Nice Discovery

Do you believe in fate? Well, I do. Sometimes fate play jokes at me. I had one after I joined my current company, Thales Aerospace, and realised that we are going to qualify my ex-company. Isn't it funny that I got kicked out of my previous company and going back there as customer? This week, I had to accompany my french counterparts and audit my company for the whole week. This is the first time I understudied my french counterpart, Thierry Legault, who is the Supplier Quality Manager, and we worked well together to audit our new supplier's process management. Anyway, the business unit that we audited was the previous Solectron group that were acquired by Flextronics. Oops! I just mentioned my ex-company's name. Heehee.

I had a startling discovery that my french counterpart, Thierry Legault is a famous french amateur astronomer who has taken numerous fantastic photos of the galaxies, skies and the space. He has a website (http://legault.club.fr/index.htm), with many wonderful photos of the planets, stars, moon, etc. Take a look at the website to view the amazing photos he has taken. Here is a photo of Thierry and me.

By the way, he is admitted in the SBIG Hall of Fame. See link http://www.sbig.com/award/hall_of_fame.htm.
He is also has a asteroid to his name "19458 Legault". He has published a book with all the photos he has taken on astronomy, titled "ASTROPHOTOGRAPHIE" but it is publised in french. I am waiting for the English version to be out and hopefully he will send me a copy with his signature on it (for free, of course).

It is my honour to meet Thierry, and I am amazed with the fantastic photos, and most of all, he is also my teacher and counterpart.

Singapore Air Show 2008

I was lucky to visit the recent Singapore Air Show 2008 2 weeks ago. It was the first time I visited any air show and I felt very privileged to be there. I was able to visit there during the trade show (not open for public) as my company participated in the Air Show and they have a huge booth in the exhibition hall. You can see a product from our company in the below photo.
The main draw of the show has to be the giant Airbus A380. It is really huge and many people crowded around the plane. My colleague and I did not board the plane, but we took many pictures of it. But I will just show you one here.
You can see the size of the people on the ground and the plane, it is really really BIG. It has 3 levels: first level is for cargo (luggages), second and third levels are for passengers. I hope one of these days, I will be able to fly in Airbus A380. Wouldn't you?