Peter's Hola Nicaragua

at the Eve of Christmas in 2005, Hotel Crowne Managua Nicaragua Dec 24 2005

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Christmas Eve at the Restaurant of Hotel Crowne.. alone for dinner..
The cook was from Hongkong and very much friendly.
Oriental style Lobster Tails were very good.

Eating alone meant that I had nothing but focus only on the taste of the dishes..
Butter fried Banana with cinamon powder was delicious as a desert.

Christmas Eve at the Lobby of Hotel Crowne, Managua Nicaragua Dec 24 2005

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a good retreat after project.. :p , Monterimar Beach Nicaragua Dec 2005

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After nearly finishing a draft of Integrated Enterprise Quality Management System of 2,000 pages of PowerPoint Slides with all the Graphics, Videos and Text of three different languages, Peter went to the most famous beach resort in Nicaragua, Monterimari.
Although he sees the beatiful beach of Pacific Ocean, he has all his tremendous number of neurons still aligned to the extremely artificial system of the plant management.. ^,~

the Chasm covered with Giant Ferns, Volcano Mombacho Nicaragua Oct 30 2005

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Together with Macolla Band, Managua Nicaragua Dec 4 2005

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I spotted a group of girls dancing really cute. I even thought their body sturcture had just customized for the dnacing.. :p

It's really awsome just to watch the floor full of people daincing with passion and energy with the rythm.

a Condor hovering over the Laguna, way to Masaya Nicaragua 2005

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Baobab Tree, Par 3 Hole Nejapa Golf Managua Nicaragua 2005

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Sugarcane Farm, Monterimar Nicaragua 2005

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Country of of Bougainvillea, Nicaragua 2005

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Breakfast at Hotel Robles, Hotel Robles Managua Nicaragua 2005

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fresh bread and butter, orange juice, fruits, two sunny-side-ups,
and steamed rice with black beans.. and Nicaraguan coffee..
breathing the green smell of the tall tropical trees
hearing morning birds singing.. in the totally open space..
then smoking afterwards..

It was much fancier than any other fabulous breakfasts in 5 star hotels in any well-developed countries..

Restaurante Santafe, Managua Nicaragua Nov 18 2005

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A dish of Roasted Onion Stalks was awesome..
We ordered the same dish three times.

the Bench in the Jungle.., Volcano Mombacho Nicaragua Oct 2005

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Twilight.., Montarimar Nicaragua Dec 11 2005

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Hotel Robles... where i stayed almost three months.., Managua Nicaragua Oct 1 2005

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Active volcano fuming.. a lot.., Masaya Nicaragua Sep 17 2005

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Into the Tropical Jungle, Volcano Mombacho Nicaragua Oct 2005

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Way to Volcan Mombacho, from Managua Nicaragua Oct 30 2005

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18 Once Steak with Lovely Beast in the Cages, Managua Nicaragua Oct 22 2005

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First Stay in Nicaragua, Managua Hotel Inter-Continental MetroCentro Sep 17 2009

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Twilight over the Volcanic Horizon, Highland Managua Nicaragua Dec 7 2005

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Highland Plateau and Volcan Momotombo, Managua Nicaragua Dec 7 2005

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獨居獨食 Breakfast under Calmness, Hotel Crowne Managua Nicaragua Dec 27 2005

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Of course there was noboody in the early morning restaurant in the holiday season right after X-mas. What a chance for real relaxation..

Tarantula and Sangrita, Restaurante 'La Ola' Managua Nicaragua Nov 18 2005

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Masaya Dome, Masaya Nicaragua Dec 272005

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Spanish Style Cathedral in Masaya right after X-Mas, Masaya Nicaragua Dec 27 2005

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Masaya Giftshop for Chess Board, Masaya Nicaragua Dec 27 2005

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Maria and Nathional Song Contest, Managua Nicaragua Dec 20 2005

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Maria who was sitting right beside me was a minister level of career women in charge of tourism in Nicaragua. Left side of seat were for the other ministers and couple of next right to my seat, there were president and first lady for the national song contest in Nicaragua. Maria was a Harvard graduate and worked for government of Venezuela and joined the right-wing government of Nicaragua as a minister. Kindly enough she offered me a soldier guarded tour with helicopter to the northern part of rain forest of the country for taking photos of national tourism as I shared my vision of Nicaragua for more proactive programs around Eco-tourism. However, unfortunately enough, year-end holiday season got started and I needed to get back to Korea.
Now she might not work for government anymore cause the country has all new cabinet under the leadership of left-wing president. I believe that she is doing well in some other area in any country with her great ability.

Dancing to Start with, Year-End Fiesta of ISTMO Plant: Managua Nicaragua Dec 23 2005

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Suave Esmera, Beauty Contest at Year-End Fiesta of ISTMO Plant: Managua Nicaragua Dec 23 2005

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She was Gorgeous, X-Mas Night Matrix Sun City Managua Nicaragua Dec 25 2005

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The Beautiful Faces, Atlantis Managua Nicaragua Dec 27 2005

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Latin Fever with my Project Team, Night Club Atlantis Managua Nicaragua Dec 27 2005

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As Beatiful as its Name Stands, Catarina Nicaragua Oct 30 2005

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Mini Jardin El Pigmeo, Catarina Nicaragua Oct 30 2005

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Adios Lago Granada, Granada Nicaragua Oct 23 2005

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活火 Peter's Sketch on Volcano Mombacho, Lake Granada Nicaragua Oct 23 2005

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火山 Volcano Mombacho, Lake Granada Nicaragua Oct 23 2005

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住 Life on the Lake, Granada Nicaragua Oct 23 2005

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湖邊 Lakeshore.., Granada Nicaragua Oct 23 2005

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人 People..Good & Beautiful.., Granada Nicaragua Oct 23 2005

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都 the Spanish Remains, Granada Nicaragua Oct 23 2005

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滑 Bloody 36 holes in the Wet Sauna.., Nejapa CC Managua Oct 16 2005

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巨羽 Condors and more condors, Nejapa Country Club Managua 2005

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會食 Please be my heroes..dining for project team, Premium Managua Dec 21 2005

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In the week of Christmas I hosted a dinner for my project team, Mombacho.
At then I was leading a project for Process Management, Quality Management & Factory Compliances for the factories in Nicaragua and Honduras. Since I tried to touch and reengineer every inefficient and in effective aspects of factory management, they needed to work really hard and actually smart. Though I set up the expectation level of their performance high, the result was not impressive at all so I used to drive them with discipline and tried hard to let them learn on professionalism. But it's not easy for those young guys without enough experience though they were group of elites graduated from one of top three universities in Nicaragua..

Now upon my good memory of working with them, I hope they work great in whichever places for their beautiful country of Nicaragua..

Please be my little heroes..

Do you think the factories are for Koreans forever?

Look at those beautiful & dilligent people in the manufacturing lines

who are your fathers, mothers, brothers, sisters and your amigos..

If you, as young elites, do not work harder and smarter till very late at night your beautiful people in Nicaragua have to keep working & working in the factories.. all day long..and you will find your sons and daughters working in the lines soon..

These factories are for yours..nobody else...

You would soon be a team leader, production manager and general manager for the whole plants..

This is a place, YOU take care of.. YOU take care of all the initiatives..

for higher productivity with superb quality creating customer delight generating more orders.

We take care almost 2% of whole families of capital city of Managua when we take into account the number of employees of couple of thousands. This one of the biggest and most admired factories in Nicaragua would soon be yours.. yours already..

But the thing is that you don't know the fact yet..

....

blah blah..

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現實 Reality Check, City of Managua Nicaragua Oct 15 2009

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I stayed three months in Managua, capital city of Nicaragua leading a project for couple of manufacturing sites in the industrialized zone.
I had a wonderful memory of those times I worked so hard and those beautiful landscape of the volcanic country. Also I had a good memory of making new friends in there, Luigi, Judy and other Nicaraguans for project team.

I tried best restaurants in the city with colleagues, buyers, project team members and sometimes alone while staying one of the best hotels in the city. I've been accompanied by my friend, Italian Nicaraguan, for the national singing festival and met with government people, i.e., president of Nicaragua and other ministers.. And I'd been relaxing in a huge resort in the beach side which have been built & operated by European group.

So it seems that Nicaragua for me is sitting as kind of paradise over my empirical set of memories. But when I uncover the layers of memory once again, the other image of Nicaragua emerges..

What I witnessed is quite too far from the image of paradise as an independent nation..

Now they are too much dependent on foreign aids because of lack of national capital. Actually the rich people who has been experiencing civil war never want to invest their money for their unstable motherland. The main road has been built by the money from Japan. Their commuter buses are mostly from US, i.e. used school bus with long nose. Nearly all big commercial facilities has been built and maintained by foreign money. It seemed that there is no national capital other than beautiful natural resources. They've just been providing human resouces with most competitive labor rate in the world, cheapest.

Actually my expectation level was high when I asked factory management team to hire best people of university graduate for project members. And they hired and provided me six graduates from the best university in Nicaragua. (to-be-continued)

革命 Managua-City of Volcanic Lakes, Volcanos and Volcanic Revolutions.., Managua Nicaragua Oct 16 2005

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綠樂 Playing the Green, Nejapa CC Managua Nicaragua Oct 10 2005

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綠又綠 Green Green Grass of Tropicana, Nejapa Gof Club Managua Nicaragua Oct 10 2005

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One of my companions tries to swing with his driver.. He has been staying Managua more than 10 years with his family as a factory general manager. I really enjoyed working with him and appreacite his sincere support & hospitality.

熱花 What a Flower!! ,Nejapa Country Club Managua Nicaragua

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巨木 the Giant Tree.., Hotel Carmino Real Managua Nicaragua Oct 6 2005

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貴 the White Mare, Ranch Masaya Nicaragua 2005

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a Paradise, Horse Ranch Masaya Nicaragua 2005

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le Cafe de Paris, pour Frech Style Lobster Managua Nicaragua 2005

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綠 Grandiose Landscape, Way to Monterimar Beach from Managua, Nicaragua 2005

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庭 Tropical Garden, Hotel El Carmino Real Nicaragua 2005

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Parrots in the Cage, Hotel El Carmino Real Nicaragua 2005

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居 a Room with a Good View, Hotel El Carmino Real Managua Nicaragua 2005

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畵 Volcan Mombacho, Garanada Nicaragua 2005

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驚 Volcan Masaya on my way work, Masaya Nicaragua 2005

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Volcano Mombacho, Granada Nicaragua 2005

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the Crater fumming.., Volcano Masaya Nicaragua 2005

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the Horizon over the Lake, Masaya Nicaragua 2005

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休 a Paradise, Monterimar Beach Nicaragua

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Shadow at the Beach, Monterimar Beach Nicaragua 2005

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Suset at Monterimar Beach 2005

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