Almost New Year

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Tomorrow is the last day of the year. Looking back on the year 2008, most of the joy comes fun the progress made by my son.

Today he correctly said my name when asked by his grandma, only the third day since she began to teach him for about ten times. He likes dogs, butterflies, flowers, and running on grass fields. He would grab my hand and tell me what he was playing when we came home from work.

He loves the TV show "In the Night Garden" and remembers every episode he saw (you don't want to go to the movies with him because he can't wait to tell you what is going to happen next). Thanks to the internet, I downloaded 50 episodes overnight from all over the world otherwise it's almost impossible that I can watch the show with him.

He learned at least 500 words I guess, some of them we didn't know where he learned from. for example, one day when my mom went into a lottery store, he said "many lotteries" but we never bought or discuss lottery at home. He invents new games and forces everyone at home to play the game as he assigns roles and rules for us.

Last year I woke him up to watch the fireworks at Taipei 101, and I doubt that he remembers it. I think he will remember tomorrow. Farewell, year 2008!

HuaZhong Riverside Park

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With beautiful sun and cool weather this Saturday, we took Yoshi to HuaZhong Riverside Park for a good run. He enjoys running on grass fields very much, and this park has huge fields to run on. Tomorrow he will be one year and eight months old.

Merry Christmas to You

My Mac Mini is still broken because I was too lazy to bring it for repairment. So, instead of the lovely designs in Mac, I tried the service of a young Taiwanese company called http://www.elucard.com. Well, yes, I know. I'm busy, and it's free.

Merry Christmas

It's been a very busy month at work and also in personal life. Allie and I went to a potential distributor to do sales training in the morning, then came home and pick up my son to have a late lunch with her ex-colleagues. And there was a Christmas party in our community tonight, so I hurried home to prepare the dish we promised to offer for the party. What made this even challenging was that I didn't sleep last night until 5 AM, and tomorrow I have two important meetings to attend. Wish you all a merry Christmas and a happy new year despite the global economic challenges.

Life and Death

Just heard a terrible news. The fireman killed in action is the husband of my colleague's sister. They were married less than two years, and have a boy just nine months old. My colleague, the sister, is expecting her first baby next week.

I-Lan week

I-Lan is a beautiful place. We had a small trip to I-Lan last weekend. We went there on Saturday and came back on Sunday. Monday evening I had an urgent work and had to go to I-Lan again and came back the same day. On Tuesday morning, I got a call and told me that I had to go again. So, I went again and came back in the afternoon. For four consecutive days, I was in both I-Lan and Taipei each day. By the way, I will be going to Taichung tomorrow morning and come back in the afternoon.

Yoshi packing

We had a family trip to I-Lan last weekend. Last Friday night when Allie was packing, my son was also busy packing his own luggage in the next room.