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Monthly Archives: October 2006

post–National Day update

04-Oct-06

Having relatively important classes on Monday, Friday, Tuesday, and every other Thursday is not doing wonders for my travel plans. I may try to restrict myself to local travel, even on these three-day weekends. The low United fare to Ho Chi Minh is tempting, but the return flight is once a day in the morning—too […]

National Day update

02-Oct-06

OK, the fireworks were pretty cool.

National Day

01-Oct-06

It’s the PRC’s National Day today. I’m not that excited. There might be some cool fireworks over the Harbour tonight—hopefully I’ll get out to them—but as communist as I’m sometimes accused of being I have a hard time celebrating anything to do with the Beijing government. 64.

About Macau

01-Oct-06

I guess a full-length bloviation on Macau won’t be coming any time soon. Brief notes, instead, follow: I suffered four passport stamps for the journey, including a re-stamping of the half-page Hong Kong student residency stamp. I hope that doesn’t happen every time I come back in but I think it does. Ouch. It was […]