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I love this city. It’s too bad that there are only weeks left until I’m going to leave. (Next month, I’ll be in the cold and dark Sweden again.)

Hong Kong, I’ll be back, you can count on that.

In case you are going to learn Chinese (Standard/Mandarin Chinese), here is one recommendation for you: get the Oxford Starter Chinese Dictionary.

I needed a small dictionary containing most of the words that I needed to know, preferably with pinyin and many examples, and then I found the Starter Chinese Dictionary on Amazon.com. It had many good reviews and I got it as soon as I saw it in a Hong Kong book store.

Actually, even if you don’t intend to fully start learning Chinese, you could use it as a small introduction to the language (through its explanatory sections). China is becoming more and more important nowadays, and a little more understanding of their language could prove useful.

Thanks to CUHK, I have tickets to ITU Telecom World 2006 which is at the AsiaWorld-Expo in Hong Kong. I went there today, and it was all fairly interesting. If the news from one company was less interesting, then their stand itself was often all the more interesting.

The biggest trend: IMS. I lost count of the number of times that IMS was mentioned, and did so very early on.

Here are a few photos: