Category: events
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I ♥ NY: A Weekend In New York
I (Chris) was back in New York for a business trip. This is first time I spent a whole weekend there since we moved two years ago. The meeting ended with the beginning of the memorial day weekend and I was happy to see many good friends over several meals. With my colleagues, we had…
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Electron Festival 2012, Geneva
Electron is a four-day festival that ran from April 5 to April 8, spanning the Easter weekend of 2012. Below is this year’s poster – the city in the background is Geneva. It is an annual electronic cultures festival that included workshops, contemporary art exhibits, concerts, conferences and parties. These events took place at various…
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Las Vegas celebrates the year of the Dragon
We arrived in Vegas a week after the Lunar New Year, so the crowds had died down a bit but the decorations were still up. As many Asians enjoy gambling and even more indulge in shopping, Las Vegas has been rolling out the red carpet for them. Chinese new year was lavishly celebrated in a…
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Geneva’s 80th International Motor Show
This post is about something we did two years ago. So before all the new cars on show become old news … We went to see the annual 80th International Motor Show (80e Salon International de l’Auto) at Geneva’s Palexpo on the second but last day in March 2010. We were stuck in traffic outside Geneva…
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Happy Chinese New Year of the Dragon 2012
Wishing all viewers a prosperous year of the Dragon. 恭喜發財 身體健康 財源廣進 心想事成 Here are some pictures we took last year when we spent Chinese New Year in Hong Kong and Macau (where firecrackers are legal). A highlight of the visit during Lunar New Year was the flower market in Victoria Park (福 posters below)…
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2011 Goodbye
Happy New Year ! Wishing You All The Best in 2012. Hong Kong & Macau Berlin, Germany Chamonix, France Figueres, Spain Milano, Italy Before we welcome the arrival of 2012, I will do a little personal review of the world events of 2011. This past year seems to be packed with big news, more so…