Glad to hear you are looking forward to the software programming. Something that always will always be growing. Kinda job security thing. ;)
Yes, but you must keep fresh, and now I'm a little bit stale. Nothing I can't fix with a little effort, though.
I heard from my Indian friend who's still in Taiwan. I was a little worried flying off to weird India not being sure if he would hook me up or not, but he was very gracious and accommodating. Some Taiwanese friends came to visit him in India last year and he said he's contacting the same apartment service to set things up for when I get there.
And a friend of his is in the computer industry and he said he'd get in touch with him as well. Plus Kerala, the Indian state I'm going to, is now opening a new software center, to try and belatedly compete with Bangalore and Hyderabad, the two Indian leaders in software design. So maybe it will all work out splendidly well.
But I must say this is my last foreign adventure (I think), I am starting to think of the US a lot, or at least a more mature, and settled life. Maybe that will occur in India, at any rate, I'm glad I did all this over these last three years. I'm no where close to retirement age, but nevertheless, these adventurous years may well have been the "last gasp" of my youthful exuberance, before maturity sets in!!