BEAR'S BLOG (BLOGDATE 23/09/08)
Guess what? WE DIDN'T GET TO GO ON CAMP!!!!!! : ( On Monday we got told that the company running the camp for the school had put off the 5th grade camping trip because of Typhoon Hagiput. This typhoon was going to hit Hong Kong.
Now before I tell you anything else you need to know this - In HK there are different types of typhoon warnings. 1)T1. This means that there is strong wind and to be careful (Mum can still play tennis (carefully) in this - it gets windy on the rooftops!). 2)T3. This means really strong winds and to beware. T8) REALLY REALLY REALLY strong winds and EVERYTHING MUST SHUTDOWN. Including all the businesses and the transportation.
So, getting back to the typhoon. I'm actually glad we didn't go to camp because as I'm sitting here at my desk typing this, I can hear the wind whistling a tune of song, I can imagine me sitting in a tent with 6 other girls and being tossed and thrown about like dust.
By the way, we still get to go to camp we are going to go November 18th to the 21st.
Stay tuned for any disaster or big news in my next blog. BYE!!
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Sunday, September 21, 2008
Tiger Talk -- the Gulf Coast
Many of our friends will remember when we lived in Houston and with Hurricane Rita on it's way we took a short 17 hour drive to Dallas (normally a 4 hour drive) so as to miss the action. As history records, Rita missed Houston and the surrounding coastal areas. Unfortunately Hurricane Ike has not been so generous to many of our friends and colleagues in the region. Since the news has generally dropped reporting Ike because it had a low body count, please take a few moments to see what actually happened at this Boston newspaper photographic journal:
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/09/the_short_but_eventful_life_of.html
Mother Nature is not to be messed with !
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/09/the_short_but_eventful_life_of.html
Mother Nature is not to be messed with !
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
DRAGON TALES
I was born in the year of the Dragon and I think that they are really cool. I know a lot about dragons and so I will see how much information I can post about them. I also like video games and will give you updates on how I am doing on my PSP (when it is not on the fridge). I just finished the Wall-E game and can now choose which level I want to play.
I will post more on the weekend, I have to go to school.
I will post more on the weekend, I have to go to school.
MONKEY MADNESS
Yes, well, aren't we all keen. Amazing how an idea over dinner turns into one's homework for the evening! Please hang with us, no doubt the novelty will wear off, but let's see how we go!
We were lucky enough to go to Beijing for the last five days of the Olympics. Nannie came to HK to watch the Tiger-Bear and the Dragon-Ack (thanks Nannie!) and we headed off to Beijing.
We had a true smorgasboard of events. Volleyball (how does one hit the ball that hard and not break one's finger?), 10m Platform Diving (how does one hold that handstand and not break one's arms?), Beach Volleyball, (how does one's bathing suits stay where it's supposed to?), Soccer (how does a yellow card instantly heal a seemingly life-threating injury?), water polo (how does one play that and not drown?), track and field (how does one run that fast, jump that high? (sure the big pole helps), and how does one throw that far?) and table tennis (how does one possibly understand that table-tennis champions sell ice-creams, electrical goods and financial products (in China) better than TV stars?)
We had a wonderful time and were lucky enough to meet some medallists. Both of them are American, they received a gold and a bronze. (On the plus side, the bronze medallist was beaten by some Aussies!! Oi, Oi, Oi) The medallists were very nice and put up with us having our photo taken with them. The one above is of Jason Lezak, his GOLD medal and us. (For those of you who can't remember, Jason Lezak is the awesome American swimmer who swam the fasted split of all time (46.06) on the anchor leg of the mens 4 x 100m freestyle relay to give the Americans (and Michael Phelps) a gold medal...yes, he let us touch the medal.)
We also had the adventure of visiting the Great Wall. We went to a section of the wall somewhat less travelled (i.e. there were not many tourists there) at Mutianyu. If you are visiting Beijing it is worth going to. There are many segments of the wall closer to Beijing, but this is truly worth a visit. (It's about at 45 - 60 minute bus ride from Beijing.) Above is a photo of the section of the Wall we visited.
The thing I love about the Olympics is that somehow it makes us (yes, speaking for myself) an instant "expert" on anything that is televised. We were also lucky enough to see the Closing Ceremony. I think it looked better on TV, but to see 90, 000 people that involved as an audience was awesome!
OK, enough Monkey Madness for the moment: To borrow from the movie Madagascar - "If you have poop, throw it now!"
TIGER TALK
TIGER TALK - 17.09.08
Time for input from the Dad. Since we are living in Hong Kong, and I was born in the year of the Tiger -- you get the reason for the Blog title.
Well we really should have started this Blog some time ago. We are quite a connected family, with more laptops in the house than TVs, but we seem to have continued with using many analogue forms of communicating family life. Well lately we've bumped into a few blogs with friends and extended family, and so over dinner tonight we decided to start.
As I said, we should have started earlier, this year we have had plenty to write about: three typhoons in HK; trips to Australia, China, New Zealand, and VietNam; and lot's of interesting visitors and fun times. However it's no fun writing about the past, and those of you we catch up with often have heard those tales. I'm going to ask my better half (Monkey Madness) to give you an update about our recent trip to the Beijing Olympics, and then from then on it is an update of what the future hands out.
In closing, it will be a quiet late September and October for me. My beloved Magpies have dumped out of the Aussie Rules finals, and the Yankees are about to miss their first post-season since the early nineties. Good thing the Formula One is a tight contest or I would have to spend more weekend time with these other monkeys! :-)
Cheers
Time for input from the Dad. Since we are living in Hong Kong, and I was born in the year of the Tiger -- you get the reason for the Blog title.
Well we really should have started this Blog some time ago. We are quite a connected family, with more laptops in the house than TVs, but we seem to have continued with using many analogue forms of communicating family life. Well lately we've bumped into a few blogs with friends and extended family, and so over dinner tonight we decided to start.
As I said, we should have started earlier, this year we have had plenty to write about: three typhoons in HK; trips to Australia, China, New Zealand, and VietNam; and lot's of interesting visitors and fun times. However it's no fun writing about the past, and those of you we catch up with often have heard those tales. I'm going to ask my better half (Monkey Madness) to give you an update about our recent trip to the Beijing Olympics, and then from then on it is an update of what the future hands out.
In closing, it will be a quiet late September and October for me. My beloved Magpies have dumped out of the Aussie Rules finals, and the Yankees are about to miss their first post-season since the early nineties. Good thing the Formula One is a tight contest or I would have to spend more weekend time with these other monkeys! :-)
Cheers
BEAR'S BLOG
BEAR’S BLOG 17.09.08
Before I start pouring out my life's story I'd like to apologize about how boring this looks (my parents told me that it had to be "plain") I would've liked to spice it up a little but, oh well. ;)
O.K. This is me. I'm 10 years old. I'm from Australia (Aussie, Aussie, Aussie!) and ever since I was a kid I've been moving around the world. First, I was born in Singapore. Then (2 years later) we moved to Switzerland for 18 months. After that we moved to Houston, Texas in the USA for 5 years. Later we moved to Midland, Michigan(still in the USA) for 1 year. Now we are in Hong Kong. :)
In Hong Kong it's very busy. It's also a good place for a shopping spree. ;) My school is an international school and next year I will be going in to middle school (YAY!!) but for now I'm in 5th Grade. :)
Next week our class is going to an island to camp there for 4 days and 3 nights. APA is going to run it. While we are there we will get to go rock climbing, absailing, mountain hiking, and tyroleaning. It's going to be SO cool! Stay tuned for what happened in my next segment! BYE!!! :)
Before I start pouring out my life's story I'd like to apologize about how boring this looks (my parents told me that it had to be "plain") I would've liked to spice it up a little but, oh well. ;)
O.K. This is me. I'm 10 years old. I'm from Australia (Aussie, Aussie, Aussie!) and ever since I was a kid I've been moving around the world. First, I was born in Singapore. Then (2 years later) we moved to Switzerland for 18 months. After that we moved to Houston, Texas in the USA for 5 years. Later we moved to Midland, Michigan(still in the USA) for 1 year. Now we are in Hong Kong. :)
In Hong Kong it's very busy. It's also a good place for a shopping spree. ;) My school is an international school and next year I will be going in to middle school (YAY!!) but for now I'm in 5th Grade. :)
Next week our class is going to an island to camp there for 4 days and 3 nights. APA is going to run it. While we are there we will get to go rock climbing, absailing, mountain hiking, and tyroleaning. It's going to be SO cool! Stay tuned for what happened in my next segment! BYE!!! :)
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