I am back in 2021!

The past year was full of events and no events. We are trapped in Hong Kong where people still go about doing their business. For people who can work from home, the most drastic change is that now working is possible when Typhoon Signal 8 is hoisted. I dread thinking about what has changed for those small business owners. Not able to travel or break away from our daily life, we took up weekly windsurfing and signed up for all type of sailing courses, which is pretty convienient in Hong Kong - we are surounded by water after all.

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Trip to Kyoto to meet with Jen and Eric

I resigned this July after working for this company for more than 9 years. I decided to give myself a break, a break that I have never had since leaving university. I spent August in 200 hour Yoga teacher training course which was part of the American Yoga Alliance certificate program. It was very interesting to become a student learning from 8 to 5 daily again after almost 20 years. After the teacher training course, I spend time in Taipei and started to teach yoga twice a week in the dance studio in our apartment complex. When in Hong Kong, I work in the food waste-recycling kitchen chopping veggie 3 hours a day, the organization collects roughly 4000 kg nearly-expired food ingredients and transform them into 6000 meals daily. Of course, going to 1 or 2 yoga classes when I am not working.

Signing

We signed the paper last Friday during my lunch break. After the ceremony, I went back to work and Jon went swimming.

Elan died on April 13 2014, 22 years old

Our dog died of old age this Sunday. Dad took it ok I think - he had a smoke after knowing the dog stopped breathing. This is the end of the endless chores of walking/wheeling Elan and cleaning the floor. But it is still sad. He had been part of the family (part of dad rather) for the past 22 years. I thank him for keeping dad company all these years.

Long Time No See

Midway through our Sunday City Stroll, I felt hungry and produced a half-drunk ice tea (yes, in McDonald's paper cup with a straw) and a half-eaten McMuffin, from my backpack. All my skating friends were cracking up. I started to breakfast and skate at the same time.
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I cannot believe that I almost didn't write anything for almost a month. The shortest month in a year cannot seem to be my execuse. Oh well, there has been a lot of happening to me during these past couple of weeks. I had a couple of very good ideas to write about, but just didn't have the displine to login to my blog.

Back to the writing business, I promise, will try to catch up the average number of posting per month before month end.

Concussion

The conversation I had last night with my dad (he finally learnt how to use MSN, the best way to catch his daughter)
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我是廖爸 says:
坤兒
Joey says:
你會上網了哦
Joey says:
你好嗎?
我是廖爸 says:
我前天晚上和孫子打球摔倒撞到桌角，右耳骨斷了，有腦震盪，入三總急診，今天會走路了。
我是廖爸 says:
老爸要睡覺了。
Joey says:
那真是太可怕了
Joey says:
好好睡
Joey says:
明天就會好了
Joey says:
保重
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My dad was playing throwing balls with my 10 month old nephew and XiaoHo after dinner, XiaoHo threw the ball high up in the air and my dad jumped up, trying to strike the ball with his head. He landed on top of another ball and fall, his head smashed the table, broke his left ear bond and had minor concussion. He was driven to the emergency room and had stitches.

Amazing that he learned how to MSN me to complain his condition after the tragedy.

Please Wait

I spent the past 10 days traveling like mad, there are so many things I need to write about. But really sorry that I was too lazy to use my camera during the whole time, no pictures. I would have to translate my crazy traveling into words in the next couple of days.

To begin with, I thought about a short story written by a useless guy in mid Chin dynasty. (The reason I called this guy useless because he was writing something that was despited by his peer self-respected scholars. He went around China gathering ghost stories and edited them into a book - 聊齋異誌).

I thought about the story on my flight back to Tokyo, the turbulance was shaking the aircraft violently, it almost wanted to answer the call of gravity. Damn, I was practicsing the newly acquired Zen breathing technique and thought, it wasn't too bad if I die here. The story goes like this.

There was a big boat ferrying passengers over Yanzi river. When the boat reached the middle of the river, where no shores on both sides can be seen, strong winds thunders and lightenings arised out of blue. The boat was tossed in big waves helplessly, everyone on board thought this's going to be the end, rain kept falling on their scared faces. All of sudden, the thunder god appeared behind the furious cloud with eye-irritating ray, holding a piece of wood board with only three words "Sun Bi Zhen (孫必振)". The captain immidiately shouted to the crowd "who is Sun? You must piss off the river god, we have to sacrifice you." A young man surfaced himself with ghostly white face. Angry people started to push and pounch the poor young man. The captain threw him a wood board so he can hold on to and threw him into the river.

Sun watched the boat sailed away while waiting for his final to hit, a moment later, a ear deafening thunder struck the boat, broke it half. Sun witnessed it sank to the bottom of the huge river without anyone survived.

Re-Stage of GString-san

For those of you who are really interested in GString, I met with GString-san again this Saturday. I was sitting in the bench waiting for the hourly clean up, GString-san walked toward the bench in my direction, holding a little piece of face towel at the 2 corner of it, covering up his package. I only recognized him as soon as he turn around.

Happy Birthday Manjit

Nigara Falls Ontario and Happy Birthday to Manjit