Thursday, August 17, 2006

Monday, August 14, 2006

Photo's from Texas and Seoul

Here are a jumble of images from my trip to San Antonio via Seoul including street scenes from San Antonio, Austin and Seoul, a sketch from a student in the chemistry department at the University of Texas, San Antonio and a biker-bar where the UTSA chemists drink on a Friday night. I loved both Texas and Seoul, although I was disturbed by the sight of these VERY young pets for sale on a busy street in Seoul.







Wednesday, August 09, 2006

How are y'all going?

It has been another long period since my last post. I came home from Singapore and soon after departed for texas, via Korea. I loved both Korea (particularly Seoul) and San Antonio, Texas. This was was second visit to Korea and my first to the USA. My first impressions of the latter were (1) wow - these are BIG people and this country is going to have a health crisis around the corner and (2) - related to the first - they drive BIG cars everywhere! I've never met an American I didn't like, and that still holds after 3 weeks in Texas. The natives were very hospitable and I enjoyed bbq's almost every night and boisterous, boozy lunches in front of the World Cup soccer. Despite the socialising, it was still the most productive work trip I have undertaken. I'll try and post some photo's soon.