Have breakfast at Suguru Yamaguchi. I know him when he is still a “young” professor many years ago but now, he is the IT Security Advisor to the Japan Cabinet and Prime Minister. Wow very important person now! Anyway, have a little discussion with him on privacy and asked him to hook up with Joi. […]
Category: Travel
Perfect Execution
My original plan is this: arrived in Osaka-Kansai airport at 1532, clear custom by 1552, take shinkansei at 1616 and arrived in Kyoto at 1729 so as to get to my dinner appointment at 1600 in Hotel Granvia next to Kyoto station. The (not) surprisingly thing is that this work out perfectly in Japan : […]
Off to Kyoto
Off to Kyoto now for APRICOT 2005. Sleep really late last night (3am) and have to wake up at 6am to rush for the flight and almost couldn’t make it. Luckily I did because I have a dinner to rush to immediate upon arrival. Oops, last call now. See you in Kyoto!
APAN Bangkok
I am in the airport lounge again, waiting to fly to Bangkok for APAN (Asia Pacific Advance Network). Most people probably never heard of APAN because it belongs to the world of academics but it is fairly similar to Internet2 in US. Anyway, I attend APAN once in a while when there is something going […]
Off to Bali
I am off to Bali for a quick trip. The purpose of the trip is to look at the proposed venue for APRICOT 2007 (yes, 2007 ;-). Speaking of APRICOT, 2005 will be held in Kyoto late next month. I haven’t been back to Kyoto since my honeymoon two years ago and I been looking […]
Safe and Sound
Yep, I am still alive and kicking. Nope, I wasn’t swiped away by the Tsunami. I was in the highland Genting in the Resort Hotel which is designed poorly specifically to keep you outside the room and spend more time in the Casino1. With no CNN and BBC, pardon me when I asked ‘what earthquake?’ […]
Great Weather in New York
It is a lovely day in New York – clear blue sky and sunshine. Compared to the previous two days, raining and snowing, this is god-sent! I’m going to enjoy the day outside … :-)
Out of New York
Dinner with Arun followed by an early meeting with Jeff Pulver. Spend a little more then 3hrs at Jeff’s office and it is an interesting experience to see how pulver.com works :-) [Update: Jeff posted the picture on his blog :-)] Have to leave after lunch immediately to catch my flight to Cape Town for […]
Finally arrived in NY
I am going to kill by travel agent. First, she tells me there isn’t any direct flight from Korea to New York so making me to come back to Singapore to transit. Then I asked for a direct flight from Singapore-New York and she got me on the flight that transit in Frankfrut. Argghh! On […]
Big Apple
Okay, packing my stuff to go to New York. First time going to New York in three years actually so kind of looking forward to it. This is a personal trip, visits friends and running errants. And why do they call it Big Apple?