Day 4 in San Francisco

My greatest PEEVE on this trip to San Francisco. The internet access here is SLOW!! FREAKING SLOW! Imagine! This is Silicon Valley where cutting edge technology is born on the fly and where T1 and E1 lines get subscribed into the home. But here I am in Hilton Hotel and at USD50 a week for internet access and still... I'm logged out of iChat, slow on Blogger, even slower on my own servers in the office and work is being delayed.... SHEESH! Even at the convention centre. Good thing that I can plug in and the connection goes up!

It rained today. Rainy Fricso isn't too fun. Woke up and rushed down to our sessions and tried looking for breakfast. No luck. The hardest of bagels existed. Hard enough to break glass when it is thrown against it. How do the angmos appreciate food this hard? A new found respect for these angmos?



Here's the dining hall at the Moscone where some 3600 people take makan. Food's been decent so far. Fried chicken (well it was too fat and too salty) and after they feed you, you get to play games!



Well the series is indeed getting tougher and more technical.



Ok.. something more lighthearted.

We're staying in room 1-1978. 19th floor. But our frens j & r are staying at 1-876. So they asked us what rooms we stayed at and we said 1978. So they assumed 1-978 on the 9th floor! They kept calling the room, not getting us and having this girl on the line. The ultimate came when j went to the room and he banged hard asking for me and went "cb, ad, open up ah" in hokkien and this poor young girl opened a latched door to tell him to such person!!! Man! haha...

Today, we went to Haight street... there's a place called amoeba music.. one of the largest music stores and all kinds of new and used dvds as well as cds.. Even old LPs. we were already there on Sunday but we brought a friend there and S even managed to find LPs of Star Wars (him being a SW Freak) that date back to 1977. SCARY!



Finished all that and went around looking at the alternative lifestyle street. Tattoos, anarchist, gay, everything is there. What got to me was BEN & JERRY'S! Yeah, though raining and cold, I had to have it... haha....



We then headed back and as we got to the bus stop, we saw our bus 7 go. Thinking another one would come, we waited and chatted... for a good 30 mins, we continued and S even commented on the frequency on the bus until I went "F%$K" as I looked at the sign and saw last bus at 6:30 and it was now 7:00. So we tried to walk.. and we walked.. and we walked... a 5 mile walk.. and with the slopes of Fricso, I thought I had good shoes... New timberland of course.. NO... I slipped twice.. Hm... A refund in place?

Got back to nearby hotel and settled for dinner after a 90min walk. Mind you.. we were soaked and I had to PEE. Ate, peed and went back to the convention center for a last session called Stump the Experts. Funny. As always. This time, someone even asked, who was the engineer that had a line to say in Terminator2, the movie. Man!!

Tomorrow, we head for Frys and a meeting at Apple.. BEER BASH NEXT!