(and an attempt to revive this weblog)
It’s been several months since anyone spent any time in the garden, but today Alexander and Johnny decided it was about time we refilled the bird feeder.
Of course, after that there was the necessary playing with watering can, football, trampolining and then chasing Daddy around the garden with the […]
My 2nd birthday was another fun day. Lots of my friends came to my party, and I got more presents and cake than I knew what to do with.
[Location: Taipei]
We originally planned on a day trip to FeiCuei Wan (or Green Bay), but ended up staying for the weekend. The resort on the North coast of Taiwan has several nice swimming pools, but we were much more interested in the beach. Daddy tried to build a sandcastle for me, but my demolition skills were […]
Hualien is on the East coast of Taiwan, and we spent three days exploring the coastline around here.
[Locations: Baci, Beach in Hualien, Beach South of Hualien, Tropic of Cancer]
Typhoon Haitang was supposed to be the fiercest typhoon to hit Taiwan in five years … but it certainly didn’t live up to its billing in Taipei. Despite impressive picture from the coast, and work being cancelled for the day (Daddy was happy about that!), there wasn’t that much wind or rain. By the afternoon, […]
On Monday we drove back up to London to see my cousins again. In the evening Mummy and Daddy went to the Oval with Bernie to see Asia vs. the rest of the world cricket match, leaving me in Hampstead; luckily I was well behaved and didn’t cause Uncle Red and Auntie Grib too many […]
We had a day out on the trains today - at the Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch Railway. It seems that Dad spent large parts of his holidays when he was small chuffing up and down this line, and so he was as excited as I was. We arrived at Hythe just in time to watch […]
I’ve started my two week holiday in England, and been having a good time so far. After a long flight, which I slept through (apart from an hour-long howling and Teletubby watching session in the middle), we arrived at my grandparents house in Oxted. On Sunday, I met up again with all my English cousins: […]
Recently, we’ve been having the ‘Plum rains’ (Mei Yu 梅雨) in Taiwan; for about a month it rains heavily at this time of year (not monsoon like, but still pretty impressive amounts of water). This has stopped me getting out as much as I would have liked. However, there have been some nice days interspersed […]
Today we went to Bali. No not that Bali. This Bali is a town at the mouth of the Danshui river - an MRT and boat trip away from Taipei. It was my first trip on a boat, so I spent the whole trip trying to peer over the edge to see what was happening. […]
Today was Tomb Cleaning Day in Taiwan (掃墓).Last year I was too young to help, but this year I went along to help clean 阿媽’s tomb. We actually did the tomb cleaning on Sunday (having flown down to Pingtung on Saturday), and afterwards met up with all my extended family on my mothers fathers side. […]
Reason number 173 that Daddy loves Mummy!
The weather was good today, so we spent a day up in the mountains just north of Taipei. Although it was nice and sunny when we set out, it was pretty windy, so I had plenty of layers of clothes on. The bus dropped as off at one the parks half way up the mountain, […]
Because Daddy and I were suffering from a chronic shortage of Weetabix, we went on an expedition to Taipei 101. On our way there, we bumped into Mummy and Daddy’s wedding photographer ‘A-e`1/4?’, who was involved in a photo exhibition. Of course, any professional photographer would jump at the chance of taking a few photos […]
?VXa*^(1)?a*???,! Happy New Year! I spent Chinese New Year down in Pintung with my Mum’s family … with a couple of days down in Kenting thrown in as well. It was my first chance to see my newest cousin (Tao Tao) - that’s us exchanging hong bao’s on the left, my great grandmother, one of […]
Today Mummy, Daddy and I went to Taipei’s Children Amusement (yule) Park. We first went on a ride on the teacups; it took me a while to work out what was going on, but I didn’t really enjoy all the spinning involved (and Mummy screaming in my ear). After that, I had a play on […]
There was a recent newspaper article which reported that Taiwan has more mobile phones per person than any other country (That’s 111 phones per 100 people). As you can see, I’m doing my bit to support this. As well as my ‘Animal Phone’ , my two green ‘Musical Phones’ and my little ‘Chips Phone’, I […]
Happy Christmas from Alexander to all his friends … and thanks for all the presents
As with last year, a lot of my friends came to celebrate Christmas with us. LaLa, Emma, YangYang and XiaoTsou (and their parents), and Aunty Daphne all came round, ate our turkey, and generally caused a large amount of […]
My playgroup (which I’ve been going to in the afternoon recently) had their Christmas party today. Mummy made me a Christmas tree hat to wear for the event, which was much admired by everyone. When it was our groups turn to go up ‘on stage’ we performed our dance routine - which, of course, we […]
Now that I’m getting better at understanding what my parents are saying to me, and also starting to say a few simple words, it seems I’m confusing my Mum & Dad as to how I learnt my favourite phrase: “不要” (the Chinese equivalent of “No”, or more accurately “Don’t want”).
Most babies learn ‘No’ pretty early, […]
Date: 02/04/04
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