Hi !

I want to inform you that we have a mailing-list group now, it is 2008ipseminarqingdao@yahoogroups.com.
I already invited you to join the Yahoo!groups. So, please click "join the group" and we can share so many things there and also a birthday reminder of each participant.
We still use this blog as a media to write something longer.

About the email address and birthday, you can also manage by yourself from the yahoogroups. I hope I added your birthdays correctly. Or if you need some helps don't hesitate to contact me by email at mayali.nm@gmail.com
Mr. Liu and Mr. You, it's not fair we didn't have your birthday...hehehe....

I still have difficulties to invite them in this group because the email address were wrong. So, if you know the correct email address below, please tell me...
Those participants are:
Eka Gabunia from Georgia
Musue K. Kamara and Jackson from Liberia
Marina Dedic from Montenegro
Ashraf and Adnan from Palestine
Igor from Serbia
Lumumba from Tanzania
Roselyn from Zimbabwe
Amelia from PNG
Carlos Gerardo from Mexico
You can contact me so I can invite you to join this group or you can also subscribe by yourselves. You can type 2008ipseminarqingdao-subscribe@yahoogroups.com

I hope we can tightened our friendship through this blog and group.
Cheers - Maya

Quiet man

रेअल्ली इ मिस थिस गुड एंड कंद मन !!!
अब्द एल्वाहब - ईजिप्ट

Really i miss this man !!!

Abd elwahab - Egypt

Happy times

Do you remember this day?

S. Emam from Egypt

November Birthday Celebrants

Happy Birthday to our birthday celebrants for November! We wish you peace of mind, perfect health, and many more blessings and graces! Ni duo da le? Gan bei! Let's toast to your success!

Dao Xuan Diep (Vietnam)
November 1
diepdx@moit.gov.vn

Rosarius Caspar Kamanga (Malawi)
November 5
rkamanga@cosoma.org

Cardoso Almirante Comboio (Mozambique)
November 13
ccomboio@mic.gov.mz
acomboio@yahoo.com.br

Lumumba Patrick Kasera (Tanzania)
November 13
lgkananka@yahoo.com

Tassanai Lerksantivong (Thailand)
November 25
tassanail25@hotmail.com

Novilia Mayasari (Indonesia)
November 27
mayali.nm@gmail.com

Musue K. Kamara (Liberia)
November 29
industrialpropertyliberia@gmail.com

Birthday Celebrants for October 2008

There is a famous saying that goes “Better late than Never!”

So we would like greet a very Happy Birthday to the following birthday celebrants for October. We wish your celebrations were heartwarming and merry!

Olivera Perkovic (Montenegro)
October 2
olivera@cg.yu
olivera@t-com.me

Carlos Gerardo Lopez (Mexico)
October 3
cgerardo@cicese.mx

Brenda Nyaradzi Katanda (Zimbabwe)
October 10
bnkay1@yahoo.com

Monique C.S. Attolou (Benin)
October 11
matolou@yahoo.fr

Amelia Bure (Papua New Guinea)
October 15
amelian@ipa.gov.pg

Saleh Miqdadi (Jordan)
October 26
smiqdadi@yahoo.com

On behalf of our friends in Qingdao and the 2008 IP Seminar participants, we would like to wish you good health, more success, and more, many more birthdays to come.

(Kindly email me if I there is anyone which I missed in the list.)

Best regards!- from Emmanuel

A View of The Qingdao City on 411 Room

With the coming of Night

Hello, my friends! Thank you Emmanuel for the magnificent story and your impressions. I also have some photos from tea factory. Really, it was beautiful time!

Eugeniu (Moldova)

Ni hao! The Tea Valley was really breath-taking. I would like to work there even for one month, the fresh air, cold weather, the magnificent view of the mountains and the wide blue open sky (and the delicious food of course!), will definitely make me come back there again and again and again. In the meantime, I just have these pictures to make me remember some of our brief but special moments spent there.

I remembered that the staff of the tea farm told us to get the young and fresh leaves of the tea plant, they are usually the new ones which are small and very green. These are the leaves which they use for the tea, which they leave out to dry in the sun, then packed in their packages and shipped to different parts of China. But I mistakenly got the old and big leaves. The staff in the farm told me that the leaves I got were not good for making tea, hehe, ooops. Okay, so I started all over again and was lucky to get enough good tea leaves to earn my right to have a nice lunch.

We got a taste of the tea-based food which was served for lunch, and it was a real treat. My taste buds were dancing and singing like it was fiesta! They served so many dishes served with tea leaves and it was both healthy and refreshing.

So if you also want your taste buds to also joyfully sing and dance, come back to the Tea Valley and re-live the experience again and again. Let's see each other there! Xie xie!

With all good wishes, Emmanuel.

Tea Valley memories

Nii Haao from Egypt

Wonderful Moments

These pictures bring back so many memories of our happy moments in Qingdao. Lower photo (Emmanuel and Eugeniu). Top photo (Emmanuel, Carlos, Justa, and Madame Afroza)

Nice Seminar.

Great Seminar,
Friendly people,
Beautiful Photos...

Thanks a lot!

With respect, Eugeniu Chistol (Republic of Moldova)

Seminar Qingdao 2008

Nice photo from my camera
(Eugeniu Chistol, Republic of Moldova):

Video- Memories in Qingdao

Novilia Mayasari (Indonesia) made this beautiful video entitled "Memories in Qingdao" which was presented during the Farewell Party and Closing Ceremony of the Seminar on Intellectual Property System and Protection in Qingdao, China.

We hope that through this video, we can look back and always remember the friendship and special moments we shared in the breath-taking city of Qingdao. We also hope that this blog contributes in some way to making our friendship last forever.

To all participants and organizers of the seminar who made our experience in Qingdao one which we will remember as long as we live, we say "Xie xie! Fei chang gan xie!"

Memories of Our First Tour- Qingdao Sailing Base

(From left- Tesfaye (Ethiopia), Alina (Ukraine), David (Zambia), Lumumba (Tanzania), Olivera (Montenegro), Marina (Montenegro), Abebe (Ethiopia), and Emmanuel (Philippines)

Our first tour guide in bus number 2 (for groups 4, 5, and 6) is Ms. Sandy Liu. She gave us very detailed descriptions of the beautiful sites in Qingdao and she did very well.

Mr. Paul (You Liming) is here in bus number 2 reminding us to return to the bus in the right time or else, we would have to return to the hotel by taxi. (Sorry Mr. Paul!)