When I woke up this morning, I noticed that it was snowing. It was truly an awesome sight, like a winter wonderland. I really thank the LORD for allowing me to witness and appreciate the beauty of His creation.
When I went down for breakfast, I met up with several of my colleagues. Since there were a total of 6 of us, my boss decided that it would be better o book a cab to our office headquarters, rather than for us to take the SBahn and then lug our luggage the 500m from the nearest train station.
While awaiting the cab’s arrival, I examined the freshly-fallen snow that was on the shrubs and bushes. Unlike the artificial man-made snow in Snow City, this natural God-made one was very fine and light to the touch, and could easily be rolled into a snowball even with one hand, as you can see in the attached video.
My office headquarters is like a huge campus. There are 10 buildings of about 4 storeys each, and the one housing the staff canteen is on a lake. Am not able to show you photos of the place because of office security policies.
The coaches to take us to the venue of our workshop were ready to go, and the journey there took about 2 ½ hours. It is located in an area called Bad Griesbach, which is east of Munich. The first thing that visitors see when they enter the resort is a little chapel, which is a reminder to me that God should be first in our lives.
Upon entering the Maximilian hotel itself, we saw a big Infineon banner at the reception check-in area. This is not surprising since our company block-booked this hotel and there must be at least 200 of us here from different parts of the world.
The hotel room is not as big as the one in Unterhaching, but it is well-equipped nonetheless. They have this practice of leaving a sweet / chocolate on the pillow, and the entire place has a golf theme.
After checking in, we went for lunch, which was really HEAVY. There were 2 types of soup (French onion and tomato soup) and a large buffet spread including lasagna, beef, fish, chicken, etc etc.
The workshop itself started at 2.30pm and during one of the presentations, it started to snow again and I just had to film it.
To quench our thirst, they provided us with drinks that were in capped-covered bottles. Have not seen bottle caps in Singapore for ages, so this was a pleasant sight.And to keep us awake, there was also mints that came in containers imprinted with our company’s logo.
We will be at this resort until Friday, so will keep you posted on the proceedings.
Till tomorrow
Shalom
Malcolm
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