Bangkok Week 104 June 24, 2010 A busy Friday night, and then a super-quiet week as a single lady. Ahh, the great smell of freedom. View fullsize A very unceremonious sign welcomes guests to the month's Technopreneurship and Innovation Management (TIP) forum. View fullsize Recognize the speaker? Here, he's with Vee (his connection to Chula University) and the professor who invited him to speak. View fullsize The nicely-made name card. Too bad it can't be read beyond the second row. View fullsize Before... View fullsize ...and after! Full house! Over 200 in attendance. View fullsize Worried by the shocking large number of people who've come to listen. View fullsize And we're off! In typical Thai fashion, the event started 15 minutes late. No fault of the speaker, though. View fullsize Using his laser pointer to showcase a well-designed rolling suitcase he designed while at MIT. View fullsize Practicing to be an MC at the next wedding we get invited to. View fullsize Wait a minute, when did this become a lecture about kite surfing? View fullsize And we're done! That only took 90 minutes. Thank You! View fullsize Inundated by Q's and A's at the end. View fullsize Look at the queue of people waiting to talk to the speaker! View fullsize A celebratory dinner at Greyhound afterward ... but only because it was the only eatery still open at that late hour. View fullsize Vegetarian stir-fried Japanese soba. Not bad, actually. View fullsize Still the #1 dessert! View fullsize A lesson in knowing your supplier. Both these bags cost B20 each. One leaves me feeling quite ripped off.
