Celebrate the new Millennium on the top of Victoria Peak in Hong Kong. Continue to enjoy staying in the Tilbrook's flat on Lamma Island.

Gerry is offered a job at Zhongxing Telecoms (ZTE).

Spend 3 weeks in Vietnam.

Gerry starts work at ZTE interviewing in Shenzhen, Shanghai, and Nanjing.

Gerry finishes ZTE report.

We have to suddenly go to England for the funeral of Jan's mother.

Spend time with family in Darlington and work on website and little else.

Start the month in England, finish it in Hong Kong and China.

Gerry is preparing to teach two classes on UML for ZTE.  We register a partnership under the name of iTech Consultants.

Teach ZTE course

Bus from Nanjing to Wuhan then Yangtse cruise to Chongqing. Visit Buddhist caves at ?? then take train to Guiyang. Train on to Guilin then fly to Guangzhou.

ZTE pilot project

ZTE pilot project .

Fly to Ningbo, then take boat to Putoshan Island. Boat and bus to Hangzhou then bus to Huangshan. Hike down from Huangshan to hot springs resort. Bus to Jiuhuashan for more climbing.  Jiuhuashan to H??, Kaifeng, Huashan, and Xian.

ZTE

ZTE

Visit Jan's brother Dave and his wife Jhap and her family in Ban Sang, near Phayao, Thailand.

We meet in Phitsanulok and drive up to Chiang Mai then Phayao and Chiang Rai.

Fly to Bangkok and then take train to Hua Hin for a week by the pool and at the beach.

Back to Shenzhen to write final report for ZTE.