Page from my Logbook
1993 Jan 17-20 - Pacific Telecom Council Conference
Sheraton Waikiki Hotel, Honolulu, Hawaii
Part of business development strategy was to expand contact base in the Western Pacific region, so I started visiting my business partner Mr. Min-Woo Nam, an expert in Real Time Computing/Ready Systems from Mr. Jim Ready, a personal friend since 1992. Continuing East to Tokyo, met my Rep there, I did continue further from Narita to Honolulu to attend the PTC conference there. Flying Eastward is saving you one day from your trip, when you cross the Timeline somewhere over the Pacific. Accountants are flabbergasted when you show your travel bills from two places for the “same” day. It happens as i.e. you start from Sydney flying to San Francisco. You pay for your hotel room in the morning and in San Francisco you check in on the same day.
Additional goal was to go, and fly over the Islands and to
obtain a helicopter flying licence from Mr. Ohara, the master instructor there. Most of my adult life there we books, which had made me stop and ponder on of such a books was "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller,
The conference was attended by over a thousand telecom experts from over 45 countries most of interest was South America, Australia, Indonesia, India, China, Korea and Japan. Great networking opportunities, noting various perspectives on the role of standard services plus some very uniquely suited and often already implemented services especially in South American countries with certain leanings like Cuba and or Venezuela. Some became opportunities to participate in projects there like distance education, health sciences etc.
The Second leg to my trip to Hawaii were to get to know a bit the archipelago itself which I was lucky to merge with the third “leg” which was the conclusion to my helicopter pilot licenses, for which theory I did read a priori to my actual visit. With actual flying tests resulted in practically “Island Hopping”, where I would see site for natives, observe various rituals, watch dances and listen to their music. During the flying hours we were able to see i.e. Pearl Harbour from up the Bell-1 helicopter, you see also oil bubbles floating to the sea surface from time to time. In reality seeing the oil bubbles coming out from the depth of the sunken “Arizona” is much more efficient from the Memorial than from hovering above it.
Interesting to me personally was that despite my Sheraton hotel room location 10 floors from ground, local pigeons were readily entering into my room from open door balcony. I have many pictures from this place.
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