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Manila experience

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It was a great trip to this Asian city of Manila (Philippines) Great realization is the Taipe airport, they got so many connections across the globe, lot more than what our Indian cities have got. Being a small island nation, I thought this airport won't be that big, but it has got really good connectivity. Even the connecting flight to Manila,I thought it will be a smaller one with less capacity but it was full blown Boeing 747 400 with huge capacity. China airline runs flights twice a day to Manila.  Big crowd travelling all the time. Another interesting thing about Taiwan is about its identity itself. It looks like it is an independent country but China thinks it is part of mainland china. It needs some deeper understanding on the political conflicts.  Taiwan (Also known as ROC - Republic Of China) and China (People Republic of China/mainland china) terms are interesting for people with interest in geography and contemporary political history. Some interesting facts about

Infinera

Its new client this February with new domain (SDN - Software Defined Networks)  through Innominds. First thing I like with Infinera is the bus route. VTA 26 goes straight without any deviations (unlike 55) and takes around 15 min of journey on bus from fair oaks to java drive, that is really cool. Other real cool thing for me with this bus is, it actually gets filled unlike the 55 which often looks like my  private charter bus. Infinera, for me looks like mini cisco, they got all kinds of devices for networking and are getting ready for all kinds of high speed networks for the future. Looks interesting (and bit alien for me because of the fact that I come from applications domain). The first 2 days of training by Ron Litchy on agile was very good. I really enjoyed to an extent that I went ahead and created a website ( http://agilemethod.net ) taking cue from the training. Agile/Scrum is something most often talked about (well, as kashyap says on his FB shared article about rec