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California trip

waikit — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 01:49:19 +0000

I went on a business trip in the US, California, with two colleagues from 8 to 17 April. It was my first time in the US and the first thing that impressed me, when I arrived, was the high security procedure at the airport. The other things that impressed me were the delicious steaks, burgers, donuts, friendliness of waitresses, the space (you can’t live without a car here, but in Shanghai you can) and huge houses (I visited an enormous house where you can make use of an elevator!). Ok, actually just typical American things.

Anyways, next to our business trip schedule, we visited a couple of interesting places which are:

- Google; an amazing playful office, where we had free dinner (wow, they had Chinese, Japanese, Italian, Spanish, French, etc..); we walked around the office and were stopped by a security and we were asked: ‘Are you Googlers?’ …. I should have replied: ‘Nope, but we are just googling around here, is that OK?’
Did you know that the Googlers may take theirs pet to the office?

- Apple at Infinite Loop (funny address heh?); we met Steve there, working for 16 years and responsible for some applications in OS X… heheh..not Jobs ofcourse, just another Steve

- Hollywood! Walk of fame!

- The Stinking Roses; a stinking restaurant, because the massive use of garlic..hmmm..yammie

- Disney Concert Hall in LA

- Sony store where I saw the newest OLED TV,the thinnest screen in the world

- And more places like: Astro Studios, Stanford University and Santa Cruz Beach
Check all the trip photos here

Snow in Shanghai and my trip to Wenzhou

waikit — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 14:04:01 +0000

It was snowing quite a lot in the last few days before the Spring festival holidays in a big part of China, also in Shanghai.
Here is a mobile phone picture I made from one of my office windows:

On the 2nd of February I took the bus to Wenzhou and I had bad luck. The accu of the bus went on fire after 3 hours of traveling on the highway. Fortunately, no passengers were harmed. The most bad thing was that our bus driver was not acting responsible. He did not take good care of us during the incident. He did not report anything to us. What a shame!
Another crazy thing was, that our bus was pulled by a service truck to the closest service center on the highway, with passengers inside an angled bus (check photo with bus window)! Here are some pictures from that event:

This is a picture of a ‘Smart’ in Wenzhou:

My first time seeing a Chinese Dragon Boat:

Yangshuo / Guilin trip

waikit — Sat, 06 Oct 2007 12:22:57 +0000

I went to Yangshuo and Guilin with 3 friends from Holland during the National Holidays and we had a fantastic journey through a breathtaking landscape. Check out some photos here