Ouch...

I hired a college student as part-time worker in my office last October. I liked him a lot because
he was very polite, responsible, and hard-working. And why do I want to write about him? He simply disappeared after the Chinese New Year holidays. I called his mobile and land-line phones
, both unanswered. Despite that I was worried if something happened to him in the holidays, I didn't went out searching for him. After all, he's a grown-up already, and I doubt that anything could happen to him so serious that his family did not get the phones.

Today he was fired by my company. We will send an official notice to his address, and start looking for a new candidate.

As Brief Summary on the New Year Holidays

This Chinese New Year holidays was my son's first one, and also the first time he met his grand grand parents and may other family relatives. Of course, it was also the first time Allie and I experiences how it's like to travel with such a small child for more than two days. In short, I was so tired that I didn't had the energy to write about it until now.

Yoshi was well-behaved on the way. He did not yell, scream or struggle on trains or taxis. However, he could hardly sleep in the nights while in Kaohsiung, partly because he was not familiar with the environment, and partly because his third teeth (upper maxillary central incisor) was coming out. So, we were all very exhausted.

He went to Kaohsiung, Jia-yi, Zi-guan (in Kaohsiung county) and was introduced to about 30 people. Luckily Yoshi seemed enjoyed meeting people he'd never seen before. He smiled a lot, laughed a lot, and people seemed to like him, too.

After Kaohsiung, we had back north to Tamshui and stayed with Allie's family. And, after that, we visited Eric's place at Taipei before we finally went home. Good job, son!

Photo of First Two Teeth

I mentioned my son has his first tooth earlier, but I didn't have photo to post back then. Here's a photo taken while he's asleep. You can see that he has two teeth now.

Yet Another Video

I shot this with my cell phone on one hand while holding him. He stared at my phone and tried to grab it as soon as he saw it, so I was unable to get a good shot for quite a while. In the end, he got angry because I didn't let him play with the phone. :D

New Videos on Wretch

Uploaded three new videos of Yoshi to my wretch album. I'm not sure if all three of them can be seen because sometimes the videos are successfully added and other times it fails. He invented a few new moves this week and got me really exhausted--you can tell from my hair-style.

Steve Jobs Keynote in 60 Seconds

LOL! This is really funny! Find out what Steve Jobs said in his 90 minutes keynote on MacWorld 2008, all in one minute!

Status Update and a Late Happy New Year

I've been busy at work recently and did not have the mood to write this blog for quite a while. My office is under a re-design to accommodate more seats for our new recruitment, so in the past two days it's like sitting in a construction site. Trying to get a quiet place for discussion or interview was the biggest challenge because we only have one meeting room left until the construction work is finished.

I posted some old photos of me and Allie on Flickr from our honeymoon to New Zealand. We'll be celebrating our third anniversary this Saturday. My son now has two tiny teeth, and he's getting more and more naughty everyday. Allie's families and mine gathered at my home and atched the fireworks on Taipei 101, but I didn't post firework photos because I did not get a good one. There was not much to see. The so-called golden and silver fireworks just made the building looked like it's on fire. And, at the end, there was no climax. I was wondering why it took so long for the next program to display and didn'y realized that it was over.

That's pretty much my update for the first two weeks of the year 2008. Wish you all a great year.