{"id":2837,"date":"2009-03-02T19:50:39","date_gmt":"2009-03-02T11:50:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chekyang.com\/musings\/?p=2837"},"modified":"2009-03-02T19:50:39","modified_gmt":"2009-03-02T11:50:39","slug":"visiting-obamaland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2009\/03\/02\/visiting-obamaland\/","title":{"rendered":"Visiting Obamaland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Singapore in itself isn\u2019t very exciting outside eating and shopping, so many of us simply make use of our convenient location to travel. Singaporeans are a pretty lucky lot when it comes to traveling around the world. We\u2019re situated right smack in a spot where major lines of transportation intersect, and there\u2019re exciting places to go to every direction you fly. North, there\u2019s Thailand, Vietnam, Hong Kong, Seoul, Tokyo. South, there\u2019s Indonesia, Australia and New Zealand. West, there\u2019s India, the Middle-East, and Europe beyond. East, there\u2019s the Philippines and beyond the big blue, the Americas.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m looking forward to the forthcoming trip to the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco later this month. For those of us in gaming, the GDC is the <em>biggest<\/em> event of its type in the industry, and generates not just a lot of excitement for those persons in the interactive entertainment industry, but also consumers i.e. players of the products too.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-top-width: 0px; display: inline; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px\" title=\"blog-gdc\" src=\"https:\/\/chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/bloggdc-thumb.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"blog-gdc\" width=\"640\" height=\"110\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, since it\u2019s an official faculty trip, there won\u2019t be much time to sink in the sights. I\u2019m needed right back after the five day event. Matt for certain is a little sorry at the missed opportunity: he was ready to fly across half the country to meet-up and we\u2019d check out all the eating places in Chinatown and see if there\u2019re any roti prata joints along the stretch. In fact, Ling even had this idea of me packing a kilogram of bak kwa and local posting it to him when I\u2019m in San Fran LOL. Unfortunately, I would have a lot of explaining to do at customs why I\u2019m bringing in a kilogram of barbequed pork.:)<\/p>\n<p>It doesn\u2019t help either that the Singapore dollar is a little weak against the greenback. Heck, the situation\u2019s completely reversed compared to when Matt visited us in Singapore last June: now\u2019s the best time for him to visit (again), and the worst time for me to go there. Still, I\u2019m checking out to see if there\u2019s anything I can pick up in the States that\u2019s cheaper there than in Singapore. Especially books! :)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Singapore in itself isn\u2019t very exciting outside eating and shopping, so many of us simply make use of our convenient location to travel. Singaporeans are a pretty lucky lot when it comes to traveling around the world. We\u2019re situated right<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-read-more\"><a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2009\/03\/02\/visiting-obamaland\/\">Read More<span class=\"cleanwp-sr-only\">  Visiting Obamaland<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[352],"class_list":["post-2837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-san-francisco-2009","wpcat-10-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2837\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}