San Francisco (ISSCC 2008)

This year I spent my Chinese New Year in San Francisco, attending ISSCC conference. I found SF to be a beautiful city, the street view is interesting, but with a lot of homeless people. They will occasionally beg money from you, you could just shunt away and they will leave you alone.

Pier 1 Ferry building.



Weird sculptures at The Embarcadero Center.


Newspaper stall. Yep, unmanned. Put your quarters in, take the papers, and go.


China town entrance gate. Famous Dr Sun Yat Sen quote: "For the mankind". Yep, KuoMingTang (KMT) influence is strong here.


Chinese New Year booths, quite happening here.

Parade! And even got ang mo among the street parade team. ;-) America, a great melting port huh...


Chinese New Year carnival opening ceremony. From left to right: Typical organizer, Chinese Chamber chairman in SF; exec comm 1; the SF mayor; representative from event sponsor Southwest airlines; exec comm 2; and lastly, surprise surprise, the SF Police Chief, a Chinese lady that speaks Cantonese!


The Cable Car station. Right at the bottom of my hotel room, kinda noisy but I actually like the Ding Ding sound.
The conference entrance. The annual grand event for circuit designers.


That is all for now. More to come when I tidy up the photos.