Singapore – Day 2
The IBM Forum 2003 started at 9 AM this morning with an opening talk by Janet Ang, managing director of IBM Singapore. Next was an address by Frank Lavin, the U.S. Ambassador to Singapore. He gave a somewhat positive view of the U.S. economy and a bullish outlook for the impact of the Singapore Free […]
Singapore – Day 1: Part 2
The Swissotel was kind enough to move me to a room with high speed Internet access. That enabled me to upload pictures from the day into the Singpore section of the photo gallery. Since I arrived at the hotel before 8 AM and my first meeting was not until 5 PM I had a choice of taking a […]
Singapore – Day 1
As we disembarked the airplane and walked up a ramp to the main terminal, there was a thermal imaging system. I could not see where the sensor was but the video display showed all of our faces in a light green. I am sure if any of us had a fever, that our faces would […]
Singapore – final leg from Frankfurt
II have been fortunate to have made quite a few trips to Southeast Asia. In every case, until now, the route of flight had been from east to west — New York to Tokyo and then south southwest from Japan to the South China Sea. This trip was west to east. After departing from Frankfurt, […]
Singapore: First stop
This is going to be a very long flight but, if you have to spend a lot of time on an airplane, Singapore Airlines is the one to be with. The Boeing 747 departed late from JFK but strong tailwinds got us into Frankfurt, Germany ahead of schedule. For security reasons, everyone had to depart […]
