Travel3 placesisee.blogspot: A touch of Beijing in Chicago

Tuesday, September 9, 2008

A touch of Beijing in Chicago - Sep 9 Oprah

Chicago is pushing for 2016 hosting of the Olympics . That would be a blast, after London 2012!
"About 150 Olympians, including Michael Phelps, Nastia Liukin and Kobe Bryant, are expected to attend a taping of the show in Millennium Park on Wednesday."
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-080830-oprah-olympics,0,4404698.story?track=rss
Youtube Olympians at Millennium Park show http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tumBRWlSkl0&feature=related
Michael Phelps @ Oprah http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aM2XyOjKzTQ&feature=related
I'm planning on London 2012, anyone else??? Email me.

No comments:

Post a Comment

To Pack minimal (carry on)

http://www.couchsurfing.com/group_read.html?gid=652&post=2274572 also http://www.onebag.com/
*"As little as possible!"
*My rule is this: Small backpack as carryon or I'm carrying too much stuff.
*Yes, take a sleeping bag, but make it as small and light as you can. No tent (people use the ATMs and it's quite common for people to sleep in them)
*Clothing minimum - two of each thing is often enough. hand wash things Use modern lightweight clothing (things that dry fast!) that can be layered when necessary.
*Invest in good thermal underwear - long johns and undershirt - they pack down tiny and make a huge difference to your comfort level when you find yourself somewhere cold.
*(Instead of a big jacket), take a lightweight windproof & waterproof with other layers of clothes - makes a huge difference to your comfort level.
*No books- too heavy 2nd hand bookstore & trade them
If you find a book you love, post it home or note ISBN and get it at half.com when home
* wrapped inside plastic bags, in case you get caught out in the rain and your pack gets wet.
* couple of big trash bags and plenty ziplock (sandwich) bags
*Backpack -small enough as carry on, airline can't lose it, and fly in Europe or Asia on budget airlines.
Gadgets Ipod, computer, etc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GT_sTUNYIAs
safety pouch pastport, money diaherra medscopies of it
Charcoal sandals
Travel alarm clock
1st aid kit (anti diaherra
jeans 1 and zip off pants
swim suit
chemoi towel
dressy shirt (for Embassy) & dance skirt
sunscreen sun hat head lamp read & find things
tissue/ good TP
waterbottle
backpack McKinley smallrst 55L
http://www.lifescript.com/Life/Timeout/Travel/The_Girls_Guide_to_Packing.aspx?trans=1&du=1&gclid=CJ7TrYWKw5gCFQomgwodzRXe0g&ef_id=1350:3:c_e3723e376c5290d188e4cf4a6b89ab38_2540535665:oLEfgEGvMaAAAFO6sIIAAAAt:20090204143021
dayback- over shoulder *tuck under with velcro & snap
sun glasses
digital camera
disposable shaver
bikini top (w T shirt
underwear
t-shirt
DF dance shoes (piable & smail)
heels
small lotion, eyelotion
sim card phone
luggage tags
eye mask
socks

shoes
Skin care, basic makeup & perfume
deodorant, personal hygience
zipties for locking luggage
nail clipper, file

(on land purchase) nail file

News Snippets (fr Sep 2008)

After an absence, here is the important news :
11/4 Tu Barack Obama, Aug 4, 1961 is the 44th President!
It's an historical moment, a black man is a president (before a woman becomes a president - ther is a parallel there with woman having the right to vote after black men could.)
I hope he is going to inject youth and positivity into this country that has lived on the laurels of the past. As a nation, we need to strive to regain our luster and glory of being a great nation, respected for our indivduality, ingenuity and greatness.
This past summer (June, 2008 to be precise), I told my Brother Kang in Singapore after a sumptious dinner that Obama is going to be President. I called it then, should have "intrade" it for I would have been $3,000 richer on 100 shares.
Now, it's time to move forward for there is much ahead of us. Jim Rogers, Warren Buffet or Mitt Romney is to be sought for financial revamping, to reinforce our fiancial bases.
In 4 years, would Mitt Romney give the 2012 a election shot?

* 9/13 Hurricane Ike hit Houston & Galveston, TX
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26637482/
9/13 China tainted milk powder (banned chemical melamine found in milk) kill Chinese children. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080913/ap_on_re_as/china_baby_formula_recall
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melamine
* 9/5 Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac, quasi govt. agencies are taken over by the Fed. on a government intervention.
http://abcnews.go.com/Business/story?id=5750841
Both FMs provide banks & other financial institutions with fresh money to make new loans, givingUS housing & credit markets flexibility and liquidity.
^3 major financial giants in crisis. "Stocks tanked Monday, amid the largest financial crisis in years after Lehman Brothers filed for the biggest bankruptcy in history, Bank of America said it would buy Merrill Lynch and AIG slumped on fears that it can't raise cash." When Am sneezes, the world has a cold. It's a major flu.
*9/15 Mo Lehman Brothers (4th largest ) filed bankruptcy. Finacial shockwaves. http://money.cnn.com/2008/09/14/news/companies/lehman_brothers/index.htm
Bank of Am bought Merril Lynch for $50 billion in stock. http://money.cnn.com/2008/09/15/markets/markets_newyork2/index.htm?cnn=yes
*9/16 Tu Financially crumbling "Fortune 500" AIG Insurance $85B bailed by Fed Reserve (unprecedented move), now owning 85% of AIG stocks. http://money.cnn.com/2008/09/16/news/companies/AIG/index.htm?cnn=yes

Trivia America
6/24-8/5 ABC "I Survived a Japanese Game Show" : 10 surprised American contestants were flown to Japan for a physical competitive show.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Survived_a_Japanese_Game_Show

July Travel Plans

Insert ALL travel itineraries:
Aug 17, 2008 head to LAX, USA then SLC.
*Aug ? Head S & to Singapore
Aug 10ish- 13 Olympics 2008
Aug 10-12 Xian, 12h night train to Beijing
*Wishful thinking" Lhasa, Tibet (China government imposed stringent travel rules: 7-day Tibet permit wait {Xian hostel had a 2 day wait I later found out] , min. 3 in party for a mandatory tour [due to March 10 2008 Tibet uprising.])
8/3 Flight to Chengdu @ 80% discount (rare, perhaps due to Olympics); C to Llasha (defeated, Tibet permit requires 7 days and other stringent rules); Aug 7-10 Yangtze Cruise (Chongqing to Yichang), train Wuhan/ 8/11 fly W to Xian, then return 4/13 to Beijing.
*Jul 30 & 31; Beijing; 8/1 British iluka interview (but can't synchronize all activities, and USA flight, mid Sept to USA)- no go, go home to USA
*Jul 28,29 Chengde Y20 miserable& hot 3rd class seats (Mongolian/ Tibetan show canceled last minute, to see it, needs to stay 29) 1:30pm A/C train Y42 Chengde-PEK

Housekeeping

*Kate eve at Nanlu Backpackers; street & interesting; German, etc. Hair wash Y10- wasted; like SHA @ Ortho Y10; LOVE XMN head, shoulder & back massage and hair Y20
*Interesting; Thai related;
*JUL 25 Llama temple
*Xiabu Xiabu Y65 for 2; love it (build into tour)
11 depart, 1700 return; 2 shopping- culturally interesting, Chinese exotic live food; exp $$$
*Sara Kennedy @Tainjin (w/ sis & B-i-L)
*Nankai & Tainjin Da are 2 top ones - 10M pop; polluted, not as bad as Beijing. Look into Qingdao (similar to California), about 5 hrs by train SE of Beijing, on the coast.
*JUL 26 Tainjin on fast train Y42
*Tuk Tuk- Bao Ling Kao; Dinner @ Olympics - M'sian Jewelery
*Great Wall (restrictive) not Badaling; cloudy/ Olympics restrictions/ David & Larue of Delaware U
*Jul 27 LDS-PEK 8:30 or 10:30am Jin Tai Da Xia

Travel3 placesisee.blogspot

Tuesday, September 9, 2008

A touch of Beijing in Chicago - Sep 9 Oprah

No comments:

Currency Summer 2008 (Beijing Olympics)

To Pack minimal (carry on)

K Travel Help

Blog Archive

News Snippets (fr Sep 2008)

Last I worked on...

July Travel Plans

Contacts 0808--0807--

WWW 2 check out

Keep in touch...

Quien

Food for Thought

Housekeeping

TO DO LIST (time permitting)