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Seoul journal: The Market at Seoul: A bargain???

Fri, 04 Aug 2006 17:28:09 GMT

Travelling to Seoul and my Adventures in the Market

My first impression of Seoul was that is was a very modern, futuristic type city. The buidings all have their own distinct look with weird angles, sculptures, and facades adorning them. I took some pics if anyone is interested. Like Tokyo everything is big. The highway from the airport to the hotel borders a river and as a far as the eye can see are buildings, row after row.

We arrived at the hotel about an hour after leaving the airport. I am staying at COEX Intercontinental. Underneath the hotel is a mall that ...

Tokyo journal: Tokyo Day 4

Fri, 04 Aug 2006 17:25:40 GMT

Last Tokyo Day

The last few days have been mostly work, but it has still be an experience being in Japan and Korea respectively.

Our actual session with our Japanese customers was on Tuesday and it went very well. That night we went to a restaurant called Tofu-ie had a tapas style Japanese dinner of mostly tofu cooked and served in a variety of different ways. I had to load up on two extra plates of sashimi to tide me over, but all in all it was a very fun, different meal. The next day we had to get up very early to catch the flight to Seoul.

It was kind of sad ...

Tokyo journal: Tokyo Day 3

Fri, 04 Aug 2006 17:23:16 GMT

Alas, today was a work day, but I still managed to be amazed (and continually am being amazed, as I am still at work right now, but decided I needed to capture my thoughts). For one, the Autodesk office here kicks some major ass. It's on the 24th floor of this uber (that's right - uber) cool building called the Harumi Triton Square Tower. As I have alluded to before everything here is big. The lobby to this set of towers is an immense cavern of architeture. Very cool. Then you walk through these automatic sliding doors that seems to manifest out of nowhere.

Even the bathrooms are ...

Tokyo journal: Tokyo Day 2

Fri, 04 Aug 2006 17:18:54 GMT

First things first a 5.1 tremor rocked Tokyo today. When it happened I actually didn't realize it happened. I was in the subway listening to my iPod Shuffle (by the way Japan is fricken iPod crazy -- it is everywhere - walking down the street in th Akihabara district today vendors were hawking the new Nano left and right) and all of a sudden the train just stopped in the tunnel. I paused the shuffle because the operator began speaking -- then I realized I have no idea what on Earth he is saying so i flipped the shuffle back on. Linkin Park's Numb/Encore remix continued and shortly ...

Tokyo journal: Tokyo Day 1

Fri, 04 Aug 2006 17:17:07 GMT

I am in Tokyo for work, but managed to get a little sight seeing in ... today especially was eventful: After a Japanese buffet breakfast at the hotel, Jose (another Adesker) and I went and traveled around to 3 different Tokyo districts: Omotesando road that borders Shibuya, Shibuya itself, and Ginza. In between Ometosando and Shibuya we went to the Harajuku where we saw a shrine.

Each of the three areas was very distinct from each other. Ometosando was filled with many young people each expressing themselves, mostly through their clothing, in a variety of different ways. Some of ...

Asia journal: Mini-Tour Through Asia

Fri, 04 Aug 2006 17:14:13 GMT

I was the lucky recipient of a business trip in Asia last year and wanted to capture my journal entries from my blog here. Although it was mostly business, in each of the three cities we travelled there was time to explore: Tokyo, Seoul, and Beijing.

Europe journal: Europe Tour 2002

Fri, 04 Aug 2006 17:01:37 GMT

This is a transferring of my emails from my Europe trip back in 2002. People always ask me to tell them about my trip when they are about to go to Europe and it will be easier to point them to this then to forward them the info about all the hostels and sights to see.

Plus I just wanted to check this site out because my friends recently used it for their Europe trip...