Tentative IME Asia Schedule of Events

Shanghai:  May 16^th – 20^th 

Wednesday, May 16th

Arrival, Shanghai, China – 7:10 am 

Morning / Afternoon / Evening: Free time to recover from jet lag, get to know your classmates.  Hotel not available until mid-afternoon.  
 

Thursday, May 17th 

Morning: Coca Cola: 10 am – 12 Noon. 

Lunch: Group lunch in the Pudong area (and at your own expense). 

Afternoon: Cutler Investments: 1:30 – 2:30 pm, followed by a tour of the Pudong area. 

Evening: Free time (and at your own expense).

Friday, May 18th

Morning: General Electric: 10:00 am – 12 noon.   

Lunch: Group lunch (and at your own expense). 

Afternoon: Shanghai United Hospital: 2:00 – 4:00 pm. 

Evening: Free time (and at your own expense).

Saturday, May 19th

Morning / Afternoon: Full day of sightseeing by bus (included). 

Evening: Alumni dinner event: 6:30 onward (required and at your own expense). 

 

Sunday, May 20th

Morning / Afternoon: Free time, no events planned (and at your own expense). 

Evening: Departure to catch 7:00 pm redeye flight to Bangalore. 

 

Bangalore:  May 21^st – 24^th

 

Monday, May 21st

Arrival, Bangalore, India – 9:30 pm 

Evening: No events planned. Check-in at hotel. 
 

Tuesday, May 22nd

Morning: Infosys: 10:00 am – 12:00 Noon.  

Lunch: Group lunch in Infosys' employee dining room (at your own expense). 

Afternoon: Toyota Kirloskar: 2:00 – 4:00 pm 

Evening / Dinner: Free time (and at your own expense). 
 

Wednesday, May 23rd

Morning: Kumar Elastics: 9:00 -11:00 am 

Lunch: Group lunch (and at your own expense). 

Afternoon: Biocon: 1:00 – 3:00 pm 

Late Afternoon: Intel: 4:00 – 5:30 pm 

Evening: Free time (and at your own expense).  
 

Thursday, May 24th

Morning / Afternoon: Free time (and at your own expense). 

Evening: Departure to catch 7:00 pm flight to Bangkok.

 

Bangkok:  May 25^th – 26^th

 

Friday, May 25th

Arrival, Bangkok, Thailand – 5:30 am 

Morning: Free time (and at your own expense). 

Lunch: On your own (and at your own expense). 

Afternoon: Pepsi: 3:00 – 5:00 pm. 

Evening: Alumni dinner event: 6:30 onward (required and at your own expense).  We'll travel round trip via taxi at an estimated cost of $5 per person. 
 
 

Saturday, May 26th

Morning / Afternoon: Floating Market Tour and (time permitting) Thai Royal Palace (both included). 

Lunch: Group lunch (at your own expense). 

Evening: S Medical Spa: 5:00 – 7:00 pm. 
 
 

Sunday, May 27th

Morning: 7:00 am departure to catch 11:15 am flight to Hong Kong.

 

Hong Kong: May 27^th – 29^th

 

Sunday, May 27th

Arrival, Hong Kong – 3:10 pm 

Evening: Alumni dinner event: 6:30 onward (required and at your own expense). 
 

Monday, May 28th

Morning: Disney: 10 am – 12 Noon 

Lunch: There won't be time to eat lunch today, so please plan to eat a big breakfast. 

Afternoon: Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce, 1:30 – 3:00 pm. 

Late Afternoon: ½ day of sightseeing (included). 

Evening: Free time (and at your own expense). 
 

Tuesday, May 29th

Morning: Departure to catch 10:15 am flight to New York and back home!

New Glasses!

I finally got around to picking and buying my new glasses. Take a look! I'm really excited about them, though they are a bit expensive - $272 for frames and lenses. I may still buy a pair online, but that will depend on how much I decide to wear glasses and how much I decide to wear contacts. If I decide to primarily stick with glasses, a backup pair seems reasonable, but if I'm almost always wearing contacts, 2 pair of glasses may be excessive. anyway, at least now I don't have to worry about my old glasses breaking off at the other corner, because they can be safely relegated into a box until I lose them some time down the road. That's what happens for me and expensive things like this - I don't throw them away, but instead leave them somewhere, nearly broken, until I somehow lose them in a move or toss them in an unimaginable act of sanity.

Re: glasses

The problem is I destroyed the frames. I've already broken one earpiece off and frankensteined a different one on, now the other is about to break off too. The feet that sit on my nose are ripped loose, meaning i can't adjust for the 15 degree list that they've permanently acquired. What I really need are some glasses that I can whip out when my contacts are bothering me and not worry about them surviving the abuse that they seem to inevitably take. (Beacause I wear contact most of the time, I tend to forget the care that glasses require.)

That forgetting means that my glasses regularly get sweaters pulled on over them, left on the kitchen table, bathroom counter, in a laundry pile, and a few times a year, in my shoes. I suspect that they may have even accidentally gotten mixed in with the laundry an put in the wash. This pairs' predecessors have gone unprotected on the loper amongst 6 divers' gear!

The lenses are fine - no huge scratches or anything - but the problem is that they just won't levitate in front of my eyeballs no matter how hard I try. I was originally thinking of lenscrafters as well, but the website makes me think that they carry fashion brands at fashion prices, and not functional styles at grad-student prices. I don't particularly need Dolce and Gabbana glasses, I need either tank frames or cheap-enough-not-to-care frames.

Given that, what do you recommend?