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I just got back from a full day in macau meeting up with the event coordinator of Rosh events who is helping me with book launch and signing there. hot and sunny, walking along the narrow streets and seeing the architecture of both old and new was fascinating. i couldn't help but feel that some of the treasures of macau will be torn and destroyed by new development. i really have to go there and explore it more before it really disappears. meanwhile the city is teaming with people coming from china and hong kong in light of the gambling (a very chinese thing...gambing, that is: it's in our blood). although i don't gamble much, i do feel tempted to hit one of the tables and see what happens... but i digress, i find macau's cultural and artistic rooting to be much more intact than that of hong kong; i'ts cultural center is stunning to look at both in the day and at night. the exhibitions and shows by far better than hong kong. what i can see happening is that macau will soon become a destination city, one that offers a full plate of entertainment for all of asia. all of the big name fashion brands are there absorb any gambler's winnings back into macau's pocketbooks...