Category: Travel
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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.
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Coffee Shops in Malaysia
I’m currently in Kuala Lumpur visiting a friend of mine from my undergraduate days. I’ve been meaning to visit Yap for years, and since Kualu Lumpur is only a five hour bus ride from Singapore, I finally was able to make the trip here. I’ve really enjoyed Malaysia so far, Yap and his girlfriend Sue-Ling […]
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Weddings in Singapore
I went to Singapore for my friend Min-Yen Kan’s wedding on December 23rd. I met up with another Columbia researcher, Michelle Galley, and we had a blast running around Singapore doing touristy things. I don’t approve of the Taxi system in Singapore though: we spent two hours trying to get one once. Singapore’s Taxis have […]
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Trip to Hiroshima, do I have to change this website to FuguTabeta.com??
On Tuesday evening I took a train from Tsu to Nagoya, and from Nagoya to Hiroshima on a Hikari Shinkansen. The picture is actually of a Kodama Rail Star train from Hiroshima because the shot I got of my Nozomi 700 Series Shinkansen from Hiroshima to Tokyo didn’t turn out well. On arriving at Hiroshima, […]
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Trip to Tsu and Ise Jinguu
On Monday morning I caught the Kanki 3 train to Tsu (津) and met with Professor Nanba of Mie Daigaku. He and two of his students (Naito, who was very talkative, and another student who was not as talkative) took me to Ise Jinguu (伊勢神宮). Ise Jinguu is a very large temple, one of the […]
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Visit to Nittaiji in Nagoya
On Sunday, I visisted Nittaiji temple in Nagoya with the Maedas, and we also saw a small local Matsuri aimed at kids. It was very interesting. Nittaiji had some interesting Buddhist artifacts that were donated by the King of Thailand, according to what I could understand. So maybe that isn’t really the case. The five-level […]