30 Nov 2000

i received a piece of sad news from my daddy through e-mail yesterday.... a friend of ours died in an accident... 

i went to beijing for vacations in october this year with my parents... during the tour.. we got along very well with another family... they were just like us... parents with the only son.... they were very friendly.. and we looked out for each other.... i can still recall the last day of the tour... it was free and easy... and we went shopping together... we had lunch at a restaurant and had macs for dinner.... we were talking about a lot of stuff... i  can remember the mother very vividly... she was always so full of life.... always cracking jokes... making every one feel comfortable and at ease... she is one lady that i respect... despite of the ups and downs in her life...in my eyes... she was so strong.... 

on the faithful morning ... she was riding on her bicycle going to work at 6.30am in the morning... when she was knocked down by a lorry... she sustained serious injuries to the head and limps... apparently she passed away after being rushed to the hospital.... this piece of news is really shocking to me.... i have always being taking things for granted... sigh.... there is only uncertainties in life.... we have to treasure and cherish our love ones every single moment... this is what my daddy told me ...   "Life is indeed the most precious to most of us. We really need to value the times when we can be together and most important of all, make it a really happy and joyful part of our lives.....    Life is full of ups and downs. Pray for safety and success in whatever we undertake..... "

29 Nov 20000

somehow these pages turn out to be most boring to some people.. i can be sure of that... there is nothing much is interesting in these pages in fact... 

my first motive of making these pages was to be able to put up pictures for all to see.. but as i started to build up the pages... i realised that i wanted to add more stuff to them... guestbooks...message boards... but it seems like no one is interested.... well... i would just leave them there for the time being.. but i doubt anyone would really write anything at all... 

i believe that my pages will change a lot.... it was not at all like this in the beginning... and i do not expect it to remain like this... i just hope that one day... my pages will get interesting enough.. to make people come back for more... 

by the way... have you ever wondered how toilets are in japan... or have you ever wondered what is the correct way of using japanese toilets... for those who have been taiwan for training.. you will be sure of how to use the japanese toilets.. because taiwanese toilets came from japan!!! 

28 Nov 2000

it is now 0430 hrs.... i should be sleeping... i feel tired and i know that i need to sleep... probably i will after writing this... by the way... if you are interested.. there are new pictures available now... more will be up soon...

i will just chatting with some friends over icq... it made me realize again that i am isolated from many of my friends... being alone overseas in a foreign land is never easy... well.. it was not easy for me though...  but of course i am also having a good time over here... being able to experience and try out things that cannot be accomplished if i were to remain in home sweet home... i guess it is a tradeoff... win some lose some.. but no regrets..... anyway... if you are interested in the places i have been ... just take a look ...tokyo gaidai & hokudai

25 NOV 2000

today was excursion day... with the people staying in the international house....i went to this ainu museum in shiraoi town... got to learn their traditional dances... made mukkuri... which is a musical instrument made of bamboo... had ethnic cuisine for lunch... and got to do some embroidery also... also went to a salmon aquarium in chitose... 

i just get the feeling that this whole museum thing is like an exploit of the ainu race... i think that they deserve more respect than just showing their stuff in a tourist attraction... which leads to the whole argument about japanese treatment of the ainu people... it is like the aborigines of australia... why am i mentioning such serious stuff on my pages?

20 OCT 2000

woke up real early today... at 6.30am... did not have a good sleep last night.... maybe it was the coffee that i drank with my french neighbour, jean paul, at a fast food restaurant in the afternoon... maybe it was too cold.... maybe it was because i shifted the arrangement of the furniture in my room.... maybe there were too many things on my mind... maybe it was just one of those nights.... 

14 OCT 2000

i have no idea what i can include in this section... maybe just a place for me to write all my crap... all the updating stuff... anyway... i just did some changes to the pages... designed some icons and banners... added the japanese and messages section...for my japanese friends.. i also made a japanese message board... the pix section is long overdue.. the pix that i have in there now were done up in june.. very badly done i should say... i want to redo the whole section.... include new pix wif new designs ... hopefully by this weekend..