Bye Bye Sun.....

Oracle: Sun Acquisition A Done Deal

Well, I can't say that it was always happy days working there (got to the point where the only time morale went up is when they announced more layoffs), but is still sad to see it go. Spent 7 1/2 years of my life there, straight out of college.




All that remains for Oracle to do now is to send me out my cheque - they're apparently buying out the shareholders at a price of $9.50/share - a lot better than the $2.50/share it got down to at one stage, but a lot less than the $124/share I got my options at back in the Dot-Com days.....

Damn.......

I saw an update from one of my friends this morning that they'd been married 3 years today (congrats Mick & Vicky BTW :-P), and that got me thinking, is coming up to 4 years now since I went to China. I took a look back at my first few blog posts here, and I found out that yesterday 4 years ago is when I picked up my Chinese entry visa!



4 years eh, damn, still feels like it was only a few weeks ago! That trip to China was probably one of the most interesting 2 months of my life. For most of it I was waaay out of my comfort zone but it was scary in an exhilarating way! Plus I got to see stuff that I'd never have thought of going to see myself, and all at Sun's expense! :-) Would still love to go back at some stage, but would be a heckuva difference going back as a bog-standard tourist....

Shit, am reading back over my old blog posts on my Beijing trip here, and am starting to get nostalgic. Now I wanna go back! :-(