What am I doing?  Next month I turn 58 years old and NOW is when I take on a new adventure?  For those of you that don’t know I have accepted a temporary assignment for at least 3 months with in Singapore.

Professionally it’s a great opportunity that I am looking forward to.  I will be running our risk and authentication products in Asia Pacific (these are the tools used to protect you from credit card fraud).  I will be working with Visa staff and clients around Asia and already have trips scheduled to India, China and Korea (South, not North—although I panicked a bit when I saw the meeting was in Peyongchang and thought it was Pyongyang).  I met my new boss in Dubai a couple of weeks ago and again last week in Foster City—it’s going to be great.

Personally, it’s an opportunity as well.  Ten years ago we saw Asia as a place to go maybe once or twice.  Now we have visited Myanmar (Burma), Hong Kong, Singapore, Bali (Indonesia) and Japan (without Christopher).  And there is so much more to see.  If everything works out this could be a longer-term position and Julie and Christopher would move down as well.  

I am lucky to have this opportunity due to the support of my family, friends, and Visa.  Singapore is a great place to visit and live.  Yes it’s hot and humid ALL of the time, but it is and always has been a collection of cultures from all over.  It is centrally located and places like Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos are very short flights away.  And you can drive to Malaysia or take a one hour ferry to Indonesia.

We decided to create a blog for this adventure—Our Sing Fling (http://oursingfling.blogspot.com/ ). We will see if we have the discipline to keep it up.  But I will be posting on Facebook as well, just not posting as much as on the blog.  Living halfway around the world (almost) doesn’t mean we can’t communicate.