Seoul

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Seoul, 11dec05 6:31 PM (1:31 AM PST) Back to India again. I take Singapore airlines for this trip. There’s a one hour layover in Seoul. No wireless access here, so I’m doing this offline (there’s an internet café, but I’m too lazy to sign up and use a strange terminal) The aircraft is great. There’s a movie screen in the seat in front, with 60+ on-demand movies. I watch a few movies (thumbs down on “forty year old virgin”, but “the wedding crashers” was pretty good on the airplane move scale). [Read More]
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Cricket

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I wake up this morning and find the hotel overrun with Japanese tourists. I know they’re Japanese because they are all dressed in white with orange scarves that say “Japan” on them. Looks like some kind of tour or organization on tour. My voice is completely trashed. I can barely talk. Later on we go to the ticket match. Everyone is very excited, this is the first international cricket match in two years in Bangalore. [Read More]
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Voice Gone

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I give my talk to the engineers today. I speak for about five hours. I make it through 35 of my 37 slides and my voice gives out completely. One of the dev leads completes the last two slides for me. After work we go out to an english style pub. I try a hookah pipe they bring to the table, and (surprisingly) that does not restore my voice. I end up writing on a paper placemate to communicate with people. [Read More]
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Voice Problems

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My throat is much better, I can talk today. Other than that, no news.

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Just Work Today

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Pretty much all work today. I’ve come down with laryngitis and I’m supposed to do a presentation for the engineers on Friday. Hope it gets better. The office scores tickets for an international cricket match on Saturday. Cricket is a Really Big Thing in India. Everyone is excited.

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Palm Meadows

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Pretty much work during the day. This evening we went out to Ravi’s neigborhood, Palm Meadows, which is the kind of a walled community that you’d see in San Jose. We went to dinner at the country club, which has two restauraunts in it. We ate outside. It was remarkably like being in San Jose, except there were a lot more germans than in San Jose (SAP has a huge facility about a mile away)

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Fireworks

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Busy work week, catching up for week’s activities. Mostly just work today, but heard a bunch of fireworks in the evening. Found out later it was National Children’s Day, a cause for celebration (at least with fireworks)

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Sightseeing

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Sightseeing in Bangalore. The car & driver (I borrowed him for Sunday) picks me up at 7:30 AM. It takes about 45 minutes to get downtown where he drops me off. After 20 minutes or so, a guy points me to the tour bus. Some more people get on the bus. About 9:00, we start off. I’m the only Caucasian on the bus. The bus has, without a doubt, the roughest running diesel I’ve ever heard. [Read More]
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Friday after work

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Friday in India. I get my local India phone SIM card, so I guess I’m a local now. I sign up for a bus tour of Bangalore on Sunday. The office folks are incredibly accommodating about setting things up for me. Everyone insists I won’t be able to get around by myself, which is probably true. So I have a rented car & driver picking me up at the hotel to drop me at the tour and then bring me back afterwards. [Read More]
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Another Work Week

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Another day of work. See picture for a view of the traffic on the way to work. We had lunch catered on the patio (see picture). The food is really good, haven’t met a dish I haven’t liked yet. A follow-up to the poor skype experience the other day: it works way better when I’m not using the VPN. The lack of delay makes it seem like I’m actually paying attention. [Read More]
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