I’m heading off for a whirlwind tour of Seoul and Hong Kong talking about design and development in Flash Lite. In Korea I’ll be giving a presentation on Advanced Flash Lite Development (pretty much the same presentation that I gave in Anaheim) . For Macromedia MAX, Greater China (Hong Kong) I’m presenting twice, the first session is on visual and interaction design for Flash Lite, and the second will be a more in-depth presentation on my NYC traffic cam viewer.
Having never been to Asia before, I am really looking forward to it. I am however a bit nervous at the same time. I’ve never been to a place where I have no linguistic intuition on written or spoken language. One of the travel guides was suggesting taking the subway into the city from the airport. Considering that I barely get where I need to go on the New York City subway where I do speak the language, I can’t imagine trying to get along not understanding the signs or the conductor voice (thank goodness for taxis and western-style hotels). 
The dread though comes from the prospect of a 13 hour flight to Seoul! Probably by the time I get off the plane I won’t be able to speak English either. 
See you all again on Friday. I’m still working on the update to the pirate maps game, but hopefully I will get it posted this week.
Hi Justin,
I attended to your preso at Anaheim and I´m pretty syre your audience in Asia will also be gifted with a groundbreaking presentation by a talented professional.Enjoy Asia.
Luciano
Hey Justin, I’m off to Seoul in January – looking forward to hearing how you get on cause I haven’t gone to a place either where I don’t know the lanuguage at all!
Hi!
I am Korean and I will attend the MAX 2005.
Korean is very kind, so you will be warmly welcomed everywhere.
Good luck!!
Wow! Sounds wonderful. Take lots of pictures.
Hi all,
I’m having a great time here! Jae-Chul, I hope you come to the session. I really appreciate your comment.
Everyone has been very friendly, and very kind about my not speaking the language.
I did go to a bookstore today and found a really good book about the written language. After seeing my name tag writen only in korean, I got very curious.
I’ll post all of my picts soon. for now I need to get to bed so that I am awake for my session tomorrow.
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Hi! Justin!
I’m in office.
Today is last day of Max 2005 Korea.
What with the urgent meeting, I haven’t been Max.
But I hope that Max Korea will be something pleasant to look back on.
I would like to see what you present on the NY cams, sounds interesting. I would love love attend the conference, but the 13 hour plane trip sounds kind of scary… Perhaps when your back in the states I can catch a show in the future..
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