{"id":355,"date":"2007-04-06T08:29:45","date_gmt":"2007-04-06T00:29:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/2007\/04\/06\/one-day-in-sydney\/"},"modified":"2022-04-23T12:04:22","modified_gmt":"2022-04-23T12:04:22","slug":"one-day-in-sydney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/2007\/04\/06\/one-day-in-sydney\/","title":{"rendered":"One Day in Sydney"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Date:<\/strong> 04 Apr 2007 &#8211; 05 Apr 2007<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">After the 2 rounds of interviews (email \/ phone), I was invited to Australia, Sydney, for final interview with Microsoft on 05 Apr 2007, Saturday. The flight to Sydney was on Friday morning.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Arrival in Sydney at around 6 PM (Sydney time). It was already dark and there&#8217;s hardly anyone on the streets. Took a cab to Holiday Inn.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-content\/photos\/Sydney2007\/HPIM2829.JPG\" alt=\" width=420\" height=\"315\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">My room<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-content\/photos\/Sydney2007\/HPIM2830.JPG\" alt=\" width=420\" height=\"315\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Feeling hungry, I picked up the menu and ordered&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The wait wasn&#8217;t too long. I didn&#8217;t expect this much food.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-content\/photos\/Sydney2007\/HPIM2837.JPG\" alt=\" width=420\" height=\"315\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-content\/photos\/Sydney2007\/HPIM2839.JPG\" alt=\" width=420\" height=\"315\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Main dish &#8211; Salmon<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-content\/photos\/Sydney2007\/HPIM2840.JPG\" alt=\" width=420\" height=\"315\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Soup<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-content\/photos\/Sydney2007\/HPIM2841.JPG\" alt=\" width=420\" height=\"315\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Potato Salad (So much)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-content\/photos\/Sydney2007\/HPIM2842.JPG\" alt=\" width=420\" height=\"315\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Free bread that came together with the meal.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-content\/photos\/Sydney2007\/HPIM2843.JPG\" alt=\" width=420\" height=\"315\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-content\/photos\/Sydney2007\/HPIM2845.JPG\" alt=\" width=420\" height=\"315\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Didn&#8217;t finish all the food.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-content\/photos\/Sydney2007\/HPIM2859.JPG\" alt=\" width=420\" height=\"315\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">View from my room<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-content\/photos\/Sydney2007\/HPIM2860.JPG\" alt=\" width=420\" height=\"315\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I had to be at Sheraton Hotel for the interview at 8 AM.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-content\/photos\/Sydney2007\/HPIM2866.JPG\" alt=\" width=420\" height=\"315\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">View from the interview room.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-content\/photos\/Sydney2007\/HPIM2867.JPG\" alt=\" width=420\" height=\"315\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-content\/photos\/Sydney2007\/HPIM2868.JPG\" alt=\" width=420\" height=\"315\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The interview lasted for 4 hours.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I had lunch with one of the interviewees in the hotel then shared a cab with her to the airport. My flight back to Singapore was scheduled at 4 PM.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Date: 04 Apr 2007 &#8211; 05 Apr 2007 After the 2 rounds of interviews (email \/ phone), I was invited&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":369,"href":"https:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355\/revisions\/369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}