Year 2015

The view from my balcony/living room.  That's kitchen plant, no name, harry and my new friend "co COO KOO". 

Being very lazy in updating my blog - quite a few things to record since Jan 2015.  I went to NZ to visit Jon and family.  Learnt what is river bashing (jump into the 10C clear water and being washed down by current - adrenaline rush makes you forget about the chill, in my case I was worried to death that if my bum is going to hit the rocks at the bottom) and exploring unconventional hiking trail (the family decided to get down the mountain via the water way, we climbed the rocks, slipped down the mud, dived into the river, waded across the stream to get back down the hills...).  We bid farewell to the family and went to do the caving in Waitomo.  Lots of crazy people in NZ I can only conclude. 

In February we went back to Taipei for Chinese New Year.  One thing we learnt is that all good restaurants are closed, only not so good restaurants are still running because they are desperate. 

In March I was forced to used up my vacation days that is 14 days.  Otherwise they will go expired before April.  I took 2 weeks off.  I took Mum (and group of Aunties, they would like to tag along because retirement is so boooooring) to Peng Hu - a little island west of Taiwan.  Beautiful small island, I was the tour guide, driver, travel agent.  All ladies were having great time despite the strong winds and empty street (not yet the hot season because of the strong north east wind, even the fishmen were at bay).  Very net and clean and lots of beautiful scenic sites. 

I was again pretty bored after the trip so I went on the 3-day bike ride by myself.  I hired the bicycle with saddle bags departing from HuaLian, thinking to finish the 180 KM tour reaching TaiDong on Monday but somehow I arrived TaiDong city center on the second day.  So I had to travel back to Taipei earlier but both dad and mum are happy that I came home early.  They are not happy I decide to bike alone. 

Now I am back to Hong Kong - my compost project is a great success without worm.  The first batch of tomato plants are growing pretty good.  I shall write some more about them later.