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Philippines Impressions
From Infinite Wisdom, 2 year ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles
Alright, this post was supposed to come out WAY earlier. But after I got back from the Philippines, I got very busy with foosball, work, and other things. Here it is. Just some quick thoughts from my trip earlier in the year - many points specific to Boracay.Just like we speak Chinglish at home, Filipinos speak Tagalish. In fact, it's very common for Filipinos to mix lots of English into their speech.There's English everywhere. Kind of caught me off guard.'F's sound like 'P's when...
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VIFA Asia Open (July 17 - 20, 2009)
From Infinite Wisdom, 2 year ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles
Here's an article I wrote in the August issue of FoosLife Magazine.=============================== Let's talk about the VIFA Asia Open... in English. This is the largest foosball tournament in Asia, and in the past had brought in a lot of top competitors from across the continent. This year, players represented Malaysia, Taiwan, UAE, India, and Singapore. From Taiwan were Hsinchu foosball pals Jack Huang, Weichung Tseng, and myself.The 4-day schedule was like so:Day 1 (7/17): Newbie Doubles,...
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MALAYSIA! (Truly Asia)
From Infinite Wisdom, 2 year ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles
Hey Folks,Back from an 9-day, 8-night trip to Malaysia. I wrote most of this posting while waiting for my flight at the airport to describe how my trip unfolded. The main reason for going to Malaysia was to compete in the VIFA Asia Open foosball tournament, held at Breakers bar in Desa Sri Hartamas just outside of Kuala Lumpur. But of course, I wasn't going to buy a plane ticket and do no sightseeing along the way. The first part of the trip was with two foosers, while the last couple of...
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Malaysia Impressions
From Infinite Wisdom, 2 year ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles
In this segment, I'll post about some things I noticed or found interesting during my stay in Malaysia.Love the Indian food, but probably had a little too much. Don't worry, I had regular bowel movement 97% of the time.Although Malay is the official language in Malaysia, English is abundant and spoken by everyone.Most taxi drivers are fairly friendly and talkative, and you can learn a lot about a place by talking to its people.Catching a cab requires a bit of knowledge and patience if you...
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Crazy Foosers...
From Infinite Wisdom, 2 year ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles
Alright, I've been neither here nor there with posting on this blog. It's been frustrating me, but I've been just too lazy to do anything about it.Right, so back to foos.From February through May, I spent a great deal of time organizing and planning Taiwan's first international foosball tournament, sponsored by Carlsberg Taiwan. The Carlsberg Cup was a two-day event with 70 - 80 participants; a few of them from overseas (Malaysia, Hong Kong, and expats from Canada and the US). After all the...
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Olympus Launches Micro Four Thirds Camera
From Infinite Wisdom, 2 year ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles
Now we're talkin'.I wasn't sure when a compact micro four-thirds camera would be on the market, so I bought my Panasonic LX-3 earlier in the year. I don't regret that decision as the LX-3 produces some great photos. But this is certainly exciting news, and my next camera may be a micro four-thirds since I'm turned off by DSLRs' sizes. But I'll wait until they've worked out the kinks.Article: Olympus Launches Micro Four Thirds Camera
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Everything Foosball...
From Infinite Wisdom, 2 year ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles
A lot of my spare time recently has been spent on foosball related activities. And the normal person would ask, "How the heck can you spend a lot of time on foosball'". Well, I'll unravel some related stories in a few postings (hopefully). For now, I just want to say that our company has purchased a Torpedo foosball table. It's a knock-off of the Tornado tables found in North America. Quality-wise, it's close enough. At least good enough to practice on and sharpen up my skills.Now, maybe...
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Rest in Peace, Mischa
From Infinite Wisdom, 3 year ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles
I received word today that my ex-coworker and friend, Mischa, passed away from lupus at the tender age of 25. It was just 3 months ago she was getting ready for the Chinese New Year vacation when her body started malfunctioning and her immune system turning on herself. Soon after, she was in a coma and underwent multiple surgeries to address various complications. But in the end, never having the chance to come out of her coma, she lost her battle.Mischa was a beautiful person inside and...
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Singapore Impressions
From Infinite Wisdom, 3 year ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles
Alright, so my previous post was about what we did in Singapore. Let me randomly share some thoughts and opinions based on our few days there.Many people have said that 3 days is plenty to see Singapore. I say those people haven't researched enough, because I didn't think 4 days was enough. I guess it has to do with where your interests lie.As mentioned, Singapore is a clean city with modern architecture which stands its ground against Hong Kong and Shanghai. As far as cleanliness, Geylang...
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PHILIPPINES!
From Infinite Wisdom, 3 year ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles
Following Singapore, we spent 6 days in the Philippines.When planning for this trip, personal Filipino consultants CS and RT both said not to bother spending too much time in Manila, and to go to Boracay and Tagaytay instead - so we worked our Filipino visit around that advice.Jan 30 (Fri): Our 3.5 hr flight brought us to Ninoy Aquino International at 6:25pm. We got special VIP services, having "EdlC", retired Chief of Police where the airport is located, picking us and giving us a ride to our...
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