Hi from Australia

In January 2014 I visited my uncle who lives in the Blue Mountains in New South Wales. He made a working scale model of the Puffing Billy steam train (it runs up to Emerald in the Dandenong Ranges in Victoria).

Some stunning leadlight in the Queen Victoria building in Sydney:

Melbourne Central shopping centre was built at the site of the old shot tower. To preserve a piece of history the new structure was built over the old:

It is lovely to reconnect to you all. :)

Iceland Tour

TO, Pat, Kin, Helen, Mary & myself took one week trip to Iceland in late January for Northern night, hot spring and Glacier walk. 

Attached please find photos taken during this trip.  We tasted whale meat (dark purple colour) for the first time.  

Posted by Wing

A Son for Kathie

At 19:35 HK time, Kathie gave birth to her son weighing 6 lb. 2 oz.  Elsie arrived in HK around 20 days before the event to help out Kathie - very timely!  Here is a photo of the baby boy and his parents. 

Congratulations to Tom, Elsie, Kathie and Hannice!

Season's Greetings

Dear Relatives in Canada,

May Christmas brings you peace and joy. 

Inspired by your regular Christmas Party in Tor., we in Hong Kong will have a family gathering on January 1, 2013 to greet those having birthdays in January. 

As 2012 comes to an end, we are thankful that so many of you came to visit Hong Kong during the year.

Annie and Dominic

Wing has some photos taken from last cruise trip, Hawaii to Sydney including the islands in the Pacific Ocean.

Sydney

 

 

 Blue Mt. - Sydney

 

 

Shark from Submarine

 

 

Fugi Island

 

Carnival

 

 

Table Tennis Winner

 



Honululu

 

 

Posted by Dominic on her behalf 

T O & Family Members in H K

A lunch gathering on Sat., Dec. 15, 2012 to welcome T O & his family members while they visit H K.

Michelle in San Francisco

Dear Family,

I hope all of you are well!

San Francisco has been a blast, I'm really having a great time! It's a very beautiful city, you can turn a corner and walk down a street and next thing you know you see the bay.

School has been busy but it's still manageable now. I have classes almost everyday and my class has about 60 students. Everybody is from different countries from Venezuela to Lebanon to Singapore. The school building is really nice and new and modern.

outside of my school

study space at school

Yesterday night I just had a meeting with my group members for the Hult Prize. The Hult Prize, formerly known as the Hult Global Case Challenge, is a non-profit organization that organizes a case competition to solve social problems in our society such as clean water, hunger, etc. The winning team will receive $1 million dollars to start their own company based on the case. This is a joint venture between Hult Prize, Hult International Business School, and the Clinton Global Initiative. Bill Clinton selects the topic of the case every year and the qualifying teams get to meet him in person! My friend Alissa approached me a few weeks ago to ask me if I wanted to be on her team. I said yes and things just moved along really quickly after that. Our team is very solid. The other four members are all stars. I'm somewhat humbled but this will be an amazing opportunity for me to grow. 

http://www.hultprize.org/

See this link for a short video on the Hult Prize: http://youtu.be/cO15kZvixC8

Hult Prize team! From the left - Ander (Botswana), Alissa (Germany), Tyler (Canada), Sven (Germany)

Some other pictures:

Walked to the Golden Gate bridge from my place, took about 1.5 hours

My classmates and I doing a scavenger hunt together

for team building, we did an off-site event where we had to climb to really high heights with our team mates!

it was pretty difficult to climb and everyone is watching!

I also went to Napa Valley with a few friends who came to visit from Toronto. It is so incredibly beautiful there words can't describe it!

Robert Mondavi Winery

Last Sunday we also had a mid-autumn festival dinner organized by me and two of my classmates. We had 4 tables of people and mooncake as well!

From the left - Kenny (Malaysia), Juliana (Brazil), Ana Cristina (Colombia)

Thank you for viewing :)