Melanie and I went with some friends (C, H, B, and J) to Friday’s evening session of Women’s Beach Volleyball. It was fantastic! The picture above is from the China v Cuba match. China was quite good (and they beat Cuba, too!). We were lucky to all get tickets to this same event as both H and I applied using our own accounts for the tickets during round 1 of ticket sales way back in August of last year.
On the evening of Thursday, August 14, Melanie and I went to a Boxing match, round of 16 Welter and Light Welter bouts. Many thanks to my old friend Mike (who was supposed to visit Beijing during the Olympics, but unfortunately could not) gave me his tickets (also to Rowing). I’ve never seen boxing in real life before, so it was certainly interesting. Some of the bouts were a bit slow - lots of hugging and dancing around.
Melanie and I went to our first Olympic event on Saturday - Rowing. Specifically, we went to the first day of the event. I must thank my friend Mike, from High School, who was actually supposed to visit me here in Beijing during the Olympics, but couldn’t due to prior commitments. He was able to give me the tickets he purchased via proxy. Here are my flickr photos. Unfortunately, we didn’t think to bring Melanie’s good camera!
Air not so clean with 1 day to go, eh?
Our department moved back to the main campus of Siemens China today (after more than 4 years at an off-site building). I quite like being here, even though we’re only in our current building temporarily (~6 months) while our permanent building is being renovated. You could say we’re closer to the “action” (which makes sense as we’re a corporate department - most of the people we deal with are at this main compound).
A couple of days ago, I woke up to find my left leg incredibly swelled and red, with mild pain. It seems the pocket of liquid (that I have lived with for almost 2 years) was getting fuller as well! It seems to be related to the car collision I was involved with back in 2006. A little background, after “healing” from that incident, a pocket of liquid remained in front of my Tibia (shinbone) below the knee.