Category: Travel
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Ishiyama-dera
Dragon’s Hole Pond Entire Ishiyama-dera photo set on Flickr.com After the Japanese Natural Language Processing Conference, I had a few hours before returning to Tokyo, so I went to the nearby Ishiyama temple, which is said to be where the Japanese author Murasaki began writing the Tale of Genji. It is a really beautiful temple, […]
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Eating too much in Korea: a wedding tradition?
My pictures of Dave Han’s wedding in Korea. Han family at Han Park wedding. Jiseon Park and David Han Drying Fish Table full of plates On Friday January 5th I got on a plane and went to Korea for Dave Han’s wedding. He married Jiseon Park, and the ceremony took place in Gangneung Korea, on […]
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Salk Institute in San Diego
Salk Institute pictures on Flickr.com On August 17th, 2006, Ron deVilla, Michelle VanNoy, and I went to the Salk Institute for a tour. The Salk Institute was designed by Louis Kahn in consultation with Dr. Salk, who developed a vaccine for Polio. It is a really beautiful and flexible building for lab spaces.
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Wednesday, 2007-07-19 Part II: Seasickness, food poisoning, or a heart attack?!?
We headed back to the boat, and I think the next stop was a two hour cruise with drinks. I decided that I wasn’t too comfortable on the boat for two hours, so wouldn’t have any alcohol. After a few minutes on the boat, we hit some choppy water, and I started to feel unwell. […]
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Wednesday, 2007-07-19
At Coling, traditionally one day is reserved for an excursion to see the sites in the area. I think this is a nice idea. I’m fairly bad at planning sightseeing when I’m on my own, so it is nice to have a large group to go with. Part I: The Zoo and Manly Beach The […]
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Tuesday 2006-07-18
I went to lunch with Min-Yen Kan and Kathy McKeown. We had a very nice lunch, and Kathy was very helpful with career advice. Met up with a Group of Columbia related people for dinner.
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Monday 2006-07-17
Yesterday I met up with Stephen Wan and got the keys to his sister’s apartment. The plan was to take a nap and get up at 7pm to go to the welcoming cocktail party for ACL/COLING. I started my “nap” at 4:30pm, woke up at about midnight, and then kept sleeping up 7:30am. I somehow […]
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Sunday 2006-07-16 (Trip to Australia)
Part 1: To the airport Today has been a long day. It started out as a Saturday morning, in a relaxed enough manner, at 9:30am. The previous evening I had gone with some friends from work to the Mitama (Soul) Festival at Yasukuni Temple, near work. Since the evening was late, I decided to leave […]
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49 hours in busses, planes, airports and taxis
So I left Kuala Lumpur on Tuesday morning, catching a bus to get back to Singapore. The bus ride, on Aeroline, took five hours to get to Singapore. We watched “The Princess Diaries.” I can’t believe that I watched “The Princess Diaries”, but I did. Also, did you know that you have to go through […]
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Happy New Year!
Celebrated the New Year in Kuala Lumpur with Gyn-Ian Yap, Sue-Ling, Ken-Wei, and Elissa. Nice fireworks at Petronas towers, and then a crazy crowd trying to get into the subway to get home.