[AGA-sc] AGA Speakers

[Larry Lampert <l_lampert@yahoo.com>]

--- Cheryl Rogers <cheryl@wilstream.com> wrote:

> 
> Erik Olson wrote:
> > I called Jim at SFBAAPS this morning to try and
> figure out a couple of 
> > alarming points brought up by Scott:
> 
> > real big in the hobby right now.  First, "Mosses".
> > Everyone seems to be into mosses these days, all
> the exotic 
> > varieties...even Java Moss is not really Java Moss
> now.  So
> > we were thinking Professor Tan from Singapore
> would be a good speaker.  
> > We have a contact for him.  Only thing I was not
> > sure of is whether he speaks English."
> 
> Man, it would sure be nice to get Loh Kwek Leong
> over here too. He can 
> play interpreter, and he has done SO MUCH for the
> hobby. Expensive to 
> fly them both over, but worth it IMO. Can't be worse
> than Amano, 'cause 
> they will proably agree to share a room! :-) And
> they probably won't 
> hijack my sales table right in the middle of another
> speaker's talk.
> 
> 
>

Just a quick point, This guy may know mosses but if he
can't communicate well his talk will be a bust.
Remember the only reason Amano is so great is cuz of
Tomoko's world class translation skills. This is not
something to be taken lightly.

Cheryl's idea of Loh Kwek Leong might have some merit
in this regard, but I don't know anything about his
presentation skills either, also the cost will likely
prohibit us from flying both in. I did a quick check
on Expedia flights atrt at $950 and quickly go to over
$1100 they take between 18-23 hours each way!!!


Larry

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