Category: events
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Our 600th post !
We are caught a bit off guard when the admin page of WordPress indicated that our next post will be the six hundredth (600th) that we published. As previously said several times, we are surprised that the interest in keeping up this blog has not fizzled out over the last 5 years. True it is, that we…
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Les Automnales, Genève
After a series of posts on Malaysia, we thought it’s time to change the topic. So… back to Switzerland … One weekend last year in autumn / fall, our friend F suggested that we go to this event called Les Automnales which was held at the Palexpo – the international exhibition center next to Geneva airport.…
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Tosca @ Hungarian State Opera House
The night before we left Budapest, we saw an opera with my colleague A and her husband M at the Hungarian State Opera House (i.e., Magyar Állami Operaház). We saw Tosca despite the giant display says Cosi fan tutte. The foyer was very ornate, reminded us a little bit of Versailles (see pictures here). Months in…
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Our trips 2014 – part 2
H a p p y 2015 ! Now that we are back from our year-end vacation, we are taking a look back at some of the places we visited last year. This is the second of two posts; Part 1 is here. The photos are organized in reverse chronological order. Some of the trips are business trips…
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Our trips 2014 – part 1
Dear Readers, Happy New Year ! This is our first post of 2015. It is time to take a look back at some of the places we visited last year. Some of you who knew me from New York probably think, judging from the posts here, that since we left for Switzerland, we travel a…
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Support True Democracy in Hong Kong
This is dedicated to the protest for true democracy in Hong Kong which is now approaching its peak – October 1. 聲援香港爭取民主普選 !