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It all started innocently enough. The notebook didn't fit in my pocket, and my N93 was already there.

Great place. Great people. Stupid story idea.

kevin_s2f | 03 July, 2007 18:25

It’s been a great couple of weeks, but I’m glad to be back. Naresh, Tote and Ron have already commented on the Champion Day. I echo their thoughts that it is wonderful to meet in 3D-land those people who I work with and work for, but rarely actually see.

After the Champion Day in Singapore, my partner and I took the train up the Malaysian peninsula to Penang. Everybody I talked to seemed to have the same response: “I hear it’s great – but I’ve never gotten the chance to go.” Well, let me say, they are right about it being great, and they really need to go there some time. It was a fabulous trip. Great food. Interesting people. Places that seem (to my American brain) straight out of a dream. A quite steamy dream, but one worth dreaming at least once in your life. We even had a quite positive encounter with the Malyasian health care system that I’ll share over a good bottle of wine some time.

Star Trek meets Baywatch anyone?

I had to share this photo with you (taken with my N93, of course). It’s a lifeguard station on the beach outside the resort where I stayed. A great place, but I quite hope American television writers do not take this as a story lead. All we need is a TV series about intergalactic capitalists cavorting in microgravity while their earlobes jiggle in slo-mo.

BTW, Ferengi means foreign, or more literally westerner. For the linguistically inclined, here's an interesting trace of the word from the Germanic Frank through the muslim trade routes to South East Asia. And of course the Star Trek reference that came to my mind.

To all I met on the trip, and in particular to those who helped when we needed it, terima kasi!