China Trip 2010: July 12 - 29

• Sunday, April 18: Bought the tickets.
• Tuesday, April 20: Katla.
• Monday, May 3: Samsung NC10 netbook.
• Saturday, May 8: Enschede Verrast and passport photo.
• Wednesday, May 19: Send away our visa applications.
• Saturday, May 22: Looked for new camera.
• Wednesday, May 26: Visas are ready.
• Thursday, May 27: Suitcase.
• Friday, May 28: Katla about to erupt?
• Saturday, May 29: Dutch/Chinese CD
• Saturday, June 19: Onmisbaar Chinees
• Wednesday, June 23: Vaccination shots
• Saturday, June 26: Portret picture
• Friday, July 2: 40,000 security cameras
• Sunday, July 4: Creating DVD's
• Thursday, July 8: Some last shoppings
• Saturday, July 10: Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ8
• Sunday, July 11: Creating DVD's (part 2)
• Monday, July 12: Rainbow in mid-air

Things we brought:

• Passports.
• Medicine and medicine passport for Li-Xia.
• Presents:
  • Portret picture of Annabel and Andy.
  • DVD's of our home movies.
  • Book: Enschede Verrast.
  • Book: Plato and the Platypus walked into a bar.
  • Q10 hand/foot cream.
  • Lego Truck 3221.
• Samsung Netbook
• Book: Onmisbaar Chinees
• Books to read:
  • Dagboek 1931-1934 by Anaïs Nin.
  • Incest by Anaïs Nin.
  • Doe wat ge wilt: Brieven aan Anais Nin (Letters to Anais Nin) by Henry Miller.
  • Horrible Tango by Jan Wolkers
  • Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus by Ludwig Wittgenstein.
  • Vita by Victoria Glendinning.
  • Dertien (Black Swan Green) by David Mitchell

Things I wanted to do while in China and, between brackets, what I actually did:

• Read books. (A lot)
• Work on Chinese Wooden Puzzle program. (A little)
• Work on Arabic Geometric Patterns. (A little)
• Develop page for my books collection. (Nothing)
• Work on P versus NP problem. (Nothing)
• Work on Nonogram solver. (Nothing)
• Work on square tilings and triangle tilings. (Nothing)
• Work on recalibrate program for Google Earth. (Nothing)
• Write more on story Bijna 42. (A little)
• Play Go. (Nothing)

GPS tracks

Information

• Weather Urumqi: Five day forcast, average.