Thousand Leaves 2.0

• Make a trip to overseas with my family; either California where my niece lives, or New York/Washington to see When Harry Met Sally, or The Catcher in the Rye, or Woody Allen Made it to California of San Francisco and Sacramento last August!
• I would love to make more travel back to Malaysia and Singapore. I want to have more time with the local, to find out more business chances that I can do besides my main job. I can’t imagine having business with other regions if I can’t start anything from where I know of. Made it to Malaysia twice, and Hong Kong once. Wow!
• I don’t think I can make this, it would be great if I can attend FileMaker Developer Conference. I am not a developer, just for your information. I made it to my first FileMaker DevCon!

1. Writing (projects): Try to start write my book that I wanted so desperately in Japanese. I have been imagining to write a book but haven’t started it yet. I would like to get it done within 5 years time and get it published in print. I can’t count this as FAIL, as I still am doing it. Might need to achieve some goal in a shorter time frame, may be.
2. Blog more in English. Read more English books before my English got rotten. Can’t seem to write more as I wanted, but I did. And did read more in English, but not in book form.
3. Read again all my old books that I bought. I will have to get rid of my books as they have been sitting on my shelf for ages without being read. #FAIL
4. Pick up some courses; financial business, journalism, or something that keep me motivated. I did. Critical thinking course. Wow, I actually have the mind to get things done, huh?
5. Organise my personal writing with Tindebox, so I have to upgrade my skills of Tindebox, and make full use of it. Keep track of my stories. #FAIL. Though I just started to get back to Tinderbox again. Uh.
   Restaurant (for the future)

• • Reorganize all the recipe books that I bought. Index them and do a review on each of them. There must be something that makes me buy them. #FAIL
  • Learn about colour of combination, coordination, and psychological point as well, if I have the time #FAIL. No time.
  • Learn about interior design. Collect samples, data of good design, heart-touching one #halfdone
  • Keep my wife’s cooking and photoshoot them, make compliments to remind her she is a good cook. She thinks I am the only one who says nice words to her cooking, which it’s not. #FAIL. She doesn’t cook that much for any photo taking.
  • I can’t run business, so I will do my way from the idea contribution, from food to taste, and interests of targets. #FAIL. But, this is an interesting comment that I did. In fact, I started a restaurant inventory solution with FileMaker for a new client.

We went to Sendai, it snowed quite heavily on the 28th, Sunday. The next day, we went for snowboard with my colleague, who is quite an expert in snowboarding. He taught my two girls how to snowboard, and me of course. It was great, I like snowboard more than ski. I should have tried it out long time before.

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The reason why I asked my colleague to go together was, I wanted him to teach my kids how to play snowboard. Secondly, I think it would be much easier for them to learn when they are still small. Found out that Karin learned fast, and gave up fast as well. Whereas Erin wasn’t that adventurous to try. There, we were talking about characterism; how the first kid and the second one differ.

Talk from experience, as I myself don’t have any siblings that I can talk about it directly, my brother is 19 years older than me, my youngest sister is 6 years older than me. It’s my niece who is 3 years younger than me that I grew up together with. I am doing my observation with my kids. I am sure they learn along the way. Me as well.

This has almost become a must-do for Christmas for the last couple of years. For those who have been following my blog already know by know what it is all about. Yes, I make fruitcake every year. This has become a tradition, a long story. Here is the recipe from M Sinclair Stevens.

Merry Christmas to those who celebrate it!

Sanno Park Tower, Tameike-sanno

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IMG 7513, originally uploaded by Ken Loo.

The photo was taken last week. Look forward to this coming weekend.

Spring Comes, originally uploaded by Ken Loo.

Here comes the season. We went to the park nearby. It was crowded with people, as usual. Somehow, you can tell, people are not coming for sakura, we all need to have an excuse for gathering. Spring is a good excuse. Cherry blossom is a great excuse. The moment we focused at sakura is the most beautiful moment.

Other than that, spring has come.

Merry Christmas!! And click here to see how I made the fruitcake this year. M, Merry Christmas, and happy anniversary!

The decoration at the entrance for the apartment we lived in was completed 2 weeks ago. It looked really nice and I took the kids there at night to take a few picutres. Snap, snap, and smiles. Did they look natural?? Let the picture speaks itself.

Every year end seemed so busy, but this year it’s kind of quiet. Perhaps it’s because I am not that keen in participate for all kinds of gatherings, else I will be out almost every night for alcohols. Feel the aging thing in me when come to groups.

By next mid January it will turn one year with the current company that I am working now. It has changed a lot after I joined, in a good way. I like it, and the people that I work with, they are nice. No bad guys, though sometimes some moments people tend to act odd. It happens everywhere, so it’s no big deal.

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You see, I really have nothing to write about! And Why the reason I am typing such?

Merry Christmas for those who celebrate it, and happy holidays to everyone! Will be getting the stuff to make fruitcakes today.

All the while, we never really decorate for Christmas, because we are not Christian.

Well, we did once, I think it was after we got kids, just to have dreams for the kids, placing presents under the tree thing, but the kids didn’t really understand what it was, so it was us that were excited about Christmas rather than the kids.

This year, we are helping at our mansion. So, it isn’t that sinful, huh? Yet, while helping out for decoration, I still wonder if I should get one to do the decoration. Since the kids have grown bigger (we the adults have not grown up from kids though!), I guess they can understand the fun of it. But, this year, two girls will go to grandma’s house for holidays. So, I guess we will save the money and may be go for hotspring or for good meal at the end of the year.