Taiwanese words I learned
Shieh – Shieh: Thank you Gwang – Hwa: A shopping area that has a lot of electronics Tzai Chien: Bye bye Nie how: how are you? Gei Wuo Shau-Lung-Bao: give me dumpling La – Der: Spicy
Asia – December 1999 GPS data
This post contains GPS readings from some of my travels during 1999 in Asia. The latitudes and longitudes were captured using Garmin GPS devices. Today I use a Magellan handheld and TomTom for vehicles. Singapore, Republic of Singapore 1 degree 16.352 minutes North 103 degrees 50.673 minutes East Distance from home: 9,495 miles Hong Kong, […]
Asia – December 1999 itinerary
Left house at 8 AM for an 11 AM flight from JFK to Narita Airport in Tokyo. Flight arrived right on time at 3 PM (1AM EST). Couple of hours in the Fuji Lounge to replicate email and then back to a brand new 747 bound for Singapore. I thought it was a 4 hour […]
Asia – December 1999
Asia is one of the most interesting places in the world and I really look forward to every trip there. So far I have been to Beijing and Shanghai in China, Taipei Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Singapore. The people in these countries are all so friendly and the food is superb. I have great respect […]
Expectations Expanding by the Day – Power to the People
Reflection – written October 28, 1999 The Internet is causing a massive transfer of power from institutions (companies, universities, governments) to people. Not in the sense of anarchy but rather in the sense that people can express their choices and wield their economic votes with a simple click of a mouse or cell phone button. […]
