Web 2.0 Expo 2007

My day today started at 8:00am.  There were many early risers in San Francisco, even on a Sunday morning.  Some of them dressed in suits, I wonder if they were on their way to work.

Downstairs as I was leaving the hotel, there were a long line of old Chinese ladies in front of a tour bus.  I guess they are a on a group tour to somewhere, they seemed excited.

The air was chilly, and my brisk walk warmed me up.  I was hoping to grab have some breakfast when I get to the Moscone West.

The first session was on Building Social Applications by an old guy named Stowe Boyd who was wearing an inverted baseball cap.  It was interesting, but I thought the materials wasn’t too substantial – so I hopped over to the next hall where another presenter, Kelly Goto, was talking about designing the web with prototype tools.  It was better.

The afternoon was another session on Scalable Web Architectures.  I sat through the 3 hour non-stop talk – it was that good.  I think I’ll buy the speaker’s book.

At 5pm when the sessions ended I walked down 4th street where Moscone West was, towards the Caltrain station as instructed by Phil.  It took me about 20 minutes to walk there.  Bought a ticket for US$5.25 and the train left the platform at 6pm after a short wait.

By the time I got to Mountain View station, it was already 7:15pm.  Phil was waiting.

Mindy was in the car, together with their 2 daughters Claire 4 and Grace 2.  We drove to a nearby restaurant.  Mexican.  Yummy.  I ordered a spicy prawn dish with corn tortilla and beans with rice.  It was very nice.  Phil paid for the meal.  I promised him that I’ll buy him Chilli Crab when he comes to Singapore.  He happily agreed.

Phil will be flying to India for a business trip, and will be stopping by in Singapore enroute for a day each way.  While I won’t be in Singapore when he flies there, but I’ll be having lunch with him when he passes Singapore again on the 26th  Thursday.

I look forward to seeing him again.