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!)

Something about safe-return home

hi there, some good news to imform.

we've got emails from

Mr.Tham, Mr. Pushpa from Nepal,
Mr.Kostya from Ukraine,
Mr.Millan from Sebia,
Ms.Terozita from Samoa,

And also phonecalls from

Ms.Zenia from Peru,
Mr.Aliyu from Nigeria,
Mr.Ali, from Yemen,

saying they all returned home safely.

Let's pray for those who are just on the way back home. Good luck and happy journey!

Saying Goodbye

This is a comment which I read in the article "well done by david chanda". It does not readily appear in the post because it was a comment so I am posting it here. I think this came from Terozita, I am not sure. Please correct me if I am wrong. Thank you.- Emmanuel

Prince Edward...well well well, it was so easy to say hello in the first place when we met, unfortunately I find it very difficult to say goodbye to you...knowing you was a great experience, your warmth personality and friendship really made a difference.

I guess tomorrow will be a sad day but I hope I can manage to hold on to my tears at the airport...I might as well leave you with this saying...I forgot the author's name but I guess its probably the most appropriate one .."Gone but not forgotten, you will always be remembered forever in my heart"...its that simple to say and of course explains a lot...it simply means that although I'll be gone, but memories of our short stay in Qingdao will be treasured forever...as the theme for last night's farewell party...friendship forever...

just hope that i will visit China again in the near future and especialy to see my Chinese families, Edward,Wan & Paul!!!!

Take Off by Emmanuel Domingo

Thank you David for your compliment on the blog.

I hope all of us could continue to communicate through this blog so that we can strengthen the friendship we had bonded during the Seminar. Just like what Mr. Liu said, the Seminar is only the beginning, the first step to making our making our friendship last forever.

Maybe most of us now are already in their countries, in their homes, and with their families. But I heard that there are still some participants who will be leaving Qingdao on Saturday like Brenda and Roselyn (from Zimbabwe).

It was hard to leave Qingdao. I was lucky that I share the plane ride with Terozita (from Samoa). We had to go through a tedious inspection procedure especially for Terozita because the airline staff cannot find her name in the list of passengers.

However, life can be really funny at times.

When they finally found her name, they gave her the business class/first class seat. Well, how lucky can you get! She got seat 1C and I got seat 27A, in the farthest end of the plane. I had to squeeze myself through given that I have gained some enormous pounds, and was carrying a heavy load of luggages as hand carry. When I arrived at my seat, there were people already sitting on 27C and 27B. Thinking logically based on experience, I thought that I could just ask the two persons to move to the window so that I could just take the aisle seat. But no no no! The woman said that the man on 27C is old and needs to get to the bathroom as easy and as fast as possible. So, sorry Emmanuel, no aisle seat for you! Heheh.

So to get to 27A, I had to squeeze myself once again towards the window seat which was really cramped and there was so little space to move in. When I finally settled, I called and texted some friends because I knew that when the plane begins its ascent, I will have to close the cellphone. While deep in conversation with Ms. G, I felt someone throw a piece of crumpled paper on my head. It was Terozita.

"Hey Emmanuel! Do you still have balance on your phone?" said Terozita.

Without blinking, I said "Yes, why?"

"I have to call Mr. Liu."

I learned that she called Mr. Liu to report that she had indeed been given a first class seat. Good for her, I thought. No squeezing necessary, plus the best food on the plane, plus first class service, plus and best part, a warm towel to put on your face. Hey, did I tell about the wine? hehe.

I was not able to call my friends again because I already saw the plane moving. It was moving like slow motion in my mind. I did not want the plane to leave, I did not want it to take off, I did not want it to move. I hope the strong rain the nigh before would spew down a torrent of rain and thunder so that the flight would be cancelled.

But the plane still moved at its own pace, it positioned itself in the runway, and started to rev up the boosters. The plane was moving fast now as I felt my body jerk toward my back seat. The plane run faster and faster and faster. I hope I had an anchor like that of a ship so that I could anchor the plane to one lamp post or something. But it sped faster and faster until I felt that the plane was slowly leaving the ground.

I felt like I never felt before. It was like my umbilical cord to Qingdao was slowly and carefully now being broken. Memories suddenly flooded my thoughts like rain, I saw my first day in Qingdao, faces of friends from different countries, factories and tourist spots we have visited, happy moments with the ones we love, a day at the beach, sweet lasting smile and laughter of people who touched our lives.

I closed my eyes but I could still see them very vividly, they were very real as if I could touch them, I held out my hands to reach out when I heard...

"Barbeque beef, or noodles?"

I opened my eyes and said, "What?"

The lady beside me said "Barbeque beef, or noodles? They are serving breakfast. Do you want barbeque beef or noodles?"

I picked barbeque beef. There was no rice. No rice for breakfast. My first breakfast with no rice and no companion but myself. I felt alone.

We are now above the clouds speeding through the wind and turbulence, leaving paradise.

But this is just the beginning and I know we will see each other again. To Mr. Liu, Mr. You and all the organizers of the Seminar, we thank you, all the participants thank you for efforts in making this seminar successful. We love you all! Xie xie!!!

well done by david chanda

congratulations nuel for opening this important, interactive and well meaning website

IP Seminar

The seminar was finished today.

2008 Seminar on Intellectual Property System and Protection

The Seminar on Intellectual Property (IP) System & Protection was sponsored by the Ministry of Commerce of the People's Republic of China (PRC) and organized by the Qingdao Municipal Intellectual Property Service Center.


The Seminar was scheduled on September 22 until October 21, 2008 and the topics for discussion included, among other things, implementing an IP strategy for Qingdao, IPR Basics and International IPR Protection System, and Role of IPR in Economic Development & the Trade- Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS).


This blog is dedicated to all the wonderful people who took part in this 30-day journey. It is about the lesons they have learned, the experiences they encountered, the culture they have imbibed, and the lives they have touched.


This blog was constructed as a first step towards enhancing IP system and protection, not only in China, but in the world. But, more importantly, this blog was made to continue and strengthen the friendships and ties that have been forged in this truly breath-taking city.


It is true that a journey of a thousand miles begins with the first step. Ensuring the protection and development of intellectual property rights is definitely a daunting task. No person, agency, or government can do it on its own. But this Seminar is definitely a necessary first step in the right direction.

As we read through this blog and contribute our own thoughts, ideas, and experiences, let us be guided by the eternal words of Confucius, "Isnt't it delightful to have friends coming from afar?"