I decided to go to the The Biggest Loser camp to support a friend.  It was a difficult decision as the price tag can be discouraging – a whopping $1600.  And this is the reduced rate!!!….We got a buy one get one half off deal.  What does the camp include?  It includes personal training, fitness […]

I am exactly 25 years old right now and as I visit and reflect with family and friends about my quixotic dreams for the future, I realize I am nowhere near where I want to be or even progressing in that direction.  My transfer to Houston with Schlumberger ended up being a complete disappointment.  The adventure […]

For the past year many of my friends and family were playing the guessing game as to where I was located on this vast globe.  Well guess no more!  I am now living in Houston….kind of.  I moved to Houston on November 1.  I have spent about 2 weeks total in Houston since moving there.  […]

After my training school in Russia, I took a week vacation to travel around St. Petersburg and Moscow.  It was a pretty bold move on my part because it was the first time I was traveling by myself; I was not meeting anyone and there were no Stanford students that I knew of that were […]

The last time I wrote in my blog was around May when Landon visited Doha.  After he left Doha, I was on a serious grind to keep my job which is why I have been off the grid.  As I have mentioned in previous blog posts, my job up until now has been dependant on […]

I have learned more about Doha in the last month than I have in my whole three months of living here. I try not to write about controversial topics that I do not experience personally. However, this past month I experienced my own conflicts that I feel I can share with absolute certainty.  My intention […]

I am currently in the middle of the desert.  I just moved from Doha to a field site.  I should be here for about a month.  There is a beautiful beach not too far from my new accommodation.  My location is like a sleepy little beach town but really it is an active little oil […]

The second day and third day of offshore training was intense.   When it was time for us to go to the pool, we practiced escaping from an offshore rig and also escaping from a helicopter.  Both were really scary exercises.  We had to jump off a platform which was about 8-9 meters high. The lights […]

I apologize for my silence over the last month. My job has been keeping me extremely busy. I am writing this blog post on my shuttle home from work. It takes 45 minutes to an hour to get to and from work every day so I figure this is a great time for me to […]

In my last post I shared that I was going to go Wedding dress shopping…Let’s just say I got lost….I never found the shop lol. This cab dropped me off somewhere and I had no clue where I was. So I walked for a couple of miles until I got hungry and I saw a […]