, I don't know why my manager was quite impress on this, may be the reason was she can speak most of the time and most of the time everyone was laughing. Anyways if she was happy I happy.

After this trip it told me that I was still very tiny in this world and my experience was still very fresh. I need to embrace my weakness and smash one after another one. Life is tough...