RCAR2008...Day 2...

welcome dinner menu...

the dessert of the welcome dinner on sunday nite...

Ya ya I know your're fasting. So am I ok? The first day session (on monday) was at at 8, 10 rue d' Atorg yesterday. Tuesday and till friday, will be at building 21, rue Malesherbes. While bloging this post i was also simultaneously chatting on Gchat with my fren pengeran hassanul of Universiti Malaysia Sabah and he asked me to visit a place he was infatuated with a long long time ago, rennes-le-chateau where it seemed the templer conspiracy theory originated. But that's at the Pyranees..omg...bloody faraway man! hahaha.

Tuesday technical session was really heavy and plenty. We startedat 9 and it wasn't over till 6 pm. Topics range from Thatcham's global vehicle security standards, IAG australia motocycle design guide, Bumpe teting at IIHS USA, report of the RCAR crash test working group by Hartmuth Wolff of Germany, review of global vehicles by State Farm USA, to access to non-oems and the norwegian body repair market by NARC Norway....fulamak...berat, berat...hehe. I was seated next to my good ole fren Jan Erik Skar of Norway and he was sharing his experiences when he worked with Renault and observed the working culture of the French..an obsession with approximations and they would have lots of committee meetings ( reminds me of someone at level ape ek? hehe) before agreeing to something as opposed to when he was working with BMW where the culture is that of precision and creativity. Probably because BMW wasin Bavaria, south of Germany nd close tothe Italian border. The italians love to sketch ( Da Vinci)...they sketch, the germans at Bavaria make them a reality. Erik, as we chatted also told me that it is also probably because the Germans in Bavaria and more relaxed and much more freindlier because they are mostly Catholics unlike their protestant cousins say in Frankfurt. Ok I gotta go now, visiting the French countryside today, gotta washup...don't want to be left behind by the coach ok? ....another long day before buka puasa beb...hehe..ciao for now...