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too busy to wake up your buddy

Posted by kevin Fri, 25 Aug 2006 01:29:20 GMT

Its great having the entire team here but they Whine: we are too busy to blog… They say in Unison although it isn’t as if the 18 hour days haven’t taken their toll. Hunter flew into Manila roughly two weeks ago and hasn’t left the front of his Mac mini since (not as expensive as a laptop and small enough to travel)

The Team with One Hour of sleep2

The team is here working on a pretty huge project for us. We mean huge, when launched we will have something like 4.4 million users on the Genesis Engine. Not bad, as we see it that will put us on the radar a bit more.

Well its been another beer soaked 1 hour night (Note: We are so busy on this project we have only had two nights out in a month), Jay Aggarwal flew in from Brisbane to join Hans, and the crew, Hans was first he flew in 3 weeks ago from San Jose.

The nights have been mostly quiet however this past evening was full of madness a technicolor parade of Australian beer drinking humor, Mobius hosted chill club at Mcafe, and all I know is somewhere around 4am I was phoned by a concerned Philippino telling me to save the boys from Burgus street. So I rescued the guys from an exponential bar tab by dancing terribly. one bloody hour of sleep you bastards So on a napkin late last night or early in the morning (I cant remember) I compiled my

Top ten list of international startup rules for South East Asia.

10) Don’t blog about the rum episode, motorcycle helmets or the bet about testicles on the dinosaur egg. Ok so what that I kind of sort of just did just that.
9) Mexican Food is not international bring your own premium tequila and tapatio sauce.
8) Karaoke is acceptable form of team bonding, Poison and other butt rock band songs are never allowed.
7) Don’t interupt Hunter or Luis while they are programming. After the sign language you hit the three thousand yard stare, then have to draw pictures and slowly explain, what you mean when you say do you guys want any lunch?
6) It is a rule of thumb that everyones girlfriend will hate Kevin.
5) Always wake up your drunk buddies and drag them to work. Sleep can occur while working on UI.
4) Trying to explain AJAX while drunk and struggling in a foreign language is a nogo.
3) No one, I repeat NO ONE is excited about your technology as you are. Even when though you get goosebumps trying to explain it to really attractive nubile South East Asian women, they are only smiling so you stop talking and leave.
2) Asking “Dude does your wife know” to old beer bellied American Tourists at girlie bars usually ends in some sort of altercation.
1) Guapo means “Give me your money” if you have no money your name is “Joe”

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  1. Joe said about 2 hours later:
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    It’s interesting to note that most of your top 10 is about drinking/getting drunk and girly bars. No wonder you have to be working for 18 hours as it looks to me that half of the time you spend on slogging through hangover.

  2. Kevin said about 3 hours later:
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    wow. Joe. it seems to me that you have a big case of stick up your bum.

    these guys are working so hard that last evening was the second nite out in only a month. Trust me they deserve more! and nothing says fun like your best friends flown in from all over the world to work on something you all love…together.

    Isn’t it fun to make snide comments?

  3. Mike Abundo said 4 days later:
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    Even though you get goosebumps trying to explain it to really attractive nubile South East Asian women, they are only smiling so you stop talking and leave.

    You’ve been talking to the wrong nubile Southeast Asian women. This girl actually critiques the Tila Nguyen phenomenon.

    Here’s another who built a profitable Web business years ago, without ever going nude.

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