No, not my wedding. A good friend from college is getting married to a Korean girl. I’ll take pics and upload to flickr. Got here yesterday (Friday) afternoon, leaving Monday early evening. Seoul is nice, but crowded!

Last night, Melanie and I returned from Hong Kong. Had a great great time in Hong Kong! Our flight was supposed to depart from HKG at 7:30PM, for an arrival around 10:30-10:50PM. When we got to the airport, we noticed the flight was delayed to 8:10PM - we later found out, according to the pilot, the plane was late getting out of Shanghai due to weather. This was fine as we could spend a bit more time in this great airport.

Today I went to the bank to pick up my Olympics Tickets This is a picture of the envelope. This is one of the tickets.

I went to Shanghai this weekend to attend a Toastmasters conference (District 85P Spring Conference), and of course, to cheer on 2 of my club’s members who competed in the District-level Evaluation and Speaking contests. Sadly, they didn’t place. As a good friend of mine recently move from Beijing to Shanghai, I decided to extend my trip by one day to spend Sunday with him (I was originally supposed to return to Beijing Saturday night).

I gave my 6th speech at Toastmaster’s last night, the project was about Vocal Variety. I gave the speech as if the audience was actually members of another group I belong to, The Beijing Linux User Group, and that this meeting was one of our monthly meetings. Fellow Linux Group Members. Now, those of you who’s meeting tonight is your first, you may not know that our group has another passion in addition to Linux.

I should have posted about this 2 weeks ago, but… As you see from the photo, Fred, Pockey, and I are sporting the brand new face masks brought to China by the BLUG’s very own Pollution Expert, Julien. If you’re interested in getting one, check out his Website at http://www.pollution-china.com! (specifically here) For the 3 or so weeks I’ve been using it, I have already noticed a great improvement in my breathing and less irritation in my lungs.