thanks to my lovely gurlfwen mysara.. who finally managed to persuade me to upload my US pics here!! n thanks to the situation im in rite now..i hv ample time to actually get it done n over with.. so the story's like dis.. a bunch of us got selected to go for the IBM System Technology Group University(STGU) "in case ur wondering what the acronym stands for.." in San Diego.. we got ourselves checked into a nice hotel.. n went sight seeing whenever possible!! we even went all the way up to Mexico..