Dear colleagues,
we have had a really excellent TC6 meeting near Beijing (sometimes a little boring with all the bureaucratical steering committees, flagships,... but also with some heated emotional atmosphere during the final hour ouf the meeting).
Everybody who could not attend has missed a great event which was perfectly organised! Very soon you will have the possibility to look at some photos on the web; these will convince you that you should try your best in order to attend meeting 2001/1 in Capetown, South Africa; this meeting has been rescheduled towards May 30+31, 2001.
According to several requests I take the opportunity to distribute my poem for Prof. Hu Dao-Yuan and for Carol. This poem was presented at the meeting dinner and was until now only available in a handwritten version (written by me during some less interesting WG restructuring discussions).
Best regards Otto Spaniol
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Qihu hotel, August 26,2000
Poem for Prof.Hu Daoyuan and for Carol
Dear delegates, I'll have to tell you some stories of our famous Hu. Hu is a doctor, even more: Hu is a brilliant professor (!) of university Tsinghua Where Hu does research on the newer and even newest types of networks. You can remark how fast his head works!
Hu is the man who always keeps quite cool when Ramon sleeps. Hu don't complain because there are two names "Lyman" and "Iyengar". Both from US whereas for China the delegate number is minor. Hu didn't make a serious case on some comments made by Lorne Mason who is now - that is not so poor - our Canadian man in Singapur.
Hu claims that he has never seen a Belgium man like A. Danthine. Hu even (at the end of summer) survived the speech of Volker Tschammer. Hu listened in the afternoon to bullshit told by Koosie Koen.
Hu thinks that he could still afford the boring loans and grants report which fills up (to the very end) something around eighty percent of meeting time. That's very strange. Augusto: Here we need a change! Hu was not even much afraid of the Eastern jokes of K. Boyanov. Hu even tolerates the loops when we restructure working groups. Hu listens to the "finance" which merely shows that we are rich what is quite good and sweet like honey: We cannot even spend our money!
Hu really felt extremely lucky when "group one" chairman Guy Leduc(ky) stopped after much time had expired without a sign of being tired.
Hu knows where to arrange the meeting. Hu knows how to select the eating. Hu satisfied the group of all by taking us to the Great Wall.
Hu cares about the protocol. Hu's caretaker is called Carol. She solves the problems in a while and always with a pretty smile.
Now as a sign of appreciation I want to give a small donation from a country which (you see) is missing in our committee. The bottle which is in my hands has been produced in Netherlands. It is some kind of alcoholics but it contains also symbolics since its colour - not so bad - is China's flag, namely its red.
Thus as a TC6 past chairman but also as a silly German I say to Hu and to Carol: "You did a great job, Yes! Jawoll!"
Otto Spaniol