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We took the afternoon flight from Shenzhen, which took three hours to get to Hohhot. Got bumped up to First Class. Absolutely charming air hostess. Food was so-so. Got there at ~1800 hours. The aerial view outside the window when the aircraft was approaching landing was simply stunning.

Nice new airport. Style of Norman Foster. This [...]

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Toby is picking up what he calls a new toy.
I don’t understand why anybody would call a boring minivan a toy.
But then I don’t understand train spotters or bus spotters either.

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COOLEST. EVER. Thanks Anna and Peter!

Check out more of Anna’s work.

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Last Friday. The venue was so-so. We really should be going to a cheap-ish buffet dinner next time.
The folks went drinking after dinner. I was planning to go, but jumped at the chance for a lift home (hey social life does suffer a bit if you live in Tuen Mun). The ride was a very [...]

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He was admitted into hospital last week, went into coma on Friday night or early Saturday morning, and passed away on Saturday morning around 11:30.
Grandpa was 97, and in general had a good life (well AFAIK). May he RIP.

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My mother-in-law passed away 03:08 early this morning.
She died of liver cancer. Only moderate suffering.
The Lady is devastated, but she’ll get over it.

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Took Jasper to see Wallace & Gromit in the Curse of the Were-Rabbit on Tuesday.
Since getting the full Wallace & Gromit collection on DVD, Jasper’s been a great fan of the duo. He absolutely loves the new movie.
Oh, and they showed a short-ish movie before the main thing, starred by the 4 psycotic penguins in [...]

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Went to “Siu Fei Yeung”, a hotpot restuarant specializing in mutton/lamb last night with a bunch of photo friends. I drank quite a lot. Lots of fun.
Got home and I absolutely stank of the spice in the hotpot. Even my tote bag soaked up the smell.
Note: photop is dead, so I can’t even link to [...]

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I heard from Chris, a good friend living and working in London, on 8/7. He goes into work early and on that day passed thru one of the tunnels where a bomb went off half an hour later. He had to walk from Euston all the way to Liverpool Street (a good 30-45 minutes walk?) [...]

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Friday: 7-1 Rally
Saturday: Taking Jasper to see the dinosaur fossils (To avoid the beginning rush, we’ll do something else.)
Sunday: Day camp in Pak Tam Chung Sai Kung Outdoor Recreation Centre, organized by the fine folks in the PTA of Jasper’s nursery. Jasper’s teacher has asked me to take pictures of his classmates.

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for the arrival of a pair of fraternal twins (boy and girl!). I only found out just now when I called him to get an update. I missed those photos of his offsprings he posted onto Freeforum earlier.
Reported earlier.
So the arrival of the girl has somewhat upset the statistics of NPC members offsprings’ sex. However, [...]

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in Macau since yesterday w/ the Lady and Jasper. Staying at a friend’s place. Going back home on Sunday.
Weather is pretty crappy, w/ some light drizzles.

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to the Ocean Park on Saturday.
Jasper is under three, so he still gets in free. Althou the OP is considered by some to be old and having lost its charm, and the tickets (we got group tickets) aren’t exactly cheap, I think it’s still a great place for a grand day out, and the ticket [...]

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Yesterday afternoon on my way to pick up Jasper I bummed into Michael my younger brother walking Lily. Together we bummed into Morris who was being carted back home by his maid. I greeted them and Morris was showing interest in Lily. Suddenly Lily snapped away Morris’s bun! Morris wasn’t too pleased, and we were [...]

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“Ho Dai!” said Japser.

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On Jasper’s 4th and 5th days of school I left soon after he finished breakfast at the kindergarten. He didn’t like it at all, and started crying for daddy. Like on previous days he was soon distracted and stopped, but after awhile he would start thinking about daddy and cry again. His appetite was good, [...]

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I said goodbye to Jasper at around 09:45 this morning during his morning play session. I told him that I would be back before their lunch time. He appeared to take it well.
When I got back, his teachers told me that my absence soon got to Jasper, and he started crying a bit, but would [...]

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No problem getting Jasper to go to school in the morning. Not much progress with breakfast. I told him that I would be back soon before I left him at around 10:15, but soon afterwards he realized that I was gone and started crying for a bit. I got back at around 11:20. He wasn’t [...]

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Well, it’s actually a nursery-kindergarten.
Although he had been to the nursery a few time and spent a couple of pleasant sessions there, he was nervous on his way to school this morning. He didn’t want to go in at first, and needed me to hug him and assured him that I would be with [...]

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