So many places - so little time

There are just too many places to go and too little time for me to write my blog... In the past 5 weeks, I've been to Macau, Taiwan, Bangalore and Shenzhen, and each one can easily be its own blog entry. But I (and all of you) will have to settle with a condensed version.

Pictures are better than a thousand words so I'll share some of our moments in Macau through the gallery below.

I then also took the opportunity to make it back to Taiwan for my dad's 60th birthday. It was great to spend some family time with my parents. I unfortunately don't have any pictures since I lost the camera with those pics on my trip to Bangalore. We took the direct flight from Hong Kong to Taichung on Dragon Air. The Taichung airport is the smallest International airport I have ever landed in. The great thing about is that it's only 20 minutes away from my parents house. I spent the weekend there mainly enjoying some great meals with my mom cooking up a 10-course meal every day and enjoying a great spa Sunday with my parents.

I got back from Taichung on March 9th afternoon and then flew right back out to Bangalore that same evening.

I was there purely for business so I didn't get a chance to do any shopping or much sightseeing. However, I did ask the driver to take me on a 30 minute detour to check out the major sightseeing places in downtown by the Star TV office. A few things to note about Bangalore:

* People honk their horns just as a courtesy to let others know that they are coming from behind so there is constant honking coming from the streets
* If you ever thought driving in Taiwan is bad, Bangalore is much much worse
* Lanes don't mean anything and neither do street lights (when there are no cops)
* Crossing the street is like playing froggy
* Bomb checks with every car that goes into any nice hotel and metal detectors at the main entrance

Despite a few of the points above, I loved Bangalore. The city is beautiful with lots of trees, beautiful parks and beautiful architecture. I had Indian food in every meal and loved it! The people there are also all very friendly and welcoming. The one interesting cultural thing is that the people there will shake their head from side to side and it's really a sign of acknowledgment. It took me a little bit to get used to it because I felt like they were disagreing with me instead but they'd do it with a smile. :-)