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My flight to LA was schedule at 10pm monday, 1st March Philippines local time – Philippines Airline PR102 direct from Manila to LA. This is my first trip to USA and a trip that I long been waiting for. A remarkable memory for me not only because of my first trip to US but also means we finally bring Platform2u.com into this country.

We reach the airport at 8.15pm and it took us longer than we schedule to check in our lugages, and when we are in the departure hall it is already 9.05pm and we are still with empty stomatch. After a quick meal, and I really love this pao thinggy sold in Manila airport, taste good!

We end up to be the last 5 person who board the aircraft, and what shocked me is, the seats were nearly 99% full. Our seats number 61A and 61B were just beside the Exit of the aircraft. Thanks to the helpful cabin crew, we manage to get to change our seats with a lady.

The 12 hours flight was summary into a meal and a breakfast; 3 movie Shows – twilight – new moon; It is it- MJ; and 2012, and of course plenty of sleeping hours. The seats of Philippines Air comes slightly smaller compare to Malaysia Airlines, make me realize that somehow our Malaysian style is way beter than others in many sense.

We touched down at LA int. Airports at local time 6.45pm 1st March and everything is so smooth sailing. Our partner in US were outside the arrival hall to welcome our arrival and drive us to Brea.

We have our dinner at Cheesecake Factory at Brea and I must say that this is one of the awesome restaurant here. The food, the environment, and even the people working in the restaurant are nice, and what’s more the price of the food is pretty much close to the price of our Malaysia standard. Three of us all ordered the Miso Salmon, and it is perfectly cook with miso source and taste great for our Asian.

We have a long chat after dinner, partly focus on business strategies, as well as sharing from Dr. Ola about the USA market outlook from his experiences with this marketplace. We have a great 2 hours dinner time spent fruitfully, and yummy!

We checked in at Embassy Hotel Brea and this bring another good experience for me about LA trip. It is really a blessing for me all these while in our entrepreneurship journey. Most often we heard entrepreneurs share their painful and difficulties face in oversea expansion. I have to really thanks god and also my beloving partners for all these initial setup that make our oversea expansion become so easy. Starting from April Y2009 we launched SMilDS.com in Malaysia; we already establish ourselves in total 3 countries including Hong Kong (May 09) and Philippines (Jul 09). In Y2010, our expansion plan include China, Taiwan, and of course US and that is why my first trip here to prepare for all our initial setup.

Well I missed my Jetlack experience.. Thanks to yummy and delicious dinner in Cheesecake Factory, and of course kinda lots of preparation for tomorrow onwards make me can’t wait to jump in and zzz.. Of cos the nice hotel also part of the reason for me to enroll myself into it so much!

Until then, will continue updates my 10 days journey here in US. Cheers!