Re: Hong Kong, Macau and Bangkok

John,

United flies non-stop to Tokyo, a city well worth stopping at for a few days on the way down to Hong Kong. Agreed, we'll have our second ultimate reunion in Asia. On Izawa-san, I sent off a note to a friend in Tokyo and asked for a quick search. I'll be interested to see how many Izawa they come back with. I wish we knew what city in Japan he may be iving in.

I can't remember Hiroshi using a counting device in Math class. Certainly it would have been a Japanese version of the Abacus for sure.
If he was emotional in class, he would have been no different than the sales folks that worked for me in Tokyo. Running a group that competed with each other often resulted people loosing face and coming into the office in tears.

I understand that Tokyo is in the peak of cherry blossoms right now, some ten days early this year because of an unseasonably warm February. It's a great time to be in Japan, picnicking under the cherry trees, hoping for just one cherry blossom to fall in your sake glass and the resulting year of good fortune.

-Tom

P.S. On Bangkok, did you see the movie "The Beach"?