ISCOC and ISCIC

Boss said the conference would be beneficial for me though the topic is organic and inorganic chemistry. I am not an organic or inorganic chemist. I am an analytical chemist. This kind of symposium is far from my daily work actually. But I think it's a kind of reward for my hard working.

One of the "C" in "ISCOC" and "ISCIC" represents Chinese, so that most of the speakers are Chinese from China, taiwan, Singapore, Hongkong and Chinese overseas. Those research works are "tian shu" to me. I feel boring but I enjoy the food there. Luckily I can talk with my colleagues. It's a bit difficult to socialize with those academic people. No common languages. No old friends. I recognized some faces, but I don't think they know me because I was low profile when I studies in school.

I skipped one hour talk in the afternoon. I hope boss don't ask me about that tomorrow.

Christmas party

It is almost Christmas. My friend invited us to her Christmas party. My friend is an insurance agent. She organizes this party for her clients. And since I mentioned that I planned to buy the life insurance for my little daughter, I became her client also.

The party is well organized, especially for kids. After food, there was a magic show, baloon giving, kids performance and gift exchange. My daughter enjoyed the show very much. The "magic prince" did a great job. He attracked all the attention of kids and even the adults. Each kid got a special baloon from her. Then some kids gave the performance. Though they are not very serious about the performance, the courage and gut are worth praising. In return, they received big present. Of course, since it's a Christmas party, all the kids got present finally. My daughter envied the big present, so I told her to pratice her Chinese dance well. She can receive big present next time also if she can perform.